Profile Cutter
ca. 1949 (manufactured)
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This is a profile cutter for an industrial button making machine, used in the 1940s. The bit would be inserted into a pillar drill and the cutter section could be used on acrylic sheets to create circular buttons with a central circular indent. The cutter blade could be unbolted and exchanged for another different-shaped blade to create other patterns of buttons, although the bolt on this particular bit is stuck in place.
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Materials and techniques | Forged steel, bolted together. |
Brief description | Profile cutter for buttons, to be inserted into a pillar drill, steel, 1940s, British |
Physical description | Steel tool bit, consisting of a semi-circular cylinder with fully circular end halfway down, with a smaller cylinder protruding, and a semi-circular cylinder bolted-on, holding a button cutting bit between them: this is a rectangular piece of metal with protruding cutting shapes at one end, that would turn and cut a piece of perspex into a button shape. |
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Production type | Mass produced |
Marks and inscriptions | "54" (Stamped on full-cylinder section of tool) |
Credit line | Given by Mr F. Beck |
Summary | This is a profile cutter for an industrial button making machine, used in the 1940s. The bit would be inserted into a pillar drill and the cutter section could be used on acrylic sheets to create circular buttons with a central circular indent. The cutter blade could be unbolted and exchanged for another different-shaped blade to create other patterns of buttons, although the bolt on this particular bit is stuck in place. |
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Accession number | T.2-2013 |
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Record created | February 19, 2013 |
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