A NEW OR IMPROVED SELF-LOCKING BOX OR APPARATUS FOR RECEIVING AND SECURING CASH PADERS SELF-LOCKING Box or ApparatuS FOR RECEIVING AND SECURING CASH PADERS, OR OTHER ARTICLES.
Year: 1875

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Matthew Watson, of Springburn, in the County
of Lanark, and John Anderson, of Paisley, in the County of
Renfrew, North Britain, for the Invention of "A NEW OR IMPROVED
SELF-LOCKING BOX OR APPARATUS FOR RECEIVING AND SECURING CASH PADERS
SELF-LOCKING Box or ApparatuS FOR RECEIVING AND SECURING CASH PADERS,
OR OTHER ARTICLES.
"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Matthew Watson and
John Anderson at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents
with their Petition, on the 16th March 1875.
We, MATTHEW WATSON, of Springburn, in the County of Lanark, and
JOHN ANDERSON, of Paisley, in the County of Renfrew, North Britain,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention of "A NEW OR IM-
PROVED SELF-LOCKING BOX OR APPARATUS FOR RECEIVING AND SECURING CASH,
PAPERS, OR OTHER ARTICLES," to be as follows, that is to say :-
This Invention which relates to a new or improved arrangement or
construction of self-locking box or apparatus for receiving and securing
cash, papers, and other articles of value, has for its object to prevent the'

page_text: abstraction of such articles from the receptacle containing them. The
box or receiver which is preferably made semicircular or in the form of
an arc and placed with the flat side uppermost, is provided at its interior
with a fixed shelf or ledge radiating from the centre to the circum-
ference of the box, and extending from one side thereof to the other.
Above the fixed shelf or ledge and also radiating from the centre of
the box, a leaf or protector is placed whose length and breadth
corresponds to that of the shelf or ledge. The box or receiver is hung
from a rod extending between side frames, and it is capable of being
moved upwards and downwards through a quadrant or other are around
the said rod. The protector also partakes of a similar motion but at a
greater rate of speed, to effect which it is provided at one or both ends
with a pin or stud extending outwards through a slot in the side frame,
and entering a slot formed in the upper end of a vertical lever centred at
its lower extremity on the said frame. As the box is moved upwards in
the act of opening, a pin or tappet attached to the side thereof acts upon
a pin or stud formed on or attached to the lever which is thereby caused
to raise the protector, so that when the box or receiver is open there is a
space between the fixed ledge or shelf and the protector.
The money, papers, or other articles to be deposited in the receptacle
with which the box or receiver communicates is laid on the shelf or
ledge, the box is then again moved downwards, and after the outer edgo
of the protector passes under the horizontal position, that being the
position at which the entrance to the box is closed, the said protector
becomes locked on the top of the article and is prevented from being
again raised until the box is empty, that is, until the article has been
deposited in the receptacle underneath. Besides locking the protector
the box itself is also locked, and for these purposes an arrangement of
mechanism consisting of two bent levers centred on different studs and
attached together by one of their ends is employed. One of the levers
locks the protector by an end thereof coming in contact with a heel or
stop attached to the protector, and the box is prevented from being
opened without depositing its contents by a stud or tappet on the box
striking against the back of a sneck or catch attached to the other
lever.
The levers and the sneck or catch are provided with springs to permit

