Patent ID: 7393265

Claim:
A honing machine provided with a honing zone for subjecting a work to a liquid honing process and a washing zone for subjecting the work to which the liquid honing process was executed in the honing zone to a washing process in a housing shielded from an external air, the honing zone and the washing zone being disposed adjacently, wherein a partition wall for preventing an ambient gas of the honing zone from entering into the washing zone is disposed between the honing zone and the washing zone in the housing, wherein an in-liquid conveying apparatus for conveying the work to which the liquid honing process was executed at the honing zone from the honing zone to the washing zone via a work passing opening formed in the partition wall in a state in which the work is kept immersed in a liquid in a carrying bath, and wherein an upper edge of the work passing opening of the partition wall is immersed in the liquid in the carrying bath of the in-liquid conveying apparatus.