Improvements in Collecting Boxes and Bags for Coins, Letters, and other objects.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 2nd Mar., 1897
Complete Specification Left, 11th Aug., 1897--Accepted, 8th Jan., 1898
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Collecting Boxes and Bags for Coins, Letters, and
other objects.
I, GUSTAV FUCHS, Manufacturer, of 2 Stefansplatz, Vienna I, Austria, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to collecting boxes placed at different localities, and to a
portable collecting bag, into which the contents of the said boxes are to be emptied,
the object being to construct the said boxes and bags in such a nanner, that the
contents of the box may be discharged into the bag without coming into contact
with the person carrying the bag, and that the discharge opening of the collecting
box, as well as the inlet of the collecting bag, can only become free when the base-
plate of the collecting box provided with the discharge opening rests on the top
plate of the collecting bag provided with the inlet opening.
The baseplate of the collecting box and the cover plate of the bag are provided
with corresponding openings, which coincide completely when the collecting box is
placed on the collecting bag.
The opening of the said baseplate is covered with a slide, and the opening of the
said top plate is covered with another slide, each slide being provided with a recess
so arranged that when the slide has been drawn out, its recess coincides with the
baseplate or cover plate to which the slide belongs. The two slides are locked in
their closing position by means of suitable tumblers, similar to those used in
Bramah locks.
The locking slide of the collecting box can only be placed in its opening position
if a pricker or key arranged on the top plate of the collecting bag and adapted to
slide thereon, has issued from its casing and shifted the tumblers of the locking
slide of the collecting box.
On the other hand, the pricker arranged on the top plate of the collecting bag
and adapted to slide thereon can only get out of its casing when a locking pin which
retains the same has been released by mounting the collecting box on the bag;
consequently, as long as the box and the bag are not united, it is impossible to get
the pricker out of its casing.
After the pricker slide has been drawn out, the lock of the box can be opened, and
is secured in the drawn out position by a retaining pawl.
By opening the lock of the box, a pricker or key arranged in the same is caused to
enter the collecting bag and to release the tumblers of the lock of the collecting
bag, so that the latter may be opened.
By drawing out the locking slide of the bag, the retaining pawl of the box lock is
released, so that the latter may be pushed back again, after the lock of the bag has
been opened.
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The apparatus therefore comprises in its construction a notched pin extending
through a slot of the locking slide belonging to the collecting box; also a vertical
pin secured to the inner lock plate of the box-locking slide, said vertical pin having
such a length that, on the box being mounted on the bag, the retaining pin will be
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page_text: pressed down until its notch will be placed in front of the narrow part of the
longitudinal slot of the bag locking slide.
In the locking mechanism of the collecting box there is a toothed rack, a pawl
acting on the said rack and provided with a cam; the locking mechanism of the
collecting bag contains a vertically oscillating lever, which, on the locking slide
being opened, turns about 90 degrees by means of a stop, and on the locking slide
being closed is turned into its previous position by another stop; said lever being
so arranged, that when the box is mounted on the bag, the lever will lie in a recess
formed in the bottom of the box, and when the lever is turned at the time of opening
the locking slide, it will act on the cam of the retaining pawl and lift the same out
of the rack.
The pricker situated in the lock mechanism of the box has a slot and two guide
pins into the said slot enters a lug or block fixed to the locking slide of the box;
the said guide pins are guided in a stationary plate, and the pricker is pressed against
the end of one of the said slots.
The locking slide of the bag has three horizontal tumblers, the projecting bits of
which are situated.at the side of the recess of the cover plate of the bag, and the
pricker has such a shape, that when it makes a pivotal and a lateral motion under
the influence of the displacement of the locking slide of the box, the said tumblers
will be turned and thereby the locking slide of the bag released.
The apparatus also contains a pawl which is pressed away from the pricker slide by
a spring, and the bag locking slide has a face on which rests the bent free end of a
lever, so that on the bag locking slide being opened, the said pawl will be pressed
against the pricked slide and enter a recess of the same.
The top plate of the collecting box carries a notched pin, so placed that when the
box is mounted on the bag, the said pin will enter an opening of the cover plate, and
one of the horizontal tumblers of the box locking mechanism has a continuation
adapted to enter the notch of the said pin when the tumbler is being turned into its
releasing position.
Dated this 2nd day of March 1897.
FAIRFAX & WETTER,
Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Collecting Boxes and Bags for Coins, Letters, and
other objects.
I, GUSTAV FUCHS, Manufacturer, of 2 Stephansplatz, Vienna I, Austria, 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 collecting boxes placed at different localities, and to
a portable collecting bag, into which the contents of the said boxes are to be
emptied, the object being to construct the said boxes and bags in such a manner,
that the contents of the box may be discharged into the bag without coming into
contact with the person carrying the bag, and that the discharge opening of the
collecting box, as well as the inlet of the collecting bag, can only become free when
the base plate of the collecting box provided with the discharge opening rests on the
top plate of the collecting bag provided with the inlet opening. The locking
mechanism is constructed as follows.
The base plate of the collecting box and the cover plate of the bag are provided

page_text: with corresponding openings, which coincide completely, when the collecting box is
placed on the collecting bag.
The opening of the said base plate is covered with a slide, and the opening of
the said top plate is covered with another slide, each slide being provided with a
recess so arranged that when the slide has been drawn out, its recess coincides with
the opening of the base plate or cover plate to which the slide belongs. The two
slides are locked in their closing position by means of suitable tumblers, similar to
those used in Bramah locks.
The locking slide of the collecting box can only be placed in its opening position,
if a pricker or key arranged on the top plate of the collecting bag and adapted to
slide thereon, has issued from its casing and shifted the tumblers of the locking
slide of the collecting box.
On the other hand, the pricker arranged on the top plate of the collecting bag and
adapted to slide thereon can only get out of its casing, when a locking pin which
retains the same has been released by mounting the collecting box on the bag;
consequently, as long as the box and the bag are not united, it is impossible to get
the pricker out of its casing.
After the pricker slide has been drawn ont, the locking slide of the box can be
opened, and is secured in the drawn out position by a retaining pawl,
By opening the lock of the box, a pricker or key arranged in the same is caused to
enter the collecting bag and to release the tumblers of the lock of the collecting bag,
so that the latter may be opened.
In the accompanying drawings, Figs. 3 to 6 show the construction of a collecting
box embodying my invention; Figs. 7 to 12 show the construction of a collecting
bag; Figs. 13 to 17 and Figs. 1 and 2 illustrate in what manner the two are working
together. In particular, Fig. 1 is a side view of the collecting box mounted on the
collecting bag; Fig. 2 is an axial section of the two, the locking slides being shown
in the open position, and the rest of the locking mechanism being omitted for the
sake of clearness; Fig. 3 is a plan of the mechanism of the collecting box analogous to
a section along line x-x of Fig. 2, the locking slide, however, being closed, and the
locking cover omitted; Fig. 4 is a section along line x-x of Fig. 3; Fig. 5 is a plan
analogous to Fig. 3, with the slide open.
Fig. 6 is a section along line x-x of Fig. 3 analogous to that shown in Fig. 4, but
showing a different stage of operation; Fig. 7 is a plan of the top plate of the
collecting bag, with the slide closed; Fig. 8 is a section along line x-x of Fig. 7;
Fig. 9 is a section along line ww of Fig. 7; Fig. 10 a plan analogous to Fig. 7,
after removal of the top plate, showing the pricker in the working position. (The
open position of the slide is indicated by dotted lines).
Fig. 11 is a section along line x-x of Fig. 10; Fig. 12 is the same section, but
with the locking slide of the bag shown in the open position, as indicated by Fig. 10;
Fig. 13 shows sections through the collecting box and bag, along lines of
Figs. 3 and 7, the box being situated above the bag, but at a short distance from the
same; Fig. 14 shows the same section, after the box has been united with the bag;
Fig. 15 is a section along lines x-x of Fig. 3 and y-y of Fig. 7, after the bag has
been united with the box and the box slide has been opened; Fig. 16 is a section
along line of Figs. 3 and 7, before the slides of the box and of the bag are
drawn out; and Fig. 17 shows the same, after the slides of the box and of the bag
have been drawn out.
