US103146A - Improvement in hand-stamps tor cutting checks, bonds - Google Patents

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P.; com' 8p JQ 11. BROWN. 1 v HANDV STAMP FOR CUTTING CHECKS., BONDS, 6nd. 1 110, 103,146;` j Patented 'May 17, 1870.

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JOHN F.1OORY AND JACOB H. BROWN, OF BROOKLYN, E. D., NEW YORK.

team Patent No. 103,146, rvam: May 1r, 1870.

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The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part o! the same Be it known that we, J OHN'F. Cour aud J Aeon H. BROWN, both of Brooklyn, E. D., in the county of .Kings and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Hand-Stamps for'cutting Checks, Bonds, Sto.; and we do hereby declare the-following to be a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable those skilled in the'art to make and use the same, reference beingr had to the accompanying drawing forming a part of this specification, in which drawing-- Figurel is afront elevation of this invention.

Figure 2 is a vertical cross-section.

Figure 3vis a side vicw of one of the punches to which alever is -applied.V

Figure 4 is a plan of the holder J.

Similar letters indicatev corresponding parts.

This invention relMzes to apparatus for cutting out from checks, notes, and other papers of valuetig ures or characters representing the values or' runningv numbers which the checks or other papers bear, so as to prevent fraudulent alterations of their value or numbers. i

f The invention consists in the arrangement in a suitable frame of a series of punches whose faces are provided with punching-dies having the form of the characters, figures, or designs to be employed, and which punches work against a bed-plate in which are formed female or counter-dies of like form, into which the punching-dies work, so as to cut out from any paper interposed between them the form of the letters, figures, or designs represented on the dies.

Our invention consists, further, in combining with the punching apparatus, a holder for holding the check or paper while Vit is linden' the action of the apparatus.`

The letter' A designates a series of spring-punches whose stocks are arranged to move vertically in a horizontal bar, B, which is supported over a bed-plate, O, by the brackets D D.

The punch-stocks are guided in their movements by screws E, which extend through the back of the bar .into grooves' formed in the stocks, so as to prevent the stocks from turning on their axes, andA they are supported on the bar by spiral springs F, which raise them 11p after each descent 'in operating upon acheck or other paper. l i

The several punch-stocks are surmounted by heads G, of asuitable form to be operated upon by the hand of the-operator, or they can be provided, as is shown in the case of one of them in fig. 1, with a lever, like H,

Vhaving its fulcrum on the bar B, or in brackets extending therefrom. l

We provide the faces of the punch-stocks with punching-dies arranged in a. series, and formed to represent the characters which it is designed to use on the checks or papers, the lirst -one of the series bearing on it a. die representing and intended to cut a terminal character for the beginning or end of the row of iigures or characters that are cut out from the check,

and the succeeding punches of the series having thereon the figures or characters designed to be used for expressing value, and which, in this example, are the numerals 1, 2, 3, Sac.

-It is only neeessaryto represent the several units up to vnine and a cypher, (0,) after which, for conven-j ience in manipulating the apparatus, another termilnal character may close the series, if desired.

Directly under or opposite to the faces of the punches we provide a series of open or counter-dies, I, into or Athrough which the cutting-edges of the male` dies work, so as to cut out from anyinterposed check or paper the figure or character producedon the punches,v the female dies being respectively counterparts of the male dies which are opposite to them.

In order to present and submit a check or other paper in a convenient and proper manner to-the apparatns, we'have provided a sliding holder J ,which works in guides K K. on the bed-plate.,

This holder has a longitudinal slot, L, through its center, so as not to cover the counter-dies I, andit is pmvided on its surface with flat springs PIv, under which the checks, 85o., are confined to the holder when they are submitted to the action ofv the apparatus.

The exposed surfaces of the holder' or of the springs which are arranged thereon, or both, have register marks M, which serveasgnides to the operator with reference to the punches, when operating the sliding holder, whereby he is enabled to present the check or other paper spaced in a proper manner v tov theA several punches.

\Ve have in this example arranged the series of punches in a straight line and in a stationary bar, but they can be arranged, if desired, in a circle, Vand the frame or bar in which they work can be made to rotate along with the bed in which the counter-dies are formed, and the cheek-holder can' be made to .move A forward for the space of one figure, while the punches are caused to move so that each punch shall be brought to the check, instead of, as is here shown, the check being moved along under the punches successively.

What we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The spring punches A provided with cutting-dies i representing gures or characters as set forth, combined with female counter-dies I arranged in series, and in such, a manner that the male and female dies are counterparts of each other respectively, substantially as described.

2. The punches A and bed-plate C, provided .with female dies I, in combination with the sliding spring holderJ, substantially as described.

This specification signed by us this 12th day of April, 1870.

. JOHN F. CORY.

JACOB H. BROWN.

Witnesses t O. WAnLnRs, E. F. KASTENHUBER.

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