EP0258323B1 - Timbre comportant un dispositif encreur - Google Patents

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EP0258323B1
EP0258323B1 EP87901307A EP87901307A EP0258323B1 EP 0258323 B1 EP0258323 B1 EP 0258323B1 EP 87901307 A EP87901307 A EP 87901307A EP 87901307 A EP87901307 A EP 87901307A EP 0258323 B1 EP0258323 B1 EP 0258323B1
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41K—STAMPS; STAMPING OR NUMBERING APPARATUS OR DEVICES
    • B41K1/00—Portable hand-operated devices without means for supporting or locating the articles to be stamped, i.e. hand stamps; Inking devices or other accessories therefor
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    • B41K1/38—Inking devices; Stamping surfaces
    • B41K1/40—Inking devices operated by stamping movement

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  • the invention relates to a hand stamp with self-inking device, which has a turning mechanism arranged in a housing, which moves the printing types of the stamp from an upward-facing position, which is applied to an ink carrier inserted into the housing, down into the printing position and thereby pivots and the for actuating this turning and printing process is connected to a U-shaped actuating bracket which extends across the housing, the legs of which are slidably mounted on the side faces of the housing, and which is supported by a spring, one end of which is supported on a cross member provided in the housing, can be moved upwards into the position corresponding to the contact of the printing types on the ink carrier and can be pushed down by hand into the position corresponding to the printing position of the printing types.
  • Hand stamps of the aforementioned type are known (US Pat. No. 3,359,897) which have a housing made of metal. It is disadvantageous that the manufacture of such housings, which have to perform a multitude of functions, and e.g. In addition to the holder of the turning mechanism for the printing types, the actuating bracket must also be displaceably mounted and the ink carrier must be easily accessible or removable, which involves a great deal of effort. The reason for this is that a number of parts must be provided on the housing or that the housing must be machined in a larger number of locations in order to be able to perform functions as mentioned above with sufficient accuracy.
  • the hand stamp according to the invention of the type mentioned at the outset is characterized in that the housing of the stamp has a metal frame part and a plastic guide body arranged on the upper side of the frame part, the turning mechanism and the pressure types being arranged in the frame part, and the guide body on the frame part is placed or inserted into the frame part and has two longitudinal edge strips arranged on both sides of the frame part and running parallel to the pivot axis of the printing types, which are connected to each other with a web running over or through the frame part and alone or together with the top wall of the frame part , forms a store guide with at least one insertion opening located in a longitudinal edge strip for inserting the ink carrier.
  • the housing has a very good stability due to the metal frame part, in which the turning mechanism and the printing types are arranged.
  • the frame part is relatively easy to manufacture, since it does not have to perform various holding and guiding functions necessary for the stamp; these holding and guiding functions, which do not depend on accuracy but on the ability to absorb large forces, are taken over by the guiding body; such functions are e.g. the inclusion and guidance of the ink carrier.
  • the formation of the guide body made of plastic enables the same to be manufactured precisely with relatively little manufacturing effort.
  • the requirement for the use of an insertable ink carrier can be created in a relatively simple manner, which can be used more easily and with less risk of contamination for the person handling the stamp in the stamp housing than a shell-type ink carrier, which is essentially perpendicular to their surface extension are to be inserted into a recess in the housing, as is usually provided in known hand stamps of the type in question here.
  • the drawer-like insertion of a color carrier also gives the possibility of providing housing covers in the region of the longitudinal edge strips of the guide body and thus largely eliminating the risk of soiling when the stamp is used.
  • a preferred embodiment of the hand stamp according to the invention which can achieve a practically secure cohesion of these two parts of the housing with a simple cap-like placement of the guide body on the frame part, is characterized in that the guide body is placed on the frame part and transverse edge strips, which are on the outside of the side walls of the frame part.
  • a preferred development of this embodiment which allows a structurally simple manner to achieve an exact guidance of the actuating bracket with the aid of the guide body, is characterized in that the transverse edge strips each have a groove accommodating a leg of the actuating bracket or are interrupted and together with the underlying side wall of the Form such a groove part of the frame.
  • the web of the guide body carries in the middle an integrally integrated with the guide body, upwardly projecting sleeve into which the spring pushing the actuating bracket, which is designed as a helical spring, with its lower Part is inserted, which sleeve engages from below in a pipe socket on the actuator supply bracket is provided and connects this with a handle.
  • This embodiment results in good guidance of the spring of the plunger pushing the actuating bracket upward and further improves the guidance of the actuating bracket on the guide body of the plunger housing.
  • the web has an attachment on its underside which engages in a recess provided on the top of the frame part.
