Device for Stamping Out Cards and the like with Sloping Borders or Bevelled Edges.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 12th Oct., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 10th July, 1896-Accepted, 22nd Aug., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Device for Stamping Out Cards and the like with Sloping Borders
or Bevelled Edges.
I, ARTHUR FRIEDHEIM, Manufacturer, of 53 Holzmarktstrasse Berlin,
Prussia, German Empire, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:
Cards with bevelled edges for photographs and the like have been manufactured
hitherto by being first stamped out or cut out in the required size by means of
suitable machine, the bevelled edges being afterwards formed by scraping or
rubbing.
By means of the device forming the subject of this invention it is possible to
provide the cartoons or cards with bevelled edges directly in the stamping process.
This device may serve as a knife or cutter-head of a stamping apparatus or of
other suitable machine, or it may be actuated by hand by means of a lever,
hammer etc.
To the carriage or stamp moving up and down of the stamping device is fastened
a pressure plate or cutter head from which are suspended two or more movable
levers. These levers carry on their lower ends obliquely disposed cutters which,
when moving down, bevel off the edges of the cartoon plates or cards as they are
stamped out.
In order to obtain the oblique cut it is necessary for the cutters to be suspended
in a movable manner. When the cutter-head moves downward the cutters on the
levers remain in their normal position, until their edges meet the cartoon plates
and penetrate into them when the levers owing to the bevelling of the cutter-
edges on the inside, begin to move outward. By the simultaneous outward motion
of the edges of the cutters in combination with the penetration of the latter into
the cartoon plates a bevelled edge is produced on the cartoon which is
stamped out.
In a cutter head to produce rounded corners the cutter-supports are suspended
in a movable manner in the corners of a pressure plate and they carry round
cutters also obliquely arranged and producing in the stamping process exactly the
same bevelling as the above mentioned straight cutters.
Cards with rounded corners are manufactured in the following way;-
The four sides are first stamped out by means of the cutter head described above
provided with four straight cutters, the cartoon plates are then placed under the
cutter-head provided with round cutters, in the suitable position, whereupon the
round corners are stamped out.
For producing cards with sharp-edged corners, two cutter-heads are employed,
either of them having only two long straight cutters inserted obliquely into two
corresponding parallel levers, two longitudinal cuts are first made and then the two
transverse cuts.
The cutters serving to make the longitudinal cuts may be provided with notches,
into which engage the transverse cutters so that the edges are subdivided and the
longitudinal and transverse cuts are made simultaneously for several cartoons with
one cutter-head.
Instead of suspending the cutters in a movable manner, they may be arranged
also on carriages sliding on the lateral faces of a pyramid. The base of the

page_text: pyramid corresponds in this case to the desired size of the cartoon and the inclina-
tion of the carriage-guide on the lateral faces of the pyramid to the sloping of the
borders of the cartoon.
The pressure plate produces with its oblique wedge-shaped faces by its descent
the oblique downward notion of the cutters while the ascent is produced by means
of a spring.
In the case of two cuts a roof-like shaped prism will be sufficient.
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BOULT & WADE,
Agents for the Applicant.
Device for Stamping Out Cards and the like with Sloping Borders
or Bevelled Edges.
I, ARTHUR FRIEDHEIM, Manufacturer of 55 Holzmarktstrasse, Berlin,
Prussia, German Empire, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
Decertained in and by the following statement :-
Cards with bevelled edges have been manufactured hitherto by being first
stamped out or cut out in the required size by means of a suitable machine the
bevelled edges being afterwards formed by scmping or rubbing.
By means of the device forming the subject of this invention it is possible to
produce cards with bevelled edges directly by the stamping process.
The device may serve as a knife- or cutter-head of a stamping apparatus or of
other suitable machine, or it may be actuated by hand by means of a lever
hammer etc.
The accompanying drawing shows the device in side view and in plan view as a
cutter head for stamping machines. To the vertically reciprocating slide or stamp
of the stamping machine is fastened the pressure plate P from which are suspended
two or more movable levere, A, B, C, D (in the drawing there are shown, by way
of example, 4 levers). These levers carry, at their lower ends, obliquely disposed
cutters E F, which, when moving down, as may be easily seen from Figure 1,
in stomping out the cards, at the same time bevel the edges.
In order to obtain the oblique ent it is necessary that the cutter should be
suspended in a movable manner. When the antter head P moves downwarde, the
cutters E and F remain on the levers A and B in the position shown.
But as
soon as the edges of the cutters meet the cards and penetrate into them, the
levers A and B, owing to the bevalling of the cutter-edges begin to move outwards.
By the simultaneous outward motion of the edges of the cutters in combination
with the penetration of the latter into the cards an oblique border or bevelled
edge is produced on the card thus stamped out, as will be easily understood in
examination of the drawing.
The cutter head represented in Figures.7 and 8 serves to produce rounded
corners the cutter-supports of this head are suspended in a movable manner at
the corners of the pressure plate and carry rounded cutters also obliquely arranged
and producing in the stamping process exactly the same bevelling as the above
mentioned straight cutters.
Cards with rounded corners are manufactured in the following way; The 4 sides a, b,
c, d; as illustrated in Figure 9; are first stamped out, by means of the cutter
head shown in Figures 1 and 2 and provided with 4 straight cutters, the cards are
then placed in position under the cutter head (Figures 7 and 8) provided with
rounded cutters whereupou the round corners e, f, g, h, are stamped out; the
finished card falling out of the cartoon sheet baving the shape shown in Figure 10.

page_text: For producing cards with sharp-edged corners, two cutter-heads are employed,.
cach having only two long straight cutters inserted obliquely into two corresponding
parallel levers, the two longitudinal cuts a, a, are first made and then the two-
transverse cuts bb (see Figure 11).
The cutters serving to make the longitudinal cuts may be provided with notches
in which engage the transverse cutters, so that the edges are subdivided and the
longitudinal and transverse cuts are made simultaneously for several cards with
one cutter-head. Figure 12 represents such a cutter provided with notches by
means of which longitudinal cuts a a are made for several cards (see Figure 13).
In lieu of suspending the cutters in a movable manner they may be arranged.
also on carriages sliding on the lateral faces of a pyramid. The base of the
pyramid corresponds in this case to the desired size of the cartoon, and the inclina-
tion of the carriage-guide on the lateral faces of the pyramid to the bevelling of
the borders of the card (see Figures 3 and 4, where the same letters represent the
same parts as in the Figures 1 and 2). The pressure plate P produces with its
oblique wedge shaped faces by its descent the oblique downward motion of the
cutters E and F, which are suitably connected to the head P, while its ascent is
produced by means of a spring. In the case of two cuts a roof-like shaped prism
will be sufficient (see Figures 5 & 6).
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said.
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is,
1. A device for stamping out cards and the like with bevelled edges,.
characterised by a reciprocating movable cutter head such as P provided with
cutters such as E F suspended by levers such as A B C D and having inwardly
sloping edges so that, when the cutter head moves downward the cutters, together
with the levers, move outward as soon as the edges of the cutters meet the card,
thus producing, owing to the position of the cutting edges, a bevelled edge
substantially as set forth and shown in the accompanying drawings.
2. A modified construction of the device characterized in Claim 1, consisting in.
substituting for the cutters suspended in a movable manner, cutters carried in
carriages or guides arranged on the oblique faces of pyramids or prisms substantially
as set forth.
Dated this 10th day of July 1896.
BOULT & WADE,
Agents for the Applicant.