Watch fusee cutting engine.
- Made:
- 1750-1800 in Unattributed place
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Watch fusee cutting engine.
Science Museum Group
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
Watch fusee cutting engine.
Science Museum Group
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
Watch fusee cutting engine.
Science Museum Group
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
Watch fusee cutting engine.
This machine tool for cutting fusees is of a type used in the second half of the eighteenth century. It resembles the fusee engine illustrated in Ford, Whitmore, & Brunton's catalogue of c.1775.
The engine is intended to be mounted in a vice, and when the handle (not original) is turned, it drives through pinions the chuck holding the fusee blank. At the same time a threaded block travels along the screw cut on the shaft and turns a lever pivoted at the front of the frame. The movement of the lever makes the table carrying the cutting tool traverse at a rate which depends on the position of its point of attachment to the table, which is adjustable.
Details
- Category:
- Hand and Machine Tools
- Object Number:
- 1963-120
- Measurements:
-
overall (as displayed, incl. mount): 106 mm x 215 mm x 187 mm, 2.334 kg
overall (without mount): 100 mm x 240 mm x 240 mm,
- type:
- fusee engine
- credit:
- Topham, V.
