US196647A

US196647A - eaton

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Publication number: US196647A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1877-10-30
Anticipated expiration: 1894-10-30

Description

2 Sheets-Sheet 1.

W. W. EATON. Perforating-Stamp.

No. 196,647. Patented Oct. 30, I877.

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spe'cifieation forniiiig eat of Letters Patent Not 196, 47, dated October 30, 1877; application filed I March 13, 12 377,;

Be it known that I, WILLIAM W. EAToN,

of Norwich, county of New London and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Perforating-Stamps, which improvements are fully set forth in the following specification and accompanying Figure 1 is a front elevation;

. Fig. 2, aplan View; Fig. 3, a perspective view of sliding. head 5 Fig.4, a partly sectional end view.

My invention relates to improvements in.

that class of check-punches in which the figures or characters representing the amount of the money-check are cut bodily from the paper, to prevent the possibility of changing the face of the check to some different amount;

and it consists, first, in the employment of a numerically-indexed stationary head, in which I are contained the figures or characters represented on the index plataand which are forced,

attached to the sliding head, through correspondingly-formed female dies and the moneydesired tobe shown on the face of the check. In the accompanying drawings, A is the body of check-punch. B is a sliding head that moves horizontally on two rods, E E, and attached to said sliding head are the lever 0, pointer D, a vertically-sliding bar, a,

ing verticallyin a recess, F,.situatedjin;the

upper part of sliding he'ad. Said plunger at and guide-pinf pass through perforations in sliding head above and below the recess F. Said plunger" ct, guide-pin f, and verticallysliding bar 0 are retained in their-places by means of the tension of a, coiled spring,-b, surrounding the plunger a, the upper coil of a said spring bearing against the lower face of the, vertically-sliding bar '0, and the lower A,*the outer face of which is provided with a recess, G, in which aresituated eleven plungers,a' a, sliding vertically through perforaeach separately, by means of a lever and plunger 1 check, thus cutting from the latter the amount and attached to and'moving with'said bar are the plunger a and guide-pin f, the above movtions in the stationary head above and below the recess G. On the lower ends of said plun gcrs are cut or fixed male dies or cutters, preferably of steel, of the form of the nine numerals, zero, and a round projection, or any other character that may 'be desired would answer as well. I are coiled springs surrounding the plungers a a, the upper parts of which bear against pins J. Said pins pass through and project out from two side faces of the plungers a a, the lower ends of said springs bearing against the lower faces of recess G, the tension of said springs thus raising the plungers a a, so that the face of the male dies will come flush with the lower face of stationary head A after they have been depressed ary head A on the face of which are figures or characters so arranged as to correspond with the male and female dies. 0 c are perforations in upper face of the stationary head A, with the upper end of the same countersunk, as represented inii, and are so made as to come in rear and in line of perforation for plunger a a from front face of stationary head to back of the same.

The operation of punching the amount desired to be shown on the face of the check or paper is as follows, viz: The check being first placed on the table B, so that the left-hand edge of said check will come in line with the first right-hand graduation-line, the check being held to table by the left hand, the right hand at the same time being placed on the lever and sliding heads, said sliding head is moved either to the right or left, and stopped for the purpose of punching any desired figure or character, when said figure or character on the index-plate is covered by the pointer D. The leverG is then depressed, forcing down the vertically-sliding bar 0', plunger a, and the -guide-pinf. The point of the guide-pin exmale die cannot touch the check until the sliding head is in its proper position. fiaid point of guide-pinf first strikes on the incline of countersink c i-that is, if the guide-pin is not directly over the perforations c c, and these more readily let the guide-pin f into the perforations c (a -and at the same time bring the sliding head into its proper position, and hold it there until the figure or character is punched. After the first figure or character is punched the check is again moved from the first gradnation-line to the next preceding it to the left, and so on in succession until the amount' be shown on the face of the check is punched.

The above operation will so space the figure or character as to. show an equal distance be .e plungers a! c,perforations;g g gand countersink the whole "substantially as described and j atween the s aineon of the checkorfi p ap v 5 1: r What I claiJn' asi'n'yin tion, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The sliding head B,provided with a lever, I I I V O, Vertica1 ly-sliding bars of, plunger a, guide pin'fi graduated'tahle'liigin combination with the stationaryhead' A provided with for the purpose set forth. j

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