Improvements in Receptacles for Coin and other analogous articles.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 11th Apr., 1892
Complete Specification Left. 11th Jan.. 1893-Accepted. 11th May. 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Receptacles for Coin and other analogous
articles.
I, ERNST AUGUST JAHNCKE, of Canonbury Works, Dorset Street, Essex Road,
in the County of London, Metallic Box Manufacturer, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to improvements in receptacles for coin and other analogous
articles, and has reference more particularly to that class of receptacle in which
a receiving plate and a sliding plate or pusher are employed for receiving and
moving forward the coin, or the like, and for actuating the registering
mechanism.
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It is my object to so construct such receptacles that it shall be impossible to
operate the registering and opening mechanism, otherwise than by the insertion of a
coin, or the like, and furthermore that the coin, or the like, when once moved
forward the required distance, so as to actuate the registering opening
mechanism by the sliding plate or pusher cannot be again withdrawn.
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According to my invention I provide means consisting of a spring catch, or spring
catches, so arranged that by the act of inserting a coin, or the like, said catch, or
catches, is, or are, caused to be displaced, and to allow the coin to pass, but resumes
or resume its or their normal position after the coin, or the like, has been moved
forward the required distance and thereby prevents or prevent such coin, or the like,
from being withdrawn.
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In order to prevent the registering and opening mechanism from being actuated
except by the insertion into the receptacle of a coin, or the like, I provide means for
restraining the forward movement of the sliding plate or pusher by which the
registering opening mechanism is actuated in such a manner that said means can
only be removed by the coin being inserted into the receptacle. These means
consist of a spring, or springs, furnished with two or other suitable number of
projections, one of which is so arranged that an abutment on the sliding plate or
pusher comes against it and prevents said pusher from being advanced sufficiently
to actuate the registering and opening mechanism at a moment when no extraneous
means can be inserted to remove it, and when only the coin, or the like, while
passing into the receptacle, will allow the sliding plate or pusher to advance
sufficiently to actuate the registering and opening mechanism. On the coin, or the
like, entering the receptacle, and the sliding plate or pusher being withdrawn
without the coin, or the like, the said projection immediately resumes its normal
position and acts as a stop to prevent the sliding plate or pusher being again
advanced to actuate the registering and opening mechanism without the insertion of
another coin, or the like.
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I also provide means for locking the registering and opening mechanism so that it
cannot be tuned, or otherwise tampered with. while the receptacle is closed: such

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means also acting to more effectually prevent more than the required number of
coins, or the like, from being inserted into the receptacle. These means consist
of a spring-controlled tooth or catch working in conjunction with the registering
and opening mechanism, and this tooth or catch is so arranged that while the
receptacle is closed it can only be disengaged when it is operated by the sliding
plate or pusher when this latter is actuating the registering opening mechanism,
and said means further consist in so arranging the sliding plate or pusher that
while it acts to disengage the tooth or catch when the required number of coins
or the like are being inserted into the receptacle it acts as a check to the advance
of the sliding plate or pusher when the required number of coins, or the like, have
been inserted into the receptacle.
Dated this th
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ERNEST DE PASS,
Chartered Patent Agent,
78, Fleet Street, London, and 6, Victoria Street, Nottingham,
Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Receptacles for Coin and other analogous
articles.
I, ERNST AUGUST IAHNCKE, of Canonbury Works, Dorset Street, Essex
Road, in the County of London, Metallic Box Manufacturer, 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,
reference being had to the accompanying drawings and to the letters and figures
marked thereon, that is to say :--
My invention relates to improvements in receptacles for coin and other analogous
articles, and has reference to that class of receptacle in which a receiving plate and
a sliding plate or pusher are employed for receiving and moving forward the coin,
or the like, and for actuating the registering or opening mechanism.
It is my object to so construct such receptacles that it shall be impossible to
operate the registering or opening mechanism otherwise than by the insertion of a
coin, or the like, and furthermore that the coin, when once moved forward the
required distance, so as to actuate the registering or opening mechanism, by the
sliding plate or pusher, cannot be again withdrawn.
According to my invention I provide means consisting of a spring catch, or spring
catches, so arranged that by the act of inserting a coin or the like, said catch or
catches are caused to be displaced to allow the coin to pass, but resume their
noi mal position after the coin, or the like, has been moved forward the required
distance, and thereby prevent such coin, or the like, from being withdrawn.
In order to prevent the registering or opening mechanism from being actuated
except by the insertion into the receptacle of a coin, or the like, I provide means
for restraining the forward movement of the sliding plate or pusher by which the
registering or opening mechanism is actuated in such a manner that said means
can only be removed by the coin being inserted into the receptacle. These means
consist of a spring, or springs, furnished with two or other suitable number of
projections, one of which is so arranged that an abutment on the sliding plate or
pusher comes against it and prevents said pusher from being advanced sufficiently
to actuate the registering or opening mechanism at a moment when no extraneous
means can be inserted to remove it, and when only the coin, or the like, while
passing into the receptacle, will allow the sliding plate or pusher to advance
sufficiently to actuate the registering or opening mechanism. On the coin, or the

page_text: like, entering the receptacle and the sliding plate or pusher being drawn back
without the coin, or the like, the said projection immediately resumes its normal
position and acts as a stop to prevent the sliding plate or pusher being again
advanced to actuate the registering or opening mechanism without the insertion of
another coin or the like.
