X-Acto is a brand name for a variety of cutting tools and office products owned by Elmer's Products, Inc. These include hobby and utility knives, saws, carving tools and many small-scale precision knives used for crafts and other applications. An X-Acto knife may be called an Exacto knife, utility knife , precision knife, or hobby knife.
6-427: Doniger is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Sundel Doniger (1888–1972), Polish-born American businessman Walter Doniger (1917–2011), American film and television director Wendy Doniger (born 1940), American Indologist See also [ edit ] David D. Doniger & Company [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with
12-456: A scalpel but it was not acceptable, because it could not be cleaned. His brother-in-law, Daniel Glück (father of poet and 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate Louise Glück ), suggested that it might be a good craft tool. In 1930, a house designer asked Doniger if he could create something for him that would help him crop some advertisements, Doniger agreed and created what is now known as
18-521: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Sundel Doniger The original knife was invented in the 1930s by Sundel Doniger, a Jewish Polish immigrant to the United States. He started a medical supply company in 1917 producing medical syringes and scalpels with removable blades. This would later be his inspiration for the X-Acto brand of knives. He had planned to sell it to surgeons as
24-411: The surname Doniger . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Doniger&oldid=1075106109 " Category : Surnames Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description
30-489: The X-Acto Knife. An X-Acto knife is a blade mounted on a pen -like aluminum body. A knurled collar loosens and tightens an aluminum collet with one slot, which holds a replaceable blade. There are numerous other knives on the market with very similar designs. Blades are typically interchangeable between different brands. X-Acto knives are generally used for crafting and hobbies , such as modelmaking . Before
36-517: The availability of desktop publishing tools, preparing copy for use in printing (literal cut and paste or paste up ) depended heavily on the use of knives like the X-Acto for trimming and manipulating slips of paper. In addition to knives, blades, and tools, X-Acto produces office supplies including pencil sharpeners , paper trimmers , staplers , and hole punchers. X-Acto sharpeners are electric, battery, or manual. X-Acto has three types of trimmers: razor, rotary, and guillotine . Through 2012,
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