1851 Great Exhibition: Official Catalogue: Class VI.: George Tidcombe
108. TIDCOMBE, GEO., Watford — Manufacturer.
Machine for cutting paper in the continuous sheet.
[Paper manufactured by machine is made into a continuous web the width of the machine. As it runs from the drying apparatus it passes through the cutting- machine, where it is first slit into several continuous bands: this is effected by means of a series of circular shears formed of circular discs of steel, adjustable on two parallel axes common to the series. The bands then pass on to a kind of shears placed transversely, and acting at predetermined intervals, the paper being arrested at the point of division by the mechanism, without stopping its onward progress through the slitting-shears. Mr. T. B. Crompton, in conjunction with Mr. E. Miller and Mr. (now Professor) Cowper, obtained patents in the same year, 1828, for the cutting apparatus applicable to the above purpose: since this period several other very ingenious machines have been devised.— W. D. L. R.]