US742789A

US742789A - Card punching or stamping machine.

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Publication number: US742789A
Authority: US
Inventors: Walter W Hodgson
Original assignee: FRED SUTCLIFFE
Current assignee: FRED SUTCLIFFE
Priority date: 1903-03-05
Filing date: 1903-03-05
Publication date: 1903-10-27
Anticipated expiration: 1920-10-27

Description

110.742.789. PATENTED 0012221903.

.. W. W. HODGSON.

GARD PUNCHING OR STAMPING MACHINE.

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No. 742,789. y l PATENTED 00T. 27, 1903.

W. W. HODGSON.

GARD PUNGHING OB. STAMPING. MACHINE.

' APPLICATION FILED MAR. s, 1903.

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No. 74?,789. Y Patented October 27, 1903.

UNITED STATES PATENT Ormes.

WALTER IV. HODGSON, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR' OF TWO-THIRDS TO WILLIAM E. BEATTY AND FRED SUTOLIFFE, OF PHILA- DELPIIIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

CARD PUNCHING OR STAMPING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 742,789, dated October 27,' 1903.

Application filed March 5, 1903. Serial No. 146,320. (No model.) v

To tI/Z whom it may concern: tion of stamping the cards a very difficult Be it known that I, WALTER W. HODGSON, one, requiring the closest and most careful a citizen of the United States, residing in attention on the part of the operator and cor- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, have invented respondingly limiting the output of the macertain Improvements in Card Punching or chine. 55 Stamping Machines, of which the followingis The object of my invention, therefore, is a specification. to so construct the machine that it will auto- The object of my invention is to so con- `matically take care of the alternation of struct a jacquard-card punching or stamping punched and blank spaces before referred to,

xo machine that each key of the same may be ea'ch key controlling two punches and the 6o caused'to control either of two punches of operator manipulating these keys in the same the row with which the machine is provided, manner as though punching a simple design whereby said key may be caused to eect the involving only the use of six punches. punching of either an odd or an even hole in The punches l are arranged in a row, as

the row of holes formed in the card by said usual, and are vertically supported in the 65 row of punches, thereby lessening the numstamping-head in the usual manner. Said ber of keys required and materially simplistamping-head consists in the present ini'ying and facilitating the operation of said stance of a lower section 2, an intermediate keys. section 3, and an upper section 4, the section 2o In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is 2 being mounted immovably upon the verti- 7o a sectional plan view on the line a a, Fig. 2, cal posts or studs 5 at the ends of the stampof sufficient of a jacquard-card punching or ing-head, but the intermediate section 3 and stamping machine to illustrate my invention'. the upper section 4 being movable trans- Fig. 2 is atransverse section of the stampingversely in respect to said lower section for a head on the line h b, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a simipurpose described hereinafter. 75 lar view illustrating'some of the parts ad- The stems of the keys 6 are guided in slots justed to a diEerent position from that repin the intermediate section 3 of the stampingresented in Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a plan view of head and are acted upon by springs 7, tendpart of a modified form of key for use in said ing to project. them; but the head 8 at themachine. Fig. 5 is a view similar to Fig. 1, inner end of each key 6 is peculiarly formed, 8o but illustrating another embodiment Vof my having a lateral bend or odset to the extent invention. Fig. 6 is a transverse section of of the distance between adjoining punches the stamping-head on the line c c, Fig. 5; and of the row, which bend is projected to a like Fig. 7 is a perspective View of one of the keys extent, so that while one portion of the head employed in said machine. is in line withone punch, other portions of 85 In preparing jacquardcards for certain the head'will be in line with the punch alongclasses of work it is necessary to alternate side of the same. the punched and blank portions of the card There are only half as many keys as there in a certain way. For instance, if an oddare punches, and when the keys are project- 4o numbered space in the row is punched the ed, as shown in Fig. 1, the oset and pro- 9o adjoining even-numbered space is permitted jecting portion of the heads 8 of the same to remain blank, or vice versa, or if a space overlap the tops of one-half of the punchesof the row on one half of the longitudinal say the odd punches of the rowwhile the center of the card is punched the correspondother portions of said heads 8 are in line with,

ing space on the other half of the card is perbut do not overlap, the even numbered 95 mitted to remain blank, or vice versa. Usupunches of the row. If, however, the key is ally the card punching or stamping machine depressed, the oset portion of its head is has as many keys as there are punches in a moved away from the punch which it norrow, and the necessity of keeping in mind mally overlaps, and the other portion of the 5o this peculiarity of cutting renders the operahead is caused to overlap the adjoining punch. rco

Hence if in the operation of the machine a key is permitted to remain in the projected position it will lock or prevent from moving upward a corresponding odd-numbered punch of the row, but will have no eiect upon the adjoining even-numbered punch, and said odd-numbered punch will therefore form a hole in the card, while the even-numbered punch, being permitted to yield freelyin a vertical direction, will permit its portion of the card to remain unpunched or blank. If, however, the key is depressed, a reverse action will take place,theevennumbered punch being locked in position vertically, so as to cause it to perforate its corresponding portion of the card, and the odd-numbered punch being free from vertical confinement, so as topermit itsportion of the card to remain blank.

