There's no well defined optimum. It's a matter of trading off force required from the 110lb secretary trying to trim a 20pg document versus having the blade push the paper out of the way at a high blade angle which the secretary has to resist by holding the document in place. Brent On 4/13/2018 11:53 PM, James Davis wrote:
This all begs the question (ire anticipated)... what's the optimal angle for a paper cutter to cut paper, and why?
On Sat, Apr 14, 2018 at 12:09 AM, Andres Valloud <avalloud@smalltalk.comcastbiz.net> wrote:
Another way to look at it: the angle at which the blade cuts remains roughly constant.
On 4/13/18 22:02 , Brent Meeker wrote:
I think it's intended to keep the length of paper cut per unit angle relatively constant; so that the operators force remains constant.
Brent
On 4/13/2018 8:19 PM, James Propp wrote:
Why do paper-cutters have curved blades? Is the usual design intended to optimize something?
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