Angle plate
an angular metal plate or casting for clamping and supporting work in metalworking machines.
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The face of the flange will be held true one way by the face on the angle plate, but must be set true the other way.
Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II Joshua Rose
The truest flange should be the one first bolted to the angle plate.
Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II Joshua Rose
Chucking with the aid of the angle plate, or with the angle plate employed in conjunction with the chuck plate.
Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II Joshua Rose
It carries an horizontal table, or angle plate, on which the work may be chucked.
Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II Joshua Rose
We then turn the surface a down upon the angle plate and bolt it again as before.
Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II Joshua Rose
An excellent example of angle plate chucking is furnished in a pipe bend requiring both flanges to be turned up.
Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II Joshua Rose
The method of chucking is shown in Figs. 902 and 903, the flanges being simply bolted to the angle plate.
Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II Joshua Rose
A balance weight w, Fig. 907, is necessary to counterbalance the weight of the angle plate.
Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II Joshua Rose
The third chucking is made by simply moving the work on the angle plate again, and setting as in the last instance.
Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II Joshua Rose
noun
a steel structural plate, esp one in the shape of a right-angled triangle, used to connect structural members and stiffen frameworks
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