Patent ID: 7066089

Claim:
An automatically re-inked stamp comprising a stamp base being hollow and having a bottom; an opening formed at the bottom; an edge formed at the bottom around the opening; a lip formed on and extending out from the edge at the bottom; two vertical ends, each vertical end having an inside surface; an outside surface; and a vertical channel formed in the outside surface; two guide slots formed longitudinally respectively through the vertical ends; and a rotator mounted on and protruding in from the inside surface of one of the vertical ends near a corresponding guide slot; an ink pad mounted in the stamp base; a character unit mounted rotatably and slidably in the stamp base below the ink pad and having a rotor having a bottom face; a front edge; a rear edge; and two ends; a character plate mounted on the bottom face of the rotor; two lugs formed respectively on and protruding out from the ends of the rotor and pressing against the rotator when the character unit slides up and down to rotate the character unit; and a shaft mounted coaxially through the rotor below the two lugs, protruding from the ends of the rotor and mounted rotatably and slidably in the guide slots in the stamp base; a housing mounted over the stamp base to move the rotor up and down in the guide slots in the stamp base and having a bottom edge; an inside surface; two ends; and two L-shaped rails formed on the inside surface of the housing respectively on the two ends at the bottom edge and mounted slidably respectively in the vertical channels in the stamp base; a bottom cover mounted on the bottom of the stamp base, and having a bottom cap having a panel having a top surface, a front edge, a rear edge and two end edges; and two latches formed respectively at and protruding up from the side edges of the panel, and each latch having a distal end; and a hook formed on the distal end of the latch, extending in and hooking the lip on the stamp base when the stamp base is pressed onto the bottom cover.