Improvements in or connected with Money Boxes.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Mar., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 21st Dec., 1891-Accepted, 6th Feb., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with Money Boxes.
I, CHARLES HAY TRAISE BIKKER, Junior, of 53, Charlotte Road, Birmingham,
Warwickshire, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention consists in constructing money boxes) and more particularly toy
money boxes) substantially as hereinafter described so that the act of inserting in
the box a penny (or other coin or token for which the money box is adapted)
will turn a cylindrical register and indicate the number of coins which have been
inserted in the box and at the same time if desired deliver a sweetmeat or other
small article from the box and exhibit a picture or device through an opening or
openings therein, and the money box is or may be so arranged that it cannot be
opened until a certain number of pennies (or other coins or tokens for which the
money box is adapted) have been deposited therein.
In carrying out this invention I provide a cylindrical metal or other box con-
taining an inner cylinder fitting easily in the said box and free to be turned therein.
One portion of the periphery of this cylinder is divided into compartments each
containing a sweet or other small article and there is an opening in the box corre-
sponding with one of the compartments so that when the cylinder is turned round in the
box to bring one of the compartments opposite the hole the sweet or other small
article in that compartment will fall out. Another portion of the periphery of the
cylinders has numbers from 1 upwards corresponding with the said compartments
which numbers are respectively exposed one at a time through a corresponding
opening in the box. Another portion of the periphery of the cylinder is divided
into equal spaces corresponding with the said numbers and compartments and each
space bears a picture or device which as the cylinder is turned are in succession
exposed to view through an opening in the box for that purpose.
Each time a coin (say a penny) for which the box is adapted, is inserted in the
box the cylinder is thereby turned round far enough to deliver one sweet or other
small article and expose a fresh picture or device and a higher number through
their respective openings until when the cylinder has been turned once round all
the compartments will be empty and the highest number (corresponding with the
number of coins in the box) will be recorded. The compartments can be refilled
through the said opening in the box.
In order to cause the cylinder to be turned through a space equal to one com-
partment by the act of inserting a penny in the box, the top of the cylinder has an
inner flange furnished with radial slots at equal distances apart corresponding with
the compartments and numbers. The top of the box is furnished with a lid in which
is a slot or hole corresponding in width with two of the slots in the flange of the
cylinder and the space between them and made with one long and one short side.
The short side of the slot is less than the diameter of the coin (say a penny) which
the box is constructed to hold and the slot gradually lengthens to the other side
which is of the same or about the same length as the penny. This slot or hole in
the lid is almost closed by a slide underneath the lid in which slide there is a
narrow slot large enough for the penny to pass through and this slide is normally
pressed by a spring against the short side of the slot or hole in the lid.
When the coin (say a penny) is inserted in the slot in the slide it also engages
with one of the notches in the flange of the cylinder underneath and by it the
cylinder can be turned through one space and then passed through the slot into the
box. The slide will then resume its normal position. The shape of the hole in
the lid prevents the penny being pushed through the slot until the cylinder has been

page_text: turned through one space and also prevents the cylinder being turned farther than
one space.
A ratchet or other like means may be used to prevent the cylinder
being turned back.
In order to lock the lid I provide an angle pin on the underside thereof to engage
with the flange of the cylinder and I'make one of the said slots (say that corre-
sponding with zero) in the flange of the cylinder deeper than the others so that the
lid can only be opened when that long slot matches the angle pin..
The said money, box can either be made with the sweet delivery part, the register
and the pictures in combination as above described or either one or two of these
may be dispensed with.
The compartments, register and pictures or one or two of them may be arranged
in the bottom or end of the cylinder instead of in the periphery thereof.
Dated this 20th day of March 1891.
CHARLES BOSWORTH KETLEY,
Agent for the Applicant..
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with Money Boxes.
