hobber


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hobber

(ˈhɒbə)
n
(General Physics) machinery a machine used for cutting gears
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An average game for referee Ola Hobber Nilsen of Norway usually results in at least four bookings.
File- Ola Hobber Nilsen CAIRO -- 23 April 2018: Egyptian Football Association Referee committee announced on Monday that Norwegian referee, Ola Hobber Nilsen, will take charge of the clash between Zamalek and Pyramids at the Egyptian League.
The most prominent theorists of seventeenth and eighteenth-century are the Hugo Grotius (1583-1645), Thomas Hobber (1588-1679), John Locke (1632-1704), and Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778), Pierre Joseph Proudhon (1809-1865), John Rawls (1921-2002).
It was a machine known as the "Top Hobber" and its function was to mill the teeth around the massive six to eight feet diameter double helical gear wheel for the steam turbine drive to the prop shaft.
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The 21 OH Hobber is equipped with a mechanical cam-driven double gripper loader integrated into the machine.
in diameter; two Gleason CNC high-speed gear hobbers; an Okuma LB 4511/1000 turning center; and a Pfauter P-900 six-axis CNC gear hobber.
The 130H Hobber is the first in a new family of gear production equipment from Gleason called Genesis.
The P 90 horizontal hobber has twice the cutter drive output and more than twice the spindle speed and capacity for gears as large as 100 mm diameter.