Improvements in Ticket Nippers.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 12th Apr., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 12th Jan., 1893-Accepted, 18th Feb., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Ticket Nippers.
We, THOMAS SMITH AND SONS of Saltley, Limited, of Saltley Mill and
21, Whittall Street, Birmingham, Manufacturers, and CHARLES Ross, of
No. 7, Hall Road, Saltley, Birmingham, Manager of Tool Making Department, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention has reference to ticket nippers such as are held in the hand and
used by railway and tramway officials for nipping or piercing passengers' tickets or
for impressing a number or other mark thereon.
By this invention the ticket is properly guided into position between the jaws of
the nippers and any sticking of the ticket on the punch is entirely obviated.
In carrying out this invention we provide between the jaws of the nipper a tongue
preferably made of flat spring steel bent round at its outer end and fixed to the end
of that jaw which carries the punch. The extreme inner end of this spring tongue
is or may be turned at about right angles to the tongue so as to bear against
the other jaw near the joint and force the jaws apart the object of turning up the
inner end of the tongue being to form a stop to prevent the ticket being inserted too
far between the jaws. There is an opening in the tongue through which the punch
projects when the jaws are closed but when the jaws are opened the punch recedes
behind the tongue.
The said tongue forms a guide for the ticket and by preventing the ticket coming.
into contact with the side of the punch ensures the ticket being properly inserted in
position between the jaws. By the punch receding behind the said tongue when
the jaws are open, the tongue forms a "taker-off" and prevents the ticket sticking
to the punch after the ticket has been operated upon. This is the chief object of
employing the tongue.
The tongue can either be made as a spring to open the jaws as above described
and render unnecessary the usual spring which is placed between the handle part of
the limbs, or the tongue can be made so that it does not open the jaws, in this latter
case the spring between the handle part of the limbs is or may be employed as
usual.
Instead of the tongue being fixed to the outer end of the jaw which carries the
punch the tongue may be fixed to the same jaw nearer to the joint, or to the other
jaw, or be otherwise arranged to act as a guide and "taker-off" as above
described.
Instead of using one tongue there may be two tongues one on either side of the
punch arranged to act as above described.
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$11000
CHARLES BOSWORTH KETLEY,
Agent for the Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Ticket Nippers.
We, THOMAS SMITH AND SONS of Saltley, Limited, of Saltley Mill and
21, Whittall Street, Birmingham, Manufacturers, and CHARLES Ross, of
No. 7, Hall Road, Saltley, Birmingham, Manager of Tool Making Department, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to
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page_text: This invention has reference to ticket nippers such as are held in the hand and
used by railway and tramway officials for nipping or piercing passengers' tickets or
for impressing a number or other mark thereon.
By this invention the ticket is properly guided into position between the jaws of
the nippers and any sticking of the ticket on the punch is entirely obviated.
On the accompanying drawings
Fig. 1 shews a pair of ticket nippers with this invention applied;
Fig. 2 is a part sectional elevation of the same open shewing ticket in position
ready to be nipped ;
Fig. 3 shews the same with the jaws closed; and
Fig. 4 shews a modification of this invention.
In carrying out this invention we provide between the jaws A¹ A' of the nippers
a tongue B preferably made of flat spring steel bent round at its outer end 6 as
shewn and fixed by the screw C to the end of the jaw A' which carries the punch d.
The extreme inner end 6 of this spring tongue B is or may be turned at about right
angles to the tongue so as to bear against the other jaw A³ near the joint e and force
the jaws apart. This turned up inner end 6 of the tongue B may form a stop to
prevent the ticket F being inserted too far between the jaws; or, and this is what
we prefer, the side plates G¹' G' which are fixed to the sides of the jaw A' may
form the said stop as shewn in Figs. 2 and 3. There is an opening 6³ in the
tongue B through which the punch d projects when the jaws A' A' are closed as in
Fig. 3 but when the jaws A' A' are opened the punch a recedes behind the
tongue B.
When the jaws are open as in Fig. 2 ready for the ticket to be inserted between
them the tongue B forms a guide for the ticket F preventing the ticket coming into
contact with the front, side of the punch d and thus ensuring the ticket F being
properly inserted in position between the jaws A' A'; when the jaws are open the
punch & recedes behind the tongue B thus the tongue B forms a "taker-off" and
prevents the ticket F sticking to the punch d after the ticket has been operated
upon. This is the chief object of employing the tongue B.
The tongue B also forms a spring to open the jaws A' A' as above described and
shewn in Figs. 1 and 2 and render unnecessary the usual spring which is placed
between the handle part of the limbs; or the tongue B can be made so that it does
ot open the jaws, in this latter case the usual spring between the handle part of the
limbs is employed in the ordinary way. The cross pin against which the
projection on the limb of the jaw A¹ takes when the nipper is open as shewn in
Figs. 1 and 2, forms a stop to prevent the jaws opening too far.
Instead of the tongue B being fixed to the outer end of the jaw A¹ which carries
the punch the tongue B may (see Fig. 4) be fixed to the other jaw A' or be
otherwise arranged to act as a guide and "taker-off" as above described.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is :-
1. In ticket nippers of the kind herein referred to and in combination with the
jaws and punch thereof, the use of a metal tongue arranged so as to guide the ticket
between the jaws and remove the ticket from the punch substantially as hereinbefore
set forth.
2. In ticket nippers of the kind herein referred to and in combination with the
jaws and punch thereof, the use of a metal tongue arranged so as to open the jaws
and guide the ticket between the same and remove the ticket from the, punch
substantially as hereinbefore set forth.
3. The improved ticket nippers provided with the spring tongue B arranged and
acting substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated by Figs. 1, 2 and 3 of
the accompanying drawings

page_text: 4. The improved ticket nippers provided with the tongue B arranged and acting
substantially as herein before described and illustrated by Fig. 4 of the accompanying
drawings.
Dated this 11th day of January 1893.
CHARLES BOSWORTH KETLEY,
Agent for the Applicants.