US496393A - Toy savings-bank - Google Patents

Description

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I ALEXANDER BARTON, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

TOY SAVINGS-BAN K.

. SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 496,393, dated May 2, 1893.

Application filed November 28, 1892- Serial No. 453.301- (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ALEXANDER BAR'roN,a subject of the Queen of Great Britain, residing at Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Toy Savings- Banks, of which the following is a specification.

The bank which is the subject of this invention, is provided with two receiving slots and is so constructed that when coins are put into it through the two slots, the money deposited in one slot falls into a permanent receptacle in the bank and 'can only be withdrawn by taking the structure apart, while the money deposited in the other slot falls into a drawer accessible from the outsidethe money permanently deposited being always the heavier amount and the money received by the drawer being the lighter amount. Thus the child using the toy bank not onlydeposits but draws, but draws always less than he deposits.

The nature of the invention in detail is fully described below and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in Which- Figure 1 is a view in perspective of a toy bank embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a central cross vertical section of the same. Fig. 3 is a central longitudinal vertical section of the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts.

A is the front and A the rear wall of the bank, and B B are the end walls.

O is the top and C the floor, all constructed of any suitable material.

D D are parallel partitions extending from the front wall A to the rear wall A and provided with vertical slots D, and E is a drawer between said partitions sliding on the floor (1 and capable of being withdrawn from the outside. The partitions are so situated that the drawer is in the center of the lower portion of the front wall.

F F are pivot pins extending horizontally from the front and rear Walls and located equidistant from the end walls B B On these pins is a shaft H and extending 'in opposite directions from this shaft toward the end walls and integral or rigid with it, are two levers I. Or the two could be termed one lever I fulthe front and rear walls A A.

crumed on the shaft but placed so as to exactly balance. These levers extend through the slots D and have their outer ends I turned so as to point upward, for the purpose of sustaining normally in a horizontal position two leaves or trap-floors J J rigidly secured to the horizontal pivots K having their bearingsin These pivots are directly. over and next the upper ends of the partitions D, and as the trap-floors or swinging shelves J J extend to the end walls B B respectively, it will be seenthat two side compartments are thus created, on opposite sides of the central compartment created by the partitions D. Out in the top C directly over the trap-floors J J respectively are two slots L L.

N is a horizontal partition or cover whose opposite edges rest normally on the inner edges of the swinging traps J J and bridging the space between them over the drawer E. A lifting-rod P extends up from this partition N through the top 0 and aspring R surrounding said, rod betweenthe top and the partition, holds the latter normally down as shown.

The lifting rod P has a head P and under it lies the bifurcated end S of a lifting lever S fulcrumed on the bracketT secured to the top 0, and provided with the handle S.

The operation is as follows: Suppose four pennies are dropped through the slot L and three through the slot L. The four pennies would fall on the trap J and the three on the trap J, both of which would remain stationary, being held by the plate or partition N, and also by the perfectly balanced lever I. Now, if the handle S of the lever S be pressed, its bifurcated end S lifts the rod R and plate N, and the trap J having four pennies (the heavier weight) upon it drops into the position shown in broken lines in Fig. 3, and the four pennies slide over the edge into the compartment between the side wall 13 and partition D. The dropping of the trap J carries down that arm of the lever I and tips the opposite arm up, its end I forcing up the trap J into the position shown'in broken lines in Fig. 3, so that the three pennies on it slide down over its inner edge and drop into the drawer E. Thus the child has permanently deposited four pennies, and has temporarily deposited three pennies in the drawer E, from trap J would fall and the trap J be lifted and thus the money dropped through the slot L be permanently deposited, and that dropped through the slot L would be deposited in the drawer. As soon as the rod P is released, the

parts resume the positions shown in full lines in Fig. 3. The plate or partition N not only serves to hold the edges of the shelves (which would be kept horizontal by the balance lever I) but prevents money deposited in the bank from being shaken into the drawerand thence withdrawn.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a toy bank, the combination of the pivoted swinging or trap-floors J J, pivoted within the bank, and located over the corresponding compartments and the balance lever I whose fulcrum is located between the trapfloors and over a central compartment and whose ends extend up to said trap floors, whereby when one of the floors is depressed by overweighting it, it falls and depresses the corresponding end of the lever, lifting the other end and raising the other floor, rendering the compartment beneath the depressed floor accessible and that beneath the raised floor inaccessible, substantially as set forth.

2. In a toy bank, the combination of the horizontal trap-floors J J pivoted at K to the Walls of the bank, the balanced lever I with its upturned ends I beneath said floors, the vertical partitions D, and the drawer E accessible from the outside, said bank being provided with slots over said floors, substantially as described.

3. In a toy bank, the combination of the swinging trap-floors J J, balanced lever I, horizontal plate or partition N bridging the space between the 'fioors J J, partitions D, lifting rod P and spring R and lever for lifting said rod, said bank being provided with slots oversaid floors, substantiallyas set forth.

ALEXANDER BARTON.

Witnesses:

HENRY W. WILLIAMS, J. M. HARTNETT.

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