Improved Coin Receiver or Cash Box with Automatic Fastening Appliances when the Box is Pushed in the Coin Freed Gas Meter Casing.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 11th Mar., 1898
Complete Specification Left, 9th Dec., 1898-Accepted, 25th Feb., 1899
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Coin Receiver or Cash Box with Automatic Fastening
Appliances when the Box is Pushed in the Coin Freed Gas Meter
Casing.
I, WALTER ORBELL GREEN, of 33, Boston Park Road, Brentford, County of
Middlesex, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention has for object an arrangement of self locking appliances to a
coin receiver or cash box of a coin freed gas meter on said cash box being pushed
into its proper receptacle in the meter casing but capable only of removal after
a certain side and hidden lever has been acted upon.
For the purpose of this invention I fix a claw catch on the back or other con-
venient part of the coin receiver or cash box and to a casing (meter or other) I
pivot a slightly unbalanced lever preferably from a cross bar thereof which
determines the distance the box can be inserted and by a stop limits the move-
ment of said lever. One end of this lever is within range of a side lever pivoted
to the side of the casing for acting on the first named lever when pressed up by
some thin appliance inserted from the front side, at which there is a stop for
the tail or weighted end of the second lever to abut against.
The weighted end of the second lever ensures the action of the first mentioned
lever to automatically engage the claw hook of the cash box to lock it when
pushed home.
1000
Improved Coin Receiver or Cash Box with Automatic Fastening
Appliances when the Box is Pushed in the Coin Freed Gas Meter
Casing.
I, WALTER ORBELL GREEN, of 33, Boston Park Road, Brentford, County of
Middlesex, 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 has for object an arrangement of self locking appliances to a

page_text: coin receiver or cash box of a coin freed gas meter on said cash box being pushed
into its proper receptacle in the meter casing but capable only of removal after
a certain side and hidden lever has been acted upon.
For the purpose of this invention I fix a claw catch on the back or other con-
venient part of the coin receiver or cash box and to a casing (meter or other) I
pivot a slightly unbalanced lever preferably from a cross bar thereof which
determines the distance the box can be inserted, and by a stop limits the move-
ment of said lever. One end of this lever is within range of a side lever pivotted
to the side of the coin receiver for acting on the first named lever when pressed up
by some thin appliance inserted from the front side, at which there is a stop for
the tail or weighted end of the second lever to abut against.
The weighted end of the second lever ensures the action of the first mentioned
dever to automatically engage the claw hook of the cash box to lock it when
pushed home.
My invention is clearly represented on the annexed sheet of drawings in which
Figure 1 shows a perspective elevation of the money box and its casing affixable
to the front of a gas meter in which any ordinary or special coin receiving and
gas consumption registering mechanism is affixed. Figure 2 perspective eleva-
tion of the catch end of the money box. Figure 3 perspective internal elevation
of the casing in which the money box is lodged and showing the latch by which
the catch of the box proper becomes automatically locked when pushed in far
enough. Figure 4 side elevation of slightly modified catch and latch.
According to Figures 1, 2, and 3, A is the casing with a recessed front from
to b, such as is found essential for the lodgment of the price changer"
apparatus referred to in the specification of Letters Patent granted to Richard
Thomas Glover and John George Glover, numbered 25272 of the year 1894, and
from which the coin after being carried round the "price changer" casing is
free to fall into the money box.
The casing A of the present invention is affixed to the front of a coin slot
meter, and has a side opening into which the money box B can be pushed and
in which it can be locked by a company's seal padlock passed through the loop
of a strap and also through the lug on the box, the strap fitting into the
socket D of the box B, said strap, shown dotted also covering the nick in the
side edge of the box B to prevent tampering, except when the cover strap is
removed by the official to release the datch for removing the box. F is a
weighted latch lever pivotted at G to the side of the box B with a drop motion
limited by the stop I the upward motion being also limited when the end
raised by any suitable tool inserted through the nick E by the stop K, both stops
being on the side of the box B as indicated.
is
The tool referred to for lifting the lever I may be the blade of an ordinary
clasp knife, or a stiff piece of wire, or any appliance that can be passed into
the nick which, as before explained, can only be got at when the cover strap
is removed. L is a balance lever or latch proper on the inside wall of the casing
A and is kept in a horizontal position by the stud pin M projecting from the
casing A but in position for its end N to ride up the nose and into the catch P
which is on the inner end of the money box whereby said box B becomes locked
in the casing A by the simple act of pushing the box into said casing.
When the money box B has to be removed, the end J of the lever F has to
be raised and simultaneously with said lift, the money box must be drawn out
to enable the latch I, to be held clear of the catch P, the latch L then abutting
against the check stud Q.
According to the modified arrangement shown at Figure 4, the catch P inverted
is on the inner face of the casing A, and the lever is notched and its end so
shaped that it can ride under the nose of the catch P before the notch rises to
engage the catch P.
The lever F is the same as that shown at Figure 1 and needs no further
description.

page_text: The strap as shown, dotted, consists of a narrow plate on strip of metal to
occupy a position at the end of the money box B. It has a step or lip for
entering a socket 1 secured to the end of the box B. It has also a lump cat
one edge corresponding in shape, to the bead or rib E of the box B, which
lump e fills up the nick E when the plate is in proper position, this nick being
formed by the removal of part of the bead or rib E from the box B as repre-
sented which the lump on the edge of the plate is to occupy. The upper end of
the strap or strip of metal has a ring shaped lug as shown dotted to occupy
a position adjoining the ring shaped lug C of the casing A, so that when
the two lugs coincide and the bow of a padlock is passed through the two
lugs C,, the plate shown dotted will be firmly secured and the nick E be
closed up.
The nick E in the edge beading of the money box B forms no part of my
invention, neither does the loose or hinged strap with the bottom lip to fit the
socket D and having the upper ring shaped lug c for location to and adjoining
the ring shaped lug Cof the casing A.
Those parts are only shown to indicate one method or arrangement of
appliances by which the money box B can be secured within the casing A after
being pushed in to locate it in front of a coin slot meter, as before referred to.
I have referred to the "Price Changer" invention of Richard Thomas Glover
and John George Glover in connection with the foregoing but I do not limit
myself to the employment of my invention therewith, it being applicable to all
or any money box arrangement affixable to a coin slot gas meter of other con-
structions than that or those of the Glover make.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is:-
1. The latch and catch fastening arrangement of appliances shown on the
annexed drawings as means for securing money box in or to coin slot gas meters,
and acting as described.
2. In a latch and catch arrangement of appliances for locking the money
box of a coin slot gas meter, the freely hung or pivotted latch lever F for opera-
tion on a balanced latch lever L, as set forth and substantially as shown at
Figure 1 of the drawings.
3. The employment of a freely hung latch and notched lever F for direct
action on a catch P for automatically locking the money box of a coin slot
meter, as and in the manner described and represented with reference to Figure 4
of the annexed drawings.
The 0th of Touch 1000
H GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166, Fleet Street, London.
Agent for the said Walter Orbell Green.