US941509A - Coin-collector. - Google Patents

Description

A. M. FARNSWORTH.

G01N` COLLECTOR. APPLICATION FILED HAB. 21, 1 908.

941,509. Patented lvm/.30,1909

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ALMON IVI. FARNSWORTII, OF CAMDEN, NEW YORK.

COIN-COLLECTOR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed March 21, 1908.

Patented Nov. 30, 1909. serial No. 422,402.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALMoN M. FARNs- WORTH, a citizen of the United States, residing at Camden, in the county of Oneida and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvementsl in Coin- Collectors, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawing.

My invention relates to an improved coin collector, and I declare the following is a full, clear, concise and exact description thereof, suflicient to enable one skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which like reference characters refer to like parts throughout.

The invention consists of a means by which coin can be collected in small amounts in a systematic manner, such as `for charitable purposes, each coin collector or receiver representing, when filled, a certain definite amount of money.

It is intended that the device have printed upon it certain appropriate words designating, for instance, the purpose for which the collection is made and other particulars, such as the following, for instance: A mile 0f pennies, 1 cent to the inch, means $633.60. 1000 feet, means $1.20. 500 feet means $60. 100 feet means $12. It is also intended that each strip may have proper serial number and suitable directions for the care and delivery of the same. It will be evident that the strips are made of a given standard length, each to receive a given number of coins.

In the drawings Figure l shows the face of a strip embodying the invention. Fig. 2 shows a portion of a strip with a slight modification therein. Fig. 3 is an edge view of a portion of the strip.

Referring to the figures in detail, in the present form of the invention, A represents a strip of paste-board or other suitable material, with an aperture a at one end whereby it may be hung up. On the face of this strip A, which may have more or less stiffness, is mounted a flexible strip B which extends at each end a distance beyond the extreme fasteners to allow some give and avoid the drawing out of the end when the strip is filled.

The strip B is secured to the strip A by metallic clips C disposed transverse the strip B and passed through the strip A and bent over to hold them in place.

In the form of the device here shown, these fasteners are spaced in Fig. 2 a distance of one inch, so that the entire receiving portion of the strip makes room for twelve pennies, that being the coin intended to be, used in the illustration here made, although the length of such receiving strip may be altered as desired so as to include a coin of greater denomination or a greater or less number of' them.

The device may be made with dierent spaces for a variety of coins, as in Fig. l, where there is place for a dime a and a half dollar.

It will be understood that the strip B is so secured to the strip A that the coin can be slipped readily underneath the strip B where it is held against accidental dislodg ment. To remove the coins the strip can be rapped sharply by its edge on the table, for instance, which will dislodge all the coins; but ordinarily they remain firmly in place.

In Fig. 2 I show the strip A as having cutouts D, part of the strip B being cut away to show the cut-out. This cut-out has a curved outline at its exposed edge, so that the edge of the coin can be slipped therein. The other edges of the opening, which are beneath the strip B, converge so that when the edge of the coin is pressed under the strip B at the cut-out those edges lead the coin to a fiat position on the strip A and beneath the strip B. This form of strip A can be used, if desired, as a matter of convenience, or strip A can be made without 1t.

I do not limit myself as to the material of which the device is made, although in the present form I make the strip A of paste-board and the strip B of paper of rather firm texture. The clips C may also be replaced with other holding means suitable for the purpose.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

l. A coin-holding device consisting of a back strip of comparatively stiff' material and of a given width, a top strip of relatively pliable material and of lesser width secured at longitudinal spaced points thereon, clips inclosing the narrow strip and fastened through the wide one securing the strips as stated, thereby providing reguquarter' larly arranged spaces to receive coin of' given denominations between the two strips and between the points at which the several prongs of the clip pass through the back strip, the said clips being placed to graduate the spaces according to the size of the coins, as desired, substantially as described.

2. A coin carrier consisting of a strip of comparatively stiff material slightly wider than the diameter of the coin, a strip of slightly less width than the diameter of the coin and of yielding and pliable material secured thereto in such position that each side of the former strip extends on each side an equal distance beyond the edge of the latter, a plurality of fasteners passing across the narrow strip and securing it to the former, the two end fasteners being placed at a distance inward from the end of the latter strip and the intermediate fasteners being at points in the intermediate space dividing the space relative to the size of given coins, the pliable strip normally lying upon the stiff one but yielding therefrom for the insertion of a coin between the two, substantially as described.

3. A coin-collector consisting of a base strip and a strip of yielding material mounted thereon, said mounting being effected by means crossing the same at regular intervals graduated to the size of the coin for which the collector is designed, the said mounting allowing for yield of said strip lengthwise through the said crossing means, to receive and hold the coins, substantially as described.

4. A device of the character described consisting of two strips secured each to the other at certain definite points, clips transverse the strips yieldingly holding the upper strip and secured to the lower one in given positions whereby a series of spaces .is provided between the strips and between the clips of a length to receive in each a coin of a given denomination, substantially as described.

5. A device of the character described having a stiff back strip of a given width and a narrower and limber strip superposed thereon and secured thereto at fixed intervals, the back strip having a cutout with a curved edge adjacent the superposed strip, the said cutout having inwardly diverging sides under the upper strip and extending from the ends of the arc of said curved portion, at a point at the edge of the superposed strip, whereby the edge of the coin is received 1n the said curved cutout and carried by contact with the converging sides into position between the strips, substantially as described.

G. A device of the character described having a back strip and an upper strip secured thereto and adapted for holding coins therebetween in given spaces bounded by the said securing means, the said back strip having a cutout adapted to permit the insertion of the edge of the coin between the strips and to guide the coin into the space between the strips on pressure applied to the edge thereof, substantially as described.

7 A coin-carrier consisting of two strips one of them sti'lf and the other pliable, the edge of the former extending beyond the edge of the latter, the former having a space cut therein under the upper one and extending beyond the edge of the upper one, the said cut being of a sector form with the segmental portion lying without the superposed strip and the radii lying beneath the same, substantially as described.

8. A coin-carrier consisting of a base strip of a given width and an upper strip of lesser width with its edges within the bound of the lower strip, fasteners securing the strips, the said upper strip being of yielding material to allow the insertion and holding of a coin between the fasteners securing the strips together, the strips being secured by fasteners loosely engaging the upper strip whereby it yields to rece-ive the coin between it and the lower strip, substantially as described.

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

ALMON M. FARNSWlORTH.

Vitnesses ERNEST J. CASTLE, T. C. PHnLPs.

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