US1593892A - Stencil with self-spacing means thereon - Google Patents

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US1593892A
US1593892A US651137A US65113723A US1593892A US 1593892 A US1593892 A US 1593892A US 651137 A US651137 A US 651137A US 65113723 A US65113723 A US 65113723A US 1593892 A US1593892 A US 1593892A
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B43—WRITING OR DRAWING IMPLEMENTS; BUREAU ACCESSORIES
    • B43L—ARTICLES FOR WRITING OR DRAWING UPON; WRITING OR DRAWING AIDS; ACCESSORIES FOR WRITING OR DRAWING
    • B43L13/00—Drawing instruments, or writing or drawing appliances or accessories not otherwise provided for
    • B43L13/20—Curve rulers or templets
    • B43L13/201—Stencils for drawing figures, objects
    • B43L13/208—Stencils for drawing figures, objects letters, numbers, symbols

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  • the present invention relates to stencils or similar devices for facilitating the forming of letters or characters by means of cut portions offthe stencil and the arrangement of the letters or characters by marking them on a suitable surface in coordinating relation
  • one object of the invention is to provide a lettering guide to be usedwherever clear, neat manually produced lettering is desired for titles, headlines, addressing, advertising, display or other purposes involving letterlng v v
  • Another object is to provide a lettering guide having the same shift distance of the guide for forming all letters or characters whichnecessitate in their formation by the guide two operations of the pen, pencil or other" marking implement used in cooperation with the uide.
  • a feature o the invention is the provision in the guide ofy a shift opening or shift space and a member slidable therein and contactible by manual pressure thereon with the surface upon which the letters or characters are to be marked, whereby dueto sustained 'pres sure von this member it'becomes temporarily fixed'in its position on said surface and the guide is permitted ⁇ by manual operation to slide, within the limits of the shift opening or shift space, over the surface to be marked,
  • Figure 2 is a sectional-view on the line ibf2 ⁇ of Fig. 1.
  • ⁇ Figure 3 is a r diagrammatic plan view of the lettering guide for illustrating the ,formation of a portionl of a letter or character by the first operation of a suitable marking element, not shown, in cooperation with a'cut lof the guide'adapted to form said por tion ofthefletter or character and before shifting Iof the guide.
  • Eigure 4 is a diagrammatic: plan view illustrating the formation of the comple 5 mental. portion of the rstmentionefl letter or character by the second operation of the marking implement, not shown, in cooperation vwith a cut ofthe guide complemental of the' first cut adapted to ⁇ form the complemental yportion-of the letter or character and after shift ofthe guide.
  • .y v n i Figure 6 is a ⁇ diagrammatic plan view showing the two firstformed coordinating letters or characters and illustrating the for.
  • the lettering guide comprises ay strip yl() of suitable material, preferably ytransparent' f and preferably of celluloid, having.l straight parallel edges.
  • the strip 10 is provided with parallel marginal portions l1 yand i12-of equal length and width, ,thepmarginal portions being spaced apart by the panel 13 eX- 2 f tending for .the full lengthofthestrip y10.
  • the opposite face of the panel 13 is recessed or undercut for its fullv length and width, whereby, when the device is in operative position on the surface toy be marked, the under side of thefpanel will besp'aced away from said surface, to
  • the panel-13 has-therethrough a seriesof cuts generally denoted by 14;, some of which provide. ⁇ means fory formino by cooperation therewith of a suitable maiking implement, not shown, and by one operationy thereof a complete letter or. characteron thesurface to bemarked, while. others of the cuts provide complementary means ,for forming on said surface parts'of a letter or character by the.
  • the means for providing said shift move-v ment comprises the shift 'space 1 5, arranged atone'end of thef'strip-10preferabl ⁇ y at the right hand end thereof When the guide is in operative .position ony the surf-aceto vbe marked, the space. 15, as shownbeing cutthroughthe panel 13.
  • the pressure niember 16 ⁇ is providechfor cooperating with thel shift space 15, this member-in the present instancelfbeing a button having itsperip hery a continuous groovei 17, the button-,being 'sprung into the*v shift space so that the parallel"longitudinalpedges ofthe shift spaceengage in the groove-1"?, whereby ythestri'p ⁇ 1Q, Whenthe-buttonfisheld in -xed-position,
  • Vy [he distance ofjmovement offt-he ⁇ strip l0-in either direction, shown-at ,Fig- 4, is slightly greater-thanthe- ⁇ vidth of the Widest-- letter or character lformed by; tvv-o operations of the ⁇ marking yimplement in' cooperationwith ⁇ complementary cuts 11i-andv provides for the necessaryshift ofthe guide-*lO-for forming all such-letters4
  • the i guide is arranged in a horizontal position on thesurface and suitablymaintained-therein by means of an adjacentstraight edge such as a- T-square,
  • the cut 19 is broulglghtl into position relative to the partly formed letter for -formingthe other vbody portion thereof by a second operation of the marking implement.
  • the strip 10 ⁇ is,movedbodily,untilgthe cut 2O for forming this letter is brought into alined adj acency to theletter fBalreadywformed, the spacing between the letters being left to the eye and discretion of the. operator, andi-th'eletter is formedlby a single-k operation of thema-rkingg implement yin the ⁇ out 20'.
  • the complementary cut 22 is brought intov position for forming the other inclined-side ofthe letter" by a second; operationoff-the marking implement.
  • stop means being -engageahle WithA theisur:n rface .oflsaid materialiby lpressureonith'e stop means vfor. maintaining said. meansA stationary on the material Whilefsaidstripis slid#v ably moved thereon, the edges of said cuts providing guiding means f-for. forming-let ters orhcliaracters -on fthematerial.-
  • a long narrow strip having cuts for forming letters or characters and a longitudinal slot therethrough
  • a button in said slot having a head, a connecting neck and a base, the head and base respectively engaging the upper and undersurfaces of the strip and the neck engaging the slot for permitting slidable movement for the length of the slot of the strip on the material to be marked, said base being engageable with the surface of the material to be marked by pressure on the head of the button for maintaining the button stationary while the strip is slidably moved on said material for the length of said slot.

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US651137A US1593892A (en) 1923-07-12 1923-07-12 Stencil with self-spacing means thereon
GB14133/24A GB218988A (en) 1923-07-12 1924-06-11 Improvements in stencils for lettering and the like
FR582657D FR582657A (fr) 1923-07-12 1924-06-11 Patron découpé à jour, avec dispositif d'espacement automatique, pour le tracé de lettres et d'inscriptions
DEW66411D DE414720C (de) 1923-07-12 1924-06-22 Schriftschablone

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Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US2850811A (en) * 1954-10-29 1958-09-09 William J Boley System of executing lettering

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US2850811A (en) * 1954-10-29 1958-09-09 William J Boley System of executing lettering

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