US2281424A

US2281424A - Coin box

Info

Publication number: US2281424A
Application number: US255091A
Authority: US
Inventors: Walter J Englert
Original assignee: FLOWER CITY SPECIALTY Co
Current assignee: FLOWER CITY SPECIALTY Co
Priority date: 1939-02-07
Filing date: 1939-02-07
Publication date: 1942-04-28
Anticipated expiration: 1959-04-28

Description

April 1942- w. J. ENGLERT I COIN BOX Filed Feb. 7, 1939 INVENTOR.

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-% z'6 ATTORNEYS Patented Apr. 28, 1942 'UNlTED STATES TNT FICE

COIN BOX Application February 7, 1939, Serial No. 255,091

2 Claims.

My invention relates to coin banks.

An object of my invention is to provide a simplified coin bank of the general type disclosed in United States Letters Patent, No. 1,909,214, issued May 16, 1933, to Peter J. Nagle.

Another object of my invention is to provide a coin bank which may be inexpensively and easily fabricated, mat be quickly assembled, and which is rugged and strong in use.

Other objects and advantages of my invention will be particularly pointed out in the claims, and will be apparent from the following description, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawing, in which:

Fig. 1 is a plan view of a blank cut and scored for forming the closure member of the coin bank of my invention;

Fig. 2 is a view showing the outer shell or tube of the coin bank;

Fig. 3 is a view showing the blank of Fig. 1 folded and ready for insertion in the tube of Fig. 2;

Fig. 4 is a view of the coin bank assembled;

Fig. 5 is a view taken on the line 55 of Fig. 4;

Fig. 6 is a view taken on the line 6-6 of Fig. 4; and

Fig. 7 is a view showing a section through a scored portion of the blank, as, for example, on the line l! of Fig. 1.

The coin bank of my invention comprises an outer hollow shell or tube, generally indicated by the numeral ll (Fig. 2), and a blank, generally indicated by the numeral i2 (Fig. 1), which, when cut and scored as shown in Fig. 1, may be folded with the parts interfitting into a closure, as shown in Fig. 3, for telescopic insertion in the tube 1 I.

The hollow shell or tube II is preferably rectangular in cross section and is open at its upper and lower ends l3 and M. The tube is formed preferably of a single blank of paper, cardboard, pasteboard, or other suitable material. The blank is scored by making parallel incisions H5 in the paper board, which extend part way therethrough so as to form sections IT, IS, I9, 2| and 22. After the blank has been scored it is folded on the score lines with the sections 2| and 22 overlapped and preferably adhesively secured together. The hollow shell or tube thus formed is a parallelepiped with open ends [3 and Ill.

The closure l2 (Fig. 1) is also formed from a single blank of paper, cardboard, pasteboard, or other suitable material. The blank is out to the shape shown in Fig. 1 and sectionalized by

score lines

23, 23', 24, 24', 25, 25', 26, 2B, 21 and 21. In addition, the blank is provided with

incisions

28, 29, 30 and 3!. The blank cut and scored as shown thus comprises what may be termed a cover flap 32, a cover 33, a pair of tongues 34 and 34', a central side wall 36, side walls 31 and 37', bottom flaps 38 and 38', a bottom 39, and a bottom flap 41. The cover is provided with a coin slot 42 of a length sufficient to receive the largest coin for which the bank is desired.

After the blank has been cut and scored as above described, the blank is folded, as shown in Fig. 3, with the side walls 31 and 31' parallel to each other. The bottom 39 is folded on the score line 23 and the flaps 39 and 38' on the

score lines

24 and 26 so as to form a bottom for the closure and the flap '4! is folded on the score line 2'! to extend between the

side walls

31 and 31. The cover 33 is folded on the score line 23 so as to form a cover for the closure and the flap 32 is folde'don the score line 21 so as .to extend between the side walls '31 and 31.

The cover 33 and the bottom 39 are preferably slightly wider than the side wall 36. This increase in width of the bottom and coverpiece over that of the side wall 36, preferably twice the thickness of the material of the blank, is to compensate for the thickness of the material, so that when'the closure is folded to the position of parts shown in Fig. '3, the side edges (89 of the cover and the side edges 43' of the bottom will'lie in the plane of the outer surfaces of the side walls 3'! and 31'.

The flap sections 32 and M are preferably made slightly narrower than the cover 33. and the bottom 39, as shown at 44. This difference in width is also preferably twice the thickness of the material of the blank. Further, the side walls 3'! and 31 extend beyond the edges of the

tongues

34 and 34 and

bottom flaps

38 and 38", as shown'at 36. Thus when the closure has its parts positioned as shown in Fig. 3, the side edges of the flap 32 lie between and butt against the inner surfaces of the side walls 31 and 31', as shown at 41. Similarly, the side edges of the flap 4! lie between and butt against the inner surfaces of the side walls 31 and 31', as shown at 48. The flaps 32 and 4!, as will be apparent,

act as compression members between the side,

walls 31 and 31', so that the closure will with-, stand an appreciable crushing force applied on the side walls 3'1 in the direction indicated by the arrows A in Fig. 3.

