US2022382A - Antirobbery receptacle - Google Patents

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Nov. 26,I 1935. l E, H. MosL-ER` Er AL 2,022,382

ANTIROBBERY RECEPTACLE Filed April 16, 1935 4 Sheets-Sheet l ,l

lNvlzN'roRs4 Edwin f1. Mader avrry E [gmk ATTORNEY Nov, 26,1935. E. H. MosLER Efr AL 2,022,382

ANTIROBBERY RECEPTACLE y I Filed April 16, 1935 4 Sheets-Sheet 2 NVENTORS J6 4g .J5 Edu/fn Mas/er I l BY affg jf. lynn,

Nv.26, 1935. E H, ',OSLER E? AL f 2,022,382

` I ANTIROBBERY- RECEPTACLE Filed April 16, 1955 4 Sheets-Sheet 3 lNvgNroRs x Nov. 26, 1935.

E. H. Mo's'Lr-:R ET Al.

ANTIROBBERY RECEFTYACLE Filed April 1e, 1935 v 4 Sheets-Sheet 4 jes f INVENTORS A ORNEY Patented Nov. 26, 1935 2,022,382 ANTIROBBERY RECEPTACLE Edwin H. Moslcr, New York,

Lynn, Wyoming, Ohio, Safe Co., New York, New 1Jork N. Y., and Harry H. assignors to Ilhe Mosicr N. Y., a corporation of Application April 16, 1935, Serial No. 16,568

13 Claims.

This invention relates to anti-robbery receptacles, and

more particularly relates to money tills and counters and cabinets adapted to hold l'IlOlley Ol" O or display,

ther articles for dispensing, handling and provided with means for safeguarding the money or other articles against seizure in the event of robbery.

of a hold-up or other threat accessible f Play, adapted to and is provided with a transfer or money changing, handling or dismember be moved to shift the money or other articles to a safety location in the receptacle, and

another object of this invention proved operating is to provide immeans for operating the transfer member and adapted to be set in operation conveniently, quickly and secretly by a person near to or remote from the receptacle.

Further objects of this invention include,

among others, the provision of operating means of the character referred to and which returns the transfer member to normal position; the provision of means delaying the return of the transfer member to normal position; and the provision of a transfer member adap-ted after having shifted money or in the receptacle, to return other articles to the safety location the money or other articles to the normal accessible location.

Another object of this invention is to provide an anti-robbery receptacle of the character described, and one which operates to safeguard the contents without the robber being made aware that anything has transpired, thus tending to save the attendant from the harm the robber might be inclined to inliict on him or on others should the robber sense that the money or other articles ha ve been rendered inaccessible and safeguarded contrary tohis orders.

A further object of this invention is to provide an anti-robbery receptacle of the character described, and one which normally gives full and free access drawer for adapted, if

to the money or goods in the till or money changing or handling, and desired, to be arranged to require a minimum of working space for the teller or clerk, and a receptacle which may be set in operation to safeguard the contents quickly, conveniently and by a simple operation performed at a near or remote point and readily concealable, and a receptacle promptly, the normall which, when directed, operates positively and effectively to safeguard y readily accessible contents, and bav- (Cl. 10S-1) ing a construction and mechanism which are effective and durable, and not apt to get out of order or fail in proper operation.

Other objects of this invention will be in part obvious and in part pointed out hereinafter.

