IMPROVEMENTS IN JACQUARD CARD PUNCHING MACHINES to be as follows:
Year: 1885

page_text: I HENRY BLACKFORD PAYNE of the Firm of J. B. Whitehall & Co of Goldsmith
Works in the Town and County of the Town of Nottingham Machine Builders
do hereby declare the nature of my invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN JACQUARD
CARD PUNCHING MACHINES to be as follows:-
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My improvements in Card Punching Machines consist in the Head containing
the punches and the Traddle worked by the feet which presses the selected
punches through the Card.
My improvements in the Head are as follows:—
Instead of the present selection of the stops being made and pressed in by the
fingers in order to punch a certain number of holes in the Card my improvements
only require that one stop should be pushed in. The punches are arranged in the
Head in the ordinary way, or in any other way most advantageous, the stops are
then placed horizantally in a line with each punch. Upon each stop a thin strip
of brass or other metal is fixed vertically about four inches in length.
In front of these stops and strips thirty-two keys more or less are arranged
figured to correspond with each number of gaites or holes required. Upon each
of these keys a piece of sheet brass or other metal is fixed which contains wards.
These wards are so arranged as by pressing one of the keys in, which denotes
the number of gaites or holes required, the wards affixed to the key immediately
select the required number of stops which act upon the punches. The head then
descends and gives the impression required in the card.
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There are also keys worked in the same way which select and punch the
gathering peg holes and the lacing holes. My improvements are also capable of
being applied to other kinds of Punching Machines used for punching holes in card
or otherwise.
My improvement in the Traddle is as follows-
At present a traddle is pressed down by the foot which brings the Piano Head
down and punches the holes.
I apply an excentric or other cam which is fixed upon a revolving shaft set in
motion and stopped by loose and fast pulleys, and a belt, the traddle referred to,
in addition to another, being used to start and stop the Machine.
By a Machine constructed as above far more accuracy is attained in punching
and greater facility afforded in working the Machine.
I would have it understood that I do not confine myself to the exact detailed
arrangement hereinbefore described so long as the novel features of my Invention
in using wards to select the keys is retained.
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page_text: I would have it understood that I do not confine myself to the exact detailed
arrangement herein before described so long as the novel features of my invention
in using wards to select the keys is retained.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is
1. The improved arrangement and combination of apparatus for punching
Jacquard cards by selecting the required stops by means of wards e, substantially
as hereinbefore described and represented in the Drawings annexed.
2. The improved general arrangement of Jacquard card punching machines in
which by pressing in one key the required number of stops and punches are
selected substantially in the manner described and represented in the Drawings
annexed.
TONGUE & BIRKBECK,
Agents for the Patentee.