FILENAMES:

ClintonFront.JPG
ClintonLeft.JPG
ClintonBack.JPG
ClintonPick.JPG

DESCRIPTION:

These are pictures of a microtome, for slicing specimens.

Posted by James E. Baldock <baldock@fuse.net>.  

The following description was provided:

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2sep03

Guys,

My friend Dave brought this machine over this weekend for identification. I have posted
some pix in the dropbox using the name Clintonfront.JPG and so forth. Nice tag, Clinton
Corporation, Misco, Ann Arbor, Mich. It has me stumped, so I thought I would let you all
in on the fun.

It is a bench type machine that could be a salesman display (50 lbs.?). Lotsa chrome. A
vertical broach/shaper/key seater? Hand powered witha a neat pick feed horizontal, into the
work. The knob on the front adjusts the pick feed by the cam in the back. Plenty of
adjustments, very well made, perhaps form the '50s. Crank handle and perhaps some of
the fixturing missing.

Thanks in advance to all who help.

Jim

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<webmaster note: culled later from RCM>

A microtome, for slicing specimens for microscopy. The 
missing blade goes in the adjustable holder on the base of 
the machine, the specimen to be sectioned in the moving 
clamp.

Ned Simmons