An Improvement in Guillotine Diagonal Cutting Machines.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 8th Feb., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 8th Nov., 1893-Accepted, 3rd Feb., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in Guillotine Diagonal Cutting Machines.
WILLIAM HOWARD Wholesale Manufacturing Stationer 83 Patshull Road
London N.W. in the County of Middlesex do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
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One of the principal difficulties in using diagonal cutting machines is that the
material being cut is frequently driven in the direction of the traverse of the
descending knife, thereby causing the material to be cut out of true.
have been made to deal with this difficulty by placing a "side guage
edge of the back table of the machine to which the knife traverses, thereby
necessitating placing the material to be cut on that edge, no matter how small the
material may be, in so doing, when the work is of small dimentions, there is a
tendency to strain the machine through the pressure being out of the centre, and
also a danger of the material being damaged by its coming in contact with the
lubricant used on those parts of the machine.
By my invention I claim that I have overcome the foregoing difficulty by the
following arrangements―
I first drill holes in the back table of the cutting machine in suitable
positions to admit of studs which are fitted to metal or other materials of oblong
form, which oblongs, can be placed in any of the drilled holes to suit the varying
dimentions of the materials to be cut. I also so drill the holes that the oblongs can
be placed with either the long or the shorter face to the material being cut, the
oblongs by these means can be used as "side guages" and through their being
secured in position by the studs they prevent the material being displaced by the
diagonal traverse of the descending knife.
Tth 9th day of February 1893.
WILLIAM HOWARD.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in Guillotine Diagonal Cutting Machines.
WILLIAM HOWARD Wholesale Manufacturing Stationer; 83 Patshull Road
Kentish Town London N.W. now The "Limes" South Benfleet, Essex 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 improvements in machinery for the cutting of paper or
material, viz. fabrics.
One of the principle difficulties hitherto experienced was that the material being
cut on guillotine diagonal cutting machines, was driven in the direction of the
traverse of the descending knife thereby causing the material being cut "out
of true.'
In my invention I insert a block figured A in elevation of oblong form (of metal)
by means of two or more studs, holes being drilled in the table of the guillotine
diagonal cutting machine, which oblongs can be placed in any desired position to
suit the varying dimensions of the material to be cut by having the holes drilled in
the table of the machine so arranged as to take the studs of the block in the position
required as shewn on plan of the table figured D.

page_text: By these means the oblong block can be used with either the long or the short
face to the material, and can also be used as a side gauge.
Through being secured in position by the studs, they prevent the material being
displaced by the diagonal traverse of the knife figured on plan C.
The platen is represented on plan by B.
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 side gauge in the form of an oblong block having studs in the bottom as
shewn on elevation figured A.
2. The drilling of holes in the bed of cutting machines to receive studs as shewn
on plan and marked D in any desired position of the side-gauge.
3. The drilling of several holes figured D on plan in the bed of cutting machines
-in such a manner that an oblong block with studs can be placed with either its long
or short face to the work to be cut by the knife figured C on plan.
Dated this Eighth day of November 1893.
WILLIAM HOWARD.