In accordance with this invention, a transfer member is provided which is adapted to be moved to a safety position and transfers the money or other articles to be safeguarded from a normal accessible location in a drawer or other compart- 10 ment of the anti-robbery receptacle, counter or cabinet, to a safety location therein, where the money or other articles become safeguarded, and means are provided for moving the transfer member to safety position and to return this member 15 to normal position. The transfer member may be so constructed that when it moves to safety position it discharges the money or other articles into a safe storage compartment, or the construction maybe such that the money or other articles remain so associated with the transfer member that when this member returns to normal position it carries the money or other articles back to their normal accessible location. With the latter arrangement, the transfer member takes the money or other articles to a safeguarded location, difficult of access, and means are provided for locking the transfer member in this location, which means may include a lock in the nature of a time lock so that return of the transfer 3Q member and the money or other articles subject to its movement will be impossible, at least until after the time lock has completed its run. When the transfer member is arranged to discharge the money or other articles to a safeguarded loca- 35. tion, and to not return the money or other articles to accessible location, the transfer member may be restored immediately to normal position, so that when inspected by a robber, all the parts are in their natural lplaces and it appears that nothing has been disturbed and nothing has been safeguarded. Suitable control and operating means are also provided. If desired there may also be supplemental masking devices, such, for instance as shown in our prior application for Anti-Robbery Receptacle led December 21, 1934, Serial No. 758,556.

In order that a clearer understanding of this invention may be had, attention is hereby directed to the accompanying drawings, forming a part 5() of this application, and illustrating certain possible embodiments of this invention, and in which:-

Fig. l is a vertical sectional view of a cabinet embodying this invention,

and is taken on the line i-I of Fig. 3, the parts being in normal positions, as when holding the money or other articles to be safeguarded in readily accessible location.

Fig. 2 is a similar view of the upper portion of the cabinet, the parts being shown in safety positions.

Fig. 3 is a horizontal sectional View, and is taken on the line 3-3 of Fig. 2,

Fig. Ll is an enlarged top view of a detail, showing a part of the safety time lock mechanism.

Fig. 5 is a vertical sectional View thereof, and the parts being shown in the positions assumed at the end of a time run of the lock mechanism.

Fig. 6 is a similar view showing the positions the parts assume when the transfer member arrives at safety position.

Fig. 7 is a similar view showing the positions assumed by the parts after withdrawal of the transfer member following release.

Fig. 8 is a wiring diagram of the operating, locking, and control circuits.

Fig. 9 is a horizontal sectional View partly broken away of a modified construction, and is taken on the line .f3-9 of Fig. l0; and

Fig. l@ is a vertical sectional View of the same, and is taken in the line |-l of Fig. 9, the safety position being indicated `by dot and dash lines.

Similar reference characters refer to similar parts throughout the several views of the drawings.

Referring to the drawings, and rst to the ernbodiments illustrated in Figures 1 to 8 inclusive, thereof, there is shown a cabinet having walls l l, housing two drawers l2 and I3, one above the other, in its upper portion and having a lower safe storage compartment l5 provided with a safe door Il. in itsY lower portion.

As shown, the drawers l2 and I3 are of similar construction, the upper drawer l2 having a front I5, side walls I and short bottom H having side arms I8, extending further back toward the rear of the drawer. The drawer is movably supported by rollers i9 journaled on brackets 2d secured to the rear ends of the side walls I6 and rolling on track strips 2l fastened to the sides of the cabinet, and on rollers 22 journaled on brackets 23 mounted on the front ends of the track strip 2| the drawer bottom and its side arms I 8 rolling on these rollers. The drawer may also be guided and steadied by rollers 2d journaled on brackets 25 secured to the rear ends of the side walls I6 and rolling in contact with the upper wall of the cabinet.

Similarly, the second drawer if; has a front 26, side walls 2?, short bottom 28 having rearwardly extending side arms 29, rear supporting rollersV 35 journaled on depending rear brackets 3l secured to the side walls and rolling on track strips 32 secured to the side walls of the cabinet, rear guide rollers 33 journaled on rear upper brackets 3d and rolling in contact with the under surface of side track strips 2i, and also supported by rollers 35, journaled on brackets 35 mounted on the front ends of track strips 32 and on which the bottom 28 and its side extensions 29 ride.

Within the top drawer is a container 38 for money or other articles, having a xed bottom 3S and enclosed upon all four sides by walls 49. Partition members 4l in this container divide the interior into suitable compartments for separated stacks of bills. The container is movably supported by means oi rollers i2 carried on the side walls of the container and which roll on the drawer bottom and its extensions I8, so that the container may be moved alternately to the back part of the drawer and to the front part of the drawer. When the container is toward the front of the drawer it is in accessible position; that is, when the drawer is open the contents of the containers are exposed and when the drawer is closed it is only necessary to open the drawer to have access to the contents. When, however, the container is positioned in the rear portion of the drawer, it is not in accessible position, since stop blocks i3 are fixed on track strip 2l which prevent the drawer being opened suiciently to expose the contents of the container when so positioned.

