A DEVICE FOR RECEIVING OBJECTS OF VALUE

Abstract: A device for receiving objects of value in the form of money or the like from persons delivering these, comprises a receiving apparatus (1) having an opening closable by means of a cover (2), through which opening the persons in question can deliver the objects of value. The receiving apparatus (1) is arranged on a vehicle having an opening (4) which can be made free by means of a door (5). There are means for arranging the receiving apparatus (1) in such a position in a vehicle that the receiving apparatus is located with its opening accessible through the opening (4) of the vehicle, and the receiving apparatus forms, together with possible parts (e.g. 14) connected therewith, a limitation of the interior of the vehicle behind the receiving apparatus from the environment outside the door opening.

Description: A device for receiving objects of value FIELD OF THE INVENTION AND PRIOR ART This invention relates to a device for receiving objects of value, such as money or valuable documents, from per¬ sons delivering these, comprising a receiving apparatus for the objects of value having an opening preferrably closable by means of a cover or the like, through which opening the persons in question can deliver the objects of value. Devices of this kind, which in every day parlance are called "Service boxes", are installed by banks and the like in conjunction with the respecitve bank office for enabling receiving of money at times when the banks are closed. It concerns in practice generally day's takings from firms, shops or the like. It is desirable for the shop undertakings to be able to daily deliver cash flown in as soon as possible after the closing of the shop in order to reduce the temptation of burglery in the shop. A disadvantage of the system described consists in that staff from the respective shops has to move the money from the shop to the service boxes located at the banks. The risk of robbery during this transfer is considerable, which makes this transfer operation mentally very trying. Furthermore, this transfer of the money constitutes a great temptation to the staff, which according to the experience is not always able to. resist this temptation. Further the arrangement of these service boxes at the bank offices constitutes a strong attraction of thievs, which during the last years has resulted in a wave of burstings of such service boxes. A great number of mechanical and chemical means for reducing the risk of successful burgleries has been used, but they have not been able to lead to a solution of the problem. SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The object of the present invention is to show how to solve the problem discussed above. In accordance with the invention this object is obtained by the fact that a receiving apparatus is arranged on a vehicle having an opening which can be made free by a door, that there are means for arranging the receiving apparatus in such a position in the vehicle that the re¬ ceiving apparatus is located with its opening accessible through the door opening and that the receiving apparatus, together with possible parts connected therewith. substan¬ tially completely fills up the door opening. Thus, the invention is based on the idea to make the whole receiving device for objects of value mobile so that the vehicle in question can be driven to the shops and on the spot receive the money or receiving day's takings and the like from these. This mobile embodiment of the value receiving device results in substantial advantages because the shop staff are not any longer forced to transfer the money over long distances, but they can instead deliver these to the vehicle driving between the shops. The risk of robbery is thereby considerably decreased. Further the risk of robbery decreases even more by the fact that the value receiving device is located in a vehicle which all the time changes its- position and is manned by a quali¬ fied guarding staff. Owing to the fact that the receiving apparatus, together with possible parts connected there¬ with, substantially completely closes the door opening, it will be very difficult for thieves to commit robbery provided that the other doors of the vehicle are always locked from the inside. The windows which do not have to be well transparent for traffic security purpose may preferrably be provided with a coating or otherwise cons¬ tructed so that transparency from the outside and into the interior of the vehicle is made more difficult or impossible. Thus, it is desirable to achieve that it is impossible to identify the vehicle as serving for trans¬ port of objects of value from the outside of the vehicle, when the door closing the vehicle opening is closed. It is particularly advantageous to coordinate the recei¬ ving apparatus with a delivery apparatus for change, i. e. small coins, so that the different shops according to their wishes can be given the required amount of small coins. Thereby the shop staff is spared from the trouble having to fetch change from banks etc. - BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS With reference to the appended drawings, below follows a specific description of a preferred embodiment of the invention cited as an example. In the drawings: Fig 1 is a perspective view of the device according to the invention in a vehicle, the apparatus for receiving valuable objects being located so that it closes an ope¬ ning made free by the vehicle door, fig 2 is a view similar to fig 1 but illustrating the receiving apparatus in a back drawn position, fig 3 is a perspective view of the receiving apparatus for valuable objects viewed from its inside, fig 4 is a schematic vertical section through the recei¬ ving apparatus, fig 5 is a view of the upper right part of fig 4 in an alternative position, fig 6 is a view of a delivery apparatus for for example small coins viewed from the inside of the vehicle and fig 7 is a cross section along the line VII-VII in fig 6 but illustrating the delivery apparatus in another po¬ sition. DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF A PREFERRED EMBODIMENT The device according to the invention for receiving ob¬ jects of value, such as money or valuable documents, from persons delivering these, comprises a receiving apparatus 1 for these valuable objects having an opening 3 closable by means of a cover 2, through which opening the persons in question can deliver the objects of value. The receiving apparatus 1 is arranged on a vehicle having an opening 4 which can be made free by a door 5. There are means for arranging the receiving apparatus 1 in such a position (fig 1) in the vehicle that the receiving apparatus 1 will be located with its opening 3 accessible through the door opening 4. In this position according to fig 1 , the receiving apparatus 1 , together with parts connected therewith (which will be described below) , form a limitation of the interior of the vehicle behind the receiving appa¬ ratus from the environment outside the door opening. As it appears from figs 1 and 2, the vehicle is provided with a frame 6 in connection with the door opening 4, the receiving apparatus 1 adjoins to this frame in the position according to fig 1. Preferrably, the receiving apparatus 1 is displaceably movable along guides 7 indicated as rails in fig 2 bet¬ ween a first position (fig 1), in which the receiving appa¬ ratus substantially closes against access through the door opening and into the interior of the vehicle, and a second position (fig 2), in which the receiving appara¬ tus 1 is removed from the door opening and allows access to the interior of the vehicle through the door opening. Thus, the vehicle can be used in a conventional way and be loaded with goods through the door opening 4 when the receiving apparatus is located in the position according to fig 2. Conventional fixing means not illustrated in the drawings, for example in the form of hooks or the like, are provided for fixing the receiving apparatus in the the positions according to figs 1 and 2. As it appears most clearly from figs 3 and 4, the recei¬ ving apparatus 1 comprises a keeping container 8 of the type of cabinet, box or the like and this has an opening 9 directed to the interior of the vehicle and closable by means of a door. The keeping container 8 is of a type comparatively secure against burglery so that in any case a considerable period of time is necessary for making unauthorized access to the interior of the container pos¬ sible. The opening 3 of the receiving apparatus 1 is ar¬ ranged in that wall of the container 8 which is intended to be located outwardly towards the door opening of the vehicle. The receiving apparatus 1 has a transferring means 11 arranged inside the container 8, said means being movable between two positions, namely a first (fig 5), in which a room 12 in the transferring means is in connection with the opening 3 of the receiving apparatus but closed off from the rest of the interior of the container, and a second position (fig 4), in which the room 12 of the trans¬ ferring means is in connection with the rest of the in¬ terior of the container 8 but closed off from the ope- ning 3. Thus, in the movement of the transferring means 11 from the position according to fig 5 to the position according to fig 4 objects located in the room 12 will fall down into the interior of the container 8. There are means not shown in the drawings, for example in the form of transmission technique known per se, for instance based on hinged links, gears or the like, for coordinating movements of the cover 2 and the transferring means 11 so that the transferring means 11 is in its position ac¬ cording to fig 5 when the cover 2 is open, while the transferring means is in its position according to fig 4 when the cover is closed. Preferrably, the transferring means 11 has the character of a drum which is pivotable about a substantially hori¬ zontal axis. In the position according to fig 5, wall portions, such as the ones denoted by 13, arranged in the container 8 form a cha'nnel inclined inwardly/down¬ wardly from the opening 3, through which channel the ob¬ jects in question can reach into the room 