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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.
Golding & Company was an American manufacturer of platen printing presses and printers' tools, established in 1869 by William Hughson Golding (1845–1916) [1] in the Fort Hill area of Boston, Massachusetts. [2]
A Miller & Richard composing stick, showing the adjustment mechanism (left side) In letterpress printing and typesetting, a composing stick is a tray-like tool used to assemble pieces of metal type into words and lines, which are then transferred to a galley before being locked into a forme and printed.
Paper cutters were developed and patented in 1844 by French inventor Guillaume Massiquot. Later, Milton Bradley patented his own version of the paper cutter in 1879. [1] Since the middle of the 19th century, considerable improvements to the paper cutter have been made by Fomm and Krause of Germany, Furnival in England, and Oswego and Seybold in the United States.
USRC Massachusetts was one of the first ten cutters operated by the Revenue-Marine (later to become the US Coast Guard). She was built in Newburyport, Massachusetts, and served out of Boston. Massachusetts by tradition is held to be the first revenue cutter to enter active service. She was also the first to be decommissioned, having a very ...
It's possible that the more industrial apparatus you describe is called a "paper cutter" in English; honestly I'm unsure what they'd be called in English. It might also be that massicot is a broader term. —/Mendaliv/ 2¢ / Δ's / 20:13, 24 July 2010 (UTC) I worked in the printing industry for a few years running a 'paper cutter' not guillotine.
As of 2012, Crane & Company continues to manufacture the paper for U.S. currency. [5] By 1840 Lee was the largest paper producer, and by Zenas Crane's death in 1845, Berkshire was the largest paper producing county in the United States. [6] The "Turkey" mill in Tyringham was built by Milton Ingersol in 1833 to produce paper from rags.
Cutting speed may be defined as the rate at the workpiece surface, irrespective of the machining operation used. A cutting speed for mild steel of 100 ft/min is the same whether it is the speed of the cutter passing over the workpiece, such as in a turning operation, or the speed of the cutter moving past a workpiece, such as in a milling operation.