IPC 7 English version B41K-B41K 5/08

B41K-B41K00508

SECTION B – PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING

B 41

PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS (reproduction or duplication of pictures or patterns by scanning and converting into electrical signals H04N) [4]

B 41 K

STAMPS; STAMPING OR NUMBERING APPARATUS OR DEVICES (marking meat A22C 17/10; embossing combined with printing B41F 19/00; selective printing mechanisms B41J; embossing decorations or marks B44B 5/00; marking or coding completed packages B65B 61/26; ticket printing and issuing, fare registering, non-printing aspects of franking apparatus G07B)

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

with one or more flat stamping surfaces having fixed images

with multiple stamping surfaces; with stamping surfaces replaceable as a whole

with means for locating the image to be obtained

with a flat stamping surface and changeable characters

having movable type-carrying bands or chains

having adjustable type-carrying wheels

having automatic means for changing type-characters

Numbering devices

for pages

with means for locating the image to be obtained

with curved stamping surfaces for stamping by rolling contact

Rocking stamps

with stamping surfaces adapted for application to non-flat surfaces

flexible

for offset or intaglio stamping

for stencilling

for multicolour stamping

Details

Inking devices; Stamping surfaces

Inking devices operated by stamping movement

with pads or rollers movable for inking

for offset, intaglio, or stencil stamping

for multicolour stamping

with ink ribbons, ink sheets, or carbon tape or paper

Stamping surfaces impregnated with ink, or made of material leaving a mark after stamping contact

Ink reservoirs, e.g. integral with stamp handles

Inking pads

Handles

Stands or other means for keeping hand stamps or the like within easy reach

Apparatus for stamping articles having integral means for supporting the articles to be stamped (means for printing on articles of special shape or having a surface of particular configuration B41F 17/00)

with stamping surface located above article-supporting surface

and movable at right angles to the surface to be stamped

having type-carrying bands or chains

having adjustable type-carrying wheels

having automatic means for changing type- characters, e.g. numbering devices

with curved stamping surface for stamping by rolling contact

for relief stamping

for intaglio stamping

for offset stamping

for stencilling

with means for producing distorted images

for multicolour stamping

with stamping surface located below article- supporting surface

and bearing a positive image

and having means for varying the image, e.g. by exchanging stamping plates in succession

with co-operating stamping and counter-stamping members

in the form of indexable cylinders, e.g. of curved or polygonal cross-section, or of movable chains or bands

with means for deforming or punching the copy matter

separate from the stamping means

for numerical or alphabetical characters

Stamping apparatus with selection mechanisms for successively stamping and delivering lists or other items giving information, e.g. for warehouse administration, washing lists, supermarket guides

Means for handling copy matter

for locating when stationary

for conveying intermittently to or from stamping station

for conveying during stamping operation

for discharging

Inking devices

using inking pads

using ink ribbons, ink sheets, or carbon tape or paper

using rollers, e.g. rollers with integral ink-supply devices

Details or accessories

Stamping mechanisms controlled by feed of copy matter

Safety devices, e.g. for preventing extraction of copy matter before completion of stamping operation

Cutting or severing devices (in general B26)

Plier-like tools for stamping, or stamping and delivering, tickets or the like

with means for varying the image stamped

with devices for collecting counterfoils, or with other means for recording stamping operations (counting devices G06M)

for recording on separate tape

with counting devices