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2. Paper cutter - Wikipedia

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   A paper cutter 1820s old style paper cutter A safety (rotary) paper cutter Large format paper cutter Small format paper cutter, part of the Museum Europäischer Kulturen, Berlin, Germany. A paper cutter, also known as a paper guillotine or simply a guillotine, is a tool often found in offices and classrooms. It is designed to administer ...

3. Guillotine cutting - Wikipedia

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   Guillotine cutting is the process of producing small rectangular items of fixed dimensions from a given large rectangular sheet, using only guillotine-cuts. A guillotine-cut (also called an edge-to-edge cut ) is a straight bisecting line going from one edge of an existing rectangle to the opposite edge, similarly to a paper guillotine .

4. Shear (sheet metal) - Wikipedia

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   The upper and lower blades are the piece of machinery that actually do the cutting, while the gauging device is used to ensure that the workpiece gets worked where it is supposed to be. Close-up of upper blade, lower blade, backgauge and work-holding device of a Gasparini guillotine shear. The design of press tools is an engineering compromise.

5. Guillotine - Wikipedia

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   The guillotine used in Luxembourg between 1789 and 1821. A guillotine (/ ˈ ɡ ɪ l ə t iː n / GHIL-ə-teen / ˌ ɡ ɪ l ə ˈ t iː n / GHIL-ə-TEEN / ˈ ɡ i j ə t i n / GHEE-yə-teen) [1] is an apparatus designed for efficiently carrying out executions by beheading. The device consists of a tall, upright frame with a weighted and angled ...

6. Board shear - Wikipedia

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   Used extensively in bookbinding, a board shear is a large, hand-operated machine for cutting board or paper. Like scissors, a board shear uses two blades to apply shear stress exceeding the paper's shear strength in order to cut. The stationary blade forms the edge of the cutting table, with the moving blade mounted on a cutting arm.

7. Joseph-Ignace Guillotin - Wikipedia

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   Proposing a painless method for executions, inspiring the guillotine Joseph-Ignace Guillotin ( French: [ʒozɛf iɲas ɡijɔtɛ̃] ; 28 May 1738 – 26 March 1814) was a French physician , politician , and freemason who proposed on 10 October 1789 the use of a device to carry out executions in France , as a less painful method of execution than ...