This line of products was sold off to the Diamond Machine company of Providence, RI, in 1903.
Booklets for the Model 2-B (6-inch) and 2-E (13-inch) cutoff machines, and the model 10-B Planer
These range from the WW I Model 8-C fuse router, to the enormous Model 3-R roll engraver (which could engrave rolls up to 12 feet long) and the more general purpose 2D and 3D machines.
These are basically milling machines where the X and Y axis movement is controlled by a pivoting lever (the duplicator unit sits on top of the normal table) and the Z axis (the cutting and tracing heads) are controlled either via a lever (much like a drill press) or a handwheel. These are strictly 1::1 (no expansion or reduction) devices.
Prior to the 1950's, the three common vertical mill models were the 8-D, the 8 1/2-D, and the 9-J. The 8-D was rather small, and quickly superceded by the 8 1/2-D, and the larger 9-J. Starting in the 1940s, some (somewhat custom??) horizontal mills were added, and in the 1950's, the 'Mastermil' series was created. The intent of the Mastermil series machines seems to have been to standardize a bit more, with the net benefits being reduced costs to manufacture and reduced net customer cost. The 1950 General catalog has photos of some of the size 2 and size 3 machines. There was also a model 3-48 designed in the 1960's - I've seen photos of one on ebay, but have not come across any details or brochures about this machine.
Some of these are for the pantograph/engraver markets (copy and type), while others are a bit more general (cutter bits, cutter/grinders, rotary tables, etc.)
These seem to have been designed with retailers in mind, or possibly even as usable by consumers, as they seem to have been about the size of a typewriter of the time, and were for personalizing items such as pens, key fobs, pocket knives, etc. It must have been a total failure, as this is the only catalog which even mentions such devices.
The first brochure is the prototype/development copy.
The swiss automatic screw machines were only made for a few years (there is a comment in the 75th anniversary brochure that several hundred were built) and were used to manufacture high precision aircraft instrument and fire control system parts. Some of them were in use for more than 50 years by Gormac.
See Charles Gorton's personal salesbook for some of these.
- The Model 10-B planer was discontinued around 1924. Planers were rather large, and superceded in the market by mills and surface grinders. Basically, think of a wood plane, except that the cutting edge is fixed, and the table holding the work to be cut moves under it, retracting for every pass. Because a mill has a cutter in a spindle, work could be cut with the work table moving in both directions, making mills much more productive machines.
- An oversized pantograph/engraver/accessories catalog printed in 1925.
- A Pantograph reduction chart (1930). This chart how to compute and set up pantographs for various reduction ratios. Pantograph area charts (found at the back of the manuals) show the maximum range of motion of the pantograph head at various ratios.
- Work samples [mostly engraving] (1935). Some photos of items can also be found here and in the 1937 samples brochure.
- General catalogs from 1943, 1944, 1950, and 1963.
The 1943 catalog lists a model 15-C vertical mill for large/heavy work; the 1950 version shows some other heavy duty mills.
The Guide Book (1946) is a general reference for all the products, and includes some simple HowTo's for pantograph usage, custom machines, etc.
Applications of Tracer control (1951), seems to be another general catalog, but with a more interesting title.
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- Model 100 drill grinder (1960s) - this looks to be an attachment for
a model 375 cutter-grinder. Only one sheet of paper.
While there were a lot of them over the years (see some of the general brochures which have silhouettes of custom builds) photos (and some sales-oriented detail) exist for this 4 spindle machine built for IBM to engrave words on computer control switches/buttons.
In the photo of the whole system setup, the module on the left is probably a high frequency power converter system. On the far right is the tape reader and related user interface controls, which fed information back to the tall cabinet center, which presumably housed all of the computer and server related control circuitry. And some of the components needed serious cooling, given the large radiator and fan. Underneath the fan is what appears to be some sort of hydraulic fluid reservoir.
