AUTOMATIC STAMPING MACHINE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 26, 22 May 1914, Page 4

AUTOMATIC STAMPING MACHINE.

It is now some years since special legislation was enacted to enable automatic stamping machines to be intro-j duced into business offices, and the invention has proved of great use. The other day a Christchurch “Press” reporter was shown an improvement on the old model, a wonderful contrivance almost human in its methods. The automatic stamping machine now in use had its limitations in that its scope was only a halfpenny to a shilling; the improved* model, with one turn of the handle, stamps any sum up to £5 19s 11 Jd. Levers are pulled down to adjust the machine, to stamping the required amount, and the operations are chocked by this amount being shown through a glass plate. The total amount registered by the machine is similarly displayed. The new machine differs largely from the older one in other respects. Letters or papers stamped disappear through a slot, and are afterwards picked up in a box underneath. Naturally, a machine of this nature has to be nearly fool-proof, as well as being incapable of being fraudulently used. Besides being quicker than the old model, there is less liability of error, and the most careless office boy should be able to use it efficiently. As regards the other point, the machine is shortly to be examined by experts in Wellington before the Post and Tele* graph Department will sanction its use. The inventor, Mr E. Moss, of Christchurch, fears little on that score, for efforts to “trick” it have as yet met with no success.