Other methods of forming the key-head so as to present two acting portions in dierent lateral and longitudinal planes may be adopted. For instance, in Fig. 4 I have shown a key having a head 8a wide enough to cover two punches,this head having a forward opening 8l in line with one punch and a rear opening Sc in line with the adjoining punch.

In addition to the punches 1 an ordinary card-stamping machine is also provided with a special punch 9 for forming at the opposite ends of the card the openings for the reception of the pegs on the card-cylinder. This punch is normally inoperative and canbe projected vertically into an opening 1O in the intermediate section 3 and upper section 4 of the stamping-head, as shown in Fig. 2; but when it is desired to render the punch 9 operative said intermediate and upper sections are pushed rearwardly, so as to carry the opening 10 out of line with said punch 9 and bring a plug 11 above it. The peg-hole is punched in the card before the formation of the Iirst row of holes and after the formation of the last row of holes by the punches 1, and when it is being formed the opening 10 in the

sections

3 and 4 of the stampinghead is above the row of punches 1, so as to permit of the rise into said opening of the upper ends of said punches, the key-heads 8 having been carried away from the punches by the rearward movement of the section 3, as shown in Fig. 3.

The

sections

3 and 4 of the stamping-head mayV be normally' retained in kthe position shown in Fig. 2 by any suitable means-such, for instance, as springs 12, contained in the slots which are formed at the opposite ends ot' the

sections

3 and 4 for the reception of the vertical studs 5 of the stamping-head.

The machine so far described provides for control of alternate and adjacent punches by a single key; but in some classes of work the punches which it is desired to subject to such joint control are more widely separated. vFor instance, each key may be called upon to control one of a series of six punches on one side of the longitudinal center of the card and a corresponding one of another set of six pressed, will control punches on the opposite side of said centralV line. In. adapting'the machine for this class of work I `can adopt the construction shown in Figs. 5 and 6, on reference to which it will be observed that each key 6 has a forked innerend 13 with downwardly-

bent ends

14 and 15, the end 14 normally overlapping one of the punches of the row when the key is projected and the other end 15 beingthen normally free from engagement with a corresponding punch of the other set, the ends of the fork being so disposed, however, that depression of the key will carry the normally overlapping end 14 of the same away from its respective punch and will bring the normally non-overlapping end 15 over its respective punch, the action being, therefore, precisely the same as in the structure shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 3, with the exception of the difference of the location of the punches under control of the key. Y

The stamping-head is made in sections in order to permit of the insertion with their enlarged heads; but while it is preferred to form it in three sections, as shown, it may in some cases consist of but two sections, the

sections

3 and 4 being combined.

Having thus described my invention, I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patents 1. A card punching or stamping machine having a row of punches and a series of keys, each with two punch-controlling portions so disposed that, when the key is projected, it will control one punch, and, when it is depressed, will control another and a dierent punch, substantially as specified.

2. A card punching or stamping machine having a row of punches and a series of keys each with acting member or head having two portions, one laterally offset and longitudinally projected in respect tothe other,where by each key may be caused to control either one of a pair of punches, substantially as specified.

3. The combination in a card punching or stamping machine, of a row of punches and a series of keys, each of said keys having punch-controlling portions which are out of line with each other both laterally and 1on- 4gitudinally, whereby, when projected it will control one punch of the set, and, when deanother and a different punch of the set, substantially as specied.

4. The combination in a card punching or stamping machine, of a row of punches, and a series of keys each having a forked inner end with terminations adapted, in one position of the key, to control one punch of the set, and in another position of the key, to control another punch of the set, substantially 'as specified.

5. The combination stamping machine, of posed of sections,

in a card punching or a stamping-head comone above another, punches carried by the lower section, and punch-controlling keys Vcarried by a section above the IOO IIO

same, said upper section being movable back and forth over said lower section, substantially as specified.

6. The combination in a card punching or stamping machine, of a stamping-head having a'lower section carrying a peg-hole punch, and a section above the same which is movable rearwardly over said lower section and has an opening which, in one position of said overlying section is in line with said peg-hole punch, and, in another position of said overlying section, is out of line therewith, substantially as specied.

7. The combination in a card punching or stamping machine, of a stamping-head havi ing alower section carrying a series of punches and also a peg-hole punch, and a section above the same which is movable rearwardly in respect to said lower section and has an opening, which, in one position of said overlying section is in line with the peg-hole punch, and in the other position of said overlying section is in line with the other punches, substantially as specified.

8. The combination in a card punching or stamping machine, of a stamping-head having upper, lower, and the lower section carrying a series of punches, and the intermediate section carrying a `se ries of punch-controlling keys, substantially as specified.

-In testimony whereof I have signed my naine to this speeication in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

WALTER W. HODGSON.

Witnesses:

F. E. Enormou), Jos. H. KLEIN.

intermediate sections,