The Knee Mill: Still Standing | Cutting Tool Engineering
Mar 29, 2017· The design of the knee mill goes back to 1936, when Rudolph Bannow''s company produced a kneeandcolumn vertical mill with a rotating turret and slidingram head. The mill became known by the company''s name—Bridgeport—which, like Kleenex, became the generic signifier for mills of similar design. Eighty years is a good run for a single ...