The holder is held in the lathe tool rest in the usual manner, and affords slideway to a slide operated by the handle shown at the right-hand end.
"Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II"
Joshua Rose
Furthermore, as the pressure on the cutting tool is below the level of the tool-carrying slide it tends to force that slide down upon the slideway, and it will therefore be more rigidly and steadily guided when the force moving the slide and the tool pressure both act in the same direction.
"Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II"
Joshua Rose
This knee fits to a vertical slideway on the main frame, so that its upper face, and therefore the face also of the work table, is maintained parallel with the drill spindle at whatever height it may be set from it.
"Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II"
Joshua Rose