The circular base plate M of the collecting box (Fig. 2) is provided with a circular
recess A² which, in the closed position, covered over by the solid part of the closing
slide A, provided with a circular recess A¹, and which is hereinafter termed the box
closing device.
In this closed position, the slide A is secured by a number of horizontal retaining
or tumbler plates a¹ a², (Figs. 3 and 5) as well as by a locking pin a adapted to
engage in the slots with which the said plates are provided for the purpose. The
extensions formed on the opposite side of the pivot a³ of the said retaining
plates a, a, when in the "closed" position, are placed on one side of a slot a

page_text: provided in the base plate M, through which slot a pricker is inserted vertically in the.
first instance, whereupon it may be displaced horizontally for the purpose of
disengaging the retaining plates a¹ and a².
After the release of the plates or tumblers a¹, a², the slide A may be moved into.
the "open" position shown in Fig. 5, as will be understood, where, after having been
drawn out more or less, will be retained by means of a spring catch c pivoted to
the base plate M, the catch engaging with the teeth under the influence of the
spring c².
The method of co-operation of the box and bag may be more readily understood,
when it is observed, that the locking device A may not be moved back from the
"open" or drawn out position into the "closed" position, until after the pawl or
catch c has been released from the teeth c¹ by means of the tappet c¹.
On the opposite side of the closing device A there is mounted a vertical plate d³
which is provided with a horizontal slot de (Fig. 4) and also with a short circular
slot d' opening into the said horizontal slot.
In these two slots d6 and 7, the guide pins d³ and d of a pricker dare fitted, the
spring de imparting to such pricker a tendency to take up the position indicated in
Fig. 4.
In the pricker d there is formed a slot d², wherein a pin or stud d¹ projecting from
the locking slide A (Fig. 13) is adapted to engage. When the slide is moved into
its "open" position, the said pin or stud d' will move with it and, owing to the
position of the slot d², inclined at an angle to the direction of motion of the pin d¹,
will depress the pricker d. Yielding to this impulse, the pricker d, being guided by
a slot d describing a circle about the pin d³, will turn in a downward direction, so
that as it leaves the baseplate M it will in the first instance take up the position
indicated in dotted lines in Fig. 6.
By this time, the disengaging pin d¹ of the closing plate A will also have reached
the end of the slot d²; the pin d has therefore entered the horizontal slot do, and
one more movement of the pin d¹ will result in the pricker d being drawn out
horizontally, by overcoming the tension of the spring d.
Above a cut-away portion or notch k¹, provided in the base-plate M, there is a
vertical pink (which is shown only in dotted lines in Figs. 3 and 5, but is shown in
full lines in the upper part of Fig. 13).
An aperture a is furthermore made in the bottom plate M of the box, in such a
manner, that it is partly covered over by the tumbler or retaining plate a², when such
plate has been moved out of engagement. A closing slide B is also provided in the
collecting bag, covering over the opening of the head plate N and having a recess B¹
formed in it (Fig. 2).
This closing device B is retained in its locked position by a series of
tumblers 61, 62, 63 (Fig. 7) adapted to be disengaged by the pricker d inserted
through the aperture dio of the cover plate N.
Along one side of the closing slide B there are provided two stops c and c (Fig. 9)
adapted to impart a rotary movement to a bell crank lever c5, c, just before it
completes its stroke, swinging round such lever at an angle of 90°, in such a manner,
that the arm c5 which in the closed position of the slide B itself occupies the
horizontal position and is embedded in the cover plate N of the bag, comes out of
the plate N at the end of the opening stroke (see the dotted position in Fig. 9) and
may enter the recess c³ provided in the bottom or base plate M of the collecting box,
when the box is placed upon the bag.
