Patent ID: 8820622
Filing Date: 2014-09-02
Classification: A45C,E05B,E05C,E05G,G07F,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A cashbox having a self-locking mechanism, being installed to a cashbox bracket in a cash service equipment and comprising a box body, a box door and a box door self-locking mechanism, wherein the box door self-locking mechanism comprises a locking device for locking the box door and a door switch structure for opening or closing the box door, wherein the locking device comprises a movable locking tongue fixed in an inner side of the box door and a lock cylinder fixed on an inner side wall of the box body and being buckled with the movable locking tongue, wherein the box door is provided with a triggering member cooperated with the door switch structure, and wherein the door switch structure opens the box door when the box body is pushed into the cashbox bracket, and closes the box door when the box body is drawn out from the cashbox bracket, by being engaged with the triggering member, wherein the door switch structure comprises a movable plate installed to the cashbox bracket, wherein the movable plate comprises a recess configured to selectively engage with the triggering member, when the box body is pushed into the cashbox bracket and the triggering member contacts with the recess, the recess is engaged with the triggering member so as to prevent the box door from being continuously pushed into along with the box body, and when the box body is drawn out from the cashbox bracket until the box body is integrated with the box door and the box door is automatically locked, the triggering member is disengaged from the recess such that the box door is drawn out from the cashbox bracket along with the box body, wherein the movable plate comprises a guiding groove, the cashbox bracket is provided with a guiding column, and the movable plate is hung on the guiding column through the guiding groove, and wherein the movable plate is rotatable around the guiding column in a certain angle range, and is movable forwardly and backwardly along a lengthwise direction of the guiding groove within a range defined by the engagement between the guiding column and the guiding groove.