Horizontal Milling

Machines and
Accessories

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Horizontal Milling
Machines
1. Manufacturing-type
• Cutter height is controlled by vertical
movement of headstock
2. Special-type
• Designed for specific milling operations
3. Knee-and-column-type
• Relationship between cutter height and
work controlled by vertical movement of
table
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Manufacturing-Type
• Used primarily for quantity production
of identical parts
• Distinctive features
• Automatic cycle of cutter and work
approach
• Rapid movement during non-cutting cycle
• Automatic spindle stop

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Manufacturing-Type
• Two common types
• Plain manufacturing type
• Small plain automatic knee and column
type

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Plain Manufacturing Type
Milling Machine

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Special-Type Machines
• Designed for individual milling
operations
• Used for only one particular type of job
• Completely automatic
• Employed when hundreds or
thousands of similar pieces are to be
machined

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Machining Centers
• Capable of handling wide variety of
work all in one setup
• Straight and contour milling, drilling,
reaming, tapping, and boring
• Capable of high production rates while
still maintaining high degree of accuracy
• Rugged construction, reliable controls
• Anti-backlash ball screws

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Machining Centers

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Knee-and-Column-Type
Milling Machines
• Machines in this class fall into three
categories:
• Plain horizontal milling machine
• Universal horizontal milling machines
• Vertical milling machines

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Universal Horizontal
Milling Machines

• Difference from plain horizontal

machine is addition of table swivel
housing
• Located between table and saddle
• Permits table to be swiveled 45º in either
direction in a horizontal plane
• Used for milling of helical grooves in
twist drills, milling cutters, and gears

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Universal Horizontal
Milling Machine

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Milling Machine Parts
• Base
• Gives support and
rigidity to machine
• Acts as reservoir for
cutting fluids
• Column face
• Precision-machined
and scraped section
used to support and
guide knee when
moved vertically
• Knee
• Houses feed
mechanism
• Attached to column
face and moved
vertically
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Milling Machine Parts
• Saddle
• On top of knee
• Moved in or out by
means of crossfeed
handwheel (manually
or automatically)
• Swivel table housing
• Fastened to saddle on
universal milling
machine
• Enables table to be swiveled 45º either side of
centerline
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Milling Machine Parts
• Table
• Rests on guideways
in saddle and travels
left and right
• Supports vise and
work
• Crossfeed handwheel
• Used to move table
in and out
• Table handwheel
• Used to move table
left and right
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Milling Machine Parts
• Feed dial
• Used to regulate
table feeds
• Spindle
• Provides drive for
attachments, arbors,
cutters
• Overarm
• Provides for correct
alignment and
support of arbor and
various attachments
• Can be adjusted and
locked in various
positions
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Milling Machine Parts
• Arbor support
• Fitted to overarm and
can be clamped
• Aligns and supports
various attachments
• Elevating screw
• Gives upward or
downward movement
to knee and table
(manually or
automatically)
• Spindle speed dial
• Set by crank used to
regulate spindle speed
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Backlash Eliminator
• Eliminates backlash (play) between nut and
table lead screw
• Permits operation of climb (down) milling
• Two independent nuts mounted on lead screw
• Nuts engage common crown gear which meshes
with rack
• Axial movement of rack controlled by backlash
eliminator engaging knob on front of saddle
• Turning knob in, nuts forced to move along lead
screw in opposite directions

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Machine Backlash
Eliminator

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Milling Machine
Accessories
• Wide variety of accessories greatly
increase versatility and productivity
• Accessories classed as fixtures or
attachments
• Work-holding device fastened to table
• Designed to hold workpieces that
cannot be readily held in vise or when
large quantities are to be machined
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Milling Machine
Attachments
1. Designed to hold special attachment that
increase versatility of machine
• Vertical, high-speed, universal, rack
milling, slotting
2. Designed to hold standard cutters
• Arbors, collets, and adapters
3. Designed to hold workpiece
• Vise, rotary table, indexing (dividing)
head
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Vertical Milling Attachment
• Enables plain or universal milling machine to
be used as a vertical milling machine
• Mounted on face of column or overarm
• Angular surfaces made by swiveling head,
parallel to face of column up to 45º either
side of vertical
• Used for face milling, end milling, drilling,
boring and T-slot milling
• Universal milling attachment modification
allows swiveling in two planes for cutting
compound angles

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Rack Milling Attachment
• Used to mill longer gear racks (flat
gears) than could be cut with
standard horizontal milling machine
• Rack indexing attachment included

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Slotting Attachment
• Converts rotary motion of spindle into
reciprocating motion
• Cutting keyways, splines, templates, and
irregularly shaped surfaces
• Length of stroke controlled by
adjustable crank
• Tool slide may be swiveled to any angle
in plane parallel to face of column

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Arbors
• Arbors
• Used for mounting milling cutter
• Inserted and held in main spindle by draw
bolt
• Shell-end mill arbors
• Permit face milling horizontally or vertically
• Fit into main spindle

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Collets and Adapters
• Collet adapters
• used for mounting drills or other tapered-
shank tools in main spindle of machine or
vertical milling attachment
• Quick-change adapter
• Mounted in spindle
• Permits such operations as drilling, boring,
and milling without change in setup of
workpiece
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Arbors, Collets, and
Adapters

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Milling Machine Vises
• Plain vise
• Jaws parallel or 90º to axis of spindle

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Milling Machine Vises
• Swivel base vise
• Can swivel through 360º in horizontal plane

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Milling Machine Vises
• Universal vise
• Can swivel through 360º in horizontal plane
and tilted from 0º to 90 in vertical plane

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Fixturing
Systems

Easy-to-adjust Stop
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Indexing or Dividing Head
• Permits cutting of bolt heads, gear
teeth, ratchets
• Revolve work as required to cut
helical gears and flutes in drills,
reamers, and other tools
• When connected to lead screw of milling
machine

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Horizontal Boring Mill

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Horizontal Boring Mill

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