US628147A - Tag, box, or sign stamp. - Google Patents

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Patented July 4, I899. E. R. JONES.

TAG, BOX, 0:? SIGN STAMP.

(AppXication filed Feb. 25, 1898.)

I m iliiiiir UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDGAR R. JONES, OF KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO' E. H. L. THOMPSON, OF SAME PLACE.

TAG, BOX, OR SIGN STAMP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 628,147, dated July 4,4899.

Application filed February 25, 1898. $eria1N0- 67 ,66'7- (N d m To a whom it may concernpreferably of circular form and provided with Belt known that I, EDGARR. JONES, of Kanan offset or projection 2 and with a pair of sas City, Jackson county, Missouri, have incircular channels 3 and 4, respectively, in its vented certain new and useful Improvements upper side, said channels being arranged con- 5 in Tag, Box, or Sign Stamps, of which the folcentrically to each other. It is also provided lowing is a specification. with a cross-channel 5, connecting-channels 3 My invention relates to atag, box, and sign and 4, and with a curved channel 6, which stamp; and it consists, essentially, of two communicates with channel? and forms pracpartsone a type-magazine of peculiar contically a' continuation of channel 5, said chanl0 struction and the otheratype-galley provided nel 5 registering with channel 6 and extendwith one or a plurality of grooves or channels ing at such an angle that a type may be transeither of which is adapted to register with a ferred from channel 4 to channel 6, or vice groove or channel of the magazine. versa, in a perfectly straight course in order The invention further consists in certain that the transference of the typefrom the inr 5 novel and peculiar features of construction ner channel 4 of the magazine to the galley, and organizations of parts, as will be hereinto be presently described, or vice versa, may after described and claimed. be facilitated and accomplished without care- The object of my invention is the provision ful manipulation. The necks or upper ends of a magazine in which the type must be origiof the various channels are contracted, pref- 2o nally arranged right side up, but otherwise erably, by means of a thin metallic plate 7, seindiscriminatelythat is to say, there need cured by screws or equivalent means to the be no systematic or alphabetical or numerical block. This plate, in view of the fact that it arrangement--and a galley or stamp-block is slotted to form necks for the said channels, provided with a groove or grooves which shall necessarily consists of three sections-7 to pro- 2 5 register with a channel of the magazine when ject beyond the inner margin of channel 4, 8 it is necessary or desirable that type shall be to project inward and outward, respectively, transferred from the magazine to the galley, of the outer and inner margins of channels 4 or vice versa. and 3 and inward of the margins of channel Other objects of the invention will herein- 5, and 9 to project inward of the outer mar- 30 after appear. gin of channel 3 and inward of both margins In order that the invention may be fully unof channel 6, as illustrated. derstood, "I will proceed to describe it with 10 designates a spring which intersects reference to the accompanying drawings, in channel 3 at its upper side, extending subwhich stantially parallel with channel 5, but ar- 3 5 Figure 1 represents a top plan view of a deranged from the neck of said channel a disvice embodying myinvention. Fig. 2 is avertance at least equal to the space between one tical section taken on theline II II of Fig. 1. side of the channel and the corresponding Fig. 3 is a cross-section of the galley or stampside of its neck, for a purpose which will be block, type being arranged in each groove of hereinafter described. The spring is coiled,

0 the same. Fig. 4 is a vertical longitudinal preferably, upon a pin 11, projecting from section illustrating the style of galley or typesection 9 of the top plate, and has one end block employed when stamping boxes or any bearing against a pin 12 and its free end at surface which may be rough or uneven. Fig. the opposite side of said channel 4 against 5 is a perspective view of a block employed in the pin l3,'projecting from section 8 of the 5 securing the line of type at any desired point top plate, thearrangement being such that 5 in the galley. Fig. 6shows a pin or pointer by the spring may swing to the position indiwhich any desired type may be quickly sepacated by dotted lines in order to permit one rated from the othersin the magazine and posior more type in channel 3 to pass by in the tioned in the galley. direction indicated by the arrow a. A simi- 50 In the said drawings, 1 designates a block, lar spring 14 bridges the channel 5, being coiled upon a pin 15 and resting against a pin 16 of section 8 of the top plate, while its free end bears against the pin 17 of said section, but at the opposite side of said channel, the arrangement being such that said spring may swing to the position shown in dotted lines, and thereby permit a type to pass freely from channel 1 through channel 5. To return said type, however, the spring must be sprung by hand outwardly to the position indicated; otherwise the type cannot pass through the passage 5.

18 designates a galley which is provided with one or more grooves 19 and which may be perfectly fiat on top, as is desirable for printing tags and other flat surfaces, or areshaped, as indicated by Fig. 4, to print upon boxes and other surfaces which may be rough or uneven, and consequently require to produce a clear and legible impression a rocking or oscillatory movement, as will be readily understood. In this case also the end of the channel 6, which registers with one or another of the grooves of the galley, slopes upward, as at 6 tomeet the grooves, which in this case parallel the curved or arc-shaped face of the galley. The grooves of the galley, like the channels of the magazine, are provided with contracted necks formed by securing to the block a top plate consisting of a series of strips 20, which project beyond the margins or sides of said grooves, as shown in the drawings.

In vertical alinement with the center of each groove and below the same the galley is provided with a longitudinally-extending hole 21 to receive snuglya pin 22, projecting from the extension 2 of block 1 vertically below the channel 6, and thereby hold in alineinent with the last-named channel the groove of the galley vertically above the particular hole engaged by said pin. By this arrangement it is obvious that after a line of type is set up in any particular groove of the galley it may be slipped off said pin and a second groove be caused to register with channel 6 with practically no loss of time.

