Automatio Apparatus for Preventing Theft from Money Bags, Tills, Automatic Machines, and the like.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 15th Dec., 1892
Complete Specification Left. 15th Sept.. 1893—Accepted. 18th Nov., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Automatio Apparatus for Preventing Theft from Money Bags, Tills,
Automatic Machines, and the like.
EMANUEL TORRINI 46 Hall Street City Road London Engineer do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to improvements in locking devices for protecting tills and
collecting bags and the like and is more particularly intended for automatic
machines where the mechanism is operated by insertion of coins and it is the object
of my invention to simplyfy the construction and to reduce the cost of manufacture
and at the same time provide a more efficient apparatus than is at present in use.
On the top of my money bag or box I fit a tube or channel provided with one or
more loose shutters or traps so arranged and interlocked with one another that the
coins can pass freely down into the bag or box but cannot be got out without
removing the top of the bag or box which is either sealed or fastened down in any
other well known manner.
EMANUEL TORRINI.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Automatio Apparatus for Preventing Theft from Money Bags, Tills,
Automatic Machines, and the like.
I, EMANUEL TORRINI, of 46 Hall Street, City Road, London, Engineer, 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:-
My invention relates to an automatic device or apparatus for preventing the
fraudulent withdrawal of money from money-bags, tills, automatic machines and
the like.
My said invention is chiefly designed to provide for the prevention of fraud by
collectors employed for collecting the money received by automatic machines or
coin-freed apparatus.
It is, however, also applicable for the prevention of fraud in the use of such
apparatus by the public, and for preventing the withdrawal of money from: all
kinds of receptacles provided with a chute or channel for the introduction of coins
into the same.
My said invention comprises the combination, with the coin-chute or channel,
of shutters or traps arranged one above the other within the said chute or
channel in such a manner that a coin, in its descent in the said chute or channel,
will push aside the said shutters or traps alternately, and will fall past both
shutters or traps, but, in pushing aside the lower shutter, will automatically
move the upper shutter into such a position as to prevent the withdrawal of the
said coin.
In some cases I use,
for this purpose, pivoted plates so arranged in the coin-
chute or channel that, when one of the said plates or shutters is open, the other is
closed, and vice versa.
In the accompanying drawing I have shown how my said invention may be
conveniently and advantageously carried into practice.
Figure 1 is a transverse section of a coin-chute, provided with my improved
device, showing the latter in its normal position.
Figure 2 is a similar view showing the parts in a different position.

page_text: a is a coin-slot situated at the upper end of a coin-chute or channel and
preferably provided with downwardly turned lips a'. In the said chute or channel b
are arranged two plates or shutters c and d pivoted at e and f respectively and
provided with extensions or tail-pieces c¹ d. These extensions or tail-pieces
engage with each other in such a manner that, when a coin falls through the slot a,
the said coin first turns the plate or shutter c about its pivot into the position
shown in Figure 2, and the extension c¹ acting upon the extension d', the plate or
shutter d is simultaneously moved into the position shown in Figure 2, so that it
closes the coin-chute; when the weight of the coin acts upon the plate or shutter d,
the latter is turned in the reverse direction about its pivot until it assumes the
position shown in Figure 1, and the said coin falls past the said shutter; at the
same time the extension d', acting upon the extension c², turns the plate or shutter c
into the position shown in Figure 1, so that it closes the aperture or slot a, and thus
prevents the withdrawal or extraction of the coin.
In the device shown, the plates are held in their normal position by gravity.
A spring or other suitable device may, however, be provided for this purpose if
desired.
By means of this device, when secured in the mouth of a collecting bag or box,
the withdrawal of the coins, when once they have passed beyond the first shutter,
is effectually prevented. Moreover, when the said device is applied below the
coin-slot of an automatic machine or coin-freed apparatus, the coin-chute bis
always kept closed so as to prevent the operation or release of the mechanism by a
rod or similar instrument, and, should a coin attached to a string be introduced, it
would be retained by either the lower or the upper shutter and its withdrawal thus
effectually prevented.
It is obvious that my invention may be applied to various kinds of money-bags,
money-boxes, tills and the like, in such a manner that, although the coins can pass
freely down into the bag, box or other receptacle, they cannot be got out without
removing the top of the said bag or box, which is either sealed or fastened
down in any other well-known manner; and, even should the bag or box be
inverted, the coins will nevertheless be retained therein by the aforesaid shutters
or traps.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
First. The combination, with a bag, box or other receptacle provided with a
chute or channel for the introduction of coins into the same, of a device comprising
shutters or traps arranged one above the other in the said chute or channel in such
a manner that, when the lower shutter or trap is moved by the coin so as to permit
the descent thereof, the other shutter or trap will be simultaneously moved into such
a position as to prevent the withdrawal or extraction of the said coin, substantially
as hereinbefore described.
Second. The improved device constructed substantially as described with
reference to the accompanying drawing and operating as, and for the purpose,
above specified.
Dated the 15th day of Santambor 1802
JENS JENSEN,
143A, Holborn, London, W.C., Agent for the Applicant.