Pagination stamp
A pagination stamp or numbering stamp (also numbering machine ) is a stamp for generating consecutive page numbers ( pagination ) or numbering ( sequence ). After each stamping process, an internal mechanism increases the (page) number to be stamped for the next stamping process and presses the stamp back onto the integrated ink pad.
construction
Pagination stamps are usually made of metal and are more elaborately designed than simple number stamps without automatic further counting. Some models support additional counting methods for repeating a number several times. It is common to repeat one, two, three and four times and switch off the counting mechanism. Options to leave out leading zeros, combination with a cliché and with a date stamp are also common.
application
When filing files are submitted to the registry of an authority , the files are put together into files that can be delivered and numbered consecutively using a pagination stamp. On the one hand, this prevents later page removals from remaining undetected. On the other hand , information can be cited from files processed in this way, which have to be delivered to state archives such as the state archives of the federal states, since the page number can be referred to as the source.
In addition, court files that are still in business are numbered consecutively with pagination stamps in order to prevent file falsification by removing file pages. Missing sheet numbers are documented by a note ("missing sheet") on an interleaf.
In accounting, pagination stamps are important because, according to Section 238 of the Commercial Law, companies are obliged to document business transactions “in their creation and processing”. For this purpose, pagination stamps are used as a support.
history
The numbering stamp was invented and patented in the early 1890s by the Bates Manufacturing Company in New Jersey, founded for this purpose by Edison Phonograph Works . In the English-speaking world, numbering with a stamp is therefore also known as Bates numbering . The European market leader for professional paging stamps is the Reiner company, founded in 1913 and based in Furtwangen in the Black Forest , which has been manufacturing paging stamps since 1919.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Company Records Series - Bates Manufacturing Company
- ↑ Reiner Historie ( Memento from November 19, 2015 in the Internet Archive )