US1461971A - Hand-stamp-assembling machine - Google Patents

Description

July 17, 1923.

G. H. COLE HAND STAMP ASSEMBLING MACHINE Filed 0012.. 4, 1920 3 Sheets-Sheet 1 INVENTEJR- QZ J @146 July 17, 1923. 1,461.97

G. H. COLE HAND STAMP ASSEMBLING MACHINE Filed Oct. 4, 1920 3 Sheets-Sheet 2 July 117, 1923.

I 1,461,971 5. H. COLE' HAND STAMP ASSEMBLING MACHI NE Filed Oct. 4, 1920 3 Sheets-Sheet 5 Patented July 17, M53235.

GEORGE E. COLE, F WENONA, OF ILLINOIS.

HAN 13-STAMP-ASSE11IBLING MACHINE.

Application filed October 4,

To all to 710m it may concern Be it known that l, Gnoncn H. Conn, a citizen oi the United States, a resident oi Wenona, State of Illinois, have invented new and useful Improvements in Hand-Stamp- ;lssembling Machines, of which the following is a specification.

This invent-ion has reference to a stamp assembling machine.

One of the objects oi the present invention is to provide a machine for assembling type for stamping purposes, and to provide a hand stamp, including a roller, into which the assembled type maybeinserted, in one or more rows; the stamp being employed in a commercial way as a substitute :lor and in the place of the well knownstencils now in common use.

The invention has for a further object to provide the assembling machine with a magazine divided into a multiplicity of retaining compartments for containing the stamp type; each compartment having assoclated therewith, tripping means controlling the release of the respective type from the com partments and adapted to be actuated by keys arranged in a convenient manner on the machine, and a pusher being provided to move the type to assembled position in relation to each other in the hand stamp.

A. still further object of the invention is to provide the magazine with a distributing gauge board provided with graduated steps, and also to provide each individual type with, preferably a distributing linger arranged to ride upon the gauge board during the distribution of the type into the several compartments of the magazine; such fingers dropping ofl oi the gauge board when the fingers of the respective type coincide with. steps corresponding to their lengths, and thereupon drop into their proper compartments in the magazine.

A still further object of the invention is to provide the type withcorresponding side grooves in opposite faces to receive a shuttle bar in the hand stamp during the assembling of the type; said shuttle bars having a telescopic and detachable relation with a roller of the hand stamp to facilitate the easy and quick. return of the type to the magazine.

1920. Serial no. 414,490.

And a still further object of the invention is to provide the hand stamp with inking means, and also to provide for its being supported on the machine for the insertion of the type therein.

Lastly, means is provided for imparting the rotational movement to the roller so as to make it possible during the assembling of the type to place one or more'rows of type in the roller of the hand stamp.

That the invention may be more fully understood, reference is had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of the description, illustrating a preferred embodiment of the invention, in which:

Figure 1 is a front elevation of my ma chine, parts being broken away;

Figure 2 is a partial plan view of the machine, showing the keyboard and the distributing gauge;

F igure 3 is an elevation in section, as the same would appear if taken, on the line 3+3 Figure 1;

Figure 4 is an elevation in section as the same would appear if taken on the line ll Figure 1; i

' Figure 5 is a sectional detail, in elevation, showing the manner of supporting the hand stamp on the machine and the manner of assembling the type therein;

Figure 6 is a plan view partly in section as the same would appear if taken on the line 6 6 Figure 5;

Figure 7 is a perspective view showing one of the type and distributing finger thereon, and

Figure 8 is a perspective view broken away, showing a type shuttle.-

Like characters of reference denote corresponding parts throughout the figures.

Stencils are commonly used for purposes of addressing boxesand packages in merchantile establishments, but such stencils can only be used for printing the names and addresses cut therein and sooner or later become useless for one reason and another and are replaced by others. At'the best, stencils are unsatisfactory because of their limited usefulness, by reason of the fact, that to change name or address or other data out therein, complete and new stencils must be made. This adds materially to the cost which I obviate, and by the use of my machine, many and various names and addresses may be set up and assembled in the hand stamp to be used as often as occasion may require, and changes made by the most inexperienced person using the stamp and machine. y

In the drawings a base 1 is provided on which the magazine 2 andother working parts of the machine are mounted, including the hand stamp, which for convenience is referred to generally, as 3.