Below the cover plate N of the collecting bag, there is furthermore arranged a
slide f¹, which carries a pricker f passing through the plate M and which, while the
slide is at rest (Figs. 7 and 8), is enclosed in a casing f2 arranged above the cover N
of the collecting bag.
The slide is secured in its position of rest by a pin f3 bearing upon a spring f
(Fig. 8), which pin passes through a perforation f of the slide f¹, and through the
plate N, and is guided by a sleeve 8 extending above the cover plate N. The
stop pin f (Fig. 8A) is recessed on both sides on a level corresponding to the shape

page_text: and height of the slide f¹, in such a manner, that it may enter unimpeded an
elongated recess f adjoining the round recess of the slile, when the cut-away
portion f is level with the slide f¹.
While the mechanism is at rest, the pin f³ is retained by the spring f, on such a
level, that what is situated opposite to the oblong slot of the slide f¹, is not the
cut-away, but the solid portion, so that the slide is locked in position. But when
the pin 3 is sufficiently depressed for the cut-away portion f to be facing the slot f',
then there is nothing to prevent the slide f¹ from moving.
In order to stop the slide fin its drawn-out position (Figs. 8 and 12), an
arresting pawl is secured to the lower locking plate N¹, which pawl is repelled
from the slide by a spring g², so that it only arrests such slide, when the notch f
provided in such slide f¹ takes up its position above the hook of the said pawl, and
when the pawl is pressed in an upward direction, so that it overcomes the pressure of
the spring g².
While the closing device. B (Fig. 11) is at rest, neither of these conditions is
fulfilled, with the result, that the slide f is not influenced by the pawl or catch g,
so long as it continues in this position.
But when such catch or pawl g, after the inward movement of the pricker slide f!,
overcomes the pressure of the spring and turns to the position in which it is repre-
sented in Fig. 12 under the action of the incline provided on the closing slide B, the
said pawl g enters the recess f, and the slide fi will be locked in position; which
therefore is the case, when the pricker f and the closing device B have been moved
to the ends of their respective strokes.
When, on the other hand, the closing device B is moved back, the pricker fis
released, and may be withdrawn without hindrance.
The plate N is provided with a notched pin h.
I shall now proceed to describe the manner, in which the collecting box and
collecting bag are jointly operated. For the sake of clearness, it should first of
all be borne in mind, that the respective slides A and B of the collecting box and bag
are in their rearward positions, whilst such box and bag remain separate, and that
they are retained in these positions by their respective retaining plates or
tumblers.
In order to discharge the contents of the collecting box into the collecting bag, the
former is placed upon the latter in the manner illustrated in Fig. 1, so that the
bottom or base plate M. of the box comes to be situated upon the top or cover
plate N of the bag, with the result, that the casing f arranged on the top plate N of
the collecting bag and enclosing the pricker f, engages in the slot or recess a³ of the
base plate M of the collecting box; that the sleeve similarly enters the recess k¹ of
the plate M, and that the notched pin h enters the recess at of the plate M; and
further, that the slot do provided at the bottom of the collecting box takes up its
position above the slot do in the cover plate N, and the slot c³, above the lever c³
resting in the cover or top N of the collecting bag (See Figs. 13 and 14), wherein for
the sake of greater clearness, the tumbler-plates are only shown in sections.
By simply moving these parts together, the pin k projecting from the inner cover
plate of the locking device of the collecting box, in the first place enters the sleeve f
of the arresting pin f³, and depresses such pin just far enough to cause the notched
portion f to take up its position opposite the elongated slot provided in the slide f¹;
so that such slide may now be freely moved in the direction of the arrow 2, Fig. 14,
and brought to the position in which it is shown in Figs. 10, 11, 12 and 13.
