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five-position turret [1 record]

Record 1 2006-03-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Machine-Tooling (Metallurgy)
CONT

[The vertical N/C precision-boring and -turning machine] is a single-spindle machine, and can perform accurate machining ... This machine may have a four-, five-, or six-position turret upon which tools can be mounted.

OBS

This term is used interchangeably with "pentagonal turret" (cf. SOTOO 1976, p. 5-62) when referring to turrets of this shape.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Usinage (Métallurgie)
CONT

Wickmann - tours automatiques à barres. [...] 3 1/2" : [...]. Monobroche tourelle à 5 postes. Chariots transversaux avant et arrière.

OBS

révolver : Cette graphie, puisée des Rectifications de l'orthographe recommandées par le Conseil supérieur de la langue française, est attestée dans le Petit Robert (2006).

OBS

La tourelle [du tour revolver automatique RF 3], à axe horizontal de grand diamètre et à 5 postes, comporte un mouvement longitudinal : approche rapide, travail, retour rapide et un «pendulage» transversal, permettant de nombreux usinages.

Key term(s)
  • tourelle révolver 5 postes

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