Ship planer
The ship's plane is a special type of plane that can be used to produce either concave or convex shapes. For this purpose, the sole of the plane is either concave or convex. These ship planes were made of wood and used in the machining of ships or barrels.
Adjustable ship plane
A special feature is the continuously adjustable metal ship's plane , which can be used to produce straight surfaces as well as concave or convex surfaces. On 6 August 1877, was Henry M. Clark for such adjustable metal planes Offenlegungsschrift filed. The patent was granted on September 25, 1877 with patent number US195480.
Until 1945, the manufacturer of this adjustable metal ship's plane in Germany was the Gustav Kunz company with headquarters in Fürstenwalde. Then the company moved to Hanover. The company Tresselt & Schlüter in Großbreitenbach in Thuringia continued the production of the Kunz planes from 1992.
Web links
- The tool museum
- Patent IMPROVEMENT IN CIRCULAR PLANES 195,480 (en, PDF; 222 KByte) from Google Patents accessed on September 25, 2014
Individual evidence
- ↑ Patent IMPROVEMENT IN CIRCULAR PLAN 195.480 to Google Patents ; (en) (PDF; 222 KByte) accessed on September 25, 2014