US59396A - Improvement in hand-stamps - Google Patents

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Iran STATES PATENT OFFICE,

B. B. HILL, OF OHIOOPEE, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN HAND-STAMPS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 59,395, dated November 6, 1866.

To all whom it may concern: I

Be it known that I, B. B. HILL, of Chicopee, county of Hampden, and State of Massachusetts, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Hand-Stamps; and I do hereby declare that the same is described and represented in the following specification and drawings; and to enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same, I will proceed to describe by referring to the drawings, in which the same letters indicate like parts in each of the figures.

The natureof thisimprovement willbe understood from the specification and drawings.

The object desired to be attained thereby is to produce a hand-stamp for canceling or stamping paper s in a proper manner, susceptible of periodical changes, not liable to get out of order, and cheap and simple of manufacture. In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation, partly in section, showing the mechanism in detail. Fig. 2 is a front elevation, showing the dial-plates and the ends of the ribbon-cases. Figs. 3 and 4 are wheels, which rotate upon an axis-pin formed in the center of the case, and having characters secured to the edges thereof, each wheel moving or rotating independently of the other, and so arranged inside of said case that any month of the year, or any day of the month, can be quickly brought into position to be impressed upon paper placed on the bed directly under said letters or characters.

The periphery of the wheel a, Fig. 3, is divided into twelve parts. Each part is provided with characters to represent each month of the year. It also has twelve perforations for holding the wheels in position for use by means of a spring-catch, e, and huh I), by which said wheel is secured loosely upon the axis 0, formed in the center of the case (I.

The periphery of the wheel a, Fig. 4, is divided into thirty-one parts, which represent the days of the month. It is also provided with notches or perforations to receive the catch of the spring f, for holding each character representing the day of the month in position for use.

The case (I is made or cast with three apartments, and in one piece of cast metal, having a hub, 0, which serves the double purpose upon which to arrange the wheels at a, and it further performs very important service in mill ing out the inside of the case, in which the wheels c a are arranged, and operate upon the axle 0. First one wheel is placed upon the axle c, then another upon the hub of the first, and others successively, as desirable. Said case is so made that each respective apartment thereof is accessible only from one side thereof, and the wheels arranged therein upon the hub c by placing them upon said axis 0 only from one side, for the purpose of rendering it more accessible and convenient for use. In order to render it more convenient for attaching and removing it from the plunger-spindle s, a bracket, 1", is provided, which has a dowel, a, formed on the lower end thereof, which is fitted closely into the socket a, formed in the lower end of the spindle .9, while the upper end is secured to and serves as a detent to hold the spindle and case in their proper posit ion in the stock A, while at the, same time it allows said spindle to play freely up and down by the action of the hand upon the pad and the spring between the pad and the stock. This bracket r is firmly secured to the back of the case 61. By this arrangement it is only necessary to remove the screw it from the upper end of the bracket 1' in order to remove the case d, with all the mechanism attached thereto, from the spindle s and stock A.

The wheels 0. a are arranged upon the hub cthe first directly upon the hub or spindle c, the second (and third, more or less, if required) upon the hub of the first, and the third upon the hub of the second, when required, the hubs of each projecting forward through the plate or cap k, which closes up the front of the case-d. The outer ends of these hubs project past each other sufficient to receive each its appropriate dial, 70 la, which are made, one smaller than the other, so as to show, one the month of the year, and one the day of the month, and, when desirable, one the year or years. These dials are secured to the hubs of their respective wheels to a.

The plate k has a line, 11, directly under which the figures that indicate the month, day of the month, or year are brought by pressing back the springs e f and turning the plates is k by means of the handles 0 o of each of the plates, which, for J an. 1, placed directly E. G. HOLDEN.

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Patented Nov 6, 1866.

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