An Improved Device for Preventing the Withdrawal of Coins from Fare Collecting Receptacles, Money Boxes, and the like.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 31st July, 1891
Complete Specification Left, 30th Apr., 1892-Accepted, 4th June, 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Device for Preventing the Withdrawal of Coins from
Fare Collecting Receptacles, Money Boxes, and the like.
We, THE DEFLECTOR SAFETY LAMP AND MINERS' APPLIANCE COMPANY
LIMITED, of 349 Chester Road, Cornbrook, Manchester, in the County of Lan-
caster, Engineers and Brass-founders, and ANDREW HOWAT, of the same place,
Managing Director, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention consists in an improved device for preventing the withdrawal of
coins from fare collecting receptacles, money boxes and the like and is particularly
applicable to the fare collecting box for which Letters Patent numbered 8831 and
dated May 28th 1889 were granted to me the said Andrew Howat.
In applying the invention to such a box we secure a number of short lengths of
round wire on each side of the coin slot and inside the box. Two of these wires
one on each side at about the mid-length of the slot are longer than the others and
are set obliquely so that they cross, the free end of each wire being on the opposite
side of the slot to that of its fixed end.
The remaining wires say two on each side of the slot are shorter than the others
and preferably pointed. Instead of the ordinary shoot or slide we surround the
wires with a conical tube or casing the lower end of which is about equal in
diameter to the length of the coin slot which of course is just large enough to allow
the proper coin to pass freely through.
In operation when a coin is dropped through the slot the crossed wires cause it
to turn and pass through the end of the conical tube or casing at right angles
to the coin slot and the arrangement of wires is such as to prevent any practical
possibility of withdrawing the coin when once it has passed through the coin slot
into the conical tube or casing.
We have stated that we employed round wires and these are what we prefer to
use but any suitable equivalents might be employed.
Dated this 30th day of July 1891.
H. B. BARLOW,
Agent for Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Device for Preventing the Withdrawal of Coins from
Fare Collecting Receptacles, Money Boxes, and the like.
We, THE DEFLECTOR SAFETY LAMP AND MINERS' APPLIANCE COMPANY
LIMITED, of 349 Chester Road, Cornbrook, Manchester, in the County of Lan-
caster, Engineers and Brass-founders, and ANDREW HOWAT, of the same place,
Managing Director, 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 an improved device for preventing the withdrawal of
coirs from fare collecting receptacles, money boxes and the like and is particularly
applicable to the fare collecting box for which Letters Patent numbered 8831 and
dated May 28th 1889 were granted to me the said Andrew Howat.
In applying the invention to such a box we secure a number of short lengths of
round wire on each side of the coin slot and inside the box. Two of these wires
one on each side at about the mid-length of the slot are longer than the others and
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page_text: are set obliquely so that they cross, the free end of each wire being on the opposite
side of the slot to that of its fixed end.
The remaining wires say two on each side of the slot are shorter than the others
and preferably pointed. Instead of the ordinary shoot or slide we surround the
wires with a conical tube or casing the lower end of which is about equal in
diameter to the length of the coin slot which of course is just large enough to allow
the proper coin to pass freely through.
In operation when a coin is dropped through the slot the crossed wires cause it
to turn and pass through the end of the conical tube or casing at right angles to the
coin slot and the arrangement of wires is such as to prevent any practical
possibility of withdrawing the coin when once it has passed through the coin slot
into the conical tube or casing.
We have stated that we employed round wires and these are what we prefer to
use but any suitable equivalents might be employed.
And in order that the invention may be fully understood and readily carried into
effect we will describe the accompanying sheet of drawings reference being had to
the figures and letters marked thereon.
Figure 1 is an elevation partly in section of a fare collecting box fitted with the
improved device.
Fig. 2 is an end sectional elevation and
Fig. 3 is a plan of the device and
Fig. 4 is a plan of the interior of the device taken on the line A B, Fig. 2.
The drawings show a fare collecting box of the patented type aforesaid in which
a is the box or money receptacle and the glass upper chamber into which the
coins fall after passing through the coin slot c and before entering the box a.
The improved device consists in the conical tube or casing d which is secured to
the top plate or disc e; this tube at its lower end is about equal in diameter to the
length of the coin slot c which is of the requisite dimensions to just permit the
passage of the proper coin f. Below the coin slot e and to the underside of the top
plate e are secured four short pointed wires gland two long pointed wires g; the
latter are placed one on each side and at about mid-length of the slot c, and are
fixed obliquely so that they cross, their pointed ends entering the recesses / made
for them in the sides of a slot which is formed in the bottom plate or disc i
as shown best in Fig. 4.
In operation when a coin j is dropped through the slot c the crossed wires g
cause it to turn and pass through the slot in the bottom end of the conical tube or
casing dat about right angles to the coin slot c, and the arrangement of wires
is such as to prevent any practical possibility of withdrawing the coin ; when
once it has passed through the coin slot e into the conical tube or casing d. As an
additional safeguard we may pivot two cars or gravity catches kone at either end
of the slot so as to close said slot in the event of the box being turned upside
down; but we lay no broad claim to these catches & as they form no part of our
present invention except when used in combination with our improved device
as shown and described.
We have stated that we employed round wires and these are what we prefer to
use but any suitable equivalents might be employed and any suitable number of
wires other than that shown might be used.
Again the device may be applied to any other type of fare collecting box or to
any money box or similar receptacle.
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
1. The improved device for preventing the withdrawal of coins from money
collecting receptacles, said device consisting essentially in the combination with the
coin slot, of an arrangement of crossed wires placed within a conical tube or casing
substantially as and for the purposes specified.

page_text: 2. The combination with the coin slot c, of the crossed wires 7 and the conical
tube or casing d substantially as and for the purposes specified.
3. The combination with the coin slot c, of the crossed wires g, the short
wires g' and the conical tube or casing d, substantially as and for the purposes
specified.
4. The combination with the coin slot c, of the crossed wires 9, the short
wires g', the conical tube or casing d, bottom plate i and gravity catches k
substantially as and for the purposes specified.
Dated this 29th day of April 1892.
H. B. BARLOW,
17, St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agent for Applicants.