AN IMPROVED PERFORATING MACHINE FOR MARKING OR CANCELLING PAPERS OR DOCUMENTS
Year: 1872

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Richard Shaw Bond, of Fetter Lane, in the
County of Middlesex, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED PERFORATING
MACHINE FOR MARKING OR CANCELLING PAPERS OR DOCUMENTS."
Sealed the 28th January 1873, and dated the 28th August 1872.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Richard Shaw Bond
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 28th August 1872.
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I, RICHARD SHAW BOND, of Fetter Lane, in the County of Middlesex,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED
PERFORATING MACHINE FOR MARKING OR CANCELLING PAPERS OR DOCUMENTS," to
be as follows:-
My Invention relates to an improved machine for indelibly marking
papers or documents by perforating the same according to any desired
design, and the Invention consists in so constructing the perforating
tools that the letters or marks to be produced may be altered at pleasure
without requiring fresh tools.
According to my Invention I employ two plates, both similarly
provided with holes arranged in a regular manner, as close together as,

page_text: convenient. In the one plate are fitted the pins by which the per-
forations are to be made, which pins may be arranged in the holes
according to the mark to be produced. The plates are fixed in a
suitable press, and in order to alter the mark produced the plate
carrying the pins may be removed and the pins rearranged in the holes.
as required. The pins are inserted at the back of the plate and provided
with heads to retain them in place.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Richard Shaw Bond in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 28th February 1873.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, RICHARD
SHAW BOND, of Fetter Lane, in the County of Middlesex, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-eighth day of August, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, in the
thirty-sixth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto me, the said Richard Shaw Bond, Her
special licence that I, the said Richard Shaw Bond, my executors,
administrators, and, assigns, or such others as I, the said Richard Shaw
Bond, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time
agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter
during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make,
use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for
"AN IMPROVED PERFORATING MACHINE FOR MARKING OR CANCELLING PAPERS
OR DOCUMENTS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
Richard Shaw Bond, my executors or administrators, by an instrument
in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should
particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and
in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be
filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next
and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Richard Shaw Bond, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same

page_text: is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement, reference being had to the accompanying
Sheet of Drawings, and to the letters and figures marked thereon (that
is to say):-
My Invention relates to an improved machine for indelibly marking
papers or documents by perforating the same according to any desired
design, and the Invention consists in so constructing the perforating
tools that the letters or marks to be produced may be altered at pleasure
without requiring fresh tools. This is especially useful for marking the
voting papers used for voting by ballot with a special mark chosen
immediately before the papers are issued, whereby to prevent their being
counterfeited.
According to my Invention I employ plates similarly provided with
holes arranged in a regular manner, as close together as convenient.
In the one plate are fitted the pins or punches by which the perforations
are to be made, which punches may be readily arranged in the holes
according to the mark to be produced. The plates are fixed in a suitable
press, and in order to alter the mark produced the plate carrying the
punches may be removed and the latter rearranged in the holes as
required. They are inserted at the back of the plate and provided with
heads to retain them in place.
In the accompanying Drawings Figure 1 represents in side elevation
a press provided with the improvement of my Invention, the punches
being in their raised position; Figure 2 is a similar view with the
punches depressed, the plates being shown in cross section; Figure 3 is
a plan of the upper plate, showing the holes with which it is pierced to
carry the punches. Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding
parts in all the Figures.
a is the upper plate pierced with holes b, placed as closely together as
possible in a regular manner, so as to form lines in various directions.
The holes are preferably countersunk on the upper side to receive heads
formed on the upper ends of the steel pins or punches c to retain them
in place. The plate a is fitted to slide in a dovetailed recess in the
head d of the plunger, so as to be easily removable therefrom. e is the
ordinary separating plate for detaching the paper or document from the
punches. This plate also serves as a guide for the punches in their up
and down movement, and ensures their exact correspondence with the

page_text: holes of the die plate or matrix f. Both plate e and matrix ƒ are
perforated with holes corresponding exactly in size and position to those
of plate a. The guide plate e is fixed permanently on the matrix plate f
by screws or otherwise at g, and its edge at h is bevelled and received
in a V groove in the edge of a part i fixed to the frame of the press, to
hold the plate e securely in a position parallel with plate f. The latter
is fitted to slide in a dovetailed recess in the bed of the press, so as to be
easily removable with plates e and a. kare studs on plate e which fit
into corresponding holes in plate a, or vice versa, to ensure the exact
correspondence of the holes 6 in the two plates, and render the whole
removable together.
In order to alter the design, number, or mark the handle 7 of the
press is depressed as shown in Figure 2, and retained in that position by
a pin placed in a hole m passing through the plunger of the press. The
three plates are then removed together, and the top of the plate a
being thus uncovered the pins or punches may be removed therefrom,
or others inserted in any of the holes therein, and the plates be replaced
in the press.
Having described the nature of my Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim as my
Invention to be protected by the herein-before in part recited Letters
Patent is, the upper plate a and lower or matrix plate e, both perforated
with a number of corresponding holes as shown and described when
combined with removable pins or punches c, the whole arranged and
applied substantially as and for the purpose set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said Richard Shaw Bond, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twenty-seventh day of February, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
three.
RICH. SHAW. BOND. (L.S.)