The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-09-30
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New Apparatus Asked at Cleveland Convention Where
 Leaders of Americas Tool Trade COnvenes

Leaders of Americas machine tool trade, who have been taking stock following the close of the ten-day Machine Tool Show ir Cleveland recently estimate the wave of improvement which the in- dustry has been riding this sum- mer will probably last another. two years at least. An army of nearly 50,000 engineers, manufacturers and plant executives from the far ends of the civilized world descend ed upon Cleveland, placed orders for some $5.000,000 worth of new machinery, and left behind the inn precision that within relatively few months the total sales resulting from the Exposition will reach $40, 0O0,000.
 Those who constituted the bulk of the, attendance were from the heavy goods industries, which have hitherto refused to move out of the depression. There were executives and engineers from automobil, air. plane, locomotive, tractor and other metal-working factories, represen- tatives of foreign industrial inter- ests, and army and navy arsenal and ship building officers.
 The machine tool builders indi- cated that the automobile industry was probably the foremost pur- chaser at the show. The railroads were also customers, and their in- terest was particularly centered on those tools which have made possi- ble the new Diesel-powered,s stream. lined trains, which, since their de- velopment, have called for an cn. tirely new technique of mainten. ance. Executives from all the new CT industries were conspicuous dur. ing the ten days of the Show manufacturers of refrigerators washing machines. radios and even plastics.
 The 900 machines which were daily put through their paces by more than 1500 demonstrators va ried widely in their cost-most oi them being in the more expensive brackets. A small bench drill press may not cost more than $25, but radial drill with the boring equip. ment on the end of 6 wide-swing- ing arm may cost $10,000. A six spindle automatic will range from $2,000 to $7,000. The best lathes cost $18.000, a shaper has 8 range of $1,000 to $4,000. Horizontal bor- ing mills have sold for as much af $30.000. Yet the price per pound Is smaller than that of much coars- CT machinery.
 The 240 exhibits, according to of- ficials of the National Machine Tool Builders Association, sponsors oi the show, revealed that American advances in machine tool design in the last five years have been great the preceding twenty. Until com. paratively recently, accuracy to the thousandt part of an inch was con. sidered rather good work in auto- mobile plants--a thousandth of an inch being about the thickness of fine human hair. Today, limits ranging from one half to one-tenth of thousandth are commonly de- manded in automobile engine parts
 Speaking at one of the sessions of the Machine Tool Congress, which was held in conjunction with the Show, William B. Stout, pres ident of the Society of Automotive Engineers and of the Stout Engin- ecring Laboratories, of Dearborn, Michigan, predicted as a result oi the ingenuity of machine tool build. CTS shown by the exhibits at the Show, that there would before long be developments in temperature control, in the removal of excess weight in automobiles, and in the elimination of noise.
 "You will see twice as many changes in automobiles in the next five years as you have in the lat two becaue we have some four