ACCESSORY MACHINES OR APPARATUS FOR WORKING WOOD OR SIMILAR MATERIALS

**Definition:** This place covers:

Accessory machines for working wood and similar materials such as plastic and "soft" metals (i.e. aluminium)

Machines or devices for removing knots or other irregularities or for filling up holes

Devices for removing bark-zones, chips, wood waste or dust specially designed or adapted for wood working machines or in wood-working plants

Machines or devices for making mitre joints with even abutting ends (a mitre joint, sometimes shortened to mitre, is a joint made by beveling each of two parts to be joined, often at a 45° angle, to form a corner, usually a 90° angle). The mitre joints can be made by sawing, planning, shearing or milling

Applying glue for joining wooden parts

Cutter blocks or other rotary cutting tools

Boring, turning or drilling tools; Augers (Wood augers are drills that have a screw to pull them into the wood, as a gimlet has, and a cutting lip that slices out the bottom of the hole. The auger bit also has cutting spurs to cut a clean circle deeper than where the lips scrape out the wood)

Manually operated tools for working wood, e.g. hand planes, scrapers, rasps

Safety guards or devices specially designed or adapted for wood saws

Safety guards or devices specially designed or adapted for other wood working machines

Auxiliary devices for facilitating proper operation of wood saws or other wood working machines

Gauging means specially adapted or designed for adjusting tools or guides for wood working machines, e.g. adjusting cutting blades in cutter blocks

Accessories or tools for applying, preparing or warming up glue, e.g. glue guns

Accessories for keeping open a saw kerf, e.g. riving knives, wedge plates

Measures preventing splintering of sawn portions of wood

Accessory machines include ground based or supported

**Limiting references (this place does not cover):** - Tools for grinding -> B24D - Sawing tools -> B27B33/00 - Tools for slotting or mortising machines -> B27F5/02 - Manufacture of wood shavings, chips, and powder -> B27L11/00

**Glossary:** - Auger: Wood augers are wood drills that have a screw to pull them into the wood, as a gimlet has, and a cutting lip that slices out the bottom of the hole. The auger bit (or drill) also has cutting spurs to cut a clean circle deeper than where the lips scrape out the wood - Gimlet: Hand tool for drilling small holes without splitting the wood - Cutter block: Block for mounting cutters - Mitre: Angled cut, commonly 45 degrees - Shearing: Cutting - Spokeshave: Tool used to shape and smooth wooden rods and shafts such as wheel spokes and chair legs by shaving off small amounts of wood - Kerf: The groove or slit created by cutting a workpiece; an incision; the width of the groove made while cutting - Apparatus: A category of subject matter which is a machine or device, described in terms of its functional capabilities or features, that is used to make a product, or to carry out a non-manufacturing process or activity.