New or Improved Stamp for Tatooing Beasts or Animal and other Substances.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 15th Sept., 1899-Accepted, 4th Nov., 1899
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
New or Improved Stamp for Tatooing Beasts or Animal and other
Substances.
We, RICHARD WEITZ, of 12, Joachimerstrasse, Charlottenburg, and Orro
BERTRAM, of 138, Rigaustrasse, Berlin, O, both in the Empire of Germany,
Manufacturers, 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:-
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This invention relates to a new or improved stamp for tatooing animal and
other substances.
In the annexed drawings two forms of construction of the invention are
shown in which Fig. 1 is a vertical section of one form.
Fig. 2 a plan seen from below of the same.
Fig. 3 an elevation of the other form.
Fig. 4 a section of the same.
Fig. 5 a plan view from below.
In the first form the casing 1 into the bottom 2 of which the hollow needles 3
forming the design are put, is screwed to a flange plate 4 of a short tube
and forms consequently with the parts 4, 5 a solid whole including the chamber
or space 13 for the tatooing color. Casing 1 and flange plate 4 are movable in
a second casing 6, fixed to the handle 7 of the stamp. Accordingly also the
tube 5 is movable in the handle 7 having a bore along its whole length.
At its upper end the handle 7 is closed by a plate 8, which is first screwed
over a tube 9 by its threaded bore. This tube 9 is consequently tightly joined
to the handle 7. A plate 10 is fixed on tube 9 and arranged inside the
chamber 13 and is provided with as many pins or needles as there are hollow
needles 3. The tube 9 is provided immediately above the stamp 10 with lateral
borings 12 through which the colour inserted through the top of 9 comes into
the chamber 13. This chamber is rendered tight towards the top by means of
a rubber-membrane 14 whose exterior border is held between the casing 1 and
a ring 15 and its inner border between two washers 16, 17 screwed upon the
tube 9. A nut or screw-plug 18 closes the upper mouth of tube 9. Between
the tube 5 and the plate S and in the hollow handle 7 a spiral-spring 19 is
arranged surrounding the tube 9. This spring tends to push the short tubes 5
out of the handle 7 and consequently the flange plate 4 and casing 1 out of
casing 6. This tendency of movement is only checked when the flange plate 4
reaches the washer 16, because the tube 9 is tightly connected with handle 7.
When using the stamp the spring 19 is contracted by the blow upon the
substance to be stamped and the casing 1 moves upwards in casing 6. As the
plate 10 is tightly connected with the handle the needles or pins 11 enter
entirely into the hollow needles 3 and prevent any stoppage therein by tallow,
fat, blood or the like.
In the form of construction shown in Figs. 3, 4 and 5 the flange plate 4, on
which the casing 1 is screwed is replaced by a plate 4 movable on the tube 9
but not needing the short tube 5 in this case, as the spring 19 is supported
directly by the plate 4.
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page_text: The nut 17 securing the membrane 14 opposite the nut 16 is in this construc-
tion tightly connected with the plate 10 and the cross-borings 12 of tube 9
are also provided in the nut so that the tatooing colour can reach the chamber, 13.
The needles 11 are not fixed in the stamping plate 10 but arranged loosely in
a special plate 20 which engages the plate 10 by means of hooks 21 and pushes
the heads of the needles 11 against the latter. This arrangement prevents
bending of the needles 11 in a simple manner because the same would not be
affected by a possible lateral pressure. In consequence of these constructive
deviations the whole apparatus is very simplified, more handy and also smaller.
This form of construction is advantageous for number stamps as the stamps
can be arranged separately (see Fig. 5) and these stamps can if desired be put
into a frame 22 and removed from the same when desired. This frame 22
must be provided with a cover 23 forming a counter-bearing for the screw
plugs 18.
On this cover 23 a common handle 7 can be arranged for all the stamps.
If the cover 23 is connected with the frame 22 on one side by a hinge 24 and
on the other side by a snap-lock 25, the inserting and removing of the single
stamps is facilitated. In the frame 22 and on the stamp casings 1 suitable
guidings or ribs 26 and grooves 27 fitting together are arranged, provided
so that the single stamps in the frame 22 remain in their fixed positions.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is:
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1. A new or improved stamp for tatooing beasts or animal or other sub-
stances having spring governed hollow needles for penetrating into the substance
to be tatooed through which needles colour passes into the punctures in the
substance and having also a second stamp arranged in the first one provided
with a hollow stem for allowing the inserting of the colour and carrying as
many pins or needles as there are hollow needles which in the normal position
of the stamp penetrate only partially into the hollow needles but entirely so
when the stamp is in action in order to prevent a stoppage of the hollow needles
by tallow, fat, blood or the like.
2. A form of construction of the latooing stamp described in Claim 1 wherein
the needles or pins of the inner stamp penetrating into the hollow needles,
are hung loosely in a perforated plate and are held by the latter only with their
heads abuting against the actual stamp plate by which means bending of these
pins or needles is prevented.
3. A form of construction of the tatooing stamp described in Claim 1 in
which the hollow handle and the outer casing are suppressed so that several
stamps can be arranged in one common frame as desired.
4. In the tatooing stamp described in Claim 3 the arrangement of a frame
having a cover held by a spring lock and provided with a handle which serves
at the same time as a counter bearing for all the stamps in the frame.
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1000
HERBERT HADDAN & Co.,
Agents to Applicant, 18, Buckingham Street, Strand, W.C.