IMPROVED MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR PUNCHING HOLES IN PAPER
Year: 1873

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Joseph Woodcock, of the City of Manchester,
in the County of Lancaster, Accountant, for the Invention of
" IMPROVED MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR PUNCHING HOLES IN PAPER
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PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Joseph Woodcock at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 7th August 1878.
I, JOSEPH WOODCOOK, of the City of Manchester, in the County of
Lancaster, Accountant, do hereby declare the nature of the said Inven-
tion for "IMPROVED MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR PUNCHING HOLES IN PAPER
SHEETS AND CARDS USED AS PATTERNS IN JACQUARD MACHINES," to be as
follows:-
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This Invention relates more especially to the formation of pattern
holes in sheets of paper of any required length, the ends of the sheets
being afterwards joined to make them endless,

page_text: To the side frames of the machine is fixed a bed having a surface
covered with steel and perforated with rows of holes constituting dies,
and to a sliding frame which can be moved to and fro by levers is fixed
a plate having rows of holes filled with punches corresponding with
the dies.
The heads of the punches are in contact with punching wires guided
at one end in a plate fixed to the punch plate and formed at their other
ends so that they can enter or be prevented from entering slots in a
slotted plate or surface fixed to the sliding frame.
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To the punching wires are attached one end of cords passing over 1
guide rollers, so that their other ends can be raised by the reader before
whom there is a frame or bars holding the ordinary diagram of the
design or pattern required to be woven in the fabric.
The sheets of paper strengthened when required by narrow parallel
strips of stout paper at their side edges, and at one or more places 1
between them, is placed between the punches and dies and over a
feeding roller having intermittent revolving motion imparted to it by
intermittent revolving wheels worked by propelling catches and levers
so'arranged that when one catch and lever acts on one wheel the paper
is moved in one direction, and in the reverse direction when the other 2
wheel is acted upon by the other catch and lever.
The back ends of the punching wires when influenced simply by their:
own gravity are opposite the bars between the slots in the slotted plate,
but when the wires are raised by the reader according to the design
they can enter the slots, and thus when the sliding frame is moved 2
forward the punching wires in contact with the bars act upon their:
corresponding punches and punch holes in the paper, whereas those
wires having their ends passing through the slots have no motion given
to them, and their corresponding punches are stationary, and after the
holes in the paper are made to agree with the pattern diagram the 3
return movement of the sliding frame places the punches and punching
wires in their normal positions.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent
filed by the said Joseph Woodcock in the Great Seal Patent Office
..on the 7th February 1874.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOSEPH
3 WOODCOCK, of the City of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster,
Accountant, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Seventh day of August, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, in the
) thirty-seventh year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto me, the said Joseph Woodcock, Her special
license that I, the said Joseph Woodcock, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as I, the said Joseph Woodcock, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with
and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during
the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use,
exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for
"IMPROVED MACHINERY OR Apparatus for PUNCHING HOLES IN PAPER SHEETS
AND CARDS USED AS PATTERNS IN JACQUARD MACHINES," upon the condition
(amongst others). that I, the said Joseph Woodcock, my executors
or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their,
or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and
ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the
same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great
Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately
after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Joseph Woodcock, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement (that is to say) :—
This Invention relates more especially to the formation of pattern
holes in sheets of paper of any required length.
The manner in which this Invention is to be performed will be
clearly understood by the following particular description thereof,
reference being had to the figures and letters on the accompanying two
:

page_text: Sheets of Drawings, in which Fig. 1, Sheet 1, is a longitudinal elevation;
Fig. 2 a front view of one side; and Fig. 3, a longitudinal section of a
punching machine arranged and constructed according to my improve-
ments; and Figs. 4, 5, 6, and 7, Sheet 2, are detached views of some of
the parts, Figs. 1, 2, and 3 being drawn to a scale of one-eighth of a foot,
and Figs. 4, 5, 6, and 7 about full size.
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To the side frames a are fixed brackets 6 carrying a punch box c,
Figs. 2, 3, and 4, the box having fixed to it at the back a steel plate d,
Figs. 4 and 7, perforated with rows of holes e constituting the dies; and
behind this stationary plate there is another perforated plate f, Figs. 3
and 4, at the front of a guide fixed to the brackets. Inside this guide
there is a sliding frame g having at the front a perforated plate h, at the
back of which there is another perforated plate i fixed to the brackets or
framework, and it must be understood that the holes in all these plates
must perfectly agree. Between the steel plate & and the plate ƒ there
is a space for the passage of the paper k to be punched, and in the
holes of the plates f, h, there are punches / having thin heads m at the
back of the plate h, the punches being acted upon according to the
pattern or design by hitting or punching rods n, the front ends of which
are guided in the stationary plate i and their back ends in the stationary
plates o, p.
In order to prevent the hitting rods from turning, their back ends are
flattened and placed in slots q, Fig. 5, in the plates o, p, and in the
flattened ends there are holes for enabling cords " to be attached to
them, and the extremes of the back ends project a short distance behind
the plate p. Behind these extreme ends there is a metal frame with a
front plate 8, Figs. 3 and 4, having as many longitudinal slots t as thero
are hitting rods, and the longitudinal bars u of metal above and below the
slots have grooves somewhat larger than the extreme ends of the hitting
rods, the back ends of which when influenced by their own weight and
the weights o, Fig. 3, attached to them are opposite the bars u between°
the slots in the plate 8, but when the ends are raised they can enter
the slots.
The slotted frames and the perforated frame g are adjusted and held
by screws and nuts to sliding bars or blocks w, Fig. 1, fitted to guides x
adjusted and fixed to both of the side frames of the machine, and in
each bar there is a rocess y into which is geared a tooth formed on the

