FLAMELESS SEAL MAKER

(Patent File no:2036/CHE/2008)

Traditional System of Sealing using Naked Flames

AIM OR OBJECT OF INVENTION:

The rationale behind the construction of the model is, the felt necessity of avoiding fire related hazards while affixing seal in confidential articles, valuable documents and packages . This is a breakthrough alternate of the existing process of sealing since it totally eliminates the use of fire to melt lac or wax for sealing, runs on electricity, let the user controls the flow of lac or wax by pressing a piston thus ensuring a uniform and beautiful seal imprint.

THE PRESENT SYSTEM

1. At present seals are affixed in confidential materials such as Covers/Boxes/Ballot boxes/Question and Answer bundles and even locked rooms using inflammable materials such as match box, sealing lac(wax), candle, kerosene lamp etc.

2. Making seals using fire and flames in highly confidential and most valuable materials is a dangerous and risky job.

3. This system of sealing is not only practiced in all Government offices but also by the common people while sending parcels by post.

DRAWBACKS IN THE TRADITIONAL WAY OF MAKING SEALS:

1. Normally, sealing the top secret articles is performed by high ranking officials, confidentially. As the sealing work is a risky, they always require a skilled labour/staff. At times, this top officials has to do this work themselves confidentially while sealing TOP SECRET articles.

2. Traditional way affixing seals using inflammable materials is a highly dangerous job. Unless this work is performed by a trained staff, the safety of the most valuable and unsubstitutable articles will be at stake.

3. The temperature of the molten wax is more than 160 C degree . It causes serious burn injury when comes into contacts with skin.

4. The smoke come out while burning the lac will create respiratory problems and allergy to the users.

IMPORTANCE OF SEALING SYSTEM:

1. Affixing seals is a statutory or constitutional requirement. There is no valid/recognized alternate method for this system.

2. This system is followed with great care and importance in Election Commission/ Schools and colleges/ Exam Departments/UPSC/TNPSC/ Courts and Govt Departments under the supervisition of higher officials in India and even all over the world.

HISTORY OF TRADITIONAL SEALING IN INDIA:

1. The first “Paper Government” started during the period of Mugal Emperor Jagangir three hundred years ago.(Paper Govt. means issuing Royal orders/circulars in plain papers in writing duly signed by the Emperor or Ministers)

2. The System of sealing in official covers with Royal stamping started during this Mugal period.

3. During British regime, the same system followed with British tradition.

4. The sealing system practiced in India till now (using flames) is the same system that is being practiced since the Mugal Emperor Jahangir

SOURCE OF IDEA: The inventor of this system is a girl student. While studying her School final she used to come over to her father`s office (Sub Treasury office -which is opposite to her school) after the classes were over. She used to witness the process of sealing the Treasury strong room by her father with lac stick and candle flame. This prompted her to ask her father about the purpose and importance of sealing the Govt. Treasury and knew the statutory requirements of sealing in all Govt. offices. At times she happened to see her father receiving burn injuries at his fingers by the molten wax during the manual sealing process. Yet another incident she came across in this regard was the incident of fire at an examination valuation centre(SSLC) at Vellore, Tamil Nadu, last year just 2 hours after the sealing of strong room where the exam answer sheet were kept for safe custody. She spent a sleepless night on that day because she herself also had written SSLC exam during that batch itself. Later it is reported in the news papers that the left over flames of seals affixed using flames might be one among the cause of fire. This incidents triggered her scientific temper and started designing of safe system of sealing which avoids the use of fire to melt the lac.

SCIENTIFIC PRINCIPLE INVOLVED

The scientific principle involved in this model is, the process of heating through coils by Electricity - that is the conversion of electrical energy into heat energy. By this heat energy, the lac or wax is getting molted which is allowed to flow on the surface of the valuable article for affixing seal.

