US939537A - Stamp-affixer. - Google Patents

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' E. W. NIELSEN.

STAMP AFFIXBR.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 3, 1909.

Patented. Nov. 9, 1909.

2 SHEETS-SHEET 1.

E. W. NIELSEN.

STAMP AFFIXER.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 3, 1909.

939,531 Patented Nov. 9,1909.

2 SHEETSSHBET 2.

EINAR W; NIELSEN, OF HOBOKEN, NEW JERSEY.

STAMP-AFFIXER.

To all whom, 'it may concern:

Be it known that 1, EmAnWV. NIELSEN, a subject of the King of Denmark, residing at Iloboken, in the county of Hudson and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Stamp-Aifixers;

and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as \Vlll enable others skilled in the art to which it appertams to make and a use the same, reference being had to the accompanyin drawings, andto figures of reference mar (ed thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to a stamp aiiixer and consists of a hahdle and a plunger, on the end of which is a stamp receptacle, the receptacle having a piston in sliding and sprin actuated engagement with the plunger, die piston having a tendency to force.

stamps, with a slight pressure, up against a separated restraining means'on the open end of the receptacle, whereby most of the stamp is exposed to permitthe stamps tobe successively ll'lOiStGllGtjl and affixed.

The invention further consists in a standard which may be secured to the handle and which is adapted to contain a moistencr which passes across the stamp, on the bottom of the. series of stamps, and moistens it before it is atlixed.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a. view. of a stamp altixer showing an ordinary form of moistener.v Fig. 2 is a side view taken at right-angles to Fig. l, and Fig. 3 is a bottom view showing the ailixer devoid of stamps. Fig. l: is a central vertical section showing the piston in elevation. Fig. :i is an elevation, but showingthe standard broken away so that the moistening means can be seen. Fig. (3 is a bottom view ofFig. 5, and Fig. 7 is an end view thereof. Fig. 8 is a section similar to Fig. 5, but showing the stamp atlixer partly depressed.

The invention comprises a handle which is made up of a sleeve 10 which has, on one end, a receptacle 11 which is open at the bottom and which will be described more. fully hereinafter. Within the sleeve 10 is a plunger 12. the sleeve and the plunger be: mg recessed so as to form a space 13 be tween them into which is installed the spring 14 to normally force them apart, the

Specification of Letters Patent. Application filed June 3, 1909. Serial No. 500,004.

Patented Nov; 9, 1909.

extension being limited by a screw in a slot 16, thls screw also preventing the plunger from turning. The top of the plunger is provided with any usual form of grip 17, The reduced portion 18 of the plunger is recessed to form a chamber 19 for the spring 20 which bears on the end ofthe stein 2L and on the end of the recess to force the stem outward, the stem being provided on its end with a piston 22 which is pro.-'

vided, on its outer surface, preferably with a .sheet of felt 23. 'lhespring 20 is light and is expected to bear only hard enough on the layer of stamps 24 to force the outermost stamp so that its corners are held under the (lips :25 and most of the stamp is exposed. The stamps are arranged in a pile, with the gunnned sides down, and are adaptcd to be successively moistened by either being passed over a wet sponge or over a roller 20 which can be placed in the receptacle 27 which contains fluid 28 to moisten the roller. form can be employed.

When the allixer is passed over the moistener, the lower stamp. which will be slightly bowed on account of its being held only on the corners, will be moistened all over, except at these corners, and when the atfixer is placed down on the surface shown in Fig. stand then the grip 17 is pressed down, the plunger passes down until the end of the reduced portion 18 presses on the top of the piston 22 and all the pressure from the hand is then transmitted directly to the bottom stamp and it is securely stuck on the package or envelop to which it is to be attached. When the grip .17 is released and li l'ted u )wa rd the aliixer nes with it as soon as the screw or pin 15 gets to the end of the slot 16, and the next stamp is ready for moistening. I

in Figs. 5 to 8 is illustrated a similar device, the sleeve 1.0 bein arranged to slide in a. bearing 25) of a standard 30 which consists preferably of the horizontal top and suitable legs- 31, the standard preferably being open from the ends and the sides to make it light and also to make the parts easily accessible for the insertion of stamps. The sleeve 10 has a flange 32 thereon and between this flange and bearing 29 is a spring33, which spring is lighter than the spring 14. The spring 33 is thus the first to give way, and when the grip is pressed The nioistcner is old and any down, the sleeve rides down with it, and when the series of stamps is carried down the parts remain in their same relative posif tioiis except for the motion of the sleeve it) through its bearings 22). \v'hen the stamps touch the article to be stamped the resistance of the spring ll is overcome and the plunger passes down and its reduced portion 18 engages the top of the piston 22 as before described, and the stamp is firmly pressed onto the surface men which the ath'Xer is placed. A moistener can be attached to the al'tixer, the inoistener consisting of two parallel arms 3%, which are pivoted on the .rod 35 which runs across from the opposite sides of the standard, and being nor- -mally thrown upward by the spring 3b as will be seen more particularly from Figs. :3, 6 and Si A pin 31 is engaged by the end of the arms 34; to limit the upward movement caused by the spring 36.

