US669625A - Toy-bank cash register and indicator. - Google Patents

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No. 669,625. Patented Mar. l2, i901.

w. L. DUNHANI. TOY BANK CASH REGISTER AND INDICATOR.

(Application filed Aug. 19. 1899.)

UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIoE.

WVILLIAM L'OGAN DUNHAM, OF WVASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, AS-

SIGNOR, BY DIRECT AND MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, TO THE TOY BANK CO.,

OF ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA.

TOY-BANK CASH REGISTER AND INDICATOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 669,625. dated March 12, 1901.

Application filed August 19, 1899. Serial No. 727,859. \Nn model.)

To a whom it may concern;

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM LOGAN DUN- HAM, a citizen of the United States, residing at Washington, in the District of Columbia,

v have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Toy-Bank Cash Registers and Indicators; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable oth- IO ers skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

The primary object of my invention is to afford a toy bank that providesa convenient means for depositing coins of different denominations by themselves in different compartments in a money-drawer, as well as permitting of causing a sight registration or indication with accuracy of the coin deposited.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents in perspective my improved toy bank with the front plate removed, while Fig. 2 represents in cross-section the case and working parts. Fig. 3 represents in detail a fragmentary portion of the case and drawer in section.

Like characters of reference indicate like parts in the several figures.

The working parts are inclosed in a suitableshaped case or receptacle A, which is provided 0 with a money-drawer B and a glass window C on its top front portion. The drawer is provided with a handle D, and said drawer is subject to the action of the spring E, that is arranged in opposition thereto and which by its expansion quickly pushes the drawer out to its full limit when released by the operating lever-key F. The operating lever-key F consists of a bell-lever G, fulcrumed at m in the forward part of the case, the shorter arm 0 f of which is adapted to catch and lock in the recess 71, formed in the side of the drawer, to normally hold the drawer in a closed position. The short arm is provided with a striker-arm j, that is adapted in its movement to contact with the bell g, conveniently arranged within its path of travel. Under this construction and arrangement of parts when the lever-key F is depressed the drawer will be released and in consequence of the force of the spring E will fly outward to the position shown in Fig. 2 and the alarm will be sounded.

The drawer is divided by partitions a into a series of compartments 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5,which are intended for the reception of coins of different denominations, such as one-cent, fivecent, ten-cent, twenty-five-cent, and fiftycent pieces. Pivotally arranged in the rear portion and on a level with the top of each compartment is a pivoted coin-platform II, that is accessible from the top of the drawer and that occupies a space transversely nearly equal to the width of the compartment and which is adapted to swing from a normally horizontal to an inclined position, according to the reciprocation of the drawer. Each platform is made heavier on the front side of its pivot than on the other, while attached to its rear side is the rearwardly and upwardly extending counter-balancing indicator or tablet 7o rod I, carrying an indicator-tablet J at its free end, which indicator-rod is arranged and adapted to be thrown to a position to expose its tablet behind the covered window C. This indicator-rod counterbalances the plat- 5 form II and normally travels in a pathway indicated by the dotted lines Z during the reciprocation of the drawer, and when the drawer is in a closed position the indicator rod normally holds the tablet unexposed in the rear top portion of the case; but when a coin has been deposited on anyone of the platforms the tendency to overbalance the indicator or tablet rod causes said rod to travel in the pathway indicated by dotted lines Z, and the tablet thereon is carried to a point immediately adjacent to the window C, where it is exposed to view.

The drawer is covered on its front top portion by a plate of glass L, that extends back to a point where it approximately meets the series of coin-platforms ranged in a given line, and thereby serves to prevent the introduction of the hand into the compartments of the money-drawer, while it does satisfactorily exhibit the coins in the respective compartments.

A coin after being inserted or placed on a given platform depresses said platform to an inclined position, so that said coin can slip IOO easily down into the drawer by reason of the agitation and tipping thereof, which tipping of said platform is increased, so as to dis charge the coin as the drawer is pushed in, by reason of the upward forward tilting of the attached in dicator-rod, which in its travel upward is tilted-forward on account of its sliding contact against the guiding-piece in the front top portion of the bank.

Each platform and indicator is automatically reset when the drawer is released by the lever-key by reason of gravity operating on the indicator-rod, which is allowed to drop out of sight.

Having described my invention, what I desire to claim as new and useful is 1. In asight-payment toy-bank cash register and indicator the combination with a receptacle, a money-drawer operating within the bottom of said receptacle, a plurality of pivoted platforms, accessible from the top of the drawer, for the reception of coins, which are adapted to swing from a horizontal to an inclined position with relation to the top of the drawer, a like series of rearwardly and upwardly extending counterbalaucing indicating tablet rods, that are individually joined with the respective pivoted platforms, and that are arranged to be simultaneously raised and lowered to a predetermined extent with the pivoted platforms, by the reciprocation of the drawer; and which are adapted to be individually and independently raised to apredetermined position of exposure when the drawer is pushed in, and any one of the pivoted platforms is overbalanced by a deposited coin, substantially as described.

2. In a sight-payment toy-bank cash register and indicator, the combination with a receptacle having a transparent top front portion, a money-drawer operating within the bottom of said receptacle, a plurality of pivoted platforms, accessible from the top of the drawer for the reception of coins, which are adapted to swing from a horizontal to an inclined position with relation to the top of the drawer, a like series of rearwardly and upwardly extending counterbalancing indicat ing tablet-rods, that are individually joined with the respective pivoted platforms, and that are arranged to be simultaneously raised and lowered to a predetermined extent with the pivoted platforms, by the reciprocation of the drawer; and which are adapted to be individually and independently raised to a predetermined position of exposure adjacent. to the transparent top front portion, when the drawer is pushed in, and any one of the pivoted platforms is overbalanced by a deposited coin; said indicating-rods having means for varying the individual weight-adjustment thereof; and means for locking the drawer and indicator-rod mechanism in a raised exposed position when the drawer is pushed in to its full limit, substantially as described.

3. The combination with a reciprocating drawer of a pivoted platform accessible from the top of the drawer, and adapted to swing from a horizontal to an inclined position, a counterbalancing indicating tablet-rod, that is adapted to be raised and lowered with the cooperating pivoted platform, to a predetermined extent, by the reciprocation of the drawer 5 and which is adapted to be raised to a predetermined position of exposure, when the pivoted platform is overbalanced with a deposited coin, and the drawer is pushed in to its full limit, substantially as described.

at. The combination with a casing and a drawer, of a coin-receiver carried by the drawer, and tilting means for discharging the coin from the receiver into the drawer by the act of closing the latter.

5. The combination with a casing and its drawer, of a coin-receiver, carried by the drawer, means for discharging the coin from the receiver into the drawer by the act of closing the latter and a normally-concealed indicator actuated by the coin-carrier when a coin is placed therein to bring said indicator into view when the drawer is closed.

6. The combination with a casing having a sight-opening a partition in the rear thereof, and a drawer, of an indicator, normally con- ,cealed behind the said partition, a coin-receiver mounted on the drawer and connected to the indicator, and adapted to receive a coin when the drawer is open, the weight of the coin serving to move the indicator forwardly from behind said partition and the closing of the drawer serving to discharge the coin into the drawer and to raise the indicator in range of the sight-opening.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM LOGAN DUNHAM.

Vitnesses:

J OSEPH W. BUELL, F. E. NEWTON.

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