US2678626A

US2678626A - Ink pad for stamping machines

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Publication number: US2678626A
Application number: US298902A
Authority: US
Inventors: Edward S Garvey
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1952-07-15
Filing date: 1952-07-15
Publication date: 1954-05-18
Anticipated expiration: 1971-05-18

Description

May 18, 1954 Filed July 15, 1952 E. S. GARVEY INK PAD FOR STAMPING MACHINES 2 Sheets-Sheet l I I Z6 Z I Z 24- INVENTOR.

May 18, 1954 I E, s, GARVEY 2,678,626

INK PAD FOR STAMPING MACHINES Filed July 15, 1952 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 INVENTOR: fame lea 5. $418146? Patented May 18, 1954 iJNiTED STATES iATENT OFFICE INK PAD FOR STAMPING MACHINES Edward S. Garvey, Clayton, Mo.

Application July 15, 1952, Serial No. 298,902

3 Claims.

My invention relates to improvements in inking pads for stamping machines.

An important object of the invention is to provide a simple, inexpensive and highly efficient inking pad for stamping machines which can be readily fitted to, and removed from, existing types of machines without alterations to, or interference with, the normal functions of such mechanisms.

A further object of the invention is to provide an inking pad of the character which will overcome certain practical objections to, and defects in, the present types of inking pads used in connection with stamping machines.

A further object of the invention resides in an open ended channel shaped holder for absorbent inking pads which are to be moved into and out of position from either end of the holder.

A further object of the invention resides in the provision of a rectangularly shaped absorbent felt inking pad that need not be glued to a retainer to hold the same in operative position in the retainer.

Other objects and advantages of the invention will be apparent during the course of the following description.

The invention will be best understood from a consideration of the following detailed description taken in connection with the accompanying drawings forming a part of this application, and in which like characters of reference are employed to designate like parts throughout the same.

Referring to the drawings:

Fig. 1 is a front elevation of one type of stamping machine, and an inking pad holder and pad therefor, which embodies the features of my invention.

Fig. 2 is a side elevation thereof with parts thereof broken away and showing the inking pad holder and pad partly in sectional elevation.

Fig. 3 is a top plan view of inking pad holder.

Fig. 4 is a sectional view taken on line l--i of Fig. 5.

Fig. 5 is a bottom Fig. 6 is a sectional view taken Fig. 5.

Fig. '7 is a perspective view of the holder in an inverted position.

Fig. 8 is a perspective view of the one piece absorbent ink containing pad.

In the drawings, wherein for the purpose of illustration only, is shown a preferred embodiment of my invention, the numeral l0 designates, generally, one type of stamping machine. This plan view of the holder.

on line 6--6 of Z type of machine is customarily used in stores for marking merchandise with the purchase price thereof.

The machine designated H], as illustrated, embodies a base frame structure ll having a partially open bottom side and an inverted receptacle, or pocket designated l2 located at the upper end of the base frame structure II. The machine is also provided with a spring loaded handle l3 and a connected yoke I l which is movable up and down for actuating, or turning upside down a carrier for a plurality of rotatably supported rubber bands l5, l8, l1 and I8, herein known as character containing bands. Other types of stamping machines may be provided with my improved inking pad.

The inking pad, generally, includes a holder designated, generally, as l9, and an absorbent ink containing pad 20, rectangular in shape, and preferably formed as a single piece of suitable felt cut to fit the holder and positioned therein and removable therefrom from either end only of the holder.

The holder 19 includes and embodies an open ended channel shaped body, or member having a horizontal plate-like top wall 2! having a vertical flange, leg, or side wall 22 along one longitudinal edge of the wall 2! and which terminates in an inwardly projecting flange lying in spaced parallel relation with the wall 2|. The wall 2| also has a second vertical flange, leg, or side wall 23 along the opposite longitudinal edge thereof which terminates in two spaced apart inwardly projecting

flanges

24 and 25 lying in spaced parallel relation with the horizontal wall 2|. The reference character 26 designates an intermediate outwardly projecting finger gripping flange which is a termination of the side wall 23.

The reference numeral 21 designates two outwardly projecting protuberances on the vertical flanges, legs, or side walls 23 of the open ended channel shaped retainer which are adapted to be frictionally received in corresponding recesses 28 formed in opposed inner walls of the retainer receiving receptacle, or pocket l2 at the upper end of the base frame structure ll of the stamping machine so as to guard against downward displacement of the ink pad receiving holder ES.

From the foregoing description, it will be recognized that I have provided a very simple and inexpensive structure to be used as an inking pad for stamping mechanisms, which will overcome certain practical objections to, and defects in the present types of inking pads for stamping machines. and in which gluing of an absorbent ink containing pad to a retainer is entirely eliminated because the retainer is so flanged that the absorbent pad which, in its entirety, is but a single piece of suitable ink absorbing felt, is placed in the holder by moving it thereinto from either end of the retainer and removed therefrom from either end of the holder.

The many advantages of the herein described invention will readily suggest themselves to those skilled in the art to which it appertains.

What I claim is:

1. In an inking pad holder for self inking hand stamping machines, a U-shaped member having open ends, the opposed wall portions of the member terminating in flat horizontal inwardly projecting flanges, one of the flanges having a section thereof projecting outwardly and lying in a plane with the other flanges to serve as a flat horizontally disposed finger grip to manipulate the holder, and a felt pad inserted into and removed from the holder from either of the open ends thereof.

2. In a holder as defined in claim 1, including an outwardly projecting detent on the opposed walls of the holder and midway the ends thereof.

3. An inking pad for self inking hand stamping machines having, in combination, a U-shaped holder with the opposed walls thereof provided with inwardly directed flanges lying in a plane with each other and with one of the walls having a flat horizontally disposed outwardly projecting finger gripping flange type handle intermediate the ends of the holder and lying in a plane with the inwardly directed flanges, and said holder having open ends to facilitate inserting a felt inking pad into the holder and for removing the inking pad therefrom.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date 351,928 Laughton Nov. 2, 1886 1,230,783 Rice June 19, 1917 1,401,436 Pannier Dec. 27, 1921 1,987,802 Ryan Jan. 15, 1935