IMPROVEMENTS IN STAMP-AFFIXERS
Year: 1885

page_text: I, GERARD WILLEM SCHIMMEL, of the City of Amsterdam, in the Kingdom of.
the Netherlands, Lawyer, do hereby declare tho nature of said invention for
IMPROVEMENTS IN STAMP-AFFIXERS" to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in stamp affixers, that is to apparatus
for taking up, moistening and applying gummed stamps or tickets.
For this purpose there is employed a handle or holder carrying a plate or layer
of material which is by preference india-rubber through the face of which there
project fine or sharp points or pins. When this affixer is pressed or struck on to a
number or layer of stamps or tickets the points penetrate the layer to a certain
depth and retain all that they have pierced. If the stamps or tickets be arranged
face upwards, then by pressing the points on a damp pad the lowermost of the
tickets is wetted, and when laid against the surface to which it is to be affixed it
will be retained there and will slip off the points as the handle is withdrawn.
In illustration of the construction of a stamp affixer according to this invention
there is appended a sheet of drawings upon which one form of the affixer is
depicted.
Fig. 1 is a vertical elevation partly in section of the stamp affixer on line x. x of
Fig. 2. Fig. 2 is an underside view of the same. Fig. 3 is a vertical section of
the box in which are placed the gummed tickets, and of tho pad or sponge used to
moisten the said tickets. This box may serve at the same time as a case for the
affixer.
As shown on the drawing A is an india-rubber bottom plate having a form
corresponding with that of the ticket used and being either ribbed (as shown in
Fig. 2), smooth or ornamented. This plate is provided with a back plate or
foundation B to which the handle C is secured. The back plate or foundation is
likewise provided with a number of sharp pins b the pointed extremities of which
penetrate through the india rubber plate A and are arranged perpendicularly or
nearly so to the latter.
The box D shewn in Figure 3 and which may be of any suitable form is used as
a receptacle for the tickets which have to be affixed and for the pad or sponge.
In the compartment d of the box D are placed the gummed stamps or tickets
with their printed surfaces uppermost, their under surface lying upon a layer of
soft material arranged at the bottom of the said box; this layer may be of paper or

page_text: other suitable material or may assume the form of a pad and has for its object to
prevent the points of the pins b from breaking off when piercing the tickets in
order to take them up.
In the compartment of the box D there is a tray g containing the pad or
sponge which is damped before being used.
The operations of affixing the stamps or tickets, viz: piercing, moistening,
gumming and applying can be rapidly effected by means of this apparatus so thab
in a short period of time a great number of tickets can be affixed without the
operator having to use his tongue to moisten them or his fingers to manipulate
them..
The bottom plate A enables the apparatus to operate efficiently and easily,
while by reason of the projecting perpendicular or nearly perpendicular points of
its rigid pins b which penetrate through the tickets the latter are safely secured.
When several tickets are being moistened and gummed successively the ribbed
under surface of the plate A enables the upper surface of each succeeding ticket to
remain as dry as possible.

page_text: I, GERARD WILLEM SCHIMMEL, of the City of Amsterdam, in the Kingdom of
the Netherlands, Lawyer, 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:-
This invention relates to improvements in stamp affixers, that is to apparatus
for taking up, moistening and applying gummed stamps or tickets.
For this purpose there is employed a handle or holder carrying a plate or layer
of material which is by preference india-rubber through the face of which there
project fine or sharp points or pins. When this affixer is pressed or struck on to a
number or layer of stamps or tickets the points penetrate the layer to a certain
depth and retain all that they have pierced. If the stamps or tickets be arranged
face upwards, then by pressing the points on a damp pad the lowermost of the
tickets is wetted, and when laid against the surface to which it is to be affixed it
will be retained there and will slip off the points as the handle is withdrawn.
Referring to the accompanying sheet of illustrated drawings, Fig. 1 is a vertical
elevation partly in section of the stamp affixer on lino x. x of Fig. 2. Fig. 2 is an
underside view of the same. Fig. 3 is a vertical section of the box in which are
placed the gummed tickets and the pad or sponge used to moisten the said tickets.
This box may serve at the same time as a caso for the affixer.
As shown on the drawing A is an india-rubber bottom plato having a form
corresponding with that of the ticket used and being either ribbed (as shewn in
Fig. 2), smooth or ornamented.
foundation B to which the handle C is secured. The back plate or foundation is
This plate is provided with a back plate or
likewise provided with a number of sharp pins 6 the pointed extremities of which
penetrate through the india rubber plate A and are arranged perpendicularly or
nearly so to the latter.
The box D shewn in Figure 3 and which may be of any suitable form is used
as a receptacle for the tickets which have to be affixed and for the pad or sponge.
In the compartment d of the box D are placed the gummed stamps or tickets
with their printed surfaces uppermost, their undersurface lying upon a layer of
soft material arranged at the bottom of the said box; this layer may be of
or other suitable material or may assume the form of a pad and has for its object
paper
o prevent the points of the pins b from breaking off when piercing the tickets in
order to take them up. In the compartment h of the box D there is a tray con-
aining the pad or sponge f which is damped before being used.
The operations of affixing the stamps or tickets viz piercing, moistening,
umining and applying can be rapidly effected by means of this apparatus so that
aa short period of time a great number of tickets can be affixed without the
perator having to use his tongue to moisten them or his fingers to manipulate
hem.
The bottom plate A enables the apparatus to operate efficiently and easily
hile by reason of the projecting perpendicular or nearly perpendicular points of
s rigid pins b which penetrate through the tickets the latter are safely secured.
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page_text: When several tickets are being moistened and gummed successively the ribbed
under surface of the plate A enables the upper surface of each succeeding ticket to
remain as dry as possible.
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Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is
A stamp affixer with fixed pins b standing perpendicularly or nearly so to the
fixed but elastic india-rubber plate A, the fine points of these pins b extending
through plate A and seizing the stamps, labels etc, so as to moisten and affix them
without touching them with either fingers or tongue.