I also provide means for locking the registering or opening mechanism so that
it cannot be turned or otherwise tampered with while the receptacle is closed;
such means also acting to more effectually prevent more than the required number
of coins or the like from being inserted into the receptacle. These means consist
of a spring controlled tooth or catch working in conjunction with the registering
or opening mechanism, and this tooth or catch is so arranged that while the
receptacle is closed it can only be disengaged when it is operated by the sliding
plate or pusher when this latter is actuating the registering or opening mechanism;
and said means further consist in so arranging the sliding plate or pusher that
while it acts to disengage this tooth or catch when the required number of coins,
or the like, is being inserted into the receptacle, it acts as a check to the advance
of the sliding plate or pusher when the required number of coins, or the like, has
been inserted into the receptacle.
And in order that my invention may be readily understood, I proceed to
describe the same fully with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which :
Fig. 1 is a plan of the lid within which the mechanism is contained.
Fig. 2 is a plan of the mechanism (the lid having been removed); Fig. 3 is
an underside view of the same; and Fig. 4 is a cross section thereof on the
line 1, 1.
Fig. 5 is a plan; Fig. 6 an end view; Fig. 7 a cross section on the line 2, 2;
and Fig. 8 a cross section on the line 3, 3, showing the sliding plate or pusher.
Fig. 9 is a plan; Fig. 10 a cross section on the line 4, 4; and Fig. 11, a
longitudinal section on the line 5, 5, showing the receiving plate and the parts
carried thereby.
Fig. 12 is a fragmentary view showing a portion of the ratchet wheel forming
part of the registering or opening mechanism.
a is the lid of the coin receptacle; 6 is the receiving plate carrying, on its under
side, the registering or opening mechanism and, on its upper side, the sliding plate
or pusher c. This sliding plate or pusher has, as usual, an opening c¹ which, by
means of the thumb piece projecting through a slot a² (Fig. 1) can be brought
to coincide with the opening a' in the lid so as to receive the coin, or with the
opening in the receiving plate to allow the coin to fall into the receptacle. The
act of moving forward the pusher causes a driving pawl or click carried by said
pusher to engage with the teeth of a ratchet wheel d, forming part of the
registering or opening mechanism, and causes this wheel to turn one tooth, thereby
registering the deposit of a coin. The opening c¹ in the sliding plate or pusher is
provided with a flange or lip e, which acts as a stop to prevent the coin from
being pushed along the receiving plate and deposited through the opening 6' unless
the pusher be also moved. This flange or lip also serves another purpose as
hereinafter described. The opening c is also provided with another flange or
lip which serves to push forward the coin when the pusher is operated, and this
flange terminates in an abutment c, which, when there is no coin in the opening c¹,
comes against the first of a pair of stops e³, et, projecting from a flexible blade e
carried by the plate b. As will be seen by Fig. 2, the stop e3 which is required to
prevent the sliding plate or pusher from being pushed forward to operate the
registering or opening mechanism without the insertion of a coin, is so situated
with relation to the opening c¹ that extraneous means might be employed for
operating it for the purpose of allowing the pusher to be moved forward to actuate
the registering or opening mechanism without the intervention of a coin.
To obviate this defect I provide the second stop e, which is situated sufficiently
far under the lid as to insure it being incapable of operation by any extraneous
means. Thus even if the stop e were displaced by extraneous means, the stop e¹

page_text: would still act to prevent the pusher from being moved entirely forward. Further-
more this stop et is so situated that, after the coin has been deposited through the
aperture, should any attempt be made to again operate the registering or
opening mechanism by slightly moving back the pusher to cause the pawl or click
to engage with another tooth in the ratchet wheel d, no sooner will said pusher
have moved back a sufficient distance to accomplish this purpose than the stop e
will immediately resume its normal position and will thus arrest the forward
movement of the pusher and prevent the ratchet wheel from being operated.
In order to prevent the registering or opening mechanism from being turned, or
otherwise tampered with, while the receptacle is closed, I control said registering
or opening mechanism in such a manner that it is locked while the sight hole a*
(through which the graduations on the ratchet wheel d are seen) remains uncovered,
but becomes unlocked directly the sliding plate or pusher is moved forward far
enough to cover the sight hole. This is advantageously effected as follows:-The
ratchet wheel d is formed with notches dx, and I provide the tooth of the retaining
pawl or spring catch f, which normally engages with the teeth of the ratchet
wheel d, with a projection f¹ extending through an opening in the plate b so as
to lie in the path of an incline e with which the pusher is provided. So long as
the tooth of this retaining pawl is in one or other of the notches d* of the ratchet
wheel d, the projection will be raised by the incline each time the pusher is
moved forward far enough to close the opening a¹ and sight hole a*. The raising
of the projection causes the tooth of the retaining pawlf to be removed from
the teeth of the ratchet wheel d which latter being then disengaged or unlocked
will be operated by the driving pawl or click c³ as the pusher moves further forward,
and the deposit of the coin will thus be registered.
