Patent ID: 8960243
Filing Date: 2015-02-24
Classification: B27C,B27G,B27J,B27L,G10D

Abstract:
1. A gouging machine for cane comprises: a base, wherein at least a portion of a top surface of the base is disposed in a plane; a cane bed, having a trough disposed parallel to a bottom surface of the cane bed, and having grooves on opposing sides of the cane bed, which grooves slope at a non-zero groove angle with respect to the bottom surface of the cane bed, the cane bed being affixed to the base so that the trough is parallel to the plane and to an alignment line, wherein the alignment line is disposed along an alignment direction and is parallel to the plane; clamps, disposed on the opposing sides of the cane bed, each clamp having a tongue that slopes at the groove angle with respect to a clamping surface thereof, which clamping surface is adapted to grip edges of cane placed in the trough of the cane bed, and wherein the tongues of the clamps slidably engage the grooves of the cane bed so that the clamping surface of the clamps are parallel to a bottom of the trough; and a cutting tool comprising a cutting portion adapted to be positioned over, and to move along, the trough.