Improvements in Money Boxes.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 27th Nov., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 26th Aug., 1889-Accepted, 28th Sept., 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Money Boxes.
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I HENRY CHARLES BRAUN of 28 Clipstone Street London in the County of
Middlesex Engineer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
A case of metal or wood having a receptacle for sweets at the top part and a space
in the lower portion for money.
In the front of the case or box is a slot, immediately
under which is a cnt or groove in a sliding drawer or tray, this sliding drawer or tray
forming the bottom or base of the receptacle containing the sweets and having a
small hole or cut in one part of it, preferably the side into which, when the tray or
drawer is closed the sweets fall. This hole is closed at the bottom by a metal plate
while the drawer or tray is in its normal position. At another part of this drawer
or tray preferably the opposite side is the slot or groove for the reception of the coin
as before mentioned. Under this drawer or tray is another tray cut in a similar
manner but which extends to the front of the box and is fitted with a handle or
knob to draw it out. Instead of this second drawer or tray I also use a metal
plate cut in a similar manner to the upper drawer or tray with a money slot and
sweets receptacle, which plate slides under the tray and over the metal plate before
mentioned as preventing the escape of the sweets. While the upper drawer or tray
is closed, this plate also retains the coin when placed in the slot, until it is drawn
forward by the knob. Upon placing a coin in the slot it falls into the groove in both
the upper and lower drawers, or into the groove in the upper drawer and partly
through the metal plate, and when the handle or knob affixed to the lower drawer or
plate is pulled, the coin connects the two drawers together and the upper drawer is
brought forward at the same time as the lower drawer or plate. Thus the space cut
in the top drawer is brought forward and away from the plate of metal that retained
the sweets while the drawer was closed, letting the sweets fall through a cut in the
lower drawer or plate, down a chute or slide towards the front of the box.
About the same time, the coin being now only held up by the pressure of the groove
in the upper drawer and that in the lower plate, having been slid off the metal plate
that retained it in position while the drawers were closed, as soon as that pressure is
removed, it falls down a hole into the space in the bottom of the box reserved for the
money. A small aperture in front of the box is made to catch the falling sweets, and
a lock and key or similar fastening at the back of box allows of recharging sweets
receptacle and removing money. I vary the shape as well as modify the mechanism
of this Sweet Delivering Automatic Money Box.
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COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Money Boxes.
I HENRY CHARLES BRAUN of 33 & 35 Duke Street Liverpool in the County of
Lancashire formerly of 28 Clipstone Street London in the County of Middlesex,
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 :-
A small case of metal, wood &c. of suitable shape and design having a receptacle
for sweets in the upper part thereof and a space in the lower portion into which the
money falls. Dividing the top part from the bottom about the middle of the box
is a sliding tray or drawer (D) which forms the base or movable bottom of the sweets
receptacle. In one side of this tray or drawer is cut a hole (E) into which a few

page_text: sweets fall when the tray or drawer is in its closed position. While in this position
the lower part of the hole is closed by a metal plate (G) so that the sweets are
prevented from falling through the said hole. In another part of this sliding drawer
or tray preferably at the side opposite the hole for the sweets and immediately under
a money slot cut in the external case is cut a groove into which money falls when put
in from the outside. Under this sliding tray or drawer may be another tray or
drawer or a plate of metal attached to a wooden block (F) having a corresponding
slot or cut for the reception of coin. The lower or under tray, drawer or plate of
metal extends to the front of the box and can be moved or partially withdrawn by a
knob, ring or handle attached to it (H) and which can be drawn forward or pushed
back without actuating or moving the upper drawer or tray. While the upper tray is
in its normal position that is to say closed the sweets are retained by the before-
mentioned plate of metal (G) the second-named or under tray, drawer or plate of
metal sliding between this upper drawer and the said retaining plate of metal (G).
While the drawers are closed, a small projection formed on this retaining plate (K)
serves to support the coin which being dropped into the money slot in the front of the
box (J) falls partly through the coin groove in the upper tray or drawer (D) and
partly through the lower tray drawer or plate of metal (F) and rests on its edge
on the said projection on the retaining plate. In this upright position the coin
forms the junction between the two trays or drawers. Upon pulling the knob, ring
or handle attached to the lower drawer, tray or plate of metal the coin is drawn
forward drawing thereby the upper tray with it and thus removing the hole (E)
containing the sweets off and away from the retaining plate (G) the few sweets
contained in that hole escape at the bottom and fall down a chute or inclined space
into the front of the box (C). About the same time as the sweets fall down the
chute, the coin having been slid off the metal projection (K) that held it in position
while the drawers were closed falls into the part of the box reserved for money the
pressure which kept it fast between the two slots having been removed.
A small channel is made in front of the chute to catch the falling sweets.
A lock and key is placed on the back of the box which may be hinged so that
access can be had to the interior of the box for the purpose of re-charging the
receptacle with sweets removing the money &c. from the lower portion. A small
piece of metal &c. is placed in the upper part of the box over the tray inclined in
such manner as to let the sweets fall into the hole (E) which acts as a sort of
guage to measure the quantity of sweets withdrawn for each coin. There is a metal
division between the chute for the sweets and the space for the falling coins. I make
the top of the box conical or flat and also modify the general shape of the external
case.

page_text: 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. In a case or box of suitable size and design for a Money Box or Savings Bank
for children, a receptacle for loose sweets of various sizes and the mechanism by which
some of the said sweets may be withdrawn upon the insertion of a coin substantially as ·
herein described and set forth.
2. In a money box or savings bank the employment of one or more trays or
drawers either used by themselves or in conjunction with plates of metal sliding
over or partially over each other one or either of them to be free to move or slide
in or out, the other to be actuated or withdrawn only when a coin is inserted in
such manner and place as to unite the two sliding trays drawers or plates of metal
or cause them, upon the partial withdrawal of one of them to move or withdraw the
other tray or drawer.
3. I claim the right of employing in a Money Box or savings bank a groove or
coin slot cut through two or more parts of the actuating mechanism, part of which
groove or channel is free to move at will without affecting the other portion, the
withdrawal of such other portion being only effected when a coin is placed in such
position that it is held between the two or more parts of the said groove or slot in such
manner that in drawing forward or pushing back one part the coin impinges on the
sides of the other part of the groove and so actuates the delivering mechanism sub-
stantially as herein set forth.
4. The employment by means of which sweets of various sizes can be delivered
from the same box by means of a hole to guage the quantity of the sweets and thus
save the necessity of having specially-made sweets for the box.
5. I claim the right to modify the mechanism in such a way as to be able to produce
the Savings Bank at a lower cost, without involving the principle of action.
6. The right to modify or change the shape or design as I may think fit.
7. The combination in the form of a toy of a money box and the mechanism for the
delivery of loose sweets.
Dated this 26th dove of Autoen