New or Improved Means for Outting Leather and other Materials into Strips.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 10th June, 1898
Complete Specification Left, 22nd Dec., 1898-Accepted, 25th Feb., 1899
New or Improved Means for Outting Leather and other Materials
into Strips.
We, CHARLES HILTON REYNOLDS and ALFRED WORMLRIGHTON, trading as
Reynolds and Wormleighton, of 35B, Welford Road, Leicester, Tool Makeis,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to new or improved means for cutting leather and
other materials into strips and is suitable, for instance, for cutting leather
for leather laces and other similar purposes.
The invention consists in making a cutter formed of a metal disc having
turned on one face or secured thereto a helically shaped cutter standing out from
the disc a distance suitable for the thickness of material it 18 required to cut
through With a cutter of this shape luces may be cut from leather scraps
and trimmed and finished in the ordinary manner Any suitable form of press
may be utilized with the plunger or the like linked or otherwise suitably con-
nected to the outside of the cutter disc
A fixed a may project from any
suitable art of the press and be provided with pins fixed therein, so arranged
as to eject the stups from the cutter after each cutting operation
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W. P. THOMPSON & Co,
322. High Holborn, London, W.C, Patent Agents for the Applicant.
New or Improved Means for Cutting Leather and other Materials
into Strips.
We, CHARLES HILTON REYNOLDS and ALFRED WORALEIGHTON, trading as
Reynolds and Wormleighton, of 35B, Welford Road, Leicester, Tool Makers,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same id
to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the follow-
ing statement,-
This invention relates to new or improved means for cutting leather and
other materials into strips and is suitable for instance for cutting leather
for luces and other similar purposes
The invention consists in making a flat cutter formed of a metal disc or discs
having turned on one face or secured thereto a cutting edge or knife of helical,
spiral, coil or other suitable shape, (capable of cutting a continuous length )

page_text: standing up from the said disc or discs a distance suitable for the thickness of
material it is requued to cut.
The invention will be more clearly understood by reference to the drawing
accompanying this specification, in which Figure 11s a plan and Figure 2 a
longitudinal section of a twin or dual cutter made in accordance with this
invention.
To utilize or work up as fully as possible small pieces of leather and other materials
two cutters A A' are turned or cut upon the faces B B of two preferably steel
discs CC which are afterwards hardened.
It will be seen most clearly in Figure 1 that the two largest points of the
cutters A A are so brought into connection with each other as to cut a stup
or length of leather or other material in one continuous length from the eye
or centre a of the cutter A to the eye on centie a of the cutter A¹
The two cutters A A' are fitted to each other along the line Y Z (see Fig 1)
and are mounted on a plate D of suitable shape and held in position thereon by
steady pins E passing upward from the said plate 1 through the holes E in
the discs CC and by the sciews F also passing upward from the plate 1)
To ensure there being a free end to the stup or length of leather or other
material so that it can be readily withdrawn from the cutter after each cutting
operation the screw F is centrally dulled to receive the plunger G having a
The said
pin Go equivalent at its centie to restrict its upward movement
plunger G 18 encueled by the sping H which 18 retained in its position in the
bore of the screw F¹ by the washeд or collar F2 duiven into the said bore
A dual or twin cutter as shown and described will cut material of narrow
lengths or pieces to greater advantage than a single cutter of the same circum-
ferential length having additional coils or spirals and consequently increased
diameter.
For cutting the leather or other material, the outter may be placed in any
of the well-known forms of cutting presses and the material to be cut placed
thereon and the press operated in the usual way.
Having now particularly descubed and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim 18-
1). A cutter for leather and other materials consisting of a cutting edge turned
or otherwise formed upon the face of a disc substantially as specified.
2). A twin or dual outter formed in the manner and for the purpose specified
and illustrated in the accompanying drawing,
3) The combination with a twin or dual cutter such as described of means for
releasing or ejecting one end of the stup or length of material out substantially
as specified and illustrated in the drawing.
4). The improvements in cutters consisting of the parts constructed arranged
and operating substantially in the manner described and illustrated in the accom-
panying drawing
CHARLES HILTON REYNOLDS.
ALFRED WORMLEIGHTON.
W. P. Thompson & Co.,
322, High Holborn, London, W.C., Patent Agents for the Applicants.