IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR PERFORATING OR MARKING DEVICES IN PAPER, PARCHMENT, FIBROUS, TEXTILE, WOODEN, AND METALLIC SUBSTANCES OF SUITABLE THICKNESSES."
Year: 1880

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Purvis Hawtrey, of Slough, in the County of
Buckingham, for an Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR
PERFORATING OR MARKING DEVICES IN PAPER, PARCHMENT, FIBROUS,
TEXTILE, WOODEN, AND METALLIC SUBSTANCES OF SUITABLE THICKNESSES."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Purvis Hawtrey at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 22nd May 1880.
JOHN PURVIS HAWTREY, of Slough, in the County of Buckingham.
** IMPROVE-
MENTS IN MACHINERY FOR PERFORATING OR MARKING DEVICES IN PAPER,
PARCHMENT, FIBROUS, TEXTILE, WOODEN, AND METALLIC SUBSTANCES OF SUITABLE
THICKNESSES."
The Invention relates to machines intended for perforating or otherwise marking
numerals and other devices in cheques, bills, and other materials of suitable kind,
and the improvements consist in mounting two or more metal perforators, or types,
or punches, or series thereof, and their corresponding metal guides and dies, when
such are necessary, on or in revolvable horizontal discs furnished with a shaft,
indicator, and handle, by means of which the required perforators and dies, or types,
or punches can be turned and brought into proper position for being acted on by
means of a convenient lever handle, and the document or other article be perforated,
marked, or stamped, and moved on by hand or otherwise, and be placed in a
position to be punctured, marked, or stamped by a following or another perforator
and die, or types, or punches, as required, and so on. Also in combination with the
said improvements of mechanism for feeding or moving the document or article to
be operated on forward the necessary distance for forming spaces between the
perforations or markings, said mechanism consisting of two or more loose rollers
impinging on other rollers having dentated peripheries, between which the paper or
other material is held and moved, said rollers being actuated by a rocking shaft
suitably connected with said rollers.
The whole may be made in metal or of metal and wood combined.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said John Purvis Hawtrey in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 22nd
November 1880.
"IMPROVE-
JOHN PURVIS HAWTREY, of Slough, in the County of Buckingham.
MENTS IN MACHINERY FOR PERFORATING OR MARKING DEVICES IN PAPER,
PARCHMENT, FIBROUS, TEXTILE, WOODEN, AND METALLIC SUBSTANCES OF SUITABLE
THICKNESS."
The Invention relates to machines intended for perforating or otherwise marking
numerals and other devices in cheques, bills, and other materials of suitable kind,
and the improvements consist in mounting one or more metal perforators, or types,
or punches, or series thereof, and their corresponding metal guides and dies, when
such are necessary, on or in revolvable horizontal discs furnished with a shaft,
indicator, and handle in combination with an index or scale, by means of which the
required perforators and dies, or types, or punches can be turned and brought into
proper position for being acted on by means of a convenient lever handle, and the
document or other article be perforated, marked, or stamped, and moved on by
hand or otherwise, and be placed in a position to be punctured, marked, or stamped
by a following or another perforator and die, or types, or punches, as required, and
so on. Also in combination with the said improvements of improved mechanism
for feeding or moving the document or article to be operated on forward the
necessary distance for forming spaces between the perforations or markings, said
mechanism consisting of one or more loose rollers or carrying plates impinging on
other rollers having dentated peripheries, between or on which the paper or other
material is held and moved, said rollers being actuated by a rocking shaft suitably
connected with said rollers and the main handle.
The whole may be made in metal or of metal and other suitable materials
combined.
The improvements are shown on the Drawings, wherein like letters refer to like
parts. Figure 1 is a plan view; Figure 2, side elevation; Figures 3 and 4, end
elevations; and Figure 5, a section (full size). A is the machine stand; B, upper
revolvable disc; and C, lower revolvable disc or guide plate; said discs carry between
them the perforators (punches or types) D and lifting springs ; E is the die plate
furnished with perforations corresponding to those of the perforators D, and into
which they enter when in action; F is an upright spindle furnished with the
knob G for turning the indicator H, which is keyed to it; J is a disc or dial
bearing devices corresponding to those made by the perforators (punches or types) D;
K is a pivoted lever furnished with an operating handle and a spring h, and
engaged with a depressing arm L, said arm having a boss at one end for impinge-
ment on the head of D, and fastened at the other end to the rocking shaft M,
which it operates, said rocking shaft being furnished with a counter arm N and
metallic tongue O, which rotates the dentated wheel P keyed on the feeder axle R,
which carries two (lower) conveying rollers S; T is a lever bearing on the shaft V,
furnished with two (upper) conveying rollers X, or one continuous roller may be
used checquered or otherwise, said lever T being supplied with a spring Y; Z is a
spring for controlling the motion of P; e is a guide support for the operating
lever K, and is furnished with stops f. The action of the machinery is as follows:-
Suppose a cheque is to be perforated £128 16 8 (the amount might be francs,
marks, dollars, or other currency, but English is here shown as necessitating more
trouble). The cheque is inserted between the, rollers or roller X and S and under
the disc C; the knob G is turned by hand until the indicator H points to the
device "£" on the dial J; the lever K is then depressed by hand, thereby bringing
the arin L on the head of the perforator D (having the "£"device) which thus

page_text: perforates "£." The knob G is then turned to the numeral "1," when the same
movement is made and action repeated, and "1" is perforated. In the meantimo
however, and before the "1" is perforated, the roller X and S have been rotated
by the counter arm N, which actuates also the wheel P on the feeder axle R, and
the cheque thus carried on the required distance between the "£" and the "1,"
and so on to the "8" then the indicator is moved to a "stop" or diamond shaped
device, which is perforated as before, and serves to mark the space between the
different denominations or fractions of currency. The indicator is then turned
to "1," which is perforated, and so on to the end.
Instead of perforators and their dies type can be used with or without ink
bands or punches and dies, and operated in substantially the same manner as the
perforators D, and dates, names, or other devices can be used. Instead of the
feeding device shown on the Drawing a sliding table with a checquered surface or
otherwise working in grooves and toothed to fit over lower roller, and actuated
thereby, may be used.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Purvis Hawtrey, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-second day of November, 1880.
JOHN PURVIS HAWTREY. (L.S.)