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slotting-machine

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In metal-working, a power-machine for cutting slots in metal.

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Examples

  • He has contrived things so various as the self-acting mule and the best electro-magnet, wet gas-meters and dry planing machines, iron billard-tables and turret-clocks, the centrifugal railway and the drill slotting-machine, an apparatus for making cigars and machinery for the propulsion and equipment of steamships; so that he may almost be regarded as the Admirable Crichton of modem mechanics.

    Industrial Biography Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904 1863

  • Improvements followed in the slide-lathe (giving a large range of speed with increased diameters for the same size of headstocks, &c.), in the wheel-cutting engine, in the scale-beam (by which, with a load of 2 oz. on each end, the fifteen-hundredth part of a grain could be indicated), in the broaching-machine, the slotting-machine, and other engines.

    Industrial Biography, Iron Workers and Tool Makers Samuel Smiles 1858

  • He has contrived things so various as the self-acting mule and the best electro-magnet, wet gas-meters and dry planing machines, iron billard-tables and turret-clocks, the centrifugal railway and the drill slotting-machine, an apparatus for making cigars and machinery for the propulsion and equipment of steamships; so that he may almost be regarded as the Admirable Crichton of modern mechanics.

    Industrial Biography, Iron Workers and Tool Makers Samuel Smiles 1858

  • Improvements followed in the slide-lathe (giving a large range of speed with increased diameters for the same size of headstocks, in the wheel-cutting engine, in the scale-beam (by which, with a load of 2 oz. on each end, the fifteen-hundredth part of a grain could be indicated), in the broaching-machine, the slotting-machine, and other engines.

    Industrial Biography Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904 1863

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