Candle lathe
OwnerW. Frank Farisinventor
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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.
Claims7
A candle lathe, comprising:
- an upright box-like housing having an open front and having a bottom end wall forming a horizontal platform;
- base means underlying said platform for supporting said housing;
- a motor having a vertically disposed drive shaft supported by said base means;
- spindlehead means overlying said platform and coaxially connected with said drive shaft through said platform for rotatably supporting a vertically disposed candle;
- tailstock means supported by said housing in vertically spaced coaxial alignment with said spindlehead means for maintaining a candle concentric with said spindlehead;
- and,
- vertically elongated cutting tool guide and shield means pivotally supported by said platform for movement toward and away from the axis of said candle.
The method of forming duplicate candle configurations, comprising:
- placing a first cylindrical candle between the spindlehead and tailstock of a lathe;
- turning said first candle to form a desired exterior configuration on said first candle;
- placing a panel adjacent and parallel with the axis of said first candle;
- placing a light source adjacent said first candle diametrically opposite said panel;
- energizing said light source for casting a shadow image on said panel;
- tracing the outline of said first candle shadow image on said panel;
- replacing said first candle with a second cylindrical candle;
- and,
- turning said second candle while maintaining said light source energized until the shadow image of said second candle coincides with the traced shadow image of said first candle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.