US1284790A

US1284790A - Cashier-protector.

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Publication number: US1284790A
Authority: US
Inventors: August W Schafer
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1917-03-13
Filing date: 1917-03-13
Publication date: 1918-11-12
Anticipated expiration: 1935-11-12

Description

.A. W. SCHAFER.

CASHIER PROTECTOR.

APPLICATION F|LED MAR. 13. 1917.

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CASHIER PROTECTOR.

APPLlCATlON FILED MAR. 13, 1917.

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AUGUST W. SCI-IAFER, OF EAST GARY, INDIANA.

CASHIER-PROTECTOR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 12, 1918,

Application filed March 13, 1917. Serial No. 154,493.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, AUGUST W. SCHAFER, a citizen of the United States, residing at East Gary, in the county of Lake and State of Indiana. have invented certain new and useful improvements in (fashier-Protectors; and 1 do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention has for its object to provide a protector for cashiers of banks, busi ness houses, and the like, which, when released, is automatically elevated and provides adequate protection for the cashier.

Another object is the provision of a protector including essentially a vertically movable guard plate, and means for supporting and locking the plate in elevated position.

Another object is the provision of means for releasably retaining the plate in inoperative position.

With these and other objects in view, the invention consists in the novel construction. combination and arrangement, of parts as will be hereinafter specifically described, claimed and illustrated in the accompanying drawings. in which:

Figure It represents a perspective view of a counter or table, illustrating the invention applied to use,

Fig. 2 represents a vertical sectional view through the protector. the guard plate being shown in depressed or inoperative position,

Fig. 3 represents a similar to Fig. 2, plate in elevated or operative position.

Fig. t represents a detail sectional view at right angles to Figs. 2 and 3, illustrating one of the supporting and locking legs for the guard plate in detail. and

Fig. 5 represents a horizontal sectional view through the invention, illustrating the retaining means for the guard plate in detail.

Referring to the drawings in detail, wherein similar reference numerals indicate corresponding parts throughout the several views, the numeral 5 indicates a table or counter of a cashier having the usual protecting cage 6 inclosing it. a portion of the cage being shown in Fig. 1.

In applying the protector to use, an opening 8 is formed in the top 9 of the table or vertical sect-ionalview illustrating the guard counter 5 behind the cage 6 and a vertically movable guard plate 10 is slidably received in the opening. When the guard plate is in inoperative position. as shown in Figs. 1 and :2, the strip 11 is fitted in the upper portion of the opening 8, which is increased in width So as to present a continuation of the upper surface of the counter or table top Shand thus not interfere with the free movement of coins or other objects thereover.

Below the top 9, grooved guide rollers 12 are rotatably secured to the side walls of the counter or table 5, and are designed to guide the vertical movement of the guard plate 10 which is received in the grooves of the rollers. Pulleys 13 are rotatably supported under the top 9 and cables 14 are trained over the pulleys and secured at one end to apertured ears 15 attached adjacent the lower end of the guard plate 10. The opposite terminals of the cables 1 are secured to weights in. which are designed to automatically elevate the guard plate 10 when the latter is released.

i-tngular stop members 17 are attached to the cage bars 6 and are adapted to engage and limit the vertical movement of the guard plate 10.

Supporting legs 18 are pirotally secured at 19 adjacent the opposite ends of the lower edge of the guard plate 10, and the lower terminals of the supporting legs are movable over the ratchet teeth 20 formed on a horizontally disposed bar '21 attached to the floor directly under the guard plate. During the vertical movement of the guard plate the lower terminals of the supporting and locking legs 13 slide over the ratchet. teeth 20, and when the vertical movement of the guard plate is stopped by the stop members 17 the supporting legs 18 engaging the working faces of the ratchet teeth 20 effectively lock the guard plate in elevated position.

Supporting brackets 22 are secured to the floor at. a point rearwardlv of the guard plate 10 and rotatably support a shaft 23 to which is attached a pedal 24;. extending rearwardly from the shaft. and ithin convenient reach of the occupant of the cage. The medial portion of the shaft is connected with forwardly directed arms 25'. having angular forward terminals 26 engaging in apertures 27 in the lower portion of the guard plate 10 for retaining the latter in inoperative position. The arms 25 of the retaining element are retained in engagement with the rear face of the plate 10 by contractile springs 28.

An electric alarm bell 29 is located at a desired point within or out-side of the building, and is connected by conductors 30 With a batterv or other source of electro-motive force 31. An ordinary type of push button 32 is interposed in the bell circuit and is attached to one of the stop members 17 in such position that the button is disposed in the path of the vertically moving guard plate 10, and is depressed by the plate so as to close the circuit and sound the alarm bell 29. The upper corner of the guard plate 10 is beveled, as indicated at 33, so as to freely move over and depress the push button 3:2.

In an emergency, the cashier depresses the foot pedal 24, thus disengaging the angular terminals 26 of the arms 25 from the apertures 27 in the plate 10, and permitting the latter to move to vertical position under the influence of the weights 16. During the upward vertical movement of the guard plate the strip 11 is ejected from the opening 8 and the upward movement of the guard plate is limited by the stop members 17. During the vertical movement of the guard plate the supporting and locking legs 18 move over the ratchet teeth of the bar 21,

and prevent the guard plate from being depressed under pressure exerted upon the exposed portion thereof. When the guard plate has assumed its operative position, as shown in Fig. 3, the push button 32 is depressed and the circuit'of the electric alarm bell 29 is closed, thus sounding the latter and giving warning.

What I claim is:

A device of the class described including support, a verticallv movable guard plate mounted therein, toothed bars arranged under the plate in alinement therewith, and gravity actuating pivoted legs carried by the lower edge ofthe plate and movable over the teeth of the bars to lock the plate in elevated position.

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

AUGUST W. OLSON, MARION BAKER.