12 of the drum 11. The wall portions 13 are so arranged that a person can only reach into the room 12 of the transferring means 11 from the outside and not into the interior of the rest of the container, when the cover 2 is open. The receiving apparatus 1 is coordinated with a delivery apparatus 14 for objects of value, especially change or small coins. The delivery apparatus 14 has a movable de¬ livery member 15, which is operable in two positions, namely a first (fig 6), in which a room 16 in the deli¬ very member is accessible through an opening 17 therein from the interior ot the vehicle but closed off from ac¬ cess from the outside of the vehicle, and a second posi¬ tion (fig 7), in which the room 16 is accessible from the outside of the vehicle but closed off from the inte¬ rior of the vehicle. The delivery member 15 is designed as a pivotable drum, which is arranged in a housing 18 having two openings, one of which 19 opens into the interior of the vehicle by the other 20 opens out to the outside of the vehicle. The drum 15 is pivotable about a substantially horizontal shaft 21 and the opening 17 of the drum is arranged in the envelope of the drum. The shaft 21 of the drum 15 is suspended in the gables 22 of the housing 18 and a shaft 21 is rigidly connected with an actuating means 23 in the form of a handle for turning the drum 15 between these two positions. The handle 23 is arranged on a rod 24, which is displaecably received in a sleeve 25, which is attached to an arm 26, which in its turn is rigidly fixed to the shaft 21. Resilient means not shown are adapted to move the rod 24 and by that the handle 23 in the direction inwardly towards the shaft 21 of the drum. The handle 23 is turned approximately 180 in order to move the drum between these two posi¬ tions and there are locking means 28 in the form of bores, into which the end of the rod 24 located inwardly can project in order to lock the handle in these extreme pi¬ vot positions. These bores 28 are for instance arranged in a part 27, which is rigidly attached to one 22 of the gables of the housing 18. The part 27 may for example consist of a plate bent into an arc-shape. Accordingly, when the rod 24 is in engagement with one of the bores 28 the handle 23 must be drawn outwardly for releasing the engagement, and when the handle 23 is pivoted the rod 24 thus authomatically snaps into the second of the bores 28 when the rod has arrived straight in front of ' this. The housing 18 of the delivery apparatus is attached to a sheet like part 30, which in its turn is attached to a lateral wall of the keeping container 8 in such a way that the front surface of the part 30 turned outwardly will be located in substantially the same plane as the front surface of the container 8 turned outwardly, i.e. the surface which has the cover 2 and the opening 3. The sheet like part 30 is preferrably produced from a bullet¬ proof material and dimentioned respectively, and it may on the top have a transparent portion 29 also manufac¬ tured from a bullet-proof material. The keeping container 8 and the part 30 form together a substantially rectan¬ gular front surface which in the position according to fig 1 adjoins to an edge portion on the frame 6 attached to the vehicle. In using the device according to the invention the vehicle is driven to the customers who wish to deliver money. Preferrably, the vehicle is manned by specially trained guarding staff, in practice at least two persons. When the vehicle reaches a customer one of the persons opens the door 5 and the receiving apparatus 1 then located in the position according to fig 1 will then be free to receive money, which in advance has been put in a suitable packing. The person delivering the money unlocks a lock coordinated with the cover 2 and after that he can open the cover 2 to the position according to fig 5 and put the bag 'or the like with the money into the room 12 in the transferring means 11. When the person then closes the cover 2 the transferring means 11 is automatically brought to the position according to fig 4 so that the money bag falls down into the lower parr of the container 8. If the person wishes to fetch change he can deliver a requisition bill through the opening 17 into the drum 15 of the delivery apparatus 14. A guard located inside the vehicle can then turn the drum 15, so that he can put the required amount of change through the opening 17 then located in the vehicle after seeing the change order and he can then operate the drum 15 so that its opening 17 communicates with the environment outside the vehicle. Thus, the delivery of money as well as the re- ceiving of change can take place without any closer con¬ tact between the person from the shop and the person in¬ side the vehicle. The apparatus 1 and 14 are covered by the door when the door 5 of the vehicle is closed and accordingly it is impossible to recognize from the out¬ side of the vehicle that it is a question of a vehicle for transport of valuable objects. The invention may of course be modified in a number of ways within the scope of the idea of the invention.

