Printing – Printing members – Mail-cancelling stamps
Reexamination Certificate
2000-02-22
2001-06-12
Hilten, John S. (Department: 2854)
Printing
Printing members
Mail-cancelling stamps
C101S333000, C294S025000, C002S021000, C401S007000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06244177
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
This invention relates to a finger worn device that can be used for multiple postage related matters purposes.
Finger cots having long been used by medical personnel and office personnel to protect the ends of their fingers and to increase traction between the fingers and engaged objects. In many cases the outer surface of such cots can be made of a fibrous character that is woven, knitted, netted or matted to increase traction.
In at least one case, a finger cot is used as a bandage and has an adhesive strip to hold the bandage on the user's finger. Another cot was designed as a thumb or finger guard and had a dropped curved gripping surface on the front portion.
One indexing device includes a layer of film and pressure sensitive adhesive material located on at least a portion of one side of the layer of film to enable the layer of film to adhere to an object such as a finger. The other side of the layer has material with a very high coefficient of friction to resist the movement of that side over a sheet of paper.
Another type of fingertip protector cot has a cavity comprised of an open-end protector portion and a closed-end protector portion separated by a finger-stopping barrier. A document handling aid has a resilient tubular body with opened ends. A first body section has the tip of the user's finger protruding therefrom while the second adjacent section grips the finger about the first knuckle with a plurality of parallel cuts to permit expansion.
A shock absorbing finger-tip protector has a protruding shock absorbing mechanism with a resilient surface. Still another finger cot is formed of two blanks welded together by ultra sonic welding.
DESCRIPTION OF THE PRIOR ART
Finger protective cots or sheaths can be constructed in a variety of different designs. For example, in U.S. Pat. No. 3,263,681 to Nechtow et al. there is disclosed a medical finger cot made of a fibrous character that is woven, knitted, netted or matted to increase traction.
U.S. Pat. No. 3,348,541 to Loebeck discloses a finger cot is used as a bandage and has an adhesive strip to hold the bandage on the user's finger.
U.S. Pat. No. 3,728,736 to Pugh discloses a thumb or finger guard with a dropped curved gripping surface on the front portion.
U.S. Pat. No. 3,985,383 to Yonkers, while not a finger cot per se, discloses a related indexing device that includes a layer of film and pressure sensitive adhesive material located on at least a portion of one side of the layer of film to enable the layer of film to adhere to an object such as a finger. The other side of the layer has material with a very high coefficient of friction to resist the movement of that side over a sheet of paper.
U.S. Pat. No. 4,694,843 to Casenhiser discloses another type of fingertip protector cot which has a cavity comprised of an open-end protector portion and a closed-end protector portion separated by a finger-stopping barrier.
U.S. Pat. No. 4,763,940 to Held discloses a document handling aid has a resilient tubular body with opened ends. A first body section has the tip of the user's finger protruding therefrom while the second adjacent section grips the finger about the first knuckle with a plurality of parallel cuts to permit expansion.
U.S. Pat. No. 5,640,713 to Ping discloses a shock absorbing finger-tip protector that has a protruding shock absorbing mechanism with a resilient surface.
U.S. Pat. No. 5,761,743 to Andrews et al. discloses a finger cot formed of two blanks welded together by ultra sonic welding.
In the present invention, a thumb or finger cot has a stamp pad with identifying indicia on the postal carrier and bar lines held to the surface of the cot all as will be detailed in the specification that follows hereafter.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
This invention relates to a multi-purpose mini stamper used in the postal field that can be worn on the thumb or a finger of the user.
It is the primary object of the present invention to provide for the improved mini multi-use stamping device that can be worn on the thumb or finger of a user.
Another object is to provide for such device whose stamp has identifying indicia on the carrier's route and bar lines to cancel uncanceled stamps and bar codes.
These and other objects and advantages of the present invention will become apparent to readers from a consideration of the ensuing description and the accompanying drawings.
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Grohusky Leslie J.
Hilten John S.
McGlynn Joseph H.
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