Ticket punch they were replaced with electronic ticketing systems. The older tickets have been reportedly used in artwork as well as in games. Ticket punch A ticket punch (or control nippers) is a hand tool for permanently marking admission tickets and similar items of paper or card stock. It makes a perforation and a corresponding chad. A ticket punch resembles a hole punch, differing in that the ticket punch has a longer jaw (or "reach") and the option of having a distinctive die shape. A ticket punch resembles a needle punch in that it makes a distinctive pattern in the item punched,
Charles B. Brooks for his city. Brooks also received a third patent for what he called a “ticket punch” on October 31, 1893 (US Patent #507,672), an early example of a paper punch, unique for its time because unlike hole punchers of today, his had a built-in receptacle to catch the round pieces of waste paper there and prevent littering. Charles B. Brooks Charles B. Brooks (1865-?) was an African-American inventor. Born in Virginia in 1865, by the 1890s he was a resident of Newark, New Jersey. Besides inventing Brooks was also a porter for the Pullman Palace Car Company. Unlike other sweepers