GB Patent: GB-188,936
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| Improvements in pedestal stands and the like
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Patentee:
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| Herbert Jewson (exact or similar names) - Dereham, county Norfolk, England |
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Hobbies Ltd. - Dereham, county Norfolk, England |
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Patent Dates:
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Nov. 04, 1921 |
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Nov. 23, 1922 |
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Jeff Joslin
Vintage Machinery entry for Hobbies Ltd.
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Description: |
| The innovation here is a method of scrollsawing using a bevel cut of about 5 degrees (the appropriate bevel depending on the blade kerf and the material thickness); closed shapes cut with a bevel can be either pushed below the surface or raised above the surface depending on the direction of the bevel; by rounding the edges, a carved effect results. This technique had been developed by an Italian priest, Monsignor Antonini. Antonini wrote to Hobbies Ltd.—a manufacturer of fret-sawing machines and blades, and a publisher of fretsawing patterns—to tell them of his innovation. Hobbies engineer Herbert Jewson paid Antonini a visit and the result was a licensing agreement for the idea. They patented the idea and the company called it the "Antofret" system after Antonini. The company then published plans for ninepence, which came with a license to sell exactly one item from the plan, each plan coming with a small paper "license" that was to be affixed to the item as proof that a separate plan had been purchased for it. |
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