US1454445A - Coin retainer and dispenser - Google Patents

Description

May 8, 1923.

A. LIEBERMAN COIN RETAINER AND DISPENSER `Filed Jan. 6, 1922 InveaZb-r.

Patented May 8, i923.

ABRAHAM LIEBERIVIAN, OF J'All/IAICA, NEW YORK. y

COIN RETAINER AND DISPENSER.

Application filed January 6, 1922. Serial No. 527,318.

T0 all whom t may concern.'

Be it known that I, ABRAHAM LIEBER- MAN, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Jamaica, in the county of Queens and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Coin Retainers and Dispensers, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact specification. y

This invention relates to coin retainers and dispensers, and has for its object to provide an improved form of tube or casing for holding a stack of coins, checks or tokens.

The casing is designed to hold the coins or checks in position so that the one at the end of the stack may be readily removed when desired, but is eifectually retained against accidental displacement from the casing. Other objects will appear as the description proceeds.

The invention will be first hereinafter described in connection with the accompanying drawings, which constitute part of this specification, and then more specifically deined in the claims at the end of the description.

In the accompanying drawings, wherein similar reference characters are used to designate corresponding parts throughout the several views:

Figure l is a front elevatio-n of a tubular casing or holder constructed substantially in accordance with this invention.

Figure 2 is a top plan view thereof.

Figure 3 is avertical section taken centrally of the holder on the line ITT-III of Figure l, the position of a coin after it has been removed or just before it is inserted being indicated in dotted lines, and

Figure i is a detailed view of the springpressed follower which is mounted in the casing.

The casing 1 may be made of sheet metal in tubular form and oval in cross section. The length of the casing may be determined by the number of coins, checks, or tokens to be stored therein. The lower end of said casing is closed by a cap 2 which may be retained thereon by frictional contact or secured in any other suitable manner. The upper end of the casing is beveled and closed by a plate 3 soldered or otherwise fixed in place.

Said plate 3 preferably covers the front half of the top of the tube and has a notch l formed in its upper edge tofacilitate the grasping of the top one of the coins 5 between the thumb and linger. The upper edge of the casing l is also formed with a notch 6 at the rear for the same purpose, Said notches 4 and 6 being disposed opposite one another so that the thumb may be inserted in one while the foreiinger is inserted in the other at opposite sides of the eX- posed edge of the topi coin for readily removing the same.

At either side of the notch 6 the exposed rear portion of the upper edge of the casing projects upwardly, as at 7, so as to eX- tend up to or slightly beyond the plane of the top surface of the plate 3. This is an important feature inasmuch as it insures the retention of the top coin in position in the casing against accidental displacement as when the casing is dropped or otherwise jolted or shaken.

The coins 5 are inserted or removed one at a time, and when in the casing are supported on a follower 8 which is pressed upwardly by a spring 9 interposed between said follower and the cap 2 at the bottom of the casing. Said follower consists of a beveled plate 10 arranged parallel to the top plate 3 of the casing, and has a depending skirt 11 engaging the inner surface of the walls of said casing for guiding said plate 10 in said casing. Said skirt also serves to house the spring 9 and as a stop for limiting the downward movement of the follower by coming in contact with the cap 2, see Figure 3.

Because of the projections 7, it will be noted that the end coin must be rocked slightly on the free edge of the plate 3 in order that the exposed edge of said coin may clear said projections and be removed from the casing. This rocking of the coin cannot occur accidentally because the spring 9 tends to hold the same flat against the plate 8. The casing or holder may, therefore, be carried in inverted position, or on its side, without danger of losing the coins therefrom.

I claim:

l. The combination with a tubular casing adapted to hold a stack of coins, of a springpressed follower in one end of the casing, and a plate secured over part of the other end of the casing and having a notch in its free edge, there being a corresponding notch in the eXposededge of the casing opposite lll the notch in said plate, the portions of said exposed edge of the casing at either side of the notch therein extending'to the plane of the outer surface of said plate for the purpose specified.

2. rlhe combina-tion With a tubular casing adapted to hold a. stack of coins, of a springpressed follower arranged in one end thereoi and having e beveled end, the other end of the casing` being correspondingly beveled, and a plate covering a. part of said beveled end of the casing` and having anotch in its free edge, there being a notch in the exposed edge of the casing opposite the notch in said plate, the portions of said exposed edge of the casing at either side oi" the notch therein extending to the plane of the outer surface of said yplate for the purpose specified.

3. The combination with a tubular casing adapted to hold a. stack of coins, of a plate extending partially across one end of the casing and having a notch in its free edge, there being` a notch in the exposed portion of the saine end of the casing opposite the notch in said plate, the portions of said exposed edge of the casing at either side of the notch therein extending to the plane of tho outer surface of said plate for the purpose specified.

ln testimony whereof have signed my naine to this speciication.

ABRAHAh/ LIEBERMAN.

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