BLANCHARD LATHE

add. ·- a kind of wood-turning lathe for making noncircular and irregular forms, as felloes, gun stocks, lasts, spokes, ·etc., after a given pattern. the pattern and work rotate on parallel spindles in the same direction with the same speed, and the work is shaped by a rapidly rotating cutter whose position is varied by the pattern acting as a cam upon a follower wheel traversing slowly along the pattern.