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Discussion Groups / English Usage / January 2007The fifty-six four-spindle chucking and turning machines
Hello: What meaning do you sense for "chucking" in the last para here? --- It was a small factory of lighting-sets for helicopters, a branch of the Electrical Equipment Corporation. They were met on the roof itself (for that circular letter of recommendation from the Controller was magical in its effects) by the Chief Technician and the Human Element Manager. They walked downstairs into the factory. "Each process," explained the Human Element Manager, "is carried out, so far as possible, by a single Bokanovsky Group." And, in effect, eighty-three almost noseless black brachycephalic Deltas were cold-pressing. The fifty-six four-spindle chucking and turning machines were being manipulated by fifty-six aquiline and ginger Gammas. A Brave New World - by Aldous Huxley, p. 147 http://www.readprint.com/chapter-5923/Aldous-Huxley ---- Thanks. Marius Hancu > Hello: > [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > Thanks. > Marius Hancu A chuck is a sort of clamp that holds a tool while it is being worked, a bit like a vice. I'm surprised you asked about 'chucking' when the rest of the passage looks like pure gobbledygook to me. Richard Lichten >> Hello: >> [quoted text clipped - 26 lines] >I'm surprised you asked about 'chucking' when the rest of the passage >looks like pure gobbledygook to me. I think the chuck is what holds the spindle in place. Here's a Delta lathe used to turn a spindle, but a single lathe for home use. http://www.pldi.net/users/stargazer/DeltaLatheMost/DeltaMostLathe_6.jpg A production lathe that turns four spindles at a time would have a mechanized tool path rather than the hand application of the cutting tool.  SignatureTony Cooper Orlando, FL > Hello: > > What meaning do you sense for "chucking" in the last para here? [snip] > And, in effect, eighty-three almost noseless black brachycephalic > Deltas were cold-pressing. The fifty-six four-spindle chucking and > turning machines were being manipulated by fifty-six aquiline and > ginger Gammas. It sounds like he's referring to a type of lathe. The part of a lathe that holds the workpiece is called the chuck, and the act of putting a part into the chuck is called chucking. If you're familiar with a handheld electric drill, the part that holds the drill bit is also called a chuck. SignatureRay (remove the Xs to reply) >It sounds like he's referring to a type of lathe. The part of a lathe > that holds the workpiece is called the chuck, and the act of putting a > part into the chuck is called chucking. If you're familiar with a > handheld electric drill, the part that holds the drill bit is also > called a chuck. OK, thank you all, this seems to be it. Marius Hancu |
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