DESCRIPTION OF THE MODEL

A. Construction and working of the invention (New improved Model)

. This flameless seal maker can be operated either by batteries AC/DC current. The new improved model of the Flameless Seal Maker consists of a cylindrical Teflon body so as to withstand the heat of 160 degree Celsius plus - the melting point of the lac. Teflon also being a bad conductor resists or minimizes the heat produced in the bore passing on the outer surface or body of the device The lac or wax pieces - the basic material for sealing -can be loaded in the open loading zone (central part of the device) and which will be pressed or pushed inside the bore with the press of the spring piston. The lac or wax pieces thus pushed into the metal bore got molted by the heat produced by the coil wounded around the bore under the melting point of the lac 160 degree Celsius . When the loaded piece of lac or wax begins to melt the user have to load another piece and push the piston down wards. Now the molten wax allowed to flow through the nozzle over the desired area ie in a cover/parcel/ box for affixing the seal by the competent authority. By varying the pressure of the piston the user can control the flow of molten wax according to the need. The temperature of the heat is controlled by the thermostat control fitted inside the device

B. models of the Flameless Seal Maker

Development and improvements have been made in the design of the Flameless seal maker for the past two years. Accordingly the flameless seal maker has been improved or modified on three occasions as noted below as per the experience gained and the feed backs by the users.

1. Brass model : ( Brass metal casing)

2. Teflon Model: (Teflon casing- won II prize in IGNITE 2009)

3. New improved Model: ( Hylem & PP model, now submitted for IGNITE 2010)

Brass Model Teflon Model New Improved Model

ADVANTAGES OF NEW FLAMELESS SEAL MAKER:

1. Flameless seal maker is simple, elegant and safe device working on the principle of heating element through electricity.

2. Just load the wax in the outside loading zone, plug into power supply and we can make beautiful seals within minutes. We can even control the flow of the lac wax through a piston

3. Light weight, handy, very easy to handle even with single hand. Can be handled anybody with ease. No need of trained labour to do this work. Operates in low voltage. No electric shock, minimum power consumption

4. Any number of seals can be affixed at a time by continuous loading lax or wax pieces into the open loading zone. (near about 100 seals in 10 minutes)

5. Thermostat facility is provided in the device so that automatic cut off and on of the power supply as per the stipulated temperature in the bore.

6. Hassle free, hazard free, smoke free, heat free, heat burns free - above all fire risk free safe, and continuous affixing of seals single handedly even by the user/official him/herself confidentially.

FAQ on Seal Maker

What is sealing?

“Pakistan Police has sealed

Terrorists offices”

“Tight Police Bundobust for

the sealed ballot box”

You might have often read such news in news papers. What is meant by sealing?:

Sealing is a process of closing an safe custody article (Cover/Box/Room) for security or legal or personal purposes. Sealing an article makes it private until it is opened by the person to whom it is addressed to. By using your own Seal you will uphold this time-honored tradition, even in today's hi-tech world. From a teenager to a Head-of-State, a personal seal lends dignity, prestige, Thus the seal serves as a stamp of indisputable authenticity, just as a signature is accepted in the world today since time immemorial .

What is meant by affixing seal? (The Present System)

When lac or wax stick is exposed to a candle flame for some time, it get heated and melts at high temperature. The molten lac is carefully let on the place where the seal has to be affixed, the authoritative or personalized metal seal is pressed. This is called affixing seals

You may think that affixing seal using naked flames is very simple. But the fact is different. When the lac stick is exposed to fire, it melts at high temperature. If this extremely hot molten lac by mistake splits and comes to contact with the skin, that spot develops into a serious fire-sore.

Yes absolutely. There is possible risk of fire while using naked flames. Yet there is no other way but to handle easily combustible material in the vicinity of precious documents. So unless this work is carried out with great caution by a trained person, the safety of the valuable articles to be sealed will be at stake.

Yes. One such fire accident had actually occurred during April 2008 in an Valuation Centre at Vellore (Tamul Nadu - India.) wherein thousands of School Final Exam answer sheets were reduced to ashes just two hours of sealing the valuation centre by lac seal. The possibility of sabotage or electricity leakage and short circuit was already ruled out by the police as the cause of fire. News paper reports suggested that the left over flames of sealing might be the cause of this accident.

Instead of encountering such difficulties why not do away the sealing practice?

Affixing lac seals is a traditional procedure practiced by the Governments all over the world to keep official secrecy from time immemorial. A certificate without a rubber stamps seal is not valid. Likewise the Lac seal is required to ascertain validity and authority. Now a days a rubber stamp or office seal impression can easily made printable through computers and printers with even more clarity. Yet this print out stamps are not having the legal or official validity. Like wise there may be many modern methods for sealing covers. Yet lac sealing is the only recognized official procedure as here the sealing is affixed personally by a exclusive metal seal by the official himself. So it become necessary to improve the same traditional system using modern technology instead of doing away with this practice.

