Improved Holders or Receptacles for Coins or the like.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 16th July, 1889
Complete Specification Left, 15th Apr., 1890-Accepted, 17th May, 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Holders or Receptacles for Coins or the like.
1, FREDERICK POPE ANDERSON, of Grosseisle, near Detroit Michigan, United
States of America, Physician, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
My invention relates to holders or receptacles for coins.
By my invention I provide a holder or receptacle for coins which is adapted to
retain the said coins in a similar position to that in which they are placed in an
ordinary rouleau covered with paper or similar material. The said coins moreover
may be easily and expeditionsly placed in position in the said holder or receptacle or
removed therefrom.
In carrying my said invention into practice I provide a piece of metal or other
suitable material of a width equal to a third or thereabouts of the circumference
of the coins, and of any suitable length according to the number of coins which
the device is intended to hold. This piece is bent or curved to a form corresponding
with that of the circumference of the said coins and is provided at its extremities
with suitable projecting portions either formed in one therewith or firmly connected
thereto. These projecting portions extend for a distance slightly beyond the centre
of the coins the edges of which are placed in the said bent or curved piece. To
these projecting portions, which form as it were radii of circles equal in diameter
to that of the above mentioned coins, are pivoted, centrally with the said coins
other projecting portions also forming radii of the same circlos. Upon the other
extremities of these projecting portions either formed in one therewith, or firmly
connected thereto, is provided a bar or piece which is adapted to bear or press
(when moved into position) against the opposite sides of the coins. I prefer to
form this piece with one or more corrugations or flutings so as to increase its
strength and stiffness, and moreover to so arrange it that it has to be slightly
sprung in order to move it into position upon the opposite edges of the coins,
thereby ensuring the latter being held or retained firmly in position in the above
described bent or curved piece.
To place the coins in position in the device, the pivoted piece is turned round so as
to permit the said coins being inserted one above the other, with a portion of their
edges bearing against the bent or curved piece above mentioned, when the latter is
completely filled, the said pivoted piece is turned round so as to bear against the
opposite edges of the column of coins, and thus retain them firmly in position. To
remove the coins from the device it is only necessary to move the said pivoted piece
so as to free the opposite edges of the coins, when the said coins may be removed or
caused to drop out of the device.
Although I have hereinbefore described a convenient and advantageous method of
carrying my said invention into practice it is obvious that I can somewhat modify the
construction of my improved holder or receptacle without however in any way
departing from the nature of my said invention.
D
CTI
1000
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Holders or Receptacles for Coins or the Like.
I, FREDERICK POPE ANDERSON, of Grosscisle, near Detroit, Michigan, United
States of America, Physician, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in
Price 6d.1

page_text: what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement:-
My invention relates to holders or receptacles for coins.
By my invention I provide a holder or receptacle for coins which is adapted to
retain the said coins in a similar position to that in which coins are placed in an
ordinary rouleau covered with paper or similar material. Moreover the said coins
may be placed in position in the said holder or receptacle or removed therefrom in an
easy and expeditious manner.
My said invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawing in which
Figure 1 is a vertical section of one form of my improved coin holder or
receptacle.
Figure 2 is a plan, and
Figure 3 a side view of the same.
In carrying my said invention into practice I provide a piece of metal or other
suitable material a of a width equal to a third or thereabouts of the circumference of
device the coins, and of any suitable length according to the number of coins which the
is intended to hold. This piece is bent or curved to a form corresponding with that
of the circumference of the said coins and is provided at its extremities with suitable
projecting portions a' either formed in one with or firmly connected to the said bent
piece a. These projecting portions a' are bent up at right angles to the piece a
and extend for a distance slightly beyond the centre of the coins which are placed
in the said bent or curved piece the ends of the said pieces a¹ overlapping each other
at about the centre of the coins.
'
To these projecting portions, which form as it were radii of circles equal in
diameter to that of the above mentioned coins, are pivoted centrally with the said
coins, arms or projecting portions & also forming radii of the same circles. The said
arms bare formed integral with or are firmly connected to a cross bar which is
adapted to bear or press (when moved into the position shown in full lines in the
drawing) against the opposite edges of the coins.
I prefer to form this piece with one or more corrugations or flutings as shown in
Figures 1 and 2 so as to increase its strength and stiffness, and I moreover so
arrange the said bar that it has to be slightly sprung in order to move it into
position upon the opposite edges of the coins, thereby ensuring the latter being held
or retained firmly in position in the above described bent or curved piece.
To place the coins in position in the device, the cross bar is turned into the
position shown by dotted lines in Figure 2 so as to permit the said coins being
inserted one above the other with a portion of their edges bearing against the bent
or curved piece a, when the latter is completely filled, the said arms are turned
round so as to hear against the opposite edges of the column of coins and thus retain
them firmly in position.
To remove the coins from the device it is only necessary to move the said arms b
so as to free the opposite edges of the coins, when the said coins may be removed or
caused to drop out of the device.
Although I have herein before described and shown a convenient form of holder or
receptacle it is obvious that I can somewhat modify the construction of the same
without however in any way departing from the nature of my said invention.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is-
:-
The improved holder or receptacle constructed and arranged substantially as
herein before described and shown in the drawing, for the purpose specified.
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, Agents for the Applicant.