Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A rotating head or stock, either shaped and ground to form a cutter, or so devised that bits or blades can be attached to it, used with planing-, grooving-, and molding-machines, etc.
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Examples
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In practice, however, point C is not in any size of cutter-head placed nearer than 1/4 inch from corner X of the cutter-head.
Mechanical Drawing Self-Taught Joshua Rose
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In Figure 290 is shown a cutter-head for a wood moulding machine, and it is required to find what shape the cutting edge of the cutter must be to form a moulding such as is shown in the end view of the moulding in the figure.
Mechanical Drawing Self-Taught Joshua Rose
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The spindle of the side cutter-heads is hung in a vertical frame arranged to be moved up and down, and laterally, to adjust the cutter-head for action, and is provided at its upper end with
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Follow this company Tunnel project took a major step this week as a 43-foot-wide, 265-ton cutter-head was lowered into a pit in the middle of Interstate 395 on Watson Island.
unknown title 2011
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The cutter-head is the front piece of the 360-foot-long tunnel boring machine, which will go up to 120 feet under the shipping channel between Watson Island and Dodge Island, which is where the port is located.
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a box or bearing, whereby the bearing of the box is always kept upon the spindle instead of at different points of the same as in other machines, and this without interfering with the adjustability of the side cutter-head.
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