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1895 Article-Egan Co., Automatic Wood-Carving Machine |
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Modern Mechanism 1895 pgs 114-115 |
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12/9/2012 9:18:34 PM |
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The Egan Carved-Molding Machine.—A machine for making carved moldings, and built by the Egan Co., is shown in Fig. 2. its function being to cut moldings without a pattern and leave sharp corners. There is a frame of heavy timbers, much like that of an ordinary Daniel's wood planer, with suitable heavy iron slides at the top for the bed to travel over. The lower part of the bed has spur and rack gearing, giving an automatic motion back and forth to the carriage or bed which bears the work. The travel of the bed is regulatable, so that long or short moldings may be made at will. The head or tool-holder is pivoted on horizontal studs at the right of the housing of the machine, and is made to raise and lower when cams borne by the front end of its saddle come into contact with upward-projecting studs on the sides of the traveling-bed. The shape of the knives, which are fixed, governs the style of the molding, of course modified by the action of the cams and studs in throwing them in and out of cut as the material is fed along under the knives, and by the position of the knives with regard to the tool-post. The bed traveling back and forth, and the tool-post and its knives working up and down as the earns pass over the studs on the carriage, produce the proper combination of movements to make carved moldings. |
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1895 Egan Co., Automatic Wood-Carving Machine
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