US1032399A

US1032399A - Rubber-stamp cabinet.

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Publication number: US1032399A
Application number: US58680010A
Authority: US
Inventors: Calder C Gibson
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1910-10-12
Filing date: 1910-10-12
Publication date: 1912-07-16
Anticipated expiration: 1929-07-16

Description

G. G. GIBSON. RUBBER STAMP CABINET.

APPLICATION 11,211 00T.12, 1910.

Patenjsed July 16, 1912.

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burr sr'rns CALDER o. GIBSON, or BUFFALO, NEW YORK.

RUBBER-STAMP CABINET.

Patented July 16, 1912.

Application filed October 12, 1910. Serial No. 586,800.

Bulfalo, in the county of Erie and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Rubber- Stamp Cabinets, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in cabinets for holding rubber stamps and the like, and primarily to cabinets for holding calculating stamps, or stamps ofthe class used by gas and other corporations and companies, in making out bills and statements in which a certain per cent. of reduction is allowed for payment within a specified time. In a cabinet of the class employed by these companies a plurality of rubber stamps are usually arranged in separate compartments and the interior of the cabinet is subdivided by partitions to provide these compartments, and a removable ink pad is located in the lower portion of the cabinet and serves to ink all of the same. The rubber stamps are usually arranged within the cabinet in progressive order according to their value so that they may be easily and quickly removed from their place in making out the bills and statements.

The principal object of the invention is to provide for reinking the ink pad without disturbing or disarranging the chronological arrangement of the rubber stamps. To this end, the cover of the cabinet is divided on its interior into a series of parallel pockets by partitions and the cabinet is reversed or turned upside down when it is desired to reink the pad, the partitions forming guide walls for the handles of the rubber stamps and serving to maintain them in proper position while the pad is withdrawn and reinked.

Other objects, advantages, and novel features of the invention will be hereinafter de scribed and perhaps claimed, reference being had to the accompanying drawings in which,--

Figure 1 is a top plan view of the improved cabinet partially in fragmentary section to expose the interior construction and arrangement of the cabinet body or boX. Fig. 2 is a detached bottom view of the cover of the cabinet. Fig. 3 is an enlarged vertical fragmentary section on line a a, Fig. 1, through the cabinet placed in its natural position with the rubber stamps arranged in proper position therein and rest ing on the ink pad. Fig. 4 is an enlarged vertical fragmentary section through the cabinet in its reversed or upside down position showing the rubber stamps dropped away from the ink pad with their handles in place in the pockets of the cover, and also showing the ink pad in place in the cabinet in full lines and in reinking position on the top of the cabinet in dotted lines.

In referring to the drawings in detail like numerals designate like parts.

This improved cabinet is chiefly designed to hold what are termed calculating rubber stamps orstamps which are used by gas and other companies in making out periodical bills or statements for their patrons. These stamps usually have on their printing face the amount due and also a certain amount which is to be deducted in the event of the payment of the bill or statement within a specified time and below the amount to be .paid which is the sum first mentioned with the amount to be deducted subtracted therefrom. For instance, suppose that the sum to be allowed would be ten per cent. and the amount of the bill which would be set in the first column would be one dollar, the amount to be deducted would be ten cents which would be placed in the second column below the first column of one dollar, and the amount to be paid in the event of the settlement of the bill or invoice within the time specified would be ninety cents which would be set in the last column. These rubber stamps are arranged in separate compartments in progressive order and are marked on the top surface of their handles with indicating numerals corresponding with the value of' the numerals on their printing faces so that they may be easily,

quickly and accurately removed, used and replaced in the cabinet.

A pad containing ink is placed in the bottom of the cabinet and is sufficiently large to ink all of the rubber stamps contained in said cabinet.

The cabinet consists of a body or box, a

removable cover and a removable ink pad located in the bottom portion of the body or box. The body or box of the cabinet is composed of a permanent bottom 1, sides 2, which extend up from the bottom, and a series of transverse and longitudinal partitions 3 and 4: which subdivide the interior of the body or box into a plurality of small individual rubber stamp containing. compartments 5. The

partitions

3 and 1, it will be noted by referring to Figs. 3 and 1, terminate at a suitable distance above the bottom 1 of the box or body to provide a space 6 which extends the entire length and width of the body and forms a compartment in which an ink pad is removably fitted.

