MOSCOW GAUGE FACTORY

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• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 19, 1999
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: September 1, 1948
• Content Type: REPORT

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1. The Moscow Gauge Factory (Mostoavski Zavod Jalibr) is located on Taroslavl
choose, in the Shcherbakov District of Moscow, near the Windom station.
2. Erection of the factory began in 1930 and was completed in 1932. In 1941,
the factory was evacuated to Chelyabinsk, where it worked for two years
under the name of Chelyabinsk ICalibr. In 191+3. it was returned to its
old site in Moscow; and the Chelyabinsk Tool Uaotory (Che?yabinsld Instra-
mentalnpr Zavod), sometimes called the Chelyabinsk Measuring Instruments
Factory (Ohelyabineki Zavod Iomeritelaprkh Instrumentov), remained at
Chelyabinsk.
The Moscow Gauge Factory is controlled 1W the Chief Administration of
Tool Industry of the Ministry of Machine Tool Construction of the VS88
(Glavaoye Upravieniye Instrumentalnoi Pronyshiennosti Ministerstva
s t a n k o stroyeniya 5 ) .
4. The factory occypies an area of about 40,000 sq. m. and is housed in.
one ten-storied building and several long four-storied buildings.
rpa of Production
S. The factory produces control and measuring instruments and appliances
of various kinds and sizes. leery-year new types of instruments and
appliances have been added to the production.
a. Gauges produced include the following:
All kinds of staple gauges (ekoba) for measuring shafts.
Two-sided, sheet limit staple gauges (predelnnya dvu1?storonq-a
listoveya skDba).
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Cast staple gauges with detaohable jaws (1itVa skoba so
vstavei gutblmmi).
Adjustable staple gauges.
Joharmsonts staple gauges.
All kinds and sises of plug gauges (probka-kelibr) for
measuring holes and etoaster-ganger (kaontr-kmi.ibr) for
staple ages,
A small numbs,. of ring gauges.
A large number of thread. gauges. e.g., thread plug gauges
for sorts, thread ring gauges and staple gauges for bolts
(external thread).
In 1947, adjustable thread ring gauges were produced. In
1948,produotiou of thread roller gauges was began. .(These
are gradually supplanting the production of thread ring
gauges.)
Gauges for smooth cortical articles. In 1947, serial pro-
duction on a lar,,e scale was started of gauges for conical
thread (plug and thread), e.g., for lining pipes of various
diameters up to 3,6.75 inches.
Gauges for oheokin#; linear dimensions (sheet gauges), clearance
gauges (shohup) (p.ates with parallel measuring, planes for
checking clearance3 between surfaces).
Profile gauges for checking surfaces of curved articles.
be Appliances and instrirnents for technical measurements include:
plane-parallel plate3, 30 x 9 mm. plates with working dimensions
up to 10 mm., 35 z c Bun. plates with working dimensions over 10 mm.
These plates are pr.4uoed in sets, generally composed of 37 or $j
(sic; 387) plates.
o. Measuring instrume:its with linear vernier include sliding calipers
and sliding depth Fund height gauges. Sliding calipers are produced
with vernier gradtations of 0.1 mm, 0.05 mm, and 0.02 mm.
d, Micrometers for external measurements, micrometric depth gauges,
and pin gauges (s3ity1 mans).'
e. Various mechanics; lever appliances, indicators of clockwork type,
minimeters, passe:ietere, microcatore (micro-indicators?). In 1946,
the factory begesc serial production of indicator inside calipers.
f. Pneumatic appliaztses for e.zaot measurement of external and internal
dimensions (ma Y for measurement of boles). In 1947, serial pro-
duction of pneum;io eppliances on the princi_Ae of the rotameter
was begun; these tppliances are capable of measuring exactly one-
half of a micron.
C. Electrical measuring appliancese
be Instruments for wee{;urement of angles, such as angle plates. universal
angle gauges (vglon;,r) of the Semenov tyPe, rigid try-sgcares (ugolnik),
sine rulers, *to.
i. Instruments and appliances for measurement of toothed and worm ubbels,
e.g., pitch gauger, (shagomer) of fixed type. pitch gauge with rim cap
(kromoohupr nakonsl,hnik) (production started in 191+6), tangential tooth
gauge with indioa:;or (production started in 1945), appliance for
measurement of ccnioal toothed wheels.
