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W. F. HUTOHINSON. POCKET BANK.

Patented Dec. 15, 189 1.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM F. I-IUTOHINSON, OF PASSAIO, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- THIRD TO ARREN B. I-IUTCHINSON, OF SAME PLACE.

POCKET-BAN K.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 465,137, dated December 15, 1891.

Application filed February 28, 1891. Serial No. 883,253. (No model.)

To all whom, it Tnay concern.-

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM F. HUTOHIN- SON, of Passaic, in the county of Passaic and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and Improved Pocket-Bank, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to improvements in pocket-banks which are adapted to receive coin and register the amount received; and the object is to produce a simple and convenient bank of this character, which when empty may be closed into a very small compass,which will accurately register the amount received, which will remain securely locked until full, and which when filled will automatically unlock and open.

To this end my invention consists in an ex.- tensible body having a coin-slot at one end, a suitable cover, and a lock for the cover, which is released by the pressure of a coin. This construction will be hereinafter fully described, and then pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar figures of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure l is a perspective view of the bank when empty. Fig.2 is aside elevation of the bank when full. Fig. 3 is a vertical section of the bank with the cover open. Fig. at is a cross-section on the line 4 4 of Fig. 3, looking in the direction of the arrow. Fig. 5 is an inverted plan view of the bank with the cover open. Fig. 6 is a broken vertical section with the cover closed, and Fig. 7 is a detail view of the latch and the spring and rod connected therewith.

' The bank 10 is composed of three short tubes 11, 12, and 13, the tube 13 being adapted to close or slide into the tube 12 and the tube 12 being adapted to slide into the tube 11. The upper end of the tube 13 is closed and the upward or outward movement of the tubes 12 and 13 is limited by the flanges 14:, which are turned up on the lower or inner ends of the tubes and which strike similar flanges on the outer tubes when the tubes 12 and 13 are drawn out their full length. A coin-slot 15 is produced in one side of the tube 11 at the spring 17 secured to its upper side. The spring is bent to extend up into the tube 11 and it is arranged so that the angle of the bendwill come opposite the slot 15. The spring will thus serve as a shield to prevent the locklatch from being struckby a coin, and when the bank is full the pressure of the spring will throw open the cover. Near one edge of the cover, the edge opposite the slot 15 when the cover is closed, is a projecting pin 1:5, which has a recess on one side, as best shown in Fig. 3, and the pin is adapted to enter a perforation 19 in the lower of the keeperplates 20 when the cover is closed. These keeper-plates 20 are placed near together and parallel with each other and they project from the inner wall of the tube 11 on the side opposite the slot 15.

Betweenthe plates 20 is a latch 21, which swings horizontally and which is pivoted at one end, the opposite end being adapted to swing between the plates 20 and enter the re cess in the pin 18, so as to hold the cover 16 securely locked. The latch 21 is held in engagement with the pin by a spring 22, one end of which is secured to the back side of the latch and the opposite end of which presses against the tube 11, and is secured to the top of the rod 24, which is held to move lengthwise in the slideway 23 in the back of the tube. This rod 24: is shorter by the thickness of a coin than the tube 11, and its upper end is bent inward so as to engage the flange 14 of the tube 12. The latch-spring normally holds the rod down behind the latch 21, so that the latch cannot be opened; but when the last coin necessary to fill the bank is inlows: A coin is pushed into the slot 15, and

this coin, being smaller than the diameter of the tube 12, will strike the bottom of the tube 13 and raise the latter above the tube 11, so

that the first gage-mark will show, and this will indicate that one coin has been deposited. When the tube 13 has been pushed out its full length, its flange will raise the tube 12, and when this is pushed out to its limit the bank will be full. When the last coin is inserted, it raises the rod 24 from behind the latch 21, as described, flattens the spring 17 against the cover 16, and strikes and pushes back the latch from the pin 18. The spring 17 then throws open the cover and the coins may be poured from the bank.

Having thus described my invention, I

claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. A pocket-bank comprising a body formed of a series of tubes shutting one within the other, the body havingend closures,a coinslot near one end, and gage-marks on the inner tubes, substantially as described.

2. A pocket-bank comprising an extensible body having a coin-slot and a cover at one end, a lock for the cover, and coin-operated releasing mechanism for the lock, substantially as described.

3. A pocket-bank comprisinga series of con nected sliding sections of dilferent diameters, one section having a coin-slot therein, a permanent closure for one end section, a springpressed cover for the opposite end section, a lock for the cover, and coin-operated releasing mechanism for the lock, substantially as described.

4. In a pocket-bank, the combination, with the bank-body having a coin-slot therein and a latch opposite the slot and the cover having a catch to engage the latch, of a springshield fixed to the cover and projecting between the latch and coin-slot, substantially as described.

5. In a bank composed of a series of sliding tubular sections, one of which has a cover provided with a catch, the combination, with the spring-pressed latch adapted to engage the cover-catch, of a slidable rod having one end soon red to the cover and the opposite end held to engage an adjacent section of the bank, substantially as described.

WILLIAM F. HUTCHINSON.

.Witnesses;

WARREN B. HUTOHINSON, W. PEROIVAL EDGAR.

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