Improvements in Checks, Tokens, Tickets, Medals, and the like, and in Means or Apparatus Employed in the Manufacture thereof.
Year: 1899

page_text: Improvements in Checks, Tokens, Tickets, Medals, and the like, and
in Means or Apparatus Employed in the Manufacture thereof.
We, JOHN MARSHALL SPINK, SAMUEL MARTIN SPINK, and CHARLES FREDERICK
SPINK, all of the Firm of Spink & Son, Clock and Watch Makers and Goldsmiths,
of 1 and 2, Gracechurch Street, in the City of London, and 17 and 18 Piccadilly,
in the County of London, and CHARLES WINTER, of No. 9, Durham Road, West
Wimbledon, in the County of Surrey, Works Manager, in the employ of the said
Firm, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
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This invention has reference to improvements in the manufacture of checks,
tokens, labels, tickets, medals, passes and other articles of the like nature and use,
from metal, or metal and cardboard, or other suitable material.
The invention further relates to improved means or apparatus employed in
such manufacture.
In the manufacture of medals, tokens, checks and other similar articles from
metal in the solid, great expense and cost has to be incurred and it is our object
to provide a cheap and yet durable substitute therefor.
In carrying out our invention we produce a medal, token, pass, check, or the
like, of any desired shape, or thickness consisting of a closed "box." or thin metal
encasement, with a filling material between the sides of such outer metal cover-
ing. This filling may be cardboard, or other convenient material adapted to be
written, or printed upon, or made to carry indications of identity of the holder,
or otherwise.
The metal encasement has openings in it at suitable places where the filling
material, as cardboard, celluloid, or other like material, is exposed and its surface
made available for writing upon, or the like, when the medal, or the like is
completed.
In the course of manufacture the one half or face of the medal, or check is
stamped out of thin metal sheet and a rim or flange is formed around its edge and
the openings referred to are also made. Within this flanged blank, a card or
other filling blank of like size is placed and then another metal perforated blank
similar to the under one, but not necessarily flanged. The flange of the one
metal blank is then pressed down on the other metal blank and thereby the com-
bined materials are locked into one solid substance. After pressing the flange
other dies that perform the operation-under and upper-also serve to impress
the medals, checks, and the like with such ornamentation, design. indication or
lettering, as in practice will be common to the series of medals, checks or other
articles stamped and also to produce ornamentation around the opening in the
metal as well as on the card, or partly on each. The particulars which will vary
in each medal, or the like, may be written. impressed, or therwise applied, to the
cardboard, or filling material exposed. The outer surface so written upon mav
be so prepared that any attempt at erasure will be indicated, and forgery rendered
practically impossible.

page_text: Or in some cases these operations may be performed by a combination of the
die parts.
The metal blanks are cut from sheet by means of a plunger, or upper piece
with projecting surface, cooperating with an under open or sunk die; or piece,
with the aid of pressure.
The flange or rim of the blank is produced by the pressure of a male piece into
a female or open plate, the surplus area of the blank around the male piece being
turned up between the two cooperating edges of the male and female parts.
The two blanks of metal, with the filling of cardboard between them, are then
acted upon by the opposed faces of two dies each bearing its appropriate design
or indications in reverse, whilst the medal or the like lies within a suitable
recessed or other open plate, or chamber.
Dated the 26th day of April 1899
WM BROOKES & SON,
55 & 56, Chancery Lane, London, Agents for the Applicants.
Improvements in Checks, Tokens, Tickets, Medals, and the like, and
in Means or Apparatus Employed in the Manufacture thereof.
We, JOHN MARSHALL SPINK, SAMUEL MARTIN SPINK, and CHARLES FREDERICK
SPINK, all of the Firm of Spink & Son, Clock and Watch Makers and Goldsmiths,
of 1 and 2, Gracechurch Street, in the City of London and 17 and 18 Piccadilly,
in the County of London, and CHARLES WINTER, of No. 9, Durham Road, West
Wimbledon, in the County of Surrey, Works Manager, in the employ of the said
Firm, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement:-
:-
This invention has reference to improvements in the manufacture of checks,
tokens, labels, tickets, medals, passes and other articles of the like nature and use,
from metal, or metal and cardboard, or other suitable material.
The invention further relates to improved means or apparatus employed in
such manufacture.
In the manufacture of medals, tokens, checks and other similar articles from
metal in the solid, great expense and cost has to be incurred and it is our object
to provide a cheap and yet durable substitute therefor.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Fig. 1 shows a piece of metal or blank, which has been drawn and pierced by
the aid of the top tool (Fig. 11) and bed (Fig. 12) forming the compound tool
(Figs 13 and 13ª) to be referred to, having thereby formed to it a rim or wall.
Fig. 2 shows the same blank, after the open spaces therein have been pierced
by means of the top tool (Fig. 17) cooperating with the bottom tool (Fig. 16)
hereafter referred to, and another space a has been made by an appropriately
shaped tool of the kind indicated by Figs. 18 and 19.
Fig. 3 indicates a filling piece which may be made of card or other material,
the shape having been pierced by means of the top tool (Fig. 15) cooperating
with the bed (Fig. 14) to be described.
Fig. 4 indicates a top blank of metal which may be produced by the tools such
as described for producing the card Fig. 3.
Fig. 5 shows a top blank, similarly produced to that shown in Fig. 4, and after-

