Woodworking – Process – Mechanical cutting or shaping
Patent
1986-08-05
1987-11-24
Bray, W. D.
Woodworking
Process
Mechanical cutting or shaping
84383A, 84453, 84458, 144 1R, 144 2R, 144115, 144155, 144142, 144372, 269 3, 269246, 269138, 269217, B27L 502, B27C 114, B26B 1300
Patent
active
047081821
ABSTRACT:
A reedmaking system is disclosed that includes a device for thickness sizing by sliding a cane segment along a guide surface past a cutting edge that is spaced apart from the guide surface a distance slightly greater than the thickness of a conventional finished reed. An adjacent length sizing tool on a common base member enables cutting to length with a blade spaced apart from a stop member a distance slightly greater than the length of a conventional finished reed. A separate hand held tapering tool includes a tapered bar on a handle for tapering by trimming to the taper of the bar as a rough reed blank is retained against the tapered bar with a single clamp member attached adjustably to the distal end of the tapered bar, while a duplicator mounted on a separate base member includes a cutting assembly with a follower that follows the shape of the pattern reed as a blade shaves the reed accordingly. A radius trimming tool mounted aside the length sizing device provides a reed support surface on which the reed is placed with the tip of the reed extending slightly beyond a curved end of the support surface, the tip of the reed being trimmed off against the curved cutting edge when the support surface is flexed with an accompanying flexing device, to produce a finished reed.
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Bray W. D.
Hanson Loyal M.
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