workpiece

Example Sentences

• "Make sure the workpiece is properly secured in the chuck before turning on the lathe."
• "Scantling s[ubstantive] (prescribed dimension of a work[-]piece)."
• "We see that in every case the body to be worked upon becomes itself a kinematic element or the part or whole of a kinematic link. […] We shall therefore give this body, to which we shall often have to refer, a special name, calling it the work-piece of the machine. […] Our analysis therefore leads us to the following proposition: In form-changing machines the work-piece is a part or the whole of a kinematic link, and is paired or chained with the tool by so arranging the latter that it itself changes the original form of the work-piece into that of the envelope corresponding to the motion in the pair or linkage employed."
• "Such cam plates are very often used in machines in which it is necessary to communicate to a lever or rod from a uniformly rotating shaft a motion of a perfectly determinate kind such as is prescribed by the nature of the process of by the form to be given to the work piece."
• "The work pieces are held in clamps or vises, attached to or carried upon the terminals of the single-turn secondary circuit."
• "In connexion with the machining of the more modern alloy steels with heavy cuts at low speeds, it is often found that there is a building-up effect on the cutting edge of a high-speed steel tool which is not very different from that which occurs with plain carbon-steel tools working with lighter cuts on plain carbon-steel work-pieces. […] [A] point is always reached when the real cutting edge of the tool is too blunt to sustain the built-up edge, with the consequence that efficient cutting ceases. Before this point is reached, however, if the tool is withdrawn from the work-piece, it is generally found that, if the cutting edge shows signs of a real blunting effect jointly on the flank and lip surfaces, the cutting action of the tool cannot be restarted to produce satisfactory results with the cutting edge in that condition."