IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR " PERFORATING CHEQUES, BILLS AND OTHER PAPERS FOR THE PREVENTION OF FRAUD
Year: 1882

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Peter Jensen of 33, Chancery Lane in the County of
Middlesex for an Invention of " IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR
"
PERFORATING CHEQUES, BILLS AND OTHER PAPERS FOR THE PREVENTION OF
FRAUD Communicated to him from abroad by Oscar August Ericsson
of Gothenburg Sweden.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Peter Jensen at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 7th August 1882.
"
PETER JENSEN of 33, Chancery Lane in the County of Middlesex IMPROVE-
MENTS IN APPARATUS FOR PERFORATING CHEQUES, BILLS AND OTHER PAPERS FOR
THE PREVENTION OF FRAUD (A communication to me from abroad by Oscar
August Ericsson of Gothenburg, Sweden)
"
In or on the bed plate is fixed or formed a centre bush or pivot around which
turns a sector shaped disc, near the circumference of which the perforating dies
are arranged. Above the disc is arranged a lever turning upon a horizontal
fulcrum pin and fitted with a knob for the hand of the operator to act upon; near
the fulcrum pin the lever is provided with a pointer or hand which moves over an
index arc provided with ciphers or letters. In the centre of the aforesaid bush is
fitted a headed pin, the head of which is just beneath the operating lever and close
to its fulcrum. The head of this pin, when depressed by the operating lever acts.
upon the end of a lever, which in its turn depresses another lever; both of these
levers have their fulcrum pins in the framing of the machine, and do not follow
the lateral movements of the aforesaid sector shaped disc. The last named lever
engages with and depresses that cipher-die in the sector-disc which happens to be
just beneath the lever. The cipher perforations are produced in the paper by the
dies which consist of small steel cylinders arranged close to one another according
to the shape of the ciphers and passing into corresponding holes or matrices in steel
cushions underneath.

page_text: The paper is introduced between feed rollers the upper one of which is first slightly
raised, the lower roller serves to advance the paper a step for each cipher; this is
done by the lower end of the aforesaid headed pin depressing a lever connected to
a pawl and a ratchet wheel on the said lower roller causing the paper to advance,
say the distance of one tooth, each time the operating lever is depressed.
In order to ensure that this latter with the sector disc stop exactly for each
cipher the lever has below its fulcrum, a prolongation with a tenon which glides
into a corresponding notch for each cipher wanted.
On turning the disc just that die descends which corresponds with the cipher
that is indicated by the pointer on the index arc:

