Automatically Locked Money-boxes for Coin Freed or Actuated Machines.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 20th Dec., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 22nd Sept., 1890-Accepted, 13th Dec., 1880
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Automatically Locked Money-boxes for Coin Freed or Actuated
Machines.
We, ARTHUR RICHARD BROWN, Engineer, of The Park, Harrow, in the County
of Middlesex, and EDWIN CHAMBERS JOHN DEVIS, Engineer, of Laurel Cottage,
School Road, Moseley, near Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
:-
Our invention relates to the collection and removal of the coins used to actuate or
free for actuating machines for delivering articles or information, or providing
amusements of chance in exchange for such coins.
Its object is primarily to prevent fraud on the part of the person who collects the
coins and secondarily to simplify the means of delivering the coin into the money
box after its release from the inechanism.
For this purpose we construct the money box with an opening to which is fitted
a door capable of being locked and unlocked, and we so construct that part of the
machine in which the box is placed that either the withdrawal of the latter from its
place closes and locks the door or the door must be closed and locked before the box
can be withdrawn, while the putting of the money box into its place opens the door
or the latter must be opened before the box can be put in.
The opening in the box is preferably at or near the top and may be of considerable
size, so that the coin need not be so accurately guided after release as at present, and
the motion of the door which closes it can be constrained by guides, hinges, pivot, or
other means.
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1000
ARTHUR R. BROWN.
EDWIN C. J. DEVIS.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Automatically Locked Money-boxes for Coin Freed or Actuated
Machines.
We, ARTHUR RICHARD BROWN, Engineer, of The Park, Harrow, in the County
of Middlesex, and EDWIN CHAMBERS JOHN DEVIS, Engineer, of Laurel Cottage,
School Road, Moseley, near Birmingham, in the County of Warwick 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:-
Our invention relates to the collection and removal of the coins used to actuate, or
free for actuation machines for delivering articles, or information, or providing
amusements of chance in exchange for such coins. Its object is primarily to prevent
fraud on the part of the person who collects the coins, and secondarily to simplify
the means of delivering the coin into the money box after its release from the
mechanism.
For this purpose we construct the money box with an opening to which is
fitted a door capable of being locked and unlocked, and we so construct that part
of the machine in which the box is placed, that the withdrawal of the latter
from its place closes and locks the door; while the putting of the money box
into its place opens the door, or the latter must be opened before the box can be
put in.
The opening in the box is preferably at or near the top and may be of considerable
size, so that the coin need not be so accurately guided after release as at present,

page_text: and the motion of the door which closes it can be constrained by guides, hinges,
pivots, or other means.
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Figure 1. is an elevation of a money box and a sectional elevation of the frame
on which it bangs, the money box being shewn in position to receive the coins, the
door being open.
Figure 2. is a part elevation, of the same box, shewing the position at which the
door is locked on withdrawing the box.
Figure 3. shows a plan of the box.
Figures &5 shew the spring latch of the lock drawn to a larger scale.
The lock which secures the door is on the door itself, and before the box can be
placed in the machine the door must be unlocked as otherwise the picce C on the
door would, on coming against the projection D on the frame, not yield as the lid
would not rise to allow of its yielding. By the action of unlocking, the spring
latch A Fig. 5. is pulled back until the catch B rises into the opening in the top of
the door as shewn in Fig. 4. thus holding the latch back. The money box can now
be inserted in the machine, the projecting sides at the top sliding in the grooves F
formed in the frame. When the curved piece C comes against the projection D the
door opens until catch B strikes against the projection F on the frame pressing the
catch B down and allowing the spring latch A to fly out.
The door of the box thus must be fully open before the door of the machine can be
closed.
The operation of withdrawing the box closes and locks the door, since the door is
pressed down by the inclined piece H coming against the projection D the spring
latch being pressed back and then flying out again as the latch of a door acts when
the door is pushed to.
The door can be caused to rise by other methods for instance by a pin on one side
of the door preferably near the end working in a guide or guides curved upwards
fixed to the frame or casing of the machine, the door being constrained to open and
close according to the path of the guide. Or the door may be pivoted & swing to one
side by a pin on the saine striking against a projection on the frame or casing of the
machine.
