DESIGN AND FABRICATION OF MULTI-PURPOSE

MACHINE

ABSTRACT

The aim of our project is to design and fabricate a multipurpose device.

With this device a number of operations can be performed. They are as
follows:
1. Drilling
2. Grinding
3. Boring
By means of this machine various operations can be performed using same
power. So this multipurpose device is used for various operations with a
less amount of investment.

INTRODUCTION

The project work subject is one, in which actually we are leaning the
theoretical concepts in practical way. Also the practical experience is one
of the aims of this subject. For a developing industry these operating
performed and the parts or components produced should have its minimum
possible production cost, then only the industry runs profitably. There are a
number of units having used in industries for various purposes.

Drilling is a cutting process that uses a drill bit to cut or enlarge a hole of
circular cross-section in solid materials. The drill bit is a rotary cutting tool,
often multipoint. The bit is pressed against the workpiece and rotated at
rates from hundreds to thousands of revolutions per minute. This forces the
cutting edge against the workpiece, cutting off chips from what will
become the hole being drilled.
Exceptionally, specially-shaped bits can cut holes of non-circular crosssection; a square cross-section is possible.
Process
Drilled holes are characterized by their sharp edge on the entrance side and
the presence of burrs on the exit side (unless they have been removed).
Also, the inside of the hole usually has helical feed marks.
Drilling may affect the mechanical properties of the workpiece by creating
low residual stresses around the hole opening and a very thin layer of
highly stressed and disturbed material on the newly formed surface. This
causes the workpiece to become more susceptible to corrosion at the
stressed surface.A finish operation may be done to avoid the corrosion.Zinc

plating or any other standard finish opertion of 14 to 20 microns can be

done which helps to avoid any sort of corrosion.
For fluted drill bits, any chips are removed via the flutes. Chips may be
long spirals or small flakes, depending on the material, and process
parameters.[3] The type of chips formed can be an indicator of
the machinability of the material, with long gummy chips reducing
machinability.
When possible drilled holes should be located perpendicular to the
workpiece surface. This minimizes the drill bit's tendency to "walk", that is,
to be deflected, which causes the hole to be misplaced. The higher the
length-to-diameter ratio of the drill bit, the higher the tendency to walk.
The tendency to walk is also preempted in various other ways, which
include:
Establishing a centering mark or feature before drilling, such as by:

Casting, molding, or forging a mark into the workpiece

Center punching

Spot drilling (i.e., center drilling)

Spot facing, which is facing a certain area on a rough casting

or forging to establish, essentially, an island of precisely known

surface in a sea of imprecisely known surface

Constraining the position of the drill bit using a drill jig with drill
bushings

Surface finish in drilling may range from 32 to 500 microinches. Finish

cuts will generate surfaces near 32 microinches, and roughing will be near
500 microinches.
Cutting fluid is commonly used to cool the drill bit, increase tool life,
increase speeds and feeds, increase the surface finish, and aid in ejecting
chips. Application of these fluids is usually done by flooding the workpiece
or by applying a spray mist.
In deciding which drill(s) to use it is important to consider the task at hand
and evaluate which drill would best accomplish the task. There are a
variety of drill styles that each serve a different purpose. The subland drill
is capable of drilling more than one diameter. The spade drill is used to drill
larger hole sizes. The indexable drill is useful in managing chips.

Spot drilling
The purpose of spot drilling is to drill a hole that will act as a guide for
drilling the final hole. The hole is only drilled part way into the workpiece
because it is only used to guide the beginning of the next drilling process.
Center drilling
The purpose of center drilling is to drill a hole that will act as a center of
rotation for possible following operations. Center drilling is typically
performed using a drill with a special shape, known as a center drill.
Deep hole drilling
Deep hole drilling is defined as a hole depth greater than five times the
diameter of the hole. These types of holes require special equipment to
maintain the straightness and tolerances. Other considerations are
roundness and surface finish.
Deep hole drilling is generally achievable with a few tooling methods,
usually gun drilling or BTA drilling. These are differentiated due to the
coolant entry method (internal or external) and chip removal method
(internal or external). Using methods such as a rotating tool and counter-

