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From Wikipedia: The Bates Automatic Numbering-Machine or Bates stamper is named after the inventor Edwin Granville Bates of New York City. Bates obtained several US patents for the device in the late 1800s and early 1900s,[1] and in 1895 he received a Longstreth award from the Franklin Institute for his invention of a typographic number machine.[2] The earliest patent claimed a "new and useful improvement in Consecutive-Numbering Machines",[3] indicating that Bates was not the originator of the idea. Bates' objective was "generally to increase the effectiveness, simplicity and compactness of machines of this general character". Each time the machine was pressed down onto a sheet of paper, a rotating wheel was moved incrementally. The original machine described by Bates allowed numbering with a four-digit sequence, ranging from 0000 to 9999. For example, page 852 in a document set would be 0852. Courts and law firms quickly adopted this system.[citation needed] Operating as Bates Manufacturing Company since its incorporation in 1890,[4] Bates later used the name Bates Machine Company, later renamed to Bates Numbering Machine Company. This company became Roberts Numbering Machine Company.[5][6]

1894 Stock Certificate for 1 Share(s)

Company: The Bates Machine

Certificate Number: 122

Originally from the collection of Ken Prag.

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