CITE DEFICIENCIES AT HONORED PLANT; REPLACE METAL MACHINE PARTS WITH PRESSED WOOD

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• Publication Date: May 15, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY USSR
SUBJECT Economic; Technological - Machine building
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PUBLISHED Daily newspapers
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PUBLISHED 28 Dec 1951 - 24 Feb 1952
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CITE DEFICIENCIES AT HONORED PLANT;
REPLACE METAL MACHINE PARTS WITH PRESSED WOOD
SCORE PLANT'S UNDERHANDED METHODS -- Moscow, Pravda, 8 Jar. 52
A copy of a telephone message of congratulation addressed to Murav'yev,
plant director; Naumova, secretary of the Party Bureau; and Dorokhin, chairman
of the plant committee, was posted on the gate of a tool rlsnt presumably in
Moscow, bu: apparently not the Moscow Tool Plant, which is subordinate to the
Main Administration of Tool Production, Ministry of Machine Tool Buildin.C. The
message was sent to the plant by Boganov, chief of the Main Administration for
Watch Production, for exceeding its production. plan.
Unfortunately, the message did not mer.ion how the program was fulfilled in
respect to the main qualitative indexes. This is not surprising, because the
report sent by the plant management to the Leningradskiy Rayon Party Committee
in the city of Moscow did not include this information.. It was stated only that
the plant exceeded its plan for gross production and commodity output. Nothing
was said about completin; its assignment for designated types of products.
The plant was built for supplying the watch industry with complex tools,
special machine tools, and precision instruments, At present, it is producing
fine drills. One almost needs a magnifying glass to see the flutes. Machine
tools intended for milling and threading tiny parts for wrist and pocket watches
are manufactured here.. Especially sensitive checking and measuring instruments
for locatini minute defects in a watch mechanism are also produced:
These and similar products are characteristic of the plant's output. How-
ever, the production of complex tools needed by watch plants have been put aside
for the present. Many orders for dies, taps, drills, automatics, and other pre-
cision items remain unfilled.
All conditions at the plant are favorable for the fulfillment of the psI-
duction program for designated types. However, the plant management, attempting
to alleviate its work, is following another course. It produces goods that re-
quire the least amount of effort and exertion, ignoring the fact that other
types of products must be perfected and produced.
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The work of important shops is poorly organized. The machine-tool-building
shop, for example, is lagging. In the first 6 months of 1951, attention was
concentrated on the output of already perfected gear milling automatics. In a
few months, the year program for the production of these machines was completed.
On the other hand, no consideration was given to the perfection of new machines
which were neeaed by the watch-making plants.
There are many other deficiences at the plant. Figuratively speaking, all
this is taking place in full view of the workers of the Main Administration for
Watch Production of the Ministry of Machine and Instrument Building because the
main administration is located in the same area as the tool plant. -- V. Vavilov
MECHANIZE LABORIOUS PROCESSES AT WATCH PLANT -- Minsk, Sovetskaya Belorussiya,
8 Jan 52
Personnel of the Penza Watch Plant are increasing labor productivity, mech-
anizing labor-consuming processes, and improving the quality of the Zvezda wrist
watch in 1952. Ten conveyers have been installed in the assembly shop. They
have replaced the less productive conveyer belts. The rhythm of assembly is
regulat ', by a special apparatus. At predetermined intervals, the conveyers
stop to give the workers a rest period.
DESIGN AUTOMATIC CHIP-REMOVING DEVICE -- Minsk, Sovetskaya Belorussiya, 28 Dec 5t
An automatic pneumatic device for removing chips has been developed by
A. Ye. Rassolov of the Vulkan Plant. It has solved the problem of automatic
transport of chips from machine tools.
A small metal funnel is fastened to the tool slide below the tool cutter.
A powerful jet of air from an exhaust fan draws all the metal. dust and chips
through the funnel. The dust and chips travel through a flexible hose to a
bunker which is set up on the street.
PRESSED, WOOD REPLACES METAL -- Lenirgradskaya Pravda, 5 Jan 52
To eliminate noise at industrial enterprises, Soviet machines are now being
built with many of their parts made of wood instead of metal. These include
bobbins, bushings, bearings, gears, friction clutches, etc.
Not only do parts made of wood eliminate noise, but they are also replac-
ing steel, iron, copper, bronze, and tin.
Associates of the Scientific Research Institute of Plywood were faced with
the problem of making a material of w,od as hard as steel or metal alloys. In
addition to working out a method for obtaining a completely new material, they
had to develop a method for the production of machine parts made of the material.
After thousands of experiments and painstaking efforts, these problems were
finally solved. The principles of producing plastics were used to obtain the
new material. It was necessary to have accurate proportions of resin and other
components, select the proper size of birch particles, and to set up the operat-
ing conditions for hot pressing.
A part made of pressed birch has many advantages. It can be installed in
a machine directly from the press; it is five or six times as light as bronze;
its coefficient of friction is considerably lower, and consequently, its wear
resistance is considerably higher.
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The nee wood plastic is finding wide application in industry. For example,
the Plant meni Stalin is planning to use the one-piece wood pressed parts in
friction units of future Volga turbines; the Gor'kiy Automobile Plant, for
roller conveyers; the Plant iaeni Kotlyankov, for ball mills, etc.
The new material could be used more extensively if more equipment were
available. The institute needs more personnel, new presses, and instruments.
An industrial enterprise, attached to the institute, must be built for the pro-
duction of wood parts.
DEPU'1 CHIEF OF hUN ADMINISTRATION DIES -- Moscow, Moskovskaya Pravda, 24 Feb 52
Personnel of the Ministry of Machine and Instrument Building express their
sympathy for the death of Andrey Yevseyevich Ser, aov, chief engineer and deputy
chief of Glavarmalit (Main Administration for Production of Industrial Accesso-
ries)whc died on 21 February.
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