Improved Combined Punching and Eyeletting Machine.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd June, 1894
Complete Specification Lelt, 22nd Mar., 1895-Accepted, 4th May, 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION
An Improved Combined Punching and Eyeletting Machine.
1, ARTHUR SENIOR of 40 Gibbet Street, Halifax in the County of York,
Bookbinder, do hereby declare the nature of this invention, to be as follows:-
The object of my invention is to construct an apparatus for continuously
punching and cycletting tickets, labels, and the like upon one machine.
Fixed upon a suitable frame or stand is a disc or wheel upon the periphery of
which are fixed in any suitable manner, preferably four or more punclics.
Working in a suitable slide upon the machine frame above this disc, is a plunger
upon which is another punch which at stipulated intervals descends upon a ticket
or label, and presses or forces the same upon the punch of the wheel or dise
which cuts or pimehes the required hole in same.
Below the disc or wheel is fixed an ordinary sliding spring receiver and closer
working within a suitable slide, cast or otherwise attached to the machine frame,
such receiver being immediately under the sliding plunger before described, and is
employed for eyeletting the said tickets.
The disc is operated by any suitable means, and the aforesaid means operated by
a suitable treadle or continuous motion.
When a hole is required to be punched in the ticket, the top plunger descends
and presses the ticket upon the punch in the disc, which cuts the required hole in
the said ticket. after which the aforesaid plunger is raised, and the wheel moved a
quarter of a revolution, carrying the ticket forward and bringing the same into
position for another hole to be punched, this operation is repeated.
When the ticket arrives at the eyeletting apparatus, an eyelet passes or slides
down, an ordinary moveable guide plate operated in any suitable manner (from a
box or other vessel containing the eyelets) on to the spring receiver before
described, which by connecting rods and levers rises and presses the same through
the hole previously made in the ticket, elinching or finishing same as desired.
The top plunger and spring receiver may be operated by suitable levers and
connecting rods, or any other suitable means, in such a manner, that when the one
descends to punch the hole in the ticket, the eyeletter or sliding receiver is
withdrawn, or descends to receive another eyelet for the next operation, and
when the top plunger is withdrawn or ascends, the ordinary spring receiver also
ascends for the purpose of eyeletting the hole brought into position for that
purpose.
By this arrangement and construction of apparatus the process of punching and
eyeletting tickets or labels is performed at one continuous operation.
Dated this Twenty-second day of June 1894.
JOHN E. WALSH,
Crossley Street, Halifax, Patent Agent for the Applicant.

page_text: 1, ARTHUR SENIOR of 40 Gibbet Street, Halifax in the County of York
Bookbinder and Label Maker, do hereby declare the nature of this invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement :-
The object of my invention is to construct an apparatus for punching and eyeletting
tickets, labels and the like at one continuous operation and upon one machine.
DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS.
Fig. 1. is a side elevation of my improved punching and eyeletting machine
showing eyelet hole being punehel in the ticket or label."
Fig. 2. is a side elevation of my improved punching and eyeletting machine,
showing ticket or label being eyelettel.
Fig. 3. is a front view of Fig. 1.
Fig. 4. is a sectional elevation of spring catch for engaging and rigidly holding
the dise or wheel during the operation of punching and eyeletting.
Fig. is a plan of spring catch an mechanism for disengaging same.
Fig. 6. is a modification of the method of adjusting the position of the label or
ticket upon the tables, showing plunger down.
Fig. 7. is a view of Fig 6, showing planger withdrawn.
Fig. 8. shows my method of punching and eyeletting tickets without the
continuous motion.
Fig. 9. shows method of operating table for throwing off the ticket or label,
employed in Fig. 8, and showing table in position when a ticket is being punched.
Fig. 10. shows adjustable spring clip or ticket holder, for attachment to the tables
if desired.
In constructing my apparatus for punching and eyeletting tickets, labels and the
like, fix upon a suitable frame or standard A, a disc or wheel B, upon the
pheriphery of which are placed in any suitable manner, preferably four or more
punches C.
Upon one end of a suitable slid D, working within the machine frame A, and
above the disc B. is a plunger E in which is a female die or punch F, which at
stipulated intervals descends upon a ticket or label G (placed upon a table H,
pivotted upon a bracket B attached to the dise or wheel B) pressing or forcing
the said ticket or label upon the punch in the dise, which cuts or punches the
required hole in the said ticket or label.
The said table 11 may have an adjustable or other stop II', or spring adjustable
table 1, attached to the machine frame with hinge joint see Figs. 6 and 7.
This method of adjustment is specially applicable for small labels and carl
tickets,
is a guide employed for ensuring the exact position of the cards when placing
them on the table; also to prevent the tickets or labels from falling off the tables,
I attach an adjustable spring guard or holder II, adjustable by means of a screwed
stud and bracket 1, attached to the said table.
Below the disc or wheel and immediately underneath the aforesaid plunger or
die F, is an ordinary spring eyelet receiver, closing die and punch J, attached to
the other end of the slide D, such receiver and punch being employed for taking
an eyelet from the eyelet slide J', and retaining same, until it is by the continued
movement of the slide D, forced into the hole previously made in the ticket, and
clinched or closed, thus eyeletting the said ticket or label.

