TURNING AND
BORING
A SPECIALIZED TREATISE FOR MACHINISTS, STUDENTS IN INDUSTRIAL AND ENGINEERING SCHOOLS, AND APPRENTICES, ON TURNING AND BORING METHODS, INCLUDING MODERN PRACTICE WITH ENGINE LATHES, TURRET LATHES, VERTICAL AND HORIZONTAL BORING MACHINES
By FRANKLIN D. JONES
Associate Editor of MACHINERY
Author of “Planing and Milling”
FIRST EDITION
FIFTH PRINTING
NEW YORK
THE INDUSTRIAL PRESS
London: THE MACHINERY PUBLISHING CO., Ltd.
1919
Copyright, 1914
BY
THE INDUSTRIAL PRESS
NEW YORK
PREFACE
Specialization in machine-tool manufacture has been developed to such a degree that there is need also for treatises which specialize on different classes of tools and their application in modern practice. This book deals exclusively with the use of various types of turning and boring machines and their attachments, and is believed to be unusually complete. In addition to standard practice, it describes many special operations seldom or never presented in text-books. Very little space is given to mere descriptions of different types of machine tools, the principal purpose being to explain the use of the machine and the practical problems connected with its operation, rather than the constructional details. No attempt has been made to describe every machine or tool which might properly be included, but rather to deal with the more important and useful operations, especially those which illustrate general principles.
Readers of mechanical literature are familiar with Machinery's 25-cent Reference Books, of which one hundred and twenty-five different titles have been published during the past six years. Many subjects, however, cannot be adequately covered in all their phases in books of this size, and in response to a demand for more comprehensive and detailed treatments on the more important mechanical subjects, it has been deemed advisable to bring out a number of larger volumes, of which this is one. This work includes much of the material published in Machinery's Reference Books Nos. 91, 92 and 95, together with a great amount of additional information on modern boring and turning methods.
It is a pleasure to acknowledge our indebtedness to the manufacturers who generously supplied illustrations and data, including many interesting operations from actual practice. Much valuable information was also obtained from Machinery.
F. D. J.
New York, May, 1914.