US801149A

US801149A - Coin-tray.

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Publication number: US801149A
Application number: US20425104A
Authority: US
Inventors: John W Meaker
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1904-04-21
Filing date: 1904-04-21
Publication date: 1905-10-03
Anticipated expiration: 1922-10-03

Description

No. 801,149. PATENTED OCT. 3, 1905.

J. W. MEAKER.

COIN TRAY.

APPLIOATION FILED APR. 21,1904.

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J. W. MBAKER.

COIN TRAY. APPLIUATION FILED APR. 21 1904.

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JOHN W. HEAKER, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO CHARLES CLARENCE POOLE, TRUSTEE, OF EVANSTON, ILLINOIS.

COIN-TRAY.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 3, 1905.

Application filed April 21,1904:- Serial No. 204,251.

To (oZ-Z whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JOHN W. MEAKER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Coin-Trays; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to an improved coin tray or device for holding or supporting coins of various denominations in separated groups, each containing afixed or predetermined num ber of coins, so that all of the coins in any one group may be taken from the tray at once without the necessity of counting them and with the certainty that the number will be correct. The tray herein shown as embodying my invention is more especially intended for use in connection with automatic coin-delivery apparatus; but such tray may be used separately from such apparatus, if desired.

The invention consists in the matters hereinafter described, and pointed out in the appended claims.

As shown in the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of the cointray embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the top plate of the cointray by which the coins are immediately supported separated from the other parts. Fig. 3 is a plan view of the tray. Fig. 4 is a crosssection taken on line A A of F g. 3. Fig. 5 is a cross-section taken upon line 5 5 of Fig. 3.

As shown in said drawings, A designates a metal plate which constitutes the main part or body of the tray and which is made of corrugated form or formed in such shape as to constitute a series of parallel ridges A A A A A A, with intervening grooves or depressions. Said plate A may be made of sheetmetal and bent into corrugated or ridged form, or it may be made of cast metal.

B B designate front and rear vertical end plates which are located at the front and rear margins of the corrugated plate A at right angles to the corrugations or ridges thereof and which are preferably used to cover the corrugated edges of said plate and to give a neat finish to the front and rear of the tray.- Said plates B B may be connected with the plate A in any suitable manner; but as herein shown they are joined to each other and clamped to the plate by means of two horizontal connecting-rods b 7), which are located outside of the sides of the plate A andare secured at their ends to projections or lugs on the ends of said plates B and B.

The several elevations or ridges A to A of the plate A are provided with coin-receiving recesses or openings, which are formed transversely of said ridges and open through the side faces thereof, so that opposite end walls of the recess or opening will be elevated above the connecting side walls, and thus afford supports for maintaining coins in a substantially upright position when inserted in said recesses or openings transversely of said ridges. Said recesses or openings are preferably formed centrally of the ridges and extend in said side faces at equal distances laterally or downwardfrom the highest parts or tops of the ridges, and, as shown, said openings are of rectangular form, having their side margins parallel with and their transverse edges perpendicular to the center lines of the ridges. hen the plate is of sheet metal or of corrugated form on both its upper and lower surfaces, the openings in the ridges extend through the plate, and in that case the side margins of the openings constitute supports for the coins, the same being located at a distance apart less than the diameter of the coins, so that when the latter are inserted in the openings in a position transverse to the ridges or with their flat faces perpendicular to the central lines of the ridges the margins of each coin will rest upon and the coins will be supported by said side edges of the open ings.

The coin receiving or holding openings described are made of different sizes in the different ridges to receive coins of diflerent denominations. In the particular construction shown openings in the ridge A are designed to receive or hold silver dollars, those in the ridge A half-dollars, those in the ridge A twenty-five-cent pieces, those in the ridge A* ten-cent pieces or dimes, those in the ridge A five-cent pieces or nickels, and those in the ridge A one-cent pieces or pennies.

The openings or apertures in the plate are of such length or width as measured lengthwise of the ridges as to receive or hold a num ber of coins when the latter are arranged in groups, with the individual coins arranged transversely of the ridges, or side by side, with the flat faces of the exterior coins of each group in contact with the end faces or margins of the openings. The alternate openings in each ridge are, moreover, arranged with their side margins on which the coins rest in different horizontal planes, so that the groups of coins in alternate openings when resting on the said side margins of the openings will stand above the level of the intermediate groups, as clearly seen in Fig. A. This arrangement of the side margins of the openings enables the groups of coins to be readily taken separately from the tray, it being obvious that the higher groups, or those extending above the 0thers,may be readily grasped by engagement of the fingers with the upper edges of the end coins of each elevated group and that after the elevated groups have been removed the lower or intermediate ones may then be likewise easily removed from the tray.

In the case of the ridge A, used for silver dollars, the drawings show each opening as arranged to receive ten coins, while the openings a- 0 have their lower side margins arranged above the level of the intermediate ones, a a, so that the groups in the said openings a a will be elevated above those in the openings 6/ a.

In the case of the ridge A which is intended for receiving and holding silver half-dollars, the ridge is shown as provided at its forward part with openings a (4 having higher and lower side margins. Said openings at the for- Ward end of the ridge are each made long enough to receive live coins. At the rear part of the same ridge the latter is shown as provided with much longer openings (0 a, each adapted to hold twenty coins and of which the openings (4* has its side margins higher than those of the opening a.