The support for the magazine comprises standards or braces 4:, and said magazine comprises the substantially rectangular box like portion and the depending'V-shaped portion 6, the converging side walls of which form the type outlet opening 7 at the base oi the machine. This magazine is subdivided into a plurality of vertically ar ranged compartments 8 separated by the partition walls 9 which extend from a po nt at or near the top of the magazine to a point removed above the converging side walls so as to provide chute like spaces down which the type will travel to the discharge opening 7, after they are released by the tripping means. One compartment -8, as the drawing shows, leads directly to the discharge opening 7,whereas, the other compartments are so positioned that the type, after they leave their respective compartments, pass over longer or'shorter distances,

through'such chutelike spaces. Looking at Figs. 1, 2 and 3, it will beobserved that the rear wall of the magazine stops short of the top of the front wall; the latter forming a rest for a key-board 10 extending across the full width of the magazine and being provided with the stepped gauge board 11, each step corresponding in length to the spacing of the walls 9 of the compartments 8, see Figure 2. The function of this gauge board will be more fully explained.

Operatively extending through the key board 10, are a plurality of vertically disposed rods 12, which may be arranged in staggered arrangement in two rows, or in anyother manner, and on the upper ends of each of said rods, are keys or buttons 13, certain of which may contain letters of the alphabet, other numbers and other punctuating marks or other characters, as may be desired. The character or numeral on each key or button, as will be understood, designates the character or numeral on the type in the compartment 8 which is coincident with a certain key. ,The lower ends of the rods d2 pass through a shield 14lsecured to the front wall of the magazine and said rods have a connection with trippcrs 15, pivotally connected to the shield 14 and covered and protected thereby. Each tripper is preferably formed with fingers 16 and 17which act as stops to hold and check the type contained in the compartments 8, see Figure 3. Normally, the fingers 16 extend through openings 18 in the wall of the magazine and on such fingers 16 rest the lowermost type, the remainder being supported there-above. hen a key 13 is depressed, the tripper is oscillated, withdrawing the linger 16 through the opening 18 and causing the finger 17 to be inserted through an opening 19 in the wall of the magazine. Such oscillation of the tripper will release a type resting on the finger 16, permitting it to descend to a point where it will engage and rest on the finger 17. hen the key which has been depressed, is released, a spring 20 will return the tripper 15 to its normal position and lift the key 18. Such movement of tripper and key will release the type resting on the finger 17, permitting such type to discharge itself through the opening 7 of the magazine onto the base of the machine, and the finger 16 will arrest the downward movement of the next above type, until the key' is again depressed.

The type to which reference has heretofore been made, are best seen in Figures 3 and 7, and are designated 21. These types, as will be understood, may be made of any suitable material and of suitable size. Their printing faces are struck on an arc of a circle corresponding to a roller which'receives rows of type when assembled, and to facilitate their passing with ease beneath an inking roller; both of said rollers being journaled, as will be further explained in the hand stamp. Opposite faces of the type 21 are provided or formed, with corresponding grooves 22to receive a shuttle onto which the type are assembled when inserted into the containing roller of the hand stamp. Secured to and extending up from the top of each type is a distributing finger 23 formed with the preferably right angular bend 24. The length of the bends .Z-i'are the same on type having corresponding characters or numerals, but are of different lengths on type containing different charactens or numerals. Thus it is provided that when type with different characters or nu merals are suspended on the distributing gauge 11 by the distributing fingers 28 and moved along the gauge above the compart ments 8, that the fingers 23 will drop off or the gauge when they reach steps above of? sets in length or width corresponding to the bends 2 1 of the fingers 23'; thus precipitating the type into their proper compartments 8, in the magazine, in manner seen in Figure 3. In said figure, the type bodies are shown spaced by the distributing fingers 23, giving ample time for the operation of the trlppers 15, as above explained sothat one type may be released and descend ma in a compartment 8 on the depressing of a key 18, and the tripper returned in time to' arrest the same into the shuttle.

the movement of the next above type, as a type is'released to pass out of the lower end of the magazine. i

