Improvements in Prepayment Gas Meters.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 24th Nov., 1899
Commiete Specification Left. 7th Aug 1900-Accented 24th Nov.
1000
Date Application, QTLI NOV., 1999
Complete Specification Left. 7th Aug. 1900-Accepted, 28th Nov, 1000
Improvements in Prepayment Gas Meters.
We, FRANK WRIGHT'S PRE-PAYMENT GAS METER CORPORATION LIMITED, of
62, Glengall Road, Old Kent Road, Manufacturers, and JOHN DANIEL FORSTER,
of 230B, Commercial Road, Peckham, Engineer, both in the County of London,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in prepayment gas meters, the object
being to provide an improved construction of box or receptacle for coins passed
through the mechanism.
Such boxes or receptacles as usually made comprise an outer case fixed rigidly
to the meter and an inner removable box.
Now, according to the invention we construct a coin receptacle of a single box
arranged to be detachably secured externally to the meter. This box has at
its upper part an orifice adapted to be brought into coincidence with an orifice
in the meter casing and through which the coins discharged by the mechanism are
passed. The money box is made of considerable depth so that a relatively large
space is provided beneath the orifice for storing coins supplied to the meter.
To attach the box to the meter it is advantageously formed with downwardly pro-
jecting pins at its upper and lower ends, which pins are adapted to be passed
into eyes secured to the meter casing, a padlock or the like being also provided
for locking the box in its place.
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1000
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London,
Agents for the Applicants.
Improvements in Prepayment Gas Meters.
We, FRANK WRIGHT'S PRE-PAYMENT GAS METER CORPORATION LIMITED, of
62, Glengall Road, Old Kent Road, Manufacturers, and JOHN DANIEL FORSTER,
of 230B, Commercial Road, Peckham, Engineer, both in the County of London,
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:-
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This invention relates to improvements in prepayment gas meters, the object
being to provide an improved construction of box or receptacle for coins passed
through the mechanism.

page_text: Such boxes or receptacles as usually made comprise an outer case fixed rigidly
to the meter and an inner removable box.
Now, according to the invention we construct a coin receptacle of a single box
arranged to be detachably secured externally to the meter. This box has at
its upper part an orifice adapted to be brought into coincidence with an orifice
in the meter casing and through which the coins discharged by the mechanism. are
passed. The money box is made of considerable depth so that a relatively large
space is provided beneath the orifice for storing coins supplied to the meter.
To attach the box to the meter it is advantageously formed with downwardly pro-
jecting pins at its upper and lower ends, which pins are adapted to be passed
into eyes secured to the meter casing, a padlock or the like being also provided
for locking the box in its place.
In the accompanying drawing:-
Figure 1 is a sectional elevation of a portion of a meter having the improved
coin box or receptacle; and
Figure 2 is an elevation at right angles to Figure 1.
c is the
a is the meter casing and b is the single box forming the coin receptacle, the
said box being of a length such that it extends practically to the bottom of the
meter a thus providing space for the storage of a large number of coins and
obviating the necessity of frequently removing the box for collection.
orifice formed at the upper part of the said box b and d is the orifice made in the
meter casing, the said two orifices being so placed that when the coin receptacle b
is fitted to the meter a they are opposite one another as clearly shewn in Figure 1.
The two orifices thus together form a passage through which the coins are dis-
charged from the coin-freed mechanism into the coin box b.
e and are the pins at the upper and lower parts respectively of the box b,
the said pins projecting downwards so as to engage the eyes g and h respectively
upon the meter casing a and thus attach the box to the meter.
The box band meter a are also formed with eyes i and j respectively which,
when the box is fitted to the meter, come together to enable a padlock or the
like to be passed through them to securely lock the box in place.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is:
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1. In a prepayment gas meter the employment of a coin receptacle comprising
a single external elongated box having a coin inlet at its upper end, pins at its
upper and lower ends adapted to enter eyes upon the meter casing, and means
for locking it to the meter casing, substantially as herein before described and
illustrated.
2. The improved prepayment gas meter hereinbefore described and illustrated
in the accompanying drawing.
Dated the 7th day of August 1900.
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London,
Agents for the Applicants.