An Improved Instrument for Piercing Paper or any other Suitable Material or Substance for the Purpose of Making a Dividing Line, so that or Re.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application,
7th Doc
1808
Complete Specification Left, 7th Sept., 1899-Accepted, 25th Nov., 1899
Complete Specification Left, 7th Sept., 1899-Accepted, 25th Nov.,
1899
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Instrument for Piercing Paper or any other Suitable
Material or Substance for the Purpose of Making a Dividing Line,
so that the Article or Substance so Pierced can be Torn or Broken
off as Required.
I, TOM GILLIATT DAY, of 80, Spurn View Terrace, Cleethorpes, in the County
of Lincolnshire, Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to
be as follows:
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The object of my invention is to pierce lengths of paper and other suitable
materials or substances during the process of manufacture or afterwards as
required for the purpose of making pierced dividing lines in the paper or the
like to allow of the lengths being easily torn or broken off in suitable widths;
my instrument being specially applicable for dividing wall paper into the widths
of the design so that when being used for the papering there is no trimming or cut-
ting of the edges, also as it comes from the machine it can have several widths
made up
into one roll and such widths can be broken off one at a time as required
for use.
For the purpose of my invention I employ a contrivance consisting of a vertical
cutter or needle having a preferably dagger shaped point set in a holder connected
to a spindle working in a tube, a recovering spring being placed on the spindle
for bringing the needle up each time it is forced down, the whole being mounted
in a frame for attachment to the machine in connection with which it is being
used.
The cutter holder preferably works within a slot in the frame of the con-
trivance, such slot acts as a guide and keeps the cutter straight. A face plate
is fitted to the contrivance, such face plate has a hole in it directly underneath
the cutter, the, material being pierced is passed over this face plate, and the
cutter moving quickly up and down, as the material passes over the face plate
pierces the material making clear cuts in it without perforating or boring the
material.
The apparatus may be driven by means of a driving wheel provided with a
cam or with a wheel having enlarged cam shaped projections, a lug being formed
on the cutter holder; as the cam or cam wheel turns and comes in contact with
the lug on the cutter holder it depresses such cutter holder and at the same
time depresses the cutter, the recovering spring bringing the cutter back after
each depression. If desired the apparatus may be operated by means of an
electro magnet and a battery or similar electrical device as is employed for obtain-
ing the ringing of electric bells, but any suitable device may be employed which
will produce vibration of the cutter or a rapid up and down motion of such cutter.
Dated this Sixth day of December 1898.
JOHN E. WALSH,
Savile Street, Hull, and Crossley Street, Halifax,
Patent Agent for the Applicant.

page_text: An Improved Instrument for Piercing Paper or any other Suitable
Material or Substance for the Purpose of Making a Dividing Line,
so that the Article or Substance so Pierced can be Torn or Broken
off as Required.
I, TOM GILLIATT DAY, of 80, Spurn View Terrace, Cleethorpes, in the County
of Lincoln, Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention, and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement:-
The instrument forming the subject of this invention is intended for the
purpose of piercing or perforating paper or other suitable materials during the
process of manufacture, of being printed, or otherwise as required, in order to
enable such paper for example, to be easily torn, broken off or divided along the
pierced or perforated line without the use of scissors, shears or the like; and
the invention is specially applicable for forming pierced or perforated lines along
the edge of the width of the design of wall-papers, so that several widths may be
printed in one roll, and be broken off one at a time as required for use.
trimming or cutting of the edges of such paper is necessary.
No
According to my invention I employ an instrument or device which consists
of a vertical cutter, needle, or piercer having preferably a dagger-shaped point,
and mounted in a vertically reciprocating holder and preferably provided with
a spring for effecting either the upward or downward stroke of the cutter, needle,
or piercer.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings illustrates a front view of my piercing
device, and Figure 2 a side view thereof, Figure 3 is a back view of a modified
form of the device and Figure 4 a side view thereof. Similar letters of reference
relate to like parts in all the figures of the drawings.
The instrument or device may be mounted in such a position upon the paper-
making, printing, or other machine through which the paper or other material
to be pierced or perforated is fed, that the part of the said paper to be pierced
or perforated shall pass under the reciprocating cutter, needle, or piercer a.
This cutter, needle, or piercer a is mounted in a groove formed in the holder or
carrier and secured firmly therein by the clamping screw c. The holder or
carrier 6 is guided by the upper and lower pins and e the upper of which d pass
through holes formed in the flange or plate f and the lower ones e pass first
through holes in the adjustable guide plate and then through other holes in the
bottom bracket h springs i being interposed between the underside of the holder
or carrier b and the upper side of the adjustable guide plate g, so that the holder
or carrier is normally held in the raised position by the springs i and the point
of the cutter, needle, or piercer held free of the paper or other material which is
being fed between the guide plate and bottom bracket h. j is a cam mounted
on the axis turning in the boss formed on the frame m of the apparatus. nis
a driving pulley to which rotary motion at the desired speed may be imparted
from any convenient rotating part of the machine to which the device is applied.
The edge of the cam is normally in contact with the roller o suitably mounted
on the top of the holder or carrier b, and it will be understood that as such cam
is rotated, the holder or carrier b with the cutter, needle, or piercer a will be
alternately forced downwards by the projecting parts of the cam and upwards
by the springs the cutter, needle, or piercer a being thereby caused to pass inter-
mittently through the paper or other material which is being fed between the
guide plate and the hottom bracket h, and form therein lines of holes of a

page_text: distance apart dependent upon the relative speeds of the driving pulley n and
that at which the paper is being fed through the machine.
It is obvious that the springs i may be arranged above the flange f, and if
preferred the paper or other material may be pierced or perforated by the action
of the springs and the cutter, needle, or piercer withdrawn from such material
by the action of the cam.
Figures 3 and 4 illustrate a modified apparatus in which the cutter, needle, or
piercer a is forced through the material by the action of the ratchet-like teeth of
the star-wheel p acting upon a pin q which projects from the holder or carrier b.
If desired the apparatus may be driven independently in any suitable manner,
as by an electric motor, for example or it may in some cases be driven by means
of a crank handle n as shewn in Figures 3 and 4.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is: -
First. An apparatus for piercing paper or other material which consists of a
vertically reciprocating cutter, needle, or piercer, so arranged as to intermittently
pierce the material as the same is fed forward, substantially as described with
reference to the drawings.
Second. In an apparatus for piercing paper or other material the combination
of the vertically reciprocating cutter, needle, or piercer a, with the suitably
guided holder or carrier b, rotating cam ; and adjustable guide plate g, substan-
tially as described with reference to Figures 1 and 2 of the drawings.
Third. In an apparatus for piercing paper or other material the combination
of the vertically reciprocating cutter, needle, or piercer a, with the suitably guided
holder or carrier b. pin q, and rotating star-wheel p, substantially as described
with reference to Figures 3 and 4 of the drawings.
Fourth. The apparatus for piercing paper or other material constructed, com-
bined and operating substantially as described.
Dated this 7th day of September 1899.