To better and more effectually prevent the insertion of more than the required
number of coins into the receptacle I provide the front of the incline c' with a flat
portion c, and the aperture 6, through which the before mentioned projection f¹
protrudes, with an elongated portion *. When the tooth of the retaining pawl f
enters the deep notch d'in the ratchet wheel d, the projection f1 enters the
elongated portion of the aperture 6³ (Figs. 2 and 3) and comes in a line with the
flat end of the incline c'. If now any attempt were made to introduce another
coin into the receptacle, the pusher would be prevented from moving sufficiently
far to deposit it through the opening b', because the flat end 8 of the incline would
come against the projection f'. Furthermore, by reason of the projection fl
entering the elongated portion of the aperture 63 (as seen at Figs. 2 and 3) the
retaining pawl cannot become injured, nor the driving pawl or click e strained,
even if the end of the incline c be pressed with considerable force against the
projection, by a person endeavouring to push forward the pusher.
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As will be seen by Figs. 3, 9 and 10, a guide g is provided on the underside of
the plate b, for the purpose of directing the driving pawl or click e³ into engage-
ment with the teeth of the ratchet wheel when the pusher is moved forward with
the coin. By means of this guide, the operation of the said ratchet wheel by the
driving pawl or click, and the correct registering of the deposit are always
ensured.
The underside of the plate b, also carries a flexible blade / terminating at its
free extremity in an inclined catch or stop ', which normally protrudes through a
slot in the plate b, as is best seen in Figs. 10 and 11. When a coin is being
moved forward towards the opening, by the pusher, this catch or stop is
depressed by the coin coming against the inclined portion thereof, but as soon as
the coin has passed over it, this catch or stop immediately resumes its normal
position. The coin cannot then be withdrawn again, nor can the pusher be moved
back, unless the coin has been deposited into the receptacle, by reason of the flange
or lip c¹ on the pusher pressing the coin against the vertical portion of the catch or
stop h¹. Slots c, co, are formed in the pusher for the purpose of enabling it to pass
free of the catch or stop h', when moved to or fro. Or the slot c may be dispensed
with, and the underside of the pusher at that part which comes into contact with

page_text: the catch or stop h¹, be filed away to form an incline and so allow the above
mentioned catch or stop to be depressed as the pusher is drawn back.
In cases where the receptacle is not required to open after the insertion of a
predetermined number of coins, the notch in the locking disc 2, which is of the
usual construction in this class of box, is omitted, and the catch or other locking
device for retaining the lid closed is released by a key or other suitable means.
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 :-
1. Constructing receptacles for coin, and other analogous articles, in such a
manner that the registering or opening mechanism remains locked, while the
ratchet or registering wheel is exposed through the sight hole and capable of being
tampered with from the outside, but becomes unlocked when the sight-hole is
covered by the sliding plate or pusher and the said ratchet or registering wheel
incapable of being tampered with, substantially as herein before described.
2. In a receptacle for coin, and other analogous articles, the combination with
the ratchet or registering wheel d, of a projection 'standing out from the spring
catch or retaining pawl f and protruding through an aperture 63 in the receiving
plate, and of an incline c' carried by the sliding plate or pusher c and having a
fat portion c, all substantially as described and shown and for the purposes
specified.
3. In a receptacle for coin and other analogous articles, the means for preventing
the deposit of more than the required number of coins, or other analogous articles,
consisting of the projection carried by the spring catch or retaining pawl f
and of the aperture 6 having an elongated portion 6x into which said projection f
enters, simultaneously with the entry of the tooth of the retaining pawl into the
deep notch d¹ in the ratchet wheel d, and lies in the the path of the flat portion c³
of the incline c', substantially as described and shown.
4. In a receptacle for coin and other analogous articles, the use of the stop e* on
the spring blade e, substantially as and for the purposes described and as shown
with reference to the drawings.
5. In a receptacle for coin, and other analogous articles, the means for preventing
the withdrawal of the coin, or the like, after the pusher has been moved forward a
sufficient distance to operate the registering or opening mechanism, consisting of
the inclined stop situated at the extremity of the spring blade carried by the
receiving plate b, and of flanges or lips c, c, situated at the opening e' in the sliding
plate or pusher, all substantially as described and shown.
6. My improvements in receptacles for coin and other analogous articles, sub-
stantially as hereinbefore described and as shown with reference to the annexed
drawings.