page_text: boss of a crank a¹ fixed to the shaft 6' extending across the machine, the
cranks being connected by rods c¹ to other cranks d¹ on the shaft e¹,
which works in bearings in the side frames a, and to this shaft is fixed
the handle or lever ƒ³.
The lower parts of the cords connected to the hitting rods after
passing through holes in the guide g¹ are fastened to weights v, and
their upper parts after passing through holes in the guide ¹ are passed
over rollers or tied to one end of the levers 7, Fig. 3, to the other ends
of which are attached the cords " connected to the cords ¹, used
in connection with the ordinary false simple containing the leashes
corresponding with the design, and also to the cords connected at the
top to the hooks m³ of the jacquard machine, and at the bottom to the
weights n³. The false simple is used when the sheets of paper have to
be punched from the design, technically called reading, and when the
pattern sheets have to be multiplied or repeated to any desired extent I
use the jacquard machine for which Letters Patent were granted to
Paul Pinel de Grandchamp, for an Invention entitled "Improvements
in the Apparatus Applied in Jacquard's Looms for Substituting Paper
to Pasteboard, and the Process of Preparing the Special Sheets of Paper
intended to Supply the said Apparatus, the Patent being dated the
Seventeenth day of June, One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one,
and Numbered 1602.
The sheets of paper strengthened by narrow parallel strips of stout
paper at their edges, and at one or more places between them is
placed in the space between the plates and over pinned feeding discs
held to the shafts n², o³, at the ends of which are fixed catch wheels q², r²,
worked by propelling catches on the arms ³, having bosses or collars st
working on pins fixed to the slide jointed to the top of the connecting
rod u³, the lower end of which is jointed to the arm ³ of the crank ď³.
Each arm has two catches w³ one for each wheel, and when the two on
one arm are in gear the other two on the other arm are out of gear, the
object being to drive or move the paper in opposite directions, the paper
travelling in one direction when one pair of catches are in gear, and in
the reverse direction when the other pair are in gear, the arms being
3 shifted as required by the lever a³ and kept steady by the spring 6º, and
holding catches o³, and spring d³.

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plate 8, the weights of the jacquard machine keeping up the back ends
of the rods, but when the operative pulls cords of the false simple
according to pattern the jacquard weights n³ are lifted and allow the
corresponding hitting rods to fall by their own gravity and the
assistance of the weights opposite the bars t, and the same effect is t
produced when the weights n³ are raised by the jacquard machine.
When the pattern and guiding holes are to be punched in the first
sheet of paper an operative pulls all the cords of the first leash in the
simple to raise the hitting rods to correspond with the first line of the
design, and then an operative moves the handle and punches one set of
holes, and when the handle is moved back in the reverse direction the
sliding plate and punches are moved back, and the paper fed onwards,
and the operative pulls the next leash to lower the hitting rods to
correspond with the next line of the design and the operative works
the handle to punch the holes and move back the punches, and so 1
on for as many leashes as are in the false simple.
When multiplying or repeating the pattern the first perforated sheet
is placed in the jacquard machine and fresh paper placed on the pinned
-discs and behind the punch box, and the jacquard machine regulates the
action of the hitting rods, for when the treadle h³ is moved down the 2
hooks m¹ and hitting rods n are lowered according to the pattern, and
then the handle is moved to cause the punches to punch the paper, and
so on continuously.
The discs can be adjusted to any required position, according to the
width of the paper, the positions being easily regulated by means of 2
circular indents in the shafts, the points of the holding screws being
entered into the indents, and in the presser plates which keep the
paper in contact with the discs there are measured slots to agree with
the various required numbers of holes in the several lines.
It will be seen that there are six rows of holes in the several plates, 3
but at the back there appears to be twelve rows of hitting rods, but in
reality there is only one hitting rod for one punch, six of the rods being
for one vertical row of punches, and the other six for the next vertical
row, and so on.
Having now described the nature and particulars of my said 3
Invention, and the manner in which the same is to performed, I desire
it to be understood that in machinery or apparatus for punching holes

page_text: in paper sheets and cards used as patterns in jacquard machines I
claim,―
First. The arrangement and combination of the punch box with the
stationary plate for containing and guiding the punches and the
3 moveable plate for moving the punches back.
Secondly. The horizontal hitting rods in connection with the plate for
guiding them at the front, and the slotted plates for guiding them at
the back, the hitting rods being used to move forward the punches to
perforate the paper.
Thirdly. The plate having longitudinal slots for the back ends of the
hitting rods to enter, and bars for hitting the rods to press forward the
punches according to the design.
Fourthly. The connection of the hitting rods by cords and hooks with
the cords of the false simple.
And, Fifthly. The general arrangement and combination of the
several parts of the machine for enabling paper patterns of any required
number of counts to be originally punched, and afterwards repeated to
any desired extent, as all such improvements are herein described and
illustrated on the accompanying two Sheets of Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Joseph Woodcock, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Sixth day of February, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
four.
Signed, sealed, and delivered by the
within-named Joseph Woodcock,
in the presence of
G. SEPTIMUS HUGHES,
Patent Agent,
Manchester.
JOSEPH WOODCOCK. (L.s.)