US930100A - Telephone slug-holder. - Google Patents

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M. J. STARK, JR. TELEPHONE SLUG HOLDER. APPLICATION FILLED JUNE 27, 1903.

930,100. Patented Aug. 3, 1909.

1 16.1. FIG. 2.

THE DANDYTELEPHO" .SLU q I NO I UNITED sTArns PATENT OFFICE.

MICHAEL J. STARK, JR., OF CHICAGO, ILLIN 61S, ASSIGNOR QF ONE-HALF TO OASPAR B.

KNUDSEN, OF-GHIOAGO, ILLINQIS.

TELEPHONE sLUe-noLnnR.

No. 930,100. Specification of Letters Batent. mat- Aug. 3, 1909. Application filed June 27, 190a. serial No. 440,720.

To oil whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, MICHAEL J. STARK, J12. a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Chicago, in the county of Cook,

in the State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Telephone Slug-Holders; and I do hereby declare that the following description of my said invention, taken in connection with the accom- 0 panying sheet of drawings, forms a full,

clear, and exact specification, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention has general reference to improvements in slug-holders for telephone, &c. use; and it consists, essentially, in the novel and peculiar combination of parts and details of construction as hereinafter first fully set forth and described and then pointed out in the claims.

I11 the drawings already referred to, Figure 1 is a perspective view of this improved device. Fig. 2 is a plan of the same, the slug-holdin tube being in section in line 00 a;

of Fig. l. ig. 3 is a plan of the retaining plate detached, and Fig. 4 is a plan of the blank from which the slug-retaining tube is formed. Fig. 5 is a transverse sectional elevation of the device in line 3/ y of Fig. 3.

Like parts are designated by corresponding symbols of reference in all the figures.

The object of this invention is the production of an eificient, serviceable, and convenient slug, token, or coin holder for use in telephone, prepaid gas, and other collectors which require the deposition of a coin, token, or other evidence of prepayment for services, &c., to be rendered. To accomplish this result I construct this device of only two separate pieces, A in the drawings being the back or retaining-plate and B the coin-tube of this device.

The retaining-plate A shown in Fig. 3, is a rectangular oblong sheet of metal of suf- 4 ficient size to answer the requirements as to the number of coins or tokens to be retained. It has at suitably-disposed places five or more lugs, a, to retain an advertising card 0, printed matter, directions for use, or other 0 information which it is desired to circulate and which are printed, stamped, embossed or otherwise produced on said card, in proper positions. These lugs a are formed integral with said plate by pressing or stamping them and then raising them above the plane of said plate as shown in Fig. 5, leaving a ertures d at these places. In this plate t ere are also a numberof holes I), the object of which will hereinafter appear. The outer edge e of this plate are reveled so as 13060 stiffen the plate and to enhance its appearance. The coin-holder or tube proper, B, is formed of a single sheet of metal having the contour shown in Fig 4 being 2. rectangular portion f, having a U-shaped extension 9 centrall located at one end of said rectangular p ate, and a U-shaped fork h at the o posite edge; between the pron s of this for t 12 being an opening large enoug to admit of the passage of a finger of the person who desires to remove a coin or token from the holder proper. In the rectangular portion of this plate there are formed two 111 's 2', substantially like the lugs a already re erred to which, when the two parts of which this device are composed are being assembled, are passed. through the holes I) in the back-plate and clenched at the reverse side thereof. As a substitute, the lugs 2' may -be formed in the plate-A and the holes at in the blank of the slug or coin-tube so that shown in Fig. 5, this construction bein but a reversal of the means described and within the scope of my invention.

The blank for the coin-tube is to be bent along the dotted lines 7' and 7c, and m and n, and also along the dotted lines 0, p, and thereby a tube formed having a U-shaped transverse section, open in front at 9, Fig. l, and also having two slotted apertures 7- and s at the top and bottom, the former to facilitate the introduction of the coins or token to, and the latter the withdrawal of said coins &c. from, said tube.

The introduction of the advertising or recording card 0 affords a convenient means for entering such telephone numbers as are more or less frequently called so as to avoid reference to a telephone directory for the purpose of ascertaining the call-number and exchange-name of the party whom it is desired to reach by the phone.

he device is preferably roduced in sheet-steel and whenjapanneg, enameled, nickel or otherwise plated and finished in the various hardware finishes, forms a convenient repository for the slugs, tokens or coins which are required when a prepaid phone call is desired. It obviates the troubles, vexations, annoyances and. delays frequently met with when it is desired to use a phone at a prepay station and the proper coin or token is not conveniently at hand.

In use, the device is preferably secured to any suitable object near the telephone, by screws or similar means of fastening passed through the holes t in the back-plate A. "he coins, tokens, slugs &c. are now placed into the coin-tube B through the opening 9, Figs. 1 and 2, one at a time, it bein a fact that any attempt to place a num er of slugs into a retaining tube resultrate parts only, viz., a back-plate, there bein a number of properly-disposed holes in said plate, and a coin-tube, said tube being formed of a single piece of sheet-metal formed into a substantially U -sha having projections formed to afford mgress and e ress-slots, there being lugs on said tube a apted to engage the holes in the backplate and to clench upon said back-plate \vlhereby said tube is secured to the backp ate.

2. In a slug-holder a blank for the cointube consisting of a substantially rectangular portion having at both ends U-shaped ing almost invariably in their dropping in central extensions and centrally progecting side-wise and thus clogglng the tube. These lugs, said blank being adapted to e ormed slugs rest upon the bifurcated bottom so that into a longitudinally open tube, the said U- shaped extensions formin bottoms and covers forsaid tube, there being a U-shaped excision in one of the extensions.

by passing a finger underneath this bottom into the U-shaped excision a single coin can be pulled out t rough the slotted a erture r in a manner readily comprehende 3. A slu holder consisting, essentially, of If desired, indexing marks may be placed a metallic acklate, there being projecting on one or both longitudinal edges of the lugs on, and ho es in, said plate; a card incoin-tube, as shown in Fig. .4, so that the number of slugs remaining in the tube, or the number of slugs removed may be readily ascertained, the slugs, &c. in the tube bein clearly visible through the opening a, in sai tu e. i

It will now be observed that a device of the kind described is adapted for use under many different conditions, such for instance, in connection with prepaid gas-meters &c., without change or modification, and that it can be made to fit any size, and number of coins, tokens, &c. to be used.

Having thus fully described this invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States- 1. A slug-holder consisting of two sepaserted between said lugs; a coin-tube secured to said backlate, there being a cover at the upper end 0 said tube and a slot below said cover for the introduction of the coin, and a bifurcated bottom at the lower end of said tube and an egress-slot for said coin above said bifurcated bottom, said tube with its cover and bottom beingformed from a single piece of sheet metal.

In testimony as my invention I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

MICHAEL J. STARK, JR.

Attest MICHAEL J. STARK, A. G. Pnrnnson.

pc and that I claim the foregoing

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