Patent ID: 7654198

Claim:
A type unit for a hand stamp, or in a hand stamp, respectively, with at least one type band placed over a drive wheel, said drive wheel being rotatably mounted in two legs of a bearing member and provided with an adjustment wheel, and with a hood-shaped cover which includes a curved portion covering at least one type band in the region of the drive wheel in a position releasably fastened by snapping in on the bearing member, and further includes at least one slot for passage of a circumferential part of the adjustment wheel of the drive wheel, wherein the two legs of the bearing member each have a free end where two projecting snap-in noses are formed on their respective outer side that faces away from the type band ( 32 ), and wherein the cover, in the region of its curved portion, comprises two cantilevering extensions on each one of its two front sides, as snap-in elements for snapping engagement with the snap-in noses of the bearing member.