US848333A - Coin-holder. - Google Patents

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No. 848,333. PATENTED 26, 1907.

E. V. WILLIAMS. COIN HOLDER;

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 10. 1906.

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L ELIVIER V. l/VILLIAMS, OF GLENDALE, CALIFORNIA. i n COIN-HOLDER.

N 0. 848,383. Specification of Letters Patent. Patented March 26, 1907'.

Application filed September 10,1906. Serial No. 334,012.

To all w/ wnt it'ntcty concern: Y adapted to receive the vertical portions Of Be it known that I, ELMER V. WrLLIAMs, a X the member 1. The ends of the bows l2 citizen of the United States, residing at Glen merge into the horizontal portions 13, which ale, in the county of Los Angeles and State in turn merge into the vertical portions 14. 5 5

5 of California, have invented a new and use- Each at intermediate points are bowed 'ul Coin-Holder, of which the following is a slightly toward each other, and each are 's invention has relation to coin-holders; f tions 8 8 of the member 1. The lower ends and it consists in the novel construction and of the vertical portions 14 merge into the 1o arrangement of'parts, as hereinafter shown l rearwardly-extending portions 15, which at an described. t eir rear ends are provided with the bows e object of the invention is to provide a 16, which receive the lower ends of the verticoin-holder consisting of two members formed om spring-wire and being hinged together 1 through the loops 6 of the member. The I5 and adapted to be sprung into interlocking ends of the wire constituting the member 2 engagement, whereby a column or stack of are then extended transversely and are linked coin is retained. The said members are so together, as at 17. The horizontal portions formed as to positively and efiectively retain 7 7 form the base for the column of coin 18, all the coin of the stack while said members and as the length of the vertical portions 5 of 20 are in such interlocked engagement. t e member 1 from the said horizontal porn e accompanying drawing, Figure 1 is tions '7 up is greater than the length of the a perspective view of the holder, showing the position of the hinged members thereof when zontal portions 13 of t e last said member about to be sprung into interlocked engagehave to be elevated and sprung over the por 7 5 ment. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the cointions 3 of the member 1, and when this has holder, showing the members thereof sprung been done the bow 11 passes under the bow into interlocked engagement. Fig. 3 is a 14 and the parts are interlocked. To reorizontal sectional view of the holder cut on move the coin, -the operation as above dee line 3 3 of Fig. 2. ig. 4 1s a top plan scribed is reversed. It will thus be seen that 3 view of the upper portions of the hinged members, showing the interlocking means.

member 2, each of which is formed of a single to be sprung into interlocking en agement in piece of wire. The wire constituting the l n 35 member 1 is formed at its middle with an e e- Having described my invention, what I with the rearwardly-extending bend 4. The Patent, is

vertical portions 5 depend from the said porcoin-holder comprising two members tion 3 and at their lower ends merge into the made of wireone of which has an interme- 4 oops 6. e wire then extends forward in 1 dlate horizontal portion provided with a bow,

e horizontal portions 7, which terminate in vertical portions depending from the same t einclined portions 8. rit the said portions and havingloops at their lower ends, horiand the ends are carried toward each other and terminating in inclined portions, the ends 5 45 and looped together, as at 9. of said wire extending transversely and bein e wire constituting the hinged member secured together, the second member com- 2 of the holder is provided at its middle with prising an intermediate portion having a bow t e horizontal portion 10, which at an interwith bows formed at the ends of said intermediate point 18 prov1ded with the formediate portion, horizontal portions eXtend- 5 wardly-extending bow 11. The bows 12 12 ing from the last sald bows vertical portions ens located at the lower ends of In testimony that I claim the foregoing as portions and having bows which my own I have hereto afiixed my signature receive the vertical portions of the first said in the presence of two witnesses.

member, the ends of the second said member ELMER V. WILLIAMS.

passing through the loops of the first said Witnesses:

F. E. ALBRIGHT,

member and extending transversely ant eing secured together. J. A. COLE.

zontal porti said vertical ill

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