An Improvement in Coin Freed Mechanism for Releasing a Box Lid.
Year: 1897

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in Coin Freed Mechanism for Releasing a Box Lid.
We, ADOLPHE WETREMS, Decorator, and MICHEL DE ZUR-MUHLEN, Gentleman,
both of 87, Rue Stevin, Brussels, Belgium, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to means of allowing by insertion of a coin the opening
of the lid of a box containing articles, such as bon-bons, perfumes, smelling salts,
phials of liquer or the like, such a box being adapted to be fixed to the back of a
seat in a theatre or other place of resort, or to be secured in a convenient position
in a railway or tramway car or other conveyance.
For this purpose, the box is made with a vertical slot down which the coin
descends into a yoke where it rests on two shoulders projecting from one side of
the slot. By means of an external button the yoke with the coin is pushed or
drawn in opposition to a spring till the upper edge of the coin meets the inclined
end of a vertically sliding latch which the coin pushes up. The inclined upper
end of this latch acting against an incline of a horizontally sliding spring bolt,
moves that bolt, so as to withdraw it from a hook projecting down from the lid of
the box. The lid being thus released is partly opened by a spring arranged in
the hinge, and can be farther opened by hand. The coin on release of the external
button being in a position beyond the shoulders which first supported it, drops
into a receptacle below. The lid is preferably made with a glazed opening through
which the contents of the box can be seen.
Dated this 28th day of September 1897.
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicants.
An Improvement in Coin Freed Mechanism for Releasing a Box Lid.
We, ADOLPHE WETREMS, Decorator, and MICHEL DE ZUR-MUHLEN, Gentleman,
both of 87, Rue Stevin, Brussels, Belgium, 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:-
This invention relates to means of allowing by insertion of a coin the opening
of the lid of a box containing articles such as bon-bons, perfumes, smelling salts,
phials of liqueur or the like, such a box being adapted to be fixed to the back of a
seat in a theatre or other place of resort, or to be secured in a convenient position
in a railway or tramway car or other conveyance.

page_text: For this purpose, as shewn in longitudinal section Fig. 1, and transverse section
Fig. 2 of the accompanying drawing, the box is made with a vertical slot A down
which the coin descends into a yoke C where it rests on two shoulders B projecting
from one side of the slot.
By means of an external button D the yoke C with the coin is pushed in opposi-
tion to a spring till the upper edge of the coin meets the inclined end of a vertical
latch P which slides in guides R and which the coin pushes up.
The inclined upper end of this latch acting against an incline of a horizontally
sliding bolt S which is urged to the right by a spring T, moves that bolt, so as
to withdraw it from a hook 0 projecting down from the lid L of the box. The
lid being thus released is partly opened by a spring arranged in the hinge, and
can be farther opened by hand. The coin on release of the external button being
in a position beyond the shoulders B, drops into a locked receptacle M below. The
lid L is preferably made with a glazed opening through which the contents of the
box can be seen.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is:
Coin freed mechanism for releasing a box lid constructed and operating sub-
stantially as described with reference to the drawing.
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicants.