US430625A - Hand-stamp - Google Patents

Description

(Model.)

W. T. GRBSSLER.

HAND STAMP.

Patented June 24, 1890.

UNITED4 STATES@ PATENT OFFICE.)

VILL T. CRESSLER, OFNFVPORT, KENTUCKY.

HAND-STAMP.

SPECIFICATION forming" part of Letters? Patent No. 430,625, dated J uneV 24, 18'90. Application filed November 11, 1889. Serial No. 329,869. Y(Model.)

,To all whom t may concern.:

Be it known that I, WILL T. CREssLER, a ,citizen of the United States, residing at Newport, in the county of Campbell and State of Kentucky, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hand-Stamps; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to improvements in hand-stamps.

The object of my invention is to devise a hand-stamp which may be used independent of any support for the artic'le to be stamped and which may be used by the manipulation of thehands alone. The stamp is especially intended for use by persons who must walk about continually, as a floor-walker in a store.

Figure 1 is a sectional view of the frame or case of the device shown in Fig. 2 and an end view of certain parts of Fig. 2 when looking toward Fig. 1. Fig. 2 is a mid-sectional view of the case and certain parts of the device. Figs. 3 and 4 show details.

The drawings are full size.

The same numbers and letters refer to the same parts in the different gures.

l have devised two modifications of the device, which can be illustrated by the same figures. The essential construction and operation are the same in each case.

16 17 is the main frame or casing, which consists of the box 16, 17 having parallel sides, and a bottom continuation 27 forming part of the handle of the device. The letters of the stamp are formed on the surface of the tube 10, of rubber or other suitable material, at the place 8, and the tube 10 is secured `on a cylinder a, which is supported by a shaft 1, held at its ends in the walls of the box 16 17,

- and secured by means of a screw-thread at its inner end, as shown in Fig. 2.

b is a cylinder supported by a shaft 2, having its ends held loosely in vertical slots in the end walls of the box 16 17, as shown in Fig. 2. Arubber tube 11 is placed over the cylinder b, forming therewith an inkingroller, and is held in contact with the lower surface of the stamp-tube lO. A spring 9,

shaft 2, Figs. 2 and 3, holds the inking-roller against the tube 10. An opening 12, Fig. 1, in the left side of the box 16 17 permits of the introduction of ink without having to open the box 1G 17 or remove the pad.

The bottom case part extension 27 has two eyes at its extremity, between which the eye 19 of the movable handle part 18 is hinged by the pin 20, Figs. 2 and 4, the section of the part 18 in Fig. 4 being along the line z z, Fig. 2.

The part 18 extends forward sufiiciently to form a bearing-surface topress the article to be stamped against the letters of the stamp, and a spring 21, attached at 22 to the part 27, acts to hold the handle part 18 away from the stamp when not being used. The shoulder 23 of the part 18 retains the latter in position for the introduction of any article to be stamped.

The stamp 8 is automatically inked by means of the following co-operating parts and in the` following manner: 3 is a pinion on the end of the cylinder ct, and 5 a rack engaging the pinion and pivoted at 13 to the arm 14, attached to the rear end of the handle part 18. NVhen the part 18 is depressed, the rack 5 rotates the pinion 3 and the connected cylinder a, and thus the stamp 8. The device must be designed so that the letters 8 will come in the line of contact between the cylinders a and Z9 when the handle part 18 is in the position shown in Fig. 2 and so that the letters may be in the position shown in the figures when the impression is to be made and when the handle part 18 is in the dotted position 18', Fig. 2.

In order that the stamp may be held stationary when the impression is being made, the rack 5 is made to disengage from the pinion 3, or its teeth are made to pass below the pinion, as shown in Fig. 1, and a lug 4 is provided on the pinion in the place of teeth, as shown in Fig. 1, and has a flat surface adapted to strike against the corresponding flat surface of the rack 5, and thus stop the pinion and hold it and the connected cylinder a stationary. The rack 5 could be pivoted directly to the handle part 18; but the arm 14 is provided in order that a space 24 having forked ends engaging the ends of the IOO of greater depth than the length ot' the boX 16 17 may be provided for the insertion of the edge of a card or piece of paper.

The construction ofthe device maybe modied by omitting the spring 21 and the hinge 19 2O and making the parts 17 and 18 continuous and of spring metal and having the spring to assume the position 18 shown in Fig. 2 when not under deiiection.

I claim- 1. In a hand-stamp, the combination of a main frame, a'rotating stamp, an inking-pad, an opposing surface on a movable part of the device, and an operative mechanical connection between the rotating stamp and the. said movable part for operating the rotary stamp, the stamp being arranged to take ink from the pad and the movable part being arranged to press the said opposing surface against the inked stamp, substantially as set forth.

2. In a hand-stamp, the combination of a main frame, a rotating stamp, a rotating inking-pad suitably held in contact with the stamp, an opposing surface forming part of the device adapted to press against the inked stamp, and suitable automatic means for moving the rotary stam p alternately to the stamping and the inking positions, substantially as set forth.

3. In a hand-stamp, the combination of amain frame, a rotating stamp, a rotating inkingpad held against the stamp by springs, a movable Aarm secured to the frame and having a surface adapted to oppose and press against the stamp, and suitable mechanical connection between the said arm and the rotary stamp providing means for rotating the stamp, substantially as set forth.

4. In a hand-stamp, the combination of a main frame, a rotating stamp, a rotating inkving-pad held against the stamp by suitable yielding means, a movable arm carried bythe main frame and having a surface capable of pressing the stamp, and mechanical means having engaging teeth, whereby the motion of the movable arm may be transmitted to the rotary stamp, substantially as set forth.

5. In a hand-stamp, the combination of a main frame, a rotating stamp, a rotatinginking-pad held against the stamp by suitable yielding means, a movable arm carried by the main frame and having a surface arranged to press against the stamp, a pinion connected to the rotary stamp, and a rack engaging the pinion and moved by the said movable arm, substantially as set forth.

-6. In a hand-stamp, the combination of a main frame, a rotating stamp, a rotating inking-pad held by suitable yielding means in contact with the stamp, a movable arm connected to the main frame, detented means for transmitting motion from the arm to the rotating stamp, and suitable stopping and holding means co-operating with the latter, substantiallyv as set forth.

7. In a hand-stamp, the combination of a main frame, a rotating stamp,a rotating inking-pad held by suitable yielding means in contact with the stamp, a movable arm connected to the main frame, a rack-and-pinion connection between the said arm and stamp, and an abutting projection on one part adapted to stop and hold the stamp, substantially as set forth.

8. In a hand-stamp, the combination of a main frame, a rotating stamp, a rotating inking-pad, an arm pivoted to the main frame and havinga surface opposed to and adapted to press against the stamp, and a spring a1'- ranged to hold the said arm away from the stamp, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I now aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

WILL T. CRESSLER.

Witnesses:

EDWARD P. RoBBrNs, JOHN GARLICK.

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