I, CHARLES HAY TRAISE BIKKER, Junior, of 53, Charlotte Road, Birmingham,
Warwickshire, Engineer, 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 consists in constructing money boxes (and more particularly toy
money boxes) substantially as hereinafter described so that the act of inserting in
the box a penny (or other coin or token for which the money box is adapted) will turn
a cylindrical register and indicate the number of coins which have been inserted in
the box and at the same time if desired deliver a sweetmeat or other small article
from the box and exhibit a picture or device through an opening or openings
therein, and the money box is or may be so arranged that it cannot be opened until
a certain number of pennies (or other coins or tokens for which the money box is
adapted) have been deposited therein.
I will describe my invention by referring to the accompanying drawings on which
Fig. 1 represents in elevation and Fig. 2 in plan a money box constructed according
to this invention; Fig. 3 is a sectional elevation of the same, Fig. 4 is an elevation
and Fig. 5 a plan of the inner cylinder of the same separately; Fig. 6 is a sectional
plan of the said money box; Fig. 7 is a sectional elevation of the lid of the same
separately; Fig. 8 shews the slide of the said money box separately in front and
side elevations and in plan; Fig. 9 is a sectional elevation and Fig. 10 is a plan of a
modification of my invention.
The same letters of reference indicate the same or corresponding parts in all the
figures of the drawings.
b
In carrying out this invention I provide a cylindrical metal or other box a con-
taining an inner cylinder fitting easily in the said box and free to be turned
therein. One portion of the periphery of this cylinder is divided into compart
ments c in this case twenty four in number each containing a sweet d or other small
article and there is an opening e in the box a corresponding with one of the compart-
ments c so that when the cylinder is turned round in the box a to bring one of the com-
partments c opposite the hole e the sweet or other small article d in that compartment
will fall out through the hole e. Another portion of the periphery of the cylinder b
has numbers from 1 upwards in this case from 1 to 24 corresponding with the com-
partments which numbers are respectively exposed one at a time through a
corresponding opening g in the box a. Another portion h of the periphery of the
cylinder is divided into equal spaces corresponding with the said numbers and
compartments and each space bears a picture or device which as the cylinder a is

page_text: turned are in succession exposed to view through the opening i in the box for that
purpose.
Each time a coin (say a penny) for which the box is adapted, is inserted in the
box a the cylinder is thereby turned round far enough to deliver one sweet d or
other small article and expose a fresh picture or device and a higher number through
the respective openings ey and until when the cylinder 6 has been turned once
round all the compartments e will be empty and the highest number (corresponding
with the number of coins in the box) will be recorded. The compartments e can be
refilled through the said opening in the box, or by removing the lid.
In order to cause the cylinder b to be turned through a space equal to one com-
partment c by the act of inserting a penny in the box, the top of the cylinder b has
an inner flange k furnished with radial slots at equal distances apart (see
Figs. 5 and 6) corresponding with the compartments c and numbers. The top of
the box is furnished-with a lid in which is a slot or hole m corresponding in width
(see Fig. 6) with two of the slots in the flange of the cylinder b and the space
between them and made with one long side m¹ and one short side m. The short
side m of the slot is less than the diameter of the coin (say a penny) which the box
is constructed to hold and the slot lengthens to the other side m¹ which is of the
same or about the same length as the diameter of the penny. This slot or hole m¹ m
in the lid is almost closed by a slide n underneath the lid in which slide there
is a narrow slot n' long enough for the penny to pass through and this slide n is
normally pressed by a spring o against the short side m of the slot or hole in the
lid. The slide n is pivotted to the lid j at n² and the slide is by preference con-
tinued at 3 through a slot in the box for convenience in moving the slide to and
fro. The lid j may either be made with a domed top as shewn in Figs. 1, 3 and 7,
or as shewn in Figs. 9 and 10, the top of the lid may be flat. When the lid is made
with the domed top there is a slot therein for the insertion of the coin immediately
over the narrow side of the slot m in the lower part of the lid and there are two
upwardly projecting side pieces n n on the lever n between which the coin rests
when it is inserted in the slot so as to keep the coin upright.
