Patent GB-725025-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in portable woodworking tool
IPC: B27F5/02
Filed: 1953-04-28
Abstract: 725,025. Wood cutting and working. PATTEN, W. H. April 28, 1953, No. 11677/53. Class 145 A portable woodworking tool for forming cavities or contours in workpieces such as wooden core boxes comprises a frame 4 adapted to rest on the workpiece or on rails 8 attached to the workpiece, a carriage 16 movable horizontally on rods 26 on the frame, a motor 14 mounted on the carriage for driving a vertically-movable splined spindle 10 carrying the cutter 12 and means connected to the frame and spindle for limiting the movement of the spindle to positions defining the cross section of the required cavity or contour. The spindle is guided in its vertical movements by an actuating bar 56 and its upper bearing assembly 52 is adjustable by a screwed sleeve 90 in a bracket attached to the bar 56 to provide slight vertical adjustment of the spindle; vertical movement of the spindle for some operations is limited by nuts 64, 66 on a screwed rod 58. For guiding the tool along the workpiece in order to make an elongated cavity or contour, two members 68 each.having a handle 86 and adjustably carrying a follower 70 for engaging the rails 8 or the sides of the workpiece are adjustable along one rod 26 and a rod 76, being securable to the rod 76 by clamp screws 80. For cutting cavities of substantially semi-circular cross-section, a rightangled quadrant plate 96 is pivotable round a pin 98 on the-bar 56 by a worm 104 engaging teeth 102 and rollers 108 on the members 68 ride in grooves 110 in the sides 112 of the quadrant plate. With the members 68 and, therefore, the rollers 108 and followers 70 set close together, the pivot pin 98 and, therefore, the' cutter spindle, will be in a raised position for an initial shallow cut, as shown in Fig. 7. The first portion of this initial cut may be made with the quadrant plate 96 rotated to position A, in which the pivot 98 coincides with the right-hand roller 108, and by moving the tool transversely and longitudinally over the work between positions A and A<SP>2</SP> of the cutter. The quadrant plate may then be rotated to position B and cuts made from A<SP>2</SP> to B' after which the quadrant plate may be rotated back to the central position and the initial cut com-  pleted down to line C. Instead of swinging the quadrant plate from one extreme position to the other and back to the central position, the cuts may be made by gradual progression from one depth and position to another, the quadrant plate being graduated for this purpose, and the cut B may be the final cut after completing the deeper cut C. Similar cuts are then made with the members 68 set progressively apart until the followers 70 engage both rails 8 at the same time when the final cross section of the cavity can be completed, the cuts having been at all times restricted to a position within the desired semicircular cross section. By vertical adjustment of the cutter spindle by means of the knurled sleeve 90, a high or a low cut can be made to modify the cross section and, by lowering the cutter in its central position, a groove can be cut in the bottom of the cross section. A cavity of semicircular cross section, but tapering longitudinally, may be cut by inclining the rails 8. For cutting cavities of irregular cross section, the quadrant plate may be replaced by a template secured to or over the rollers 108 and a follower roller fixable in different positions on the bar 56 bears on this template, progressive cuts being controlled by the nuts 64 and 66 on the rod 58 and the movement of the carriage transversely of the frame being controlled by a hand-operated lead screw.