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HEADSTOCK CARRIAGE [2 records]

Record 1 2005-06-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Facilities and Equipment (Wood Industries)
  • Finish Carpentry (Wood Industries)
OBS

Single chain mortising machine.

OBS

headstock carriage : term standardized by ISO.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Installations et équipement (Industr. du bois)
  • Menuiserie (Industr. du bois)
OBS

Mortaiseuse à chaîne simple.

OBS

chariot porte-chaîne : terme normalisé par l'ISO.

OBS

On écrirait mieux «charriot».

OBS

charriot : Cette graphie, puisée des Rectifications de l'orthographe recommandées par le Conseil supérieur de la langue française, est attestée dans le Petit Robert (2004).

Spanish

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Record 2 1986-05-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Lathe Work (Machine-Tooling)
DEF

Part of a lathe that contains a number of different-sized gears, which provide a means to change the rate of feed and the ratio between revolutions of the headstock spindle and the movement of the carriage for thread cutting.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tournage sur métaux
DEF

Organe qui établit, par engrenages, des rapports rigoureux entre la vitesse de rotation de la broche et celle de la barre de chariotage.

Spanish

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