rotating workpiece are common techniques to achieve required straightness

tolerances. Secondary tooling methods include trepanning, skiving and
burnishing, pull boring, or bottle boring. Finally a new kind of drilling
technology is available to face this issue: the vibration drilling. This
technology consists in fractionating chips by a small controlled axial
vibration of the drill. Therefore the small chips are easily removed by the
flutes of the drill.
A high tech monitoring system is used to control force, torque, vibrations,
and acoustic emission. The vibration is considered a major defect in deep
hole drilling which can often cause the drill to break. Special coolant is
usually used to aid in this type of drilling.
Gun drilling
Another type of drilling operation is called gun drilling. This method was
originally developed to drill out gun barrels and is used commonly for
drilling smaller diameter deep holes. This depth-to-diameter ratio can be
even more than 300:1. The key feature of gun drilling is that the bits are
self-centering; this is what allows for such deep accurate holes. The bits use

a rotary motion similar to a twist drill; however, the bits are designed with
bearing pads that slide along the surface of the hole keeping the drill bit on
center. Gun drilling is usually done at high speeds and low feed rates.
Trepanning
Trepanning is commonly used for creating larger diameter holes (up to
915 mm (36.0 in)) where a standard drill bit is not feasible or economical.
Trepanning removes the desired diameter by cutting out a solid disk similar
to the workings of a drafting compass. Trepanning is performed on flat
products such as sheet metal, granite (curling stone), plates, or structural
members like I-beams. Trepanning can also be useful to make grooves for
inserting seals, such as O-rings.
Microdrilling
Microdrilling refers to the drilling of holes less than 0.5 mm (0.020 in).
Drilling of holes at this small diameter presents greater problems since
coolant fed drills cannot be used and high spindle speeds are required. High
spindle speeds that exceed 10,000 RPM also require the use of balanced
tool holders.

Vibration drilling of an aluminum-CFRP multi-material stack with MITIS

technology
The main principle consists in generating axial vibrations or oscillations in
addition to the feed movement of the drill so that chips could be
fractionated and easily removed from the cutting zone.
One can find two main technologies of vibration drilling: self-maintained
vibrations systems and forced vibrations systems. Most of vibrations

drilling technologies are still at a research stage. It is the case of the selfmaintained vibrations drilling: the eigen frequency of the tool is used in
order to make it naturally vibrate while cutting; vibrations are selfmaintained by a mass-spring system included in the tool holder. Other
works use a piezoelectric system to generate and control the vibrations.
These systems allow high vibration frequencies (up to 2 kHz) for small
magnitude (about a few microns); they particularly fit drilling of small
holes. Finally vibrations can be generated by mechanical systems

the

frequency is given by the combination of the rotation speed and the number
of oscillation per rotation (a few oscillations per rotation), the magnitude is
about 0.1 mm.
This last technology is a fully industrial one (example: SineHoling
technology of MITIS). Vibration drilling is a favoured solution in order to
face issues like deep hole drilling, multi-material stacks drilling
(aeronautics) or dry drilling (without lubrication). Generally it allows
increasing the reliability and the control of the drilling operation.
Material

Drilling in metal

High speed steel twist bit drilling into aluminium with methylated spirits
lubricant
Under normal usage, swarf is carried up and away from the tip of the drill
bit by the fluting of the drill bit. The cutting edges produce more chips
which continue the movement of the chips outwards from the hole. This is
successful until the chips pack too tightly, either because of deeper than
normal holes or insufficient backing off (removing the drill slightly or
totally from the hole while drilling). Cutting fluid is sometimes used to
ease this problem and to prolong the tool's life by cooling and lubricating
the tip and chip flow. Coolant may be introduced via holes through the drill
shank,

which

is

common

when

using

gun

drill.

