Ticket punch

A Schaffner pliers, also called control tongs, is a pair of pliers for canceling of value documents such as tickets or tickets or to highlight Prüfetiketten.

There are two basic types of pliers Schaffner:

• Punch pliers punch holes in the value of the document or Prüfetikette,
• Stamp tongs left on the voucher value of a stamp.

Punches

Schaffner pliers punch a hole in a value voucher, the original version of a conductor pliers. Typically, a round hole is punched with a round mandrel. Depending on the document come Pliers different foot depth (from about 10 mm to about 80 mm ) are used.

In order to distinguish the inspectors or the conductor, who marks a value document with the Schaffner pliers, known Fasson characters were introduced. Fassonlochungen all holes that are different from the round holes. Depending on the manufacturer of the Schaffner pliers are up to 1000 Fasson characters.

Through additional embossed characters and embossing figures, more distinctive possibilities. Besides the hole is then additionally influenced by the forceps, a symbol or a number in the value of evidence.

Schaffner pliers as punches are now mainly use it to Prüfetiketten to mark the date of the current or the next test (eg electrical equipment, material handling equipment, fire extinguishers or power operated doors ). Furthermore, these pliers are still to practice to validate tickets for multiple inlet or so-called point cards.

Stamp tongs

Stamp tongs are used for canceling of tickets especially. They leave on the ticket of a stamp. At Deutsche Bahn, the stamp contains the pliers number, the current date, train number and the number of the regional area or the home station of the attendant.