Re: Hubs
Steve,
Michael Kaempf was a small German manufacturer specializing in banknote, type engraving machines and large-ish copy mills for automotive dies from 1880 to 1975. I have attached photo of my machines, one like yours and the geometric lathe and hope I have got the the KB count down. It may not look like a lathe but it is and it has a vertical mandrel and the whole headstock rocks under control from cams. As the table rotates it produces a rose pattern. The banknote plate is engraved with a rotary cutter or diamond so it is also by another definition an engraving machine. These geometric lathes are rare as they only produced about 60 of them. The other two like yours were produced in higher volumes.
I don't have a site but if you contact me on nicholas.ann@btinternet.com I can send you more details about Kaempf.
Nick
|