Improvements in or relating to Apparatus for Stamping or Marking Paper, Linen, and other Material with the Date, Time, Name of User, or similar Information.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 9th May, 1888
Specification Accepted, 15th June, 1885
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Apparatus for Stamping or Marking
Paper, Linen, and other Material with the Date, Time, Name of
User, or similar Information.
I, OSKAR PAUL LOCHMANN, of Gohlis near Leipzig, Saxony in the Empire of
Germany, Engineer do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in
and by the following statement :—
In the interior of a case provided with a dial plate a, (figures 1, 2, and 3) an
ordinary clockwork is placed such as is usually employed in watches. This clockwork
has but one hand c making one revolution in 12 hours, that is in the same time as
the hand of an ordinary watch, but with this difference, that the hand c turns in the
opposite direction to what is usually the case in watches. For this reason, the ciphers
indicating the hours are placed on the dial plate in reverse order, that is to say the
dial plate is like that of an ordinary watch seen in a looking glass. The hand c and
the dial plate a or the figures or characters thereon, are formed as types for printing
from, so that by pressing the apparatus against a sheet of paper, cloth, or the like, an
impression of the figures, characters, etcetera, or the dial plate together with the hand
will be obtained on the said sheet. Figure 4 shows an impression obtained by the
apparatus, in which the time when the impression was made, is indicated. In addition
to figures, the apparatus may have any other inscription, such as the name of a firm,
the date of stamping, or the like. The letter type indicating the name of a firm, the
place or date, can be removed and exchanged in the well known way. In the con-
struction of the stamp shown in the accompanying drawing, the dial plate containing
the type, is jointed to the case, and may be opened as illustrated in Figure 2. The
type for indicating the date, place, and the like, are inserted on the outer border of
the dial plate, which is then pressed into the case, the outer rim of which holds the
inserted types in their position. In the drawing, the apparatus is shown to resemble
somewhat a watch, so that it can be inserted in the pocket, and for this purpose the
dial plate and the hand are protected by a cover d (see Figures 1, 2, and 3). This
cover d may contain a cushion soaked with ink in order to provide the type with ink
before making an impression. The apparatus may of course also be constructed as an

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ordinary stamp, with a handle. In place of moving the hand c by clockwork, it may
be regulated before stamping by hand. For this purpose, a button is applied to the
side or back of the case, by means of which the hand is regulated similar to an
ordinary watch either directly or by the agency of toothed wheels and the like..
The rings indicating the hour, the date, the month and the name of the user may
be arranged in any desired order. Figure 5 of the accompanying drawing shows the
impression obtained from a stamp provided with rings- indicating the hour, date and
month. The date indicating ring f, and the month indicating ring gare movable,
and between these two rings is arranged the hour indicating ring a, which is fixed to
the underplate, and consequently not movable. When an impression is to be inade at
a determined hour, say at 3.o'clock P.M. the cipher of the date indicating ring,
corresponding to the day of the month, is placed in line or in a radial direction with
the cipher III; the name of the corresponding month of the month indicating ring is
disposed in a like manner. Inside the month indicating ring. or outside the date
indicating ring, another ring containing the name of the firm may still be arranged.
The inscriptions on the apparatus may in general be arranged in any desired and
suitable manner.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is :-
1. A time, date, or name stamping apparatus actuated by clockwork in which the
dial plate and hand are provided with-printing types, or formed themselves as printing
types; so that in using the stamp, the time of day at which the impression is made,
will always be recorded.
2. In the recording or stamping apparatus set forth in claim. I, the arrangement of
a dial plate, the border of which is provided with notches to receive movable. types
for printing the name of a firm, a place, a date, or the like, which type, when the dial-
plate is placed in the case, are kept in their position by the rim of the case
substantially as described and shown with reference to the drawings.
3. In the recording or stamping apparatus set forth in claim 1, the arrangement of
movable rings and g, containing the day and the month for the purpose of indicating
when an impression is made, the date.as well as the time or hour, substantially as
described and shown with reference to Figure 5 of the drawing.
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4. The modification of the apparatus set forth in. claim 1, which consists in sub-
stituting for clockwork, a device for regulating the pointer before stamping, either by
hand or by the agency of toothed wheels or any other, suitable contrivance.
Dated this Sth day of May 1888
WM. P. THOMPSON, & Co.,
Of 6, Lord Street, Liverpool,
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