Earlier we introduced the lathe,Boring machine, today will introduce to youMilling machine, I hope everyone can better understand the machining industry and understand some historical stories of machining.

In the 19th century, the British invented boring machines and planers for the needs of the industrial revolution such as steam engines, while the Americans focused on the invention of milling machines in order to produce a large number of weapons. Milling machine is a kind of machine with different shapes of milling cutter, it can cut a special shape of the workpiece, such as spiral groove, gear and so on.

As early as 1664, the British scientist Hooker relied on a rotating circular tool to create a cutting machine, which can be regarded as the original milling machine, but at that time the society did not make an enthusiastic response. In the nineteen forties, Pratt designed the so-called Lincoln milling machine. Of course, the American Whitney is the one who really establishes the status of milling machines in machine manufacturing.

1. The First Ordinary Milling Machine (Whitney, 1818) In 1818, Whitney made the world's first ordinary milling machine. However, the patent of the milling machine was "won" by Bodmer (the inventor of the gantry planer with knife feeding device) in England in 1839. Due to the high cost of milling machines, there were not many people asking for information at that time.

2. The first universal milling machine (Brown, 1862) After a period of silence, the milling machine became active in the United States. In contrast, Whitney and Pratt can only say that they have laid the foundation for the invention and application of milling machines. The real invention of milling machines that can be applied to various operations in factories should belong to American engineer Joseph Brown.

In 1862, Brown of the United States created the world's earliest universal milling machine. This milling machine is an epoch-making initiative in terms of equipped with universal indexing plates and integrated milling cutters. The worktable of the universal milling machine can rotate a certain angle in the horizontal direction, and has an end milling head and other accessories. His "Universal Milling Machine" was a great success when it was exhibited at the 1867 Paris Exposition. At the same time, Brown also designed a grinding will not be deformed by the shape of the milling cutter, and then also made a grinding machine grinding milling cutter, so that the milling machine has reached the current level.

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