What is a head cutter called?

The name “guillotine” dates to the 1790s and the French Revolution, but similar execution machines had already been in existence for centuries.

What is guillotine machine?

Guillotine: A machine used during (and after) the French Revolution for beheading people condemned to death, by means of a heavy sharp blade that slid down within vertical guides. The word “guillotine” is named for a French physician, Joseph Ignace Guillotin (1738-1814).

How was the guillotine used?

The guillotine is a machine used to execute people by decapitation (chopping off their heads). A guillotine is made of a heavy blade attached to a rack, which moves up and down on a vertical frame. When the executioner releases the rack, it will fall down and the blade will cut the convict’s head off.

Where was guillotine used?

France
The guillotine is best known for its use in France, particularly during the French Revolution, where the revolution’s supporters celebrated it as the people’s avenger and the revolution’s opponents vilified it as the pre-eminent symbol of the violence of the Reign of Terror.

What does a cutterhead do?

A cutting head or cutter head, often used as “cutting/cutter head,” for short, is the leading edge of a boring machine and is driven by an electric motor that makes it rotate. As the cutter head rotates, it excavates the soil in its vicinity.

What is a helical cutter?

It’s called a spiral cutterhead. It is a newer design that uses the concept of insert tooling rather than traditional straight knives installed in the cutterhead. Small square carbide cutters are placed in close proximity to one another along a machined spiral pattern in a steel head.

What is better helical or spiral cutterhead?

I know helical is better, but it seems spiral offers many of the same advantages: better cut on figured woods, faster and easier blade changes. But the helical design is a lot more expensive.