This document provides information about various machine tools:
- Shaper is used to produce flat surfaces and features a reciprocating ram with a single cutting tool. It can machine horizontal, vertical, and angled surfaces.
- Slotter is similar to a shaper but the tool is vertically reciprocating for machining vertical surfaces and cutting slots and grooves.
- Planer cuts flat surfaces using a tool that makes horizontal strokes across a workpiece held on a reciprocating table. Common types are double housing, open side, edge, divide table, and pit planers.
- The document describes the main parts, drive mechanisms, applications and differences between a shaper and planer.