US738550A

US738550A - Inking-pad.

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Publication number: US738550A
Application number: US13464602A
Authority: US
Inventors: Joseph B Laughton
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1902-12-10
Filing date: 1902-12-10
Publication date: 1903-09-08
Anticipated expiration: 1920-09-08

Description

No. 738,550. PATBNTED $31 13, 1903.

J. B. LAUGHTON.

INKING PAD.

APPLICATION FILED D120. 10, 1902.

- N0 MODEL;

UNITED STATES Patented September 8, 1903.

PATENT OFFICE.

lNKlNG-PAD.

. SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 738,550, dated September 8, 1903.

Application filed December 10, 1902. Serial No. 184,646. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern Be it known that I, JOSEPH B. LAUGHTON,

a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of Westfield, in the county of Hampden and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Inking-Pads, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to improvements in inking-pads, and has for one of its objects to provide a pad which, by reason of its construction and arrangement of the parts composing it, will impart a most uniform, thorough, and even inking of a rubber or other stamp, and has for another of its objects to provide a container for a pad which will serve most effectually as a guard whereby any ink which may spread marginally beyond the pad proper will be without liability to smooch or soil the fingers of the person using the pad in its box or container either at the time of handling the box or the cover thereof to open and close the latter or otherwise.

The invention comprises a pad composed of a plurality of sections of compressible and absorbent material, which may advantageously be strips of felt, and a plurality of sections of practically non-compressible material, which latter may be absorbent in a greater or less degree or non-absorbent and which latter sections may advantageously be strips of wood, the absorbent compressible strips and the practically non-compressible strips having their upper surfaces approximatelyin the same plane and having arrangements in alternation.

The invention furthermore comprises a pad composed of the alternated stripsas above and a covering of absorbent material, such as cloth, for the top thereof, said covering advantageously being carried around the opposite edges and under the bottom of the strips to constitute a binder therefor; and the invention furthermore comprises the combination of a plurality of alternated strips of compressible absorbent material and the practically non-compressible strips, with one or more layers of absorbent material, such as felt, on which the assembled and alternated strips aforementioned rest; and the invention furthermore consists in a pad of any suitable construction or composition and a jtainer in which the present inventions are carried out is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view, the hinged cover for the pad-box being shown as open.

.Fig. 2 is alongitudiual vertical section of the same, the cover, however, being shown as closed, some of the alternated pad-constituting sections being in this view shown as broken away or removed for the purpose of more clearly illustrating the feature of construction involved in the inturned downwardly-inclined serrated ledge for the padbox. Fig. 3 is a perspective and sectional View to illustrate the make-up of the pad proper.

In the drawings, A represents the box or container to which the hinged cover E is provided, connected at and along the rear edge, and 0 represents the pad. The pad, as shown,

'is made up of a plurality of strips a a of compressible absorbent material, such as felt, and a relatively intermediate series of strips 1) of practically non-compressible material or a material having a degree of compressibility less than that of the felt, such strips 3) being advantageously of wood.

The strips, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3 of the drawings, are of equal height, so that their upper and lower edges are flush, and they are inclosed within a thickness cl of textile fabric, such as cloth, most commonly used as the outer covering of inking-pads. This outer covering overlying the top extending around the opposite edges is also extended under the bottom and secured to make a binder, as well as a covering, for the pad proper. Beneath the pad is a thickness of felt f, which may be supplied with a suitable quantity of ink distributed thereover and impregnated therein in a suitably liquid condition, more or less of the ink to be also supplied on the top of the pad. The ink-supplied layer of felt or other suitable absorbent material f, on which ICC the pad rests, serves as a replenisher for the pad,'the absorbent alternated strips of felt a a in the pad acting as conduits for the conveyance of the ink from the absorbent layer at the bottom, so that there will be a sufficient quantity even after protracted use at the top of the pad, and the upper layer of cloth, which overlies the upper surfaces of both the series of strips a a and b 1), serves as a distributer, so that the pad presents an evenly-inked upper surface.

In practice the strips on a may be formed and arranged so as to have their upper surfaces extended slightly higher than the tops of the wood strips, or the felt strips originally made and supplied may be of equal dimensions vertically with the wood strips and may become expanded by natural agencies thereafter, and thereby have their upper surfaces protrude above the tops of the strips b.

In inking a rubber or other stamp when the same is pressed against the pad the lattcr either is or under the pressure becomes level as resisted and limited by the practically non-compressible wooden strips which impose the satisfactory character of resistancethat is to say, as hereinbefore set forth the felt strips take up the ink to a greater degree than the wooden strips, and therefore become swollen and projected above said wooden strips, wherefore when a stamp is pressed upon the pad the felt strips will become slightly flattened and laterally extended and the wooden strips will be slightly separated against the resistance of the textile covering, and when the stamp is removed from the pad the felt strips will tend to resume their original shape, augmented by the same tendency of the covering, and thereby the felt portion of the pad cannot become flattened down, embedded, matted, or uneven after successive impacts of the stamp. This is one of the important advantages of the present invention and is what increases the life of the pad and insures an effective and uniform inking of the stamp therefrom.

