Posted 8 years ago
Johnyblost
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Cast iron wicked heavy 200lbs, it looks like it punches needle sized holes the guy I got it from punched holes through a nickel, it looks like you can change the hole pattern, I would love to know what was made with it, to research its history
OK Let's see if I've got this right... It stands upright and is operated by a foot pedal. The six wheels all have the same pattern of 3x6-hole grids, deep and shallow, numbered 0 thru 9. The studs in the wheels can be pulled out and re-positioned in the larger holes, between the hole grids, to rotate the wheels and "set up" a six-digit "number" across the wheels. Then a sheet(?) of metal is put into the bottom and the press operated. (how am I doing?) When you press the pedal does it punch out all the hole grids across the six digits? Does it punch out the shallow holes or the deep holes? Are the wheels the actual female punch element or do they just set up the actual punch(s) by means of a set of feelers which drop into the hole grids? What is the metal plate just below the wheel head which appears to be removable? The press appears to produce a plate, or possibly a continuous strip, of metal(?) which is coded like a jacquard weaving loom controller or an old IBM card. In the 1960s NCR had an accounting machine that encoded information in this way on a band of stiff paper about 5/8" wide. Later it could be fed into a reader which felt the holes and reproduced the original data.
Thx I added some better pics, I think it looks like it was made before the 60s I would put it early 1900, whatever it made was thinner then a nickel and it put middle sided holes in a small pattern
Thanks for the pix. Great puzzle piece. I can see what it does but I have no idea what it's for. Do any of the external parts move when the pedal is pressed (other than the operating lever of course) or is it only the punch-pins that move downward to punch the holes?
Thx I added some better pics, I think it looks like it was made before the 60s I would put it early 1900, whatever it made was thinner then a nickel and it put middle sided holes in a small pattern