page_text: wards submitted to the top tools Fig. 19 and 21 in cooperation with the beds
Figs. 18 and 20, to produce the spaces therein shown.
Fig. 6 indicates in section the three blanks, the bottom, or box blank a, the card
or filling b and the top blank, or cover c ready to be assembled and united.
Fig. 7 shows the pieces a, b, c assembled.
Fig. 8 shows the same locked into a ticket, or token by the turning over of the
top edge of the wall a' of the blank a onto the outer surface of the cover c.
Figs. 9 and 10 show a specimen form of railway ticket of the contract or
season kind such as may be produced by the invention.
Fig. 11 shows by side view a top tool and
Fig. 12 by plan a corresponding die or bed for piercing the blank a.
Fig. 13 shows by a sectional view the tools 11 and 12 and cooperating parts,
and
Fig. 13 shows the like parts in different relative positions.
Figs. 14 and 15 show respectively the bed and top tool for cooperating to
pierce the card filling b, and blank for top piece, or cover c.
Fig. 16 shows by plan view the bed and
Fig. 17 the top tool or plunger cooperating therewith to produce the spaces a²
in the blank a, by means of the recesses a³ in the bed and projections at on the
tor tool.
Figs. 18 and 20 show two forms of beds in plan and Figs. 19 and 21 show two
forms of top tools, in side elevation respectively adapted to cooperate; —18
and 19 to produce the long spaces and 20 and 21 to produce the circular spaces,
such as are indicated in Figs. 2 and 5.
Fig. 22 shows by plan view the face of the bed of a finishing tool the form of
which and of its cooperating top tool is shewn by partial section and partial side
view at Fig. 23, through which the finished parts of tickets or the like such as
Figs. 7, 9 and 10 are passed to be closed, as shown by Fig. 8.
Fig. 24 shows in section the two cooperating dies for finishing the lettering
and the like of the blanks.
Fig. 25 shows a side view of the one die (Fig. 24).
Fig 26 shows a face view of the same and
Fig. 27 shows a plan view of the collar of the dies (Fig. 24) in which the blank
is placed in order to be passed between them.
The forms of these parts will of necessity vary according to the nature and
form of the article to be produced.
Like letters throughout indicate coresponding parts.
In carrying out our invention we produce a medal token, pass, check or the
like, of any desired shape, or thickness consisting of a closed "box," or thin
metal encasement, with a filling material between the sides of such outer metal
covering such as is made up from a, b and c.
This filling may be cardboard, or other convenient material adapted to be
written, or printed upon, or made to carry indications of identity of the holder
or otherwise when as in Figs. 9 and 10 portions thereof are uncovered by the
metal a-c.
The metal encasement a-c has openings a², a in it at suitable places where
the filling material as cardboard, celluloid, or other like material, is exposed
and its surface made available for writing upon, or the like, when the medal, or
the like is completed.
In the course of manufacture the one half or face a of the medal or check is
stamped out of thin metal sheet and a rim or flange al is formed around its edge
and the openings a², a* referred to are also made. Within this flanged blank a
a card or other filling blank b of like size is placed and then another metal per-
forated blank e similar to the under one, but not necessarily flanged. The flange
of the one metal blank a is then pressed down on the other metal blank and
thereby the combined materials are locked into one solid substance ready for use,
by use of the two dies Figs. 22 and 23,