When

cutting aluminum in particular, cutting fluid helps ensure a smooth and

accurate hole while preventing the metal from grabbing the drill bit in the
process of drilling the hole.
For heavy feeds and comparatively deep holes oil-hole drills can be used,
with a lubricant pumped to the drill head through a small hole in the bit and

flowing out along the fluting. A conventional drill press arrangement can be
used in oil-hole drilling, but it is more commonly seen in automatic drilling
machinery in which it is the workpiece that rotates rather than the drill bit.
In computer numerical control (CNC) machine tools a process called peck
drilling, or interrupted cut drilling, is used to keep swarf from detrimentally
building up when drilling deep holes (approximately when the depth of the
hole is three times greater than the drill diameter). Peck drilling involves
plunging the drill part way through the workpiece, no more than five times
the diameter of the drill, and then retracting it to the surface. This is
repeated until the hole is finished. A modified form of this process,
called high speed peck drilling or chip breaking, only retracts the drill
slightly. This process is faster, but is only used in moderately long holes
otherwise it will overheat the drill bit. It is also used when drilling stringy
material to break the chips.
Drilling in wood
Wood being softer than most metals, drilling in wood is considerably easier
and faster than drilling in metal. Cutting fluids are not used or needed. The

main issue in drilling wood is assuring clean entry and exit holes and
preventing burning. Avoiding burning is a question of using sharp bits and
the appropriate cutting speed. Drill bits can tear out chips of wood around
the top and bottom of the hole and this is undesirable in
fine woodworkingapplications.
The ubiquitous twist drill bits used in metalworking also work well in
wood, but they tend to chip wood out at the entry and exit of the hole. In
some cases, as in rough holes for carpentry, the quality of the hole does not
matter, and a number of bits for fast cutting in wood exist, including spade
bits and self-feeding auger bits. Many types of specialised drill bits for
boring clean holes in wood have been developed, including brad-point
bits, Forstner bits and hole saws. Chipping on exit can be minimized by
using a piece of wood as backing behind the work piece, and the same
technique is sometimes used to keep the hole entry neat.
Holes are easier to start in wood as the drill bit can be accurately positioned
by pushing it into the wood and creating a dimple. The bit will thus have
little tendency to wander.

Grinding Machines
Grinding Machines are also regarded as machine tools. A distinguishing
feature of grinding machines is the rotating abrasive tool. Grinding
machine is employed to obtain high accuracy along with very high class of
surface finish on the workpiece. However, advent of new generation of
grinding wheels and grinding machines, characterised by their rigidity,
power and speed enables one to go for high efficiency deep grinding (often
called as abrasive milling) of not only hardened material but also ductile
materials.
Conventional grinding machines can be broadly classified as:
(a) Surface grinding machine
(b) Cylindrical grinding machine
(c) Internal grinding machine

(d) Tool and cutter grinding machine

Surface grinding machine:
This machine may be similar to a milling machine used mainly to grind flat
surface. However, some types of surface grinders are also capable of
producing contour surface with formed grinding wheel.
Basically there are four different types of surface grinding machines
characterised by the movement of their tables and the orientation of
grinding wheel spindles as follows:
Horizontal spindle and reciprocating table
Vertical spindle and reciprocating table
Horizontal spindle and rotary table
Vertical spindle and rotary table
Horizontal spindle reciprocating table grinder
A disc type grinding wheel performs the grinding action with its peripheral
surface.
The grinding operation is similar to that of face milling on a vertical
milling machine. In this machine a cup shaped wheel grinds the workpiece
over its full width using end face of the wheel. This brings more grits in

action at the same time and consequently a higher material removal rate
may be attained than for grinding with a peripheral wheel.
In principle the operation is same as that for facing on the lathe. This
machine has a limitation in accommodation of workpiece and therefore
does not have wide spread use. However, by swivelling the worktable,
concave or convex or tapered surface can be produced on individual

Vertical spindle rotary table grinder

The machine is mostly suitable for small workpieces in large quantities.
This primarily production type machine often uses two or more grinding
heads thus enabling both roughing and finishing in one rotation of the work
table.
Creep feed grinding machine:
This machine enables single pass grinding of a surface with a larger down
feed but slower table speed than that adopted for multi-pass conventional
surface grinding. This machine is characterised by high stiffness, high
spindle power, recirculating ball screw drive for table movement and
adequate supply of grinding fluid. A further development in this field is the
creep feed grinding centre which carries more than one wheel with
provision of automatic wheel changing. A number of operations can be
performed on the workpiece. It is implied that such machines, in the view
of their size and complexity, are automated through CNC.
High efficiency deep grinding machine:

