AN IMPROVED MODE OF PREVENTING The RAISING OR FALSIFICATION OF BANK CHEQUES AND OTHER MONETARY DOCUMENTS, AND APPARATUS EMPLOYED THEREFOR.”
Year: 1880

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Robert Evans, of the Borough and County of Newcastle-
upon-Tyne, for an Invention of "AN IMPROVED MODE OF PREVENTING The
RAISING OR FALSIFICATION OF BANK CHEQUES AND OTHER MONETARY
DOCUMENTS, AND APPARATUS EMPLOYED THEREFOR.”
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Robert Evans at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 9th April 1880.
"AN
ROBERT EVANS, of the Borough and County of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
IMPROVED MODE OF PREVENTING THE RAISING OR FALSIFICATION OF BANK
CHEQUES AND OTHER MONETARY DOCUMENTS, AND APPARATUS EMPLOYED
THEREFOR."
My Invention relates to an improved mode of and apparatus for perforating or
stamping out in bank cheques and other monetary documents the figures
representing the amount for which the document is drawn, such figures being
placed in close proximity to one another, so that no additional figure can be inter-
polated nor any of the figures altered. It is therefore completely beyond the
power of any person to alter the value of the document.
The apparatus employed for perforating or stamping out the figures denoting the
value of the document consists of an upright stand, in which a revolving barrel is
mounted to turn on a vertical axis. This barrel contains 12 punches fitted to
work up and down through the barrel, and held in their respective places by nuts
and springs contained within the barrel. The said cutters or punches are arranged
at equal distances apart near the circumference of the barrel, and the perforations
made by them represent £, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 0, respectively. A hand lever is
pivoted to the top of the stand and extends over the barrel, so as when depressed
to force the punch, which for the time being is beneath it, down through the barrel,
and thereby stamp out the figure in the cheque or other document placed beneath.
The hand lever is raised by a spring and the figure required is seen on the
revolving barrel through an eye hole in the hand lever.
The barrel also has notches in its periphery corresponding in number and
position to the punches, and a spring detent falls into the notches successively as

page_text: the barrel is turned round, and holds it in the proper position for punching the
figure required.
The document to be perforated is placed on a sliding table moving in guides on
the base plate of the stand and operated as follows:-Near the fulcrum of the band
lever and at one side of the upright stand is mounted another lever, which is
caused to oscillate by the depression of the hand lever, and so act on a block lever
furnished with a spring click, which when the hand lover is depressed does not
operate, but which when the hand lever is released engages with a row of pins or
teeth in the sliding table, and by the action of a spring is caused to move the
sliding table along so as to place the document in the proper position for cutting
the next figure, this action being automatic. The pressure put on the hand lever
-also-moves- the sliding table. The movement of the sliding table is limited, and
regulated by means of a row of notches and a spring click

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Robert Evans in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 8th October
1880.
ROBERT EVANS, of Newcastle-on-Tyne. " AN IMPROVED MODE OF PREVENTING
THE RAISING OR FALSIFICATION OF BANK CHEQUES AND OTHER MONETARY
DOCUMENTS, AND APPARATUS EMPLOYED THEREFOR.
"
My Invention relates to an improved mode of and apparatus for perforating or
stamping out in bank cheques and other monetary documents the figures repre-
senting the amount for which the document is drawn, such figures being placed
in close proximity to one another, so that no additional figures can be interpolated
nor any of tho figures altered.
•
Cheques and documents require frequently filling up on exchange and other
public places. My apparatus is adapted for office and pocket uses, making the
perforating possible at all times and in all places. It is therefore completely'
beyond the power of any person to alter the value of the document."
The apparatus employed for perforating or stamping out the figures denoting the
value of the document, consists of an upright stand M, in which a revolving block
V or barrel is mounted to turn on a vertical axis.
•
On the barrel or block V is firmly fixed, turning on the same axis, a steel plate A,
raised sufficient to give an up and down action to each of the twelve sections into
which the steel plate A is divided; such divisions extending to near the axis and
so form twelve spring acting arms a. The sectional arms a may also be arranged in
a straight line, Fig. 1. At the end of each sectional arm a is a brass block C,'
into which the needles D are fixed for perforating
or other letters representing foreign monies.
A brass plate W fitted on the axis of the barrel V covers the arms a and
needles D: Holes p in this cover, corresponding with the number of perforators,
permit the depression of each perforator separately by a hand lever K.
The spring acting sectional arms a may be substituted by punches working up
and down through the barrel, and held in their respective places by nuts and
springs contained within the barrel. Lever K depresses the perforator, which
for the time being is beneath it, thereby stamp out the figure in the cheque or other
document placed beneath. A space is left under the bed B or matrix to clear the
perforated cuttings. The hand lever K is raised by a spring. The figure required
is seen on the revolving barrel V, and brought in a line with a pointer P by a
turning knob L. This knob has a wheel which gears a pinion of the barrel's axis.
The barrel also has notches v in its periphery corresponding in number and position
to the perforators, and a spring detont falls into the notches v successively as the
barrel V is turned round, and holds it in its proper position for perforating the
figure required. The document to be perforated is placed and held by a spring
catch on a sliding table moving in guides H on the base plate M of the stand and
operated as follows:―
Near the fulcrum of the hand lever K. and at one side of the upright stand is
mounted another lever E, and so act on a block lever F furnished with a spring
click g, which when the hand lever K is depressed does not operate, but which
when the hand lever K is released engages with a row of pins h or teeth in the
sliding table H, and by action of block lever F is caused to move the sliding table
H along so as to place the document in the proper position for cutting the next
figure, this action being automatic. The one pressure put on the hand lever K for

page_text: perforating also moves the sliding table H, the movement of the sliding table is
limited, and regulated by means of a row of notches G and a spring click g.
For pocket uso I prefer a steel plate A, six inches by three, or any suitable size,
divided in sections up to half an inch of the edge, making each arm a one inch and
a half long.
On the end of each arm a is a block C and needles D, as before described. These
sectional arms a are joined to a brass plate B forming the matrix, B having on the
left side the holes b for the reception of the needles D, and on the right side an
elevation sufficient to give the spring acting sectional arms a a down and up action
when depressed by hand and released.
The document or cheque to be perforated is placed between the twelve sectional
arma
with the noodles ned to form the tourna
and the matrix B having the corresponding holes b to receive the needles D. An
oblong rounded block c marked with the respective number is depressed by the
thumb or finger.
The twelve sectional arms a, arranged in a straight line, may also be fitted on a
stand and sliding table as described before.
I claim as new my Invention to perforate in a quick and easy manner in plain
figures the amount for which a cheque or other monetary document is made out;
the revolving barrel; the spring acting sectional arms; the manner in which they
are joined and combined with the matrix, giving-precision-for-the-entry-of-the-
needles; the automatic action of the hand lever, depressing the perforators and
moving the sliding board by the one pressure; the regular proximity in which
the figures are thereby placed, and the arrangement of the twelve sectional arms
in a circle or in a straight line for the use of the pocket, whereby cheques, &c., can
be perforated on exchange or other public places.
In witness whereof, I, the said Robert, Evans, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Eighth day of October, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and eighty.

page_text: automalio sliding lable = F I G . 6, where cheque is placeit belwrer W and B. V the notches to hold, the barní