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CASH AND PARCEL CARRIER FOR STORE SERVICE. NO, 283 087. Patented Aug. 14, 1883.

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TO MILTON GLARK, OF SAME PLACE.

CASH AND PARCEL CARRIER FOR STORE-SERVICE.

SPECIFICATION forming partof Letters Patent No. 283,087, dated August 14, 1883.

Application filed July l9, 1883. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern Be it known that I, GILBERT R. ELLIOTT, of Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Cash and Parcel Carrier for Store-Service, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in carriers for transporting cash, account-books,

central station in stores A The objects of my invention are to provide a holder capable of being loaded and unloaded without being detached from its wheeled carrier; to so form the carrier and holder that? .lis

they shall occupy the least possible space, and thereby enable a greater number to be run in to the central station than has been possible withthe wide and cumbrous devices heretofore used, and to render the carrier sufficiently rigid to resist any shock. to which it may be subjected.

To attain these objects my invention consists in the combination of a web provided with a pocket and adapted to be wound up by a 5 Springroller, with a narrow case or box provided with wheels adapted to run on a taut wire anda sta or bar formin ari id connec- 2 y a: a

tion between the wheel-supports, as hereinafter fully described.

In theaccompanying drawings, which illustrate myimproved carrier and holder, Figure 1 is a side view of the carrier with the holder withdrawn.

improved carrier.

Fig. 2 is a cross section of the same. Fig. 3 shows the carrier on a wireway, and Fig. 4 shows how a large number of wire ways may be brought together at one station by reason of the little space occupied by my \Vireways arelargely used in stores for transporting books, cash, &c.', back and forth between the salesmen and the cashier. Heretofore the carriers and holders for such articles have been so large as to requiresuch a distance between the wires at their termini near the cashiers .desk as to preclude in some estabvide a separate wire for each salesman. My

- improved holder and carrier, being reduced to the narrowest dimensions, allows the wires to be placed much closer together, so that the number of wires may be increased to any desired extent.

A is abox or case of any desired length, and

web) will not admit of their being put in lengthwise. A ring or handle, 0, is attached to the' bottom of the web 0, and by means of it the web can be drawn down so as to bring its pocket in reach, and thereby obviate the necessity of detaching the holder from its carrier to insert or remove an article, as heretofore in some de vices'for this purpose.

- Standards D D are secured to the box A, one near each end. These standards are forked at their .tops to receive wheels cl (1, adapted to travelon a taut wire, F. A stay or bar, d

-rigidly connects the two standards D D, and not only serves to prevent the wheels from leav ing the wireway, but also renders the whole arrangement sufficiently rigid to resist without yielding or buckling the push required to send it over the wire and the impact with the stops for arresting it at the proper points.

7 Besides the advantages above mentioned, there also arise from my improved device the following: the slight resistance from the air,

the absence of all swinging or swaying, and f the security with which the article is held by being compressed into the box by the force of the spring in the roller.

I claim as my invention i 1. The combination, substantially as hereinbefore set forth, of a web or sheet having a pocket at one end and attached at its other end to a spring-roller, a case or boX in which the roller is mounted, standards secured to the case or box, and carrying the wheels, substantially as described, and for the purposes set stores, astay or bar located between and conforth. I neeted to the standards that support the wheels, 10 1 2. In aparcel-earrierfor store-service, a Web substantially as and for the purpose set forth. adapted to be wound up by a spring-roller, GILBERT R ELLIOTT 5 and having itslower end provided with at pocket, substantially as and for the purposes WVitnesses: set forth. G. B. MAYNADrER,

3. In a carrier for traveling on wireways in 1 J. R. SNOW.

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