The very same question was actually raised 4 years before by a school girl. The student used to go to her father’s office after her school was over so as to accompany her father to home. At that time she used to witness her father sealing the strong of the Govt Treasury after closure of office hours. She raised her father to the above question. Her father replied “ “If there is a new method for this, you find it for at least to save my fingers from frequent fire burns.” This casual and playful remark was taken as challenge by the girl student. At this time, the news about fire in Exam valuation centre Vellore, Tamil Nadu came to light. So during her summer holidays she took this project and worked hard to find a solution. After 6 months of research and several trial and errors finally she succeeded in designing a new model- Flameless Seam Maker

Oh! It is very interesting… What is her new system – Flameless Seal Maker?

Lac sealing using naked flame is the system followed in many countries especially common wealth nations even to day. Flameless Seal Maker(FSM) device come to rescue for this age old problem which is the first and only device in the world designed for this specific purpose. This is a breakthrough alternate of the existing process of sealing since it totally eliminates the use of fire to melt lac or wax, runs on electricity, let the user controls the flow of lac by pressing a piston thus ensuring a crisp, razor sharp, uniform, accurate and beautiful seal imprints!

Flameless Seal Maker is a fire risk free,. hassle free, hazard free, smoke free, heat free, heat burns free, tired free new device for affixing seals. It works on the principle of heating through electricity. The machine is so light ( just 130g) that it can be handled even with a single hand. Just load the piece of lac or wax sticks in the open loading zone, plug into power supply press the piston. You can get beautiful, crisp, razor sharp and accurate seal imprints with amazing speed. The flow of molten wax can be controlled manually by the pressing of a piston. Even there is no need for training to operate this device. You can seal your own secret documents of your own confidentially without depending a trained person. You need not worry about the risk of “ playing with fire” . Now It becomes just “Plug and play”.