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Serial production of appliances for checking toothed wheels was begun
in 1947.
X. Instruments for measurement of flatness and straightness, such as
various plates and testing rulers. Cast-iron plates of the following
sizes: from 100 x 200 mm. to 1000 x V00 mm; these are subdivided
into four classes (0. let, 2nd, 3rd) according to degree of precision.
These plates are employed according to the "spots on paint" method
(po metoou pyaten na krasku).
1. Testing rulers of various types; gauged rulers, angle rulers, cast
iron bridges (mostik) (up to 500 ma.), double-T gauge steel rulers
(stalwo lineiki dvukhtavrovogo seohenlya). Those sppliances work
on the light slit (svetovaya shohel) and "on paint" {na krasku)
methods.
M. Several types of automatic machines, e.g., for the checking and
sorting of bullets. Thee machines sort bullets into usable and
unusable categories according to length. diameter, and ogival part
of bullet.
n. Automatic machines for sorting balls and rollers for bearings.
Rowever, production of these mechanical automatic machines is gradually
being replaced IV that of automatic appliances with electrocontact heads.
Seven different types of these appliances have already been produced,
e.g., for automatic checking of grooves of ball bearing rings, and
appliances for the automobile and tractor industry. In 1947, the factory
produced electroinductive appliances (electroinductive measuring heads).
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Informants were unable to give, the total output because of the great
variety of types and sizes.. One estimates the'total output of gauges
at about three million, including about one million staple goups
(skoba) of various kinds, about one million templates (shablon) and
counter-templates (kontrsbablon), and one million smooth plug gauges,
smooth ring gauges, thread plug gauges, thread staple gauges, and
Johannsonss staple gauges. (Washington Comments Presumably annual.
production.)
b. Output of measuring instruments is also large. Informants are unable
to give exact figures but they are of the opinion that in 1948 the
factory will produce about 1.50,000 micrometers (as a result of the
installation of two continuous operation lines in the micrometer
shop) and about 240,000 sliding calipers (as a result of improvements
in the continuous operation line). In 1940, output of sliding calipers
was about 35,000; but in 1947, after the installation of continuous
line production, output reached about 200,000. Continuous line ro-
auction reduced the cost of sliding calipers by about one-third (from
30 to 20 rubles). It is also planned to transfer the production of
rotating centers to a continuous operation line.
c, In 1947, over 100,000 Johannsonss gauges were produced.
d. Production of micrometers amounted in 1940 to about 20,000 of two
types; in 1947, to about 1059000 of four different types (in January
1947, slightly over 5,000; in December 1947, 11,200)., In 1948, output
was increasing further (April, over 13.000; August, about 14,000);
during the first six months of 1948, 76,000 were produced. Three
categories of micrometers for outside measurements with staple gauge
were produced: "00, "lst",and "2nd"; these categories refer to the
precision of the micrometers. The working strobe (rabooby khod).of
the micrometer screw is usually 25 mm. and the thread of the screw
(shag vinta) 0.5 mm.
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Personnel
7. The exact number of workers is not known, but there are believed to be
about 3,000.
Director: A. Noshto
Ohief Rnginesr: Tarkbov
Chief Dasiori C'? Ovoharenko
Chief Kschanic: Sisyul iin
]Pngiaeer in charge of micrometer shops 0snas
Section head of micrometer shop: Senior Foremen ROesiski (often
mentioned in press in 1947).
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The factory has the fallowing shops:
Round gauge, shop (smooth and thread gauges) (tsekh kruglikh
kalibrov)
Flat gauge shop (production of various staple gauges, templates)
(tsekh ploskilc'h ,alibrov)
Universal shop (production of measuring instruments)
Micrometer shop (separated in 1946 from universal shop)
Calibrating device shop (tseldh stalonov)
Sliding caliper, shop
Case shop (woe4working shop for production of cases for micro-
meters, sliding calipers, sets of Johanson plates, etc.)
?sneering shop
Instrument shop (tsekh priborov)
nngineerini repair shop
Thermic sl;:op
Mlectrotewhnical shop
Preparing shop (sagotovitelny teele'h)
Rxperimen1al shop
Shop of Chief Mechanic's section
Transport shop.
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