24 July 1806
Henry Fourdrinier
“A machine for cutting paper on a different principle from
any hitherto used.” This cutting machine consists of a knife
set in a frame which is caused to move up and down by means of a screw;
the screw being actuated by a handle and intermediate wheels. The paper
to be cut (say a ream in thickness) may be placed on a roller above a
horizontal frame or table, or on the table itself, over which bas been
stretched a moveable web which may be an endless web caused to revolve
round rollers placed at each end of the table, or it may be unwound
from one roller and wound on the other; and on the travelling web, and
travelling with it, are placed a number of blocks or pieces of wood
upon which the knife descends and cuts the paper to the desired size.
[Printed, 6d. See Repertory of
Arts, vol. 10 (second
series), p. 321; Rolls Chapel Reports, 7th Report, p. 195.]
From: Patents for
Inventions. Abridgments of Specifications Relating to the Manufacture of Paper, Pasteboard and Papier Mache, Part II (1859), by The Patent
Office, London, Section II, page 7 (source)
See also:
- Obituary
of Henry Fourdrinier from Gentleman's
Magazine, 1855
- Fourdrinier
Paper-Making Machine from Paper
Manufacturing in the United States, 1916
- Fourdrinier
Paper-Making Machine from Paper & Paper Making
Ancient and Modern, 1863
- Fourdrinier patent 2951 (1806) - Method
of making a machine for manufacturing paper of an indefinite length,
laid and wove, with separated moulds
- Fourdrinier patent 3068 (1807) - Making paper by means of machinery
- Today in
Science History event description for birth of
Henry Fourdrinier on 11 Feb 1766
- Today in
Science History events for date of patent
on Paper-Making Machine, 24 July 1806
