NOTE NEW DESIGNS, EXTENSIVE MODERNIZATION OF MACHINE-TOOL PARK

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• Publication Date: June 12, 1950
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idvTE :?-'f :DESIGNS, E7CTEN5IVE *".nr~ET?mI?1:TIOPT
OF MACHIP~G-TOOL PARK
PTi.~'.i? i~(,~:.ISION BORTN(; 1+;f.c~ili~II~ -- Sorets'kaya ISirgiziya, No 65, 1 Apr 50
The Frunze Repair Plant of'the Ministry of Agriculture Kirgiz SSR has
_ ~:;rv;:d riass p.-oduction of the URB-VP boring machina, designed by Engineer
l'~ronov. This plant is the first in the Soviet Union to produce this type
of machine tool. It r;ill precision-bore connecting rod heads for automobile
and tractor engines, eliminating further scraping operations before installa-
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TO BUILD PtEt~ SEldu~LiOhIATIC -- Tzvd, Pdo 68, 21 Mar 50
.l brigade leader at the Kalibr Plant submitted sketches of a semiauto-
matic which wovl.d replace five turret lathes. Designer Ovechkin has approved
tl,e drawings ann. ~1r:: neti; !anchine will be manufactured is a very short time.
INNOVATION WILI~ INCREASE PFiODUGTION P.~~'Pi -- iKoskovskiy Komsomolets, No 36,
23 Mar 50
Machining the measuring device of a mic=~ometer is done on one section of
a conveyer at the Kalibr Flant. This operation is performed by Vladimir
Utkin, a Stalil Prize winner, and hi.s brigade. Previously,. a lathe operator
had to use 11 successive tools for this operation. Utkin found a way to cut
the number of tools. to seven and in some cases was able to use old and cast-
off tools, which had been used by other sections., without hurting the quality
of the product. As a result, not only was a great saving effected in salvaged
pobedit cutting tools, reamers, and counterbores, but there was a rapid increase
in the rate of the entire productive process.
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Utl:in, his brigade, and Engineer Ovechkin have developed aPcombination
machine tool for machining these measuvin~,nto~ACtvalhproduction.plar..e five
existing turret lathes. It will soon ?o
SEMIAUTOMATIC FCR MOLDING GRTSIDING WHEELS -- Sovetskaya. Litva, No 76, 30 Mar 50
Until recently, packing of abrasive grains into molds was 3one by hand,
a process which was slow and outmoded. At present, a large park of semiauto-
matic packing machines, designed by Engineer N. F. Yolyni'~, is in operation
at the Leningrad I1'ich Plant. The durability of large grinding wheels has
bacn doubled and the consumption of raw material considerably decreased.
MACHINE TOOLS REPLAC]! CONVENTIONAL TYPES -- Krasnaya Zvezda, No 70, 23 Mar 5d
The Kharkov Light Combination-Machine-Tool Plant fulfilled the Five-Year
Plan ahead of time in gross production and in number of types of machine tools.
During the postwar Five-Year Plan the plant has produced hundreds of high-
production universal combination machine tools for sutomob ile and tractor plants
and agricultural machine-building plants. During this year the plant has manu-
factured seven multispindle combination machine tools for the Shadrinsk Machine-
Building Plant. These combination machine tools replaced 35 conventional types.
CONVERT MACHINE TOOLS T~0 HIGR-SPEED CUTTING -- Trod, No 68, 21 bTar 50
Associates at ';.iie Leningrad Polytechnical Institute imeni M. I. Kalinin
have worked out a method for determining the suitability of machine tools for
high-speed machining of metals and ways of modernizing the tools. They have
scientifically proven that three-fourths of the machine-tool park existing in
the Soviet Union can be converted to high-speed methods. Conversion is accom-
plished for the most part by increasing the number of revolutions, increasing
the power of machine tools, improving the weak points in their design, cutting
the time reaui.red for auxiliary operations, and instituting measures for ac~i-
dent prevention.
In cooperation with scientists at the Polytechnical Institute, workers of
the Leningrad Plant imeni Sverdlov are mounting spindles on roller bearings in
the DIP lathes. This is being copied by many enterprises.
b10DERNIZE MACHINE TOOLS -- Leningradskaya Pravda, No 71, 24 Mar 50 .
Conclusions based on e~Yieriments of innovators in machine-building enter-
prises throughout the country in respect to modernization of metal-cutting
machine tools have been made at the Laboratory for Cutting of the House of
Technology. A series of schematic drawings has graphically shown how equip-
ment could be converted to high-speed methods with a minimum loss of time and
Tabor. At present, the laboratory is disseminating the experiments of innova-
tors to Leningrad plants. At the same time, a retooling of existing machine
tools nor increased cutting speeds is taking place in the demonstratior. hall.
Visitors are shown a horizontal milling machine recently been set up in the
hall which is equipped with an attachment which permits high-speed face-milling.
