Floating carriage micro meter

• DEFINITIONS RELATED TO PARALLEL SCREW THREADS

• Major Diameter: The diameter of an imaginary cylinder
(termed the major cylinder) which just embraces the crests
of the external thread or the roots of an internal thread.
• Minor Diameter: The diameter of an imaginary cylinder
(termed the minor cylinder) which just embraces the roots of
an external thread or the crests of an internal thread.
• Effective(or Pitch) Diameter: The diameter of an imaginary
cylinder(termed the pitch cylinder ) which intersects the
surface of the thread in such manner that the intercept on
an generator of the cylinder between the points where it
meets the opposite flanks of the thread groove is equal to
one half the basic of the thread
• The two methods for thread measurement as follows
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Pitch Measurement
Tool Maker’s Microscope
Working
• A ray of light from a light source fig. b is reflected by a
mirror through 90’ It then passes through a transparent
glass plate (on which flat parts may be placed ).
• A shadow image of the outline or counter of the
workspaces passes through the objective of the optical
head and is projected by a system of three prisms to a
ground glass screen.
• Observations are made through an eyepiece.
Measurements are made by means of cross lines engraved
on the ground glass screen.
• The screen can be rotated through 360’; the angle of
rotation is read through an auxiliary eyepiece.
 Procedure: -
A) Pitch Measurement: -
• 1) Take the hacksaw blade and mount on the moving
blade of tool maker’s Microscope in horizontal position.
• 2)Focus the microscope on the blade.
• 3)Make the cross line in the microscope coincided with
one of the edge of th blade.
• 4)Take a reading on ground glass screen, this is the initial
reading.
• 5) The table is again moved until the next edge of the
blade coincides with the cross-line on the screen and the
final reading takes.
• 6) The difference between initial and final reading gives
pitch of the blade.
Applications

• The large tool maker’s microscope is suitable for the

following fields of applications;
• Length measurement in Cartesian and polar co-ordinates.
• Angle measurements of tools; threading tools punches and
gauges, templates etc.
• Thread measurements i.e., profile major and minor
diameters, height of lead, thread angle, profile position with
respect to the thread axis and the shape of thread.
(rounding, flattering, straightness of flanks)
• Comparison between centres and drawn patterns and
drawing of projected profiles.
Gear Measurement
Gear Terminology
Involute tooth profile