r-pageno" title="[II-vi]"> | Device for truing | 53 |
| Automatic traversing device for | 53 |
| Considerations that determine the position in which the work should be applied to | 53 |
| Oil-stones, the various kinds of | 54 |
| Truing oil-stones | 54 |
| Removing the feather edge left by | 54 |
| Oil-stoning edge tools | 54 |
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| CHAPTER XXIV. |
| GEAR CUTTING MACHINES. |
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| Gear Cutters—The Brainard Automatic | 55 |
| Plan view of the mechanism | 55 |
| Method of operating the cutter slide | 55 |
| The arrangement of the positive feed shipping motion | 55 |
| Arrangement and construction of the dividing mechanism | 55 |
| The Brainard half automatic gear cutting machine | 56 |
| Gear cutting engine with vertical cutter spindle | 56 |
| Gear planing machine | 56 |
| Piat’s French gear cutting machine | 56 to 61 |
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| CHAPTER XXV. |
| VISE WORK. |
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| Definition of Vise Work | 62 |
| The Vise | 62 |
| The height of vise jaws | 62 |
| The wood-worker’s vise | 62 |
| The Stephens vise | 62 |
| Swivelling vises | 62 |
| The Prentiss vise | 62 |
| Leg vise with parallel motion | 63 |
| Various forms of vise clamps | 64 |
| Hammers | 64 |
| The effects of the speed of a hammer blow | 65 |
| Experiments by Robert Sabine on the duration of a blow | 65 |
| Machinists’ hand hammers | 66 |
| Shapes of hammer eyes | 66 |
| The proper method of putting handles in | 67 |
| Paning of pening hammers | 68 |
| The plate straightener’s and saw maker’s hammers | 69 |
| The principles involved in straightening plates | 69 |
| The dog-head hammer | 69 |
| The effects of hammer blows upon plates117, 119 |
| Welding up stub ends of connecting rods | 118 |
| Aligning welded connecting rods | 118 |
| Fitting on connecting rod straps | 119 |
| Filing out connecting rod keyways | 119 |
| Fitting the keys and gibs | 119 |
| Fitting connecting rod brasses to their straps | 120, 122 |
| The joint faces of connecting rod straps | 121 |
| Disadvantages of joints left open to take up the wear | 121 |
| Obviating this disadvantage | 121 |
| Marking the lengths of connecting rods | 122 |
| Fitting up a fork end connecting rod | 122 |
| Aligning fork end connecting rods | 123 |
| Repairing connecting rods | 124 |
| Setting connecting rod brasses together | 125 |
| Lining up connecting rod brasses | 126 |
| Adjusting the lengths of connecting rods | 126 |
| Setting up the keys of connecting rods | 126 |
| Shapes of the crowns of brasses | 127 |
| Fitting up a link motion | 127 |
| Templates for filing the link slot | 127 |
| Case-hardening | 128 to 133 |
| Sheehan’s case-hardening process | 128 |
| Preparing work for | 129 |
| Setting work after | 129 |
| Fitting brasses to pillow blocks or axle-boxes | 130 |
| Bedding brasses | 132 |
| The proper shape for the patterns of brasses | 132 |
| Originating a True Plane | 133 |
| Finding which of three surfaces is the nearest to a true plane | 133 |
| Methods of testing the surfaces | 134 |
| A new process of originating surface plates | 134 |
| The deflection of surface plates | 134 |
| The Friction of Plane Surfaces | 135 |
| Oiling True Surfaces | 135 |
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| CHAPTER XXVIII. |
| ERECTING. |
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| Spirit-level | Forging steel forks | 241 |
| Forging under the hammer | 242, 243 |
| Forging rope sockets | 243, 244 |
| Forging wrought iron wheels for locomotives | 244, 245 |
| Forging rudder frames | 245, 246 |
| Welding scrap iron for large shafts | 247 |
| Construction of furnace for heating scrap | 247 |
| Forging crank shafts | 248, 249 |
| Forging large crank shafts | 249, 252 |
| Forging machines | 252 to 263 |
| Foot-power hammer or Oliver | 252, 253 |
| Standish’s foot-power hammer | 252, 253 |
| Power hammers and steam hammers | 252, 253 |
| Bradley’s cushioned hammer | 252, 253 |
| Corr’s power hammer | 254, 255 |
| Kingsley’s trip hammer | 255 |
| The drop hammer | 255, 256 |
| Steam hammers | 257, 258 |
| Double frame steam hammer | 258 |
