US992786A - Telephone pay-station. - Google Patents

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G. A. LONG. TELEPHONE PAY STATION L APPLICATION nun 1120.13, 1905.

Patented May 23, 1911.

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TELEPHONE PAY-STATION.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 23, 1911.

Application filed December 13, 1905. 7 Serial No. 291,504.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE A. Lone, citizen of the United States of America, residing at Hartford, in the county of Hartford and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Telephone Pay-Stations, of which the following is a specification.

The object of the invention is to produce a device of the class specified having features of novelty and advantage, particularly as regards the construction of the casing.

Figures 1 and 2 are perspective views of the parts making up the casings for a pay station set, shown separated to clearly illustrate the construction. Fig. 3 is a pin for uniting the parts of Figs. 1 and 2 and the locking screw for said pin. Fig. 4 is a penspective view of the assembled casing. Fig. 5 is a view of the upper front edge of the telephone casing. Fig. 6 is a detail sectional view of the'same part of the casing and showing the construction of and guards for the coin slots.

One object of my invention is to produce a telephone pay station having independent compartments for the pay station equipment and the money box so that a repair man can get to the equipment without having access to the money boxand the collector can get at the money box without having access to the equipment compartment.

In the drawings a denotes the casing in which the equipment, such as channels to lead the coin to the signals, is installed and 6 denotes the money box which is secured to a back-plate c and has a drawer Z). At its lower front end the casing a is pivoted to the money box between the lugs a by a pin 03 passing through one of said lugs and the casing and threaded into the other lug, this pin being grooved near one end as at d where it passes through a lug a in the interior of the casing a, a screw a being provided which can be run down until its end projects into the groove and thus prevent the removal of the pin and the separation of the two parts of the apparatus except by the unlocking of the casing so that it can be swung down and the screw a can be backed out of the groove in the pin. A look a is provided at the upper rear of the casing to engage the back-plate 0. Through the bottom of the casing and the top of the box are registering slots'a? 6 When channels are used to. guide the coins to sound signals their lower ends are secured between lugs at each side of the slots in order to keep located in the same casing with the money Many objections have been raised box. against having the pay station equipment and the money box in the same compartment or so arranged that one is exposed in getting at the other and it is extremely desirable to have the two sections entirely independent of one another and yet have them so related that they will work together to accomplish the objects of instruments of thischaracter. My device above described provides entirely independent compartments and yet they are so connected that all the functions of the machine are fully carried out.

Another feature of the invention resides in the novel construction of the casing by means of which the coin slots through which the coins are fed into the casing are formed with great accuracy to fit the coin they are.

to receive and are guarded to prevent the insertion of a bent coin. The detail view of Fig. 5 shows the construction. This view is of the upper front of the casing a which is cut away across .its entire width, the top being provided with the upwardly and downwardly extending flanges a a. A cap or. is provided to fill in the cut away portion of the casing and in connection with the top of the casing forms the coin slots a e 0.. Whether the slots be formed wholly in the cap or the casing or partly in both each one can be made to fit closely the coin it is to receive. The equipment which receives and handles the coin after it is passed through the slot is made enough larger than the coin to insure its free travel to perform its work, and consequently theslot is the only guard there is to prevent the use of slightly larger or spurious coins or tokens than the slot is designed to receive. This construction has decided advantages in this respect. The cap a has the depending flange a substantially parallel to the flanges a a; these flanges form a guard for the slot to prevent the insertion of a bent coin. Heretofore when the slots have been merely holes through the thin wall of the casing it has been possible to push a bent coin down into the channels or other receiving equipment and clog the machine; with these guards it is impossible to force a bent coin into the machine. The cap is secured in place by screws a passing through the guard flanges, as indicated in Figs. 5 and 6. a

I claim as my invention:

1. A money box and an equipment casing, and a separable pivotal connection uniting said parts and means accessible only from within one of said parts for holding said pivotal connection against disengagement.

2. A money box and an equipment casing pivotally united by a separable pivot, and means accessible only from within the equipment box for holding said pivotal connection against disengagement.

3. A casing for telephone pay stations having a cut away portion, a cap closing said cut away portion and forming coin slots with one of the opposing edges of said casing.

4. A casing for telephone pay stations having a cut away portion, and a cap closing said cut away portion, said cap being channeled to form coin slots in connection with an opposing edge of said casing.

5. A casing for telephone pay stations having a cut away portion and a cap closing said cut away portion and forming coin slots in connection with one of the opposing edges of said casing, said opposing edges being provided with substantially parallel flanges at the coin slots, for the purposes described.

6. A casing for telephone pay stations having a cut away portion, one edge of which is provided with upstanding and depending flanges, and a cap closing said cut away portion and provided with a flange parallel to the flanges on said casing.

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

GEORGE A. LONG. Vitnesses H. E. HART, D. S. KREIMENDAHL.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C.

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