Patents Assigned to Standard Modern Tool Company Limited
  • Work handling apparatus for center drive lathe
    Patent number: 4064774
    Abstract: In a work handling apparatus for a center drive lathe having a center chuck and right hand and left hand turrets, the workpiece is accurately located with respect to the chuck, prior to machining, by means of a locating jig mounted on one of the turrets. The workpiece is carried between spring-biassed centers carried by the turrets, and is pushed axially against the weaker spring-bias of one of the centers until it abuts the locating jig, whereupon the chuck clamps the workpiece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 1976
    Date of Patent: December 27, 1977
    Assignee: Standard Modern Tool Company Limited
    Inventor: William Harvard Maddock