GB Patent: GB-900,717
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| Improvements in horizontal boring machine tools
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Patentee:
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| Curtis Albert Sparkes (exact or similar names) - Broadheath, Manchester, England |
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Patent Dates:
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Dec. 16, 1959 |
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Jul. 11, 1962 |
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Jeff Joslin
"Vintage Machinery" entry for H. W. Kearns & Co., Ltd.
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Description: |
| "The spindle headstock 4 of a horizontal boring and facing machine is supported at one side of the centre line of the machine (spindle axis) by the usual vertical column 6 with flat guide surfaces 5. An auxiliary cylindrical guide of guides 7 is provided, on the other side of the centre line, passing through the headstock and connected by a bridge 8 with the column 6. The guides 7 are hollow and may house hydraulic piston and cylinder devices 9 which are connected to chains 10 for balancing and controlling, or, assisting in controlling, the vertical position of the headstock." |
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