	FLAMELESS SEAL MAKER (Patent File no:2036/CHE/2008) Traditional System of Sealing using Naked Flames AIM OR OBJECT OF INVENTION: The rationale behind the construction of the model is, the felt necessity of avoiding fire related hazards while affixing seal in confidential articles, valuable documents and packages . This is a breakthrough alternate of the existing process of sealing since it totally eliminates the use of fire to melt lac or wax for sealing, runs on electricity, let the user controls the flow of lac or wax by pressing a piston thus ensuring a uniform and beautiful seal imprint. THE PRESENT SYSTEM 1. At present seals are affixed in confidential materials such as Covers/Boxes/Ballot boxes/Question and Answer bundles and even locked rooms using inflammable materials such as match box, sealing lac(wax), candle, kerosene lamp etc. 2. Making seals using fire and flames in highly confidential and most valuable materials is a dangerous and risky job. 3. This system of sealing is not only practiced in all Government offices but also by the common people while sending parcels by post. DRAWBACKS IN THE TRADITIONAL WAY OF MAKING SEALS: 1. Normally, sealing the top secret articles is performed by high ranking officials, confidentially. As the sealing work is a risky, they always require a skilled labour/staff. At times, this top officials has to do this work themselves confidentially while sealing TOP SECRET articles. 2. Traditional way affixing seals using inflammable materials is a highly dangerous job. Unless this work is performed by a trained staff, the safety of the most valuable and unsubstitutable articles will be at stake. 3. The temperature of the molten wax is more than 160 C degree . It causes serious burn injury when comes into contacts with skin. 4. The smoke come out while burning the lac will create respiratory problems and allergy to the users. *IMPORTANCE OF SEALING SYSTEM: 1. Affixing seals is a statutory or constitutional requirement. There is no valid/recognized alternate method for this system. 2. This system is followed with great care and importance in Election Commission/ Schools and colleges/ Exam Departments/UPSC/TNPSC/ Courts and Govt Departments under the supervisition of higher officials in India and even all over the world. HISTORY OF TRADITIONAL SEALING IN INDIA:* 1. The first “Paper Government” started during the period of Mugal Emperor Jagangir three hundred years ago.(Paper Govt. means issuing Royal orders/circulars in plain papers in writing duly signed by the Emperor or Ministers) 2. The System of sealing in official covers with Royal stamping started during this Mugal period. 3. During British regime, the same system followed with British tradition. 4. The sealing system practiced in India till now (using flames) is the same system that is being practiced since the Mugal Emperor Jahangir SOURCE OF IDEA: The inventor of this system is a girl student. While studying her School final she used to come over to her father`s office (Sub Treasury office -which is opposite to her school) after the classes were over. She used to witness the process of sealing the Treasury strong room by her father with lac stick and candle flame. This prompted her to ask her father about the purpose and importance of sealing the Govt. Treasury and knew the statutory requirements of sealing in all Govt. offices. At times she happened to see her father receiving burn injuries at his fingers by the molten wax during the manual sealing process. Yet another incident she came across in this regard was the incident of fire at an examination valuation centre(SSLC) at Vellore, Tamil Nadu, last year just 2 hours after the sealing of strong room where the exam answer sheet were kept for safe custody. She spent a sleepless night on that day because she herself also had written SSLC exam during that batch itself. Later it is reported in the news papers that the left over flames of seals affixed using flames might be one among the cause of fire. This incidents triggered her scientific temper and started designing of safe system of sealing which avoids the use of fire to melt the lac. SCIENTIFIC PRINCIPLE INVOLVED The scientific principle involved in this model is, the process of heating through coils by Electricity - that is the conversion of electrical energy into heat energy. By this heat energy, the lac or wax is getting molted which is allowed to flow on the surface of the valuable article for affixing seal. *DESCRIPTION OF THE MODEL* A. Construction and working of the invention (New improved Model) . This flameless seal maker can be operated either by batteries AC/DC current. The new improved model of the Flameless Seal Maker consists of a cylindrical Teflon body so as to withstand the heat of 160 degree Celsius plus - the melting point of the lac. Teflon also being a bad conductor resists or minimizes the heat produced in the bore passing on the outer surface or body of the device The lac or wax pieces - the basic material for sealing -can be loaded in the open loading zone (central part of the device) and which will be pressed or pushed inside the bore with the press of the spring piston. The lac or wax pieces thus pushed into the metal bore got molted by the heat produced by the coil wounded around the bore under the melting point of the lac 160 degree Celsius . When the loaded piece of lac or wax begins to melt the user have to load another piece and push the piston down wards. Now the molten wax allowed to flow through the nozzle over the desired area ie in a cover/parcel/ box for affixing the seal by the competent authority. By varying the pressure of the piston the user can control the flow of molten wax according to the need. The temperature of the heat is controlled by the thermostat control fitted inside the device B. models of the Flameless Seal Maker Development and improvements have been made in the design of the Flameless seal maker for the past two years. Accordingly the flameless seal maker has been improved or modified on three occasions as noted below as per the experience gained and the feed backs by the users. 1. Brass model : ( Brass metal casing) 2. Teflon Model: (Teflon casing- won II prize in IGNITE 2009) 3. New improved Model: ( Hylem & PP model, now submitted for IGNITE 2010) Brass Model Teflon Model New Improved Model *ADVANTAGES OF NEW FLAMELESS SEAL MAKER:* 1. Flameless seal maker is simple, elegant and safe device working on the principle of heating element through electricity. 