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TOUPILLEUSE [1 record]

Record 1 1990-01-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Finish Carpentry
  • Finish Carpentry (Wood Industries)
DEF

a machine with a rapidly revolving vertical spindle and cutter for milling out the surface of wood or metal (as in woodworking or photoengraving).

OBS

"Spindle moulding machine" and "vertical spindle machine" refer to shapers as well as to routers. Routers differ from shapers in that they are portable or placed in a housing above the table with the bit directed downward. They could also be placed within a table upside down and serve as shapers.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Menuiserie
  • Menuiserie (Industr. du bois)
CONT

Une toupie est constituée par un axe vertical tournant à grande vitesse entre deux paliers, et dont l'extrémité supérieure, susceptible d'être munie d'outils variés, émerge au-dessus d'une table horizontale.

DEF

Machine pour le travail du bois, avec laquelle on exécute les moulures et les entailles les plus variées.

Spanish

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