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Peter Jensen in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 7th February
1883.
"
PETER JENSEN of 33 Chancery Lane in the County of Middlesex IMPROVE-
MENTS IN APPARATUS FOR PERFORATING CHEQUES, BILLS AND OTHER PAPERS FOR
THE PREVENTION OF FRAUD "
August Ericsson of Gothenburg Sweden)
(A Communication to me from abroad by Oscar
In or on the bed plate is fixed or formed a centre bush around which turns a
sector shaped disc, near the circumstances of which the perforating dies are arranged.
Above the disc is arranged a lever turning upon a horizontal fulcrum pin and fitted
with a knob for the hand of the operator to act upon; near the fulcrum pin the lever
is provided with a pointer or hand which moves over an index are provided with
ciphers or letters. In the centre of the aforesaid bush is fitted a headed pin, the
head of which is just beneath the operating lever and close to its fulcrum. The pin
when depressed by the operating lever acts upon the end of a lever which in its
turn depresses another lever; both of these levers have their fulcrum pins in the
framing of the machine, and do not follow the lateral movements of the aforesaid
sector shaped disc. The last named lever engages with and depresses that cipher-
die in the sector-disc which happens to be just beneath the lever; The cipher
perforations are produced in the paper by the dies which consist of small steel
cylinders arranged close to one another according to the shape of the ciphers and
passing into corresponding holes matrices in steel cushions underneath.
The paper is introduced between feed rollers the upper one of which is first
slightly raised, the lower roller serves to advance the paper a step for each cipher;
this is done by the lower end of the aforesaid headed pin depressing a lever
connected to a pawl and a ratchet wheel on the said lower roller causing the paper
to advance say the distance of one tooth each time the operating lever is depressed.
In order to ensure that this latter with the sector disc stop exactly for each cipher
the lever has below its fulcrum a prolongation with a tenon which glides into a
corresponding notch for each cipher wanted.
On turning the disc just that die descends which corresponds with the cipher
that is indicated by the pointer on the index arc.
On the accompanying drawing: Figure 1 represents a horizontal and Figure 2 a
vertical projection of the apparatus. Figure 3 shows the apparatus in vertical part
section Figures 4 and 5 are detail views.
In the bed plate A is a firmly fixed centre bush B around which turns a sector-
shaped disc C. Close to the circumference of this sector the perforating cipher
dies D are arranged above the disc C is attached the lever E turning upon the
pivot F; to this lever is attached the pointer or hand G moving over an index
arc H provided with ciphers. When the lever E is pressed downwards, the headed
centre pin T placed just beneath this lever and passing through the firmly fixed
bush B is acted upon The head of the headed pin I acts upon the lever K which
in its turn presses down the lever L and this latter depresses that cipher die D in
the sector disc C which happens to be just beneath the last named lever. The
levers K and L do not as will be seen follow the lateral motions of the sector C
and the lever E because the levers K and L are attached to the fixed top plate M
above the sector. The cipher perforations are produced in the paper by the above
mentioned dies D consisting of small steel cylinders arranged close one to another
according to the shape of the ciphers and passing into corresponding holes made
into steel cushions N provided beneath each die,

page_text: The paper is introduced between the rollers O and P after the top roller O has
been raised a little by lifting the pivot Q the lower roller P advances the paper a
step for each cipher; this is done by the lower end of the centre pin I pressing
down the lever R. This lever is by the shaft F connected with the lever T to
which the catch or pawl U is attached; this catches in the ratchet wheel V on the
feeding roller P, whereby the advancing of the paper is effected one tooth's length
every time the lever E is pressed down. In order that the lever E with the sector
dise shall be sure to stop exactly for each cipher. The lever E has a prolongation
at W with a tenon gliding into a corresponding notch in the bed plate (for each
cipher wanted.
The advantages of this apparatus are.
1. That ciphers or letters, wanted to be stamped in paper and such like, are
tenable and impossible of being altered, which is not the case with any other known
apparatus of this kind
2. That this apparatus operates more rapidly and is more easy to manage than
any other perforating apparatus known.
I claim as the Invention communicated to me.
The adaptation on perforating presses for bills, value papers and the like of
First The movable sector-shaped disc C carrying the dies D D and the
matrices N. N. this disc being moreover provided with a pressure lever E combined
with a pivot I moving in the hollow stationary bush B, likewise the levers K and L
adapted to the casing M of the apparatus which levers do not follow the move-
ments of the discs, and into the incision of which latter lever, on turning the disc,
just that die descends, which corresponds with the cipher, that is pointed out by
the hand G on the index arc H which all in conjunction makes only the required
die to get in motion every time.
Second-The rollers O and P intended for the automatic advancing of the paper
to be perforated, the latter of which rollers is attached to the same spindle as a
ratchet wheel V which, every time when the pivot I is pressed down by means of
the lever E is turned a tooth, whereby the paper becomes accurately advanced.
Third The mechanism serving to transfer the motion from the pivot I to the
ratchet wheel consisting of the shaft S with the two levers R and T, the former of
which passes beneath the pivot I whilst the latter is connected with the catch U;
so that this catch is capable, on the descending and ascending of the said lever of
effecting the requisite turning of the ratchet wheel V.
my
hand
In witness whereof I the said Peter Jensen have hereunto set
and seal this First day of February in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and eighty three.
Ran