IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR CUTTING PAPER
Year: 1850

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JONATHAN
CHARLES GOODALL, of Great College Street, Camden Town, in the County of
Middlesex, Card Maker, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Fifth day of April,
One thousand eight hundred and fifty, in the thirteenth year of Her reign;
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Jonathan Charles Goodall, my exors, adñors, and assigns, Her
especial licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said
Jonathan Charles Goodall, my exors, adñors, and assigns, and such others
as I, the said Jonathan Charles Goodall, my exors, adiñors, or assigns,
should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all
times during the term of years thèrein expressed, should and lawfully might
make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of;
Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR
CUTTING PAPER;" in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso, that I,
the said Jonathan Charles Goodall, should cause a particular description
of the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, to be inrolled
in Her said Majesty's High Court of Chancery within six calendar months
next and immediately after the date of the said in part recited Letters. Patent,

page_text: My Invention consists of improvements in machinery for cutting paper.
And in order that my Invention may be most fully understood and readily
carried into effect, I will proceed to describe the same.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 is a side elevation of a machine having my improvements applied
thereto; Figure 2 is a longitudinal section; Figure 3, a front view; and
Figure 4, a plan of the machine.
a, a, is the framing of the machine, the nature of which is clearly shewn by
the Drawings.
Heretofore in constructing machinery for cutting paper it has been usual to
cause the knife or cutting edge to move through the paper which remains
stationary on a fixed and stationary table. Now, according to my Invention, the
knife or cutting edge is fixed, whilst the table on which the paper to be cut is
placed is moveable, by which a considerable improvement is obtained over those
machines wherein the knife or cutting edge is moveable.
bis the knife or cutting edge, which is fixed at the upper part of the
machine, as is shewn; c is the table, which is arranged so as to be moved up to
the knife or cutting edge b, and the paper to be cut is piled thereon, as is shewn
at d, against the plate e, which is moved to and fro as occasion may require by
means of the screw f, and the paper is pressed on in the following manner :-
g is a bar which is fixed at the upper ends of the rods h, h, and the bar g
rests on the paper and presses thereon, and the pressure produced thereby is
regulated by means of weighted levers i, i, as shewn. The table is raised up
to the cutter or knife by means of the cranked axis j, which is put in motion by
means of the handle k, which gives motion to the pinion 7, which takes into
and drives the cog wheel m. On the cranked axis n is a groove or recess in
the table, in which I place gutta percha, which I find to be the best material
for the cutting edge to enter. And I would state, that I prefer the front of the
cutting edge to be ground hollow, for which purpose I employ a stone about
three feet diameter, and place the cutting edge in a frame, which is caused to

page_text: move the cutting edge truly in contact with the stone; such hollow grinding
I prefer to the chisel edge, but do not confine myself thereto. I would remark
that, although I believe the means shewn for raising or moving the table to
the knife or cutting edge are the best for the purpose, I do not confine
myself thereto, as other means of moving the table may be resorted to
without departing from my Invention.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention, and the means of per-
forming the same, I would have it understood that I do not confine myself
to the details, nor do I claim the separate mechanical parts; but what
I claim is,
First, the arranging machinery for cutting paper in such manner that the
knife or cutting edge shall be fixed, and the table moved thereto.
Secondly, I claim the means of pressing paper on the table.
And, thirdly, I claim the application of gutta percha on the table for
receiving the cutting edge.
In witness whereof, I, the said Jonathan Charles Goodall, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-third day of September, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty.
JONATHAN CHARLES (L.S.) GOODALL.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-third day of Sep-
tember, in the year of our Lord 1850, the aforesaid Jonathan Charles Goodall
came before our said Lady the Queen in Her Chancery, and acknowledged
the Specification aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and
specified, in form above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was
stamped according to the tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Enrolled the Fifth day of October, in the year of our Lord One thousand