The Bilgram gear cutter, and the Fellows’ gear shaper which turns out plain gear, exert a to and fro planing action.
Bramah, in 1811, employed a revolving cutter to plane iron, adapting to metal the familiar mechanism for planing wood.
The corner of a block of wood is very often chamfered, when planing end-wood, to prevent the wood from splintering.
When you find a piece of wood with this kind of uncertain grain, you will probably have to change the direction of yourplaning a number of times before finishing the surface, in order to plane with the grain.
There is a right way and a wrong way in planing this, just as there are two ways of stroking a cat's back, one smoothing the surface, while the other roughens it.
In planing end-wood, you will have trouble in preventing the corners of the piece from splitting off unless it is placed in the vise in front of another block of wood, the planing being done toward the block.
Figure 29 shows a form of chamfer used inplaning end-wood.
A four-foot hickory or ash bar can be bought from a dealer in sporting goods for about a dollar and a half, but it will cost much less to have a bar turned to the right shape and size at a planing mill.
A Bench-stop= of some sort fastened to the top of the bench will be found useful to push work against while planing it, when it is not convenient to use the vise.
After planing them smooth on all sides, measure off two feet from one end of each, and mark off the remaining six feet in inches, as shown in Fig.
The ploughshare was at work under themplaning the stubble and filling the breeze with the scent of the earth.
They swept through the channel, the ice at its edges barking willow branches and planing the shore, large plates were forced up high and dry.
A brief personal notice of this remarkable inventor will serve to show under what circumstances the planing machine originated.
In 1779 he was ordered by the government to examine into the progress of shipbuilding in Northern Europe, and in carrying out this commission he repaired to Russia, where he invented the first machine for planing wood.
The first man to employ power in the operation of smoothing the surface of wood was Sir Samuel Bentham, of London, England, and to him belongs the honor of having discovered the principle upon which all planing machines operate.
One who, or that which, planes; a planing machine; esp.
A complex machine for planing wood, especially boards, containing usually a rapidly revolving cutter, which chips off the surface in small shavings as the piece to be planed is passed under it by feeding apparatus.
After cutting off the tongues, they require planing with nicety to fit the grooves, and the advantage of a grooved board (Fig.
Move the plane backwards and forwards in the usual manner, beginning the cut at the end of the board nearest to the vice jaws (the front), and proceed with the planing until the depth stop is in contact with the wood.
The result will be the same if it is necessary to remove a shaving or two whenplaning or levelling up the face of the frame.
The glued joint is made by planing two pieces of timber so that when placed together they are in contact with each other at every point; they are then usually united with glue.
A small block of wood is inserted to act as a stop whilst theplaning operation is in progress.
A planing machine with a reversing tool, to plane both ways.
Then proceed to the first exercise in Obstacle Planing (No.
After gauging andplaning the supports to depth as Fig.
Any defect in that respect must be remedied by carefully and judiciously planing; but the perfection of work is when no such planing is necessary.
Of course the planing cannot be continued into the corners, but, whatever is left by the plane must be got out by the chisel and file.
By planing the ends and the width before the thickness is planed, a dressed face is secured all around for gaging the thickness.
In ripping a board, allowance should always be made for planing to the line afterward.
It is important to know what is the best order of procedure in planing up a board.
If the plane tear the wood instead of cutting it smooth, as it should, it is because the planing is "against the grain".
In end planing in the vise, in order to avoid splintering the precaution should be taken to trim off a corner on the undressed edge, as directed on page 73, or else the planing must be done from both edges toward the center.
In planing a very cross-grained piece of wood, there are several methods to use for securing a smooth surface.
After properly planing one edge of each board, keep one board in the vise, jointed edge up, and place its to-be neighbor in position upon it.
In planing the edge of a board it is ordinarily held in the side-vise.
The advantages of this order are these: by planing the working face first, a broad surface is secured to which the others may be made true.
That this sliding action is easier than the straight pressure can easily be proved with a penknife on thin wood, or by planing with the plane held at an angle to, rather than in line with, the direction of the planing motion.
There are often reasons for omitting the planing up of one or more surfaces, but it is wise to form the habit of following a regular order, and the following is suggested as a good one: 1.
The block-plane was devised for use with one hand, as when it is used by carpenters in planing pieces not readily taken to a vise or in planing with a bench-hook.
He has just completed the planing sweep and is halfway up.
Note the planing angle of his paddle blade as he prepares for the next step, the planing sweep of the blade across the surface.
At last she found some real oak rails, and set to work upon them at once, planing with her sharp shear-jaws.
