Improvements in Money Boxes.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 12th Dec., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 25th Feb., 1892-Accepted, 2nd Apr., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Money Boxes.
We CHARLES SMITH of No. 288 Icknield Street Birmingham in the County
of Warwick Manufacturer of Stationers Sundries and EDGAR PHELPS of
No. 94 Hamstead Road Birmingham aforesaid Tool Maker in the employ of the
said Charles Smith do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention has for its object to provide a money box in which the lid remains
secured in place so that it cannot be removed until a predetermined number of
coins has been inserted, the insertion of the last coin of such number effecting the
releasing of the lid.
The body part of the box contains a false bottom provided with spring arms
which extend upwards inside the box and have projections at their ends which pass
through slots or openings in the body of the box and in the lid so that these springs
secure the lid to the box whilst the false bottom is kept at a short distance from the
bottom of the body of the box. The inside of the lid is provided with a spring
preferably of inverted U form with the ends curved somewhat upwards.
The coins are inserted through a slit in the box and when the last coin which the
box is constructed to accommodate is inserted the false bottom is caused to move
downwards and by this movement the projections from the ends of the spring arms
are withdrawn from the slots or openings in the lid and therefore the lid is released
and the contents of the box are accessible.
Dated this 11th day of December 1891
J. H. JOHNSON & Co.,
47, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C., Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Money Boxes.
We CHARLES SMITH of No. 288 Icknield Street Birmingham in the County
of Warwick Manufacturer of Stationery Sundries and EDGAR PHELPS of
No. 94 Hamstead Road Birmingham aforesaid Tool Maker in the employ of the
said Charles Smith do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what
manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement :-
This invention has for its object to provide a money box in which the lid remains
secured in place so that it cannot be removed until a predetermined number of coins
has been inserted the insertion of the last coin of such number effecting the releasing
of the lid.
The body part of the box contains a false bottom provided with spring arms
which extend upwards inside the box and have projections at their ends which pass
through slots or openings in the body of the box and in the lid so that these springs
secure the lid to the box whilst the false bottom is kept at a short distance from
the bottom of the body of the box. The inside of the lid is provided with a spring
preferably of inverted U form with the ends curved somewhat upwards. The coins
are inserted through a slit in the box and when the last coin which the box is
constructed to accommodate is inserted the false bottom is caused to move down-
wards and by this movement the projections from the ends of the spring arms are
withdrawn from the slots or openings in the lid and therefore the lid is released and
the contents of the box are accessible.

page_text: The accompanying drawings represent a money box made according to this
invention.
Fig. 1 is a vertical section...
Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the box with the lid removed..
Figs. 3 and 4 are perspective views of the upper and undersides respectively of
the lid and
Fig. 5 represents the false bottom and spring arms separately.
The box is preferably made of tin or other metal and may for the sake of
illustration be presumed to be constructed to hold twenty-four pence the lid being
released when the last or twenty-fourth penny is inserted.
:
The body A of the box is preferably cylindrical and inside it is fitted the false
bottom B preferably consisting of a disc of spring steel provided with arms bb. at or
about right angles to the said disc.
The ends of these. arms are bent over at the upper ends 62 and these bent over
cuds are inserted in the slots a² in the box so that the fasle bottom is suspended in
the box leaving a space between the said false bottom and the bottom proper of
the box.
The lid C fits upon the top of the box and it has in it slots c which when the lid
is in place on the box coincide with the slots a² in the body A the bent over ends b
of the spring arms b entering both the slots a' and the slots c and so securing the
lid in place on the box.
The lid C is provided with a spring D which is fixed to the inside thereof and is
preferably of the shape shewn in Figs. 1 and 4 the ends of this spring being curved
as shewn so that whilst allowing the last coin of the series to be inserted into the
slot a in the body part A the said spring will, when the said last coin is inserted, be
compressed owing to the presence of the other twenty-three coins which have
reached to the slot a. The pressure of the spring D is exerted through the series
of coins upon the false bottom B which is forced downwards into the box and so the
bent over ends of the arms bare withdrawn from the slots c in the lid which is
therefore released.
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Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is :-
1. A money box having a false bottom, or part against which the coins bear, and
projections in conjunction with the said bottom, or part, extending through, or into,
the lid, so that when the last coin of the series for which the box is constructed is
inserted the said false bottom is moved to release the lid substantially as herein-
before described.
2. The arrangement and combination of parts constituting a money box substan-
tially as hereinbefore described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 25th day of February 1892.
J. H. JOHNSON & Co.,
Agents.