US Patent: 2,086,153
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| Apparatus for Control of Machine Tools
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Patentee:
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| Clifford A. Bickel (exact or similar names) - Sidney, OH |
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| Not known to have been produced |
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Patent Dates:
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Feb. 03, 1932 |
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Jul. 06, 1937 |
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Joel Havens
Monarch Machine Tool Co. History
"Vintage Machinery" entry for Monarch Machine Tool Co.
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Description: |
| Toulmin & Toulmin - patent attorneys
My invention relates to an electric apparatus and method and electric circuit for controlling machine tools, such as lathes, so as to cause the tool of the lathe to impart a given configuration to the work in accordance with the predetermined design which is used as the master controlling means for controlling the electric circuit that, in turn, controls the lathe. It is my object to provide such circuit apparatus and practice a method in which I utilize apparatus of the same general character set forth in my co-pending application, Serial No. 583,570, filed December 28,1931, in which there is a lathe having a motor for imparting longitudinal movement to the tool, a motor for imparting transverse movement to the tool and a system of magnetic clutches controlled by the electric circuit for alternately operating the motors to cause the tool supported on the carriage so moved by the motors to follow a predetermined configuration and to impart that configuration to the work. As set forth in that application and as fully shown herein, I use a follower pin engaging with a template, but, in the present application, I have developed a novel system of control through the medium of light sensitive cells, thereby eliminating a switch mechanism and associated parts and making it possible to get an accuracy and responsiveness of control heretofore impossible with merely mechanical and electrical switches.
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