Operating means are provided for drawing the container to the rear of the drei/ver and for locking the container in this position in the drawer. These means, as shown, may comprise a suitable electric motor 45 mounted on a suitable supporting plate or -irame it? extending between and supported by the two walls oi the drawer. The shaft il of the motor has a driving connection as at 8 with one end iii of a shaft @il which is provided with reverse helical grooves 5l connected together at their ends so as to be continuous. The motor end E of this shaft is journaled in a suitable bracket 52 supported on the frame i6 and the opposite end is journaled in a bracket 53 fastened to a cross-piece 5d which extends between and is supported by the side walls oi the drawer.

Shaft 53 extends through a hub or sleeve 55 provided on a bracket which is secured to the rear wall of the container, and suitable riders, of any usual form, are provided in the hub 55 which engage and ride in the grooves oi the shaft 53 so that when shaft is rotated by the motor the container is drawn to the rear of the drawer, and on continued rotation of the shaft the container returned to the front of the drawer. A switch 5?, supported on the front wall l5 of the drawer, is included in the motor circuit and has a push button 58, or other suitable operable adapted to be operated by the container as it is moved to front position in the drawer to open the motor circuit and suspend operation of the motor.

One or more switches H5 (see Fig. 8), which may be at a near point or one or more remote points, or both, are provided, and adapted to be operated manually to shunt switch 5l to close the motor circuit and start the motor running. Means are also provided whereby, when the container is drawn to the rear of the drawer, that is, to safeguarded position, the operation of the motor is suspended and the container becomes locked in this retracted position. To this end a striker knob Eil, is secured to the rear wall of the container, and as the container arrives at the rear, or safety position in the drawer, knob Si strikes and moves the lower arm. F52 of an upright lever, which is pivotally mounted on a pin carried on a bracket 54 supported on a plate S5 extending trom a vertical plate t5 secured to the side wall of the drawer. Knob swings the head 67 oi the lever toward the container so as to be latched by a locking lug 53 of a horizontal latch arm 6% which is pivoted on a pin 'iii supported on a bracket li secured to the rear wall of the container. A spring 'i2 aixed to the con-- tainer, as at 13, bears downwardly on latch and the extent of downward `movement of latch 9 is limited by the engagement of the square lower corner 'I4 of the latch abutting the rear wall of the container. When so latched, the upper end 61 of the lever arm is against an abutment bracket xed on the adjacent side wall of the drawer to prevent further displacement of the lever, which might tend to cause it to disengage from the latch.

Any suitable means may be provided whereby the latch may be disengaged from the container and the motor energized to return the container to initial position in the drawer, and these means may be manuallyor mechanically or electrically operable, as desired.

For purpose of illustration, such means are shown in the drawings to include electric time lock mechanism of the nature disclosed in patent to W. T. Benham, No. 1,942,045, for antibandit electric time lock. As shown, there is a disk 16 rotatable on an arbor 11, carried by plate 66 secured to the side of the drawer and by a bracket 1B supported on the shelf plate 65 extending from plate 66. Also on arbor 11. is a gear disk 8| which is rotated ,by an engaging pinion 82 xed on a rotor shaft 63 driven by a suitable motor (not shown) and which may be any reliable self-starting synchronous clock motor. A spring 84 anchored to a pin 85 on gear disk 8| and to a pin' 86 on disk 16 establishes a drive connection between the disks.