page_text: receive contents.
The mechanism for effecting the operations herein-before described
may be situated at one side of the box only, or it may be duplicated and
5 placed at both sides.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Matthew Watson and John Anderson in the Great
Seal Patent Office on the 15th September 1875.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, wc, MATTHEW
WATSON, of Springburn, in the County of Lanark, and JOHN ANDERSON,
of Paisley, in the County of Renfrew, North Britain, send grecting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Sixteenth day of March, in the year
of our Lord One thousand cight hundred and seventy-five, in the 38th
year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and
grant unto us, the said Matthew Watson and John Anderson, Her
special license that we, the said Matthew Watson and John Anderson,
our executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the
said Matthew Watson and John Anderson, our executors, admini-
strators, or assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others,
from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term therein
expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend,
within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel
Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "A NEW OR IMPROVED SELF-
LOCKING BOX OR APPARATUS FOR RECEIVING AND SECURING CASE, PAPERS, OR OTHER
ARTICLES," upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the said
Matthew Watson and John Anderson, by an instrument in writing
under our hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to
be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent
Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the date
of the said Letters Patent.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said Matthew
Watson ца
Anderson, do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention, and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following statement, reference being had
to the accompanying Drawings and to the letters and figures marked 5
thereon, that is to say :-
0
Our said Invention which relates to a new or improved arrangement
or construction of self-locking box or apparatus for receiving and
securing cash, papers, and other articles of value, has for its object to
prevent the abstraction of such articles from the receptacle containing 1
them.
And in order that our said Invention may be properly understood we
now proceed more particularly to set forth the system, mode, or manner
in or under which the same is or may be used or practically carried into
effect, reference being had to the annexed Sheet of Drawings and to tho
letters and figures marked thereon, that is to say :-
On the Sheet of Drawings hereunto appended Figuro 1 is a front
elevation of one form of receptacle which may be employed to contain
the box or receiver constructed in accordance with our said Invention,
and in which the cash, papers, or other articles after passing through
the box or receiver become deposited.
Figure 2 is a transverse section of the receptacle and of the box or
receiver on the line a, b, Figure 1.
Figure 3 is a front clevation of the box or receiver, and Figures 4
and 5 are elevations of the ends thereof marked respectively A and B,
Figure 3.
The position of the box when open to receive the articles which are to
be deposited in the receptacle beneath is also illustrated at Figure 4, and
in dotted lines at Figures 3 and 5 of the Drawings. As shewn by these
Figures the box C is made curved on its under side, and it is provided at
its interior with fixed shelves or ledges D and E, extending from the
circumference towards the centre of the box, and from one side thereo
to the other. Between the fixed shelves or ledges D, E, and also
radiating from the centre of the box a movable leaf or protector F is
placed, the form of which in transverse section is seen at Figure 2, and
whose length and breadth correspond to that of the shelves or ledges I

page_text: and E. The box or receiver C is hung by means of brackets a from a
rod G extending between side frames H within which the box is placed,
and the protector F is also hung from the said rod by brackets b, as
more particularly seen at Figure 2. The side frames Haro bound
together by ties c at their upper and under sides, and their under sides at
d also rest upon or are fixed to ridges or strips e secured to the inside of
the receptacle I, by which means the box C and apparatus in connexion
therewith is supported in position. The box or receiver C and the
protector F are capable of moving upwards and downwards through a
quadrant or other are round the rod G, the motion of the protector being
at a greater rate of speed than that of the box.
To effect the quicker movement of the protector F it is provided at
one or both ends with a heel e, extending through a slot formed in the
side of the box C and in the frame H. In the heel a pin or study is
formed or fixed which enters a slot formed in the upper end of a vertical
lever J, centred at its lower extremity on the frame H, as shewn. A
pin or tappet K is attached to the side of the box C, which whilst tho
box is being moved upwards in the act of opening bears upon a pin or
stud K' formed on or attached to the lever J, as seem more particularly
in detail at Figure 6, which is thereby caused to raise the protector F,
so that when the box or receiver C is fully open there is a space between
the fixed ledge or shaft D and the protector F, whilst the ledge E and
the protector are close to one another, as shewn in dotted lines at
Figures 4 and 5 of the Drawings. In so raising the protector the pin or
tappet K does not act upon the pin or stud K³ of the lever J, until the
surface of the shelf or ledge D is close to or against the surface of the
protector, that is to say, the protector remains in the position shewn at
Figure 2 until an opening appears at the upper side of the receptacle
I, the space between the protector and the shelf or ledge E being then
represented by the arc contained by the side w of the protector and the
line, Figure 2. The protector then begins to rise and when the box C
has been fully opened, the money, papers, or other articles to be de-
posited in the receptacle I beneath are are laid on the shelf or ledge D.
The box C is then moved downwards and in closing the protector F is
caused to move at the same rate of speed as when opening by its own
weight, it being explained that the extent of the downward motion of
the protector is regulated or governed by the bulk of the article contained
between it and the shelf or ledge D. After the protector F has again

