OF AVOOD-WORKUSTGr MACHINERY.

17

Improved Iron-Frame Daniels or Traverse Planing Machine.

Has Carriage Feed, and Planes in "both Directions.

The machine illustrated herewith is identical in operation, and the char-acter of the work produced is the same as, that described on the preceding pages,except that the details of construction are materially different, although em-bodying the same in principle. It is constructed entirely of iron and steelexcepting the face of the table, which is of yellow pine. Being especially strong,is adapted to the purposes of railway, bridge, and car-builders, millwrights,carriage and cabinet manufacturers, where lumber or timber is to be taken out°f wind or reduced to square dimensions.

The sides of the machine are cast in sections according to the length ofMachine wanted. The ways upon which the table moves are cast with theSl( les, and planed to fit the slides of the table, which are continuous, and forma perfect bearing at all points. The supports for the cutter-head and spindleate constructed in a very rigid manner.

The levers for starting, reversing, or stopping the motion of the table, witht he hand-wheel for raising and lowering the cutters, are all within easy reach°f the operator, and the table can be moved by means of a hand-wheel whenthe machine is not in operation.

The improved feed-works has three changes of feed, admitting of planing"hile the table moves in either direction.

The rack being under the table, and its pinion vertical, there is no danger°t lodgment of shavings, nor tendency to raise the table by the force requiredto move it. •

The main driving belt is not a quarter-twist. The countershaft is attachedover the machine to the building and parallel to the main shaft, thus givinga straight belt, and the driving belt for the cutter-head acting at a right anglet° the countershaft. By this means the old vertical countershafts are entirelyavoided, with all the annoyance of quarter-twist belts and the tendency of the*hain belt to draw the machine out of line.

The clamp for holding the timber is strong, simple, and perfect in its work-lrLg l ail d nothing is omitted to make this machine unsurpassed for the purposesf ° r ' w 'hicli it is designed.

The tight and loose pulleys on the countershaft are 12 "x 5 ", and should^ake 45o revolutions.