GB1080872A - Cash boxes for coin-freed apparatus - Google Patents

Abstract

1,080,872. Coin boxes for coin-freed apparatus. UNITED GAS INDUSTRIES Ltd. May 19, 1964 [Feb. 19, 1963], No. 6612/63. Heading G4V. A cash box for a prepayment meter has a shutter 16, Figs. 4 and 6, which closes over a coin receiving slot 14 into a locked position upon operation of a handle 22 for releasing the box from the apparatus, the arrangement being such that when the box is delivered to a depot for emptying purposes, the locking mechanism of the shutter can then be so set that on replacing the box, operation of the securing handle 22 causes the shutter to move to its open position. When the shutter 16, which is secured to a hollow cylinder 15, is moved to the closed position by the handle, a pawl 25 springs into position to lock it against return movement. At the depot, an access door 34 is removed and a resetting arm 30, which is loaded against free movement by spring or friction, is moved by a knob 32 into position adjacent the shutter where it presses aside a pawl 35. Upon replacement of the box, the handle causes both the opening of the shutter and the return of the arm 30. The shutter may be operated by rack- and-pinion instead of a spindle 19 and a coindeflector may be provided inside the box. As shown in Fig. 2, a shutter 8 is also provided for the discharge slot 5 of the meter and is secured to a cylinder-lock 6, 7 which fits inside the cylinder 15 and on to a key 23 projecting upwardly from a support 17. The shutter is so formed that it covers securing screws 9 (10) when closed and it may be arranged at the end of a shoot so as to permit a number of coins to collect in the meter when the box is removed.