Claims: Claims 1. A device for receiving objects of value, such as money or valuable documents, from persons delivering these, comprising a receiving apparatus ( 1 ) for the objects of value having an opening (3) preferably closable by means of a cover (2) or the like, through which opening the persons in question can deliver the objects of value, c h a r a c t e r i z e d in that the receiving appa¬ ratus (1) is arranged on a vehicle having an opening (4), that there are means for arranging the receiving appara¬ tus in such a position in the vehicle that the receiving apparatus is located with its opening (3) accessible in the opening (4) of the vehicle and that the receiving apparatus, together with possible parts connected there¬ with, forms a limitation of the interior of the vehicle behind the receiving apparatus from the environment out¬ side the opening of the vehicle. 2. A device according to claim 1 c h a r a c t e r i z e d in that the receiving apparatus ( 1 ) is displaceably movable along guides (7) between a first position, in which the receiving apparatus substantially closes the opening (4) of the vehicle, and a second position, in which the re¬ ceiving apparatus is removed from the opening of the ve¬ hicle and allows access to the interior of the vehicle through the opening (4), which is closable by means of a door ( 5) . 3. A device according to claim 1 or 2, c h a r a c t e r i z e d in that the receiving appa-_ ratus (1) has a keeping container (8) for the objects of value of the type of cabinet, box or the like and that this has an opening (9) directed to the interior of the vehicle and closable by means of a door (10). 4- A device according to claim 3, c h a r a c t e r i z e d in that the opening (3) of the receiving apparatus (1) is arranged in a wall of the container (8) located to¬ wards the door opening of the vehicle. 5. A device according to claim 3, c h a r a c t e r i z e d in that the receiving apparatus has a transferring means (11) arranged inside the container, said means being mo¬ vable between two positions, viz a first, in which a room (12) in the transferring means is in connection with the opening (3) of the receiving apparatus but closed off from the rest of the interior of the container, and a second, in which the room of the transferring means is in connection with the rest of the interior of the contai¬ ner but closed off from the opening, and that there are means for co-ordinating the movements of the cover and the transferring means so that the transferring means is in its first position when the cover is open, while the transferring means is in its second position when the cover is closed. 6. A device according to claim 5, c h a r a c t e r i z e d in that the transferring means (11) is pivotable about a substantially horizontal axis. 7. A device according to claim 1, c h a r a c t e r i z e d in that the receiving apparatus is coordinated with a delivery apparatus (14) for objects of value, especially for small coins, said delivery apparatus having a movable delivery member- (15), which is operable between two posi¬ tions, viz a first, in which a room (16) in the delivery member is through an opening (17) therein accessible from the interior of the vehicle but closed off from access from the outside of the vehicle, and a second, in which the room is accessible from the outside of the vehicle but closed off from the interior of the vehicle. 8. A device according to claim 7, c h a r a c t e r i z e d in that the delivery member (15) is designed as a pivotable drum, which is arranged in a housing (18) having two ope¬ nings (19, 20), one of which opens into the interior of the vehicle while the other opens out to the outside of the vehicle. 9. A device according to claim 8, c h a r a c t e r i z e d in that the drum (15) is pivotable about a substantially horizontal axis and that the opening (17) of the drum is arranged in the envelope of the drum. 10. A device according to claim 3 and 7, c h a r a c t e r i z e d in that the delivery apparatus is attached to a sheet like part (30), which in its turn is attached to the keeping container (8) and together with this adjoins to a frame (6) arranged at the door opening of the vehicle.

Inventors: ELLEBO KJELL, STONERT THOMMY, ELLEBO, KJELL, STONERT, THOMMY
Applicants: ELLEBO KJELL, STONERT THOMMY, ELLEBO, KJELL, STONERT, THOMMY
Application year: 1987
Main classification: E05B1
IPC codes: B60P3, E05G7