US1512604A - Necticut - Google Patents

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Oct. 21 1924. I

W. F. KAYNOR STREET CAR TOKEN Filed March 29 1922 INVENTOR.

ATTORNEY Patented Get. 21, 1924.

WARREN F. KAYNOR, OF VJATERBURY, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR 'IO WATERBURY summon COMPANY, or WATIEBBURY,

CONNECTICUT, .A, CORPORATION OF CON- STBEET-CAR TOKEN.

Application filed March 29, 1922. Serial No. 547,647.

To all @072 am it may concern,

Be it known that I, WARREN F. KAYNon, a citizen of the United States, and a residentof Waterbury, county of New Haven, and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Street-Car Tokens, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to metal coins or trade-checks adapted to be used as a substi; tute for mone and more particularly to an improved form of street-car token.

One object of the invention is to produce a coin or check of the above nature which will be extremely difficult to counterfeit.

A further object is to provide a device of this nature which will be simple, cheap to manufacture, and very ornamental and durable in use.

With these and other objects in view, there have been illustrated on the accompanying drawing several forms in which the invention may be conveniently embodied in practice.

Fig. 1 represents a side vle-w of the two original metal sheets from whlch the com or check is to be formed.

Fig. 2 is a side view of the two sheets shown in Fig. 1, after they have been soldered together.

Fig. 3 is a side view of'the compos te soldered sheet showing its appearance while it is being reduced in thickness by means of a pair of pressure rolls.

Fig. 4 is a perspective view of one form of composite rolled sheet from which the C0111 or check may be stamped.

Fig. 5 is a perspective View of a slightly modified form of composite rolled sheet.

Fig. 6 is a perspective view of a streetcar token stamped from the composite sheet shown in Fig. 4.

Fig. 7 is a perspective view of a street car token stamped from the composite sheet shown in Fig. 5.

During recent years there has been a quite general adoption by street-car companies of six-cent fares, seven-cent fares, and other fares requiring two or more pieces of money. In order to avoid this unnecessary handling of coins and to facilitate the collection of fares, metal checks or tokens have in many instances been sold by street-car companies as a convenient substitute for the money fare. Most of such checks and tokens, however, were quite easy to copy, and this has naturally led to wide-spread counterfeiting.

With the present invention, the above difficulty is practically eliminated. Thus a trade-check or token embodying the principles of the invention will be substantially proof against counterfeiting, as well as serviceable and ornamental.

Referring now to the drawings in which like reference numerals denote corresponding parts throughout the several views, 10 represents a relatively thick metal strip to the surface of which a relatively thin strip of metal 11 is secured by thesolder 12. The composite sheet consisting of the soldered strips 10 and 11 is next passed through a pair of pressure rolls 13 and 14, as clearly shown in Fig. 3. By this operation the metal of the composite sheet is reduced slightly in thickness and is made more compact. It is also hardened somewhat by the working of the metal in the rolls. The thick metal strip 10, which is preferably made of copper, forms the base or body of the completed coin, while the thin surface strip serves as the surface coating. While the thin strip 11 may be formed of a single metal, if desired, it is preferably composed of a plurality of contiguous sections of different metals, each strip being preferably uniform in width. Any desired metals may be employed to form the individual sections of the strip, such as gold, silver, copper, nickel, German silver, etc. In the example illustrated in Fig. 4, the base strip 12 may be composed of copper and may have soldered thereto a surface strip consisting of a pair of thin outer sections 15 and 16 of erman silver, and a central copper section 17.

In the embodiment illustrated in Fig. 5, a slightly more complicated arrangement of surface strips is illustrated. In this figure, a central gold. strip 18 is surrounded in succession by a pair of German silver strips 19 and 20, a pair of copper strips 21 and 22, and a pair of edge strips 23 and 241; also of German silver. The-central strips l8-22 are preferably of equal width, while the edge strips 23 and 24,. are considerably wider than the central strips. After the composite sheets have been rolled to size, the next step is to stamp out the coins therefrom, preferably by the use of a punch and die of suitable dimensions. The completed coin stamped out, of the composite sheet illus-. trated in Fig. l is shown in Fig. 6. Similarly the completed coin stamped from the sheet illustrated in Fig. 5 is shown in Fig, 7.

\Vhile each surface strip illustrated on the drawing is of uniform width throughout its length, it will be understood that the invention also includes the use of surface strips of various lengths and whose sides are neither parallel nor of uniform width.

lVhile-the trade-checks herein illustrated are shown provided .with only single perforations in the shape of the letter C, it will be understood that any other form and number of perforations may be employed, as desired.

It will also be understood that the invention is not limited to the use of .astriped metal layer conrone side of .the coinorrly, butif desired both surfaces of the coin may be provided with such a striped. layer.

The ratio of the thicknesses ofthe base and surface sheets may be varied through wide limits according to conditions. This I'atlO,: hOWBV.6I, should preferably be about 40:1.

WVhile there have been illustrated in this specification several forms in which the invention may be embodied, it is tobe understood that theseforms are shown for the purpose of illustration only, and that the invention :is not to be limited to the specific disclosures but may be modified and embodied. in various other forms without depa-rtingf-rom its spirit; In short, the invention includes all the modifications and embodiments coming within the scope of thefollowing claims.

Having thus fully described the invention, what is claimed is:

1. In a street-car token, a composite sheet comprising a. relatively thick metal base, and a relatively thin surface layer soldered to said metal base, said surface layer comprising a plurality of adjacent sections of dissimilar metals, said sheet bein hardened and reduced in thickness by subjection to pressure.

2. In a street-car token, a disk-shaped check having a relatively thick metal base, and a relatively thin surface layer secured to said base, said surface layer comprising a plurality of contiguous sections of dissimilar metals, said sections being of uniform width.

In a street-car token, the combination with a base, of a thin surface layer secured to said base, said surface layer being composed of a plurality of contiguous sections of dissimilar metals, whereby said token will present an ornamental appearance and will be di'liicult to counterfeit.

4;. In a trade-check, the combination with av metal base, of a surface layer comprising a plurality of thin strips of dissimilar metals arranged side by side in the same plane, said trade-check being disk-shaped.

In a street-car token, the combination with a metal base, of an ornamental metal surface layer secured to said base, said, ornamental surface layer being of parallel strips of dissimilar metals whereby said token will be difiicnlt to counterfeit.

In testimony whereof, I have ailined my signature to this specification.

\VARREU F. KAYNOR.

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