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In 1840 George Wilson of London was granted a patent for an envelope-cutting machine (patent: "an improved paper-cutting machine"); [16] these machine-cut envelopes still needed to be folded by hand. [17] [18] There is a picture of the front and backside of an envelope stamped in 1841 here on this page. It seems to be machine cut.
A folding machine Buckle folding machine. A folding machine is a machine used primarily for the folding of paper.Folding is the sharp-edged bending of paper webs or sheets under pressure at a prepared or unprepared bending point along a straight line according to specified dimensions and folding layouts. [1]
Most postal stationery pieces are collected as entires, that is, the whole card, sheet, or envelope. In the 19th century, it was common to collect "cut squares" (or cut-outs in the UK), [7] which involved clipping the embossed or otherwise pre-printed indicia from postal stationery entires. [4] This destroyed the envelope.
Paper knives are used for cutting open the pages of hand-produced books where the folding of printed sheets creates some closed edges that require severing of the paper before reading. [1] Letter openers "evolved" from paper knives into longer, blunter blades for the sole purpose of opening envelopes.
A mimeograph machine (often abbreviated to mimeo, sometimes called a stencil duplicator or stencil machine) was a low-cost duplicating machine that worked by forcing ink through a stencil onto paper. [1] The process was called mimeography, and a copy made by the process was a mimeograph.
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38,200 April 14, 1863 Printing press to use a continuous web or roll of paper, the first machine built especially for curved stereotype plates. It printed both sides of the sheet and cut it either before or after printings.
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