SOVIET MACHINE TOOLS GO TO PEOPLE'S DEMOCRACIES, WIDESPREAD USSR PLANTS, MTS

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 14, 2011
• Sequence Number: 635
• Publication Date: August 17, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGE NC O A G E NCY REPOR'
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS CD NO.
DATE OF
INFORMATION
1953
SUBJECT
HOW
Economic; Technological - Machine tools
DATE DIST. 1 7
Aug 1953
PUBLISHED
WHERE
PUBLISHED
Daily newspapers
USSR NO. OF PAGES
4
DATE
PUBLISHED
20 Mar - 23 May 1953
LANGUAGE
SUPPLEMENT TO
Russian REPORT NO.
SOVIET MACHINE TOOLS GO TO PEOPLE'S DEMOCRACIES,
WIDESPREAD USSR PLANTS, MI5
SHIP DIP-300 LATHE TO CIIIIGI -- Moscow, Pravda, 17 May 53
On 15 May, Tbilisi machine-tool builders Tbilisi Machine Tool Building
Plant imeni Kirov shipped a DIP-300 screw-cutting lathe to the Chinese People's
Republic.
GEORGIAN PLANT SENDS MACHINES TO PEOPLE'S DEMOCRACIES -- Tbilisi, Zarya Vostoka,
20 Mar 53
The Tbilisi Machine Tool Building Plant imeni Kirov has received two new
modernized screw-cutting lathes produced in 1953 by the Moscow Krasnyy Pro-
letariy Plant. The new machine tools, having a spindle speed of 1,200 revolu-
tions per minute, have been installed in M. Ts-rul'nik's section.
In 2 years of the Fifth Five-Year Plan, designers at the Tbilisi plant have
developed 16 original types of machine tools. These include pipe cut-off and
coupling cut-off automatics, a pipe-threading semiautomatic, and a special
machine for threading rolled bars. In this period, approximately 15 machines
of various types have been modernized.
Machine tools of new design produced at the Tbilisi plant operate at the
Sumgait, Pervoural'sk, and Zhdanov pipe-rolling plants and at many other enter-
prises in the USSR, as well as in the People's Democracies.
The Tbilisi plant also repairs many broken-down machine tools sent from
all corners of the country. Often, new basic units must be fitted in them to
replace those which are worn out. In 1953, new drawings for restoring up to
130 machine tools of various types have been worked out. Eight designers are
employed in restoring these machine tools.
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MACHINES, PARTS SENT TO LITHUANIAN SSR AID SOLE PRODUCER OF NEW ITEM --
Vil'nyus, Sovetskaya Litva, 8 Apr 53
The first product put out by the Vil'nyus Zhal'giris Machine Tool Building
Plant was bench drilling machines. Later, the plant perfected shapers, which
are now being series produced.
The task of mastering the production of small horizontal, vertical and
universal milling machines has been assigned to the enterprise in the new Five-
Year Plan. The designs for the new machine tools were developed in Moscow at
the ENIMS (Experimental Scientific Research Institute of Metal-Cutting Machine
Tools).
The spindle speeds of the new machine tools reach 2,240 revolutions per
minute, and the table travel in a longitudinal, transverse, and vertical direc-
tion is power operated. Older models of similar dimensions permit a spindle
speed of not more than 600 revolutions per minute, and the vertical and trans-
verse travel ,f the table7are accomplished by hand.
The new-design machine tools are slated for production at the Lithuanian
Zhal'giris Plant alone. This circumstance places a serious responsibility on
the personnel at the enterprise. In addition to mastering and setting up series
production of the new machine tools planned for 1953, this task must be ac-
complished without curtailing current production or increasing production space.
A great deal has already been accomplished in this direction. The first
model was assembled at the plant in October 1952, after which the plant started
small-series production of the milling machines.
In the course of building the new machine tools, a number of shortcomings
in labor organization were disclosed. For example, the inadequacy of the tool
shop was perceived. It was also found that more attention should be given to
supplying workers with technical literature. Courses and especially Stakhanovite
schools should be organized, etc.
To aid the enterprise, the Moscow Machine Tool Building Plant imeni Ord-
zhonikidze and the Krasnyy Proletariy Plant imeni Yefremov are manufacturing
attachments and special tools for machining machine-tool housings. This work
will be completed in a few months. The Dmitrov Milling Machine Plant and other
plants have been called on to manufacture certain parts for the Zhal'giris
Plant, because of the latter's shortage of equipment and tools, until it is
able to produce its own.
