This publication: 'Holtzapffel Volume
VI' a compilation of rare or
previously unpublished material related to Ornamental Turning comprising: Introduction,
Contents, Index and 4 Parts:
Part 1 - Rose Engine Turning, Part 2 - The
Geometric Chuck, Part 3 - Ornamental Turning
Accessories, Part 4 - Engineering Apparatus, Miscellaneous
Papers and Sundry Tables.
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Part.
INTRODUCTION & CONTENTS
Part 1.
ROSE ENGINE TURNING
(approx. 240 pages)
Ch. 1.
Waved Line Patterns on Surfaces
Ch. 2.
Budd’s Rose Chuck & Pumping Apparatus
Ch. 3.
The Straight Line Chuck & the Pillar Fluting Chuck
Ch. 4.
Rosettes and the Rosette Forming Machine
Ch. 5.
Bowers’ Rose Engine Conversion
Ch. 6.
Chaplin’s Rocking Slide-rest
Ch. 7.
Pudsey-Dawson’s Geometric Slide-rest
Ch. 8.
G. M. Grace’s Geometric Slide-rest
Ch. 9.
Birch’s Geometric Lathe
Ch. 10.
Robinson’s Harmonic Slide-rest
Ch. 11.
The Rose Cutting Frame (with High Speed Cutter)
Ch. 12.
Childs’
Universal Rosette
Ch. 13.
Massa’s Universal Lathe
Ch. 14.
Beddow’s Epicycloidal, Rose Cutting etc., Appliance
Ch. 15.
The
Kinograph, the Cycoidotrope & other machines
Ch.
16. Mechanism
for Transposing the Rosette Profile
Ch.
17. Holtzapffel
& Co's Journal Extract describing the Rose Chuck
Part 2.
THE GEOMETRIC CHUCK
(approx.
250 pages)
Ch. 1.
Ibbetson’s Geometric Chuck
Ch. 2.
Plant’s Geometric Chuck
Ch. 3.
Perigal’s Papers
Ch. 4.
Alabone’s
Geometric Patterns
Ch. 5.
Miscellaneous Geometric Chuck papers
Ch. 6.
The Epicycloidal Cutting Frame
Part
3.
ORNAMENTAL TURNING ACCESSORIES
(approx. 160 pages)
Ch. 1.
Bazley’s Oblique Chuck
Ch. 2.
Special Dome Chucks
Ch. 3.
Ibbetson’s Double Eccentric Chuck
Ch. 4
Counting and Driving
Mechanisms by Ashton & others
Ch. 5.
Lindsay-Forster’s Free Curve Attachment
Ch. 6.
The Spherical
Slide-rest
Ch. 7.
Robinson’s Eccentric Spiral Turning Apparatus
Ch. 8.
Reciprocator Developments
Ch. 9.
Rodgers’ Undulator
Ch. 10
Bergeron’s
Portrait Lathe
Ch. 11.
Lowe’s
& McNab's Medallion Copying Attachment
Ch. 12. Llewelyn-Howell’s Universal Slide-rest
Ch.
13. Rockenhauer's Ellipse Chuck
Part
4.
ENGINEERING
APPARATUS, MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS & SUNDRY TABLES
Ch. 1.
Engineering Apparatus
Ch.
2. Elementary
Ornamental Turning by Goldsworthy Crump
Ch.
3. Notes from
and Amateur Turner (H.E.D.)
Ch.
4. Beautiful
& Useful Objects from the Lathe by G.A.Grace
Ch.
5. Some
Curiosities of Turning by W. Bagley
Ch.
6. The Kennan
Slide-rest
Ch.
7. The Photo-Ratiograph
Ch.
8. Joplin's
Cranks
Ch.
9. The
Mechanical Carving & Sculpting Machine
Ch. 10. Ellison's Notes
Ch. 11. Bazley's Notes
Ch. 12. Catalogue
of Holtzapffel's Closing Down Sale
Ch. 13. Leslie Paton's Engine Turning Notes
Ch. 14. Caillard's Interlaced Spheres
Ch. 15. The
Oval-line Apparatus
Ch. 16. William Gaddum's Patterns
Appendix 1. SUNDRY TABLES
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(total production approx. 900 pages)
