Abstract: A wood planing machine includes a base, two opposite side walls extending upright from the base, two pairs of supporting rods extending upright from the opposite sides of the base, a cutter carriage mounted movably on the supporting rods, a motor mounted on the cutter carriage, a rotatable shaft connected to and driven by the motor and having one end that extends through a vertically extending slot in one of the side walls, and an emery wheel mounted on the end of the shaft.

Abstract: A contour-copying machine in which a plurality or workpieces are spanned between headstocks and tailstocks and rotatable synchronously about respective parallel axes parallel to the rotation axis of a pattern with a feeler roller engaging the pattern and a plurality of tools linked to the feeler roller cutting the contour of the pattern into the workpieces is programmed so as separately to cut longitudinally extending planar surfaces in the workpieces and to form rounded contours along these workpieces. To this end the machine is indexed through a plurality of angular positions each corresponding to one of the planar surfaces and the pattern and workpieces are restrained from rotating as these longitudinally extending planar surfaces cut into them. Once all of the longitudinally extending planar surfaces are formed, the workpiece is rotated continuously and the tools cut the remaining rounded surfaces in these workpieces.