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Dividing Head (Horizontal), Hand Operated
Dividing Head (Horizontal), Hand Operated
Jyothi Industries offers a horizontal hand operated Dividing Head. The horizontal dividing head is useful for quick indexing up to 12 divisions on single piece, and batch or mass production where accuracy is indispensable. It is completely enclosed and comprises: a heavy-duty close grained cast iron base with Brinell hardness of 180 and above; a hardened and ground dividing plate with 12 notches; a three-jaw self-centring chuck of 89 mm in diameter which can hold jobs up to 50 mm; main spindle has a bore of 19 mm; and a single indexing and clamping lever. By actuating the indexing lever, the dividing plate can be unlocked when the chuck becomes free to rotate through the required angle. It gets locked automatically as soon as the lever is released. Specifications: number of notches on the dividing plate – 12 mm; centre height – 70 mm; work piece admittance through spindle – 19 mm; overall length of dividing attachment – 300 mm; overall length of tailstock including overhang of centre – 150 mm; diameter of 3-jaw chuck – 89 mm; base area – 155 x 120 mm; and weight (approx) – 15 kg. Horizontal dividing head can also be put to the following uses: milling of keyways in shafts, accurate indexing of holes at various angular positions on any drilling machine, indexing of splines on surface grinding machine. Normally horizontal dividing head can be used without tailstock on short pieces.