US210621A - Improvement in covers for coin-trays - Google Patents

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J. I. MILLER. Cover for Coin-Tray;

No. 210,621. Patented Dec. 10, 11378.

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JOHN F. MILLER, OF DECATUR, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVEMENT IN COVERS FOR COIN-TRAYS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 210,621, dated December 10, 1878 application filed August 19, 1878.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN I MILLER, of Decatur, county of Macon, State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in (Join Drawers or Trays, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, which represents a perspective view of a coin-drawer with my improvements applied.

My improvement relates to the manner of applying covers to coin-drawers; and consists in providing the drawer or tray with a pivoted sliding cover, snugly covering and closing the drawer when in place, and whichmay bewithdrawn and folded over underneath the tray or drawer, and out of the way, for giving access to the contents of the latter when in use, as hereinafter described.

In the accompanying drawing, A represents the coin-drawer, provided with several semicylindrical compartments, a a, &c., for receiving and holding given quantities of coins of different sizes and denominations, and with pockets or receptacles B B, for loose coins of the difierent kinds provided for by the compartments a a, the tray or drawer in its construction and general arrangement being, by preference, similar to that described and shown in Letters Patent granted to James A. Read, April 24, 1877, No. 189,956, upon which this is an improvement. I

The arrangement of the compartments (0 a and loose-coin receptacles B may, however, be varied at will, according to the dictates of fancy or convenience.

O is the cover, either made in one piece or provided with angular end plates or flanges, D D, fitting snugly over the ends or sides of the tray A, as shown. These sides or flanges D are provided with longitudinal slots (1, extending obliquely from near the front upper corner, at d, to near the rear lower corner or angle, at (1 and are held united to the ends of the trayby headed pins or screws 0, which serve to permit the movement of the cover in the direction of the slots d, and also as the piv'ots or hinge upon which the cover can be turned over from its position in which it acts as a cover to a position underneath the drawer, and vice versa, as required. By this arrangement of the pivots e, in connection with the oblique slots d, the cover is adapted not only to fit snugly over the coin drawer or tray when in place, but also to slide forward, un- J covering said tray, and to be turned over and made to fit snugly underneath the tray.

When thus turned underneath the tray, the combined thickness of the tray and cover will be the same as when the cover is in place on the tray, and consequently the tray or drawer is adapted to move in the same grooves or ways with the cover in either positiona construction which effectually removes the cover out of the way when the tray is in use.

Having now described how my invention may be carried out in practice, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s-

1. A coin drawer or tray provided with a hinged sliding cover, applied and operating substantially as described.

2. The combination, with the coin drawer or tray A, of the cover G, having the slotted end plates or flanges, D D, substantially as I and for the purpose set forth.

3. The hinged sliding cover 0, provided with the obliquely-slotted end plate, D, in combination with the fixed pivotal pins 0, uniting it to the tray A, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

JOHN F. MILLER. Witnesses FELIX B. TAIT, J AMES A. READ.

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