For use in connection with this device the usual rubber blocks carried in stock by those engaged in the manufacture and sale of rubber stamps and articles of kindred type are secured by glue or other material upon the upper ends of rectangular blocks 23, which blocks are adapted to fit snugly but slidingly in the various channels and grooves described, and said blocks in their inner and outer faces are grooved, as shown at 24., to provide a neck portion which will fit snugly but slidingly in the contracted necks of said channels and grooves, as shown clearly in Fig. 3. The fact that said blocks overlap the flanged edges of the top plates, as shown clearly in Figs. 1 and 3, explains the reason why the springs 10 and 14 must be arranged at some distance from the contiguous edge of the necks of said channels, as hereinbefore described. In other words, it would be impossiblefor said blocks to pass unless said springs are set back the necessary distance. The blocks are also provided in their opposite sides and upper ends with semicircular notches 25, so that the two notches of the contiguous blocks shall register, and thereby form a conical hole or opening, into which may be inserted the attenuated end of a pointer 26, by which the particular type-block 23 or spacer-block 27 may be expeditiously separated from the remaining blocks and transferred to the galley, which operation is accomplished as follows that is to say, if it be desired to dispose the block carrying the capital letter R, for instance, in the registering groove of the galley the operator would insert the pointer in the hole between the type-blocks R and S and then, pressing against type-block R, shove the whole series of type in advance of the same around in the direction indicated by the arrow 0. until type R occupied a position in line with the channel 5. He would then place the pointer in the hole at the opposite side of said type and shove it through channel 5 and channel 6 into the registering groove of the galley. This operation is repeated with each type, and in this manner any word or number or combination thereof may be set up in the galley in less time than it takes a skilled coinpositorto select the type from a box when mixed indiscriminately, but not when arranged in separate compartments, though it will be understood that shippingclerks, for whose use this device is designed especially, are generally provided with only a single box, in which the type are indiscriminately arranged. This is the case because a shipping-clerk does not standin one position all the time and it would not be convenient nor practicable for him to carry a large typecase every time he moved from one position to another.

In order to secure the line oftype, I provide a series of blocks 28, which may also, if desired, be used as spacing-blocks. These blocks 28 are provided with cavities or holes 29 for engagement with the pointer 26 in order that they may be conveniently shifted from one position to another, and they are adapted to fit more snugly in the grooves of the galley than the magazine in order that by friction they may hold the line of type firm. Said blocks are inserted in grooves from the open ends'of the latter because they are entirely below the series of strips 20, forming the top plate of the galley, and consequently can only be moved under longitudinally-applied force; but owing to the fact that they fit in said groove with more or less friction their accidental dislocation is prevented.

In practice the magazine preferably will be provided with two grooves, as shown in Fig. 1, one to contain a sulficient number of small letters to set up any address and the other, preferably the inner one, to contain capital letters and numbers in suflicient quantity.

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Punctuation-marks may also be provided for, if desired; but these are not generally used, as the shipping-clerk leaves sufficient space between words to avoid confusion.

The spring is designed to deflect a type when moved in the direction indicated by the arrow Z) into the channel 6, so that no particular care need be exercised in this operation and the work is facilitated. The type is properly positioned in front of the channel 6 by the right-hand rotation of the line already described for the capitals. The spring 14 is designed chiefly to prevent a block traveling from channel 6, in the direction indicated by arrow 0, from'passing accidentally through channel 5 into channel 4, though it is obvious that this spring may be dispensed with without affecting the speed to any appreciable degree. In fact, it may be found desirable in practice to dispense entirely with the inner channel 4 and channel 5. By so doing the diameter of the magazine-block would be necessarily increased to contain the requisite number of blocks; but this objection would be more than counterbalanced by the fact that there would practically be no chance for a block being deflected in the wrong direction by the guide-spriu g, as is now the ease with respect to channel 4 and spring 14-that is, to shove the type-block E, for instance, from the channel 4 through channel 5 the spring 14 must yield, as its tendency is to defleet the block past the mouth of said chan-. nel and not into it.

From the above description it will be apparent that I have produced a device of the character described which embodies the features of advantage enumerated in the statement of invention and which is of simple, cheap, and durable construction.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. .A tag, box and sign stamp, comprising two members, one a magazine provided with an annular channel and a second channel communicating at one end with the annular channel, and the other a galley, provided with a groove adapted to register with the opposite end of the last-named channel, blocks arranged to slide in said channels and groove and provided with type at their upper ends, and a spring intersecting the annular groove and adapted to guide type-blocks from said groove into the communicating groove of the magazine when pushed in a certain direction,

substantially as described.

.described.

spring intersecting the annular channel and arranged to deflect a type-block when it is moved in a certain direction, substantially as 3. A tag, box and sign stamp, comprising a magazine provided with an annular channel having a contracted neck at its upper edge, a communicating channel provided also with a contracted i neck, a galley provided with a groove registering with the last-named channel, also having a contracted neck, a sliding type-block adapted to work snugly in said channels and groove and provided with a narrow neck portion embraced by the contracted neck of said channels and groove, and with notches or cavities in their upper ends and at opposite sides,and a guide-spring intersecting the annular channel and arranged to deflect a type-block when it is moved in a certain dinotches or cavities in their upper ends and opposite sides, a guide-spring intersecting the annular channel and arranged to deflect the type-blocks when they are moved in a certain direction, and a pointer having an attenuated end to separate and move the type-blocks from one position to another, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

EDGAR R. JONES.

Witnesses:

G. Y. THORPE, M. R; REMLEY.

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