OF THE DRAWINGS
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 31st Oct, 1899-Accepted, 9th Dec, 1899
convenient device for storing adhesive stamps, as well as for moistening the
surface of the paper, envelopes or other objects to which they are to be applied,
together with mechanism for affixing said stamps to said moistened surfaces,
and to these ends it consists in certain peculiarities of construction and com-
bination of parts, as will be more particularly set forth hereinafter with refei-
ence to the accompanying drawings, and subsequently claimed
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
Figure 1 represents a partly sectional view of a device embodying our in-
vention, the section being taken on the plane indicated by the vertical section
line in Figure 2
Figure 2 represents an elevation of said device, partly broken away or in
section to better illustrate certain details of construction
Figure 3 is a horizontal sectional view, taken on the line 3-3 in Figure 2,
looking upward
Figure 4 is a plan view of the lower part of the device, partly in horizontal
section on the line 44 in Figure 2.
Figure 5 18 a perspective view of the stamp-magazine in an inverted position.
Figure 6 is a like view of the stamp-pusher, also inverted,
Figure 7 is a perspective view of the casing or stand portion of the device,
in a detached condition, and with its tubular guide partly bioken away
Referring by letter to the drawings, A indicates an elongated metal casing,
of rectangular contour in transverse section, the lower end of the same being
open, and preferably flared at all sides to obtain greater supporting area and
afford clearance for a sliding open-bottom metal shell B, constituting the stamp-
magazine of our device Extending up from the top of the casing A, cential of
the same, is a tubular guide C, foi the hollow shank D of an angular bail E,
and a handle F 18 made fast on the bail-shank D A spiral-spring G of suitable
power 18 arranged, under compression, in the tubular guide Cand shank D
aforesaid, and operates to automatically return the bail E to normal position,
when pressure thereon is released
The lower end of the magazine B is provided with inwardly extending corner-
flanges 6 that serve as supports for a pile of stamps H set in opposition to a
pusher I, consisting of an open-top metal-shell provided with longitudinally
slotted arms J, that extend up through registering slots c, d, in the upper ends

page_text: of the aforesaid magazine and casing, the working face of the bottom of the
pusher I being preferably faced with a stripe of felt or other suitable soft
material A light spial-sping K is arranged under compression between the
upper end of the magazine B and the bottom of the pushet I to hold said pushe
under pressure against the stamps supported in said magazine
The
The casing A and stamp-magazine Baie longitudinally slotted in register
with the slots in the arms J of the pusher I, and the said registering slots are
engaged by inwardly extending ears f of the herein before named bail E
longitudinal slotting of the stamp-magazine B with respect to the slots in the
pusher-aims J is such that the two move together when the bail is forced down,
initial pressure coming on said pusher-arms until, by gradual diminishing of
the pile of stamps H, as hereinafter explained, the pressure comes duectly upon
Baid magazine
We will next describe the device foi moistening the surface of the papor,
envelope, or other object to which the stamp is to be affixed The said moistene
consists of a water-holder L, having a lower end spout plugged with a protrud-
ing fold M of felt or other suitable absorbent material, said receptacle being
provided with a filling-aperture 9, and detachably connected to a side of the
casing A
The back of the water-holder 18 countersunk about its filling-aper-
ture, and a compressible gasket is laid in the countersink to be compressed
against the casing A and thereby exclude an from said water-holder' This
exclusion of a prevents flow of the water in the holder L, the material M
pioti uding from the lower end spout of said holder being kept moist by absorp-
tion
At its lower end the back of the water-holder L is provided with an elon-
gated horizontal eye for engagement with a corresponding hook projecting
from the adjacent side of the casing A, and a sping-latch m fast on, and ex-
tending from, the top of sand watei-holder has a depression in its projecting
end which engages with a like depression in the adjacent top surface of the
casing A, as shown in Figure 2, thereby detachably uniting the water-holder L
and casing A
In practice the stamps are piled in the magazine B with the adhesive surfaces
downward, and when said stamps are to be affixed to a paper or envelope, the
device is tilted by the hand of the operator to permit the described moist pro-
truding fold M to be moved over the surface to be moistened, and then the said
device is brought to an upright position and the bail E forced down by pressure
on the handle F, which action brings the adhesive surface of the lower most stamp
in forcible contact with the moistened sui face, where it adheres and pulls away
from the supporting corner-flanges of the magazine B when pressure upon
said handle is released to permit retraction of said magazine incidental to 'ex-
pansion of the spring G u the bail-shank C and tubular guide D), the device
being moved the required distance and the described operation of the handle
and bail repeated, until the requisite number of stamps have been deposited,
one by one, upon the moistened surface
From the foregoing description, it will be seen that we have produced a simple
and inexpensive device adapted for use with either postage or revenue stamps,"
and which affords a convenient means of storing the same, and is always ready
for operation.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said in-
vention and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim 18:-
1 An adhesive stamp-affixer comprising an upright casing open at its lower
end and provided with an upwardly extending tubular guide, a bail having a
tubular shank loose on the guide, a spiral-spring under compression in said
guide and bail-shank, a stamp-magazine loose in the casing and having its lower
end open but provided with inwardly extending supports, and a stamp-pusher

page_text: loose in the magazine, the stamp-pusher and said magazine being in conjunc-
tion with the bail to recipiocate with the same
2 An adhesive stamp-affixer comprising an upright casing open at its lower
end and provided with longitudinal side-slots as well as an upwardly extending
tubular guide and top-slots, a stamp-magazine loose in the casing and also pio-
vided with longitudinal side-slots and top-slots, a stamp-pusher loose in the
magazine and provided with longitudinally slotted aims engaging the top-slots
in said magazine and casing, a spiral-sping under compression against the
stamp-pusher, a bail having a tubular shank loose on the aforesaid guide, a
spiral-spring under compression in said guide and bail shank, and bail-eais
engaging the slots longitudinally of the aforesaid casing, stamp-magazine and
pusher-arms.
3. An adhesive stamp-affixes comprising an upright casing open at its lower
end, a stamp-magazine loose in the casing and provided at its open lower end
with inwardly extending supports, a stamp-pusher loose in the magazine, and
& spring-controlled bail operative in conjunction with the stamp-pusher and
magazine to reciprocate the same, together with a water-receptacle, in detach-
able connection with said casing, provided with a countersunk filling aperture
surrounded by a compressible gasket facing the aforesaid casing, and a plug of
absorbent material protruding from a lower end spout of said receptacle.
Dated the e ular ak Hatabas
800
JENSEN & SON,
77, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Patent Agents