Center-drive lathe

Abstract

A center-drive lathe has a longitudinally elongated machine base having a front, a back, and a pair of longitudinally spaced ends. A centerstock is generally centrally mounted on the front of the base and a pair of guides on the front of the base extend longitudinally at least from the centerstock to the ends of the base. Respective carriages are displaceable longitudinally along the guides between the ends and the centerstock so that a workpiece can be spanned in and rotated by the centerstock and worked by tools held on the carriages. A stack of interconnected telescoping plates including one end plate connected to one of the carriages and another end plate connected to the other carriage extends over the guides and past the centerstock between the carriages. The guides are thus covered between the carriages by the telescoping stack of plates.

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