The type 21 whendischarged from the magazine through the opening 7 onto the base 1 are positioned in front of a pusher bar 25, see Figures 1, 5 and 6, said pusher bar then being in its retracted position. This bar has a butler 26 on its acting end to bear against the type during the pushing of Said bar 25 is preferably guided in its longitudinal movement by a boss 27 on a plate 28, through which it is carried, and the outer end of said bar has connection with a slot 29 in one arm of a bell-crank lever 30 tulcrumed on a bracket or plate 31 secured to the magazine. To the other arm of said bell-crank 30 is connected a rod 32 which, at its upper end is connected to a lever arm 33 pivotally connected to bran ret 341- secured to the front wall of the magazine at or near the top thereof and near one side. A similar bracket 34: is also secured to the front wall of the magazine at or near the top thereof and near its oppositefiside and having a pivotal connection therewith is an arm 35 somewhat similar to the lever arm 33, and connected to said arms 33 and 35'and extending across the magazine and in front of, but preferably a little lower than the keys 13, is a spacer bar 36; The rod 32 which, as shown, connects the spacer bar 36 with the pusher bar 25, has movement through a guide plate 37 secured to the shield 14:, see Figures 1. and 3. It will thusbe apparent that when a key 13 has been depressed and a tripper actuated to release a type, which will drop out of the magazine through the opening 7, by thedepressing of the spacer bar 36, and the oscillation of the bell-crank lever 30, the pusher bar 25 is reciprocated to push the type to an assembled position in a shuttle bar to be described. The spacer bar and connected parts are returned to their normal positions by means of a spring 38 connected to the bell-crank lGVBlBO, and the magazine, see Figures 1 and 5. i

The hand stamp designated while it may have an assembled relation with the base 1 andmagazine 2 so to receive the type 21. fed to it by the mechanism previously described for releasingthe type from the magazine and feeding-same to the hand stamp, it is also true that the hand stamp is removable from the machine proper to be used by a person wishing to stamp or address packages or boxes intended for shipment, or for other purposes.

The hand stamp includes a frame 39 provided with suitable hand holds L0 to be gripped byan operator whenv being used. This frame 39 has depending'sides 4O providing bea 'in members for shafts 4:1 and 4L2 carrying the stamp andinkino rollers meeting the opposite spaced barss l) constituting shuttle. Said bars are connected at one end by the cross-head 50, sec FigureBV The shuttle has a detachable relation with the stamp roller, by having a slidable relation with the recesses 4-8 in tlie'walls of the grooves orirecesses 457, and maybe inserted into or removed from the roller by grasping the cross-head to insert. or remove said shuttle, as it is believed, will be understood. The ink roller 44s is spaced above the stamp roller 4L3 the distance the type 21. will protrude from the stamp roller and to rub thereagainst to be inked, when. rotational movement is given to the. stamp roller by the turning of the crank 45. Secured in the frame 39 above the inking roller 14, is an ink fountain 51, having the converging walls immediately above the hiking roller 44, and the wall 52 thereof is movaltile by means of the thumb screws 53, see Figure bracketed having a slot 55 which receives a stud or pin 56 upstanding on one end of the frame 39, and said bracket has depend ing lips or flanges 57 to engage the opposite sides of the frame39. The frame 39 at the opposite end of the hand stamp is provided with oppositely extending members 58 adapted to rest on upstanding supports or i ,rests secured to the base l, see Figures 1 and 4. i U

T have also ii'ovided means for turnin the stamping roller 43 sons to bring one .Q i AF or the other 01 the prom es or .I'QCGSSGS +1 intopline to receive the typeiZl, when the hand stamp is supported on the bilSGOfE the machine. Such means includes the ratchet wheel 4.6, previously described as being on the stamping roller shaft, which, when the hand stamp issupported as described is in position to be engaged, by a ratchet pawl 60 carried on a pushbar 61 passing through and having abearing 11181117130118 62 on the magazine. A. spring 63 retaining the push.

bar in outward or normal position and returning the push bar to its normal position after each operation. Said push bar 61 has a button 64 on one end thereof for the convenience of the operator using the machine.

