Structured mounting for a hand stamp
OwnerMichael T. Monichinventor
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Abstract
A hand-held mounting for a rubber stamp structured from a series of hingably connected flat sheet panels. One set of panels are arranged into a wedge-shaped outer body and gripping handle. Other panels are held captively within the outer body configuration and arranged to serve as structural load-supporting elements. A separate shim is used to preload and stiffen the combination of inner and outer structures after being securely stapled together. Alternatively, readily removable securement devices are used to permit the knockdownability of the structure into a flat form when so desired.
Claims11
A preloaded structured mounting for a hand-held rubber stamp made from a single rectangular blank of paperboard, cut, scored and bent, along predetermined transverse parallel lines which define side boundaries between a multiplicity of hingably connected rectangular panels arranged in tandom comprising:
- (a) three symetrically arranged outer panels, including a horizontally positioned base panel hingably connected on opposing transverse sides to a set of two like mirror-imaged left and right skirt panels sloping upwardly and inwardly toward each other and toward a common top apexial line,
- (b) a multiplicity of left and right sets of symetrically arranged inner panels forming sides for a multiplicity of intimately confined load-supporting polygons located within the inside boundries of said arranged outer panels,
- (c) a substantially fixed securement means for holding said arranged outer and inner panels in a unitized structured form,
- (d) a gripping means located near said top apexial line for handling said structured mounting thereat,
- (e) a means to stiffen said unitized structured form whereby a lateral tensile preload is created in said arranged outer panels, and simultaneously, a lateral compressive preload is created in said arranged inner panels, said means to stiffen said unitized structured form being accomplished by a separate flat shim having thickness dimensions sufficiently large to create, upon insertion, thereat, a vertical interference fit between the top surface of said horizontally positioned base panel and the bottom surfaces of adjacent elements of said arranged inner panels, and simultaneously having laterial dimensions sufficiently large to create, upon insertion thereat as described, a horizontal interference fit between the side edges of said separate flat shim and the base vertex lines of said left and right skirt panels sloping upwardly and inwardly from said horizontally positioned base panel.
A knockdownable structured mounting for a hand-held rubber stamp made from a single rectangular blank of paperboard cut, scored and bent, along predetermined transverse parallel lines which define side boundaries between a multiplicity of hingably connected rectangular panels arranged in tandom comprising:
- (a) three symetrically arranged outer panels, including a horizontally positioned base panel hingably connected on opposing transverse sides to a set of two like mirror-imaged left and right skirt panels sloping upwardly and inwardly toward each other, and toward a common top apexial line,
- (b) a multiplicity of left and right sets of symetrically arranged inner panels forming sides for a multiplicity of intimately confined load-supporting polygons located within the inside boundries of said arranged outer panels, and including left and right juxapositioned leg panels hingably connected, respectively, to the top of said left and right skirt panels and directed vertically downward, forming twin apexes, thereby, to the plane of said horizontally positioned base panel and there hingably connected, respectively, to like left and right foot panels horizontally directed parallel to said base panel thereat, and outwardly directed into contact, respectively, with the lower sloping inner surface of said left and right skirt panels,
- (c) a readily attachable and detachable securement means for temporarily holding said arranged outer panels and said arranged inner panels in a substantially unitized structured configuration, yet adapted to flat knockdown,
- (d) an integrated gripping means including an opposing set of transversly centralized gripping holes located in the top half of said left and right skirt panels sloping toward their common top apexial line.
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