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Family History Documents and Artefacts => FH Documents and Artefacts => Topic started by: andreabro on Tuesday 18 February 14 15:59 GMT (UK)
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Does anyone know what this is?
It has numbers on a dial and account payee. I cant get it to work so not sure what it actually does.
Thanks
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Too much cropping on the picture posted. Cannot see the object clearly.
Regards
Malky.
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Have edited. Is is ok now?
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Does it have a maker's name or country of origin??
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no
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Looks like it would punch holes into something...there is a groove where perhaps paper or card could be slotted in and by lowering the handle to cut or punch through....or stamp something on it. I thought at first it might be a clocking on machine but the there doesn't seem to be a pattern to the numbers!
Carol
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Looking at it, it has a roll of paper inside, which starts at 2000 top lever actions, and works down, the side plate dial being a reference of how many actions there are left. Below, is a lever setting to Account Payee, Open or "C" for closed. Can you show us further photographs from the different sides, including the underside.
Regards
Malky
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Have taken off the bottom has an onk roll acc payee written on one bit also looks like numbers can be printed so i suppose it prints account paid. Its very heavy and stored in an old purpose mafe oak box. I suppose it was locked away so people could not print own receipts
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What an odd sequence of numbers, though.
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That puzzled me too?
Carol
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Is it possibly used to print cheques?
How big a sheet of paper goes in the slot?
Is the handle a guillotine blade? Or is just to apply pressure?
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It has to do with the relationship of the length of the printed receipt and the diameter of the paper roll. The larger the diameter, the less distance the roll has to travel around as it turns and pays out the receipt. ie at 2000 sheets left, the roll may just revolve once, but at 20 sheets left, the roll may have to revolve 3.6 times. It's in the gearing.
Regards
Malky
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It doesnt have a paper roll.
Any sheet size can go in the slot.
the lever just presses the ink roll onto the paper.
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I mentioned earlier about the slot to slide paper in.
Carol
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Maybe the dial marks the distance from the edge of a sheet of paper that "Account Payee" is printed?
And the odd numbers refer to differing formats of pre-printed cheques?
Do you remember having to write "Account Payee" or "A/c Payee" between the cross lines on a cheque? It meant that the cheque had to be paid into a bank account, and couldn't be cashed.
It's similar concept to those hole punches that you can vary according to sheet size? A4, A5, Legal, Letter, etc.
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It has to do with the relationship of the length of the printed receipt and the diameter of the paper roll. The larger the diameter, the less distance the roll has to travel around as it turns and pays out the receipt. ie at 2000 sheets left, the roll may just revolve once, but at 20 sheets left, the roll may have to revolve 3.6 times. It's in the gearing.
Regards
Malky
if that were the case, the intervals between the numbers would descend in a smooth curve. These don't.
Interval between one number and the next.
200
300
200
60
140
90
65
75
120
50
100
40
25
15
20
30
18
22
20
24
16
17
9
9
8
17
5
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It depends on the ratios of the internal gearing in relationship to the paper roll spool.
Regards
Malky
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??? Except there isn't a paper roll?!
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I wonder if it could be a Franking Machine?
Carol
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Maybe the dial marks the distance from the edge of a sheet of paper that "Account Payee" is printed?
And the odd numbers refer to differing formats of pre-printed cheques?
I quite like that, except that the range of numbers is so large, from 5 to 2000. It's hard to see how they could be units of measurement.
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I was going to ask why then, if no roll of paper, there are directional arrows on the side on the ????? and looking at the knurling on the associated knobs, which would indicate that these are manually turned in a clockwise direction, probably to feed/tighten up a feed from a roll of paper, but I have decided not to.
Regards
Malky
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Got it.
It''s a check (cheque) protector.
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When the dial is set to 2000, it prints the text "Not over Two thousand $2000" etc
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I was going to ask why then, if no roll of paper, there are directional arrows on the side on the ????? and looking at the knurling on the associated knobs, which would indicate that these are manually turned in a clockwise direction, probably to feed/tighten up a feed from a roll of paper, but I have decided not to.
Regards
Malky
Good call :) Maybe the knurled handles tighten up a print ribbon.
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Wow thats fab . Wish mine looked more like that.
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Yours might be worth something.
Mike
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Nice work Mike...we can all stop scratching our heads now...how much do you want for it Andrea ;D
Carol
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I have one of these though
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And one of these
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That's another cheque protector! I've just seen some images of those.
Mike
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Is the third one a flower press or a mini printing press?
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Is it possibly used to print cheques?
How big a sheet of paper goes in the slot?
Is the handle a guillotine blade? Or is just to apply pressure?
S'wot I said earlier! Kind of!! ;D ;D ;D
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Wrong
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Pretty close though - it was something for printing on cheques. :P
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The 2nd and 3rd photos have nothing to do with cheques
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The 2nd and 3rd photos have nothing to do with cheques
Ah, OK. What is number 2 then? I thought it looked rather like one of these (there are lots of similar designs)
Mike
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No 2 embosses a mark on paper.
No3 is a book press and a rather beautiful one.
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No 2 embosses a mark on paper.
What sort of mark?
Nice collection.
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A bit bigger than a 2p wont let me post picture
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Andrea is your photo bigger than 500kbs?....lovely collection I must say.
Carol
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A bit bigger than a 2p wont let me post picture
And is it a design? I wonder if it's for marking the flyleaf of a book, or a letterhead.
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Is it like a personal seal or logo to be impressed onto note paper?
Carol
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Wow! that's a beautiful book press, the other one I think, as already mentioned could be for putting embossed marks into paper, official letters, company seals etc.
Frank.
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Done
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Lovely.
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Stunning, presumably they would emboss their paperwork with it.
Frank.
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No 2 is a company seal, they still make them quite pretty like that one if you want.
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"It''s a check (cheque) protector."
Well done Mike. As it turns out, I was fishing in the wrong pond.
Regards
Malky