Pail-lathe.
One in which buckets are turned on the outer and inner sides and the ends trued, dressed, and the croze made. The lathe shown in Fig. 3484 has two portions, a and b. The staves for a pail being assembled and held by a truss-hoop, the pail is placed on the chuck a, while the outside is turned off smooth and one end dressed, the hoop being shifted once so as to reach the whole surface. The pail thus dressed on the outside and one end is then stuck into the hollow chuck b, which holds it while the inside is turned smooth and the other end shaped and dressed. Operating on each end of head a are circular saws, whose distance apart is equal to the hight of the pail, and these act simultaneously, to saw off the ends.Fay's pail-lathe. |