Improvements in or relating to Rubber and similar Stamps."
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 1st Nov., 1897-Accepted, 11th Dec.,
1897.
66
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Rubber and similar Stamps."
I, MARTIN ARNOLD JAQUES of 43 Ranelagh Road, Ealing in the County of
Middlesex, 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 the manufacture of rubber stamps and like impression
devices intended for manual use, and has for its object the provision of means
whereby it may be immediately perceived through the sense of touch which is the
top edge of the stamp.
Hitherto it has been customary to make the word "Top" at or near one edge of
the brass base-plate upon the under side of which the rubber or other die is
mounted; this plan is however unsatisfactory as being necessarily small it requires
somewhat close inspection of the plate to be observed, and further it is very liable
to become illegible or obliterated.
According to the present invention the correct position of the stamp upon the
paper is boldly and clearly indicated by the disposition or shape of the handle or
by the shape of the metal base-plate in combination with a handle of a special
form.
The accompanying drawings illustrate some forms of stamps constructed in
accordance with this invention, like letters indicating like parts throughout.
Figure 1 is an elevation, and
Figure 2 a plan of one form of stamp in which the handle A is so attached to the
base or foundation plate B as to form an angle therewith, the handle being inclined
towards the operator when the stamp is being properly used. The rubber portion is
shown at C.
Figures 3 and 4 are elevation and plan respectively of a different mode of
attachment, the shank A¹ of the handle A being bent at a and the handle inclined
towards the right hand of the user.
Figures 5 and 6 are elevation and plan respectively of a form in which the handle A
is milled or ribbed as at A² the ribbed portion of the handle facing the front or top
edge of the plate, the side next the operator being left plain.
In Figures 7 to 10 special forms of handle are shown which indicate by their
shape the right position of the stamp.
I may further, if desired, combine with any of the described forms of handle or
with other convenient form, a base plate of special form in such a manner that the
correct position of the stamp is indicated by both.
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
1. In a rubber or similar stamp indicating to the user the correct position of
the stamp by the sense of touch due to some peculiarity of the handle.

page_text: 2. In a rubber or similar stamp so inclining the handle A with reference to
the surface of the stamp that the inclination of the handle indicates the correct
position of the stamp.
3. In a rubber or similar stamp inclining the axis of the handle A to the
surface of the stamp substantially as and for the purpose described and illustrated
in Figures 1 and 2 or Figures 3 and 4 of the accompanying drawings.
4. A rubber or similar stamp in which the correct position is indicated both by
the handle and tase-plate.
5. The complete rubber or similar stamp substantially as described and
illustrated in Figures 5, and 6, or 7 and 8, or 9 and 10 of the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 28th day of October 1897.
MARTIN ARNOLD JAQUES.
BOULT & WADE,
Agents for the Applicant.