While the strips 5, made of wood or some other suitable material to aiford the character of resistance in the pad hereinabove referred to, are of slight compressibility or practically no compressibility, they are not necessarily non -absorbent, and, in fact, on the other hand, are absorbent in such degree as to themselves be containers of the ink and constitute ink-imparting portions of the pad. The felt strips may be glued or otherwise sidewise secured to the wood strips.

The box or container is shown as consisting of a shallow tray or case made of sheettin or other thin metal, upwardly open and having at its front and ends an inwardlyturned flange or ledge g, which has in its inward extension a downward inclination, as particularly shown in Fig. 2, and said so inturned and inclined ledge has its inner margin formed or provided with a series of grooves, notches, or serrations 1;. Any ink in a more or less liquid condition coming off from the pad onto the ledge will have the tendency to gravitate inwardly back to the pad, in proximity to or contact with the edges of which pad the points of the fingers or members between the notches are extended. It will be observed that the downwardly-inclined serrated flange g engages the edge of the pad below the top thereof'and holds it from contact with the upright walls of the box',forming a conduit around the edge of the pad beneath the flanges, and as the excessink flows down the flanges through the notches and into the conduit it is gradually absorbed by the layer of felt f and conveyed to the pad. Thus the serrated flanges serve the dual purpose of holdingthe pad firmly in place and provides a means by which the excess ink may be reconveyed to the pad. The points of the said fingers between the notches, as shown, actually engage the edges of the pad at the front and opposite ends and hold the pad firmly within the case. The pad made with the alternated sections of the felt may be compressed between its opposite edges, so as to be placed and retained in the case made as described undera degree of compression.

Where pads of the kind described or of any other suitable composition are provided in a 7 box substantially such as described, having a cover at its rear edge hinged thereat, it is not desirable to have the inturned and serrated downwardly-inclined ledge provided to the rear portion of the box, at which the coveris connected; but such might be provided, if desired.

While the box having the feature of construction comprising the top marginal inclined and serrated ledge, as described, con stitutes a desirable holder for the pad of the specific and peculiar composition set forth, the employment of this description of container is not to be in any way restricted to its combination with any particular composition or construction of the pad proper, and under the terms of the invention as hereinbefore contemplated and set forth there may be a considerable latitude of modification or change in minor arrangements without departing from the essential characteristics of this invention.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. An inking-pad composed of sections of compressible and absorbent material and sections of material having a less degree of compressibility alternated therewith.

2. An inking-padcomposed of sections of compressible and absorbent material, alternated with a plurality of sections of material having a less degree of compressibility, and a covering of textile material at the top of said combined sections.

3. An inking-pad composed of sections of compressible and absorbent material, and sections of less compressible material alternated therewith, and means for holding the several sections together.

4. An inking-pad composed of strips of felt and strips of wood alternated therewith and means forholding the several strips together.

5. An inking-pad composed of a plurality of strips of felt, strips of practically non-compressible material alternated therewith, and a thickness of textile fabric overlying the top and edges of the combined strips and secured, the same constituting an ink-distributing and binding device for the pad.

6. An inking-pad composed of sections of compressible and absorbent material, and sections of less compressibility alternated therewith and a layer of absorbent material upon which the said several combined sections rest.

7. An inking-pad composed of sections of compressible material and sections of less compressibility alternated therewith, a textile covering and binder, a thickness of felt on which the combined and bound sections rest, and a box in which the whole is contained.

8. An inking-pad composed of sections of compressible and absorbent material, and sections of material having a less degree of compressibility alternated therewith, all of the sections being disposed transversely of the greater length of the pad.

9. A device of the class described, comprising a box, a pad within the box and terminated short of the upright walls thereof to provide a conduit therearound, and means formed on the box for conveying excess ink into said conduit.

10. A device of the character described, comprising a box, a pad Within the box and terminated short of the upright walls thereof,

and an internal marginal flange on the box, said flange being inclined inwardly and. downwardly with its free edge serrated and engagin g the marginal edge of the pad below the top thereof, as and for the purpose described.

11. An inking-pad composed of sections of compressible and absorbent material, and sections of material having a less degree of compressibility alternated therewith,the members of both sections constituting the inking-face of the pad.

12. An inking-pad composed of alternatelyarranged strips of wood and felt extending from top to bottom of the pad and jointly forming the inking-face thereof.

13. An inking-pad composed of sections of compressible and absorbent material, sections of material having a less degree of compressibility alternated therewith, the mem bers of both sections constituting the inkingface of the pad, and a cover of textile material embracing the marginal edge of the pad and covering the top thereof.

14. An inking-pad composed of strips of Wood, strips of felt alternated therewith, all of the strips extending in the same direction from one edge to the opposite edge of the pad and from the top to the bottom thereof to constitute an inking-face at opposite sides of the pad, and a cover of textile material embracing the top, bottom and marginal edge of the composite pad.

Signed by me at Springfield, Massachusetts, in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOSEPH B. LAUGI-ITON. Witnesses:

A. V. LEAHY, WM. S. BELLoWs.