page_text: reached the position shewn at Figure 2, it becomes locked on the top of
the articles contained between it and the shelf or ledge D, and it
together with the box C is prevented from being again raised until the
articles have been deposited in the receptacle beneath, the door L of
which is provided with a lock.
Besides locking the protector F the box itself is also locked, and the
mechanism provided for this purpose consists of two bent levers M and
N centred on different studs i, k, and attached together at one of their
ends by a pin l. Under the upper lever M a spring n is placed, and on
the axis of the lever N (the form of which in side and end elevation is
more particularly seen at Figures 7 and 8 of the Drawings) a sneck o is
also centred. A plate spring is secured on a pin fixed in the lever N,
and one end thereof bears against the under side of the sneck o, whilst
its opposite end rests upon a licel formed on the lever N, as shown in
dotted lines at Figures 4 and 5 of the Drawings.
Figure 9 is a side clevation, and Figure 10 an end elevation of the
sneck o, whilst Figures 11 and 12 are respectively detailed views of the
spring . On a bar P fixed to the side of the box C tappets or studs
s and t are formed, which in opening and closing the box C act on the
levers M, N, and sneck or catch o. The lever M is that by which the
protector F is locked by the spring 1 forcing the lever upwards against
the end of the heel e attached to the protector, as shewn at Figure 5 of
the Drawings, the said lever being depressed into the position shewn at
Figure 4, in opening the box by the tappet or stud t acting against the
heel on the lever N, and raising that end of the said lever together
with the catch or sneck o, the heel v on which bears against the part v¹
(Figure 7) of the lever N. By means of this arrangement besides the
locking of the protector F as herein-before described, the box itself may
also be twice locked before the locking of the protector takes place, such
locking of the box being in some degree regulated by the thickness of
the article contained between the shelf or ledge D and protector F.
First. The box may be locked after the stud or tappet t in closing has
passed backwards over the point of the sneck or catch o, at which time the
point of the shelf or ledge D has just cleared the point, and is com-
mencing to open into the receptacle beneath, whilst the shelf or ledge F
by passing under the horizontal position has closed the opening into the
box at, Figure 2. The sneck or catch after the said backward passage

page_text: of the tappet or stud t is forced upwards by the spring, and in
attempting to open the box C before deposition of its contents, the
tappet or stud t strikes against the back of the catch and locks the box..
Second. The box may be locked by the stud or tappet & with which a
similar result takes place in attempting to open the box, after the said
tappet has passed behind the sneck and before the contents have been
deposited. The next action in locking is that of the protector so that
from the time at which the articles are placed between the protector F
and the shelf or ledge D, and that at which they are deposited in the
receptacle I, three locking operations are performed, by cach of which
abstraction of the contents is prevented.
The surfaces of the protector F and that of the shelf or ledge D have
raised strips formed thereon, as indicated at Figure 3, the raised parts on
the protector being placed opposite the indented portions of the shelf or
ledge: These serrated surfaces are more particularly of service when the
box is employed in the collection of papers, as in attempting to open the
box before deposition of its contents, the paper becomes crimped or
grasped between the serrated edges of the shelf or ledge and of the
protector. It is however to be understood that such serrations may be
dispensed with, and the surfaces of the shelf D and protector F made
flat or smooth, and it is also to be understood that in lieu of forming tho
box C as illustrated in end elevation at Figures 4 and 5, it may be made
completely semicircular or in the form of any other desired arc or
segment, and instead of duplicating the lock mechanism and placing one
set thereof at each side of the box as shewn on the Drawings, one set
only of such mechanism may be provided.
Having now described and particularly ascertained the nature of our
said Invention, and the system, mode, or manner in or under which the
same is or may be used or practically carried into effect, we would
observe in conclusion, that what we consider to be novel and original,
and therefore claim as the Invention secured to us by the herein-before
in part recited Letters Patent is,―
First. The general arrangement and construction of the self-locking
box herein-before described and shewn on the appended Sheet of
Drawings, or any mere modification thereof.
Second The looking annaratus herein-before described and shown at