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Typo: A Monthly Newspaper and Literary Review, Volume 5
[Safety Attachments to Guillotines]
Safety Attachments to Guillotines.—Herr Karl Krause, the celebrated manufacturer, of Leipzig, has brought out a patent guard for guillotines, making accident with the knife almost impossible. As the cut begins, an ingenious mechanism shuts off the space in front of the knife by a wire guard, through which it is impossible to thrust hand or finger, while the cut is in no way hindered. Other safeguards are—a guard for the driving-wheels where they gear into each other; a fly-wheel guard; a guide-slot guard, covering the guiding-slots of the knife; and a safety-crank, obviating all danger from the fly-wheel when in motion.