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Cyclostyle (copier)
The Cyclostyle duplicating process is a form of stencil copying. A stencil is cut on wax or glazed paper by using a pen-like object with a small rowel or spur-wheel on its tip. A large number of small short lines are cut out in the glazed paper, removing the glaze with the spur-wheel, then ink is applied. It was invented in the later 19th century by David Gestetner, who named it ''cyclostyle'' after a drawing tool he used. Its name incorporates ''stylus'', Classical Latin for a pen. In year 1893 Francis Galton gave the following brief description of a cyclostyle: ::"The cyclostyle, which is an instrument used for multiple writing, makes about 140 dots to the inch. The style has a minute spur-wheel or roller, instead of a [pen] point ; the writing is made on stencil paper, whose surface is covered with a brittle glaze. This is perforated by the teeth of the spur-wheel wherever they press against it. The half perforated sheet is then laid on writing paper, and an inked roller is w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stencil Machine With Its Last Paper In, Hendrik Conscience Heritage Library, Antwerp, Belgium, 2016-07-26
Stencilling produces an image or pattern on a surface, by applying pigment to a surface through an intermediate object, with designed holes in the intermediate object, to create a pattern or image on a surface, by allowing the pigment to reach only some parts of the surface. The stencil is both the resulting image or pattern and the intermediate object; the context in which ''stencil'' is used makes clear which meaning is intended. In practice, the (object) stencil is usually a thin sheet of material, such as paper, plastic, wood or metal, with lettering, letters or a design cut from it, used to produce the letters or design on an underlying surface by applying pigment through the cut-out holes in the material. The key advantage of a stencil is that it can be reused to repeatedly and rapidly produce the same letters or design. Although aerosol paint, aerosol or painting stencils can be made for one-time use, typically they are made with the intention of being reused. To be reus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
