Common types
Release time:
2023-02-23
Lathe 1) Ancient "bow lathe" with pulleys and bow rods. As early as in ancient Egypt, people have invented the technology of turning wood with a tool when it rotates around its central axis. At first, people used two standing trees as supports to erect the wood to be turned, rolled the rope onto the wood using the elasticity of the branches, pulled the rope by hand or foot to turn the wood, and cut it with a knife. This old method gradually evolved into two or three loops of rope on the pulley, and the rope was placed on the elastic rod bent into an arch, and the bow was pushed and pulled back and forth to make the processed object rotate so as to carry out turning, which is called "bow lathe". 2) "Pedal lathe" driven by crankshaft and flywheel in the Middle Ages. In the Middle Ages, someone designed a "pedal lathe" that uses a pedal to rotate the crankshaft and drive the flywheel, and then drives it to the main shaft to make it rotate. In the middle of the 16th century, a French designer named Besson designed a lathe for turning screws with a screw to slide the tool. Unfortunately, this kind of lathe has not been widely used. 3) The headbox and chuck were born in the 18th century In the 18th century, another person designed a kind of rotary crankshaft with pedal and connecting rod, which can store the rotational kinetic energy on the lathe on the flywheel, and developed from directly rotating the workpiece to rotating the headstock, which is a chuck for clamping the workpiece. 4) The Englishman Mozley invented the tool holder lathe (1797) In the story of the invention of the lathe, an Englishman named Mozley is striking, because he invented the epoch-making tool holder lathe in 1797, which is equipped with precision guide screws and interchangeable gears.
Lathe
1) Ancient "bow lathe" with pulleys and bow rods.
As early as in ancient Egypt, people have invented the technology of turning wood with a tool when it rotates around its central axis. At first, people used two standing trees as supports to erect the wood to be turned, rolled the rope onto the wood using the elasticity of the branches, pulled the rope by hand or foot to turn the wood, and cut it with a knife.
This old method gradually evolved into two or three loops of rope on the pulley, and the rope was placed on the elastic rod bent into an arch, and the bow was pushed and pulled back and forth to make the processed object rotate so as to carry out turning, which is called "bow lathe".
2) "Pedal lathe" driven by crankshaft and flywheel in the Middle Ages.
In the Middle Ages, someone designed a "pedal lathe" that uses a pedal to rotate the crankshaft and drive the flywheel, and then drives it to the main shaft to make it rotate. In the middle of the 16th century, a French designer named Besson designed a lathe for turning screws with a screw to slide the tool. Unfortunately, this kind of lathe has not been widely used.
3) The headbox and chuck were born in the 18th century
In the 18th century, another person designed a kind of rotary crankshaft with pedal and connecting rod, which can store the rotational kinetic energy on the lathe on the flywheel, and developed from directly rotating the workpiece to rotating the headstock, which is a chuck for clamping the workpiece.
4) The Englishman Mozley invented the tool holder lathe (1797)
In the story of the invention of the lathe, an Englishman named Mozley is striking, because he invented the epoch-making tool holder lathe in 1797, which is equipped with precision guide screws and interchangeable gears.
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