Abstract: A tool, system, and method for shaping a wooden workpiece. The system includes a lathe, a toolrest, and a woodturning tool for removing material from the workpiece. The tool includes a handle with a shaft extending longitudinally outwardly therefrom. A cutter is provided on an end of the shaft. The shaft includes a longitudinally-extending bottom surface and a longitudinally-extending side surface. The side surface extends laterally outwardly from the bottom surface and at an obtuse angle relative thereto. Each of the bottom and side surfaces is flat and is separately brought into contact with the toolrest on the lathe to steady the shaft and use the cutter on the workpiece. The orientation of the cutter is changed between a first position and second position depending on which of the bottom surface or side surface contacts the toolrest.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a connecting rod is provided. The method includes the steps of (1) forming, on a long rod material, a rotation transmitting portion having a non-circular cross section; (2) cutting the rod material to provide the rotation transmitting portion at each of both ends; and (3) forming, by cutting work, a small-diameter column portion and a tapered portion at a first end of the cut rod material from a tip-end side. The small-diameter column portion has a diameter smaller than a diameter of the rotation transmitting portion. The tapered portion is provided continuously from the small-diameter column portion and gradually increases in diameter. The rotation transmitting portion is provided continuously from the tapered portion.

Abstract: A wood working tool for cutting flutes on a curved profile, used with a wood lathe. The wood working tool includes a vertical mast secured to a base. A cutting tool holder is attached to the mast and can be connected at different positions to adjust the usable height to accommodate different size lathes. The tool holder supports a cutting tool such as router. The tool holder also supports a depth control bar with a roller at a working end of the control bar. The control bar is positioned such that the roller is near a cutter of the cutting tool. The depth control bar can be adjusted to allow for the cutting tool to cut a surface at a variety of depths. Moving the wood working tool along the length of the turning with the depth control bar engaged allows for cutting of the flute.

Abstract: A wood lathe includes an axial moving unit with a movable seat, which is sleeved movably on a driving rod and a guide rod that are parallel to each other. A driving gear is disposed rotatably on the movable seat, and engages a gear-engaging member of the driving rod. When an actuator member is rotated, the gear rotates synchronously therewith so as to move the movable seat on the driving rod. A sample bar and a bar blank are held on a bed of the lathe. A blade is carried on the movable seat for cutting the bar blank. A tracing unit is disposed on the movable seat so that a groove pattern on the sample bar is traced mechanically and is duplicated on the bar blank.

Abstract: A wood lathe includes an axial moving unit with a movable seat, which is sleeved movably on a driving rod and a guide rod that are parallel to each other. A driving gear is disposed rotatably on the movable seat, and engages a gear-engaging member of the driving rod. When an actuator member is rotated, the gear rotates synchronously therewith so as to move the movable seat on the driving rod. A sample bar and a bar blank are held on a bed of the lathe. A blade is carried on the movable seat for cutting the bar blank. A tracing unit is disposed on the movable seat so that a groove pattern on the sample bar is traced mechanically and is duplicated on the bar blank.

Abstract: An automatic lathe is provided including a table stand having a top with a plurality of legs coupled thereto and extending downwardly therefrom. A pair of spindle spinning assemblies are positioned on the top of the table stand. Each spindle spinning assembly has a securement rod rotatably mounted thereon which is adapted to releasably secure to an end of a spindle for spinning the same. A carriage assembly is adapted to slide between each spindle spinning assembly. The carriage assembly has a blade mechanism mounted thereon for engaging a front surface of the spindle secured between the spindle assemblies. The carriage assembly further includes a carriage motor functioning to move the carriage in a forward direction upon the receipt of a forward signal and move the carriage in a reverse direction upon the receipt of a reverse signal only when the carriage motor is actuated.

Abstract: A copying cutting device for wood lathes including two securing stems, two form securing devices each transversely mounted at the bottom end of each securing stem, a guide track device mounted above the securing stems, a cutter mounting device having a cutter mounted thereon screwably provided at the bottom side of the guide track device, and a form tracing device screwably disposed at the rear end of the cutter. The forms securing device positions a copy, and a tracing rod of the form tracing device urges against the tracing edge of the copy. The cutter slides in the cutter mounting device, which in turn slides in the guide track device. The cutter cuts the workpiece following the contour of the copy with the help of the tracing rod.

