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Description

(Model.)

C. WITTENBERG.

CASH BOX DRAWER.

No. 368,639. Patented Aug. 23, 1887.

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CASH-Box DRAWER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 368,639, dated August 23. 188'7.

Application filed April 23, 1886. Serial No. 199,901. (Model.)

Io with toll-collecting apparatus 'as toll-collectors for telephones or street-car fare-boxes.

The object of my improvement is to automatically close the opening through which the coin deposited for toll enters the drawer, so

f that when the drawer with its contents is removed from the box it is at once sealed, and can only be opened by a person appointed for that purpose.

The accompanying drawings illustrate my zo invention.

Figure l represents a front elevation of the drawer having the cover raised, the inner wall ofthe cover removed and shown separately, and the coininlet closed. Fig. 2 represents a similar elevation showing the coin-inlet open and the position of the parts before closing the cover and placing the drawer in the cash-box. Fig. 3 is a perspective view, and Fig. 4 a section at a a, showing the position of the parts 3o after the drawer has been placed in the cashbox. Fig. 5 represents amodiied form of the drawer. Fig. 6 represents a section of the same at m x after the cover has been closed and the drawer placed in the cash-box.

A represents a cash-box such as is used in my telephone-cabinet, for which an application for a patent is now pending. The coin passes to the box through a chute, b.

B is a separate metallic drawer adapted to 4o iit nicely within the box A.

C is a cover hinged to drawer B, and having its free edge adapted to engage a suitable lock on the front of the drawer. Cover C is made double, with a space between its inner and outer walls,its inner wall being removable, and

shown disconnected at D, Fig. 1.

d is an opening made through the outer and inner walls of the cover, so as to register with the chute b. Said opening d is closed by a 5o plate, e, arranged to slide between the walls of the cover.

F is a catch-lever, which is held normally in the path of movement of plate e by aspring, g. Catch-lever F is arranged to engage a notch, h, in the sliding plate when the opening d is closed, as in Fig. 1, and to engage the end of said plate when the openingis open, as in Fig. 2. Plate e is forced forward over the opening d by a spiral spring, t'.

Secured to the inside of the back wall of the cash-box A is a pin, j, which passes through an opening in the edge of cover C when the drawer is in position in box A and rests against the catch-lever F, the arrangement being such that the catch-leveris thereby pushed back out of the path of plate e, and the end of the plate then rests against the side of the pin.

k and lare studs projecting, respectively, from catch-lever F and plate c through slots m and a in the inner wall of the cover.

In the modification shown in Figs. 5 and 6 there is a long sliding plate, o, which is forced over the opening p by a pair of spiral springs, I' r, and there are two catch-levers, like t, one at each end of the cover, which operate to hold the plate when the opening p is uncovered. Said catch-levers are connected by a cross-bar, u, which engages a lug, o, on the plate o, and thus prevents the withdrawal of the plate o when closed over the opening p. There are two studs, like w, which pass through the side ofthe cover and, having beveled ends which engage the correspondingly-beveled ends of the catch-levers, operate to depress and disengage the catch-levers from the plate, the plate then resting againstthe ends of the studs.

The operation of my device is as follows: Cover C being unlocked and open, the catchlever is withdrawn by means of its stud lo from the notch h in the plate e, and the plateis then pushed back by means of its stud Z until the coin-opening ci is uncovered and the catch-le ver drops over the end of the plate, thus securing it. Cover C is now closed and locked, and the drawer is pushed into the box A. Pin j, passing through the edge ofthe cover, pushes the catch-lever back and discharges it from the plate e, which then rests against the pin. Coins passing down chute b now pass into the drawer B through the opening d. When the drawer is removed from the box, pin j, being IOO secured to the box, is withdrawn, and the ing, and the drawers are opened at a central springt' shoots plate e forward over the opening d,and the catch-lever F falls into the notch h, thus locking the plate'in position over the opening. All access to the contents of the drawer is now cut off, except to the person holding the key to the lock which secures the cover.

In the modification shownin Figs. 5 and 6 the operation is practically the same. The studs w engage the catch-levers t, and operate to depress and thereby disengage them from the sliding plate o, which then rests against the studs until the drawer is withdrawn from the box, when the plate ois shot forward over the openingp by the spr-ings 1^ r, and is locked in place by the bar u.

By the use of this drawer the collections are handled only in bulk by the persons collectstation by the cashier.

I claim as my inventionl. The combination of the following ele ments, namely: a case or box adapted to receive a drawer, a drawer havinga locked cover, said cover having an opening communicating 25 with the interior of the drawer, a sliding plate secured within the cover and arranged to close said opening, a spring arranged4 to push the plate over the opening, a catch also within the cover and arranged to engage and lock said 3o sliding plate when open and when closed, and a stud secured in the case or box and arranged to disengage said catch and hold the sliding plate from closing, all arranged to co-operate substantially as and for the purpose specified.

2. In a cash-box drawer, the combination, with the drawer and a cover therefor having the openings d n m, of the sliding plate e, having lug Z, spring z', catch-lever F, having lug k, and spring g, all arranged to co-operate as lo specified.

CHARLES WITTENBERG.

Witnesses:

H. P. Hoon, A. M. Hoon. y

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