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to interfere with the operator, or such portions of the machinery 

 as are actually in operation. 



The means by which this novel and desirable arrangement has 

 been so successfully effected, are in themselves extremely simple 

 and devoid of complication, and will be readily comprehended 

 and appreciated by the practical machinist, upon the most careless 

 inspection of the working model, to which attention is earnestly 

 requested. [•^ diploma awarded. 



View of Moulding Cutter Head and Plank, part cut and part wrought. 



SmiWs Moulding Machine. 

 H. B. Smith, Lowell, Mass. 



This machine is something new, and is designed for doing a 

 great variety of work, such as sticking sash, sticking mouldings of 

 any shape, raising panels, planing blind shades and rounding the 

 edges at the same time with tlie grain of the wood, grooving door 

 stiles, or rails, and jointing the edge at the same time, &c. It is 

 built entirely of iron and steel, the cutter shafts all cast steel, con- 

 sequently stands with more firmness than any wooden machine. 

 The frame is cast in a single piece, so that it must always remain 

 true, and the table is gibbed on to the frame, so as to be firm, and 

 moved up or down by a single screw, with crank. It is altered 

 without set screws to set up every time, thus saving time in ad- 

 justment. This machine is intended, if desired, to plane three 

 sides at a time, having three rotary cutter heads, one above the 

 table, like a sash machine, wiiich lays horizontal, and two upright 

 ones, by the sides of the table, which are so connected that one of 



