J, E. SPENCER. Metal Turning-Lathes. Patented April 21, 1874 No.150,094. WITNESSES. INVENTOR.UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE JOHN BE, SPEN R, OF MOODUS, CONNECTICUT. IMPROVEMENT IN METAL-TURNING LATHES. Speciation formliig part of Letters Patent No. 150,094, dated April 21, 1674; appli April 13, 1874, ‘Po ail whom it may concen: but when the cast-iron bearing does become Be it known that I, JOHN E. SPENCER, of | worn, it can be cracked off and a new one put Moodus, in the county of Middlesex and State | on. ‘Phe shaft a is turned down upon its front of Connecticut, have invented certain new and | end, leaving a shoulder, against which the iil Improvements in Lathe- Spindles, of | bearing d is foreed, This bearing is forced Which the following is a specification, refer- | upon the shaft under considerable pressure, eneo being had to the accompanying drawings, | the same as car-wheels are forced upon their in which— axles, and the bearing thus forced on becomes Figure 1 js a lathe-spindle, with my im- | practically a part of the shaft proved bearing. Fig. 2 is a view of the same m aware that wagon-axles have been in central longitudinal section, made having sleeves of babbitt or other soft ‘The improvement consists in a hant cast- | metal thereon, and this T do not elaim. T iron bearing for the steel shaft or spindle, | am also aware that wagon-axles of wrought. which bearing is made separate from the shaft, | iron or steel have been made with spindles of then foreed apon the shaft by pressure, so that | a tapering form upon whieh, or wrought-iron when on, the shatt and the bearing are praeti- | thimbles have been placed as bearings for the cally one. | hub of the wheel; but, since these spindles In the drawings, t = were tapering in’ form, thimbles must or spiudle, whieh is of soft untempered steel | have Been held in. place by. other ‘means b is the ordinary cone-pulley; ¢, the serew | than the contactof the thimble with thespindle, upon the end for a face-plates d, the hard east- | and such thimbles could not therefore become iron bearing, and ¢ the box in which the bear- | a unity with the spindle, and such unity is ing rang. ‘The bearing dis in the form of a | absolutely necessary in a lathe-spindte. Heretofore the wholeshatt, bearing,and | I claim as my invention all have been made of one piece of steel, and | A lathe-spindle of soft or untempered steel, after making, it was necessary to temper the | having its hearing next the face-plate made largeconical bearing. ‘This process of temper- | of hard cast-iron, and forced upon a regular ing not unfrequently warped the shatt, so that | or non-tapering formation of the spindle, so as it was useless, or 80 that it could not be | to become a unity with the spindle, substan. jc right without great trouble and expense. | tially as and for the purpose set fort By making this bearing d of a separate piece JOHN E. SPEN of hard cast-iron, Iam enabled to leave the | Witnesses: steel shaft soft and untempered and yet have Davin 8. Puen, ahard and darable bearing. Not only this, Ransom Prexce,