The concept of single pass deep grinding at a table speed much higher than
what is possible in a creep feed grinder has been technically realized in this
machine. This has been made possible mainly through significant increase
of wheel speed in this new generation grinding machine.
Cylindrical grinding machine
This machine is used to produce external cylindrical surface. The surfaces
may be straight, tapered, steps or profiled. Broadly there are three different
types of cylindrical grinding machine as follows:
1. Plain centre type cylindrical grinder
2. Universal cylindrical surface grinder
3. Centreless cylindrical surface grinder
Plain centre type cylindrical grinder
The machine is similar to a centre lathe in many respects. The workpiece is
held between head stock and tailstock centres. A disc type grinding wheel
performs the grinding action with its peripheral surface
Universal cylindrical surface grinder
Universal cylindrical grinder is similar to a plain cylindrical one except that
it is more versatile. In addition to small worktable swivel, this machine

provides large swivel of head stock, wheel head slide and wheel head
mount on the wheel head slide.
This allows grinding of any taper on the workpiece. Universal grinder is
also equipped with an additional head for internal grinding.
Roll grinding is a specific case of cylindrical grinding wherein large
workpieces such as shafts, spindles and rolls are ground.
Crankshaft or crank pin grinders also resemble cylindrical grinder but are
engaged to grind crank pins which are eccentric from the centre line of the
shaft
Cam and camshaft grinders are essentially subsets of cylindrical grinding
machine dedicated to finish various profiles on disc cams and cam shafts.
The desired contour on the workpiece is generated by varying the distance
between wheel and workpiece axes. The cradle carrying the head stock and
tail stock is provided with rocking motion derived from the rotation of a
master cam that rotates in synchronisation with the workpiece. Newer
machines however, use CNC in place of master cam to generate cam on the
workpiece.
External centreless grinder

This grinding machine is a production machine in which outside diameter

of the workpiece is ground. The workpiece is not held between centres but
by a work support blade. It is rotated by means of a regulating wheel and
ground by the grinding wheel.
In through-feed centreless grinding, the regulating wheel revolving at a
much lower surface speed than grinding wheel controls the rotation and
longitudinal motion of the workpiece. The regulating wheel is kept slightly
inclined to the axis of the grinding wheel and the workpiece is fed
longitudinally

Centreless through feed grinding

The grinding wheel or the regulating wheel or both require to be correctly

profiled to get the required taper on the workpiece.
Tool post grinder
A self powered grinding wheel is mounted on the tool post or compound
rest to provide the grinding action in a lathe. Rotation to the workpiece is
provided by the lathe spindle. The lathe carriage is used to reciprocate the
wheel head.
Internal grinding machine
This machine is used to produce internal cylindrical surface. The surface
may be straight, tapered, grooved or profiled.
Broadly there are three different types of internal grinding machine as
follows:
1. Chucking type internal grinder
2. Planetary internal grinder
3. Centreless internal grinder
Chucking type internal grinder

The workpiece is usually mounted in a chuck. A magnetic face plate can

also be used. A small grinding wheel performs the necessary grinding with
its peripheral surface
Planetary internal grinder
Planetary internal grinder is used where the workpiece is of irregular shape
and cannot be rotated conveniently does not rotate. Instead, the grinding
wheel orbits the axis of the hole in the workpiece.
Centreless internal grinder
This machine is used for grinding cylindrical and tapered holes in
cylindrical parts (e.g. cylindrical liners, various bushings etc). The
workpiece is rotated between supporting roll, pressure roll and regulating
wheel and is ground by the grinding
Tool and cutter grinder machine
Tool grinding may be divided into two subgroups: tool manufacturing and
tool resharpening. There are many types of tool and cutter grinding
machine to meet these requirements. Simple single point tools are
occasionally sharpened by hand on bench or pedestal grinder. However,
tools and cutters with complex geometry like milling cutter, drills, reamers

and hobs require sophisticated grinding machine commonly known as

universal tool and cutter grinder. Present trend is to use tool and cutter
grinder equipped with CNC to grind tool angles, concentricity, cutting
edges and dimensional size with high precision.

