Patent Model for a Machine for Cutting Books

Austin, Jane · ca 1873

This patent model demonstrates an invention for a machine for cutting books which was granted patent number 41337. There was a guillotine for cutting the top, foot and foredges of books. Two sets of books could be clamped simultaneously, without moving the clamps between cuts. Jane Austin was administratrix to the estate of Frederick J. Austin, inventor of this and other book-binding machines. F. J. Austin, the proprietor of a machine works in New York, also built hand printing presses along the lines of the Washington. The model is incomplete.