It is not necessary to use the frame from which to hang the box but the chief
advantages of using it are that, the boxes can be taken from any one machine and
put back in another, they need not he made accurately only the top plate and door
being made to fit the frame, the box can be hung in any corner of a machine the frame
being supported on two sides only, also a bag could be attached to the top plate
arranged as described if found more convenient than a box.
The box thus locked, the money contained cannot be removed except by the person
in charge of the key.
Figures 6, 7, & 8, shew another arrangement of box in which the door slides,
instead of being hinged, as in the former case. This box must also be unlocked
before it can enter the machine and must remain fully open whilst in the machine,
and be automatically locked on being withdrawn, thus:-The door of the money box
slides in guides inside the box just under the top plate of the latter, and to its forward
end is fixed a spring bar A which passes backwards over the top plate and ends in a
hollow inclined block C which, when the spring A is free, stands higher than the top
of the opening G, through which the money box is passed into the machine, but
which can be depressed below it so as to pass through it. A stop B is fixed to the
case of the machine, just above the block C, and projects below the top of the
opening G so far that the top of the block C cannot pass under it when the latter
is fully depressed. The sliding door is fitted with a spring latch D engaging with a
stop É and arranged in any of the well known ways by which the door locks itself on
being closed but can be unlocked only by means of a key. If the door is unlocked
and partially open, when the box is pushed through the opening G the spring A is
depressed by the iuclined cheeks of coming against the top of the opening G and
the block passes through the opening G and comes against the stop B which
projects between the inclined cheeks and catchos the flat end of the block, and retains

page_text: it as the box moves onwards. The door of the money box is thus drawn fully back
as shewn in Fig. 6. If it is attempted to put the money box in without unlocking
the door it goes in as far as shewn in Fig. 7. and is then stopped by the flat end of
the block C catching against the end of the stop B. F is a bridge piece fixed to the
top of the money box and bridging over the bar A and either depressed at the centre
or made in two parts with a spaco between them as shown in the plan, Fig. 8. so that
the end of the stop B can pass between. When the box is withdrawn the flat end of
the block catches against the case of the machine just above the opening G and
prevents the sliding door moving with the box, that is, it closes the door. By the
time when the latch D has passed over the stop E and the door is thereby locked,
the block C has passed under the bridge and, by the pressure of the latter on its
inclined cheeks has been so far depressed that it can pass through the opening G.
It is obvious that a bag could if preferred be attached to the top plate of the box
the plate sliding in grooves in a frame, or guides fixed to the machine as in the
former case.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what
we claim is :-
1. In money boxes for machines freed or actuated by a coin, an opening fitted
with a hinged or pivoted door and a catch, the latter being automatically released
by the opening of the door on inserting the box in the machine for the purpose of
automatically locking the box by withdrawing the same from the machine substantially
as described.
2. In money boxes for machines freed or actuated by a coin, a spring latch for
locking the door of the box and adapted to be held back in a non-working
position by a catch, and to be released into a working position by such catch
coming into contact with a separate stop for the purpose of allowing the door to be
automatically locked when it is closed on the withdrawal of the box from the
machine.
3. In money boxes for machines freed or actuated by a coin, the combination
of a lock with a sliding door and an automatic closing and locking device adapted
to be actuated by the withdrawal of the box from the machine, all so arranged that
the lock can be actuated by a separate key from outside the box and that the
latter can only be put into the machine after the door has been unlocked.
4. A money box for machines freed or actuated by a coin, having an opening
fitted with a door carrying a lock adapted to secure said door in the closed position
and to be unlocked, from the outside by a separate key, such box being adapted,
when its door is unlocked, to be inserted through an opening into the machine and
to be withdrawn by the reverse motion through the same opening, such motion
operating to close & lock the door automatically.
5. The arrangement and combination of parts constituting the money box and
locking and opening devices as herein before described and shewn in Figs. 1 to 5 of
the accompanying drawings.
6. The arrangement and combination of parts constituting the money box and
locking and opening devices as herein before described and shewn in Figs. 6 to 8 of
the accompanying drawings.
1000
ARTHUR R. BROWN.
EDWIN C. J. DEVIS.