Ergonomically improved multiple surface stamp
OwnerJohn J. Solomon, Jr., John C McCarthyinventors
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Abstract
A hand printing stamp having multiple printing surfaces disposed angularly to each other at the bottom portion of a body further including an upper portion adapted to ergonomically fit into the palm of the user when his/her thumb and fingers of the grasping hand are disposed in a generally parallel spaced extending relationship to each other.
Claims7
A hand printing stamp device having adjacent multiple stamp receiving surfaces and a body constructed such that the device may be conveniently grasped by the hand of the user and manipulated to place each of said stamp receiving surfaces in printing contact with a receiving surface without modifying the grasping position of the user comprising, a vertically-oriented body having opposed generally parallel upstanding and laterally extending sidewalls, said body including an upper hand graspable portion and a lower stamp receiving portion including a generally flat laterally extending bottom stamp receiving surface having opposed spaced distal and proximal edges, and at least one adjacent stamp receiving surface upwardly outwardly extending from one of said bottom surface edges, said hand graspable portion being an upstanding boss portion with parallel opposed sides in turn parallel to and generally forming continuing wall portions with said parallel upstanding sidewalls and wherein the opposed sides of said graspable portion and said stamp receiving portion are both laterally aligned and parallel with each other and of generally equal thickness, said boss portion having a smooth rounded upper surface laterally extending the entire lateral extent of said graspable portion such that the palm of the user of the device may contact said graspable portion upper surface and the user's opposed thumb and fingers contact the opposed continuing wall portions formed by said boss sides and said walls of said stamp receiving surface.
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