. When the hand stamp is in position to receive the type, and a groove or recess 4C7 ot the roller 43 is in alinement with the push bar 25, the detached ends of the bars &9 of the shuttle abut or are in line with guide bars 65, see Figure 6, formed on. or secured to the plate 28 on the base 1. Such bars 65 for a portion of their length are spaced the width of the shuttle bars 49, and for a portion of their length are wider apart, see

Figure 6, between which portions the type are depositediwhen discharged from the magazine through the discharge opening 7. The said bars 65 have the beveled portions 66 to guide the type when pushed by the pusher bar 25, and causing the narrow spaced portions of the guide bars 65 to enter the slots or grooves 22 in the opposite sides of the type.

The type as they are pushed forward and along the guide bars 65by the push bar 25, then enter a groove or recess 47 in the stamp roller 4:3, and when the bars 49 of the shuttle will enter the said slots or grooves 22 in the type, see Figure 4. As successive type are discharged from the magazine and are fed or pushed into. the stamp roller 43,they abut with the preceding type fed therein and the operation of pushing the successive type into the roller will spacethetype adjacent each other in said stamp roller. I

Providing the-stamp roller 43 withone or more grooves or recesses 47, when a row of type has been assembled therein, itdesired the bar 61 may beoperated to impart rotational movement of the stamp roller 43 to position another groove or recess 47'to receive a row of type; and thus it will be un derstood that the roller may have type set therein for one name or more, or a name and an address or other data.

Changes of names and addresses maybe quickly made by removing a shuttle and type held therein; distributing the same in the magazine, by holding the shuttle at one end of the distributing gauge, and pushing the type therealong with the distributing fingers 23 on the type being suspended on said gauge; the said fingers when they coincide with corresponding steps on the gauge precipitating the type into their proper compartments 8 in the magazine. The operator may then reinsert a shuttle in the groove or recess 47 in the stamping roller 4-8 and again proceed to spell out the desired data on the keys 13, actuating the trippers 15 to release the desired type and set up the data desired in the stamping roller. :This done, it is a simple matter to'remove the hand stamp from the machine base and use it for the purposes intended, by graspingthe hand holds 40.

tripping means operable-in each compartment to control the release'ot the type from said comnartments, operating connections between said tripping means and and keys,

a spacer bar, and means actuatedby said.

spacer bar for moving the type discharged from the magazineto assen'ibled position.

2. In amachine ot' the character described, in combination, a type magazine divided into a plurality of type containing compartments, tripping means controlling the release of the type from each compartment, such tripping means acting in a dual capacity to release, stopand again release the individual type, a key-board, type on said key-board, one for each compartment, connections between each type and each individual tri'pper, a spacer bar adjacent the key-board, means to push the type discharged from the magazine to assembled position, and means to actuate said pushing means from said spacer bar.

3. In a machine of the character de scribed, in combination, a type magazine,

tripping means to control the release of the type from the magazine, keys operatively connected with said tripping means, a shuttle to receive the type discharged from the magazine, means to assemble the type in said shuttle, and a spacer bar for operating said assembling means. V

4. Ina machine of the character described, in combination, a type magazine, tripping means to control the release of the type from the magazine, keys operatively connected with said tripping means, a shuttle comprising parallel spaced bars, type, each having grooves in opposite faces to receive the spaced bars of the shuttle, means to assemble the typein saidshuttle, and .a spacer .bar for operating said assembling means.

5. In a machine of the character described, in combination, a type magazine,.a hand stamp including a roller having one or more type assembling grooves, a shuttle for each groove, tripping means to control the releaseot the type from said magazine, a key-board, keys thereon in operative connection with said tripping means, means to push the type discharged from said magazine'onto the shuttles in said stamp roller, a spacer bar, and means to operate said pushing means from said spacer bar.

6, In a machine of the character described, in combination, a type magazine, a hand stamp including a roller having one or more type assembling grooves, a shuttle said stamp roller to position its grooves to for each groove, tripping means to control receive the type, a spacer bar, and means to 10 the release of the type from said. magazine, operate said pushing means from said spacer a key-board, keys thereon in operative eonbar.

a neetion with said tripping means, means to In Witness whereof, I have hereunto push the type discharged from said magaaffixed my hand this 28th day of September, zine onto the shuttles in said stamp roller, 1920. means to impart rotational movement to GEORGE H. CULE.

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