Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 15th May, 1887
Complete Left, 15th Feb., 1888
Complete Accepted, 16th Mar., 1888
I, HERBERT JOHN HADDAN, of the firm of Herbert & Co., Patent Agents, of
67 Strand, London, in the County of Middlesex, Civil Engineer, do hereby declare
the nature of this invention, a communication to me from abroad by Edwin Sears, of
No. 114 Devoe Street, in the City of Brooklyn, County of Kings, State of New York,
United States of America, Manufacturer, to be as follows:-
The aim of this invention is to produce a mat adapted to bo placed upon a counter
or secured in front of a cashier's window to facilitate the ready exchange of money,
and the invention consists in so constructing the said mat that money placed thereon
will not slip off, and wherein or wherefrom the smallest coin, oldest note, or thinnest
piece of paper or card may be readily and expeditiously removed.
To that end a body is employed formed in any desired shape, of flexible material,
such as rubber or its equivalent; and cast integral therewith, or otherwise formed
upon the face of said body, are flexible pins or stud like projections, the said
projections being preferably equal in height and arranged at slight intervals over the
entire upper surface of said body.
The outer row of flexible projections is usually made somewhat stouter than the
others, to protect the inner slender pins from being struck by hard objects moved
along a counter, and these stouter pins also impart strength to the mat at its edge.
The pins are sometimes arranged in concentric circular series, or otherwise, so that
coins may be supported edgewise between the pins for use in making change, and the
outer stout pins serve to support coins such as silver dollars, which are too large to
be supported edgewise between the inner slender pins.
In the operation of the mat the pins coming in contact with the fingers yield,
admitting of a grip top and bottom of the coin, bill or card placed thereon, as the
said bill or coin resting upon the surface, being too light to produce a depression of
the pins.
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page_text: I, HERBERT JOHN HADDAN of the firm of Herbert & Co., Patent Agents, of
18 Buckingham Street, Strand, W.C. London in the County of Middlesex, Civil
Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention, a communication to me from
abroad by Edwin Sears of 114 Devoe Street, Brooklyn, State of New York, United
States of America, and in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
The invention consists in the construction and arrangement of parts, as will be
hereinafter fully described and claimed.
Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this
specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both
the figures.
Fig. 1 represents a plan view of the mat; and
Fig. 2 illustrates a central transverse section of the same.
I aim by this invention to produce a mat adapted to be placed upon a counter or
secured in front of a cashier's window to facilitate the ready exchange of money, and
to so construct the said mat so that money placed thereon will not slip off, and
wherein or wherefrom the smallest coin, oldest note, or thinnest piece of paper or card
may be readily and expeditiously removed.
To that end I employ a body A formed in any desired shape, of flexible material,
such as rubber or its equivalent and cast integral therewith, or otherwise formed upon
the face of said body A, flexible pin or stud like projections a the said projections
being preferably arranged at slight intervals over the entire upper surface of said
body.
The outer row of flexible projections a I usually make somewhat stouter than the
others. By thus making the outer series of pins stouter they protect the inner slender
pins from being struck by hard objects moved along a counter, and these stouter pins
also impart strength to the mat at its edge.
It will be noticed that in the present instance the pins are arranged in concentric
circular series so that coins may be supported edgewise between the pins for use in
making change, and the outer-stout pins serve to support coins such as silver dollars,
which are too large to be supported edgewise between the inner slender pins.
In the operation of the mat the pins coming in contact with the fingers yield,
admitting of a grip top and bottom of the coin, bill or card placed thereon, as the said
bill or coin rests upon the surface, being too light to produce a depression of
the pins.
I am aware that a cash mat has been formed of earthenware or sheet metal, with
its surface "waffled" or formed with corrugations or pyramidal projections, also that
a mat for a pitcher has been formed with recesses or depressions surrounded by
rectangular, connected walls, and I do not claim the same as of my invention. But
I am not aware that a cash mat has ever been formed or provided with flexible pin-

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like projections. Where the mat is formed of rigid material and "waffled
as above
described, all sizes of coins cannot be readily grasped, as they must first be moved to
bring their edges over a depression before they can be inclined or grasped, for the
reason that the projections are rigid, and even if such projections were of flexible
material they would be practically rigid as far as my purposes aro concerned. The
same is true in regard to the flexible pitcher mat, as the walls of the recesses are all
connected and would not bend to the finger pressure as my flexible pins do. No
matter what size of coin is placed upon my mat, the pins will bend upon the finger
being pressed on the coin, and no sliding of the coins to particular places is required,
and then any sized coins may be supported edgewise as before stated, which would be
absolutely impossible with the prior constructions.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is.
1. A cash mat provided on its upper surface with flexible coin supporting pins
adapted to bend, substantially as set forth.
2. A cash mat formed of flexible material having integral flexible coin supporting
pins, substantially as set forth.
3. A cash mat provided with concentric, circular series of flexible pins adapted to
support coins either flat or edgewise, substantially as set forth.
4. A cash mat provided with inner, slender, flexible pins, and an outer row of
stouter flexible pins for protecting the inner pins and supporting large coins edgewise,
substantially as set forth.
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