Patent ID: 8393271

Claim:
A pocket stamp ( 1 ) including a housing ( 2 ) which is configured in the shape of a case ( 3 ) having two articulately connected shell-shaped housing parts ( 4 , 5 ) which can be brought from a closed position, in which they are releasably connected to each other by means of detent elements provided at the housing parts ( 4 , 5 ), into an open position, in which a stamp plate ( 24 ) accommodated in one of the housing parts ( 4 ) and protruding over the edge thereof is present in its operation or impression position, in which the other housing part ( 5 ) is offset toward the rear in relation to the stamp plate ( 24 ), wherein in the closed position of the housing parts ( 4 , 5 ), the detent elements are arranged within the housing parts ( 4 , 5 ), wherein at least one detent element ( 17 ) in the shape of a hook ( 18 ) is immovably arranged in its housing parts ( 5 ) and a detent element ( 16 ) in the shape of a resiliently movable ledger ( 20 ) is arranged in the other housing part ( 4 ), and wherein one of the housing parts comprises an actuating portion which cooperates with an actuation region of one of the detent elements.