Boring

In machining, boring is the process of enlarging a hole that has already

been drilled (or cast), by means of a single-point cutting tool (or of a boring
head containing several such tools), for example as in boring a gun
barrel or an engine cylinder. Boring is used to achieve greater accuracy of
the diameter of a hole, and can be used to cut a tapered hole. Boring can be
viewed as the internal-diameter counterpart to turning, which cuts external
diameters.
There are various types of boring. The boring bar may be supported on
both ends (which only works if the existing hole is a through hole), or it

may be supported at one end (which works for both through holes
and blind

holes). Lineboring (line boring,

line-boring)

implies

the

former. Backboring(back boring, back-boring) is the process of reaching

through an existing hole and then boring on the "back" side of the
workpiece (relative to the machine headstock).
Because of the limitations on tooling design imposed by the fact that the
workpiece mostly surrounds the tool, boring is inherently somewhat more
challenging than turning, in terms of decreased toolholding rigidity,
increased clearance angle requirements (limiting the amount of support that
can be given to the cutting edge), and difficulty of inspection of the
resulting surface (size, form, surface roughness). These are the reasons why
boring is viewed as an area of machining practice in its own right, separate
from turning, with its own tips, tricks, challenges, and body of expertise,
despite the fact that they are in some ways identical.
Boring and turning have abrasive counterparts in internal and
external cylindrical grinding. Each process is chosen based on the
requirements and parameter values of a particular application.

Machine tools used

A horizontal boring mill, showing the large boring head and the workpiece
sitting on the table.

Boring head on Morse taper shank. A small boring bar is inserted into one
of the holes. The head can be shifted left or right with fine gradation by a
screw, adjusting the diameter of the circle that the cutting tip swings

through, thus controlling the hole size, even down to within 10

micrometres if all machining conditions are good.
The boring process can be executed on various machine tools, including (1)
general-purpose or universal machines, such as lathes (/turning centers)
ormilling machines (/machining centers), and (2) machines designed to
specialize in boring as a primary function, such as jig borers and boring
machines or boring mills, which include vertical boring mills (workpiece
rotates around a vertical axis while boring bar/head moves linearly;
essentially a vertical lathe) and horizontal boring mills (workpiece sits on a
table while the boring bar rotates around a horizontal axis; essentially a
specialized horizontal milling machine).
Boring mills and milling machines
The dimensions between the piece and the tool bit can be changed about
two axes to cut both vertically and horizontally into the internal surface.
The cutting tool is usually single point, made of M2 and M3 high-speed
steel or P10 and P01 carbide. A tapered hole can also be made by swiveling
the head.

Boring machines come in a large variety of sizes and styles. Boring

operations on small workpieces can be carried out on a lathe while larger
workpieces are machined on boring mills. Workpieces are commonly 1 to 4
metres (3 ft 3 in to 13 ft 1 in) in diameter, but can be as large as 20 m
(66 ft). Power requirements can be as much as 200 horsepower (150 kW).
Cooling of the bores is done through a hollow passageway through the
boring bar where coolant can flow freely. Tungsten-alloy disks are sealed in
the bar to counteract vibration and chatter during boring. The control
systems can be computer-based, allowing for automation and increased
consistency.
Because boring is meant to decrease the product tolerances on pre-existing
holes, several design considerations apply. First, large length-to-borediameters are not preferred due to cutting tool deflection. Next, through
holes are preferred over blind holes (holes that do not traverse the thickness
of the work piece). Interrupted internal working surfaceswhere the
cutting tool and surface have discontinuous contactare preferably
avoided. The boring bar is the protruding arm of the machine that holds
cutting tool(s), and must be very rigid.

