Peter Miles
Cast Iron
- Joined
- Mar 24, 2007
- Location
- Lake Forest Park, WA
Today I received an original 35-page Monarch brochure from 1959. I won this on an eBay auction. At some point, when I get my scanner hooked up again, I'll take some high-quality scans of it and post the images.
The brochure is both interesting and educational. The section on the 10" Model EE (Monarch's name for it) includes a picture of a facility with at least 20 of them manned and operating.
There is a page covering the Model 1000, with two good pictures of it.
There is coverage of the 612 Lathes (Models 1610, 2013, 3516 and "T" versions of each, and raised Models 1610-13, 2013-16 and 2516-19).
Dyna-Shift Series 62, Series 80, and Series 90 are covered. The Series 90 was produced in lengths up to 324" and could be had with two carriages. There is a picture of a two-carriage machine.
The brochure presents some lathes that I hadn't heard of before, such as the Missile Master Lathes, Series 170. As the name implies, these were "designed for the contour turning, boring and facing of missile components or other large thin-walled and fabricated parts". They were available in 4' increments up to 300" between centers. The Model 6750 and 8567 offered swing over bed of 67" and 85" respectively. Standard face plate diameter was 50".
The tracer lathes include the Mona-Matic Model 20-H, Model 21, and Model 21-H.
Paper tape numerical control units were available for use on the Series EE, Model 1000.
Air guage tracers were covered as well as the Rotary Profile Tracer Lathe.
The Monarch-Keller Countour Turning Lathes covered a set of controls that could be added to any lathe larger than the Model 1610. "These lathes are recommended for fast, accurate, economical turning, facing and boring of irregular contours of circular cross-sections from a thin metal template".
The controls could be quickly disengaged to permit normal turning.
The Speedi-Matic Model B was a hand operated screw machine that looked to be based upon a 10 EE. It had a "power feed, ram type turret, the turret head of which is hydraulically indexed, hydraulically located in the new position to an accuracy of less than .0002" and hydraulically clamped in position.
There was a Heavy Duty Roll Turner lathe with 30 H.P. DC motor. Shipping weight 34,900 pounds.
Very interesting was the Ultra-Precision Contouring Lath, Series 180. "It was developed specifically for ultra-precision machining of thin-wall spherical and related shape work pieces, contouring O.D. and I.D. with a total accumulated error of plus or minus 75 millionths of an inch, or less."
The machine drive was isolated from the lathe bed and flexibly coupled to the spindle.
"The spindle bearing lubricant is refrigerated, the floor mounted tracer hydraulic tank is separately cooled and coolant temperature is controlled within + or - 0.5 degrees."
Spindle nose runout less than 0.000025". Total accumulated error from stylus point to tool 0.000020".
"The machine is built and tested in a temperature-controlled area and must be so operated."
60" Right Angle Lathes Model O and F were shown
The last inside page addressed the Machinability Test Lathes. These could be extensively instrumented and take a tool force dynamometer, have a recording oscillograph, have sensors for vibrations and displacements of the cutting edge of the tool, etc.
This was similar to the Mona-Matic lathes but much of the instrumentation could be utilized on a 10 EE.
The back page listed 30 U.S. distributors, five U.S. branch offices, six Canadian distributors, and 42 other distributors outside the U.S. or Canada, including Habana, Cuba.
The brochure is both interesting and educational. The section on the 10" Model EE (Monarch's name for it) includes a picture of a facility with at least 20 of them manned and operating.
There is a page covering the Model 1000, with two good pictures of it.
There is coverage of the 612 Lathes (Models 1610, 2013, 3516 and "T" versions of each, and raised Models 1610-13, 2013-16 and 2516-19).
Dyna-Shift Series 62, Series 80, and Series 90 are covered. The Series 90 was produced in lengths up to 324" and could be had with two carriages. There is a picture of a two-carriage machine.
The brochure presents some lathes that I hadn't heard of before, such as the Missile Master Lathes, Series 170. As the name implies, these were "designed for the contour turning, boring and facing of missile components or other large thin-walled and fabricated parts". They were available in 4' increments up to 300" between centers. The Model 6750 and 8567 offered swing over bed of 67" and 85" respectively. Standard face plate diameter was 50".
The tracer lathes include the Mona-Matic Model 20-H, Model 21, and Model 21-H.
Paper tape numerical control units were available for use on the Series EE, Model 1000.
Air guage tracers were covered as well as the Rotary Profile Tracer Lathe.
The Monarch-Keller Countour Turning Lathes covered a set of controls that could be added to any lathe larger than the Model 1610. "These lathes are recommended for fast, accurate, economical turning, facing and boring of irregular contours of circular cross-sections from a thin metal template".
The controls could be quickly disengaged to permit normal turning.
The Speedi-Matic Model B was a hand operated screw machine that looked to be based upon a 10 EE. It had a "power feed, ram type turret, the turret head of which is hydraulically indexed, hydraulically located in the new position to an accuracy of less than .0002" and hydraulically clamped in position.
There was a Heavy Duty Roll Turner lathe with 30 H.P. DC motor. Shipping weight 34,900 pounds.
Very interesting was the Ultra-Precision Contouring Lath, Series 180. "It was developed specifically for ultra-precision machining of thin-wall spherical and related shape work pieces, contouring O.D. and I.D. with a total accumulated error of plus or minus 75 millionths of an inch, or less."
The machine drive was isolated from the lathe bed and flexibly coupled to the spindle.
"The spindle bearing lubricant is refrigerated, the floor mounted tracer hydraulic tank is separately cooled and coolant temperature is controlled within + or - 0.5 degrees."
Spindle nose runout less than 0.000025". Total accumulated error from stylus point to tool 0.000020".
"The machine is built and tested in a temperature-controlled area and must be so operated."
60" Right Angle Lathes Model O and F were shown
The last inside page addressed the Machinability Test Lathes. These could be extensively instrumented and take a tool force dynamometer, have a recording oscillograph, have sensors for vibrations and displacements of the cutting edge of the tool, etc.
This was similar to the Mona-Matic lathes but much of the instrumentation could be utilized on a 10 EE.
The back page listed 30 U.S. distributors, five U.S. branch offices, six Canadian distributors, and 42 other distributors outside the U.S. or Canada, including Habana, Cuba.
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