A roller 38 which can be of any absorbent material calculated to contain moisture for a. long time is mounted at the ends of the arms and is adapted to pass across the guniined surface of the lower stamp, when the stamps. pass downward, by reason of the swinging of the arm caused by the pins 39 passing down a cam surface 2L0, and causing the roller to pass across as shown in Fig. 8. 'l'he pins 33) are so placed that when the stamps in the receptacle are down on the surface, the roller has been swung back out of the path of the receptacle and the pins 39 have passed beyond the ends of the spring =l-l and onto the surface l2. When the grip is released ano. the stamps pass ,upward, the pins will pass from the end of the spring ll over the top surface of the spring, and .over the top surface of the clips 43 that held the springs, and then .resumc their places as shown in Fig. 5, this path over the top ol the spring 41 on the upward travel of the alfixer and the inois-' tencr preventing the engagement of the moistening roll with the stamps on the upward passage of the allixer.

l laving thus described my invention, what l claim is:

. 1. It stamp atliXer comprising a sleeve, a plunger in the sleeve, a grip on the end of the plunger, a stamp receptacle on the botltom of the sleeve, means for holding stamps in' thereceptacle, a moistening roll, means for pi'votally suspending the moistening roll heneatl'i'the stamp receptacle, and means for passing thenioistening roll across the bottom of the stamps when the stamp receptacle is forced downward.

2. A stamp allixer comprising a plunger in tlie'sleeve, a grip on the the 1')lunger,,a stamp receptacle on the tom of the sleeve, means for landing amps in the receptacle, a nioistening roll, means for pivot-ally suspending the moistei'ii v; roll bot i beneath the stamp receptacle, means for passing the moistening roll across the bottom ()i the stamps when the stamp receptaclc is l'orccd downward, and means for returning the moist cning roll to its normal position on the return of the stamp receptacle without touching the stamps.

3. A. stamp allixcr com n'ising a standard, a reciprocating stamp receptacle in the standard, means for operating the receptacle, a moistening device, means for passing the moistening device across the bottom 01 the receptacle when the receptacle is forced from its normal position, and means for returning the moistener to its normal position when the receptacle returns to its normal position, the returning means preventing the engagement of the moistener with the stamp receptacle on its return.

l. A stamp allixer con'iprising a standard, a stamp receptacle adapted to reciprocate therein, means for reciprocating the receptacle, means for holding stamps in the receptacle, arms arranged to swing in the standard, a inoistencr on the arms, co-acting means between the receptacle and the arms for passing the moistener acrosh the stamps when the receptacle is forced downward, and co-acting means on the receptacle and the arms to prevent the engagement of the moistener with the stamps in the receptacle when the receptacle and the arm are returned to their normal position.

I). A. stamp allixer comprising a. standard, a stamp receptacle, means for reciprocating the stamp receptacle, arms arranged to swing in the standard, a inoistening roll on the arms, a pin on the receptacle, a cam surface on the arms along Which the pin travels on the descent of the receptacle to swing the arms, the inoistener on the arms adapted to pass along the bottom of the receptacle to moisten the stamps when the arms are swung, and means on the arms for preventing the engagement of the pin with the cam surface on the return of the arms and the receptacle.

6. A stamp allixer coi'nprising a standard, a stamp receptacle, means for reciprocating the stamp receptacle, arms swinging in the standard, means for normally.forcing the arms toward the receptacle, a moistcner on the arms, the arms each having a cam surface thereon, pins on the receptacle arranged to engage the cam surfaces to swing the n'ioistener across the bottom oil? the receptacle to moisten the stamps when the receptacle is forced downward, and a spring arranged to engage one of the pins on the return of the receptacle and the arms to prevent the engagement ot the moistener with the stamps.

7. A sl amp allixer comprising a sleeve, a plunger in the sleeve, springs bearing on the plunger and the sleeve to normallyforce them apart, means to limit the movement of.

the plunger and the sleeve,'a stamp receppressure is increased when the plunger is 10 mule on the end of the sleeve, restraining forced into the sleeve.

mean-a adapted to engage a stamp along its In testimony, that I. claim the feregoing, edge, a piston in the stamp receptacle hav- 1 have hereunto set my hand tlns 17th day ing' a, stem )r0jecting"up into the, plunger, of May 1909.

and a light spring bearing on the stem EINAR \V. NIELSEN. whel'vh) the stem and the piston are con- \Vitnesses:

smelly fofced to cause the piston. 10 engage v E. A. FELL,

the stamps with a slight pressure, whichl WM. H. GAMmELn.

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