  • a viewing window can also be created in a simple manner, behind which a stamp impression sheet can be accommodated, which can considerably facilitate the use of the stamp, in particular when different types of stamp are to be used continuously.
  • An embodiment in this regard is characterized in that a transparent cover, which forms a compartment suitable for inserting a stamp impression sheet, is arranged on a longitudinal edge strip of the guide body.
  • the hand stamp shown in the drawing has a housing 3 consisting of a frame part 1 and a guide body 2, in which a turning mechanism is arranged which detects the printing types of the stamp from an upward-pointing position in which these printing types 4, 5 are in a drawer-like manner trained ink carrier 6 with an ink pad 28, which position is shown in Fig. 1, moved down into the printing position.
  • this turning mechanism is formed in the usual way from a deflection and pivot axis 7, from pivot arms 8 and pivot arms 9.
  • the deflection and pivot axis 7 which is slidably mounted in slots 10 which are provided in the two side walls 11 of the frame part, is moved downward with the actuating bracket 12 in the direction of the arrow 14 , wherein this axis passes through the slots 15 located in the swivel arms 8 downwards. Since the slits 15 have an arcuate course, in the course of the downward movement of the deflection and pivot axis 7 there is a reciprocating pivoting movement of the pivot arms 8 around their bearing journals 8a in the sense of the double arrow 16.
  • the pivot arms 8 carry bearing journals 17 which are in longitudinal slots 18 the swivel arms 9 engage.
  • the printing type unit 20 carries adjustable printing types 5, which e.g. are formed to form a date imprint and sit on type tapes 5a, which can be adjusted with setting wheels 5b, and further a pressure plate 4, which produces an imprint surrounding the imprint of the adjustable types 5.
  • adjustable printing types 5 e.g. are formed to form a date imprint and sit on type tapes 5a, which can be adjusted with setting wheels 5b, and further a pressure plate 4, which produces an imprint surrounding the imprint of the adjustable types 5.
  • the metal frame part 1 of the stamp housing 3 consists of a U-shaped bracket which forms the side walls 11 and the top wall 23 and of connecting rods 24 which connect the lower ends of the mutually opposite side walls 11 to one another.
  • the plastic guide body 2 is placed on the top of the frame part 1, and this guide body 2 has two longitudinal edge strips 25, which are arranged on both sides of the frame part and run parallel to the pivot axis 7 of the printing types 4, 5 and which have a web running above the frame part 1 26 are connected.
  • the longitudinal edge strips 25 have openings 27 which, together with the upper side wall 23 of the frame part 1 or with the downward-facing surface 30 of this upper side wall, form a drawer guide for the drawer-like fabric carrier 6, which receives an ink pad 28.
  • the opening 27 arranged in one longitudinal edge strip 25 forms an insertion opening for the ink carrier 6.
  • a handle attachment 31 is provided on the ink carrier 6 for easier handling of this ink carrier.
  • the elastic resilience of this material makes it easy to achieve an exactly fitting fit of the color carrier in the store guide and at the same time easy replacement of the color carrier.
  • an appropriately designed guide body is also inserted into the frame part such that the web 26 of the guide body 2 comes to rest on the downward-facing surface 30 of the top wall 23 of the frame part 1 , possible.
  • the guide body 2 has transverse edge strips 32, which bear against the outside of the side walls 11 of the frame part 1. These transverse edge strips hold the guide body 2 against lateral displacement relative to the frame part 1 and at the same time form a guide for the actuating bracket 12, which laterally engages over the housing 3.
  • the transverse edge strips 32 are interrupted in the middle and thus form a groove together with the underlying side wall 11 of the frame part 1, and each of these grooves appropriately receives one leg 35 of the actuating bracket 12. It would also be possible, instead of interrupting the transverse wall strip 32, to provide a groove in these strips which receives one leg of the actuating bracket.
  • the web 26 of the guide body 2 can be designed as a full plate, as shown in the drawing, or can also be divided into a number of strips by openings 37, which are shown in broken lines in the drawing.
  • the web 26 of the guide body 2 carries in the middle an upwardly projecting sleeve 40 which is integrated with the guide body and into which the lower part of the spring 41, which is designed as a helical spring and which presses the actuating bracket 12, is inserted.
  • the sleeve 40 engages from below in a pipe socket 42 which is provided on the actuating bracket 12 and connects this with a handle 44. This engagement also forms a guide between the guide body 2 and the actuating bracket 12.
  • the actuating bracket 12 is further guided by projections 48 which engage in the slots 10.
