The evolution of automatic machinery as applied to the manufacture of watches at Waltham, Mass. by Marsh Edward A

Author:Marsh, Edward A. [from old catalog]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Clock and watch making
Publisher: Chicago, G. K. Hazlitt & co.
Published: 1896-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

the foregoing' machines, another form of machine has been also put in use, which embodies some of the features already noted, but which substitutes a different and improved form of automatic blank feed. These machines, bv the employment of a large amount of oil. are able of working more rapidly than any heretofore used, and are also adapted to the cutting of wheels of all kinds, and will be considered in a subsequent chapter.

CHARLES YANDER WOEM).

CHAPTER V.

In the last chapter we remarked upon the apparent crudity of many of the machines in early use in the original American watch factory. They were primitive, certainly; but the conditions under which they were made were of the same character, and the fact of such tools being made and used is not to be taken as evidence of a lack of inventive ability on the part of those who used them, but rather as showing an ability to accomplish desired results by the simple means to which a lack of capital restricted them.

The limited market for the early product of American watches, would of necessity forbid the expense of building special machines of restricted character or capabilities, and compel the use of appliances of limited cost. and of a nature adapting them to a variety of uses.

In this paper we will consider some of the numerous and successive forms of machines for the cutting of teeth in watch wheels of brass. The earliest of these, within the knowledge of the writer, was a machine for cutting train wheels, and was simply a small iron planer such as is used in machine shops, or by model makers.

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