2. Just load the wax in the outside loading zone, plug into power supply and we can make beautiful seals within minutes. We can even control the flow of the lac wax through a piston 3. Light weight, handy, very easy to handle even with single hand. Can be handled anybody with ease. No need of trained labour to do this work. Operates in low voltage. No electric shock, minimum power consumption 4. Any number of seals can be affixed at a time by continuous loading lax or wax pieces into the open loading zone. (near about 100 seals in 10 minutes) 5. Thermostat facility is provided in the device so that automatic cut off and on of the power supply as per the stipulated temperature in the bore. 6. Hassle free, hazard free, smoke free, heat free, heat burns free - above all fire risk free safe, and continuous affixing of seals single handedly even by the user/official him/herself confidentially. FAQ on Seal Maker What is sealing? “Pakistan Police has sealed Terrorists offices” “Tight Police Bundobust for the sealed ballot box” You might have often read such news in news papers. What is meant by sealing?: Sealing is a process of closing an safe custody article (Cover/Box/Room) for security or legal or personal purposes. Sealing an article makes it private until it is opened by the person to whom it is addressed to. By using your own Seal you will uphold this time-honored tradition, even in today's hi-tech world. From a teenager to a Head-of-State, a personal seal lends dignity, prestige, Thus the seal serves as a stamp of indisputable authenticity, just as a signature is accepted in the world today since time immemorial . What is meant by affixing seal? (The Present System) When lac or wax stick is exposed to a candle flame for some time, it get heated and melts at high temperature. The molten lac is carefully let on the place where the seal has to be affixed, the authoritative or personalized metal seal is pressed. This is called affixing seals This seems to be very easy! You may think that affixing seal using naked flames is very simple. But the fact is different. When the lac stick is exposed to fire, it melts at high temperature. If this extremely hot molten lac by mistake splits and comes to contact with the skin, that spot develops into a serious fire-sore. Oh! Is there any of risk of fire in this system? Yes absolutely. There is possible risk of fire while using naked flames. Yet there is no other way but to handle easily combustible material in the vicinity of precious documents. So unless this work is carried out with great caution by a trained person, the safety of the valuable articles to be sealed will be at stake. Had such fire accidents actually happened ever before? Yes. One such fire accident had actually occurred during April 2008 in an Valuation Centre at Vellore (Tamul Nadu - India.) wherein thousands of School Final Exam answer sheets were reduced to ashes just two hours of sealing the valuation centre by lac seal. The possibility of sabotage or electricity leakage and short circuit was already ruled out by the police as the cause of fire. News paper reports suggested that the left over flames of sealing might be the cause of this accident. Instead of encountering such difficulties why not do away the sealing practice? Affixing lac seals is a traditional procedure practiced by the Governments all over the world to keep official secrecy from time immemorial. A certificate without a rubber stamps seal is not valid. Likewise the Lac seal is required to ascertain validity and authority. Now a days a rubber stamp or office seal impression can easily made printable through computers and printers with even more clarity. Yet this print out stamps are not having the legal or official validity. Like wise there may be many modern methods for sealing covers. Yet lac sealing is the only recognized official procedure as here the sealing is affixed personally by a exclusive metal seal by the official himself. So it become necessary to improve the same traditional system using modern technology instead of doing away with this practice. Is there no modern method for safe sealing? The very same question was actually raised 4 years before by a school girl. The student used to go to her father’s office after her school was over so as to accompany her father to home. At that time she used to witness her father sealing the strong of the Govt Treasury after closure of office hours. She raised her father to the above question. Her father replied “ “If there is a new method for this, you find it for at least to save my fingers from frequent fire burns.” This casual and playful remark was taken as challenge by the girl student. At this time, the news about fire in Exam valuation centre Vellore, Tamil Nadu came to light. So during her summer holidays she took this project and worked hard to find a solution. After 6 months of research and several trial and errors finally she succeeded in designing a new model- Flameless Seam Maker Oh! It is very interesting… What is her new system – Flameless Seal Maker? Lac sealing using naked flame is the system followed in many countries especially common wealth nations even to day. Flameless Seal Maker(FSM) device come to rescue for this age old problem which is the first and only device in the world designed for this specific purpose. This is a breakthrough alternate of the existing process of sealing since it totally eliminates the use of fire to melt lac or wax, runs on electricity, let the user controls the flow of lac by pressing a piston thus ensuring a crisp, razor sharp, uniform, accurate and beautiful seal imprints! Let me brief the working of the device and its advantageous? Flameless Seal Maker is a fire risk free,. hassle free, hazard free, smoke free, heat free, heat burns free, tired free new device for affixing seals. It works on the principle of heating through electricity. The machine is so light ( just 130g) that it can be handled even with a single hand. Just load the piece of lac or wax sticks in the open loading zone, plug into power supply press the piston. You can get beautiful, crisp, razor sharp and accurate seal imprints with amazing speed. The flow of molten wax can be controlled manually by the pressing of a piston. Even there is no need for training to operate this device. You can seal your own secret documents of your own confidentially without depending a trained person. You need not worry about the risk of “ playing with fire” . Now It becomes just “Plug and play”.