Mesta Machine Company Double Helical Gear Planer

1905/1925

Title
Mesta Machine Company Double Helical Gear Planer
Identifier
MSP210.B011.I02
Source Identifier
MSP210.B011.I02
Description
A Mesta Machine Company Double Helical Gear Planer in the Gear Cutting Department. This department was equipped with straight-spur, bevel, and double helical gear cutting machines, all built by Mesta, for machining the teeth in gears of all sizes up to 30 feet in diameter. Mesta designed, patented, and built unique gear planers which held the gear stationary while the teeth were being machined with all motion confined to the cutting tool. This was radically different then the method used by contemporary gear cutting machines of the time.
Genre
photographs
Subject
Mesta Machine Company (West Homestead, Pa.)
Steel industry and trade--Pennsylvania--West Homestead.
Source
Mesta Machine Company Photographs, 1906-1925, MSP 210, Library and Archives Division, Senator John Heinz History Center
Contributor
Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center
Collection
Mesta Machine Company Photographs
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