Wood turning tool
OwnerJohn Sneed, Jr.inventor
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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.
Claims15
A hand-held tool for turning a workpiece in a lathe having associated therewith a platform positioned below said workpiece, comprising:
- a base member defining the front, rear, and sides of said tool;
- a handle located above said base member spaced approximately equidistant from the sides of the tool and extending substantially the length of said tool from the front to the rear thereof;
- a front support member projecting upwardly from said base at a point approximately equidistant from the sides of said tool fixedly secured to and supporting said handle;
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- cutting means including a cutting element secured to and removable from said front support member, whereby said cutting element will contact said workpiece when the tool is moved along said platform;
- said tool being characterized by the angle of said handle relative to said base being substantially equal to the angle at which said cutting means contacts said workpiece.
A hand-held tool for turning a workpiece in a lathe having associated therewith a platform positioned below said workpiece, comprising:
- a base member defining the front, rear, and sides of said tool;
- a handle located above said base member spaced approximately equidistantly from the sides of the tool and extending substantially the length of said tool from the front to the rear thereof;
- a front support member projecting upwardly from said base at a point approximately equidistant from the sides of said tool;
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- cutting means including a cutting element secured to said front support member so that said cutting element will contact said workpiece when the tool is moved along said platform, wherein said cutting element comprises an inverted triangular frustum having three different cutting edges comprising the three corners at the inverted base of said frustum.
A wood turning comprising:
- a base, having forward, rearward and side edges, and having a flat bottom surface;
- a handle integrally connected to said base, extending from the rearward edge forward atop said base, comprising forward and rearward supports and a hand grasp extending between and connected to said forward and rearward supports, the longitudinal axis of said hand grasp forming an acute angle relative to the plane of said base;
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- cutting means secured to the upper portion of said forward support so that said cutting means forms an acute angle relative to the plane of said base.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.