Multicolor stamping machine

Claim 1

IN A MACHINE FOR THE MULTICOLOR DECORATING OF DINNERWARE HAVING A PLURALITY OF INDIVIDUAL WARE CARRIES AND A ROTATABLE SUPPORT FOR SUPPORTING SAID WARE CARRIES AND MOVING THE SAME IN A CIRCULAR PATH FROM ONE DECORATING STATION TO ANOTHER, COLOR CARRYING DISCS IN EACH OF SAID DECORATING STATIONS AND CENTERING MEANS FOR CENTERING SAID ARTICLES OF WARE ON SAID WARE CARRIERS AND HOLDING MEANS FOR HOLDING SAID ARTICLES OF WARE A FIXED POSITION ON SAID WARE CARRIES THROUGHOUT THE DECORATING OPERATION; A DECORDING STAMP FOR DECORATING THE WARE AT EACH OF SAID DECORATING STATIONS, AND ELEVATED SUPPORT FIXEDLY MOUNTED AT EACH OF SAID DECORATING STATIONS, A FIRST RECIPROCAL MOTION DEVICE PIVOTED TO SAID SUPPORT IN DEPENDING RELATION THERETO AND ABOVE SAID COLOR DISC AND SWINGABLE IN A VERTICAL PLANE, SAID DECORATING STAMP CARRIED ON THE FREE END OF SAID FIRST RECIPROCAL MOTION DEVICE, A SECOND RECIPROCAL MOTION DEVICE ON SAID ELEVATED SUPPORT ENGAGING SAID FIRST RECIPROCAL MOTION DEVICE, SAID FIRST RECIPROCAL MOTION DEVICE ARRANGED TO MOVE SAID DECORATING STAMP TOWARD AND AWAY FROM SAID WARE AND SAID COLOR DISCS, AND SAID SECOND RECIPROCAL MOTION DEVICE ARRANGED TO MOVE SAID FIRST RECIPROCAL MOTION DEVICE AND SAID DECORATIN STAMP IN SAID VERTICAL PLANE TOWARD AND AWAY FROM SAID WARE CARRIERS AND SAID COLOR DISCS AND WHEREBY SAID DECORDING STAMP MOVES IN SUCCESSIVE RECIPROCATING AND SWINGING MOTIONS BASED ON SAID PIVOT BETWEEN SAID FIRST RECIPROCAL MOTION DEVICE AND SAID SUPPORT.