Patent GB-278823-A (GB)
Title: Improved toy savings bank or money box
IPC: G07F17/10
Filed: 1926-07-24
Abstract: 278,823. Dehn, F., B., (Hagemo-Young Corporation). July 24, 1926. Mechanical toys.-In a toy money box having mechanism, controlled by the deposition of a coin, for imparting a varying speed to a travelling figure, the figure moves over a platform and means are provided for interrupting the travel of the figure temporarily and for increasing its speed after the temporary stop; a second figure may be arranged to move in timed relation to the first figure. The mechanism is housed beneath the platform 38, Fig. 2, forming the top of a housing 35 having a vertical portion 36 containing the coin shoot 89 leading to the slot 115 of a coin receptacle 111 detachably held within the housing by a spring latch 112. The mechanism is carried by plates 45, 46, Figs. 8 and 12, secured to the platform and includes a spring motor 55, the hollow shaft 62 of which is connected by a ratchet and pawl with a coaxial turntable 48 carrying the moving figures and rotatably mounted beneath the platform 38 and geared to a centrifugal governor 56. The turntable 48 is stopped at the end of the revolution by a shoulder on the underside thereof encountering a lug 62 on a slide 63 mounted between the plates 45, 46 and the motor is wound, while the turntable is held by the lug 62, by a rack 66 engaging a pinion on the shaft 52 and connected by a latch bar 105 to a slidable cam bar 93 actuated by connections from a lever 96 projecting outside the housing. The coin shoot 89 is disposed beneath the coin slot 39 at the top of the housing and is carried by a slide 76 slidably mounted on a lower slide 77 and having a forward extension 86 carrying a pin 95 engaging the cam slot 94 in the bar 93; the slide 77, which is guided in an extension of the plate 46, is normally held against a stop flange 79 thereon by a spring 92 and has a rearward extension 80 carrying fingers 82 projecting through slots 91 in the shoot 89, and a lateral extension 85 which actuates the latch bar 105 slidably mounted in the cam bar 93. Unless a coin is deposited in the shoot 89, movement of the lever 96 simply actuates the cam bar and slide 76 without moving the slide 77, but if a coin is deposited in the shoot it rests on the top of. the coin receptacle 111 and movement of the slide 76 clamps the coin 135 between the shoot and the fingers 82 and carries the coin and the slide 77 forwards, the coin coming into alignment with the slot 115 of the receptacle, 111 and the slide 77 projecting the latch bar 105 behind a lug 69 on the rack bar 66; the latch bar is meanwhile being carried laterally by the moving cam bar 93 and a pin 109 on the latch bar passes through passages in the extension 85 and a fixed rail 88 to engage the front edge of the rail and lock the latch bar to the rack bar which is then moved to wind up the motor, the form of the cam slot in the bar 93 causing the slides 76, 77 to be held against movement. Movement of the rack causes a lock lug 71 thereon to move out of engagement with a shoulder 72 on the slide 63 and further movement of the cam bar causes the upper slide 76 to be moved rearwards to release the coin 135 which falls into receptacle 111 while the lug 71 on the rack engages a shoulder 74 on the slide and moves it so that the lug 62 moves out of the path of the shoulder on the turntable which is thus released; during the final projecting movement of the cam bar, a cam shoulder 70 on the rack bar moves the latch bar out of engagement with the lug 69 and the pin 109 out of engagement, with the rail 88, the spring 92 returning the slide 77 and bar 105 to their normal positions. Upon release of the lever 96, a spring 104 returns it to normal position the cam bar being thus retracted and the slide 76 reset while the motor is free to unwind and rotate the turntable a pinion 67 on the turntable ratchet then retracting the rack 66 and resetting the slide 63 to position the lug 62 in the path of movement of the turntable. The figures 119 and 129, Fig. 3, which are stationary within the housing 36 during the winding of the motor are carried by the upstanding parts of arms 121, 131 respectively, journaled beneath the turntable, the upstanding arms projecting through slots 43, 44 in the platform concentric with the axes upon which the arms are mounted. The arm 121 is mounted upon the axis 50 of the turntable and projects up through a slot 122 therein registering with the slot 43, and the arm 131 is mounted upon an axis 132 eccentric to the axis 50 while a projection 133 on the arm 129 engages a cam groove 134 in the face of the turntable. The figure 119 consists of two parts hinged on a pivot in the arm 121 and controlled by a spring, the forward part having a finger projecting below the turntable. When the turntable is released, the figure 119 is moved thereby out of the housing and is carried through about 180‹ when the cam groove 134 begins to move the figure 129 out of the housing towards the figure 119. At this time, the slide 63 is being moved outwards and the lug 62 comes into the path of the finger on the figure 119 thus stopping it and causing the parts thereof to move about the pivot and hump the back of the figure; the turntable continues to rotate by reason of the slot 122 and places a spring connecting the arm 121 to the turntable under tension. When the turntable has moved the length of the slot 122 the figure 129 has approached near to the figure 119 and the stop lug 62 has been moved out of engagement with the finger on the figure 119; the spring then moves the figure 119 quickly away from the figure 129 and into the housing 36 and the cam groove 134 returns the figure 129 into the housing. The lug 62 is now in the path of the shoulder 64 on the turntable which is stopped at the end of a complete revolution with the figures in their original position in front of the openings 40, 42 in the front of the housing 36. The coin receptacle 111 has a door provided with a lock and key and a pair of guard plates 116 for preventing coins being removed by the slot. A lip 90 on the coin shoot prevents an instrument being inserted through the slot 39 to connect the slides 76, 77 and operate the mechanism.