Improvements in Means or Instruments for Cutting or Separating Coupons or other like Articles from the Bond or Sheet with which they are Connected.
Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 27th May, 1886.
Complete Left, 12th Feb., 1887.
Complete Accepted, 1st Apr., 1887.
Improvements in Means or Instruments for Cutting or Separating
Coupons or other like Articles from the Bond or Sheet with
which they are Connected.
We DAVID GESTETNER of 9 Chequer Alley, Bunhill Row in the County of Middlesex
Manufacturer, and WALTER BINNS of Lavender Lodge, Lavender Hill in the County
of Surrey, Manager do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
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The invention has for its object the production of novel means or instruments to be
used in lieu of ordinary scissors for facilitating the cutting or separating of coupons
or other like articles from the bond or sheet with which they are connected.
For this purpose we employ according to one arrangement a pair of cutters con-
nected together by a joint upon which they are capable of working in a similar manner
to a pair of scissors.
The blades of these cutters are each formed in the shape of two sides of a rectangle
and have their cutting edges so formed and arranged that they shall first cut along one
side of the coupon and then along the other with a draw cut in a similar manner to the
action of a pair of common scissors in cutting from end to end of the cutting blades.
In some cases we apply a box or receptacle to the lower blade to receive and retain
the coupons or other like articles as they are cut from the sheet.
The said means or instruments are provided with suitable lever handles by which
they are operated.
In some cases we form the said means or instruments with cutting edges connected
together so as to form three sides of a rectangle, in this case the cross cutting edges
act together in parallel lines, this latter modification may also be provided with a box
or receptacle and with lever handles by which the cutting edges may be operated in a
similar manner to a pair of scissors, but in some cases the lower cutters may be fixed
on or supported by a table whilst the upper cutter may be operated by a lever handle
or it may be forced down by pressure applied thereto in any convenient way, a spring
being employed to raise the same after each action.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Means or Instruments for Cutting or Separating
Coupons or other like Articles from the Bond or Sheet with
which they are Connected.
We, DAVID GESTETNER of 9 Chequer Alley Bunhill Row, in the County of Middlesex,
Manufacturer, and WALTER BINNS of Lavender Lodge, Lavender Hill in the County
of Surrey, Manager, 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 :-
The invention has for its object the production of novel means or instruments to be
used in lien of ordinary scissors for facilitating the cutting or separating of coupons or
other like articles from the bond or sheet with which they are connected.
For this purpose we employ according to one arrangement a pair of cutters connected
together by a joint upon which they are capable of working in a similar manner to a
pair of scissors. The blades of these cutters are each formed in the shape of two sides
of a rectangular figure and have their cutting edges so formed and arranged that they
shall first cut along one side of the coupon and then along the other with a draw cut in
a similar manner to the action of a pair of common scissors in cutting from end to end
of the cutting blades. In some cases we apply a box or receptacle to the lower blade
to receive and retain the coupons or other like articles as they are cut from the sheet.
The said means or instruments are provided with suitable lever handles by which they
are operated.
In some cases we form the said means or instruments with cutting edges connected
together so as to form three sides of a rectangular figure, in this case the cross cutting
edges may act together in parallel lines this latter modification may also be provided
with a box or receptacle and with lever handles by which the cutting edges may be
operated in a similar manner to a pair of scissors, but in some cases the lower cutters
may be fixed on or supported by a table whilst the upper cutter may be operated by a
lever handle or it may be forced down by pressure applied thereto in any other
convenient way, a spring being employed to raise the same after each action.
And in order that our said invention may be more clearly understood and readily
carried into effect we will proceed aided by the accompanying drawings more fully to
describe the same.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 is longitudinal elevation. Figure 2 is a plan, and Figure 3 is an end view
of one form of an instrument constructed according to our invention somewhat in the
shape of a pair of scissors showing the jaws thereof slightly open: Figure 4 is a plan
and Figures 5 and 6 are opposite side views of a modification of the above showing the
jaws of the instrument slightly open. Figure 7 is a side view partly in section.
Figure S is an end view partly in section and Figure 9 is a plan of another modification
in which the instrument is mounted on a suitable base or stand.

page_text: In all the figures like parts are indicated by similar letters of reference.
In the form of instrument shown at Figures 1, 2, and 3 we employ a pair of
cutters a, b, connected together by a joint c upon which they are capable of working in
a similar manner to a pair of scissors. The blades of these cutters are each formed in the
shape of two sides of a rectangular figure and have their cutting edges a², a², b¹, b², so
formed and arranged that the edges a, b, shall first cut along one side of the coupon
or other article and then the edges a², 62, shall cut along the other, both pairs of cutting
edges acting with a draw cut in a similar manner to the action of a pair of scissors in
cutting from end to end of the cutting blades. In some cases we apply a box or
receptacle d, shown by the dotted lines, to the lower blade a to receive and retain the
coupons or other like articles as they are cut from the sheet. The said means or
instruments are provided with lever handles e, f by which they are operated.
In some cases as shown at Figures 4, 5 and 6 we form the said instruments with
cutting edges a, a³, a³, b¹, b², b³, connected together so as to form three sides of a
rectangular figure, in this case the cross cutting edges a², 62, may be so formed as to
act together in parallel lines that is to say without a draw cut or all the pairs of cutting
edges a, b, a², b², a³, b³ may as shown be so formed as to produce a draw cut along
each side. This latter modification may also be provided with a box or receptacle
and with lever handles e, f as shown by which they may be operated in a similar manner
to a pair of scissors but as shown at figures 7, 8 and 9, we in some cases fix the lower
cutters a², a², a³ on a table g whilst the upper cutters 6, 62, 63 may be operated by a
lever handle as shown in which case the blade b is mounted on a stud or axish carried
by a standard in order to guide the said cutters 61, 62, 63 in their motion towards or
from the cutters a¹, a², a³ or the cutters 1, 2, may be guided and forced down by
pressure applied thereto in any other convenient way, a spring j is employed to raise
the cutters 61, 62, 63 after each action.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we claim is :-
The improved means or instruments for cutting or separating coupons or other like
articles from the bond or slect with which they are connected substantially as herein
shown and described.
DAVID GESTETNER.
WALTER BINNS.
By Harris & Mills,
23, Southampton Buildings,
Agents.