Taper Turning by Swivelling the Compound Rest

This method uses the principle of turning taper by rotating the workpiece on the lathe axis and feeding the tool at an angle to the axis of rotation of the workpiece. The tool is mounted on the compound rest which is attached to a circular base, graduated in degrees. The compound rest can easily be swiveled or rotated and clamped at any desired angle as shown in Fig. Once the compound rest is set at the desired half taper angle, rotation of the compound slide screw will cause the tool to be fed at that angle and generate a corresponding taper. This method is limited to turn a short but steep taper because of the limited movement of the cross-slide. The compound rest can be swiveled at 45° on either side of the lathe axis enabling it to turn a steep taper. The movement of the single point cutting tool in this method is being purely controlled by hand. Thus it provides a low production capacity and poor surface finish. The positioning or setting of the compound rest is accomplished by swiveling the rest at the half taper angle, if this is already known. If the diameter of the small and large end and length of taper are known, the half taper angle can be calculated. The complete setup for producing a taper by swelling the compound rest is given in Fig.

Source A Textbook of Basic Manufacturing Processes and Workshop Technology by Rajender Singh.