page_text: The disc is operated and moved the required distance, preferably by means of a
suitable spring catel K, and stop pin K' fixed upon the slide D, this catch operates
a suitable catch wheel L, formed upon or attached to the boss of the disc or
wheel B, such catch wheel having the same number of teeth as there are punches
upon the periphery of the aforesaid disc, the slide D is operated by a falcrum
lever D', connecting rod D³, and treadle or by a continuous motion.
When the disc has been so moved it is held in a rigid position during the
eyeletting and punching process, by means of a suitable spring catch or stop M,
fixed upon the machine frame, and engaging with recesses at the back of the
disc each partial revolution of the same.
A catch N upon the back of the slide operates upon a second spring catch 1',
pivotted upon the outer case or holder of the spring catch M, which in turn operates,
upon a stud or runner N¹ upon the spring catch M, withdrawing same and
releasing the disc or wheel; as the disc revolves, the spring catch M engages with
another of the recesses M', locking the said disc until the next operation.
is
When a ticket or label is required to be punched and eyeletted, the said ticket
or label G is placed upon the pivotted table H, immediately underneath the
plunger E. this plunger and slide D then descends with the backward motion of
the treadle lever D₁ and presses the ticket upon the punch C, in the disc B,
which cuts the required hole in the ticket, the slide D then rises, raising the
plunger E and die clear of the punches in the disc, the spring receiver and
closing punch being raised simultaneously, so that as the slide continues to
rise the latter takes an eyelet from the eyelet slide J, the eyelet slide
then withdrawn clear of the rising punch J, by means of levers S and T,
connected to the trendle lever D', the slide at the same time (by means of spring
catches K and N) moves the disc a quarter; sixth or eighth of a revolution
(according to the number of punches employed in the disc); as the disc revolves
the slide continues to rise bringing the closing punch J and spring eyelet
receiver (still carrying the eyelet) into position for the closing or eyeletting
operation, the eyelet being pressed through the ticket and closed, simultaneously
as the said slide reaches the end of its traverse; as the slide falls the plunger
before described presses another ticket on to the punch in the disc, bringing
the eyelet slide forward into position for the eyelet receiver to take another eyelet,
and the operation before described is repeated.
When the tickets have been punched and eyeletted, the tables carrying the said
tickets (as the disc revolves) come in contact with an inclined plane Z, as shown
in dotted lines on Fig. 3. fixed upon the machine frame which raises one end of the
said table so throwing the said tickets off the punches into any suitable receiver
placed underneath to receive them as they are cast off.
When the apparatus is only required for punching purposes, the eyelet slide is
withdrawn and held clear of the closing punch and receiver by means of cam U
operated by lever V.
At the back of the disc B 1 form suitable cam grooves X within which works a
suitable stud or projection W fixed upon the slide D, as the slide ascends the
stud W moves up the vertical grove, and when opposite the horizontal groove
the disc revolves, such groove then operating on the stud W, which upon the
continued movement of the disc and slide enters the next vertical groove, and when
the slide has reached the end of its traverse and descends, the stud also descends
with it to its original position for the next operation, by this means should the dise
or machine be stopped part or midway in its operation, it is held in a rigid position
by means of the aforesaid stud and can grooves, so preventing any damage to the
work being done.
Also by taking off the lowest table from the disc and throwing back the catch K
and cam U, the machine can be used as a punching machine only. By this
construction of apparatus for punching and eyeletting tickets and labels, when one
punch descends to punch the hole in the ticket or label, the eyeletting or closing
punch is withdrawn or descends to receive another eyelet, and when the punch for

page_text: punching the holes in the tickets is withdrawn or raised, the ordinary spring
receiving and closing punch ascends and eyelets the ticket brought into position
for that purpose, this punching and eyeletting tickets or labels at one continuous
operation.
In place of the disc or wheel being mounted upon a horizontal shaft, it may be
mounted upon a vertical shaft or stad, and the punches C in place of being fixed
in the periphery of the disc may be secured to the onter face of saine, in some
classes of tickets this arrangement of disc might be preferable.
Or when required as a punching and eyeleiting machine without the continuous
motion, and in lieu of the disc see Fig. 8, I may attach or cast to the frame A a
pillar or bracket B to the top and bottom of which are attached punches C, the
slide and spring receiver punch operating upon the tickets or labels as before
described.
In this instance for throwing off the ticket or label when eyeletted see Fig 9,
I preferably place a suitable spring stud or buffer B2 upon a bracket 13, cast or
fixed to the bracket or pillar B, resting upon this stud is one end of the table H,
the table being depressed during the pinching of the tickets by the plunger, the
spring stud is also depressed, so that as the plunger is withdrawn, the table by
means of the spring buffer resumes its original position, and throws off the said
ticket from the punch.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, 1 declare that what I
claim is :-
1. The construction of apparatus for punching and eyeletting tickets, labels, and
the like, at one continuous operation, substantially as described.
2. In apparatus for continuously punching and eyeletting tickets, labels, and the
like, the use and employment of suitable dise or wheel B, mounted upon frame A,
in which are fixed punches C, slide D, carrying punches F and, pivotted spring
tables H, catch wheel 1. spring catches M and P, entch N, cam U, lever V, stud
or projection W, cam grooves X, inclined plane Z and lever D, operated in the
manner substantially as shown and described.
3. In apparatus for punching and eyeletting tickets, the use and employment of
a disc or wheel B, mounted upon frame A. punches C, slide D, carrying
punches and J, pivotted spring tables 11, guard or holder F, inclined plane Z
and lever D, operated in the manner and for the purposes substantially as shown
and described.
4. In apparatus for punching and cycletting tickets or labels, the use and
employment of pillar or bracket B attached to a frame or standard A, punches C,
slide D, having punches F and J, spring table H, spring stud L³, operating in the
manner and for the purposes substantially as shown and described.
Dated this Twenty-first day of March 1895.
JOHN E. WALSH,
Crossley Street, Halifax, Patent Agent for the Applicant.