| Double frame steam drop hammer | 258 |
| Double frame steam drop hammer for locomotive and car axles and truck bars | 259 |
| The Edgemore Iron Works’ hydraulic forging press | 260 |
| Dies for forging eye bars | 260 |
| Nail forging machine | 260 |
| Rolls for forming knife blades | 261 |
| Machine for forging threads on rods | 261, 262 |
| Finishing machine for horseshoes | 262, 263 |
| Circular saw for cutting hot iron | 263 |
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| CHAPTER XXXIV. |
| WOOD WORKING. |
| Filing the teeth of band saw machines | 309 |
| Re-sawing band saw machine | 309, 310 |
| To regulate the tension of band saws | 310, 311 |
| Construction of band saw guides | 311 |
| Various band saw machines | 311, 312 |
| Reciprocating Cross Cutting Saw | 312 |
| Construction of | 312 |
| Horizontal Saw Frame Machine | 312 to 315 |
| Construction of the saw driving mechanism | 314 |
| Construction of the feed motion | 315 |
| Construction of the saw | 315 |
| Planing Machines | 315 to 341 |
| Buzz planer | 315 |
| Construction of the work table | 316 |
| Construction of the cutter head | 316 |
| Skew knives | 316 |
| Roll feed wood planing machine | 317 |
| The construction of the feed rolls | 317 |
| Adjustment of the feed rolls | 317 |
| Construction of the pressure bars | 317 |
| Adjustment of the roll pressure | 318 |
| Adjustment of the work table | 318 |
| The roll driving mechanism | 319 |
| The cutter head | 320 |
| Three feed roll wood planing machine | 322, 323 |
| Pony planer | 323 |
| Construction of the feed mechanism | 324 |
| Balancing cutter heads and knives | 324, 326 |
| Farrar planing machine | 326, 327 |
| Planing and matching machine | 328 |
| Construction of the feed rolls | 329 |
| Construction of the upper cylinder | 329 |
| Construction of the lower cylinder | 329 |
| Construction of a matcher hanger | 383 |
| Governors | 384 |
| Fly ball or throttling | 384 |
| Isochronal | 384 |
| Dancing | 384 |
| Speed of | 384 |
| Spring adjustment of | 384 |
| Sawyer’s valve for | 384 |
| Speeder for | 384 |
| Starting a Slide Valve Engine | 384 |
| Crank position in | 384 |
| Examination of an Engine | 385, 387 |
| Adjusting connecting rod brasses | 385 |
| Adjusting main bearing | 386 |
| Taking a lead | 386 |
| Squaring a valve | 386 |
| Heating, to avoid | 386 |
| Setting a valve | 386 |
| Leaky throttle valves | 386 |
| Freezing an engine, prevention of | 386, 387 |
| Pumps | 387, 388 |
| Lift and force | 387 |
| Plunger | 387 |
| Rotary | 387 |
| Single-acting | 387 |
| Double-acting | 387 |
| Displacement of | 387 |
| Principles of action of | 387, 388 |
| Speed of | 388 |
| Capacity of | 388 |
| Air chamber of | 388 |
| Belt | 388 |
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| CHAPTER XXXVIII. |
| THE LOCOMOTIVE. |
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| Modern Freight Locomotive | 389, 390 |
| General construction | 389 |
| Course of steam from boiler to smoke stack | 389 |
| Boiler feed | 389 |
| Position of parts for starting | Attachment of indicators to an engine | 416, 417 |
| Pantagraph motions | 417 |
| Expansion curve, testing of | 417, 418 |
| Theoretical expansion curve | 417, 418 |
| Calculations from diagrams | 418 to 421 |
| Horse power | 418, 419 |
| Area | 419 |
| Rule for calculating horse power | 419 |
| Mean effective pressure | 420 |
| Steam used in engines | 420 |
| Water consumption | 420, 421 |
| Defective diagrams of engines | 421 |
| Excessive lead of engines | 421 |
| Theoretical compression curve of engines | 422 |
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| CHAPTER XLI. |
| AUTOMATIC CUT-OFF ENGINES. |
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| Definition | 423 |
| Corliss Automatic Cut-off Engine | 423, 424 |
| Valve gear of | 424, 425 |
| Governor of | 425, 426 |
| Admission of steam into | 426 |
| Lap of valve of | 426, 427 |
| High Speed Automatic Engines | 427, 428 |
| Speed of | 427 |
| Wheel governors for | 427, 428 |
| Straight Line Automatic Engine | 428, 429 |
| Important details of | 429, 430 |
| Steam Fire Engine | 430, 431 |
| Boilers of | 430, 433 |
| Pumps | 431, 432 |
| Heaters for | 432, Listof
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