US484448A

US484448A - Stamp-affixing machine

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Publication number: US484448A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1892-10-18
Anticipated expiration: 1909-10-18

Description

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EDWIN O. PALMER, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO.

STAM P-AFFIXING MACHIN E.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 484,448, dated October 18, 1892.

Application filed September 28, 1891. Serial No. 406,996. (No model.)

T0 at whmn it may concern.-

3e it known that I, EDWIN G. PALMER, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Cleveland, county of Ouyahoga, and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Stamp-Affixin g Machines, of which the following is a specification, the principle of the invention being herein eX- plained and the best mode in which I have contemplated applying that principle, so as to distinguish it from other inventions.

The annexed drawings and the following description set forth in detail one mechanical form embodying the invention, such detail construction being but one of various mechanical forms in which the principle of the invention may be used.

In the annexed drawings, Figure I represents a perspective view of my improved stamp-affixing device; Fig. II, a top plan view of the device with the top removed; Fig. III, a longitudinal section on the line III III, Fig. II Fig. IV, a vertical cross-section on the line IV IV, Fig. III; Fig. V, a vertical cross-section on the line V V, Fig. III; and Fig. VI, a perspective view of the stamp-carrier.

In the drawings the letter A indicates a casing, which in this case is illustrated as constructed to hold two denominations of stamps, although the several mechanisms may of course be duplicated as many times as desired to provide for a larger number of denominations of stamps.

As the devices for picking up, conveying, and affixing the stamps are the same for each denomination, I shall, as far as the description of such elements goes, confine myself to describing one set.

The principle upon which mydevice is based is the ability of a resinous, vitreous, or similar idioelectric body to attract and support a light bodysuch as a bit of paper-when electrified by being rubbed upon a surface of wool, silk, or cats skin. In my device I make said body in the shape of a knob or button B, preferably rectangular and of a size slightly larger than a postage-stamp. Said knob is secured upontthe end of a shank b, having a handle B and guided in a longitudinal slot at in the top of the casing. The shank has a cross-bar b, which forms a guide-head for the device, which I shall term the stamp-carrier, as said guide-head travels in guides C at both sides of the carrier and is rigidly supported in the casing. Said guides consist of rubbing portions 0, which are parallel with the rubbing-surface of a rubber D,preferably yieldingly supported in the casing upon springs 61, and against which the carrier may be rubbed to be electrified or charged with frictional electricity, the distance between the rubbing-surface of said rubber and the rubbing portions of the guides being less than the distance between the attractive surface of the stamp-carrier and its cross-bar, so that said rubber may be depressed by said stamp-carrier against the tension of its springs, and thus have frictional contact with the same. The rubbing portions of the guides are deflected into picking portions 0, (shown vertical in the drawingsJwhich portions direct the carrier to the stamp-receptacle E. This receptacle is shown in the form of a drawer E, extending transversely through the casing and provided with a suitable lock and with downwardly-yielding springcushioned stamp-retaining frames e, within which the stamps are arranged in a pile, so that the carrier may be depressed and depress the spring-frame until it touches the uppermost stamp in the pile and attracts it. The guides are extended forward and deflect into affixing portions 0 (shown vertical in the drawings,) which portionsdirect the carrier toward a cushion or support F, upon which the envelope, which has previously been moistened, rests. When the carrier and stamps are depressed upon the moistened envelope, the stamp will adhere and the carrier may be moved back to be again electrified and to again carry a stamp forward.

As it is desirable to keep an account of the stamps used, I prefer to provide a registering device which will register the number of stamps used of each denomination and register and indicate the total amount of stamps used in dollars and cents. nal a disk G, having numbers from 1 to any desired number serially marked upon its periphery at the side of each guideway, and provide a slot a in the top of the casing of a sufficient size to disclose one number. A ratchet-wheel G is secured at the side of the register-disk and has a number of teeth cor- I therefore jour- IOO a guide for the same arranged to guide said carrier over and tosaid pad, receptacle, and support, substantially as set forth.

8. In a stamp-aflixing machine, the combination of a rubbing-pad, a stamp-receptacle, and an envelope-support, all arranged in a series, with an idioelectric stamp-carrier and a guide for the latter, arranged parallel with the rubbing-pad and with deflections to the stamp-receptacle and envelope-support, substantially as set forth.

9. In a stamp-affixing machine, the combination of a closed casing having an opening for the insertion of an envelope or letter, a locked stamp-receptacle within said casing, and a stamp-carrier movable in said casing, substantially as set forth.

10. In a stamp-affixing machine, the combination of a set of stamp-affixing devices, each device affixing one denomination of stamps, a set of registers, each register connected to be operated by one affixing device and to regport, a stamp-carrier, and a register having an arm projecting in the path of the stampearrier, substantially as set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing to be my invention I have hereunto set my hand this 22d day of Sepember, A. D. 1891.

EDWIN C. PALMER.

Witnesses:

WM. SEOHER, J. O; TURNER.