Disk 16 has a pin 81, which, when the container Vis latched, is adapted at the end of each revolution of the disk to engage under the end of latch 69 and to raise the latch out of engagement with lever 61, and thus release the container for forward movement. At the same time, a pin 85 and spring 89, carried on the disk holds a pivoted nger Si! in such position that a lug 46| on finger 56 will engage a lug 92 on an extension $3 of bracket 18 and stop further rotation of disk 16; and in this position of the disk a radial notch 95 in the disk is in position to receive the head of lever 61, which, when the latch 69 is raised, is projected into and held in this notch by a spring 65 stretched between lever 61 and bracket 18. Head of lever 61 has an extension 96 which strikes the nger 96 to disengage lug si from lug 92, but since the head of lever 61 is disposed in the recess 94 movement of disk 15 is prevented until the lever head is taken out of this recess. This will occur when the container is moved to rearward position.

The clock motor is so controlled that after the stopping o1" disk 15 the gear disk 8| continues to travel a slight distance and suiiiciently to increase the tension of spring 84 so that, when disk 'l5 is released spring 84 will immediately move it a bit without requiring rotation of the gear disk 8 i, and this movement of disk 16 is utilized in the 4control of the clock motor circuit and of the circuit of the container shifting motor, as will now be described.

Gear disk 6| has a peripheral notch |06, which comes into sidewise alignment with a peripheral iotch |6| in disk 16 after disk 16 has been stopped and gear disk 8| has rotated a bit further. In all other positions of the ldisks these notches are not in alignment. A plunger 86 bearing against a spring finger i 62 rides against the periphery of both disks and it and finger |62 are held depressed thereby except when the notches E60 and l5! come into the alignment referred to, and when that occurs the spring finger raises. When so raised iinger |532 moves an electrical contact |63 out of contact with a contact |64 to break the circuit of the clock motor, and moves the contact |63 into contact with another Contact |55 to close the main motor circuit and energize the motor to return the container to initial position.

The circuits may be laid out as shown in Fig. 8 of the drawings. From one side |66 of switch 51 a conductor |61 leads to main motor 45 and from the other side |08 to one side of a suitable source of current supply. Conductors |69 lead from motor @-5 to the contact |65. Conductor ll leads from the other side of the main current supply to contact |63. Conductor through av manually operable switch ||2 to one side of the clock motor M from whence conductor ||3 leads to contact |64. Conductor ||4, including switch H5, bridges switch 51.

Normally contacts |63 and |65 are closed and switches 51 and H5 are open so that anyone by closing switch H5, which may be at a near or remote point, can energize motor 45 and cause the container to retreat into safeguarded position in the drawer, whereupon lever 61 is retracted and disk 16 is moved by spring 84, causing contacts |63 and |65 to separate to suspend operation of motor 45 and causing contacts |63 and |64 to come together. Howeventhe clock motor circuit is open at switch ||2, which may be manually operable, and requires closing to start the clock motor running. When the clock motor has run a complete cycle, thus bringing notches |66 and |5| into sidewise alignment, this notch alignment results in contacts |63 and |64 separating and deenergizing the clock motor, and bringing contacts |63 and |65 together to energize the main motor 45 and cause the container to ret'urn to initial position in the drawer.

Thus it is apparent that when it is desired to place the contents of the container 38 in inaccessible and safeguarding location, it is only necessary ior someone to close the emergency switch H5, whereupon motor 45 is energized and draws the container to the rear of the drawer, where the container becomes locked by latch 69 and the motor deenergized on account of the opening of contacts |63 ,and |65 due to the movement of disk 16 resulting from withdrawal of lever 66 from its notch 94, depressing plunger 85. The container is held locked Yin safeguarded position until the time clock mechanism has run a complete cycle, which may be set for any desired length oi time run, for instance fteen minutes. This time run may be arranged to start automatically, but preferably not. As sho-wn to start the time run it is necessary to close switch H2, so that after this switch has been closed the return of the container is delayed until the time clock mechanism has run a complete cycle. At the end oct such run the mechanism separates contacts |63 and |64 to deenergize the time clock motor, and closes contacts |03 and |05 to energize the main motor to cause the container to return to accessible position, whereupon the container opens switch 5'! tol suspend operation of this motor.

The container |20 in the under drawer I3 has no bottom but has front, rear .and side wall E2 The money or other articles rest on the bottom 28 of the main drawer, and when the container |26 is retracted it scrapes the contents from bottom 28 and dumps them orf the rear edge of bottom 28 so that they fall into the lower safe storage compartment l5. Container |22 is moved back and forth in drawer I3 by means, including motor |22 and shaft |23 having reverse helical threads |24, similar to the drive means for container 38 in drawer l2. There are no means shown however for locking container |26 in rearward position, and instead there merely provided a switch supported on a suitable bracket |26 in the leads drawer and having a push button |2'| adapted to be contacted and depressed by the rear wall |2I of container |20 as it arrives in rearward position to break the motor circuit and suspend operation of the motor. A similar switch |28 is mounted on the front plate 26 of drawer I3 and has a push button |29 adapted to be engaged and depressed by the front wall of container |20 as it moves to the front of the drawer, this switch being also included in the motor circuit so that the motor will be deenergized whe-n the container is in this position.

As shown in Fig. 8 this motor circuit may lead from one side of the source of current supply through conductor |30 to one side of switch |28, thence through conductor |3I to one side of switch |25. Conductor |32 leads from the other side of switch |25 to motor |22 from whence conductor |33 connects with conductor I|0, and thereby to the other side of the current supply. Conductor |34, including an emergency switch I 35, bridges the switches |25 and 28 so that by closing switch |35 motor |22 may be energized and the container |20 caused to be moved to retracted position in drawer I3. If desired, switches I|5 and |35 may be connected for a simultaneous operation so that by operating a single manual control member the containers in both drawers I2 and i3 may be caused to be moved to safeguarded positions in their respective drawers.

In the modification illustrated in Figs. 9 and l0 of the drawings, the cabinet is not provided with drawers, but instead its top wall |40 is provided with an opening equipped with a sliding door I4I co-mprising telescopic sections. A container |42 for money or other articles is shiftably mounted within the cabinet, and is normally so related with the opening in the top of the cabinet that the contents of the container are readily accessible when the door |4| is open. As shown, cross partitions |43 in the container divide it into three compartments, .and each compartment has a bottom section |44 which supports the money or other articles, and is hinged, as at |45, to swing down and dump the contents. The free edge of each bottom section |44 is provided at each side with a roller |46 which rests on a guide track 41 secured to the side wall |49 of the cabinet. Each track has an elevated end which maintains the bottom sections raised when the container is toward the front wall |49 of the cabinet, and has a rearwardly extending downwardly inclined portion so that when the container is drawn rearwardly in the cabinet the rollers |46 ride down these inclines to open the container compartments at the bottom and cause the contents to be dumped. When the container is returned to forward position in the cabinet, the rollers ride up the inclined track and onto the raised portions thus conditioning the compartments of the container to receive and hold money or other articles.

The side walls |50 may be provided with suitable guide strips I5I, which ride on rollers |52 mounted on the side walls of the cabinet and whereby the container is supported and guided for reciprocation in the cabinet.

If desired, an endless belt or conveyer |53 may be mounted on suitable pulleys or rollers |54 supported on shafts |55 and |56, suitably supported within the cabinet and positioned to receive the money or other articles dumped from the container |42 when it is retracted. This belt may be driven through a suitable chain and sprocket drive |51 and by a motor |58 which may be supported on a bracket |59 secured to the inside of one of the walls of the cabinet. This arrangement is intended to dump the money or other articles transferred thereto from the container |42 into the lower portion of the cabinet, and to act .as a guarding and blocking means which obstruct and prevent access being had to the articles through the opening in the top of the cabinet and through the bottom of the container |42.