The attachment, designed by the chief of the laboratory, S. L. Fokinym, consists
of a special head which is fastened to the tool holder snd stand of the machine
cutter is mountedntisyinstalled ontthiswsame tooleholderindTheomillion theispin~
dle can be replaced by a drill or any other metal-cutting tool according to the
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need. The head, dcueTiding oa th? tyP-? of operation, can be mounted in
different positions, which makes possible the milling of a part at any y
angle. The cutting speed in face milling can reach 300 meters per ;u~uu~a;
the aumbUSSiblephighespeedlmachiningrofe ightgmeta1s1,500 and more, thus
makin8 P
Horizontal milling machines are being modernized in many Leningrad
plants. DSodernization is not presenting any technical difficulties.
The Udmurt s~:rew-cutting lathe has been modernised according to methods
developed by Candidates in Technical Sciences I. M. and A? MT?Kvcreplacing
rated speed is 450 rpm. This speed was nearly double3 by m?__-?
the motor. By improving the longitudinal and traverse feed spindles, together
with other additions and changes, the innovators were able to increase ~~on-
siderably the speed of metalworking and shorten the time requires for prelimi-
nary operations.
Machine tools are also being modernized at the 7inotip, Krasnyy metallist,
and other plants.
DEVELOP 2-POSITION FEED ON 4-SPINDLE AUTOMATIC LATHE -- Moskovaskaya Pravda,
No 2R~ 23 Mar 50
Engineers Aver'yanov, Sheremet`yev, rioavsrov, and ~uvw,,, ~?,~v ~f the Second
fo tespindlegautomaticalathe~roMachine toolaproducti-~it,~ihasnincreased 30U35a
percent. `
The two-position feed on afour-spindle automatic can be used when cutting
trust-bearing races, as well as in manufacturing other parts.
TFfftEAD LONG ONE?-PIECE SCREWS -- Izvestiya, No 77, 31 Mar 50
A more than 14-meter-long screw had to be `w'^-'^?=??'i 'ter a new high-powered
machine tool which was being assembled at the Gor'kiy Machine-Tool Building Plant.
Ordinarily, a screw of this length would be made from three to four billets,
each billet being machined individually. This method is not very satisfactory.
The suggestion that only one billet be used was not satisfactory either since
only half of the screw bar would fit into the bed of the machine acial supports
half remained suspended. The problem was solved by setting up spe
to hold the loose end of the bar.
Lathe operator Smirnov, who made the above suggestion, wlso devised a method
whereby he could machine parts to specified size by .attaching a signal light to
his machine. If the cutters should remove chips even a hair's breadth beyond
the specified length, the light in the signal bulb goes on immediately. The
checking of parts during machining has thus been eliminated.
TECffi`TOLOGICAL PROGRESS AT AVTOARMATURA PLANP -- Leningradskaya Pravda, No 69~
22 Mar 50
Personnel of the Avtoarmatura Plant are constantly increasing the output
of products, perfecting 10-15 new types of parts yearly. Rejects in comparison
with 1948 have been decreased 40 percent and flaws on some parts have been com-
pletely eliminated.
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A great deal of technological progress has been made?at this plant.
Cold upsetting of parts is being used, riveting and rolling-out machine tools
have been perfected; a,iiucle-luethaiiical iuctai Ciittiug and electrohardening of
too7.s have ~=A~ introduced. spec+.ral analysis of metals and mechanization of
a manber of labor-consmuing processes have been perfected.
Assembly of automobile signals had been a bottleneck for a long time.
The majority of assembly operations were performed by hand. In an effort to
mechanize these operations, Toporov designed a number of simple and original
attachments which cut labor consumption 25 percent in the manufacture of each
signal.
Thre;.~iing bolts and taps caws previously done with cutting tools. A method
of performing this operation with knurling rollers has been developed. This
tripled labor productivity and improved the quality of parts.
Other innovations have been instituted at this plant, including an automatic
for truing disks, modernization of a machine tool for anode-mechanical metal cut-
ting, and the improvement of press molds and dies.
INNOVATIONS AT YEREVAN PLANT -- Kommunist, No 74, 28 Mar 50
By at'w.ching a chip bree?:er +~ hig yryo ~l+i n~ ~ pno vnrkAr n+ the Yerevan
Marhire.Tnnl $~ildinu Plant imen3. nzerzhinskiy was able to machine a spindle
at a speed of 225 meters per minute with the use ef' ordinary cutting tools.
He machined 75 parts instead of 3Q according to the norm.
Plaits are being ::aide in the foundry to shift from hand molding to machine
molding. .d compressor will clsan castings pneumatically. This will replace
hand clear.~ng.
A ~~ecial }_igh-frequency unit for heat treatment of parts has been per-
fe.;ted and put into operation. Sixty gearF can be tempered in 12 minutds;
this operation formerly required 2 hours.
Among the bottl.eneclcs at the plant was the machining of short screws. A
special head for vortical threading was designed. With the use of the new lathe
attachment, 50 shafts were t~u?eaded in 4 hours; this operation required 5 days
under the conventi.ona.l method.
Previously, the assembly shop experienced difficulties in meeting its norms
i.n the assembly of gear boxes and machine tools. Work was done on an individual
Uasis, Now separe~'se units and entire machine tools are assembled on conveyer
lines. :Jhile four r.~~en used to assemble only two gear boxes, after converting to
conveyer methods these same four men were able to assemble four to fig*e gear
boxes per shift.
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