Improvements in Connection with Cash or Parcel Carriers.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 24th June, 1887
Complete Left, 19th Mar., 1888
Complete Accepted, 27th Apr., 1888
Improvements in Connection with Cash or Parcel Carriers.
We, FREDERICK NORMAN JONES of 11 Quarry Mount Place, Delph Lane Leeds,
Salesman, and THE LAMSON STORE SERVICE COMPANY Incorporated of 50 State
Street in the City of Boston, United States of America, do hereby declare the nature
of this invention to be as follows:-
In some of the cash and parcel carrying systems now in use a ball or carrier is
allowed to fall or travel down a tube or framework from one level or floor to another.
Where the fall has been considerable it has been necessary to provide means for
preventing the ball or carrier from being broken.
The object of the present invention is to so retard the fall of the ball or carrier as
to obviate these objectionable features and to this end the invention consists in
employing a tube of network or other flexible material through which the carrier
falls, said tube being slightly reduced in area at one or more points or preferably
given a twist so to cause a retardation in the travel of the ball or carrier.
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PHILIP M. JUSTICE,
55 & 56, Chancery Lane, London,
Agent for the Applicants.

page_text: Improvements in Connection with Cash or Parcel Carriers.
We FREDERICK NORMAN JONES of 11 Quarry Mount Place, Delph Lane Leeds,
Salesman and THE LAMSON STORE SERVICE COMPANY Incorporated of 50 State
Street in the City of Boston United States of America 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 :-
In some of the cash and parcel carrying systems now in use, a ball or carrier is
allowed to fall or travel down a tube or framework from one level or floor to another.
Where the fall has been considerable it has been necessary to provide means for
preventing the ball or carrier from being broken and also for preventing the
objectionable noise caused by a carrier falling unchecked from a considerable height.
The object of the present invention is to so retard the fall of the ball or carrier as
to obviate these objectionable features and to this end the invention consists in
employing a tube of network or other flexible material through which the carrier
falls, said tube being slightly reduced in area at one or more points, or preferably
given a twist so as to cause a retardation in the travel of the ball or carrier."
In order that the invention may be clearly understood reference is made to the
accompanying drawings which form part of this specification and in which
Figure 1 is a perspective view of a ball carrier assumed to be travelling down a
frame from a higher to a lower level and just about to enter the retarding tube.
Figure 2 is a plan view on the line v r.
A is the ball carrier, B the framework and C a network tube attached at either end
to a ring D. The top ring being secured in position, the lower ring is turned so as
to give the desired twist to the network tube, and is then secured to the framework,
or if the rings are a permanent part of the frame, the network may be stretched and
twisted and lashed thereto. The amount of twist and the length of the tube will
naturally vary, depending upon the weight of the ball carrier and the amount of
"drop" it is desired to deal with. A network tube about 4 inches in diameter and
two yards long with a double twist has been found to give good results when dealing
with a ball carrier of 31 to 32 inches diameter.
In lieu of twisting the network it may of course be made with a decreased
diameter at one or more points and ordinary cloth, canvas or other flexible material
can be used in its construction.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is
In cash or parcel carrier systems, a retarding tube of flexible material either
twisted or formed with a decreased diameter at one or more points substantially as
and for the purpose set forth.
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PHILIP M. JUSTICE,
55 & 56, Chancery Lane, London,
Agent for the Applicants.