The container |42 may be arranged to be shifted back and forth in the cabinet, either manually or by any suitable mechanical or electrical means as desired. As shown, the operating means employed may be similar to the operating means previously described for moving the containers 38 and |23 in the drawers I2 and I3, to wit: an electrical motor |00 mounted on a suitable shelf or frame work |5I, and driving a shaft |02 having reverse helical threads and engaged with the container |42. In this instance a switch |53 is mounted in the front wall |49 of the cabinet, and has a push button |54 adapted to be engaged and depressed by the front wall of container |42 as it reaches forward position in the cabinet toopen the switch. This switch is in the circuit of motor 500, and an emergency switch (not shown) is also preferably provided in the circuit which bridges switch |53 so that when this emergency switch is closed the motor is energized and the container is retracted so that its contents will be dumped into the lower safe storage compartment, and then returned immediately to initial position, and the motor deenergized through the opening of switch |03 by the container.

` From the above it will be apparent that in all modications means are provided for drawing the container to a safeguarded position, and for returning the container to initial or service position. The arrangement may be such that the container is moved to safety position and immediately back to service position, meanwhile dumping its contents to a safeguarded location in the cabinet. As shown for purposes of illustration in connection with container 38, return 0f the container to service position may be delayed, as for instance, by requiring manual closing of a control switch. Further the container may become automatically locked in safety position, and if desired may retain its contents instead of discharging them, and return of the f,

container to service position may be delayed by the time control means, .if desired.

It is obvious that any of the forms of containers, 38, |20, |42, may be associated with any of the specic operating and control means therefor shown and described.

It is also apparent from the above that the contents are normally maintained in convenient and readily accessible location for handling and dispensing, and may quickly and easily be transferred to a safeguarded location in the cabinet by the mere pushing of an emergency control button or other simple operation, and which can be arranged to be done at any one of a number of different points and secretly. The contents :f

whether remaining in the container or whether discharged therefrom are taken to a thoroughly safeguarded and well protected location in the cabinet.

It is comprehended that the invention is adapted to many variations and modifications, and therefore since many changes could be made in the above construction and as many different embodiments of the invention could be made without departing from the scope thereof, it is understood that all matter contained in the above description or shown in the accompanying drawings be interpreted as illustrative and not in a limiting sense.

What we claim is:

1. In an anti-robbery receptacle of the character described, having an accessible compartment for money or other articles, in combination, a transfer member movable from said compartment to a safety position in the receptacle and adapted on such movement to transfer money or other articles from said compartment to a safeguarded location in the receptacle, and operating means for moving said transfer member to said safety position and back to initial position.

2. In an anti-robbery receptacle of the character described, having an accessible compartment for money or other articles, in combination, a transfer member movable from said compartment to a safety position in the receptacle and adapted on such movement to transfer money or other articles from said compartment to a safeguarded location in the receptacle, operating means for moving saidtransfer member to said safety position and back to initial position, and control means for suspending operation of the operating means upon the return of the transfer member to initial position. A

3. In an anti-robbery receptacle of the character described, having an accessible compartment for money or other articles, in combination, a transfer member movable from said compartment to a safety position in the receptacle and adapted on such movement to transfer money or other articles from-said compartment to asafeguarded location in the receptacle, operating means for moving said transfer member to said safety position and back to initial position, and means associated with the operating means and the transfer member for locking the transfer member in said safety position.

4. In an anti-robbery receptacle of the character described, having an accessible compartment for money or other articles, in combination, a transfer member movable from said compartment to a safety position in the receptacle and adapted on such movement to transfer money or other articles from said compartment to a safeguardedv location in the receptacle, operating means for moving said transfer member to said safety position and back to initial position, means associated with the loperating means and the transfer member for suspending operation of the operating means whenthe transfer member arrives at said safety position and for latching the transfer member in said position, means for unlatching the transfer member, and means for restarting the operating means to return the transfer member to initial position.

5. In an anti-robbery receptacle of the character described, having anaccessible compartment for money or other articles, in combination, a transfer member movable from said compartment to a safety position in the receptacle and adapted on such movement to transfer money or other articles from said compartment to a safeguarded location in the receptacle, operating means for moving said transfer member to said safety position and back to initial position, means associated with the operating means and the transfer member for suspending operation of the operating means when the transfer member arrives at said safety position and for latching the transfer member in said position, and release means, including a time mechanism, adapted after a predetermined period of running time to unlatch the transfer member and restart the operating means to return the transfer member to initial position.