When the coin (say a penny) is inserted through the slot into the slot n' in
the slide it also engages with one of the notches in the flange of the cylinder b
(see Fig. 3) underneath, thus locking the slide n.and the inner cylinder together
so that by moving the slide round through the space of one compartment, that is
as far as the slot m will allow, the cylinder bis likewise turned through the same
distance and as the penny has then arrived at the wider part of the slot the
penny falls through to the bottom of the box. Upon the slide n being released
it is then by the spring o caused to resume its normal position shewn in Fig. 6.
It will be seen that the shape of the hole m in the lid prevents the penny being
pushed through the slot n' until the cylinder 6 has been turned through one space
and also prevents the cylinder 6 being turned farther than one space.
A ratchet p
or other like means may be used to prevent the cylinder being turned back.
In order to lock the lid after the first penny has been inserted therein and to
cause the lid to remain locked until the twenty-four pennies have been deposited in
the box I provide two angle pins q' 7" (or a single angle pin may be used) on the
underside of the lid (see Figs. 6 and 7) to engage with the flange k of the cylinder b
and I make two of the slots in the flange deeper than the others by making side
notches therein so that when the cylinder b is turned so that its last division
appears through the opening y the angle pins 9' 2 will match the notches and
the lid can-be placed on the box, but directly the cylinder has been turned through
one notch the lid is locked as the angle pins engaging with the flange k prevent
the lid being removed until the cylinder has made a complete revolution.
b
When the domed top is dispensed with as shewn in Figs. 9 and 10 the slide n
does not require to be produced through the side of the box and the slide n and
cylinder are turned by the coin itself when it has been inserted in the slot m in
the lid and the slot n' in the slide as above described.
The said money box can either be made with the sweet delivery part, the register

page_text: and the pictures in combination as above described or either one or two of these may
be dispensed with.
The accompanying drawings shew what I consider to be the best way for carrying
my said invention into practice but it is to be understood that my invention is not
limited to the precise details shewn as for instance, without departing from the
nature of my invention, the compartments register and pictures or one or two of
them might be arranged in the bottom or top of the cylinder to shew through
corresponding openings in the top or bottom of the box a.
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 money box and in combination an inner cylinder such as having its
periphery divided into equal spaces and furnished with a notched upper part such
ask the said money box having a slotted slide such as n underneath the coin slide
in the lid, these parts being so arranged that when a coin is inserted in the slot in
the lid and in the slide the said coin also engages with one of the notches in the
cylinder and locks the cylinder and slide together but the coin cannot fall into
the box until the slide and cylinder have been turned through one division when the
coin falls into the box and it is registered by the position of the cylinder relatively
to the box substantially as herein before described.
2. In a money box and in combination an inner cylinder such as having its
periphery divided into equal spaces and compartments adapted to hold sweets or
other small articles, and furnished with a notched upper part such as k, the said
money box having a slotted slide such as n underneath the coin slit in the lid, these
parts being so arranged that when a coin is inserted in the slot in the lid and in the
slide the said coin also engages with one of the notches in the cylinder and locks
the cylinder and slide together but the coin cannot fall into the box until the slide
and cylinder have been turned through one division when the coin falls into the
box and the contents of one of the compartments is delivered through an aperture
in the box, substantially as hereinbefore described.
3. The construction and combination of parts constituting the improved money
box arranged for joint operation and use substantially as hereinbefore described and
illustrated by Figs. 1 to 8 of the accompanying drawings whether the cylinder b
has the compartments figures and pictures or only one or two of them as herein-
before set forth.
4. The construction and combination of parts constituting the improved money
box arranged for joint operation and use substantially as herein before described and
illustrated by Figs. 9 and 10 of the accompanying drawings whether the cylinder b
has the compartments figures and pictures or only one or two of them as hereinbefore
set forth.
5. In a money box of the kind denoted under the preceding claims and in
combination with the notched upper part such as k of the cylinder b, the means herein
described for locking the lid after the cylinder has been turned through one dimen-
sion and then unlocking the lid after the cylinder has been turned through a certain
distance substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated by the accompanying
drawings.
Dated this 19th day of December 1891.
CHARLES BOSWORTH KETLEY,
Agent for the Applicant.