  • the web 26 On its underside, the web 26 carries an extension 45 which engages in a recess 46 on the top of the frame part. This results in an exact positioning of the guide body 2 on the frame part 1.
  • a transparent cover 49 is arranged on one longitudinal edge strip 25 of the guide body 2 and, together with this longitudinal edge strip, forms a compartment 47 suitable for inserting a stamp impression sheet.

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Le timbre comportant un dispositif encreur présente, disposé dans un bâti (3), un mécanisme d'inversion, qui déplace par pivotement les caractères d'impression (4, 5) du timbre d'une position d'encrage sur le dispositif encreur (6) orientée vers le haut, à une position d'impression orientée vers le bas, et qui pour la commande de ce mécanisme d'inversion et d'impression comporte un U relié à l'étrier de commande (12) chavauchant le bâti. Le boîtier (3) présente un cadre métallique (1) dans lequel sont disposés le mécanisme d'inversion et les caractères d'impression, et un élément de guidage (2) en plastique placé sur ou dans la partie supérieure du cadre. L'élément de guidage (2) constitue un guide pour le changement de l'encreur et de préférence aussi des guides pour l'étrier de commande (12).

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1. Timbre à commande manuelle et à dispositif auto-encreur, comprenant un mécanisme de retournement (7, 8, 9) disposé dans un corps de timbre (3), qui déplace les caractères d'impression (4, 5) de ce timbre depuis une position où ils sont dirigés vers le haut et appliqués contre un encreur (6) mis en place dans le corps, vers le bas à la position d'impression, en les retournant, et qui est relié, en vue de l'exécution de cette opération de retournement et d'impression, à un étrier d'actionnement (12), de forme en U, qui est engagé par-dessus le corps (3) et dont les branches (35) sont montées coulissantes sur les faces latérales du corps (3), étrier qui est déplaçable vers le haut dans la position correspondant à l'application des caractères d'impression contre l'encreur, par un ressort (41) appuyé par une extrémité sur une traverse (23, 26) prévue dans le corps, et qui peut être abaissé manuellement à la position correspondant à la position d'impression des caractères d'impression, caractérisé en ce que le corps (3) du timbre comporte une partie métallique formant un cadre (1) et une pièce de guidage (2) en matière plastique, disposée sur le côté supérieur du cadre (1), lequel contient le mécanisme de retournement (7, 8, 9) et les caractères d'impression (4, 5), la pièce de guidage (2) étant emboîtée sur le cadre ou encastrée dans celui-ci et possédant deux bordures longitudinales (25), disposées des deux côtés du cadre (1) et s'étendant parallèlement à l'axe de rotation (7) des caractères d'impression (4, 5), ces bordures longitudinales qui étant reliées l'une à l'autre par une âme (26) passant par-dessus ou à travers le cadre (1) et formant seules ou ensemble avec la paroi supérieure (23) du cadre (1), un guide-tiroir avec au moins une ouverture d'introduction (27), située dans l'une des bordures longitudinales (25) pour l'introduction de l'encreur (6) à la façon d'un tiroir.
2. Timbre selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que la pièce de guidage (2) est emboîtée sur le cadre (1) et est pourvue de bordures transversales (32) qui s'appliquent extérieurement contre les parois latérales (11) de ce cadre (1).
3. Timbre selon la revendication 2, caractérisé en ce que les bordures transversales (32) présentent chacune une rainure dans laquelle s'ajuste une branche (35) de l'étrier d'actionnement (12), ou sont interrompues et forment une telle rainure ensemble avec la paroi latérale (11) sous-jacente du cadre (1).
4. Timbre selon une des revendications 1 à 3, caractérisé en ce que l'âme (26) de la pièce de guidage (2) porte, au centre, une douille (40) dirigée vers le haut et réalisée d'un seul tenant avec la pièce de guidage, douille dans laquelle est disposée la partie inférieure du ressort (41) poussant l'étrier d'actionnement (12) vers le haut et réalisé sous la forme d'un ressort hélicoïdal, la douille (40) pénétrant d'en bas dans une tubulure (42) prévue sur l'étrier d'actionnement (12) et reliant celui-ci à une poignée (44).
5. Timbre selon une des revendications 1 à 4, caractérisé en ce que l'âme (26) porte par dessous une saillie (45) qui pénètre dans un évidement (46) prévu dans le dessus du cadre (1).
6. Timbre selon une des revendications 1 à 5, caractérisé en ce qu'un recouvrement transparent (49) est disposé sur une bordure longitudinale (25) de la pièce de guidage (2), de manière à former un logement (47) pour l'insertion d'une étiquette portant une impression produite par le timbre.
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