US1061145A

US1061145A - Cash-box.

Info

Publication number: US1061145A
Application number: US69947112A
Authority: US
Inventors: Shirley Thomas
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1912-05-24
Filing date: 1912-05-24
Publication date: 1913-05-06
Anticipated expiration: 1930-05-06

Description

S. THOMAS.

CASH BOX. APPLICATION rn-nn 11111124. 1912.

Patented May 6, 1913 Wm Q a v1 ew with UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SHIRLEY THOMAS, 015 MARION, lINDIANA.

CASH-BOX. V

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented May 6, 1913.

Application filed May 24, 1912. Serial No. 699,471.

parts of the screw may be expanded. Pivoted to the casing 1 is a target member 7 which when raised will indicate to the mail man that t tacle.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, SHIRLEY THOMAS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Marion. in the county of Grant and State of Indiana, have invented new and useful Improvements in Cash-Boxes, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to cash boxes and the object of the invention is to provide a simple and cheaply constructed device which may be conveniently attached and may be conveniently secured within mail boxes or like receptacles and which is particularly adapted for use in connection with rural delivery mail boxes where it is desirable to place money in the box for stamps, money orders, and other articles, and will make the the same accessible to the mail carrier.

Further objects of this invention will appear as the following specific description is read in connection with the accompanying drawing, which forms a part of this application, and in which:-

Figure 1 is an elevation showing the device attached between the ends of a mail box. Fig. 2 is an end elevation of the same. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the receptacle removed from the casing. Fig. 4 is a top plan parts broken away.

Referring more particularly to the drawing, 1 represents a casing which is open at nipulating knob 11 and the lid is provided with a spring catch 12 ada ted to engage the knob so as to hold the lid in closed position.

n practice, the money or otherarticle is placed in the receptacle 8, the lid closed, and the receptacle placed in the casing where it y providing the attaching screw, as shown, it will be readily seen how the casing its associated receptacle may be mounted in themail box in any screw having a wide range of adjustment so as to accommodate the device to boxes vary-, ing considerably in size.

hat is claimed is v device of the class described commounted-in the casing, and an expanding screw carried by the easing for attaching the same in a box.

2. In combination an open ended casing, a loop or sleeve carried by the top thereof and an expanding screw loosely mounted in the clined, as shown at 2. Secured to the rear of the casing 1 adjacent its upper end is a loop 3 in which is mounted a two-part attaching screw'4 havin heads 5 which are adapted to engage the si es of the ends of the mail box so as to secure the casing 1 therein.

to removably support the caslng.

In testimony whereof I afhx my signature in presence of two witnesses.

SHIRLEY THOMAS.

portion of the screw 4 is provided with a Witnesses: squared boss 6 which permits the engage- O. D. CLAWSON, ment of a wrench or other tool so that the N. F. HAZLE'IT.

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suitable position, the

sleeve and adapted to engage separated walls prising an open ended casing, a closed rej