Ticket punch 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, but differs in that it makes a chad. Ticket punches are widely used to mark railway passenger tickets, particularly if it
Punched card Fold, Spindle or Mutilate", coined by Charles A. Phillips, It became a motto for the post-World War II era (even though many people had no idea what spindle meant), and was widely mocked and satirised - for example by students at Berkeley in the 1960s wearing buttons saying: "Do not fold, spindle or mutilate. I am a student". Processing of punched cards was handled by a variety of machines, including: Punched card A punched card or punch card is a piece of stiff paper that can be used to contain digital data represented by the presence or absence of holes