US1053704A - Coin-clip. - Google Patents

Description

W. BROADBERRY.

G01N CLIP.

APPLIOATION IILEI? APR. 12, 1912.

Patented Feb. 18, 1913.

INVENTOR UNITED sTaTEs PATENT oEEIoE.

WAL'DIE BROADBERBY, OF OAKMONT, PENNSYLVANIA.

COIN-CLIP.

specification or Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 18,1913.

Application led April 12, 1912. Serial No. 690,414.4

To all 'whom it may concern y Be it known that I, WALmE BROADBERRY,

I and'asconveniently removed, the holder or clipbeing of such form as to stand on a counter, table or other support with its open side uppermost, and also of such form that a numberof'the holders or clips may be readily packedinboxes or drawers for stor- 4 ing currency in vaults or safes.

The holder isV preferably formed of a single sheet of flexible metal or other suitable material bent into the requisite shape.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a view in perspective of the improved clip'. Fig. 2 is a cross-section of the same in position on a support with its coin passage uppermost. Fig. 3 tion of tthe clip when releasing coins therefrom. Fig. 4 is a cross-section of a drawer or box with a number of clips or holders packed therein. Fig. 5 is a view of the blank from which the clip is formed.

Referring to the drawings, the longitudinal body portion 2 of the clip is curved transversely linto slightly more than a semicircle, leaving the body open from end to end at one side. Projecting outwardly and backwardly from the longitudinal edges 3 of the body are the wing-like extensions 4 and which preferably diverge from the open side of the clip, and the edges of these wings are adapted to rest on aI counter or other support for holding the clip with its open .side uppermost as in Fig. 2. lVings 4 may be strengthened by bulges or beads 4. At the ends of body 2 are the integral tongue-like projections 5 adapted toV be bent up for holding the coins against iacewise passage 'from the body. By bending the clip or holder into shape from a single .sheet or blank, as in Fig. 5, the same may be produced at small cost. As the body is slightly more than semi-circular in cross-section, the coins C are normally clamped or confined therein, but may be readily released upon inillustrates the manipula-l verting the clip and expanding the body by pressure exerted on wings 4, as in Fig.

The holders or clips are osuch form that they may be conveniently packed -in a box or drawer 6, Fig. 4, `for storing currency in a safe or vault, the alternate clips of each row being placed upside down so thatV thewings interfit, the superposed rows being separated by sheets of paper or cardboard 7. The clips may be made in various sizes for coins of different denominations and the length thereof may be such asto accommodate any given number of coins of like denominations so that when a clip( is full it will be knownto contain a certain sum.

I claim y l. A coin clip consisting of a transversely curved body of flexible material open for passing coins edgewise, the body adapted to expand for increasing the width ofthe opening, and devices carried by the body adapted to be pressed toward each otherfor expanding the body.

' 2. A coin clip consisting of a transversely curved body of flexible material open and adapted to expand for passing coins edgewise, and supports extending from opposlte sides of the body downwardly into the plane of the body bott-om.

A coin clip consisting of a transversely curved body of fiexible material open for passing `coins edgewise, the body adapted to expand for increasing the width ofthe opening, the edges of the opening provided with outwardly and backwardly turned wings adapted to receive pressure for expanding the body.

4. A coin clip consisting of a transversely curved body of iiexible material open longi tudinally for passing coins edgewise, the body adapted to expand for increasing the width of the longitudinal opening, the longitudinal edges of the curved body being extended outwardly and backwardlyV and adapted to support the body with the longitudinal opening uppermost.

V5. A coin clip formed of a rectangular sheet of {iexible material, an intermediate port-ion of the sheet being bent to form a curved coin-holding body the curvature of which is slightly greater than semi-circular, the opposite edge portions of the sheet--extending longitudinally of the curved bodyof the body atopposite sides being bent outwardly and bokwardly t0 form supporting Wings -and to receive pressure for expanding the body in transverse direction', the edges of the Isheet forming the 5 ends of the curved body adapted to be bent for holding coins from passing facewise from the body.

WALDIE BROADBERRY. y Witnesses HERBERT A. REED, W. E. BovUEs.

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