The ridge A is provided at its forward part with narrow openings (0 (1/ adapted to hold live twenty-live-cent pieces and of which the openings (LU have their side margins at a higher elevation than those of the openings ((7. At the rear part of said ridge A longer openings a a are provided, each adapted to contain twenty twenty-five-cent pieces.

In the case of the ridge A for dimes the same is shown as provided with openings (1/ a, each adapted to hold twenty-five coins and of which the openings c have their side margins higher than the openings (0.

In the case of the ridge A for niekels or five-cent pieces the openings are each made long enough to receive five nickels, the openings (4 having their side edges higher than those of the openings a.

In the case of the ridge A, designed for holding pennies, the drawings show the ridge as provided with openings at a, all of which are of equal length and which are designed to hold twenty-five pennies, the side margins corrugated form.

of the openings (4 being higher than those of the openings a The said plate A is shown in the drawings as made of a piece of sheet metal bent to form sharp angles at the apices of and depressions between the ridges, with flat intervening parts or side walls arranged approximately at right angles to each other. Said plate may, however, be made of a cast-metal piece or plate. When made of sheet metal, the plate A may be readily and cheaply made by forming out the openings by the use of cutting-dies when the plate is still flat and then bending the apertured plate by suitable forming-dies into If said plate A be made of cast metal, it may be cast in corrugated form on its top surface or both surfaces without apertures and the openings or recesses to receive the coin then formed by milling-tools arranged to act on the ridges of the plate to form the openings therein. In either case the plate may be quickly made with slight expense for labor. Moreover, the ridges and intervening grooves of the plate A need not be of the angular form shown, but may be of any other desired shape, the general result being the same whatever be the special form or shape of said grooves or ridges.

l/Vhen the plate has openings of greater length than the diameter of the coin to be inserted therein, as in the case of the longer openings shown in the drawings, coins inserted separately are liable to drop through the openings if by accident turned so as to bring their flat faces toward the side of the openings. To prevent the coins so dropping through the openings, I provide below the plate A a secondary corrugated plate U, shaped like the plate A, but without any openings. The grooves of this plate C will be located beneath the ridges of the plate A, so that spaces will be left below the openings in the plate A to accommodate the lower parts of the coins when the latter are placed in proper position in the openings in said plate A, while any coins that may by accident drop through said openings will be received in the grooves of said auxiliary plate C and will be supported by the latter.

The coin-tray made as described will usually be placed on the top of a coin-delivering or change-making machine of the kind heretofore used for delivering one or more coins by the movement of coin-releasing keys; but such a tray may be used separately from such a machine for holding coin and to facilitate the counting and handling of the coin. The

drawings show the tray as supported on the upper parts of the two side plates D D of such a machine, the lower edges of the lugs or projections on the ends of the plates B and B being adapted to rest on the top edges of the said side plates D D.

The tray illustrated is provided, in addition to its main part, adapted to hold coins in sep arated groups, as above described, with a receptacle E for receiving gold coins or other odd coins not adapted for insertion in the coinholding recesses, coins in rolls, or the like. Said receptacle E is shown as located at the right-hand side of the tray proper and as made integral with the same. When the tray is made of sheet metal, said receptacle will preferably be made by bending the sheet metal of the tray into shape to form the side walls 6 e of the receptacle, While its front and rear walls will be formed by the plates B and B. Preferably, moreover, the bottom of the receptacle E will be formed with ridges 0 arranged parallel with those of the body of the tray, said corrugations serving to facilitate the removal of loose coins from the tray, because the ridges thereof will support such coins with their edges upwardly and will enable them to be more easily grasped than would be the case if they rested flat on the bottom of the receptacle.

I claim as my invention 1. A coin-holder comprisinga plate having a rib or ridge on its upper surface and a coinrecess formed therein transversely of said rib or ridge, said recess having its side walls at opposite sides of said rib or ridge, whereby opposite end walls of said recess will be elevated above the connecting side walls and afford supports for maintaining coins in asubstantially upright position when placed in said recess transversely of said rib or ridge.

2. A coin-holder comprising a plate having a rib or ridge on its upper surface and coinrecesses formed therein transversely of said rib or ridge, said recesses having opposite marginal edges in the opposite faces of said rib or ridge, said marginal edges being at different elevations in alternate recesses.

3. A coin-holder comprisingasheet-metal plate bent to form a rib or ridge and having an opening therein formed transversely of said rib or ridge whereby opposite walls of said opening will be elevated above the connecting walls for maintaining coins in a substantially upright position when inserted in said opening transversely of said rib or ridge.

A. A coin-holder comprising a sheet-metal plate bent to form a rib or ridge and having a plurality of openings formed therein transversely of said rib or ridge, said openings having opposite marginal edges in opposite faces of said rib or ridge, at difierent elevations in alternate openings.

5. A coin-tray consisting of a corrugated sheet-metal plate, having openings therein formed transversely of the ridges or upper corrugations, said openings being adapted to receive and support coins in a substantially upright position transversely of said ridges or corrugations.

6. A coin-tray consisting of a corrugated sheet-metal plate having openings thereinformed transversely of the ridges or upper cor- I rugations, said openings having side marginal edges in opposite faces of said ridges or corrugations at difierent elevations in alternate openings.

In testimony that 1 claim the foregoing as my invention I affix mysignature, in presence of two witnesses, this 13th day of April, A. D. 1904:.

JOHN W. MEAKER.

Witnesses:

G. CLARENCE PooLE, WILLIAM L. HALL.