Improvements in Fare-collecting Boxes.
Year: 1898

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Fare-collecting Boxes.
ROGER FARMER, of 16, School Croft, Sheffield, Mechanic and THOMAS NUTTALL,
of 152, Slinn Street, Walkley, Sheffield, Machine Agent, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:-
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Our invention relates to fare-collecting boxes and the like, and more especially
to improvements and additions to our inventions No. 19452 of A.D. 1896 and
17091 of A.D. 1897 and has for its object the construction of a box to facilitate
the reception of coins in whatever position the box may be held and to prevent
the abstraction of any coins having passed through the hopper
Our improvement consists of a swinging shule and hopper combined through
which the coins pass and is always at an angle giving incline enough for the coin
to slide by gravity into the box. The radial portion of the shute underneath the
cap or lid of the box, is provided on both sides with brushes, strips of rubber or
their equivalent to compensate for wear caused by the swinging of said shute in
lid of box.
Furthermore there is provided a bridge-plate which prevents the abstraction of
any coins by means of any instrument being put down the shute, the said instru-
ment would come in contact with this plate the coin having fallen below this level.
Dated this 31st day of January 1898.
SAMUEL WOOD,
A cent
We, ROGER FARMER, of 16, School Croft, Sheffield, Mechanic, and THOMAS
NUTTALL, of 152, Slinn Street, Walkley, Sheffield, Machine Agent, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following state-
ment:
Our invention relates to fare-collecting boxes and the like, and more especially
to improvements and additions to our inventions Nos. 19452 of A.D. 1896 and
17091 of A.D. 1897 and has for its object the construction of a box to facilitate
the reception of coins in whatever position the box may be held and to prevent
the abstraction of any coins having passed through the hopper
We will now proceed to describe our invention with reference to the sheet of
drawings annexed, in which corresponding letters denote corresponding parts in
all the figures.
Wi 1 Trant alexation

page_text: Fig. 3. Section on line x Fig. 2.
Fig. 4. End view shewing position of swinging shute when box is held at an
angle.
Fig. 5. Inverted plan of box lid, or cap.
Our improvements consist in an arrangement whereby the hopper B, and
shute C, through which the coins pass is always at an angle sufficient for the coins
to slide by gravity into the box, no matter in whatever position the box may
be held.
Hopper B and shute C are attached, and swing radially on their spindle D
which has its bearings at E. These bearings being fixed under lid of box, Fig. 2.
Furthermore there is provided a bridge-plate G Figs. 2 and 3 which prevent the
abstraction of coins by means of any instrument being put down the shute C,
as it will be seen that if the instrument is placed down the said shute it will come
in contact with this bridge-plate, the coins having fallen below this level. This
bridge-plate coming as it does underneath the shute C and being bevelled on
the top inclines the coins to fall at an angle & so prevents them entering the
shute Û in the event of the box being inverted in the attempt to abstract any coins
from the said collecting box.
Again there is provided on either side the radialed part of shute C (which in
Figs. 2 and 3 is marked H) brushes or rubber strips which bear lightly against
the said radialed part H these being marked J in Figs. 3 and 5, and make up any
space between the said radialed part of shute and the opening in cap of box,.
Thus it will be seen that when the bearings E become worn, and in consequence
D and shute C becoming slightly lower, what otherwise space which would be
left is covered by these brushes or rubber strips and prevent the abstraction of
coins in this wise.
In a fare collecting box the combination of the valves in shute C for preventing
the backward passage of any coins is included in our Specification No. 19452
A.D. 1896 and the locking and sealing arrangement is also identical and included
in our Patent No. 19452 A.D. 1896 and also No. 17091 A.D. 1897.
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 fare collecting-box the combination of a bridge plate G carried from
frame A so as to prevent the withdrawal of coins by any instrument and to incline
the coins to fall at an angle, instead of into the shute C, when box is inverted
in the attempt to abstract any coins from the said collecting-box as described.
2. In a fare-collecting-box the combination of a swinging shute and hopper
so that no matter at whatever angle the box is placed at, the shute C gives an
angle sufficient for the coins to pass down by gravity, substantially as illustrated
and set forth.
3. In a fare collecting box the combination of brushes or rubber-strips J under
the lid of box preventing the withdrawal of small coins where the radius of
shute Cat H leaves a sliding-space, substantially as illustrated and set forth
here-in.
Dated this 26th day of September 1898.
ROGER FARMER,
THOMAS NUTTALL.