Bezel (guillotine)

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The Baden guillotine (replica, Municipal Museum in Bruchsal Castle)

The bezel is a wooden collar for fixation of the head during execution on the guillotine . This already existed in the forerunners of the guillotine, such as the so-called hallway, which consisted only of the scaffold with a fixed lower wooden frame and an upper frame adjustable with screws, between which the kneeling man got his head clamped so that the executioner with the ax could behead could make. However, not all predecessors had such a wooden collar. The Scottish Maiden, for example, did not own it.

The bezel of the guillotine is between the two posts that the ax was passed by. In some guillotines or so-called drop sword machines like them u. a. were used by Franz Xaver Reichhart and his nephew Johann Reichhart , they were shod with sheet iron or consisted entirely of iron, which increased the reliability of the machine. That was z. B. the case with the Baden sword machine.