IMPROVEMENTS IN MONEY BOXES TETTED BAYE AND TETT TIPE PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION
Year: 1883

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Ernst August Jahncke, of Canonbury Works, Islington,
in the County of Middlesex, Manufacturer, and Henry William Herbst,
Engineer, in the employ of the aforesaid, for an Invention of IMPROVEMENTS
IN MONEY BOXES TETTED BAYE
AND TETT TIPE
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Ernst August Jahncke and
Henry William Herbst at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the
26th May 1883.
ERNST AUGUST JAHNCKE, of Canonbury Works, Islington, in the County of
Middlesex, Manufacturer, and HENRY WILLIAM HERBST, Engineer, in the employ
of the aforesaid, IMPROVEMENTS IN MONEY BOXES, LETTER BOXES, AND THE
LIKE,
The object of our invention is to provide money boxes or banks and letter boxes
or the like with means or attachments whereby the extraction of the contents
through the slit or opening of such boxes is prevented.
For the purpose of our invention we provide the underside of the lid or cover of
the box or bank, and just under or behind the slit or opening thereof, with a shoot;
or chamber attachment of suitable shape, through which the articles to be introduced
into the box must pass.
In one arrangement, this shoot or chamber is curved, or otherwise shaped, as to
prevent the passage of a knife, or other instrument, through the same and thus
prevent the abstraction of the contents of the box. The exit of the shoot or
chamber is provided with a lipped or rectangular plate working on an axis or hinge,
so that if the box be reversed, or turned over, the lip, which is suitably weighted,
falls over and closes the exit of the shoot or chamber.
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In another arrangement the shoot or chamber is straight, and is provided with a
double lipped plate, also working on an axis or hinge. This plate is suitably,
counterbalanced, and, in its normal position, closes the exit of the shoot or chamber
but leaves the mouth or entrance of the same, under the slit or opening of the box,
open.
On the articles to be introduced into the box falling upon the lower lip,
which closes the bottom of the shoot or chamber, this lip is caused to move back-
wards and the upper lip is brought forward and closes the slit in the box. Upon
the article falling off the bottom lip this latter returns to its normal position, and
opens the slit of the box.

page_text: in fig: 3, thereby preventing theft. Also, by reason of the peculiarly curved
shape of the shoot, the fraudulent abstraction of the contents of the box, by the
insertion of a knife, or other instrument, is prevented.
In another, or modified, arrangement shewn in figures 4, 5 and 6, the shoot B, is
straight, instead of being curved. In this instance the plate O, is double lipped, for
simultaneously opening and closing the mouth and exit of the shoot. This plate C,
which is hinged, as in the former arrangement, is provided with an upper lip f, and
with a lower lip fx. A counter balance weight d, is likewise provided, and in the
normal position (fig: 5) of the plate C, it keeps the upper lip f, backwards, while
the lower lip fx, is over the exit b, of the shoot. On money being introduced into
the box, through the shoot, and falling on the lower lip, this lip is caused to move
away or recede, and the upper lip comes forward and closes the slit a, in the box;
thus the opening and closing action of the double lipped plate C, is simultaneous.
Should the box be inverted, the lipped plate will close the slit, as shewn in fig: 6.
On the money falling off the bottom lip this lip resumes its normal position.
Having now described the nature of our said invention, and in what manner the
same may be performed, We declare that We claim,
1. The shoot or chainber attachment, constructed as described and shewn with
reference to figs. 1, 2 and 3 of the drawings, and adapted to be fitted to a money
box letter box or the like, for the purpose set forth.
2. The modified arrangement of shoot or chamber attachment, constructed as
described, and as shewn with reference to figs. 4, 5 and 6 of the drawings, and
adapted to be fitted to a money box letter box, or the like, for the purpose set
forth.
In witness whereof I the said Ernst August Jahncke, on behalf of myself, and
the said Henry William Herbst, have hereunto set my hand and seal this Twenty
sixth day of November, in the year of our Lord 1883.
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