6. In an anti-robbery receptacle of the characted described, having an accessible compartment for money or other articles, in combination, a transfer member movable from said compartment to a safety position in the receptacle and adapted on such movement to transfer money or other articles from said compartment tov a safeguarded location in the receptacle, operating means for moving said transfer member to said safety position and back to initial position, means associated 'with operating means and the transfer member for suspending operation of the operating means when the transfer member arrives at said safety position and for latching the transfer member in said position, release means, including a time mechanism, adapted after a predetermined period of running time to unlatch acter described, in combination, a cabinet having` an opening affording access to the interior thereof, means for disposing money or other articles alternately in accessible relation to said opening and in an inaccessible, safeguarded location in the cabinet, said means including a container for the money or other articles normally in position disposing the money or other articles in accessible relation to said opening and movable with its contents to a safety position in the cabinet and back again, with its contents, to normal position; means for releasably locking the container in said safety position whereby its contents are locked in the safeguarded location in the cabinet, and operating means for moving said container to said safety position and, when released from said locking means, back to said normal position.

8. In an anti-robbery receptacle of the character described, in combination, a cabinet having an opening affording access to the interior thereof, means for disposing money or other articles alternately in accessible relation to said opening and in an inaccessible, safeguarded location in the cabinet, said means including a container for the money or other articles normally in .position disposing the money or other articles in accessible relation to said opening and movable with its contents to a safety position in the cabinet and back again, with its contents, to normall position; means for releasably locking the container in said safety position whereby its contents are locked in the safeguarded location in the cabinet, operating means for moving said container to said safety position and, when released from said locking means, back to said normal position, and release means, including a time mechanism, adapted after a predetermined period of running time to unlatch the container for return to initial position.

, 9. In an anti-robbery receptacle of the character described, in combination, a cabinet having an opening affording access to the interior thereof, means for disposing money or other articles alternately in accessible relation to said opening and in an inaccessible, safeguarded location in the cabinet, said means includingk a container for the money or other articles normally in position disposingthek money or other articles inaccessible relation to said opening and movable with its contents to a safety position in the cabinet and back again, with its contents, to normal position; means for releasably locking the container in-said safety position whereby its contents are locked in the safeguarded location in the cabinet, operating means for moving said container to said safety position and, when released from said locking means, back to said normal position, release means, including a time mechanism, period of running time to unlatch the container for return to initial position, and manually operable control means for starting said time mechanism to run to unlatch the container.

10. In an anti-robbery receptacle of the character described, in combination, a cabinet having an opening aifording access to the interior, a container for money or other articles movably mounted in the cabinet and normally in an accessible position therein disposing the money or other articles in accessible relation to said opening and adapted to be moved to a safety position in the cabinet and to carry the money or other articles to a safeguarded location in the cabinet and to be moved, with its contents, back to initial position in the cabinet, operating means for moving said container to said safety position and back to said accessible position, means for suspending operation of said operating means when the container moves to said safety position and latching the container in said position, time lock means delaying unlatching of the container, and means whereby after completion of the time run of the time lock means, the container is unlatched and the operating means started to return the container to initial position.

11. In an anti-robbery receptacle of the character described, having an accessible compartadapted after a predetermined ment and a lower safe storage compartment for money or other articles, in combination, a transfer member movable from said compartment to a safety position in the receptacle vand adapted on such movement to dump money or other articles from said compartment into said safe storage compartment, and operating means for moving the transfer member to said safety position and back to initial position.

12. In an anti-robbery receptacle of the character described, in combination, a cabinet, a transfer member, for monei7 or other articles shiftably mounted in the cabinet, and normally in an accessible position therein, operating means including a rotating drive shaft, having reverse helical grooves connected at their ends so as to be continuous, connected to said transfer member, for shifting the transfer member from said accessible position to a safety position in the cabinet and back to said accessible position, C

means for setting the operating means in operation and means for stopping operation of the operating means.

13. An anti-robbery receptacle of the character described, including, in combination, a housing Cil

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