The score lines 24 and 24' are preferably spaced apart a lesser distance than the score lines 23 and 23'. That is, the score line 24 is lower than the score line 23 by a single thickness of the blank, while the score line 24' is higher than the score line 23 by a single thickness of the blank, so that when the tongue 34 and the bottom flap 38 are folded inward, the tongue 34 will snugly fit beneath the cover 33 without causing strain along the score line 23 while the bottom flap 38 will snugly fit above the bottom 39 without causing undue strain along the score line 23'. Similarly, the score line 26 is lower than the score line 23 by two thicknesses of the material of the blank, so that the tongue 34 will lie below the tongue 34. Further the score line 26 is above the score line 23' by two thicknesses of the blank, so that the bottom flap 38' will lie above the bottom flap 38.

It will further be noted that the edge SI of the bottom flap 38, when in the position shown in Fig. 3, engages the side wall 31, so that the flap 38' serves a a compression member to aid in resisting a crushing force in the direction of the arrows A at the lower part of the closure. The

tongues

34 and 34, when the closure has its parts positioned as shown in Fig. 3, slightly overlap each other so as to provide a trap door adapted to be released by a coin and through which the coins are pushed. The spring or natural tendency of the stock of the

tongues

34 and 34 is to hold them in a position to close the coin slot 42. The tongue 34 tends to exert an upward pressure on the tongue 34.

After the closure has been folded as shown in Fig. 3, it may be telescopically inserted in shell or tube I I with the open side of the closure preferably facing on the wall 2| of the tube. The structure thus provided has a double thickness of material on all sides, as shown in Figs. 5 and 6. After the closure has been inserted in the tube H, the bank as a, whole may be covered with paper ornamented or printed in any suitable manner. Preferably, the enveloping paper or other covering for the bank is an integral blank having six sides folded around the four walls of the tube, the bottom 39 and the top 33. The paper covering is suitably overlapped as shown at 54 with the overlapped portions adhesively secured together so that the paper covering acts to retain the closure l2 in assembled relation with the tube I I. The paper covering is also provided with a coin slot 51 in registry with the coin slot 42 in the closure I2.

The coin bank of my invention consists of only two main parts, the closure I2 and the tube I I, and may be quickly fabricated and assembled, and is exceedingly sturdy in use. I prefer to employ an enveloping wrapper to retain the closure and the tube I I in assembled relation. However, if desired, suitable printed, ornamental or other matter may be placed on the walls formed by the tube II and the closure I2 and the wrapper eliminated. If the wrapper is eliminated the tube II and the closure I2 may be retained in assembled relation by adhesive. Although I have shown the preferred form of my invention, it will be apparent that various changes and modifications may be made therein, particularly in the form and relation of the parts, without departing from the spirit of my invention as set forth in the appended claims.

I claim:

1. A coin bank comprising a four-sided tubular outer body open at both ends, and an inner body within said outer body, said inner body having three hingedly-connected side walls lying against the inner surfaces of three of the walls of said outer body, a flap hinged to the bottom edge of each of the three side walls of said inner body, said flaps overlapping each other and forming a closure for the bottom of said body, a flap hinged to the top'edge of each of at least two of the three side walls of said inner body, said flaps overlapping each other and forming a closure for the top of said body, the outermost one of the tophinged flaps having a coin-insertion slot therein, the flap beneath said coin slot being mounted for downward swinging movement upon insertion of a coin, one of the top-hinged flaps and'one of the bottom-hinged flaps each having hinged to that edge of the flap which is adjacent the fourth side of the inner body a supplementary flap, the two supplementary flaps extending toward each other, partially closing the fourth side of the inner body and being located between and abutting against the inner surfaces of the two opposite side walls of said inner body to prevent inward collapse of said side walls toward each other, at said fourth side.

2. A coin bank comprising a blank scored, folded, and adhesively secured together so as to form a hollow body open at both ends, a second blank scored and folded to form a closure member for the open ends of the hollow body and adapted to be telescopically inserted in said hollow body, said closure member comprising at least three side walls having their side edges joined by score lines and lying when the bank is assemblcd'in parallel underlying relation with three of the side walls of the hollow body, a top wall having a slot, a bottom wall, said top and bottom walls extending from the ends of the center side wall of the closure member, said top and bottom walls having flaps adapted to be folded toward each other to at least partly form a fourth side wall for the closure member, said flaps having their side edges lying between and butting against the other two side walls of the closure member to aid in strengthening the structure against collapse, and said two other "closure member side walls having flaps at their upper and lower edges, the upper flaps partly overlying each other to form a yielding trap for coins, and the lower flaps overlying each other to stiffen the bottom of the structure.

WALTER J. ENGLERT.