In the construction shown in the accompanying drawings one of the sides 2 of the body is provided with a slot and an ink pad 7 is mounted upon a slide or leaf 8 which is adapted to be inserted through the slot and slid into the space 6 above the permanent bottom 1. The slide or leaf 8 is provided at its outer end or edge with a knob 9 for convenient manipulation of the same. In the construction of the box shown in the accompanying drawings separate side portions 10 are arranged within the sides 2 and the partitions 3 and a extend between and are supported by the separate and supplemen tary side portions 10. It will be noted by referring to Fig. 3 that these separate side portions extend slightly above the outer or main sides 2 of the box.

The cover of the cabinet is composed of a top' 11, sides 12 which depend downward from the edges of the top and form flanges and a series of parallel partitions 13 extending from side to side of the cover and dividing the interior of the cover into a series of parallel pockets or grooves 14. It will be noted by referring to Figs. 3 and t that the bottom edges of the partitions 13 are tapered or beveled as shown and inclicated by the numeral 15 in said figures. The object of this construction is to provide means for guiding and supporting the handles 16 of rubber stamps 17 located in the compartments as the cabinet is turned or reversed from its proper position to an upside down position. The pockets or grooves 1a correspond in number to the rows of compartments in the body or box of the cabinet and are so located and arranged that the handles of the rubber stamps drop quickly and fit perfectly therein as the box is turned from the position shown in Fig. 3 to the position shown in Fig. 4.

By referring to Figs. 3 and t it will be noted that the parallel partitions 13 are constructed of considerably thicker material than the partitions 3 so that the pockets or rooves 14, although equal in number to,

are considerably narrower than the stamp containing compartments 5. The object of this construction is to provide compartments wide and large enough to receive and contain the enlarged heads of the rubber stamps, as shown in Fig. 1, and separate narrower pockets or grooves in which the reduced ends of the rubber stamps loosely fit and are supported as shown in Figs. 3 and 1.

In using this improved cabinet the operator removes the cover and quickly and accurately takes out, imprints and replaces the proper rubber stamps. When it becomes necessary or desirable to reink the ink pad, the box is turned over or inverted from the position shown in Fig. 3 to the position shown in Fig. 4, so that the handles of the stamps will drop by gravity into the parallel pockets and grooves 14 of the cover and away from the ink pad. The inkpad is now removed by sliding it out through the slot in the side of the body or box of the cabinet and is inverted and placed upon the cabinet in the manner indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 4., or is placed in any other desired or convenient location and reinked in the usual and well known manner.

It should be understood that the form, shape and arrangement of parts may be changed, varied or modified or that some of said parts may be altogether omitted without departing from my invention within the scope and spirit of the following claims.

I claim- 1. A cabinet of the class described consisting of a body having its interior divided into a series of small individual stamp containing compartments arranged in rows in which the enlarged head portions of a plurality of stamps are removably supported, an ink pad fitted below said compartments, a flanged cover removably fitted on said body and depending partitions attached to the under-surface of the cover in parallel separated arrangement and providing a series of parallel pockets equal in number to the rows of compartments in the body, but considerably narrower in width than said compartments, which are adapted to receive and support the reduced upper ends of the stamps in the individual stamp containing compartments when the cabinet is turned upside down to permit reinking the ink pad.

2. A cabinet of the class described consisting of a body having its interior divided into a series of small individual stamp containing compartments arranged in rows in which the enlarged head portions of a plurality of stamps are removably supported, an ink pad fitted below said compartments, a flanged cover removably fitted on said body and depending partitions attached to the under-surface of the cover in parallel separated arrangement and providing a series of parallel pockets equal in number to the rows of compartments in the body, but considerably narrower in Width than said commaterial and having beveled outer edges, partments, which are adapted to receive and substantially as shown and described. support the reduced upper ends of the stamps in the individual stamp containing compart- CALDER GIBSON 5 Inents When the cabinet is turned upside Witnesses:

down to permit reinking the ink pad; said L. M. YSANGSTER,

depending partitions being of fairly thick GEORGE A. NEUBAUER.

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' Washington, D. G.