Mount Cutter for Cutting and Bevelling Mounts for Pictures or other purposes.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 27th Feb., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 27th Nov., 1893-Accepted, 13th Jan., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A Mount Cutter for Cutting and Bevelling Mounts for Pictures or
other purposes.
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THOMAS WILLIAM JOHN EVENDEN 109 Quentin Road Lee Lewisham S.E.
Commercial Traveller do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
A slab of iron, brass or any other material which may be faced with wood or
other suitable material to prevent injury to the mount. To this slab is a second
slab hinged. To the second slab a handle of convenient shape and size is fixed.
Through the handle an opening is made in which the knife or knives are passed
and fastened by means of a screw in the front. The handle may be fixed to the
first slab and the knife or knives fixed in the same manner.
Dated 27th day of February 1893.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A Mount Cutter for Outting and Bevelling Mounts for Pictures or
other purposes.
I, THOMAS WILLIAM JOHN EVENDEN, of No. 146 High Street, Lewisham,
(late of No. 109 Quentin Road, Lee) in the County of London, Traveller, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:
My invention relates to an apparatus for cutting mounts for pictures and the
like at a required bevel or otherwise.
In the annexed drawings Fig. 1 is a sectional elevation, and Fig. 2 is a plan of
the form in which I prefer to construct my invention.
My mount cutter consists preferably of an upper and lower part. The upper
part or plate A, which in plan is of the shape shown or of other convenient form,
is provided with a handle B which is slotted out or otherwise adapted to carry a
knife blade C, or any other part of the plate A may carry the knife blade, which
is suitably ground, either at an angle as shown or in any other convenient position.
The knife blade is adjustable, being held in position by the thumb-screw D or its
equivalent. The lower part or base plate E is preferably made with a recess F
into which the knife blade drops. This base plate E may be provided with a
facing of wood or the like G. The upper and the lower parts are hinged or other-
wise suitably secured together as at H, suitable means being disposed between the
two parts for the purpose of preventing the knife blade presenting a cutting edge
when not being operated. A strip spring I is shown in the drawings for this
purpose but a coiled or other spring may be used. When the upper part A is
closed it may be secured (preferably loosely) to the base plate E in any suitable
manner. A convenient method is to provide a slot K in the upper part A of such
size as to permit of the passage of a thumb-screw J therethrough which is then
turned cross-wise as shown.
When it is desired to cut a mount, the point of the knife blade is placed exactly
over the point from which the cut is to be started. The point of the knife blade
is pressed through the mount, the handle is firmly grasped and the cutter drawn

page_text: steadily along to the desired point. A rule or guide may be employed if
.desired.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is ;-
1. In an apparatus for cutting mounts, the handle B and plate A provided with
an adjustable knife blade substantially as set forth.
2. An apparatus for cutting mounts comprising an upper plate A carrying a
handle B provided with an adjustable knife blade C hinged to a base plate E
having an under facing G, the upper and lower plates being held loosely together
by a thumb-screw J or its equivalent and being thrust apart by the spring or its
equivalent sufficiently to protect the knife blade from presenting a cutting edge
when not in use substantially as set forth.
Dated this 27th day of November 1092
A. F. SPOONER,
124, Chancery Lane, W.C., Agent for the Applicant.