Small screw-cutting device or fusee engine for clock-maker's use
- Made:
- circa 1800
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LicenseSmall screw-cutting device or fusee engine for clock-maker's
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Small screw-cutting device or fusee engine for clock-maker's
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
Small screw-cutting device or fusee engine for clock-maker's
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
Small screw-cutting device or fusee engine for clock-maker's
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
Small screw-cutting device or fusee engine for clock-maker's
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
Small screw-cutting device or fusee engine for clock-maker's use, c.1800
This small screw-cutting lathe, which was intended to be clamped in a vice, was designed for cutting fusees to use in clock-making
The cutting tool is held on a slide-rest which is constrained to slide parallel to the mandrel which is threaded with a coarse screw. On rotating the mandrel and the work held in the chuck, a nut, which is attached to the slide-rest through a lever, runs along the screw and causes the tool to traverse. The pitch of the screw cut depends on the leverage employed which is adjustable.
Details
- Category:
- Hand and Machine Tools
- Object Number:
- 1938-15
- Measurements:
-
overall: 3.5433 x 8.2677 x 3.937 in.; 90 x 210 x 100 mm
- type:
- fusee engine
- credit:
- Rendall, F.G.
