US2367999A - Fare receiver - Google Patents

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jan. 23, 945. G, E COLLINS 2,367,999

FARE RECEIVER Filed April 22, 1943 1N V EN TOR.

ATTO/WYE Y j e Gl'. Cazzi/:na

Patented Jan. 23, 1945 UNITED STATE'S'PATENT GFFICE FARE RECEIVER Gladstone E. Collins, Atlanta, Ga.

Application April 22, 1943, Serial No. 484,054

(Cl. 23E- 44) 1 Claim.

This invention aims to provide an attachment for a fare box, which will facilitate the insertion of coins into the box, novel means being provided for holding the attachment in place, and novel means being supplied for adaptingthe attachment to fare boxes already in use.

It is within the province of the disclosure to improve generally and to enhance the utility of devices of that type to which the present invention appertains. l

With the above and other objects in view, which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafter described and claimed, it being une derstood that changes in 'the precise embodi ment of the invention herein disclosed, may be made within the scope of what is claimed, without departing from the spirit ci the invention.

in the accompanying drawing:

Fig. l shows, in side elevation, a device constructed in accordance with the invention, mounted on a fare box;

Fig. 2 is a Vertical section on the line 2-2 of Fig. l;

Fig. 3 is a vertical section on the line 3 3 of Fig. 2;

Fig. i is a horizontal section on the line lil-4 oi Fig. i;

Fig. 5 is a perspective View delineating the device forming the subject matter oi this application.

As the fare-receiver shown in this application, numeral l :marks a fare box, on which is seated, detachabiy, a :fare box head having a recess in its lower end, the head being of biock-=iilre construction. in its upper portion, the head 2 is provided with an opening d which tapers toward its ends, and inwardly and down wardly, in a well known way. At its lower end, the opening fi communicates with a slot t. In the slot 5 is disposed a twopart, downwardly extended coin chute t, the constituent mem bers of which are located side by side, as shown in Fig. e. A transverse securing element l, such as a pin, holds the coin chute t in the head 2, the securing element being supplied at its outer end with an enlarged head t, provided with an opening 9. The head t forms one end portion of the securing element l and projects laterally beyond the member t. The upper end of a iiex ible anchorage element it, such as a light chain, is fastened in the opening 9 of the pin head 8, the opening forming means for engagement with the iiexible element. The lower end ci the ilexlike body il, superposed on the part Z and provided at its lower end with depending flanges l2 and lll defining a channel l5 in the lower por tion of the body. 1n its lower end, the body Il has a slot it of reduced width, and adapted to receive a coin. In its upper portion, the body il is provided With a downwardly vtapered. mouth il, leading to the slot it and ultimately discharging into the coin chute t. The opposed walls lli-i8 and lt-it of the mouth il converge downwardly, the walls i8 convexing toward each other, and the walls i9 convexing toward each other. The mouth il of the body Il, which constitutes a receiver, is larger` than the opening t in the top of the head 2 of the fare box I, and, on this account, the passenger can the more readily insert a coin, which iinds its ultimate disposition in the fare box.

The head 2 of the fare box fits closely between the side flanges i2 and ifi of the receiver. Securing elements 2li, located wherever desired, pass through the anges it and it of the receiver and enter the head 2, to hold the parts speciiied rmly together.

There is a notch 2l in the lower edge or the 'flange i2 of the receiver, this notch being adapt; ed for the reception of the head or laterally projecting portion il of the pin '1. In order to facilitate the assembly of the anchoragel member l@ with the head 28 of the pin l, 'by means of the opening 9, the body il is provided with an elongated, laterally open recess 22, leading downwardly to the notch 2l, the inner wall of the recess having a downward and inward slant, as shown at 23. In connection with the mounting of the upper end of the iiexible element I0 in the hole 9 of the pin head 8, it should be noted that the pin has a driving iit and is not a detachably mounted element.

Since the mouth Il is oi greater area at Aits upper end than the opening 4 of the head 2 of the fare box, the passenger or conductor has less trouble in inserting a coin into the fare box, and it is a matter of common knowledge that the entrance of passengers into a streetcar or the like should not b e delayed by monetary transactions.

The ilanges I2 and Il define an open-ended trough in the body II, wherein the head 2 is received, and since the head 8 of the securing element 1 is received in the notch 2l, the mouth I1 is disposed directly above the coin chute 8, and the holes in the anges I2 and I4 are lined up with the holes in the head 2, to receive the securing devices 20.

What is claimed is:

In a fare receiver, a fare box head, a coin chute in the'head, a transverse securing element in the head and engaging the coin chute, one end portion of thessecuring element projecting laterally beyond the head. a body superposed on the head and having a mouth discharging into the coin chute, the body having depending flanges defining an open-ended trough in which the-head is received, one flange being provided initslower edge with a notch receiving the laterally projecting portion of the securing element', the body and one of the flanges having openings, and a. securing device in the openings and uniting the body with the head, the engagement of the laterally projecting portion 0f the-securing element in the notch serving to dispos-the mouth directly above the chute, andserving to aline the openings for the reception oi the securing device.

GLADSTONE E. COLLINS.

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