The extensive varieties of plane iron in use are fitted for every requirement; a very ingenious arrangement is applied to the tools for planing the insides of circles or other curved works, such as stair-rails, etc.
Planing and other machinery applied to working of timber.
They will also have explained to them the construction of reverberatory and cupola furnaces, of steam engines, and of turning lathes, and planing benches.
Recognising the boy's aptitude, he had in holiday seasons set Tony behind the machines in his planing mill, determined for his father's sake to make of him a mechanical engineer.
Well, I may say to you, what Wickes knows and has known and has tried for three months to hide from me and from himself, Tony has made about as complete a mess of the organization under his care in the planing mill as can be imagined.
I have accepted the position of manager of the planing mill and I understand that this makes it necessary that I resign as a member of this union.
I am the new manager of the planing mill and I have given Tony a job.
At Jack's request Tony had been given the position of a Junior Foreman in one of the planing mill departments, with the promise of advancement.
The planingmill was in a state of chaotic disorganization.
The whole afternoon was given to this work, and before the day was done, Jack had in his mind a complete picture of the planing mill, with every machine in place and an estimate, more or less exact, of the capacity of every machine.
I am not satisfied with the inside arrangement of our planing mill.
Next morning at seven they were down at the planing mill where men were doing men's work.
So saying he procured the plane; and with his old silk handkerchief first dusting the bench, vigorously set to planing away at my bed, the while grinning like an ape.
The landlord was near spraining his wrist, and I told him for heaven's sake to quit--the bed was soft enough to suit me, and I did not know how all the planing in the world could make eider down of a pine plank.
Planing off superfluous metal from the back of the electrotype.
Used for planing the bottom of the wood base so that the mounted electrotype is of printing press requirements, i.
It may be claimed, in fact, I have seen lathes resting on six and eight feet, engines on ten, and a planing machine on a dozen.
But in other machines built in the form of planing machines, in which the head is traversed while cutting, as is the case with the profiling machine, the planer head form is not right.
The lathe, the planing machine, the drilling machine, and many others of the now standard machine tools will never be superseded, and will for a long time to come remain subjects of alteration and attempted improvement in every detail.
Is it necessary even in a planing machine of forty feet length of bed and a thirty foot table?
A kind of drawing knife or planing tool for dressing the spokes of wheels, the shells of blocks, and other curved work.
She came round the table to watch Sister Mary John planing it, and was very sorry when the nun's plane was gapped by a nail which had been forgotten.
Here I'm having a first rate time for myself, swimming and planing along the Riviera, with two more weeks leave ahead of me--and I get a call from the Old Man to report to you.
The tiny sun had leaped up over Jupiter's horizon; and with its appearance they had sent the ship planing toward their mysterious destination.
To the practical woodworker the figure in mahogany causes some difficulty in planing the wood to a smooth surface; some portions plane smooth, others are the "wrong way of the grain.
The cartridge is similar to that of the other jets, except in regard to its length, and the necessity of pasting it strongly, and planing it well; but it is charged in a different manner.
The polishing rubbers are coarse linen cloths, or bagging, wedged tight into an iron planing tool.
The stock can be bought of any planing mill planed, sanded and cut to the proper lengths.
When boards are planed at the mill the planing is done by means of two or four knives revolving above or below the board--sometimes both above and below at the same time.
If the workman desires to have a complete home-made article, allowance must be made in the dimensions for planing and squaring the pieces.
The material should be either oak or chestnut, which can be secured from the planing mill dressed and sandpapered ready to cut the tenons and mortises.
It was found that the planing equipment at the arsenal was not sufficient to handle the work, and therefore a great deal of the rough planing was done by subcontractors.
Both bed and table being planed they require to be fitted together (no matter how expertly the planing has been done) if a really first-class job is to be made of them.
The cutting tool used on a wood-planing or wood-splitting machine.
A machine in which the work is fed to a revolving shaft or head carrying long planing knives.
Lloyds' test is a copy of the Admiralty test, and in the Admiralty Circular it is stated that the strips are to be one and a half inches wide, cut in a planing machine with the sharp edges taken off.
On large planing machines chucks are rarely used, on account of the work being too large to be held in a chuck.
A metal-cutting machine in which the ram or slide carrying the tool is moved after the manner of a planing machine.
The method to be pursued in planing the brasses is an important consideration.
The ends of B B may be blackleaded, so as to show plainly if the plane blade happens to shave them, and hence to prevent planing B B with the teeth.
English planing machines to drive the work table and to give it a quick return motion.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "planing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
