US186886A

US186886A - Improvement in coin-wrappers

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Publication number: US186886A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1877-01-30
Anticipated expiration: 1894-01-30

Description

E. A. SCOTT COIN-WRAPPERS.

No. 186,886. Patented Jam 30,1877.

Witnesses UNITED STATES Parana QFFIGE.

ETHAN A. SCOTT, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN CQIN-WRAPPERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 186,886, dated January 30, 1877; app ica on filed May 17, 1876.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ETHAN A. SCOTT, of the city and county of San Francisco, State of California, have invented an Improved Exposing-Wrapper for Coin-Packages; and I do hereby declare the following description and accompanying drawing are sufficient to enable any person skilled in the art or science to which it most nearly appertains to make and use my said invention without further invention or experiment.

My iIlVelltlOlLI'GlEttGS to a novel wrapper for enveloping packages of coins so as to hold them in a convenient shape for business transactions, and at the same time expose them so that a glance will show the nature of the package without the trouble of unrolling and examining each package.

Where silver coin is used in large quantities it is customary to make it up into twenty-dollar rolls, these rolls beingen veloped in a brownpaper covering, and when the rolls boar the mark or advertisement of any responsible firm they are accepted as correct without the delay of unrolling and examining them, being simply weighed. This practice has led to attempts to defraud, either by inserting smaller coins between the half-dollars in such rolls, or by taking a piece of lead pipe, filling it until the proper weight is reached, and placing a real coin at each end of the roll, so that, unless entirely opened, the fraud will not be detected.

In order to prevent such difficulties, and at the same time make a roll which can be at once inspected, I form my wrappers A of the usual size and material, and with a properlyconstructed die I perforate them with round holes B. These holes are made in sets, so that they will extend from end to end of the roll, as shown, and they are placed at such a distance apart that when the necessary number of thicknesses of paper have been rolled about the coins the holes in the outer layer will exactly fit over the holes in the inner layer of the envelope. In order to expose all the coins there are two sets of holes, B B, and one set stand opposite to the covered space between the other set-or, in other Words, break joints with them.

A sufficient space is left for advertisements upon the outside of the wrapper, and from the shape of the holes the strength of the material will be preserved, while the necessity for unrolling the coins will be avoided.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is A coin-wrapper consisting of an envelope perforated with holes B B, and so arranged in alternate rows as to expose the contents of the whole package without unrolling it, substantially as specified.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand.

ETHAN A. SCOTT.

Witnesses:

GEo. H. STRONG, Guns. G. PAGE.