1862 London Exhibition: Catalogue: Class 7.: J. Lamb
1642. LAMB, J., Holborn Paper Mills, Newcastle, Staffordshire.
Laying apparatus, attached to paper-cutting machine, felt not required.
The above patented apparatus, applicable to machines for cutting paper, may fairly claim to be the completion of the paper-making machine. The object of it is to collect the paper in piles or heaps, and to dispense with the manual labour hitherto required for that purpose. a represents the knife, forming part of an ordinary paper- cutting machine; and b the patent laying table on which. the paper is deposited. In proportion as the paper accumulates on the laying table, it is gradually lowered by means of self-acting mechanism.
When nearly a sufficient quantity of paper has been thus deposited on the laying table, a bell is rung by the machine to give warning; the machinery by which it is lowered soon after throws itself out of gear; the attendant then removes the piles or heaps of paper, the platform rises up to its original position, and the operation continues as before.
In most of the cutting machines a felt is generally required, on which the paper drops after being cut by the knife a, and an attendant is employed, in nearly every case, to catch the sheet or sheets of paper so cut, but by this apparatus the felt and the attendants are dispensed with, thereby not only effecting a considerable saving in wages, but avoiding the injury and waste resulting from linger marks.
This machine has been in successful operation at the Holborn Mills, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, for several years, and may be seen at work on application.
For further particulars apply to the Patentee, to MESSRS. HETHERINGTON and SONS, Vulcan Foundry, Manchester, makers, or to MR. WALTER IBBOTSON, Agent far the same, 8 Dickinson Street, Manchester; and in the Exhibition Building, to MR. S. MUIR, JUN., of 40 Broad Street Buildings, London.
The following amongst other testimonials is submitted:—
"Hollins Paper Mills, Darwen, Lancashire. MR. LAMB, February 17, 1860.
Sir,— We have worked the first of your laying machines upwards of three years, and the second nearly two years. We are quite satisfied with the working of them both, and we consider your machine a most useful auxiliary to the paper-cutting machine. In our opinion no cutting machine is complete unless your laying apparatus is attached thereto.
Yours truly,
C. POTTER and CO."
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