page_text: After pressing the flange a¹ other dies that perform the operation-under and
upper-see Figs. 24, 25, 26 and 27 also serve to impress the medals, checks, and
the like with such ornamentation design, indication or lettering, as in practice
will be common to the series of medals, checks, or other articles stamped and also
to produce ornamentation around the opening in the metal as well as on the
card, or partly on each.
The particulars which will vary in each medal, or the like, may be written,
impressed, or otherwise applied to the cardboard, or filing material exposed.
The outer surface so written upon may be so prepared that any attempt at erasure
will be indicated, and forgery rendered practically impossible.
Or in some cases these operations may be performed by a combination of the
die parts.
The metal blanks are cut from sheet by means of a plunger, or upper piece
with projecting surface cooperating with an under open or sunk die, or piece,
with the aid of pressure applied by fly press, hydraulic pressure or otherwise.
The flange or rim of the blank a is produced by the pressure of a male piece
Fig. 11 into a female or open plate Fig. 12 the surplus area of the blank around
the male piece being turned up between the two cooperating edges of the male
and female parts.
Referring to Figures 11, 12, 13 and 13ª these parts are represented in Fig. 13
in position to operate on a sheet of metal to produce the part a and Fig. 13ª
indicates the parts shown in Fig. 13 as they appear with the blank shaped into
the part a and before its release.
These tools cooperate under pressure to draw or cut out and piece the blank
part a.
The sheet of metal 1 is laid on the lower part 2 of the tool and the upper part
3 descends bringing the cutting edges 4 and 5 in contact severing a blank from
the sheet 1 and the upper tool 3 continuing its descent the blank is pressed
between the upper spring plunger 6 and the part 7 of the bed whilst its edges a¹
are turned down between the inner sides of the part 3 and the outer sides of the
part 7. In order to release the blank which has now been shaped with a continu-
ous wall a¹ the lower or spring bed 9 rises and presses the pins 10 into the holes
provided for them in the under bed 8 and up against the collar 11 and the sharp
edge of this collar comes against the formed blank and releases it from the part 7
the upper portion of the mechanism having been raised out of the way.
The lower bed consists of the pins 10 mounted on the plate 9 connected by the
bolt 13 to the under plate 12 in which plate 12 this bolt is free to slide, whilst
between the plates 9 and 12 is interposed the rubber buffer spring 14.
The upper tool consists of the cutting and guiding portion 3 the plunger 6
stem 15 and interposed springs 16.
Referring to Figures 14 and 15 these two tools cooperate to cut out or pierce
the filling card or the blank forming the top piece or cover c as required the
sheet of material being placed between the bottom die 14 and the plunger or top
die 15 and the parts coming together pierce out the required blank.
The two blanks of metal a, c with the filling of cardboard b between them, are
then acted upon by the opposed faces of two dies. as Fig. 24 each bearing its
appropriate design, or indications in reverse as at f Fig. 26 whilst the medal, or
the like lies within a suitable recessed, or other open plate, or chamber (Fig. 27)
d formed in the collar e.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said in-
vention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is:-
1. The combined method of and means or apparatus employed in the manu-
facture of checks, tokens, tickets, medals and the like, in which cardboard or
other like material capable of having variable indications written upon or applied
to exposed portions of its surface are encased in a more durable material metal

page_text: or alloy, all substantially as and for the purpose described and shown by the
drawings.
2. The construction and use of the combination tool for drawing and piercing
the blanks or pieces of metal such as a in the manufacture of checks, tokens,
tickets, medals and other like forms, substantially as described and shown by the
drawings, Figures 11, 12, 13 and 13ª.
WM BROOKES & SON,
55 & 56, Chancery Lane, London, Agents for the Applicants.