Multiple Spindle Machines
 
Spindles are shafts/tubes that hold materials to be rotated against tools, the material is typically a round bar stock.  For example, multiple spindle machines might have 6 or 8 spindles; a 6 spindle machine is shown below and on the previous page.  Attached at the end of the spindle face is a tool head that can hold one or more tools that can machine the rotating stock in the spindle.  The more spindles, the greater the flexibility of the machine.

The following two pictures show two views of the same screw machine.  The first picture shows the tool-heads in the opening of the right side of the picture.  This opening is where the machining is done on bar stock that is mounted in the spindle tubes.   In this opening the material (which is being rotated in the tubes) is worked on by tools held in the tool-head.   The second picture shows the six spindle-tubes in which round bar stock is inserted and pushed towards the tool-head as the ends of the bar stock is machined.


 

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