BROACHING PRACTICE A TREATISE ON THE COMMERCIAL APPLICA- TION OF THE BROACHING PROCESS INCLUD- ING DIFFERENT TYPES OF BROACHING MA- CHINES, THE DESIGN OF BROACHES AND EXAMPLES FROM PRACTICE ILLUSTRATING BROACHING METHODS BY EDWARD K. HAMMOND “PRODUCTION MILLING,” CE,” JOINT AUTHOR OF SHOP MANAGEMENT AND SYSTEMS" FIRST EDITION FIRST PRINTING NEW YORK THE INDUSTRIAL PRESS London: THE MACHINERY PUBLISHING CO., Ltd. 1981MACHINERY is noted for enterprise and thoroughness. Copyright, 1921, The Industrial Press, Publishers of Macuinary, 140-148 Lafayette Street, New York City5430 ae 5 wet G4 82156 TDH HG PREFACE For many years, broaching has been employed for cutting keyways and machining holes to a variety of shapes, but this method attracted comparatively little attention until extensive developments began to take place in the machine- building field, and especially in connection with the manu- facture of automobiles. While machines have been used for broaching for many years, they were not in common use until about 1900, when the automobile business devel- oped rapidly. Then broaching began to replace other machining processes in the production of certain duplicate parts, because of the accuracy and efficiency of the broach- ing method, especially for finishing holes of irregular shapes. At the present time the broaching machine is used extensively, not only by automobile manufacturers but by companies building a Jarge variety of other products. This treatise covers the three important elements in broaching practice; namely, the broaching machines, the design of the broaches or cutting tools, and the application of the broaching process to commercial work. Examples of broaching were obtained from plants using broaching machines for conducting regular manufacturing operations. Since these examples include many classes of work and represent a great diversity of requirements in regard to size and shape, they not only indicate the possibilities of this process but show just how this efficient method of machining can be applied under different conditions. Some of these examples from practice were previously published in MACHINERY and the author is indebted to the contrib- utors of these articles as the material thus obtained made it possible to prepare a more comprehensive treatise.