Because of the factors just mentioned, deep-hole drilling and deep-hole

boring are inherently challenging areas of practice that demand special
tooling and techniques. Nevertheless, technologies have been developed
that produce deep holes with impressive accuracy. In most cases they
involve multiple cutting points, diametrically opposed, whose deflection
forces cancel each other out. They also usually involve delivery of cutting
fluid pumped under pressure through the tool to orifices near the cutting
edges. Gun drilling and cannon boring are classic examples. First
developed to make the barrels of firearms and artillery, these machining
techniques find wide use today for manufacturing in many industries.
Various fixed cycles for boring are available in CNC controls. These are
preprogrammed subroutines that move the tool through successive passes
of cut, retract, advance, cut again, retract again, return to the initial
position, and so on. These are called using G-codes such as G76, G85,
G86, G87, G88, G89; and also by other less common codes specific to
particular control builders or machine tool builders.
Lathes

Lathe boring is a cutting operation that uses a single-point cutting tool or a

boring head to produce conical or cylindrical surfaces by enlarging an
existing opening in a workpiece. For nontapered holes, the cutting tool
moves parallel to the axis of rotation. For tapered holes, the cutting tool
moves at an angle to the axis of rotation. Geometries ranging from simple
to extremely complex in a variety of diameters can be produced using
boring applications. Boring is one of the most basic lathe operations next to
turning and drilling.
Lathe boring usually requires that the workpiece be held in the chuck and
rotated. As the workpiece is rotated, a boring bar with an insert attached to
the tip of the bar is fed into an existing hole. When the cutting tool engages
the workpiece, a chip is formed. Depending on the type of tool used, the
material, and the feed rate, the chip may be continuous or segmented. The
surface produced is called a bore.
The geometry produced by lathe boring is usually of two types: straight
holes and tapered holes. Several diameters can also be added to each shape
hole if required. To produce a taper, the tool may be fed at an angle to the
axis of rotation or both feed and axial motions may be concurrent. Straight

holes and counterbores are produced by moving the tool parallel to the axis
of workpiece rotation.
The four most commonly used workholding devices are the three-jaw
chuck, the four-jaw chuck, the collet, and the faceplate. The three-jaw
chuck is used to hold round or hex workpieces because the work is
automatically centered. On these chucks the runout faces limitations; on
late-model CNCs, it can be quite low if all conditions are excellent, but
traditionally it is usually at least .001-.003 in (0.025-0.075 mm). The fourjaw chuck is used either to hold irregular shapes or to hold round or hex to
extremely low runout (with time spent indicating and clamping each piece),
in both cases because of its independent action on each jaw. The face plate
is also used for irregular shapes. Collets combine self-centering chucking
with low runout, but they involve higher costs.
For most lathe boring applications, tolerances greater than 0.010 in
(0.25 mm) are easily held. Tolerances from there down to 0.005 in
(0.13 mm) are usually held without especial difficulty or expense, even in
deep holes. Tolerances between 0.004 in (0.10 mm) and 0.001 in
(0.025 mm) are where the challenge begins rising. In deep holes with

tolerances

this

tight,

the

limiting

factor

is

just

as

often

the geometric constraint as the size constraint. In other words, it may be

easy to hold the diameter within .002" at any diametrical measurement
point, but difficult to hold the cylindricity of the hole to within a zone
delimited by the .002" constraint, across more than 5 diameters of hole
depth (depth measured in terms of diameter:depth aspect ratio). For
highest-precision applications, tolerances can generally be held within
0.0005 in (0.013 mm) only for shallow holes. In some cases tolerances
as tight as 0.0001 in (0.0038 mm) can be held in shallow holes, but it is
expensive, with 100% inspection and loss of nonconforming parts adding
to the cost. Grinding, honing, and lapping are the recourse for when the
limits of boring repeatability and accuracy have been met.
Surface finish (roughness) in boring may range from 8 to 250 microinches,
with a typical range between 32 and 125 microinches.
Sometimes a part may require higher accuracy of form and size than can be
provided by boring. For example, even in optimized boring, the amount
that the diameter varies on different portions of the bore is seldom less than
3 micrometre (.0001 inches, "a tenth"), and it may easily be 5 to 20