In consequence of the slide f¹ being thus moved inwards, the pricker fwill issue
from its case or sheath f2 (Fig. 14) and shift the tumbler plates a¹ a² of the closing
slide A, in such a manner that the slots of such plates come up in front of the locking
pin a of the plate A, while at the same time the rearwardly extended tumbler a²
partly moves in front of the recess a*, or engages in a notch h¹ provided in the pin.h
secured to the top or cover N of the collecting bag; the result being, that the box
and bag are joined together, the moment the pricker f has been shifted.

page_text: In consequence, also, of the inward movement of the slide f¹, the hook-shaped
pricker f, will take its place above the bottom or base plate M of the box, so that the
collecting box and collecting bag are joined also by the pricker.
By drawing out the locking plate A, such plate, owing to the rotary movement of
the tumbler-plates a¹ a², above described, may be moved to the 'open' position
represented in Fig. 2 (in which figure, for the sake of greater clearness, the locking
slides A and B only are shown); in which position the slide A is held by the pawl c.
Again, such outward movement of the plate A has the result of, in the first place,
turning the pricker d, located within its case or sheath, as before stated in reference
to the locking device of the collecting box, in the downward direction, and then
shifting it sideways, so that, after moving past the aperture 10 provided in the cover
plate of the collecting bag (Fig. 15), it engages in the locking mechanism of the
collecting bag and, during the last part of its stroke, disengages the tumblers 61, 62, 63
of the locking slide B.
Now, therefore, the locking plate B of the collecting box is also capable of being
drawn out and moved to the open position (Fig. 2).
In consequence of the locking slide B being drawn out, the stop 7 (Figs. 16
and 17) impinges on the arm ce of the bell crank lever c³, c, and thereby moves such
lever to the position shown in Fig. 17, the lever arm swinging round with it, the
tappet c¹ forming part of the arresting pawl or catch c, in the direction of the arrow 3
(Figs. 3 and 17), whereby the said catch or pawl c is released from the teeth c*, so
that nothing further impedes the rearward movement of the closing slide A.
Owing, also to the movement of the closing slide B, the hook-shaped pricker f,-
which in addition to its own purpose fulfils that of keeping the bag and box together,
as has been described before-is retained in position, owing to the fact that the
pawl g has been pressed into the recess or notch f⁹ of the slide f¹ by the contact
surface or incline g³. Thus the collecting bag and collecting box are securely joined
together, while at the same time the recesses or slots A1, A2, and B1, B2 in the
closing slides A and B respectively, and in the cover plates M and N, are brought
into coincidence (Fig. 2), so that the coins contained in the box may drop into the
collecting bag.
When the collecting box has been completely emptied, it can be separated from
the bag only after first, the locking device A, and next the locking device B, and
lastly the pricker slide f¹, have been moved back to their respective "locked"
positions, and retained in such positions by their respective arresting devices.
In conclusion, a few remarks may be made as to the advantages inherent to the
novel arrangement.
Of the prickers by which the respective tumblers of the closing slides are opened,
not one is visible to the attendant, inasmuch as the pricker d, while at rest, is
entirely enclosed in the casing, whereas the pricker f can only leave its case f², when
the arresting pin f³ has been moved to a certain pre-determined height or level.
After connecting the box and bag, and when the closing device A has been drawn
out, be it even to a very slight extent, the second closing device must necessarily
be drawn out too, as it would otherwise be impossible to move back the first
mentioned device and to detach the box from the bag, and even should any person
succeed in finding out the shape and method of operation of the pricker, he would
nevertheless be able to open the box once only, as he would not be in a position to
close it again, after once opening the slide.
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 collecting box and bag having openings A2 B2 covered with slides A, B,
which openings are caused to coincide by mounting the box on the bag, and are
uncovered by shifting the slides A, B, a slide 1 forming part of the locking
mechanism of the collecting bag and carrying a pricker f provided with a casing f
and extending above the top plate N of the bag, said slide f¹, when the pricker is

page_text: enclosed in the casing f2, being held back by a notched pin ƒ³ guided vertically and
extending through a slot f6, f of the slide; and a vertical pin k mounted on the
inner lock plate of the box, said pin having such a length that, by mounting the box
on the bag, the stop pin f³ is pressed down sufficiently to place its notched part f
before the narrow part of the longitudinal slot of the slide f¹.
