US279688A

US279688A - Cash-carrier

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Publication number: US279688A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1883-06-19
Anticipated expiration: 1900-06-19

Description

(No Model.)

G. A. BADGER.

CASH CARRIER.

Patented June 19,1883.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE A. BADGER, or QUINCY, MASSACHUSETTS.

CASH-CARRIER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 279,688, dated June 19, 1883.

Application filed June Q9. 1882. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern Be it known that I, GEORGE A. BADGER, of Quincy, in the county of Norfolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain Improvements in Cash-Carriers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has for its object to provide improved and simple means for carrying cash and other light articles between the counters and the cashiers desk of a store; and it consists in the improvements hereinafter described, whereby a track composed of a wire or wires stretchedbetween the two objective points is adapted to be moved simultaneously at its opposite ends in vertically opposite directions by power applied at either end, so as to give it an incline in either direction.

The invention also consists in a receptacle adapted to run upon said track by gravitation, said receptacle being differently colored on its opposite sides, all of which Iwill nowproceed to describe and claim.

Of the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, Figure 1 represents a side elevation, showing the track and my improved movable operating mechanism. Fig. 2 represents an enlarged elevation of one end of the track, the receptacle, and the means for raising and lowering the ends of the track. Fig. 3 represents a section 011 line :0 m, Fig. 2.

The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in all the figures.

In the drawings, A represents the-cashiers desk, and B one of the counters of a store.

0 represents my improved track, which is composed of a wire stretched between the counter and the desk. The wire is attached at its ends to supports or slides K K, which are vertically movable on, fixed guides L L. The supports K K are preferably provided with friction-rollers M, adapted to run on the guides, as shown clearly in Fig. 2.

0 represents a cord which extends from the support K to the support K, and is guided by pulleys 1? Q RS, said cordpassing downwardly from the support K, around pulley 1?, up-

. wardly over pulley Q, horizontally to pulley R, downwardly under pulley S, and upwardly to the support K, and so connecting said supports that when one is raised the other will necessarily be lowered at the same time, as

will be readily seen, so that the attendant at the depressed end may incline the track in the opposite direction by raising the support at his end, thereby depressing the other support at the same time through the cord 0. The cashier is thus enabled, after receiving the receptacle from a clerk at the counter, to return the receptacle to the clerk, each being responsible for the sending of the receptacle to the other.

To enable the support K or K to be conveniently raised, lprovide said supports with cords O 0, extending upwardly over pulleys Q R and depending from said pulleys, so that when the depending end of either cord is pulled it will raise the support to which it is attached.

It will be observed that my improved cashcarrying track is very simple in construction and is easily operated.

If desired, each track may be composed of two or more wires instead of one.

I do not limit myself to any particular con struction of the movable supports for the wire,

as the details may be variously modified without departing from the spirit of my invention.

The receptacle I is composed of abox, preferably cylindrical, having an arm, a, projecting upwardly, and provided with a grooved wheel, 0, adapted to run on the. wire G, or with two wheels in case two wires are employed. The box is suspended by its arm and wheel below the wire, as shown.

I prefer to make the sides of the box readily distinguishable from each other by giving one a different color from the other, or otherwise, so that the clerk at the counter can place the box on the track with one side exposed to the view of the cashier, and the latter can return thebox with the other side exposed to the view of the clerk. Each person will then be e11- abled to know the condition of the box.

I claim- 1. The combination of a wire track, vertically-movable supports K K, holding the opposite ends of said track, a rope or cord, 0, connected at its ends to said supports and supported by pulleys P Q R S, and adapted to lower either of said supports when the other is raised, and vice versa, and elevating-cords nor of the guideson which said supports move,

- O O, extendingfrointhesupports over pulleys at its opposite ends or sides, as and for the above the same, each cord 0 being adapted purpose set forth. to raise the support to which it is attached, In testimony whereof Ihavesigned my name v and thereby cause the depression of the oppoto this specification, in the presence of two 5 site support through the rope O, as set forth. subscribing witnesses, this 24th day of June, 15

2. The improved receptacle for use upon a 1882. suspended track in stores, composed of a box, GEORGE A. BADGER. preferably cylindrical in form, and provided XVitnesses: with a grooved pulley to run upon, the track, C. F. BROWN, IO said box being differently colored or marked A. L. VHITE.