Improvements in Money Savings Boxes.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 11th Sept., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 16th Dec., 1891-Accepted, 13th Feb., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Money Savings Boxes.
I JOHN THOMAS MEDLICOTT BURGESS, of 64 Hunters Road, Aston, near
Birmingham, Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in the construction and arrangement of
money saving boxes, and its object is to provide one or more cylindrical boxes
separated or grouped, combined with a measuring rod, upon which latter is marked
an indicator, by which the contents of the box or boxes may be measured off from
time to time. These boxes are intended for one kind of coin alone, and primarily
intended for pennies.
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A single box constructed according to this my invention is somewhat as follows:-
A cylindrical box is made a little larger than the penny (or other selected coin) the
one end of which is closed, while the other end is removable. At the one closed
end is provided a slot through which the coins are inserted.
Preferably this slot is made in the side of the box, and when so made is also prefer-
ably made angular or partly crosswise, so as to the better prevent the return of the
coin.therethrough. This slot however may be made across the top or end of the box,
in which case the box is made a little longer, so as to permit of the coins readily
assuming their flat position when the desired maximum amount has been inserted.
Further, in order to prevent the coins being removed through the slot, there may
be provided upon the inside of the slot a linen extension or its equivalent, (cords or
wires). The other end of this box is made removable so that when the maximum
amount has been deposited, such end may be removed and the contents discharged.
This removable end may be secured to the main part of the box, by means of
projections formed upon the latter taking into slots upon the former and then turned
over, and by further gumming a label over the removable end and part of the main
box, so that before such removal can take place, such label has to be broken, and
when rearranged for subsequent deposits another label may be substituted.
Again. A measuring rod is now provided having upon its surface marks or
figures, and capable of being passed down through the top slot, or through a special
hole made in the upper end of the box, so that when passed into the box until its
lower end rests upon the inserted coins; the number of coins inserted may be read
off from time to time. Provision is made upon the exterior of the main box,
wherein the rod may be slid until required. A length of chain or cord is employed
in order to connect the rod to the box, to prevent its entire removal.
As before intimated, instead of having single boxes to store one kind of coin
only, I may group two or more of such boxes together, as for instance, I may have
one for pennies, aonther for halfpennies, and another for sixpences. In such cases, I
provide that the one measuring rod is provided with two or more surfaces (flat or
triangular), having corresponding marks, so that each separate box may be measured
off, when their sum may be arrived at, in order to ascertain the gross savings.
Generally these boxes would be made in metal, but in some instances I may make
them of glass or porcelain.
Dated this 10th day of Contember 1901
CHARLES T. POWELL,
Applicant's Agent.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Money Savings Boxes.
I JOHN THOMAS MEDLICOTT BURGESS, of 64 Hunters Road, Aston, near
Birmingham, Merchant, 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 improvements in the construction and arrangement of
money savings boxes, and its object is to provide one or more cylindrical boxes
separated or grouped, combined with a measuring rod, upon which latter is marked
an indicator, by which the contents of the box or boxes may be measured off from
time to time. Each box is intended for one kind of coin alone, and when made as
a single box is primarily intended for pennies.
In order to the better explain this my invention, and how it is to be performed,
I have appended hereunto an illustrative sheet of drawings upon which are figures
and letters of reference, similar letters referring throughout the several views to the
same thing or part, and in which :-
Fig. 1, is a view in elevation of the invention in the single box form.
Fig. 2, is a plan of the single box.
Fig. 3, is a vertical sectional view of the single box on line A-A, (Fig. 2)
showing the interior arrangement of the measuring rod and the coins.
Fig. 4, is an inverted plan of the box showing the method of connecting the
columnar part of the box to the base.
Fig. 5, is a view in elevation showing the boxes in a group form.
Fig. 6, is a vertical section of the grouped form of boxes shown in Fig. 5, on
line B-B.
A single money savings box according to this my invention, and as illustrated in
Figs. 1, 2, 3 & 4, consists as follows :-
A cylindrical box C, is made a little larger in diameter than the penny D, (or
other selected coin) the one end E, of which is closed, while the other end F, is
removeable. At the upper end is provided the slot G, through which the coins D,
are inserted.
Preferably this slot G, is made in the side of the box, and when so made is also
preferably made angular or partly crosswise as shown, so as to the better prevent
the return of the coin therethrough. This slot however may be made across the
top or end of the box, in which case the box is made a little longer, so as to permit
of the coins readily assuming their flat position.
Further, in order to better prevent the coins being removed through the slot,
there may be provided upon the inside of the slot a linen extension H, see Fig. 6,
or its equivalent, (cords or wires). The other end F, of this box is made removable
so that when the maximum amount has been deposited, such end may be removed
and the contents discharged. This removable end F, is secured to the main part C,
of the box, by means of projections I, formed upon the latter, taking into slots
upon the former and then turned over, see Figs. 3, 4 & 6, and by further gumming
a label over the removable end, and the turned over parts I, of the main box, so
that before such removal can take place, such label has to be broken, and when
rearranged for subsequent deposits another label may be substituted.
Again. A measuring rod J, is now provided, having upon its surface marks and
figures, and capable of sliding up and down through the top slot K, so that when
passed into the box until its lower end L, rests upon the inserted coins, the number
of coins inserted may be read off from time to time, as shown in Fig. 2, where the
number of coins inserted is read off as being 16. This measuring rod may be of
metal, tape, cardboard or other suitable material.
As before intimated, instead of having single boxes to store one kind of coin
only, I may group two or more of such boxes together, as for instance, I may have

page_text: one for pennies, another for halfpennies, and another for sixpences. Such grouping
of the boxes I have illustrated in Figs. 5 & 6, where the boxes are made to stand
one above the other, and in which case I arrange that a halfpenny box C³,
surmounts the penny box C¹, and further that a sixpenny box C³, surmounts the
halfpenny box C².
In this case, the same measuring rod may be used for all three cases, by providing
that it shall have no foot part M, and therefore removable from one box to another,
and also having the required number of measurements on its faces to suit the three
boxes. The latter for instance may be marked upon one face or side for two values
of coin, and upon the other face or side for the remaining one.
I prefer however to employ a separate rod for each box, with its own particularly
marking, and each having the bent foot M, in order to prevent their removal and
to ensure better measurements.
These boxes when grouped together may have each of their respective bases
secured in the manner described for Figs. 1 to 4, and then the bases of the upper
ones fitting tightly, or screwed on to the one below it. Or the lid of the under one
may serve as the base for that above it, in which case in order to remove the coins
from say the sixpences, the base of the pennies must be first removed, which will
then give access to the base of the halfpennies which when removed will in its turn
give access to the base of the sixpences.
When using tape as a means of measurement the figures and marks would be put
on its surface in a similar manner to that shown on the rod J, and at its (inner)
lower end a weight is attached, for instance a metal disc may be attached thereto,
so that when the tape is lowered, with the weight resting upon the coins, the number
may be read off from time to time.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, 1 declare that what I
claim is:
1. The combination in a money savings box with the box C, having a removable
bottom F, and inlet slot of a sliding measuring rod J, substantially as set forth.
2. The grouping together of two or more savings boxes, having a measuring
rod or rods, for ascertaining the amount deposited in each box after the manner
herein indicated.
Dated this 15th day of December 1891
CHARLES T. POWELL,
12, Cherry Street, Birmingham, Applicant's Agent.