New or Improved Cutting Device for use by Paper-hangers, with which may be Combined a Smoothing Roller, Brush, or the like.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd Nov., 1898-Accepted, 14th Jan.,
1899
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
New or Improved Cutting Device for use by Paper-hangers, with
which may be Combined a Smoothing Roller, Brush, or the like.
I, JAMES ARNOLD, of Springvale, near Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Decorator,
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 has for its object a device wherewith the ends of wall and like
paper may be cut after being placed in position, or otherwise, and with which may
be combined a measure and smoothing roller, or brush, or the like.
Such device I construct of an oblong strip or frame of wood, metal, or other
material, provided on one side with detachable or fixed handle of suitable form
and having formed on this side to which the handle is attached, a groove extending
from end to end and situated at a distance from the edge of the strip or frame
slightly in excess of the thickness of this latter.
With such frame I use a cutting knife in the form of a disc pivoted in a suit-
able handle and having a serrated cutting edge and of such thickness that it may
be caused to travel in the groove in the frame and so sever paper placed over said
groove in a direction corresponding to the latter.
A scale of measurement may be attached or otherwise provided on the surface
of the strip or frame near the groove, while a smoothing roller, brush, or the
like, may be provided along the opposite edge of said strip or frame to that near
which said groove is formed.
In order that my invention may be better understood I will further describe
the same with reference to the accompanying drawings, of which Fig. 1 is a front
view and Fig. 2 an end sectional view on line A, B, (Fig. 1) of the strip or frame,
and Fig. 3 a view of the circular cutting knife.
As shown in Figs. 1 and 2 the device consists of an oblong strip or frame a of
wood, metal, or other material, provided on its surface with a handle b secured
in position or detached by sliding its flattened end 62 under a plate b₁ attached
to the strip or frame.
In the same surface of the strip or frame a is formed a groove c extending
from end to end and situated at a distance from the edge of said strip or frame
slightly in excess of the thickness of the latter.
A scale of measurement is provided parallel to the groove, whilst along the
opposite edge of the strip or frame a to that near which this groove is formed,
is mounted a smoothing roller d in bearings e secured to the ends of the strip
or frame a or a brush or the like may be substituted therefor.
In connection with a strip or frame so constructed I employ a circular cutting
knife (Fig. 3) consisting of a disc f mounted to revolve in a suitable handle g
and provided with a serrated cutting edge.
In using a device constructed as above described to cut the end of a piece of
wall paper after this has been placed in position, the end of the paper is turned
back slightly and that edge of the strip or frame having the groove nearest it is

page_text: placed against the wall or part to which the paper is attached with the groove
facing the end of the paper and so that its edge lies against the point to which
the paper is to extend. The paper is then pressed over the groove and severed
by running the cutting knife (Fig. 3) along said groove.
The device may be used in other ways, according to the particular conditions
under which it is employed, but in all cases the paper is so arranged as to be
over the groove at the point at which it is to be severed.
The roller d is intended for smoothing the paper when in position, but a brush
or the like may be substituted for it when 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) A paper cutting device consisting of a strip or frame a with or without
a handle band having a groove c formed on its surface near one edge, together
with a cutting knife substantially as described and illustrated in the accompany-
ing drawings.
(2) The construction with a paper cutting device as above claimed of a roller
brush or the like substantially as described.
(3) In a paper cutting device as embraced in Claim 1, a scale of measurement
substantially as described and illustrated by Fig. 1 of the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 3rd day of November 1898.
CASTLE SMITH,
"Invention" Office, Mitre Court, Fleet Street, London, E.C.,
Agent for the Applicant.