US1576778A - Mounting for rubber stamps and the like - Google Patents

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March 16 1926. 1,576,778

H. P. MORTON MOUNTING FOR RUBBER STAMPS ANDTHE LIKE' Filed July '7, 1925 INVENTDR Y U ITY- Patented Mar. 16, 1926.

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Application filed my 7, i925; Serial No. 42,092.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HAROLD P. MORTON, of the city of Toronto, in the county of York, Province of Ontario, Canada, a subject of the King of Great Britain, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Mountings for Rubber Stamps and the like, of which the following is a specilication.

This invention relates to a multiple stamp including in a single. (lGVltG a number of separate stamps such as an office man may most frequently need to use and my object is to devise a stamp which may be conveniently used without danger of soiling the hamls, in which the individual stamps are so carried that the stamp needed can be readily selected and in which the individual stamps are readily removable andreplaceable.

I attain my object by forming the holder proper as a poly-lateral plate having a hole through the middle for the p'assage of the fingers of the. hand, means being provided whereby the wooden backs of ordinary rubber stamps may be secured to the sides of the holder. Preferably the backs of the stamps are grooved and the edges of the plate are pressed into the grooves.

The invention is hereinafter more fully described and is illustrated in the accompanying drawings in which Fig. 1 is a front View of a holder showing a plurality of stamps secured thereto;

Fig. 2 a side elevation showing the device in use with only two stamps mounted thereon Fig. 3 and Fig. i a detail illustrating another method of attaching the stamps to the holder.

in the drawings like numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in the different figures.

The holder 1, as stated in the preamble of this specification, is preferably formed as a polylateral plate having a stamp 2 secured to each of its sides. The holder 1 will preferably be made of fibreboard and the backs of the. stamps 2 of wood, although other materials may be used if desired. Preferably the backs of the stamps 2 are grooved as shown particularly in Fig. 3 and the plate 1 will be frictionally received in the groove. I may, however, if found des' able, use glue a plan View of one of the stamps;

or sin'iilar material to ensure a secure mounting of the stamps on the plate.

In some cases the plate 1 may be formed as a metal stamping or a metal casting, and provided with integral stamp supports 3 as indicated in Fig. 4c. The backs will in this case he usually secured in place by screws 4.

The stamps, it will be noted, are secured to the plate. so that their stamping surfaces lie at right angles or almost at right angles to the plane of the surface of the-plate. To facilitatehandling of the device the plate is provided with a large ce itral opening through which the fii'ige'rs of the user may be passed, as shown in Fig. 2, to grip the plate behind any stamp it is desired to use.

In order that the stamps on the sides adjacent the stamp being used will not inter fore with the; positioning of the stamp in a position close to the binding of a book, for example, the ends ofthe backs are prefer ably tapered as will be seen in Fig; 1, the back being positioned towards one end of the side of the plate so that thetapere'd end of the back extends beyond the end of the side" of the plate toiwhich it is secured. \Vith this arrangement, as will be seen from Fig. 1, the device may be used to make stamp impressions quite close to the binding point of the page. V

I may further increase the capacity of the device by providing one or more of the stamps with two or more. stampin surfaces lying at a slight angle, to one another. In the bottom stamp in Fig. 2, three such surfaces are shown, on each of which a separate stamp may be mounted. The view shows the plate inclined toward the user in position to obtain an impression from the stamp on the nearer surface. By holding the plate perpendicular, an impression from the stamp on the central surface, while by inclining the plate. away from the user an impression may be .obtained from the stan'ip on the far surface.

From the above description it will be seen that l have devised a holder on which may be conveniently mounted a considerable number of stamps, in such a manner that the use of one stamp will not be interfered with by the others. The. plate forms a convenient device for engagement by the hand and by means of the central opening the plate may be quickly gripped by the fingers back of any particular stamp, and

a fresh grip may be quickly taken when it is desired to use another stamp.

What I claim is:

1. A plate-like holder adapted to have stamps mounted about its periphery with their faces lying in planes at right angles thereto, or approximately so, thus enabling the holder to be used .in upright or approximately upright position, said holder having a substantially centrally arranged opening of sufficient size for the passage of the fingers of one hand, that portion of the holder between the opening and the stamps, when the latter are in position, forming a comparatively narrow continuous grip adapted to be engaged adjacent the stamps between the fingers, extending through said opening, and the opposed thumb.

2. A plate-like holder and a plurality of stamps secured about its periphery with their faces lying in planes at right angles to the holder, or approximately so, thus enabling the device to be used with the holder in upright or approximately upright position, said holder having a substantially centrally arranged opening of sufficient size for the passage of the fingers of one hand, that portion of the holder between the opening and the stamps forming a comparatively narrow continuous grip adapted tov be engaged adjacent the stamps between the fingers extending through said opening and the opposed thumb. I

8. A plate-like holder and a plurality of stamps secured about its periphery with their faces lying in planes at right angles to the holder, or approximately so, thus enabling the device to be used with the holder in upright or approximately upright position, said holder having a substantially centrally arranged opening of suflicient size for the passage of the fingers of one hand, that portion oi the holder between the opening and the stamps forming a comparatively narrow continuous grip adapted to be engaged adjacent the stamps between the fingers extending through said opening and the opposed thumb, the lorwanl end of each stamp being bevelled forwardly from its point of connection with the holder.

4:. A polylateral plate-like holder and a plurality of stamps secured about its periphcry with their faces lying in planes at right angles to the holder, or approximately so,

thus enabling the device to be used with the holder in upright or approximately upright position, said holder having a substantially centrally arranged opening of sufficient size for the passage of the fingers oi? one hand, that portion of the holder between the open ing and the stamps forming a comparatively narrow continuous grip adapted to be en gaged adjacent the stamps between the [ingers extending through said opening and the opposed thumb, the forward end of each stamp being bevelled forward] y and extending beyond the end of theside oi? the holder to which itis secured.

Signed at Toronto this 22nd day of June 1925.

HAROLD I. MORTON.

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