micrometre (.0002-.0008 inches, "2 to 8 tenths"). Taper, roundness error,

and cylindricity error of such a hole, although they would be considered
negligible in most other parts, may be unacceptable for a few applications.
For such parts, internal cylindrical grinding is a typical follow-up
operation. Often a part will be roughed and semifinished in the machining
operation, then heat treated, and finally, finished by internal cylindrical
grinding.
The limitations of boring in terms of its geometric accuracy (form,
position) and the hardness of the workpiece have been shrinking in recent
decades as machining technology continues to advance. For example, new
grades of carbide and ceramic cutting inserts have increased the accuracy
and surface quality that can be achieved without grinding, and have
increased the range of workpiece hardness values that are workable.
However, working to tolerances of only a few microns (a few tenths) forces
the manufacturing process to rationally confront, and compensate for, the
fact that no actual workpiece is ideally rigid and immobile. Each time a cut
is taken (no matter how small), or a temperature change of a few hundred
degrees takes place (no matter how temporary), the workpiece, or a portion

of it, is likely to spring into a new shape, even if the movement is

extremely small. In some cases a movement of a fraction of a micron in
one area is amplified in lever fashion to create a positional error of several
microns for a feature of the workpiece several decimetres away. It is factors
such as these that sometimes preclude finishing by boring and turning as
opposed to internal and external cylindrical grinding. At the extreme, no
perfection of machining or grinding may be enough when, despite the part
being within tolerance when it is made, it warps out of tolerance in
following days or months. When engineers are confronted with such a case,
it drives the quest to find other workpiece materials, or alternate designs
that avoid relying so heavily on the immobility of part features on the
micro or nano scales.

BLOCK DIAGRAM OF MULTIPURPOSE MACHINE

AC Power
supply

AC Motor

Spindle

Boring operation

Counter shaft

Drilling operation

workpiece

Grinding operation

CONSTRUCTIONAL DETAILS

S.No

Components

Quantity

Material

1.

Grinding wheel

100 mm

Carborandum

2.

Drill bit

15 mm

HSS

3.

Cutter

Mild steel

5.

Belt
and
arrangement

pulley 1

Mild steel

6.

Base plate

Mild steel

7.

Electric motor

1 (900 RPM) Cast iron

WORKING PRINCIPLE

The multipurpose machine consists of an electric motor. Various

machine tools such as boring drilling and grinding tools are attached to the
motor spindle by means of pulley arrangement. When the motor gets
rotated the mechanical power is transmitted to the spindle and the pulley
arrangement and the grinding, boring and drilling tool also rotates. Thus by
means of the single power we can perform three different operations. The
shaft is supported in either and by bearings.

APPLICATIONS

This multipurpose device has a numerous applications in various

fields.

In industries, this is used in assembly section.

The required

pressure is set and the operation is carried out. In automobile shops various
operations are required frequently Drilling, boring, reaming, grinding etc.
It is also used as a screw driver for tightening and loosening nuts and bolts.
It is used.
1. In automobile workshops
2. In small scale industries
3. In such places where frequent changes in operations are
required
4. In welding shops for grinding.

5. For performing operations in huge parts which can not be

done in ordinary machines, since it is portable.

ADVANTAGES
The pneumatically operated multi purpose device has many
advantages. They are as follows:
Low cost, so it can be used in small scale industries.
Higher rate and quicker operations
A number of operations like (drilling), screw driving,
reaming etc., can be done.
The nuts and bolts can be tightened to a particular
pressure by operating the gate valve placed in the
control unit and the pressure gauge.
Both loosening and tightening is possible. Since there
is air flow in both directions.

The weight of the unit is less and can be easily handled.

Efficient operation.

Since if does not require any

electricity for running.

The weight of the machine is concentrated towards the
machining head to facilitate easy manipulation of the
machining.
The design is simple and there is no maintenance
required. The control valve for allowing or restricting
air may be placed on handle to make easier to control
the speed of the machine.
The maximum rpm of the unit of the unit is 7000 rpm.
The speed provides a torque which is suitable for
machining. The maximum pressure that can be used is
7 kg km. The rpm and torque can be varied by varying
the pressure of the air inlet.

DISADVANTAGES
1. Initial cost is high
2. Spindle rotation is pneumatic power, so this machine
having low torque
3. Need a separate compressor

CONCLUSION
With the idea on view, we have completed the project titled
DESIGN AND FABRICATION OF MULTIPURPOSE MACHINE
By means of this machine various operations can be performed using same
power. So this multipurpose device is used for various operations with a
less amount of investment.
This is one of the most reliable and simple machine in the machine
shop in which many number of operations can be done.

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