Abstract:
Devices, kits, and methods for making a carved crayon are provided. In one aspect, a crayon carving device includes a base, a pantograph armature coupled to the base, a crayon positioner, and at least one guide template parallel to the crayon positioner. The pantograph armature includes a motorized drive shaft with a drill tip for carving an outside surface of a crayon body, as well as a guide tip for tracing along a guide template that directs where the drill tip carves. In some embodiments, the guide template includes a stationary bridge support and a plurality of removable carving bucks that insert into one of multiple openings on the bridge support. The surface features of each of the carving bucks may be traced by the guide tip to generate a corresponding carving on the surface of a crayon body.
Abstract:
A universal cylinder mount for mounting a at least one of a plurality of cylinders between a headstock and a tailstock of an engraver. Each of the cylinders have a mounting aperture at each end adapted to receive a universal cylinder mount associated with each of the headstock and tailstock. The universal cylinder mount is adapted to accommodate a plurality of mounting apertures formed with different sizes and having various sloped walls for facilitating alignment and frictional gripping engagement of the cylinders.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus for automated loading and unloading of a cylinder in an engraver. The method and apparatus permit the engraver to accommodate cylinders of differing geometries, including a range of lengths, diameters and mounting configurations. The engraver includes a headstock and a tailstock which cooperate to rotatably support a cylinder at an engraving station in the engraver. The engraver includes a cylinder handling system having at least one cylinder supporting the cylinder between the headstock and the tailstock during the loading and unloading of the cylinder. The cylinder handling system includes a driver for driving the cylinder support towards and away from the engraving station until the headstock and the tailstock engage and rotatably support the cylinder. Once the cylinder is rotatably supported between the headstock and the tailstock, then the cylinder support is retracted. The cylinder support includes a telescoping support member having a support nest for engaging and supporting the cylinder at the engraving station.
Abstract:
A rolling mill is rotated while microscopic dents with peripheral ridges are formed by an intermittent laser beam in the presence of a gas jet directed at the beam impact zone. The output and the angle of incidence of the gas jet are controlled and microscopic dents are formed with a ridge on only part of their periphery. Steel sheet cold-rolled by means of such a roll has uniformly distributed hollows, each hollow partially surrounding an elevation.
Abstract:
Tools for transforming cans into parts for art and toys. You lock a can into a tube having openings that indicate locations to poke, cut, mark or slot the can, and this physically supports the can and guides the user's tools. Another tool with a flat, tearing area makes dual cuts on both of its sides simultaneously as it rips material away in a strip, leaving rolled edges behind along the cut that are safer and desirably rigid. Another tool can variably position the can in the tube. Finally, metal panels produced by the tube and can are passed through the roller tools' curved, internal cavities, thereby producing useful metal “carpet rolls.”
Abstract:
Devices, kits, and methods for making a carved crayon are provided. In one aspect, a crayon carving device includes a base, a pantograph armature coupled to the base, a crayon positioner, and at least one guide template parallel to the crayon positioner. The pantograph armature includes a motorized drive shaft with a drill tip for carving an outside surface of a crayon body, as well as a guide tip for tracing along a guide template that directs where the drill tip carves. In some embodiments, the guide template includes a stationary bridge support and a plurality of removable carving bucks that insert into one of multiple openings on the bridge support. The surface features of each of the carving bucks may be traced by the guide tip to generate a corresponding carving on the surface of a crayon body.
Abstract:
The present invention discloses an improved vehicle wheel rolling carving device, consisting of a left impressing system, a right impressing system, a lower synchronous clamping driving system, a left support system, a right support system, an upper synchronous clamping driving system and the like. The lower synchronous clamping driving system enables a vehicle wheel to rotate under the clamped state, the left support system moves towards the right, the right support system moves towards the left and thus left and right support rolls contact the rotating vehicle wheel; meanwhile, the upper synchronous clamping driving system enables two shafts II and two shafts III to clamp the wheel and apply auxiliary clamping forces to drive the vehicle wheel to rotate; and after the left and the right impressing system rise to different heights, impression carving can be performed on different positions of a back cavity of the vehicle wheel.