Improvements in Pocket Money Boxes.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 30th Sept., 1896-Accepted, 21st Nov., 1896
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Pocket Money Boxes.
We PHILIPP SEILER, Mechanic and OTTO BRUNO REICHELT, Engineer, both of
1401 Monadnock Block, Chicago, U.S.A., 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 :-
The pocket money box of this invention is in the form of a box to be carried in the
pocket and is designed for the use of children as a coin savings receptacle although it
may be used for other purposes.
The invention consists essentially in a self closing box made of sheet metal in two
interlocking sections which are opened by pressing against the rim of the box and
closed by the resiliency of the metal.
In the accompanying drawing which illustrates the invention,
Fig. is a perspective view of the box as held in the hand and pressed together to
open it.
Fig. 2 an edge view of the box with the coin slots, and closed in its normal
position. Fig. 3 a side view thereof.
Fig. 4 an edge view of the box with its edges pressed together and the coin
slots open.
Fig. 4 a similar view with the coin slots and the box closed.
Fig. 6 an enlarged sectional fragment of the top of the box with the slots open.
Fig. 7 an edge elevation of the box with slots presented and open and
Fig. 8 an enlarged sectional fragment through the side box shewing the inter-
locking notches.
The box is made of two hollow sections 1, 2, having flanges 3, 4, each of said
flanges have a peripheral notch indentation or depression 5, 6, upon the inside of
said flanges, bulging outwardly to fit one within the other, when the said sections 1, 2,
are pressed together, and each of said sections being furthermore provided
respectively with slots 7, 8, near their edges which pass each other when the
sections are pressed together, the solid portion of one flange thus covering the
slotted portion of the adjoining flange and closing the box.
When the slots 7, 8, of the box are to be opened to pass a coin through them
the peripheral edges of the box at the notch projections are pressed together
between the thumb and the finger, which causes the sections to bulge outwardly
at points opposite the slots and coincidently at diametrically opposite points
below, and thus bring the said slots directly opposite each other in position to
admit of the passage of the coin through them and into the box.
When a sufficient number of coins have been placed in the box to completely
fill it, the weight of the coins within the box besides the solidity of the mass
contained therein will be sufficient to split or wedge the box open by the mass
pressing from within when the box is struck upon one of the side notch projections.
The resiliency of the metal and the retaining capacity of the side notches is
predetermined and is adjusted to suit the volume and weight of the coin to be
contained within the box.
The box may be perforated at its peripheral flanges as well as slotted to receive
pellets, pills or confections, and the sides of the box may be variously marked for use
as a calendar or as a combination pocket piece.

page_text: 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. As an article of manufacture, a self closing box made of two sheet metal
sections having peripheral overlaying flanges held together at two oppositely disposed
interlocking points and adapted to be opened at a point or points between said
interlocking points, substantially as described and shewn.
2. A self closing box made of two sheet metal interlocking sections having
peripheral overlaying flanges, an opening therein which is normally closed and which
may be opened by pressing the peripheral edge of the box together upon opposite
sides, substantially as described and shewn.
3. A coin or pocket safe consisting of two sections, each having peripheral
overlaying flanges, provided with slots and with notch indentations to interlock one
with the other, to be held normally closed, and to be opened by pressing upon
opposite sides of the rim of the box, substantially as described and shewn.
Dated this 30th day of September 1896.
THOMAS R. SHILLITO,
89 Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agent for the Applicants.