Abstract: A manually directed lathe tool system for removal of internally disposed material and creating a void inside a lathe turned form. As shown in FIG. 1, an articulated boring bar (32) of a tubular crosssection is slidably manipulated and supported by a plane surface (140) during a cutting action. To increase offset cutting ability several different lengths of a detachable and hinged arm assembly (40) are used. Arm assembly can be fixed or moved to three different positions relative to boring bar (FIG. 2) by manipulating a hand knob (36). A moveable and replaceable cutting tool (198) is held at the end of the arm assembly. A wall thickness caliper system (44) which ends in a tip (130) of some flexible material to allow operator appraisal of the internally disposed cutting tool's position.

Abstract: A shaft tapering device having a body block with a transverse borehole through which the shaft to be tapered is introduced. A recess in the top of the body block intersects the borehole, forming an aperture into which a cutting blade extends substantially tangential to the curvature of the borehole. A cradle attached to the body block includes a pair of parallel wing-like members spaced apart by spreaders at each end of the wings, which are pivotably mounted to the body block. Each wing has a notch formed in the upper edge thereof that is semicircular in the deepest part and on pivoting the wings the deepest part of the notches can be substantially aligned with the borehole.

Abstract: A guiding assembly is described for guiding a manually controlled cutting tool relative to a lathe axis. The guiding assembly includes a longitudinally extending tool rest (12) which can be fixed to a lathe by mounting spigots (17,18) and which is fixed to a longitudinally extending guide (13) along which a cutting tool mount (42) can freely slide. The cutting tool (27) slides freely within the mount (42). A follower (29) is attachable to the cutting tool to follow a template (16) mounted on the tool rest (12).

Abstract: A duplicating device for use on a wood lathe includes a baseplate for mounting behind a lathe on a table carrying the lathe, a mirror pivot ally mounted on the baseplate, and a template carrier on the baseplate between the mirror and the lathe. A template, e.g. a finished spindle is mounted on the carrier, and a blank is mounted in the lathe. By visually aligning the blank and template on a line perpendicular to the mirror, the blank can be turned to reproduce the template design accurately.

Abstract: A copy lathe is provided with template supports projecting from both head stock and tail stock which support a template above the bed, and clamp securing the the template to the support means, there being provided a tool holder having a follower guide thereon which extends vertically upwardly from a base, the toe of the base however extending forwardly beyond the follower guide and beneath the template, the tool holder having a tool locked thereinto with the cutting edge of the tool vertically above the follower.

Abstract: A duplicator attachment for a woodturning lathe which provides the same freedom and control of the cutting action as in normal, freehand, turning operations, and enables duplication of inside contours, and even bowls. The duplicator also enables the pattern to be supported on the same vertical center as the workpiece and above the workpiece, rather than below or to the side of the workpiece, thereby permitting the full swing of the lathe to be used. The duplicator attachment provides a carriage to bring the cutting tool and a tracer, respectively, against the workpiece and pattern. The carriage has three sections which provide for movement of the cutting tool and tracer longitudinally along the center line of the lathe, laterally perpendicular to the center line of the lathe, and rotationally about an axis mutually perpendicular to the directions of the lateral and longitudinal movements.

Abstract: A home workshop wood lathe mounted on a flat bed includes a pair of elongated members having horizontal surfaces which extend along opposite sides of and slightly above the lathe ways and are spaced to permit a tail stock to slide along the ways. Brackets for mounting a template or turned article to be duplicated are adjustable along the elongated members. A tool holder having a long flat base spanning the spaced horizontal surfaces is freely slidable thereon. An upstanding tool post near one end of the long base, a pair of upstanding follower pins spaced longitudinally on opposite sides of and closely adjacent the tool post, and a pair of handles arranged for selective attachment to the base on one side or the other of the tool post adapt the tool holder to axial or face plate turning operations and a conveniently detachable plate overlying the spaced horizontal surfaces provides a continuous surface when face plate turning.

Abstract: An upright box-like housing, having a forwardly open front, is supported by a base overlying a horizontal surface. A base mounted motor rotates an elongated candle blank within the housing about a vertical axis when interposed between a motor drive shaft supported spindlehead adjacent the bottom end wall of the housing and a tailstock journalled by the housing top end wall. A cutting tool guide and shavings shield, coextensive with the housing height, is pivotally supported at one side of the housing for movement toward and away from the vertical axis of the candle.

Abstract: A hand mobile wood turning tool for the craftsman or hobbyist having a versatile and readily adjustable cutter which when used with a corresponding lathe, work table, and optional tracer guide will provide a great deal of cutting variation and ease of pattern duplication with an optimum smooth cut of the stock wooden workpiece without tearing the wood. The preferred embodiment gives the tool operator complete and safe control of the tool along with a self-wiping base to preclude hopping of the tool or other interference with normal tool operations. The tool rests on a work table and is freely movable thereon in all directions.