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1. Introduction to Machine Tools

1.1 Study of Machine Tools
Various machining purpose used these all type of mechanical machining machines are Lathe
machine, Shaper machine, Slotting machine, Planning machine, Drilling machine, Boring
machine, Milling machine, Grinding machine, Lapping machine Honing machine and
Broaching machine These machines are to producing various operations like namely Facing,
Chamfering, Step turning, Taper turning, Plain turning, Knurling, Grooving, Thread cutting,
Drilling, Tapping, Precision grinding, Cylindrical grinding, Surface grinding, grinding of tool
angles e.t.c


1.1.1 LATHE MACHINE:

A lathe s a machine tool which rotates the workpiece on its axis to perform various operations
such as cutting, sanding, knurling, drilling, or deformation with tools that are applied to the
workpiece to create an object which has symmetry about an axis of rotation. Lathes are used in
woodturning, metalworking, metal spinning, and glass working. Lathes can be used to shape
pottery, the best-known design being the potter's wheel. Most suitably equipped metalworking
lathes can also be used to produce most solids of revolution, plane surfaces a nd screw threads or
helices. Ornamental lathes can produce three-dimensional solids of incredible complexity. The
material can be held in place by either one or two centers, at least one of which can be moved
horizontally to accommodate varying material lengths. Other work holding methods include
clamping the work about theaxis of rotation using a chuck to a faceplate, using clamps or dog.


Fig 1.1 Lathe
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1.1.2 SHAPER MACHINE:
A shaper is a type of machine tool that uses linear relative motion between the workpiece and a
single-point cutting tool to machine a linear tool path. Its cut is analogous to that of a lathe,
except that it is linear instead of helical. (Adding axes of motion can yield helical tool paths, as
also done in helical planning.) A shaper is analogous to a planer, but smaller, and with the cu
tter riding a ram that moves above a stationary workpiece, rather than the entire workpiece
moving beneath the cutter. The ram is moved back and forth typically by a crank inside the
column; hydraulically actuated shapers also exist. A shaper is a type of machine tool that uses
linearrelative motion between the workpiece and a single-point cutting tool to machin e a linear
tool path. Its cut is analogous to that of a lathe, except that it is linear instead of helical. (Adding
axes of motion can yield helical tool paths, as also done in helical planning.) A shaper is
analogous to a planer, but smaller, and with the cutter riding a ram that moves above a stationary
workpiece, rather than the entire work piece moving beneath the cutter. The ram is moved back
and forth typically by a cran k inside the column; hydraulically actuated shapers also exist.

Fig 1.2 Shaper

1.1.3 PLANNING MACHINE:
A planer is a type of metalworking machine tool that uses linear relative motion between the
workpiece and a single-point cutting tool to machine a linear tool path. Its cut is analogous to
that of a lathe, except that it is linear instead of helical. (Adding axes of motion can yield helical
tool paths; see "Helical planing" below.) A planer is analogous to a shaper, but larger, and with
the entire workpiece moving on a table beneath the cutter, instead of the cutter riding a ram that
moves above a stationary workpiece. The table is moved back and forth on the bed beneath the
cutting head either by mechanical means, such as a rack and pinion drive or a leadscrew, or by a
hydraulic cylinder.

1.1.4 DRILLING MACHINE:
A drill or drill motor is a tool fitted with a cutting tool attachment or driving tool attachment,
usually a drill bit or driver bit, used for drilling holes in various materials or fastening various
materials together with the use of fastener s. The attachment is gripped by a chuck at one end of
the drill and rotated while pressed against the target material. The tip, and sometimes edges, of
the cutting tool does the work of cutting into the target material. This may be slicing off thin
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shavings (twist drills or auger bits), grinding off small particles (oil drilling), crushing and
removing pieces of the workpiece (SDS masonry drill), countersinking, counterboring, or other
operations. Drills are commonly used in woodworking, metalworking, construction and do-it-
yourself projects. Specially designed drills are also used in medicine, space missions and other
applications.

Fig 1.3 Drilling machine

1.1.5 BORING MACHINE:

In machining, boring is the process of enlarging a hole that has already been drilled
(or cast), by means of a single-point cutting tool (or of a boring head containing several such
tools), for example as in boring a can non barrel. Boring is used to achieve greater accuracy of
the diameter of a hole, and can be used to cut a tapered hole. There are various types of boring.
The boring bar may be supported on both ends (which only works if the existing hole is a th
rough hole), or it may be supported at one end. Line boring (line boring, line-boring) implies the
former. Backboring (back boring, back-boring) is the process of reaching through an existing
hole and then boring on the "back" side of the workpiece (relative to the machine headstock).

1.1.6 MILLING MACHINE:

A milling machine (also see synonyms below) is a machine tool used to machine solid materials.
Milling machines are often classed in two basic for ms, horizontal and vertical, which
refers to the orientation of the main spindle. Both types range in size from small, bench-mounted
devices to room-sized machines. Unlike a drill press, this holds the workpiece stationary as the
drill moves axially to penetrate the material, milling machines also move the workpiece radially
against the rotating milling cutter, which cuts on its sides as well as its tip. Workpiece and
cutter movement are precisely controlled to less than 0.001 in (0.025 mm), usually by means of
precision ground slides and lead screws or analogous technology. Milling machines may be
manually operated, mechanically automated, or digitally automated via computer numerical
control (CNC).Milling machines can perform a vast number of operations, from simple (e.g., slot
and keyway cutting, planing, drilling) to complex (e.g., contouring, die sinking). Cutting fluid is
often pumped to the cuttingsite to cool and lubricate the cut and to wash awaythe resulting swarf.
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Fig 1.4 milling machine

1.1.7 GRINDING MACHINE:
A grinding machine, often shortened to grinder, is a machine tool used for grinding, which is a
type of machining using an abrasive wheel as the cutting tool. Each grain of abrasive on the
wheel's surface cuts a small chip from the workpiece via shear deformation. The grinding
machine consists of a power driven grinding wheel spinning at the required speed (which is
determined by the wheels diameter and manufacturers rating, usually by a formula) and a bed
with a fixture to guide and hold the work-piece. The grinding head can be controlled to trave
l across a fixed work piece or the workpiece can be moved whilst the grind head stays in a fixed
position. Very fine control of the grinding head or tables position is possible using a Vernier
calibrated hand wheel, or using the features of numerical controls.

Fig 1.5 Grinding Machine
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1.1.8 LAPPING MACHINE
Lapping is a machining operation, in which two surfaces are rubbed together with an abrasive
between them, by hand movement or by way of a machine. This can take two forms. The first
type of lapping (traditionally called grinding), typically involves rubbing a brittle material such
as glass against a surface such as iron or glass itself (also known as the "lap" or grindin g tool)
with an abrasive such as aluminum oxide, jeweller's rouge, optician's rouge,emery, silicon
carbide, diamond, etc., in between them. This produces microscopic concordat fractures as the
abrasive rolls about between the two surfaces and removes material from both. The other form of
lapping involves a softer material such as pitch or a ceramic for the lap, which is "charged" with
the abrasive. The lap is then used to cut a harder materialthe workpiece. The abrasive embeds
within the softer material which holds it and permits it to score across and cut theharder material.
Taken to the finer limit, this will produce a polished surface such aswith a polishing cloth on an
automobile, or a polishing cloth or polishing pitch upon glass or steel.

fig1.6 Lapping machine
1.1.9 HONING MACHINE
Typical applications are the finishing of cylindersfor internal combustion engines, air bearing
spindles and gears. Types of hone are many and various but all consist of one or more abrasive
stones that are held under pressure against the surface they are working on. In everyday use, a
honing steel is used to hone knives, especially kitchen knives, and is a fine process, there
contrasted with more abrasive sharpening. Other similar processes are lapping and super finis
hing.



Fig 1.7 Honing machine

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1.3 STUDY OF MACHINING PROCESSES

Machining is one of the processes of manufacturing in which the specified shape to the work
piece is imparted by removing surplus material. Conventionally this surplus material from the
work-piece is removed in the form of chips by a mutual interaction between the an appropriate
tool and the workpiece. The mechanical generation of These chips can be carried out by a single
point or multi point tool or by abrasive operations as classified below:



The process of chip formation in metal cutting is affected by relative motion between the tool
and the work-piece achieved with the aid of a device called machine tool. This relative motion
can be obtained by a combination of rotary and translatory movements of either the tool or the
workpiece or both. The kind of surface that is produced by the operation depends on the shape of
the tool and the path it traverses through the materials. When the workpiece is rotated about an
axis and the tool is traversed in a definite path relative to the axis, a surface of revolution is
generated. When the tool path
is parallel to the axis, the surface generated is a cylinder as in straight turning [Figure 1.8] or
boring operations [Figure1.9]. Similarly, planes may be generated by a series of straight cuts
without rotating the workpiece as in shaping and planing operations [Figure 1.10] . In shaping
the tool reciprocates and the work piece is moved crosswise at the end of each stroke. Planning is
done by reciprocating the workpiece and crosswise movement is provided to the tool.


A surface may be machined by the tools having a number of cutting edges that can cut
successively through the work-piece materials. In plane milling , the cutter revolves and moves
over the work piece as shown [Figure 1.11]. The axis of the cutter is parallel to the surface
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generated. Similarly in drilling, the drill may turn and be fed into the workpiece and the
workpiece may revolve while the drill is fed into it [Figure 1.12]


The machine tools, in general, provide two kinds of relative motions. The primary motion is
responsible for the cutting action and absorbs most of the power required to perform the
machining action. The secondary motion is that of feed and may proceed in steps or continuously
and absorbs only a fraction of the total power required for machining. When the secondary
motion is added to the primary motion, machine surfaces of desired geometric characteristics are
produced.

Consider a situation where both the cutting motions as well as the feed motion (provided at the
end of each stroke) are rectilinear and perpendicular to each other simultaneously . Here the
machined surface produced is a plane. The line generated by the primary motion (cutting motion)
is called the generatrix, while the line representing the secondary motion (feed motion) is called
the directrix (Fig. 1.13(a)).

Depending upon the shapes of the generatrix and the directrix and their relative orientations.
various geometries can be produced on the workpiece. Consider another case when the
generatrix is a circle and the dirctrix is a line perpendicular to the plane of the generatrix. It is
clear that in this situation the surface produced will be a cylinder (Fig. 1.13(b)). A tapered
surface can be produced by merely changing the angle that the directrix makes with the plane of
the generatrix. When the directrix is in the plane of the circular generatrix (Fig. 1.13(c)), lines are
generated which results in a plain surface when a number of generatrices and directrices are
placed side by side in the direction perpendicular to the plane of the generatrix. In actual
practice, the cutting is performed by cutting edge and not a point. Thus a series of generatrix
/directrix combination are involved and the relative motion produces a surface rather than a line.

Basically there are two methods of producing new surfaces, the tracing method and the
generation method. In the tracing method the surface is obtained by direct tracing of the
generatrices and when the surface produced is the envelope of the generatrix the process is
known as generation. Figs. 1.13(a) &1.13{b), the plane and the cylindrical surfaces are obtained
by direct tracing, while in Fig. 1.13(c) the final surface geometry is the envelope of the
generatrices

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