US515566A

US515566A - Stamping-machine

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Publication number: US515566A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1894-02-27
Anticipated expiration: 1911-02-27

Description

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STAMPING MAGHINE.

No. 515,566. Patented Feb. 27 1894.

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STAMPlNG-NIACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 515,566, dated February 27', 1 894.

Application filed January 31, 1893. Serial No. 460,362. (No model.)

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Beit known that I, SAMUEL B. WHITEHEAD, a citizen of the United States, residing at San Francisco, California, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Stamping- Machines, of which the following is a specification. l

The object of my invention is to make an apparatus or device in which books, tickets, checks, documents and other papers may easily and 'readily have a number, letter or iigure applied to them, as may be desired; and my invention consists in the features and details of construction hereinafter described and claimed.

In the drawings, Figure l is a side elevation of myimproved stamping machine. Fig. 2 shows a side elevation of the stamp separated from its supporting arm. Fig. 3 is a transverse vertical section taken on the line 3 of Fig. l; and Fig. 4 is a plan view of the machine 'with the stamp removed.

In making my improved stamping machine, I make a base A,whicl1 may be of the desired size for the purposes intended. As shown in the drawings, I have represented this base as rectangular and provided around its edges with a bead a, although such bead may bedispcnsed with if desired, and the edges of the board beveled or otherwise given a finished appearance. I arrange across one end of the base, a slide plate B, which may be secu red to it by screws, or in any other desired manner. The slide plate is provided with a slide C, having the usual under bevel, c, along its edges, as shown in Fig. l. I mount on the slide a saddle, D, properly fitted to the slide, so as to be adapted to move across the base to any desired point. This saddle may rise above the slide to any desired height to adapt the stamping machine to the particular purpose for which it is intended to be used. I arrange on the saddle, and transverse to it and the slide, a standard E, which may be formed integral with the saddle, or made in a separate piece and then attached to it, as may be preferred. The standard is provided With to the movement of the saddle across the slide. The inner end of the supporting arm carries a stamp Gr, which, as represented in the drawings, is attached to it by means of the vertical dove-tailed groove f, although it may be mounted upon the supporting arm in other ways, it desired. I also prefer to arrange stops H and I'Ion the endsof thesupporting arm, of which the stop H' is adjustable in or out through means of a set screw and slotted hole I t', shown in Fig. l. I have provided the stops with preferably rubber buffers h 7i', so as to soften the contact of the stops with the standard, as the supporting arm is moved in or out to its respective limits. I have also provid ed the slide with preferably rubber louffers, c", to soften the contact of the saddle with the ends of the slide as itis moved to its respective limits across the base.

In order to clamp or secure to the base Ithe book, paper, or other document intended to be stamped, I arrange clamps K on the base, secured in position by thumb screws 7c, so that by loosening the thumb screw they can be turned around or adjusted up and down to the desired position.

I have not described the'stamp in detail, as it is understood that I propose to use any of the well known stamping or lettering devices now in common use to apply the figures or letters desired to the book or otherarticle intended to be stamped. In Fig. l I have shown a bookfL as open in position on the base to have the Ystamp applied toit. The stamp can be adjusted in or out over the base, and toward the one side or the other, through means of the slide, saddle and standard above described, so that a letter or figure may be applied to the particular portion of the bookor paper desired, and so that it may be applied in vertical or transverse columns on the book or paper, as may suit the convenience or uecessities of different purposes and businesses.

While I have described the construction and arrangement of the various parts with considerable minuteness ot detail, I desire it to be understood that I do not Wish to confine myself to mere details of construction, except so far as the same may be specified in the claims, as it is obvious that many modiiications of construction or arrangement can be IOS of a base, a stamp, a slide transverse to the base, a saddle movable on the slide, a standard transverse to the saddle and slide, and a Supporting arm secured in the standard and adjustable longitudinally therein, Substan- I5 tially as described.

SAMUEL B. WHITEHEAD.

Witnesses: f

SAMUEL E. HIBBEN, THOMAS F. SHERIDAN.