In the meantime, the plant has been allocated and is now receiving modern
high-production machine tools such as horizontal boring machines from the Lenin-
grad Plant imeni Sverdlov, planing machines from the Minsk Plant imeni Voroshilov,
and radial drilling machines from Odessa. -- P. Kul'vets, chief engineer, Zhal'-
giris Machine Tool Building Plant
Recently, the Yerevan Machine Tool Building Plant imeni Dzerzhinskiy
shipped more than 40 machine tools to the 14ias7 Ural Automobile Plant imeni
Stalin. A large number of machine tools have also been shipped to the Sormov-
skiy Plant in Gor'kovskaya Oblast, the Alma-Ata Electrical Engineering Plant
in the Kazakh SSR, and other enterprises throughout the country.
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UKRAINE GETS GIANT VERTICAL LATHE -- Moscow, Pravda, 16 May 53
The Kolomna Heavy Machine Tool Building Plant has built a powerful unique
vertical lathe for machining parts from 9 to 13 meters in diameter and 170 tons
in weight. It has been successfully tested and accepted by a special commis-
sion of the Ministry of Machine Building USSR.
This machine tool is made up of more than 20,000 parts and weighs more
than 500 tons. It occupies an area of approximately 260 square meters.
The table can rotate at various speeds. It can make less than one revolu-
tion per minute and more than 7 revolutions per minute.
The machine tool has 42 electric motors for actuating all its mechanisms.
The smallest of these has a power of 0.25 kilowatt and the largest, 150 kilo-
watts. The mechanisms are controlled by push buttons concentrated on a main
panel. Two separate push-button stations are located on the columns. The
machine tool has also been provided with light and sound signals. In the
process of machining a part, one worker controls the machine from the main
panel.
The first machine tool of this type will be installed at the Khar'kov
Turbogenerator Plant.
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The vertical lathe built by the Kolomna Plant Zsee preceding ite) is
13.5 meters high. Its cutting tools can cut a chip up to 250 millimeters in
cross section.
At least 30 railroad cars will be required to transport the machine in a
dismantled state.
INSTALL BORING MACHINE AT LATVIAN PLANT -- Riga, Sovetskaya Lntviya, 20 May 53
A new two-spindle boring machine produced by the Leningrad Plant imeni
Sverdlov has been installed and put in operation at the machine shop of the
REZ (Riga Electrical Machine Building Plant). With the use of this machine
tool, housings for traction electric motors can be bored by one person.
TURBINE BUILDERS GET I-IACHINE TOOLS FROM KRAMATORSK, GOR'KIY -- Moscow, Moskov-
skaya Pravda, 22 May 53
The Kramatorsk Heavy Machine Tool Building Plant has manufactured a machine
tool ordered by the Leningrad Elektrosila Plant for machining 7-meter, 70-ton
parts for electrical machinery. This is the second giant machine tool to be
shipped by the Kramatorsk Plant to this destination.
Among machine tools being built for construction projects is a heavy
lathe, which has been installed at the Novo-Kramatorsk Plant imeni Stalin.
Turbine parts for the Kuybyshev GES will be machined on it. Unique machine
tools have also been shipped in 1953 to turbine builders in Leningrad, Khar'kov,
and other cities.
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Moscow, Pravda, 23 May 53
The Gor'kiy Milling Machine Plant has mastered the production of powerful
automatic machine tools. The first such machine tool was shipped to Kharkov
on 22 May for machining turbogenerator rotors.
The new machine tool is 6 meters high and weighs 165 tons. Seven rail-
road cars were required for its transportation. It is equipped with 22 elec-
tric motors having a total power of 165 kilowatts.
Several more such machine tools are now being tested.
ESTONIA BUILDS MACHINE TOOLS FOR MPS -- Tallin, Sovetskaya Estoniya, 18 Apr 53
On 15 April, the Tallin Repair Plant of the Ministry of Agriculture Estonian
SSR shipped ten universal machine tools above plan to the MTSs in Yaroslavskaya
Oblast. The machine tools are for boring babbitted bearings.
A new technology for manufacturing cylinder sleeves is saving a great deal
of metal at the plant. Approximately 3 kilograms of metal per sleeve are being
saved as a result of decreasing the allowance. This is making it possible,for
the plant to save 30 tons of cast iron per year.
The Tallin URB machine tools have received merited recognition at many
MTS machinery workshops throughout the country.
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