US524104A

US524104A - Conductor s money-belt

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Publication number: US524104A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1894-08-07
Anticipated expiration: 1911-08-07

Description

J. T. DOHBRTY. GONDUCTORS MONEY BELT.

(No Model.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN T. DOHERTY, OF CAMBRIDGE,'MASSACHUSETTS SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 524,104, dated August 7, 1894.

Application filed .Tune 29,1394. Serial No. 516,055. (No model.)

To all whom it may con/cern.-

Be it known that I, JOHN T. DOHERTY, of Cambridge, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented ycertain new and useful Improvements in Conductors Money-Belts, of which the following is a specication.

Myinvention relates to an improvement in conductors money-belts, and has for its object to provide a serviceable and suitable means for carrying among other things receptacles for money, checks, &c.

My invention consists in certain novel features of construction and arrangement of parts which will be fully hereinafter described and particularly pointed out in the claims. l

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings and the characters marked thereon, which form a part of this specication, like characters designating like parts or features, as the case may be, wherever they occur.

In the drawings,-Figure 1 is a view of my complete apparatus. Fig. 2 is a section on Vline 2 2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a section on line 3 3 o f Fig. 1.

a is a belt of leather or other suitable material arranged to be secured about the body of the wearer.

a is a strap arranged to go about the neck.

- It is attached to the belt and serves as a support therefor. Both belt and strap are provided with buckles, f, to adjust them to the wearer.

b b and b2 are boxes made of aluminum and secured to the belt by rivets, c4. The boxes, b, and b', are provided with covers, c, having receiving slots, b5. The larger box, b, is intended for dimes and nickels, the smaller box, b', for quarters and half dollars. The covers, c, are provided with theflugs, c2, and the boxes, b b with the springs, c', arranged tobear upon the lugs, c2. This arrangement serves to retain the covers in closed or open position.

A pocket, b4, 'for bills is formed integral with the belt by turning up a Hap, Z910, formed when the belt is cut out, upon the main part of the belt, and securing itthereto by seams, 12, 12, at either end of said iiap. rI lhe box, b2, is designed for. checks, and has a cover, c6, of a constructionand arrangement like the covers, c. cular opening at the top of its front side for convenience in drawing checks from the box.

The` strap, a', is provided with a detachable box, b3, to hold a punch, h, which is secured to the strap by a chain, h.

Having thus explained the nature of my invention and described a way of constructing and using the same, though without attempting to set forth all of the forms in which it may be made, or. all of the modes of its use, what I' claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,

l. A conductors money-beltcomprising in its construction abelt, a neck strap connected thereto, aluminum boxes ysecured upon the belt having. covers providedl with springlocking devices, a pocket formed in the belt, and means for attaching and adjusting the It is further provided with a semi-cirbelt and strap, substantially as and for the.

purpose described.

2. Aconductors money-belt comprising in two subscribing witnesses, this 25th day of` June, A. D. 1891i.

JOHN T. DOHERTY( Witnesses:

WILLIAM QUINB'Y,

' HORACE BROWN.