US990533A - Savings-bank. - Google Patents

Description

C. FISHER.

SAVINGS BANK.

APPLICATION FILED APR.19,1909.

Patented Apr. 25, 19H.

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CHARLES FISHER, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR, BY Missive-ASSIGNMENTS. To

THR AUTOMATIC RECORDING SAFE COMPANY, ORCHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A-CORIORA- TION F ILLINOIS.

SAVINGS-BANK.

' Specification' of Letters Patent.

Patenten Apr. 23.1911.

Appncatio'fna April 19, 1909; Serial No. 490,873.v

To all whom ttmayconcem:

Be 1t knoivn that l, CHARLES FISHER. a

' citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Savings-Banks, of which the following is a specification.

My inventionrclates particularly to. Savings-banks provided with several coin com- Myprimary object `is to provide an im proved savings bank of the character indicated which has great durability, which possesses large capacity, which can be manufactured at moderate cost, and which 1s very secure. It may bepreliminarily stated tha-t.

a common method of employing banks of this character is that whereby banking institutions furnish the savings-banks to depositors, thc banking institutions retaining keys to the savings-banks so that the banks can be opened only when they are brought to the banking institution for the purpose of effecting deposit of the contents. In an analogous manner, parents may supply their children with these banks, the parents retainincv the keys so that the banks may be opened only with the consent of the parents. My invention is illustrated in its preferred embodiment in the accompanying drawing, in Ivhich y Figure 1 represents a perspective view 'of savings bank constructed in accordance with my invention; Fig. 2, a vertical Sectional view of the same Fifr. 3, a horizontal sectional view of the same; and Fig. 4:, a broken perspective view of -a coin-slot closure employed, said coin-slot closure serving also as a coin-gripping device adapted to preventthe Withdrawal of coins after partial insertion thereof.

In the construction illustrated, A represents a body or core provided With moneyrcceptacles or money-chambers; and 'B, a casing which receives the bodyA and is preferably secured thereto by improved means which will be presently described.

The body .A preferably comprises a "basef 1 and coin-chambers, or coin-receptacles, 2 rising from said base. The coin-chambers 2 preferablyfvcomprise slotted tubes "which are formed integrally withI the base land have open upper ends. In the casting operation,y i

the tubes are formed so that adjacent tubes have their Walls partially in `comllnon,`as indicated at 3. The tubes" are' preferably grouped solnewhatvin the' form of a semicircle, thus forming a partial Wall for 4a chamber 4 which is openat its top and also at its outer side, as indicated at 5. The coinl tubes have Vertical slots 6 at their outer sides in which the thumb or forengervmay move in the operation of lifting the coins,

in a stack, from the coin-tube.' The' upper surface of the base 1 has the metal cut away at the periphery at the lower ends of the' slots 6, as indicated at 7, thus 'enabling the foreinger or thumb to be placed beneath the stack of coinsin the operation of removing the coins. The Walls 8 of thecoin-tube'sare out away at the 'upper ends of their outer portions, that is, adjacent to the upper ends of the Slots 6, as indicated at 9, providingA for the insertion of the coinsinto the vcoinreceptacles. The body A isequippedl with a fixed nut 10 adapted to serve in securing said body and the casing B together. The nut 10 may be provided by casting alug integrally With the inner Wall of one Of the coin-tubes providing a perforation in said lug and cated at the upper end'of the innerportionl of the chamber 4.

The casing B preferably comprises-a cylinder 11 and a top v12 formedi'integrally T8 5 threading the same.` Thus the nut 10 is 'lof therewith. The casing may be drawn o1 stam eel-from a sheet-metall disk. i' Thevcir-f cum erential Wall 11 is provided at its up per portion with coin-slots 13 Which register with the cutaway portions 9 at the upper ends of the coin-receptacles 2. The vvertical wall of the casing is` 'also provided with ver-` tical slots 14 which are graduated as indi-"f` cated at 15, sa'd slots permitting the coins in' the coin-receptacles to `be viewed and the graduations serving as ready means for de-v H ,termining the number of coins in the recepl tacles. Thev central l portionv fof the top of the casing is provided with a depressed bearing 16 in ,which is housed the h ea'd 17 -of a screw 18 received by the nut 10.v The .screw 18 has a flange 19 located in the cupindicated at 20. The cup-shape bearing 16 is shown formed separately from the top 'I2 of the casing, although it may be formed integrally therewith. As shown, the -top of the casing has a central perforation with the adjacent metal struck downwardly, -as indicated at 21, and the cup-shape bearing 1G projects downwardly through said perforation, the upper portion of said bearing having a flange 22 which rests in the depression surrounding said perforation, so that the upper surface of th'e flange 22 is flush with the upper surface of the top 12 of the casing. A name-plate 23 is'applied to the top of the easing b 'tifincans of rivets 24, said' plate having a central perforaton-25 adapt- -ed to receive a key 26. The naine-*plate 23 serves to' secure the bearing 16 in place, and the perforation 25 in said name-plate is of less diameter than the flange 1.9 of the screw and of just sufficient size to receive the shank of the key 26. The key'26 has a socket 27 of a shape corresponding with the head of the 4screw 18, and affords a means'whereby the screw may be turned out of the nut 10, thereby permitting the casing to be disconnected from the body A.

