Similar Places.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 19th June, 1888
Specification Accepted, 20th July, 1888
Similar Places.
I, HENRY HARRIS LAKE, of the firm of Haseltine Lake & Co., Patent Agents,
Southampton Buildings, in the County of Middlesex, 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 relates to trays or receptacles which are intended for use in shops and
the like in giving change.
In practice, the customer having handed to the salesman a bank-note or other piece
of money, the change is deposited by such salesman in the tray, which is then used
by the customer in pouring or depositing the change into his hand or pocket book,
thus obviating the necessity of picking up small change from a smooth counter or show
case an act which is often difficult, and always awkward, especially if the hand be
gloved.
In the accompanying drawings, in which similar letters of reference indicate like
parts.
Figure 1 is a flat piece of cardboard, metal or other material cut into the shape
shown, ready to be formed up into a tray.
Figure 2 is a perspective view of the improved tray ready for use.
Figure 3 is a longitudinal vertical section of the same.
The method which is preferably adopted in constructing the improved tray, is to
take a flat piece of material, and cut it into the shape shown in Figure 1. By means
of the curved slit a a tongue A is produced. I grasp the tongues or flaps band draw
them by each other, one over the other, and beneath the tongue A, as shown in
Figure 2. The flaps bare then secured together by a fastening device d of any
suitable kind and the tongue A is secured to the flaps 6 by a similar fastener e. Both
these fasteners are set into the material flush with the surface so as not to obstruct the
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page_text: passage of the coin. I then grasp the tongues or flaps h and draw them together as
shown in Figure 2, and secure them by suitable fasteners k. By this means I produce
a coin-tray with a substantially flat floor B provided with turned up edges C, and a
nose or guiding spout D, the passage in the said nose or spout being produced by the
recesses l.
In practice, the salesman or shop-keeper drops the change upon the floor B of the
tray, which is supposed to be lying upon the counter, and the customer grasps the
tray by means of the spout or nose D, and, tipping up the floor portion, pours
the change through the spout or nose into his hand or pocket-book, thus saving time
and the necessity for picking up change from the counter, which, when the denomina-
tions are small is not easy, especially if gloves are worn.
The tray may be made of paste-board, hard rubber, wood, metal, or other material,
it may have one or more spouts as desired, and is well adapted for ornamentation.
The tray may be struck up whole, if deemed expedient instead of being bent up
from a piece cut into the shape shown in Figure 1.
This device affords an excellent advertising medium, as an advertisement upon the
floor B would be very noticeable and apt to be observed and read by customers.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed as communicated to
me by my foreign correspondent I declare that what I claim is
First. The herein described coin-collecting tray consisting essentially of the main
portion or floor B having suitable upturned guiding edges, as C and the nose or
spout D extending therefrom, and turned up at an angle with said floor, substantially
as and for the purpose set forth.
Second. The herein described coin collecting tray consisting essentially of the main
portion B provided with the tongue A, the upturned edges and spout D, said edges
and spout consisting of the tongues or flaps b, b, and h, h, fastened together as shown
all substantially as and for the purpose hereinbefore described.
Dated this 19th day of June 1888.
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicant.