US1032760A - Coin-registering case or receptacle. - Google Patents

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M. H. METAL.

00m REGISTERING CASE 0R REGBPTAOLE.

APPLIGATION FILED OOT.2,1911.

Patented July 16, 1912.

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MAX H. METAL, OF NEW YORK, N Y.

COIN-REGISTERING CASE OR RECEPTACLE.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented July 16, 1912.

Application filed ctober 2, 1911. Seria1 No. 652,339.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I,MAx H. METAL, a citizen of the United States ofAmerica, residing in New York, borough of Brooklyn, county of Kings, and State of New York,

have invented certain new and useful Imthe case is automatically unlocked and opened for the removing of the coins.

In the accompanying drawings, Figures 1 and 2 represent my improved coin-registering case or receptacle, respectively in open and closed position, Fig. 3 is a front-veiw with the face-plate removed, showing the interior mechanism, Fig. 4 is a rear-elevation of 3, with the rear-plate being removed, and Figs. 5 and 6 are vertical transverse sections, respectively on line 5--5, Fig. 1, and 6-6, F ig. 3, and Fig. 7 is a horizontal section, on line 7-7, Fig.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts throughout the several figures of the drawings.

This invention comprises a telescoping coin registering receptacle.

' Referring to the drawings, a re resents an outer box, which is open at its ower end, closed at its upper end and provided in the upper end with a slot a for inserting a dime or other suitable coin to be collected. The

front-plate of the outer box a is provided with a window opening 0 for exposing the numbers on a rotating registering-disk (Z. This disk turns on a center-pivot- 0Z bet-ween the front and rear plates of the box a, said disk being provided on its front-face with the numerals 10 to 90, at intervals of 10, ar-- ranged cquidistantly from each other and in a circle concentric with the axis of the disk so that when the disk is turned these num= hers are shown successively through the opening 0. The disk 03 is also provided with as many teeth or projections e and intermediate slightly-concave depressions c between the same as there are numbers on the disk. Over the disk extends a bridge-plate a that serves as a guide-plate for the disk ,holder.

and for the coins inserted intot-lie case. One

of thedepressions on the disk is engaged by i the free end of a check-spring f that is attached to one of the corner-pins f of the frame. The disk 0? is further provided onthe rear-face, that is, the face opposite to that carrying the numbers, with a laterally projecting circumferential rim or flange 9 having a notch g at one point of its cir cumference.

An inner slide-box it having an open top and a closed bottom is adapted to slide in the box a constituting a telescopic coin The bottom h of this inner slidebox constitutes the bottom of the-coin receptacle when the boxes are slid together to form a closed receptacle .and the inner boxis provided with an opening in its lower part through which the coins may be removed when the inner'box is slid out'and the'receptacle expanded. This opening is preferably formed by omitting the front wall of the box It. The rear wall of the box It is provided with a longitudinal slot k which is engaged by a transverse stud h in the outer box a. This stud serves as a stop for the inner box It at the ends of its sliding movement as indicated in Figs. 3 and 4 The rear wall of the box It is providedatits upper end with a lateral lug [L3 arranged to pass. through the notch g in the disk (l in the inward and outward sliding of. the box It when said wheel is in the position to bring said notch atthe lowest point in' the rotation of the wheel as indicated in Fig. 4. When the box is closed and after the first coin is inserted this lug engages the inner edge of the lateral circumferential flange and the box It is thereby held in inward closed position until the disk (l completes its revolutlon. The lateral lug k is preferably formed by swa-ging a lateral notch in the upper edge of the back plate of the box It. The inner box 7:, slides freely in the outer box a to open or close the coin receptacle except when the lug of. the inner box is in engagement with the inner face of the lat eral ange of the registering disk in the outer box. \Vhen the notch g is in position to permit the opening and closing of the coin receptacle, the disk d shows zero at the of rotation of the disk (1.

The operation of my improved coin-reg i'stering case or receptacle is as follows: T he registering disk (I is set at its initial position by rotating it to bring the zero mark opposite the Window 0 and the notch g is of the disk, then at the'upper part of the box, so as to turn the same, While the successive pressure exerted on the coin-moves it? against the corner-pin f and completes the partial rotation of the disk andi-permits the dropping of the coin into the lower part of i the receptacle. The turning of the disk (1 brings the body of the lateralrflange g 1111- derneath the lug h, the lower end of which is preferably rounded, and the inner boxh is thus locked against outward movement.-

The registering disk being turned in the direction of the arrow, the same is shifted sufiiciently to exhibit the number 1Qthrough the observation-opening 0 Every time a new coin is inserted the registering disk isshifted for a distance of one vtooth until gradually the disk has made a complete rotation when the notch in the rim' of the disk again arrives-in line with the lug I2 and the inner box is automatically released and the receptacle can be opened for the removalof Copies of this patent may be obtained for the coins. The several numerals on the registering disk cl show successively through the observation-opening 0 and indicate thereby at all times how much money there is in the case. This improved registering attachment canbe arranged for coins of other than the 10 cent denomination by increasing the size of the case and registering disk in proportion to the number and size of the coins to be inserted in the case or receptaole.

I claim:

A telescopic coin registering receptacle comprising an outer box having a closed top and an open bottom and provided with a coin slot, a registering disk disposed within "said box adjacent to said coin slot'and provided with a lateral flange having'a notch, and an inner box sliding in said outer box and'having an open top and a closed bottom and provided near its upper end with a lateral lug engaging the inner edge of said flange for locking the receptacle in contracted closed position during the rotation of the disk, said notch permitting the boxes to expand into open position when the reg istering disk reaches a certain point in its rotation. i v

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed my name in presence of two subscribingwitnesses.

' MAX H. METAL.

" gWitnesses:

.PAUL Genres,

JOHN MURTAGH.

five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C.

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