The coin-slots 13 areguarded by flexible coin-grippers 28 which are located adjacent to the slots at the inner Surface of the Vertical walls of the easing and which have edges adapted to grip coins entered in the' slots. The grippers I28 may be formed integrally with each other, if desired. In the illustration given,- thel grippers constitute .,portionsof an annular rubber member 29 which has a base-portion 30 and a depending flange 31 whose lower edge lies approximately even with the lower edges of the slots 13. The base-portion or flange 30 of the .rubber ring is provided ,with a groove 32, thereby forming ashort depending flange 33 which is received in the rooved peripheral portion. of a securing isk 34. The disk 34 is provided with a central perforation to accommodate the depressed central port-ion l21 of the casing-top 12. The

, 'rivets-24' which serve, to secure the key-plate,

or name-plate, 23- may serve lto secure the disk 24 to the top-member of the casing.

l It is preferred to employ the annular member 29 to' constitute the flexible grippers 28 "guarding the coin-slots, inasmuch as' this expedient,v provides for a close fit Within the' upper portion of the casing and afordsa ready means of attaching the grippers to the upper' portion of the easing. As has been lcoins in practically a horizontal ing insertion, whereby the effectiveness of epopea indicated, the rubber members 28 extend across, or practically across, tHe coin-slots 13 and the lower edges of the members 28 afzontal shoulders 35 forming the bottoms of the recesses resulting from cutting away the metal of the coin-receptacles at the upper outer portions thereof. The shoulders 35 afford guides which serve to maintain the the gripping device is enhanced. It is obvious that were the coin permitted to slant downwardly during insertion the gripping device` would secure a less veffective hold upon the coins. The grippin devices serve effectively to prevent with rawal of the coins after the partial insertion thereof, so that a child could not, by changing its mind, withdraw the coin after beginning the operation of insertion. A slot 3G and a perforation 37 through the vertical wall of the casing afford ports through which goliff coins and bills may be inserted. The

slot 36 lies in the same horizontal plane as the slots 13, and a portion of the llange 31 of, the rubber ring employed affords the coingripper located adjacent to the slot 36. .In Fig. 4, the portions 38 of the rubber ring shown are the portions which are located between the outer portions of the coin-re-l ceptacles. The dotted lines 39 are shown merely to indicate the imaginary lines between those portions of the member 29 which lie adjacent to the coin-slotsand serve as flexible grippers. and the portions 38 which connect the effective coin-gripping portions of the device.

l`he manner of using the' improved safe will be readily understood. The body A is inserted-in the casing B, the base'lof said body serving to close the lower end of the casing. By means of the key 26, whose shank 'accurately fits the.opening 25 of the nameplate. the screw 18 maybe turned' to secure the casing and body together. Collis are in- 'serted through the slots 13, sliding, during insertion, on the shoulders'35 at the upper ends of the outer portions of the coin-receptacles. 2. The lflexible grippers 28 yield inwardly to admit the coins, but effectively grip the coins to prevent their withdrawal. 'lhe coins" fall into the i'cceptacles and are maintained therein in stacked relation. Inasmuch as the coin-receptacles are substantially tubiilar in form, although with slotted outer walls, the coins are prevented from becoming disa'rrauged. Bills and goldpieces may be y-insertpd into the. ,receptacle 4' through the lateral slot 36 and' perforation .circumferentia n base and coin-receptac sodass 37 of the casing When-desired, the key 26 4ing to denomination, in stacked relation,

t-hus facilitating counting and handling; and because of the tubular formation of the receptacles, the coins Will not be jarred therefrom when the casing is removed.

