Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 November 1901 — Lightning Wood-Carving Machine. [ARTICLE]

Lightning Wood-Carving Machine.

Complete plans for a remarkable machine for turning out Intricate carved moldings are shown in a recent issue of London Engineering. This machine is capable of working on moldings up to eight inches wide and three inches thick. The machine is claimed to be very rapid In action, a bold egg and tongue molding two and one-half inches thick being finished at the rate of twenty feet a minute, while with smaller molding double this phenomenal rate of production is attained. Any description of wood can be worked. This machine, it is claimed, will do the work “of more than 2,000 hand carvers, and the moldings are so perfectly finished by the machine that they do not require to be touched by hand.”