An Improved Device for Damping or Moistening Labels, Tickets, Postage Stamps, and such like Adhesive Articles.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 20th Aug., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 14th Sept., 1894-Accepted, 20th Oct., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Device for Damping or Moistening Labels, Tickets,
Postage Stamps, and such like Adhesive Articles.
I, JAMES GRANT of Market Street Lane, Belper in the County of Derby,
Spooling Master, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
In carrying out my invention I form or cast of metal, glass or any other suitable
material or composition a receptacle which may if desired be mounted upon rollers,
wheels or castors, or fixed into any moving or rolling box or the like, or may be
formed to simply lie flat on the table or desk, the said receptacle being arranged
with a lid pivotted to the sides and being open at the back and front; the upper
face of this lid is made of some perforated substance such as wire gauze, perforated
copper or any other suitably perforated metal or substance and folds back, the
underside thereof being made hollow for the reception of sponge, flannel or other
absorbent material which is packed into it and held therein by means of bars or
other suitable devices; the receptacle is now partly filled with water, the lid being
folded down and the water rising up through the absorbent material reaches the
gauze or perforated top which upon being touched imparts sufficient moisture for
the purpose required; it is not necessary to raise the lid unless for washing or
cleansing purposes, the water being poured in at the opening at the back or front
of the said lid.
Dated this 18th day of August 1894.
W. SWINDELL,
Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Device for Damping or Moistening Labels, Tickets,
Postage Stamps, and such like Adhesive Articles.
I, JAMES GRANT of Market Street Lane, Belper in the County of Derby,
Spooling Master, 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 :-
The object of my invention is to provide a ready and effective means or device
for damping or moistening labels, tickets, stamps and such like adhesive articles,
and in order that my said invention may be the more readily understood I have
caused to be annexed to this Specification a sheet of drawings the different figures
and letters of reference upon which will be deemed to form a part of this
Specification.
Figure 1 is a plan of my improved device.
Figure 2 is a vertical section on line a. a. of Figure 1.
Figure 3 is a vertical section on line b. b. of Figure 1.
In carrying out my invention 1 form or cast of metal, glass, porcelain or other
suitable material, substance or composition, a receptacle A which may if desired be
mounted upon rollers B, castors or wheels, or be fixed into any moving or rolling
box or the like, or may be formed to simply lie flat on the table or desk. Upon
the drawing the device is shewn in a form suitable for use on a tray, pad or the like
having grooves formed therein the side blocks or bearings C, C, of the rollers B
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page_text: fitting between the sides of the said groove, and the device being thus at liberty to
travel backwards and forwards as required. The said receptacle A has a lid D
pivotted to the sides, which may be slotted as at F if desired or in other suitable
manner to admit of the lid being readily removed from the pivot G, when opened
to its full extent. The upper face H of this lid is made of some suitably perforated
metal or substance and preferably of perforated copper; the underside thereof is
made hollow for the reception of an absorbent pad I of flannel, sponge or other
suitable absorbent material which is kept in its place by means of bars K or by
other suitable means if desired. The receptacle is now partly filled with water,
which may be poured in through the opening M at the back and rising through the
absorbent pad reaches the perforated top which upon being touched or upon having
the label, ticket, stamp or other adhesive article passed over its surface imparts to
it sufficient moisture for the purpose required. It is not necessary to raise the lid
unless for washing or cleaning purposes or for removing and re-placing the absorbent
pad; when however it is wished to raise it, it is only necessary to put the finger in
the opening M, at the back, and press upon the back of the lid in a downward
direction when it will immediately spring up.
I may if desired dispense with the perforated top to the lid and use the absorbent
pad alone, for damping or moistening, the said absorbent pad would in such a case
fit up to a rebated upper frame to prevent its getting loose at the top or I may
pivot or hinge an additional lid also carrying an absorbent pad, above the aforesaid
fid D, the upper lid to fit down over the first one and the lower face of its absorbent
pad coming in contact with the upper face of the lower one, will allow the moisture
to travel upwards, and the top face of the upper pad will be found to impart
slightly less moisture than the perforated metal top of the lower one, the moisture
having further to rise; however I prefer to adhere to the simple form of device
already described and illustrated.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
The improved device for damping or moistening labels, tickets, postage stamps
and such like adhesive articles; the said device being mounted if desired upon
rollers, wheels, castors or the like and consisting of a hollow body or receptacle A
having a hollow lid D hinged or pivotted thereto, the said lid having a perforated
top H and an absorbent pad I fixed thereunder by means of bars K or other
suitable device, the whole being made of any suitable metal, material or composition
and substantially as described herein and illustrated by the accompanying sheet of
drawings.
Dated this 9th day of October 1894
W. SWINDELL,
Agent for the Applicant.