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SINGLE COLUMN VERTICAL TURNING BORING LATHE [1 record]

Record 1 2015-02-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Lathe Work (Machine-Tooling)
  • Boring (Machine-Tooling)
  • Machine-Tooling (Metallurgy)
CONT

On a single column vertical lathe critical operations occur mainly in turning higher workpieces.

OBS

The above context was taken from a source written by a non-native speaker of English.

OBS

single-housing vertical boring machine: A "vertical boring mill" was originally a machine with one or two ram-type heads, while a "vertical turret lathe" was a machine with a vertical, turret-type head ... Modern machines frequently combine the two types of heads ... Consequently all machines of this type are now generally called vertical boring machines.

OBS

single-housing vertical boring machine: Both vertical turret lathes and vertical boring mills are used to machine blanks of large weight and diameter and relatively small height ... The single-housing, or column, models ... are usually vertical turret lathes ...

OBS

single-housing vertical boring machine: The above contexts are used to support both "single-housing vertical boring machine" and "single-column vertical boring machine".

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tournage sur métaux
  • Alésage (Usinage)
  • Usinage (Métallurgie)
CONT

Tours verticaux à un montant (...). Cette réalisation correspond aux machines de petite et moyenne capacité, dont le diamètre du plateau est habituellement compris entre 630 mm et 2 500 mm pour les machines à siège fixe, et entre 1 600 mm et 10 000 mm pour les machines à plateau ou montant déplaçable.

Spanish

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