The vertical wall of the casing is provided on its inner surface with 'a guide 40, which, as shown in Fig. 8, lies betweenthe outer portions of the two end, or final, coinreceptacles 2 of theseries. r)Chis provision insures the proper relation of the casing and c'orein the assembled condition.

The safe described is durable, secure, and may be manufactured at, moderatecost. The casing may be nickel-plated land may be made as ornamental as desired.

The foregoing detailed description has been given for clearnes's of understanding only. Hence, no undue limitation should be understood therefrom, but the appended claims should be 'construed as broadly as permissible, in view of the prior art.

That l regard as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, iS-

1. In a savings-bank, the combination of a body having a plurality of coin-chambers, acasing receivingsaid body and provided with circumferentially-disposed coin-admission slots registering with said chambers, circumferentially disposed flexible, coin grippin means guarding said slots, and means carried by said casing for securing said gripping means in place.

2. In a savings-bank, the combination of a body having a plurality of coin-chambers, a casi-ng receiving said body and provided with i ly disposed coin admission slots registering with said chambers, and circumferentially-disnosed, flexible, coin-gripping means guarding said slots and held in place between the body and the casing.

3. In a savings-bank, the combination of a casing comprising a top with vertical walls depending therefrom provided with coin-admission slots near the to a body comprising les formed integrally therewith, said coin-receptacles being open at their upper ends and at their outer sides, means detachably connectin said body and easing together, and a flexib e coin-gripping ring) 'secured within the upper portion of sai casing and havinggripping edges located adjacent to said coin-admission slots.

4. ln avsavings-bank, the combination of a casing comprising a top and an annular wall depending therefrom, a flexible ring of angular cross-sectionittin the upperporil tion of said casinganc yaffording flexible' eoin-grippers,` and a body comprising a base and coin-receptacles carriedthereby.

5; In a savings-bank, the combination of a casing comprising a top, andY a cylindrical Wall depending therefrom provided near the top. with coin-admission slots, a rubber-ring fitting within said casing, means securing said rubber-ringf'to the top portion ofthe casing, said ring having a depending portion i extending substantially across said coin-admission slots and affording coin-gripping edges, and a body comprising a base an(1 coin-receptacles carried thereby,V said coinreceptacles being in the forni of slotted tubes with cutaway portions at their upper ends` serving to admit coins.

5. In a savings-bank, the combination of a casing comprising a top and vertical Walls depending therefrom providednear the top with coin-admission slots, a flexible coin gripping member of angular cross-section having a depending flange located adjacent to said slots, a securing-ring engaging the horizontal flange of said flexible member and securing the saine in place, and a body comprising a base and coin-receptacles rising therefrom, said coin-receptacles formed to admit coins at their uppervouter portions When said coins are entered through said slots.

7. n' a savin ;s-bank, the combination with a casing comprising a top and vertical walls depending therefrom, a body comprising a base. and-coin receptacles, a fastening receiving means carried by said body, an aperture in the top of the casing, an apertured plate above 'the casing top, a depending recessed plate secured between the casing top and the upper plate, and a flange threaded boltl seated in said recessed plate and engaging a fixed bearing on the coin-receptacle carrying body for releasably securing said c'asin and said body together, as set forth.

8. ln a savings-bank, the combination of a Y.

casing comprising a top and depending ver- .tical walls provided with coin-admission slots, a body comprising a base and coin receptacles formed integral therewith, said coin-receptacles being open at their tops and outer portions, an means detachably -connecting said body and casing together comprising a nut cast integral with the Wall of one of the coin receptacles, a central depressed bearing carried by the casing-top, a screw extending through said bearing'and having a head housed in the depression thereof, and a key-plate carried by said casing-top and having a perforation through which a key may be entered.

t). in a savings-bank, the combination of a casing comprising a top and vertical Walls iie iis-

with a coin-admission exible, coinipping means lying adjacent rovided l slot, clrcnm erential, securing member loc and a releasable coa base fr said casing and equipped with a ated near the casing-top, 10 actlng securlng member the inner sur ace of said casingand havin earned by said casing-to a coin-gripping edge adjacent said sldt, sal

edge engaging the full co`1n and'preventin itsretraction after partial'i'nsertionin t e slot a. body affording face 0`f the inserted In presence of-V ONEsIMUs D.

CHA'LES FISHER.

' ALBERT L. WATERMAN,

WEAVER, J I".

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