单词 | screw-machine |
释义 | screw-machinen. 1. Any of various machines which operate by means of the rotation of one or more screws or screw-like components. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > types of machine generally > [noun] > other types screw-machine?1746 self-driving1859 jig1875 pop-up1880 portable1900 positioner1903 slave1940 mobile unit1968 ?1746 Catal. Clocks, Watches & Other Machines (single sheet) All sorts of Spring or Screw Machines, for strengthening the Weak and Lame, and reducing bent Limbs. 1841 Penny Cycl. XXI. 108/2 The ingenious screw-machine which was invented by Mr. Hunter..consists of one convex screw which works in the interior of another convex screw. 2005 N. Stosic et al. Screw Compressors iii. 50 The working chamber of a screw machine is the space within it that contains the working fluid. 2. Originally: any of various machines used for making screws. In later use: (more fully automatic screw machine) any of various automatic lathes designed to produce a large number of worked pieces in a short time. ΚΠ 1829 Morning Chron. 24 July Subsequent contracts of a similar kind were entered between the parties about a steam-engine, and a screw machine. 1838 Leeds Mercury 9 June 2/2 The Screw Machine is of the best make, and fitted with Taps and Dies, for Cutting from ½ to 1½ Inch Screws. 1867 Eng. Mechanic & Mirror of Sci. 26 Apr. 78/1 A machine suitable for making from bar iron all kinds of screws and studs... It is styled the ‘No. 1 Screw Machine’. 1914 A. A. Dowd Machining Tapered & Spherical Surfaces (‘Machinery’ Ref. Bk. No. 121) i. 3 When the number of pieces is sufficiently large to warrant it, the work is performed on the horizontal screw machine or turret lathe, the vertical turret lathe or the vertical boring mill. 1984 H. V. Johnson Manufacturing Processes (ed. 2) xi. 280/3 Screw machines are so called because originally they were designed for machining screws and other small threaded parts. 2012 J. T. Black & R. A. Kohser DeGarmo's Materials & Processes Manufacturing (ed. 11) xxii. 625 A minimum of 2000 to 5000 parts are required in a lot to justify setting up and tooling a multiple-spindle automatic screw machine. 3. More fully standard screw machine. A machine used for attaching soles to shoes by inserting and cutting off lengths of threaded wire. Now historical and rare.The standard screw machine was introduced by the Mackay Association of Boston in the 1870s. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > other specific machines > [noun] reeler1598 driver1659 rubber1747 heading machine1795 bruiser1809 finisher1835 stripper1835 physionotype1836 rotary1836 tetraspaston1842 netting-machine1846 speeder1847 dresser1855 spacer1857 starcher1862 bronzing liquid, machine1865 finishing machine1869 grader1869 brain machine1872 peanut roaster1872 bending machine1874 screw-machine1876 tire-upsetting-machine1877 buncher?1881 flax-breaker1889 oscillator1889 fluoroscope1893 fluorometer1897 mucker1916 spray dryer1921 paver1926 teabagger1940 burster1950 icemaker1953 laminator1958 slipform (concrete) paver1958 extruder1959 Zamboni1965 manipulator1968 wave machine1968 pipelayer1969 walking machine1971 1876 Boston Daily Globe 26 Aug. 8/2 (header) The little standard screw machine. 1892 Pop. Sci. Monthly Aug. 505 The screw machine..is provided with a reel of stout screw-threaded brass wire, and this..is inserted into and screwed through the out-sole, upper edge, and in-sole. 1968 Hist. Archaeol. 2 59/2 This was the prototype of the standard screw machine, perfected around 1880, which was popular into the early 20th Century. 2000 N. E. Rexford Women's Shoes Amer. 1795–1930 i. 19 In the 1870s came a heeling machine, edge trimmer, standard screw machine.., and most important, the Goodyear welt machines. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.?1746 |
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