An Improved Hand Cutting Tool for Wall or other Papers or for Textile Fabrics.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 13th May, 1892
Complete Specification Left, 13th Feb., 1893-Accepted, 18th Mar., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Hand Cutting Tool for Wall or other Papers or for
Textile Fabrics.
I, WILLIAM ALLEN of 16 High Street, Barnstaple in the County of Devon,
Painter and Glazier do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention for an improved hand cutting tool for wall or other papers or for
textile fabrics has for its object to provide a cutter which can be manipulated with
facility and accuracy, but which is more especially applicable for cutting materials
in a straight line, or approximately so, such (for example) as trimming the edges
of wall paper, textile fabrics and the like.
In a cutting tool constructed according to this invention a rotary cutter mounted
on a spindle working in suitable bearings is set with its cutting edge against the
cutting edge of a shear arm whose underside forms a sliding shoe, so that in the
operation of cutting, the material cut passes between the said rotary cutter and
shear arm.
The rotary cutter is driven by chain or other suitable gear from a drum or roller
which is caused to rotate by contact with the cutting table on the passage of the
apparatus along it. Instead of the driving drum or roller described above I
sometimes employ suitable spring mechanism.
Dated this 12th day of May 1892.
WHEATLEY & MACKENZIE,
40, Chancery Lane, W.C., Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Hand Cutting Tool for Wall or other Papers or for
Textile Fabrics.
I, WILLIAM ALLEN of 16 High Street Barnstaple in the County of Devon,
Painter and Glazier 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 :-
This invention for an improved hand cutting tool for wall or other papers or for
textile fabrics has for its object to provide a cutter which can be manipulated with
facility and accuracy, but which is more especially applicable for cutting materials
in a straight line, or approximately so, such (for example) as trimming the edges
of wall paper, textile fabrics and the like; and consists essentially of a rotary
cutter driven from a rolling or spring drum through chain or other suitable gearing
and working against a shear arm which, with the said drum, runs on the table or
other support, while the paper or other material to be cut passes between the cutter
and shear arm.
In the accompanying sheet of illustrative drawings :-
Figure 1 is a side elevation of a cutting tool constructed according to this inven
tion and Figure 2 is a plan of the same.
A rotary cutter a mounted between two discs of india rubber on a spindle c
working in suitable bearings d in the frame e is set with its cutting serrated edge
against the cutting edge of a shear arm or shoe f secured to the frame e by screws g
as shown. A roller h mounted on the spindle i working in the frame e is connected
to the pulley or wheel mounted on the spindle c by a chain m, so that as the

page_text: apparatus is traversed along the table or other support a rotary motion is com-
municated from the roller to the cutter a.
In using this tool the handle n is grasped by the hand of the operator, and the
end of the material to be cut is placed between the cutter a and the shoe f. The
roller and shoe is then pressed firmly on the table or other surface and the
apparatus traversed along it in the direction required.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and the manner in which the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. In a hand cutting tool for wall or other papers, or for textile fabrics; a rotary
cutter working in conjunction with a shear arm driven from a roller substantially
as described.
2. The combination of a rotary cutter a discs b pulley 1 drum h and shear arm
or shoef, substantially as described and for the purpose specified.
3. The combination of parts constituting my improved hand cutting tool for wall
or other papers or for textile fabrics, the whole arranged, constructed and operating
substantially as described with reference to the drawings hereunto annexed.
Dated this 13th day of February 1893.
WHEATLEY & MACKENZIE,
40, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents.