Old Perforator Pictures

Here are some old rotary wheel perforator pictures that may be of interesting to look at:

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http://www.wirebids.com/lots/view/n...y-rare/19684

Old pictures of perforators or pictures of old perforators or old pictures of old perforators?

These have always been my favorites...






-IBFS

pictures of old perforators

IBFS: The picture you show is of a Stickney bar and wheel perforator that was used to perforate Stickney rotary press sheet stamps.

Nice! thanks for sharing.

jogil,I have a question regarding that stickney bar and wheel perforator pic posted by -IBFS.

In a previous post you said




On that pic above I see only the rotary wheel where
the pins would only perforate vertically.

So, were the sheets then repositioned and fed through again
to produce the horizontal perfs?

I had the impression that it was all done on one pass.

My knowledge about perforations is limited but it
seems to be your specialty.

lithograving: In the picture showing the whole bar and wheel perforator, the bump or hump on the perforator is where the horizontal bars are located right behind the vertical wheels in the front.

The confusion lies in that most rotary press stamps were perforated by one bar and wheel perforator while most flat plate stamps were perforated by two rotary wheel flat plate perforators.

Thanks jogil.

Just to be totally clear about it, are both
vertical and horizontally marked correct in the pic?



So the whole roll after it came off the rotary press
was fed into this perforator and as it passed through
continuously both horizontal and vertical holes were
punched through.
Correct?
And of course they would be line perforations.

Odd that Scott doesn't list whether comb or line
perfs whereas catalogues like Michel do.

lithograving: Yes, you are correct in the labeling of the two different perforating units in one machine as long as the stamps were mostly fed in head first and they were line perforations like you said. This machine is in the Smithsonian U.S. National Postal Museum. Many U.S. stamps were printed by BEP Stickney rotary press and perforated by BEP Stickney bar and wheel perforator and later electric eye perforator. Some Canadian stamps were also printed and perforated this way by BABN in the 1930's.