US472136A - Combination-lock packing-box and savings-bank - Google Patents

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J. B. MORRIS. COMBINATION LOOK PACKING BOX AND SAVINGS BANK. No. 472,136. Patented-Apr. 5, 1892.

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J. B. MORRIS. I GDMBINATION LOCK PACKING BOX AND SAVINGS BANK. No. 472,136. Pa'tented Apr. 5, 1892.

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JOHN BERNARD MORRIS, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

COMBINATION-LOCK PACKING-BOX AND SAVINGS-BANK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 472,136, dated April 5, 1892.

Application filed June 10, 1891. $erial No. 395,751. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOHN BERNARD MORRIS, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, have invented certain Improvements in a Combination-Lock Packing-Box and Savings-Bank, of which the following is a specification.

My invention consists of a packing-box for candies, stationery, or other similar goods which can afterward be used as a toy moneybank.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view showing the box closed.

Fig. 2 is a view showing the lid partially raised and a portion of the locking-tongue exposed. Fig. 3 is a sectional view showing the tongue locked to the box. Fig. 4 is a view showing the tongue unlocked. Fig. 5 is an enlarged sectional view on the line 1 2, Fig. 3. Figs. 6, 7, and 8 are detached perspective views of portions of the box; and Figs. 9 and 10 are views of modifications.

A is the body of the box, made, preferably, of pasteboard, but may be made of any other suitable material, depending upon the use to which the box is put.

The box is so folded in the present instance as to form at one end a lid B. The opposite end of the box is also preferably provided with a lid, which can be used when the goods are packed in the box. This lid can be sealed when the'box is in use as a toy money-bank, and the lid B is then used as a lid of the bank. A suitable slit can be made in any portion of the bank to admit the money. Secured to the lid B is a tongue D, extending into a slot 1), as clearly shown in Fig. 5, formed by the outer surface a of the box and an inner lining a, Fig. 6, filling-pieces a Fig. 7, being inserted between the box and lining. These filling-pieces a are recessed at c on each side of the slot 1) to receive the locking-disks. Pivoted to the tongue D is a series of disks E, having their sides cut away, as shown in Fig. 4, so thatwhen the tongue is inserted in the slot b it can pass in between the filling-pieces a and into the position required.

In the outer wall a of the box is a series of openings '6 opposite each disk when in position, as in Fig. 4, so that a child by using a pin or similarimplement can turn the disks through the slot until they assume the position shown in Fig. 3, thus locking the tongue and lid to the box. I have shown three disks in the present instance; but two may be used, or even one may be used, without departing from my invention.

In Fig. 2 I have shown a single tongue and the disks arranged in line one under another.

It will be seen that after the box has been used for confectionery or other goods the lid can be sealed and an opening made for the insertion of money and the box used as money-bank.

I prefer to letter each of the disks, as shown, in any suitable manner. For instance, in Fig. 1 I have shown three disks, the letters thereon being so arranged that a certain word will first have to be spelled by moving the disks-such, for instance, as the word cat the letters being so arranged that when the c on the first disk is opposite its opening the disk is free of the recesses c, the second disk is free when a is opposite its opening, I and when t is opposite the opening the third disk is free and the tongue can then be readily removed, the full word being spelled.

The box may be made of metal or other material without departing from my invention.

It will be understood that the undercut 8o slideway may be in the lid, as shown in Fig.

9, and the tongue secured to the body portion of the box. Two tongues may also be used, as shown, without departing frommy invention.

In Fig. 10 I have shown the disks pivoted to the box and the tongue D recessed to receive the disks.

It will also be understood that figures or emblems may be used instead of letters in 0 marking the disks.

I claim as my invention 1. The combination, in a box used as asavings-bank having a body portion and a lid, a tongue on either the body or the lid, and a groove in the opposite portion adapted to receive the tongue with locking-disks for looking the tongue in the groove,substantially as and for the purpose described.

2. The combination, in a box used as a sav- 10o ings-bank having a body portion and a lid, a tongue on either the body or the lid, having one or more disks swiveled thereon, and an undercut groove in the opposite portion adapted to receive the tongue, substantially as and for the purpose described.

3. In a money-box, the body portion, the lid.a tongue on said lid, one or more disks on said tongue, said tongue and disk being adapted to a slot in the sideof the box,with an opening in the box opposite the disk, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

4. The combination of the box,a lid therefor, a tongue on said lid having one or more disks swiveled thereon and said disks being eccentric in form, the disks and tongue adapted to a slideway in the box, with openings in the front portion of the box, whereby the disks may be manipulated so that the lid can be opened, substantially as described.

5. The combination of the box, the lid, the tongue extending from said lid, one or more eccentric disks on the tongue, said disks having letters marked thereon,an opening in the box in front of the row of letters of each disk, through which the disk can be turned,with a ters marked thereon,with openings'in the box,

substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

JOHN BERNARD MORRIS.

\Vitnesses:

\VILLIAM D. OONNER, HARRY SMITH.

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