Improvements connected with Punches or Perforators for Paper and the like.
Year: 1898

page_text: Improvements connected with Punches or Perforators for Paper
and the like.
I, PETER WORDEN PECKHAM, of 14, Lee Bank Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
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This invention has reference to punches or perforators for paper, cardboard,
and the like.
At present the chips or cuttings from a paper punch are apt to accumulate
around it and clog or interfere with its action. My invention has for its object
to provide simple means whereby the chips will be automatically removed from
under the punch die.
In carrying out my invention I make the punch or perforator of the usual con-
struction and mount the same on a wooden, metal, or other base plate. This
base plate is made with a recessed or cut out portion for the reception of the
chips or material punched out. In order to prevent the chips accumulating
under the punch and thereby preventing its proper action the recessed portion of
the base plate, directly under the punch is bevelled, or made, or provided with,
a slanting face, or cut at a angle. With this method of construction, when the
apparatus is put in operation, the chips fall on to the slanted face or angled
portion and slip down, by the action of gravity, clear of the punch. The recep-
tacle formed by the recessed portion may be open at the front or be closed by a
door or otherwise.
When desired small receptacles for holding pens, stamps, ink bottle, and other
desk requisites may be fastened to or made in one with the base of the apparatus.
It is obvious that the receptacle for the chips can be made in various ways and
shapes and it is to be understood that I do not confine myself to the precise con-
struction hereinbefore described.
H. D. FITZPATRICK,
70, Wellington Street, Glasgow, Agent.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements connected with Punches or Perforators for Paper
and the like.
I, PETER WORDEN PECKHAM, formerly of 14, Lee Bank Road, Edgbaston, Bir-
mingham, now of 54, Robsart Street, Brixton, London, S.W., do hereby declare
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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:-
This invention has reference to punches or perforators for paper, cardboard,
and the like.
At present the chips or cuttings from a paper punch are apt to accumulate
around it and clog or interfere with its action. My invention has for its object
to provide simple means whereby the chips will be automatically removed from
under the punch die.
And in order that my said invention may be properly understood I have hereunto
appended two explanatory sheets of drawings which show, by way of example,
methods of carrying out the invention.
On the drawings:-
Fig. 1 is a section and Fig. 2 a plan of one construction of the device.
Fig. 3 is a section and Fig. 4 a plan of another construction of the device.
In carrying out my invention, under one arrangement, I make the punch or
perforator a of the usual construction and mount the same on a wooden, metal,
or other base plate b. This base plate is made with a recessed or cut out portion c
for the reception of the chips or material punched out. In order to prevent the
chips accumulating under the punch and thereby preventing its proper action
the recessed portion of the base plate, directly under the punch, is bevelled or made,
or provided with, a slantling face d, or cut at an angle. With this method of
construction, when the apparatus is put in operation, the chips fall on to the
slanted face or angled portion and slip down, by the action of gravity, clear of
the punch. The receptacle formed by the recessed portion may be open at the
front or be closed by a door or otherwise.
In Figs. 3 and 4 the wood base is made with a turned out recess or cup c¹
which serves as a receptacle for the chips. The inclined face throws the chips
forward and away from underneath the punch.
Instead of making the base 6 of wood it may be made of metal and in such
case the recess c or c¹ would be cast or stamped in the metal.
When desired small receptacles for holding pens, stamps, ink bottle, and other
desk requisites may be fastened to or made in one with the base of the apparatus.
It is obvious that the receptacle for the chips can be made in various ways and
shapes and it is to be understood that I do not confine myself to the precise construc-
tion herein before described.
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Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
consider novel and desire to claim is:
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A punch or perforator for paper and the like having a base made with a recess
or its equivalent for the reception of the chips said recess being provided with a
slanting or inclined face which throws the chips, as they fall, forward and away
from under the punch substantially as herein before set forth.
Dated this 17th day of November 1898.
H. D. FITZPATRICK,
100, Wellington Street, Glasgow, Agent.