A COMBINED PRINTING OR ENDORSING STAMP AND INKING PAD AND PENCIL CASE, MATCH BOX OR OTHER LIKE ARTICLE
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by George Kissam Cooke at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 23rd November 1882.
GEORGE KISSAM COOKE, of No 21 rue Turbigo, Paris, in the Republic of France
"A COMBINED PRINTING OR ENDORSING STAMP AND INKING PAD AND PENCIL CASE,
MATCH BOX OR OTHER LIKE ARTICLE
"
My invention relates to a combined portable printing or endorsing stamp and
inking pad and pencil case, match box or other like article the object of my
invention being to provide a printing or endorsing stamp and inking pad which
can be carried about in the pocket in combination with a pencil case, penholder,
match box, cigarette box, or other like article which it is customary for almost
every person to carry, and thus obviate the necessity of carrying the stamp and
pad in a separate case.
A suitable means of carrying out my invention as applied to a match box is as
follows:-
One end of the box (the end opposite to that by which the matches are
introduced) is closed by a moveable cover of peculiar construction as hereinafter
described such cover containing the inking pad. The stamp which may be of
metal or of india rubber forms the bottom of the box and is so placed on the said.
end of the box as to rest against the pad when the cover is closed. The closing of
the other end is effected either by one of the sides of an interior sliding box
containing the matches, or, when the matches are introduced directly into the box,
by a hinged cover or in any other suitable manner.
Two of the sides of the box are each formed with a small curved slot. These
slots serve as guides for small projections formed on the inside mechanism by means
of which the cover containing the pad can be operated and consequently opened or
closed as desired. For greater facility a button of a flat form is fixed by its shank
(which works in a slot provided for this purpose in one of the other sides of the
box) to the interior mechanism. To operate the entire mechanism and to give
the said cover the position required it is merely necessary to push the said button
either up or down.
The interior mechanism consists of two parts (an upper part and a lower part)
united by means of two pivots on which the upper part turns when the cover
containing the pad is operated. The lower part is provided with a tongue which

page_text: bears against the slot in which works the button hereinbefore described; also with
a small central perforation in which is fixed the shank of the button and with two
small lateral perforations in which the pivots are placed. These pivots form a
portion of the upper part as also do the two projections above described.
When the button is pushed in the direction of the stamp the entire mechanism
slides the length of the inner sides of the box and when the projections arrive at
the end of their course in their slots the end carrying the stamp will be entirely
uncovered and the stamp ready for use. The cover (which cannot fall by itself
from the position in which it is now placed) when completely open is inclined
towards the back of the box and thus cannot interfere with the use of the stamp.
It will be readily seen from the foregoing description that, by reason of the
peculiar arrangement of the said cover and of the interior mechanism, the stamp is
always provided with the necessary quantity of ink and impressions can always
be obtained without fear of the inking pad at the bottom of the cover besmearing
or dirtying the paper.
I have described my invention as applied to a match box but its application to
pencil cases and other articles will be understood without further description.