An Improvement in Purse and other similar Frames.
Year: 1892

page_text: Complete Specification Left, 5th Apr., 1892-Accepted, 7th May, 1592
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in Purse and other similar Frames.
I, PAUL ALEXANDRE GRENET of 29, Rue des Francs Bourgeois, Paris, France,
Jeweller, 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, which is more particularly designed to be applied to purses,
consists in providing metal-framed or other purses with a coin slit which is normally
closed by a spring-pressed valve whereby to enable coins to be introduced without
the necessity of opening the purse. By this means increased security is afforded
as well as greater facility of verifying the value and number of the coins as they
are placed in the purse. The improvement can be readily adapted to existing
purses without altering either their appearance or dimensions.
The invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings,
forming part of this Specification, wherein
Figure 1 represents a face view, Figure 2 a transverse section, Figure 3 a face
view (partly broken away to shew the improvement) and Figure 6 a plan, of a
purse frame with the improvement applied, the coin slit being closed.
Figure 4 is a cross-section, shewing the valve which closes the slit pushed open
by the insertion of a coin.
Figure 5 shews the purse frame opened in the ordinary way.
In
a is a slit or rectangular aperture formed in the upper meeting edges of the two
halves of the purse-frame at which the coins may be inserted. Said slit is normally
pivoting
closed by a valve or trap door b provided at the underside with sockets c c
on an axis d, as clearly shewn in Figure 3. d' is a spiral spring coiled about
axis d, one end of the spring being connected to the valve and the other end
abutting against the purse frame, whereby the valve is returned to the closed
position after the coin has been pushed through the slit, as shewn in Figure 4.
its normal position the valve 6 closes the slit a, as shewn in Figures 2 and 6, and
is pushed inwards and to one side by the introduction of the coin, as shewn in
Figure 4. The purse-frame may be provided with any ordinary or suitable
fastening or fastenings, for locking the two halves of the frame together, such as
the knobs shewn or any other. The form of valve as well as the kind of spring
employed may be varied to suit the kind of purse to which they are to be applied.
The coin slit and valve may also be placed in a position, other than that shewn,
between the jaws of the purse-frame. It may be placed, for example, at the front
or rear side of the frame, as shewn by the dotted lines in Figure 1, the edges of
the slit being downwardly directed.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is―
1. A purse or other similar frame having a slit for the insertion of coins closed

page_text: by a spring valve adapted to be opened by the insertion of the coin and which
closes automatically after the coin has been inserted, substantially as specified.
2. The combination, with the herein-described purse frame provided with any
suitable fastening, of the herein-described spring valve adapted to close a slit in
the frame, substantially as herein before described and illustrated in the drawings.
Dated this 5th day of April 1892.
P. A. GRENET,
By A. M. & Wm. Clark,
53, Chancery Lane, London, Chartered Patent Agents.