ANAND KUMAR

Roll No.- ME /13/ 710

Topic of presentation:- Lathe Machine
Outline
 Introduction
 Construction of a lathe
 Principal parts a lathe
 Lathe operations
 References

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Introduction
 A Lathe is one of the most versatile and widely
used machine tool. So it is also known as a
mother machine tool.

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Construction of a Lathe

Construction of a lathe | CONFIDENTIAL 2014 May 23, 2017

Principal parts of a lathe
The principal parts of a lathe are:-
1. Bed
2. Headstock
3. Tailstock
4. Carriage
5. Feed mechanism

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Lathe Bed
 All the parts of the lathe
such as headstock,
tailstock, carriage etc.,
are mounted on the bed.
 The bed should have
sufficient weight and be of
proper material so that
the vibrations generated
during operations are
damped out.

Lathe bed | CONFIDENTIAL 2014 May 23, 2017

Headstock
 It is located at the left
hand side of the bed.
 It supports the spindle
and contains a
gearbox by which the
spindle and hence the
workpiece may be
rotated at various
speeds.

Headstock | CONFIDENTIAL 2014 May 23, 2017

Tailstock
 It is situated at the right
hand end of the bed. It
can be moved towards
or away from the
operator.
 Tailstock can be locked
in any position along the
bed of the lathe by
tightening the clamp
lever or nut.

Tailstock | CONFIDENTIAL 2014 May 23, 2017

Carriage
 The carriage controls
and supports the cutting
tool. By the help of this,
cutting tool moves away
or towards the head
stock. It has five major
parts:-
a) Saddle
b) Cross slide
c) Compound slide
d) Tool post
e) Apron
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Parts of carriage (cont.)

a) Saddle
 It is an H-sapped
casting mounted on the
top of the lathe so
slides along the ways
between headstock and
tailstock.
 It carries the Cross
slide and compound
slide with suitable tool
post.
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Parts of carriage (cont.)
b) Cross slide
 It is mounted on the saddle. It provides the
cross movement (towards or away from the
operator) to the cutting tool.
 The cross slide can be moved by its hand
wheel.

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Parts of carriage (cont.)

c) Compound slide
 It is mounted on the
cross slide.
 It supports the tool post.
 The hand-feed is used
for taper turning
operations.

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Parts of carriage (cont.)

d) Tool post
 It is mounted above the
compound slide.
 It clamps the cutting
tool or cutting tool
holder in a desired
position.

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Parts of carriage (cont.)

e) Apron
 It is fastened to the
saddle and contains the
feeding mechanism.
 The apron hand wheel
can be turned by hand
to move the carriage
along the bed of the
lathe.

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Feed mechanism
 The tool movement relative to the
work is known as feed. There are
three types of feed:-

 Longitudinal feed :- When

tool moves away or towards
the head stock parallel to the
axis of the work.

 Cross feed:- When the tool

moves away from the or
towards from the operator
perpendicular to work.

 Angular feed:- By swivelling

the compound rest the tool
is made to move at any
angle to the work.
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Lathe operations
 Turning
 To remove material from outside diameter of
a work piece to obtain a finished surface.

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Lathe operations
 Facing
 To produce a flat surface at the end of the
work piece.

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Lathe operations
 Boring
 To enlarge a hole or cylindrical cavity in the
job.
 The hole may have been made by drilling.

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Lathe operations
 Drilling
 To produce a hole in the work piece.

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Lathe operations
 Drilling
 To produce a hole in the work piece.

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Lathe operations
 Reaming
 To finishing the drilled hole.

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Lathe operations
 Threading
 To produce external or internal threads on the
work piece.

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Lathe operations
 Knurling
 To produce a regularly shaped roughness on
the work piece.

Lathe operations | CONFIDENTIAL 2014 May 23, 2017

References
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lathe
 www.lathe-machine.in/lathe-machine-pics.html
 Manufacturing process by O.P. khanna.

References | CONFIDENTIAL 2014 May 23, 2017

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