Router
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Operates routing machine with free moving head to cut excess
metal from nonprinting areas of electrotype, stereotype, and
photoengraved printing plates: Clamps pltae face onto routing
machine table.
Selects cutter bit and installs bit in chuck of
routnig spindle. Depresses pedal to start machine and moves hand
guides to control direction of rotating cutter bit along
outlines of design or letters set off by chemically darekned
etching. Depresses pedal to raise cutter bit to avoid cutting
printing areas of plate. Bevels edges of paltes to form nailing
surface for mounting plates to wood or synthetic blocks, using
router or beveling machine.
Mounts curved plates on saddle
deivce in order to cut metal from nonprinting areas. May mount
finished printing plates on wood, synthetic, or metal blocks to
raise them to printing height, by hand or using automatic
plate-mounting equipment [Blocker (print. & pub.) I].
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