Automatic Lathe
In fully automatic lathes, once the machine is set up, all the
movements related to the manufacturing cycle and also the loading of
blanks and the unloading of machined parts are performed without the
operator's participation.
Lathes that have their tools automatically fed to the work and
withdrawn after the cycle is complete are known as Automatic lathes.
On an automatic lathe, the bar stock is entered through the main
spindle and clamped by a collet device. Automatic lathes machine
independently one piece after the other from the bar.
Each tool slide has individual feed and receives its power from
individual drive shafts at the end of the machine.
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Horizontal
position.
Vertical spindle machines have their spindle in vertical position.
They occupy less floor space as compared to horizontal spindle
machines.
The majority of these machines are operated mechanically by
trips and cams, which, with the gearing, control the spindle
speeds, strokes and other aspects of the cycle.
The drive from the motor is to the spindle via change gears and
from thence, through feed change gears, to the control shaft which
operates the turret by means of a drum having the same number of
lobes as there are turret faces, which vary from four to six.
Driven from this shaft, at right angles, is the cross slide shaft,
having single lobe drum cams driving the front and rear slides.
Fitted at an accessible place on the central shaft are various trips.
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