Edwin Harrington, Son & Co.
Illustrated catalog given to Lamar Lyndon ca.1890.  The firm was located at North Fifteenth Street & Pennsylvania Avenue, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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Machine Tools, ca. 1890 illustrated catalog
Edwin Harrington Thirty-Eight Inch Lathe, pages 28 & 29
THIRTY-EIGHT-INCH LATHE.
Swings 38 inches over shears; 26 inches over carriage; cone has 5 sections 4-1/4-inch face; back geared and geared lace plate; face plate keyed to spindle, unless otherwise ordered; forged steel spindles; bronze metal boxes; dead spindle clamped by adjustable conical binder; hand movement of carriage by means of hand wheel and steel pinion engaging in rack on bed. Steel rack put on in sections, enabling the repair of broken cogs by supplying a new section. independent geared friction feed, cross feed, and reverse feed motions to apron attached to carriage; turning and screw cutting feeds cannot become engaged at same time. Carriage has long beating (giving greater bearing surface), which are self-oiling, decreasing the liability to wear the guides when used on short work. Steel lead screw on front of lathe, clamped by open and shut nut; screw threads only used for screw cutting. Countershaft; hangers; 3 pulleys, 24x8, to run 85 turns per minute. Screw gearing; steady rest; steel wrenches; wrought-iron handles; side block for turning full swing of lathe, and cross feed stop included. All gearing is cut.

With 11-1/2 feet bed; 5 feet between centres; compound rest and cross feed; shipping weight    lbs. $
Per extra foot of bed, $
Boxing for foreign shipment, $