Improvements in Boxes for Saving or Receiving Coins and Delivering Sweets or other Small Articles in Exchange therefor.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 28th July, 1892
Complete Specification Left, 28th Apr., 1893-Accepted, 28th July, 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Boxes for Saving or Receiving Coins and
Delivering Sweets or other Small Articles in Exchange
therefor.
We, CHARLES HAY TRAISE BIKKER, Junior, of 53, Charlotte Road,
Street,
Birmingham, Engineer, and CHARLES FENDELOW, of 50B New
Birmingham, Hardware Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to
be as follows:-
:-
This invention consists of the hereindescribed improvements in boxes for saving
or receiving coins and delivering sweets or other small articles in exchange
therefor, the said invention being so arranged that it can be produced in a very
cheap form.
In carrying out this invention as applied for instance to a savings box for
receiving hall pence and delivering a sweet in exchange therefor, we provide a box
of rectangular or other convenient form in the upper part of which is a compart-
ment containing the sweets which are by preference of uniform size and of globular
form. In the top or other convenient part of the said box is a slit for the insertion
of the coin and below this slit are two slides one above the other. One of these
slides, say the upper one, has a pusher that is a piece which projects through a slot
in the front of the hox by which pusher this slide can be moved to and fro.
both of the said slides there is a slit of about the same length as the diameter of
the particular coins (in this case half pence) which the box is intended to contain.>
In the lower part of the said compartment there is an outlet large enough to allow
one or more sweets to pass through into a chamber in the lower slide when this
slide has been pushed in one direction as far as a stop will allow.
In
When a half penny is dropped in the said money slit in the box the coin falls
into the slots in the two slides and rests upon a small ledge on the box below the
slides. The coin now forms a block in the slots thus locking the two slides together.
By means of the said pusher the slides and the coin and the contents of the chamber
in the lower slide are now pushed sideways which has the effect of moving the coin
off the said ledge so that the coin falls down into the lower part of the box. The
outlet from the said compartment is also closed by the lower slide and the contents
of the chamber in the slide fall out through a hole in the box for that purpose.
Upon the pusher and top slide being moved back towards their original position a
stop on the said upper slide comes in contact with the lower slide so that both slides
move back together and another sweet or sweets roll into the chamber in the slide
ready to be delivered by another half
penny as before.
If the upper slide is moved to and fro when there is no coin in the slots the lower
slide remains stationary as the slides are then not connected together.
We prefer to make the said box and the parts of the same from sheet metal
suitably formed and connected together.
Our invention is similarly applied to boxes for receiving other coins and for
delivering sweets and other articles therefor.
Dated this 27th day of July 1802
CHARLES BOSWORTH KETLEY,
Agent for the Applicants.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Boxes for Saving or Receiving Coins and
Delivering Sweets or other Small Articles in Exchange
therefor.
We, CHARLES HAY TRAISE BIKKER, Junior, of 53, Charlotte Road
Birmingham, Engineer, and CHARLES FENDELOW, of 50B New Street,
Birmingham, Hardware Agent, 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 consists of the hereindescribed improvements in boxes for saving
or receiving coins and delivering sweets or other small articles in exchange
therefor, the said invention being so arranged that it cau be produced in a very
cheap form.
We will describe our invention as applied to a savings box for receiving half
pence and delivering a sweet in exchange therefor and we will refer to the
accompanying drawing on which
Fig. 1 is a general view of the said savings box.
Figs. 2 and 3 are sectional views of the same the front being represented as in
part broken away so as to shew the interior and the action of certain slides as
hereinafter described;
Fig. 4 shews the interior of the said box with the said slides removed and
Figs. 5 and 6 respectively shew the two slides separately.
The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in all the figures.
We provide a box A of rectangular or other convenient form in the upper part
of which is a compartment 6 containing the sweets c which are by preference of
uniform size and of globular form. The compartment 6 is formed by the vertical
partition and the cross partition e and bottom f. In the top or other cou-
venient part of the box A there is a slit g for the insertion of the coin and
below this slit are two slides marked respectively H and I one above the other.
The upper slide H has a pusher which projects through a slot a' in the front
of the box A by which pusher the slide H can be moved to and fro. In the
slide H there is a coin slit 2 and in the slide 1 there is a coin slit 2 both slits
being of about the same length as the diameter of the particular coin (in this case
half pence) which the box is intended to contain. In the lower part of the com-
partment there is an outlet & large enough to allow one (or more) of the sweets c
to pass through into the chamber in the lower slide I when this slide has been
pushed in one direction (say to the left hand) as far as the end of the slide coming
in contact with the side of the box A (see Fig. 2) and thus forming a stop, will
allow. The slides H and I are of the proper width to fit easily between the front
of the box A and the vertical partition d. The slide H is guided by the pusher h¹
fitting in the slot a' and by the side tongues of the slide H engaging in the
slots d' d³ in the partition d. The slide I is guided and kept in place by side
tongues engaging in the slots d' d in the partition d.
When a half penny is dropped in the money slit g in the box A the coin falls into
the slots in the two slides H and I and rests upon a small ledge a² on the box
below the slides as shewn in Fig. 2. The coin now forms a block in the slots h³ ³
thus locking the two slides H and I together. By means of the pusher ¹ both of
the slides and the coin and the sweet c contained in the chamber in the slide I are
now pushed sideways which has the effect of moving the coin off the ledge a² so
that the coin falls down into the lower part of the box as shewn in Fig. 3.
outlet from the compartment b is also closed by the part of the lower slide I and
the sweet c contained in the chamber in the slide I falls out through the hole a³
provided in the front of the box for that purpose. Upon the pusher h¹ and top
slide H being moved back towards their original position shewn by Fig. 2 a
The

page_text: stop projecting from the underside of the upper slide H at the end of the slot h
comes in contact with the end of the slot in the lower slide I so that both slides H
and I move back together and another sweet C or sweets roll into the chamber i¹
in the slide I ready to be delivered by another half penny as before.
If the upper slide H is by the pusher moved to and fro when there is no coin
in the slots the lower slide I remains stationary as the slides H and I are then
not connected together.
We prefer to make the box A and the parts of the same above described from
sheet metal suitably formed and connected together.
Our invention is similarly applied to boxes for receiving other coins and for
delivering sweets and other small articles therefor such articles being of a shape
and size to roll or otherwise move into the chamber in the slide I and out again as
above described.
The lid or bottom or other part of the box is made removable to give access to
the interior to remove the coins and replenish the sweets c or other articles when
required.
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 a box for saving or receiving coins and delivering sweets or other small
articles in exchange therefor the employment of the slides H and I below the money
slit in combination with the outlet from the receptacle and the outlet a³ from the
box, the slides H and I being constructed and arranged to operate substantially as
and for the purposes hereinbefore set forth and illustrated by the accompanying
drawing.
2. The combination and arrangement of parts constituting the improved box for
saving or receiving coins and delivering sweets or other small articles in exchange
therefor herein before described and illustrated by the accompanying drawing.
Dated this 27th day of April 1893.
CHARLES BOSWORTH KETLEY.
Agent for the Applicants.