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Bates
Number Stampers
The Bates number stampers are also called the numbering
stamp or machine. The machine is called as such because it
commonly employs the Bates number system in organizing and
ordering office documents. This numbering system is widely
used in business and legal transactions for its many
important applications. It uses a sequentially-generated
number or time/date mark for ordering documents or pictures.
Bates number stampers are also used to describe, protect,
and label images of company-copyrighted property.
The numbering system used in Bates number stampers was
originally used for legal documents. Because of the often
big volumes of papers that come up in trial and litigation
proceedings, a company called the Bates Numbering Machine
Company invented the Bates automatic numbering machine
during the 1800s. It pioneered the Bates number, which is
the standard employed in most numbering stamps and machines
used today. It provides a unique and open identifier number
for every document that it stamps. Numbers are commonly
used, though they can be replaced with a mixed alpha-numeric
stamp as well.
Technically speaking, a Bates number stamper is a
self-inking mechanical type of numbering stamp that uses an
automated and pre-determined pattern of sequential numbers
in organizing documents. A user can choose from one to ten
"movements" or bands depending on current needs. Most Bates
machines have their movement set consecutively: after it
stamps the selected number, it goes on the next. A user
however can also choose other stamping options as well. The
Repeat Stamp, for example, allows one to print in the chosen
number as often as possible.
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