2. In a collecting box and collecting bag having openings A2, B2 covered with
slides A, B, which openings are caused to coincide by mounting the box on the bag,
and are uncovered by shifting the slides A, B, a set of horizontal tumblers a¹, a²
forming part of the mechanism of the box and having angular projections extending
beyond the pivot and arranged at the side of a recess a³ formed in the base plate M
of the box in such a position that by mounting the box on the bag the pricker
casing f2 enters the said aperture a³, also a pricker slide f¹ arranged as specified by
claim 1 and having a pricker f adapted to so turn the tumblers a¹, a2 when the
slide f¹ is shifted, that the locking slide A is released by the tumblers.
3. In a collecting box and collecting bag having openings A2, B2 covered with slides
A, B, which openings are caused to coincide by mounting the box on the bag, and
are uncovered by shifting the slides A, B, a locking mechanism for the box comprising
in its construction a series of teeth formed on the long side of the slide A, a retaining
pawl c engaging with the said teeth and provided with a projection cl, and a locking
mechanism. for the collecting bag comprising in its construction a lever c³, ce adapted
to be turned 90 degrees by means of the stop c', when the locking slide B is being
opened, and to be turned back into its former position by the stop c³, when the
slide B is being closed, said lever being so arranged that by mounting the collecting
box on the collecting bag the said lever will be caused to lie underneath a recess c³
formed in the base of the box, and that when turned during the opening of the
slide B, it will act on the projection c¹ of the retaining pawl c, so as to lift the same
out of the row of teeth ct.
4. In a collecting box and collecting bag having openings A² B² covered with
slides A B, which openings are caused to coincide by mounting the box on the bag,
and are uncovered by shifting the slides A B, a locking mechanism for the box
comprising in its construction a pricker d provided with slot d² and guide pins d³, d²,
and a stud d' fixed to the slides A projecting into the slot d² of the pricker d, said
pricker d being completely hidden in the casing when the slide A is in its closing
position, and the guide pins d³, d being guided in the slots 66, 67 of the stationary
guide plates d³, and the slide f¹ being drawn towards the end of the slot de by a
spring ds.
5. In a collecting box and collecting bag having openings A2 B2 covered with
slides A B, which openings are caused to coincide by mounting the box on the bag,
and are uncovered by shifting the slides A B, a locking mechanism for the collecting
bag provided with horizontal tumblers 61, 62, 63, having projections situated at the
side of the recess 10 of the cover plate N of the collecting bag, in combination with
a special shape of the pricker d specified by claim 1, said pricker being adapted to so
turn the tumblers 61, 62, 63 when caused to turn and shift by the shifting of the
slide A, that the slide A becomes.free.
6. In a collecting box and collecting bag having openings A2 B2 covered with
slides A B, which openings are caused to coincide by mounting the box on the bag,
and are uncovered by shifting the slides A B, a locking mechanism for the bag
comprising in its construction a retaining pawl g adapted to engage with the slide fi
and to be pressed down away from the same by a spring 92, in combination with a
contact face g³ formed on the slide B and adapted to support the bent free end of the
lever g, so that in opening the slide B, the pawl g is pressed against the slide f¹ and
enters a recess fo formed in the same.
7. In a collecting box and collecting bag having openings A2, B2 covered with
slides A B, which openings are caused to coincide by mounting the box on the bag,
and are uncovered by shifting the slides A B, a cover plate N of the collecting bag
having a notched pin h so placed that by mounting the box on the bag the said pin

page_text: is caused to enter the recess at of the cover plate M, in combination with an
extension of the tumbler a², so arranged that, when the latter is being turned into
its releasing position, it will enter the notch b¹ of the said pin h.
Dated this 10th day of Amanot 1807
FAIRFAX & WETTER,
37 and 39, Essex Street, Strand, London, Agents.