Processor-controlled carving and multi-purpose shaping device

Details Processor-controlled carving and multi-purpose shaping device Processor-controlled carving and multi-purpose shaping device

2005-03-01

2005-03-01

Cadugan, Erica (Department: 3722)

Metal working

Method of mechanical manufacture

Shaping one-piece blank by removing material

C029S02600B, C029S056500, C409S132000, C409S149000, C409S212000, C144S117100, C144S135200, C474S150000

Reexamination Certificate

active

06859988

ABSTRACT:
One embodiment of the present invention is a compact, low-cost, lightweight, versatile and easy-to-operate, processor-controlled carving and multi-purpose shaping device (“PCCMPS machine”). The PCCMPS machine that represents one embodiment of the present invention is configured, in part, similarly to common, commercially available portable wood planers and ubiquitous laser and ink-jet computer printers, with work pieces fed into the PCCMPS machine in a horizontal direction. The PCCMPS machine includes a motor-powered cutting head that can power detachable bits to drill, cut, shape, and rout a work piece under processor and computer control. The cutting head may be translated, under processor control, back and forth across the surface of the work piece in a direction perpendicular to the direction in which the work piece is fed into the PCCMPS machine and moved by motor-powered rollers. The cutting head may be translated up and down, in a vertical direction, approximately perpendicular to the surface of the work piece. The processor can thus position a cutting bit at any point on a surface of, near the surface of, or within the work piece, via a combination of lateral and vertical translations of the cutting head and horizontal translation of the work piece, and can control the speed at which the bit rotates as the computer moves the rotating bit from one position to another position relative to the surface of the work piece in order to carve and shape elaborate, three-dimensional designs onto the work piece.

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