Design of Paper Cutting Machine


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Creator/Artist: A. A. Mahindrakar

Category: Product Design

Document: Diploma Project Report

Batch: 1972-1974

Source: India,   IDC IIT Bombay

Period:  1969-1978

Medium: Report pdf

Supervisor: Prof. M. Chattopadhyay & Prof. Sudhakar Nadkarni


Detailed Description

In the present age, paper is used extensively in every sphere of life. Paper is defined as “all kinds of matted or felted sheet of fibre formed on wire screen from water suspension." It includes all types of papers, ranging from the thinnest tissue paper to the heaviest board. The papers and paperboats coming out of the paper mills have to be further cut for everyone’s requirements. Much of the further cutting work is done in printing presses. But many times people in design offices, drawing offices, colleges, stationary marts, etc. feel the need for a paper-cutting machine to meet their individual variant requirements. The guillotine press used in printing presses is too costly and too bulky to be used in design offices. Moreover, guillotine machines are large-capacity machines suitable for mass production. At present, ordinary knives, razor blades, Stanley knives, or Kilburn cutters are being used in design offices and paper stationary marts. But these instruments are insufficient to fulfil the purpose.