Lineshaft Machine Shop Photos

[Pattnmaker]

Just took the electric drive motor off the ceiling in my shop that drove the lineshaft back in the day. We had to make room for our new 5 axis router.

 

[blcksmth]

A rather sparse shop using line-shafting.

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Is that an electric motor providing the power in the background left of center in the photo?

Looks more like the flywheel of a gas engine to me.

Bob
WB8NQW

 

[Leg17]

Drill Press Department
Stereoviews from an unidentified location, ca 1875.




Looks like the boss came in on Sunday morning for pictures.
(Can’t have those men goofing off on company time for pictures.
Besides, now you can’t miss me in these pictures.)

 

[Robert Lang]

Drill Press Department
Stereoviews from an unidentified location, ca 1875.

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Looks like the boss came in on Sunday morning for pictures.
(Can’t have those men goofing off on company time for pictures.
Besides, now you can’t miss me in these pictures.)

Interesting that for this time period that the drills have guards around the gearing.

Rob

 

[Robert Lang]

San Francisco Mint.
An early 1880's Bickford drill.

Rob

 

[Robert Lang]

P&W mills at the Springfield Armory.

Rob

 

[M.B. Naegle]

From the University of Kentucky, another shop building gas engines.

Looks like an early tool & cutter grinder in the right center of photo. Earlier than my Cincinnati, though the operators handbook had some set-up images showing the same sliding round ram with gear rack movements in all axis. I think I remember seeing the same layout in patent images. My grinder is around 1900 and at that point only the vertical movement was on a round slide with the table and cross slides having improved to dovetail and box ways.

 

[enginebill]

San Francisco Mint.
An early 1880's Bickford drill.

Rob

I like the large differential chain hoist there too.

 

[enginebill]

Looks like an early tool & cutter grinder in the right center of photo. Earlier than my Cincinnati, though the operators handbook had some set-up images showing the same sliding round ram with gear rack movements in all axis. I think I remember seeing the same layout in patent images. My grinder is around 1900 and at that point only the vertical movement was on a round slide with the table and cross slides having improved to dovetail and box ways.

Here is a larger view. Note the fairly large dividing head on the mill.

 

[enginebill]

Here is the shop of a Boston Public School.

 

[Robert Lang]

Looks like an early tool & cutter grinder in the right center of photo. Earlier than my Cincinnati

Yes it is. It is a match to the 1896 Cincinnati catalog illustration.
Here is the 1889 illustration when it came out and the 1896 catalog illustration.

Rob

 

[52 Ford]

San Francisco Mint.
An early 1880's Bickford drill.

Rob

Impressive mustache, that man has.

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[52 Ford]

I forgot to mention the anvil and hammer in the left foreground.
Is that for forging their cutting tools?

I doubt it. Now, I'm sure they could've done SOME tool making on that anvil, but I'm guessing they were making parts on it, not tools. I'm just guessing based off the fact that they have a sledge hammer with the anvil.

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[Leg17]

Modest lathe area in a smaller shop.



The “boss man” looks out of place here with the ‘peons’.

 

[52 Ford]

Not a lineshaft shop, but still a flat belt milling machine. A HUGE one at that.

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[enginebill]

Here are two views of the Mount Wilson Observatory machine shop.

 

[Leg17]

This may be a maintenance area in a manufacturing plant.



That's a lot of leather.

 

[52 Ford]

This may be a maintenance area in a manufacturing plant.

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That's a lot of leather.

No joke. A whole herd worth!

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[Tom A]

Seriously large wet grinder on the left.

 

[enginebill]

Bethlehem Steel Company, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. 91 inch diameter corrugated ingot in cutting-off lathe. It looks like the parting tool could be 12" tall.