Stamping tool die matrix with movable actuating head

Claim 1

A STAMPING TOOL COMPRISING MULTIPLE ROWS OF PARALLELLY DISPOSED PUNCHES, EACH PUNCH MOUNTED FOR INDEPENDENT AXIAL RECIPROCATION AND HAVING A DIE FACE OF SELECTED MARKING ON ONE END THEREOF, RESILIENT MEANS OPERATIVE ON SAID PUNCHES TO MAINTAIN THEM NORMALLY IN COEXTENSIVE ALIGNMENT, A STRIKER MOUNTED ADJACENT THE OTHER ENDS OF SAID PUNCHES FOR MOVEMENT LONGITUDINALLY AND TRANSVERSELY OF SAID ROWS AND FOR RECIPROCATION IN A PLANE SUBSTANTIALLY PARALLEL TO SAID PUNCHES, AND REFERENCE AND GUIDE MEANS TO LOCATE SAID STRIKER IN COAXIAL ALIGNMENT WITH ANY SELECTED ONE OF SAID PUNCHES, SAID REFERENCE AND GUIDE MEANS INCLUDING A RELATIVELY STATIONARY GUIDE RAIL PARALLELLY DISPOSED WITH RESPECT TO SAID ROWS, A SLIDE BLOCK CARRYING SAID STRIKER, A SLOT IN SAID SLIDE BLOCK FOR THE PASSAGE OF SAID RAIL THERETHROUGH, AND ONE RECESS IN SAID BLOCK IN COMMUNICATION WITH SAID SLOT FOR EACH SAID ROW CONFORMING TO THE TRANSVERSE CONFIGURATION OF SAID RAIL AND LOCATED TO RECEIVE AND ENGAGE SAID RAIL WHEN SAID STRIKER IS IN ALIGNMENT WITH THE TRANSVERSE CENTER OF EACH OF SAID ROWS.