Design and favrication of attachement made for lathe machine

Abstract

Grinding is an operation which is done on metal workpiece for removal of material and to get fine surface finish. The available grinding setups are not convenient for small scale industries as they consume lots of time in loading and unloading of workpiece from lathe machine to this grinding setups, which also affects the overall productivity of the firm. Here we have fabricated a grinding setup which gets mounted in the available space of lathe machine on lathe cross slide in front of the tool post where cutting tool is placed, with this the operator will be able to use the grinding setup as soon as he finishes his operations on lathe machine without having the need of removing his workpiece. We have made a grinding system which can be attached on lathe machine without removing the tool post or any other part of lathe machine. It can perform grinding operation on cylindrical surfaces as well as surfaces which are tapered. The system was first made on inventor with suitable dimensions and then fabricated with proper calculations, this grinding system enables the worker to save time and cost of equipment’s which in turn resulted in increase in productivity of the firm. As setup is mounted on lathe cross slide it can be given forward and backward or left and right motion by using the hand wheel which we used to move the cutting tool mounted in tool post of lathe. The grinding setup was fabricated with proper design calculations and is tested successfully for giving the desired results.