Patent ID: 6120204
Filing Date: 2000-09-19
Classification: B43K

Abstract:
Hand writing instrument defined by a housing with built-in stamp and built-in stamp pad, wherein the stamp and the stamp pad are secured to a plate-shaped stamp carrier and stamp pad carrier, respectively, and both stamp carrier and stamp pad carrier are mounted on a mounting shaft so as to be pivotable between a rest position parallel to the mounting shaft and stamp position perpendicular or nearly perpendicular thereto, with a writing insert provided in the housing and a cap longitudinally slidingly displaceable between a forward and a rearward position and surrounding the mounting shaft and the stamp carrier and stamp pad carrier when oriented in the rest position, wherein the stamp carrier (50) and stamp pad carrier (38) are biased out of the rest position and into the stamp position by respectively one spring (42, 52), are held in the rest position by the cap (18) when situated in the rearwards position, are automatically folded out into the stamp position during a sliding of the cap (18) into a forwards position and are folded into the rest position by the cap during a sliding of the cap (18) into the rearwards position, wherein the cap (18) close to its rearwards open end (54) exhibits at least one axial projection (60), which engages in an axial recess (58) a transverse piece (46) of the stamp pad carrier (38) locking the cap (18) rearwards, when the cap (18) is positioned in its rearwards position.