An Improved Pad for Convenience in Handling and Taking up Coins.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 12th Sept., 1888
Complete Specification Left. 6th July, 1889-Accepted, 31st Aug., 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Pad for Convenience in Handling and Taking up
Coins.
ALBERT EGERTON LEGH SLAZENGER Merchant 56 Cannon Street London E.C.
do hereby declaro the nature of this invention to bo as follows:-
The difficulty of picking up coins from hard surfaces causes much inconvenience &
delay especially when the hand is gloved. My invention consists of a pad of con-
venient form & size composed of a material known as spongy rubber, this material
having a level surface enables the money laid thereon to be readily counted & being
of a soft nature which gives at the least pressure when the fingers are placed upon it
it gives & thus enables the coin upon it to be readily gathered.
12th September 188.
A. E. L. SLAZENGER.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Pad for Convenience in Handling and Taking up
Coins.
I ALBERT EGERTON LEGH SLAZENGER, of 56, Cannon Street in the City of London
Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of my said invention and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement :-
Whereas much difficulty is experienced in taking up coins given in change or
otherwise, from the hard and smooth surfaces usually forming the upper parts of
counters and show cases, more especially when the hand is gloved. To remedy this
inconvenience pads have been formed of caoutchouc with vertical studs or nipples
between which the coin is sustained upon its edge, in a vertical or nearly vertical
position. These separated studs or nipples aro frequently pulled off or torn by
customers when curiously examining the mats, or by handling the article by the studs
or nipples.
The object of my invention is to manufacture such pads in a novel, efficient and
satisfactory manner, without such studs or nipples as aforesaid, and providing
increased facilities for taking up the coin. I also in some cases provide in the centre
of the pad or in any other convenient position a space, wherein can be inserted wood
or other material for sounding and testing bad or spurious coin.
My improved pad is composed of a flat base or foundation of close texture such as
soft rubber with a super stratum of numerous fibres joined together so as to constitute
a continuous cellular layer of spongy or spongiform rubber, which is in a measure
porous to absorb moisture deposited thereupon, and can be squeezed out in a similar
manner to an ordinary sponge.
And in order that my said invention may be particularly described and
ascertained, reference is hereby made to the accompanying drawings, in which similar
letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.
Fig. 1 is a perspective view of the coin pad and Fig. 2 is an enlarged sectional
view of the same.
a is the flat base or foundation piece of any desired shape in outline, and preferably
composed of a sheet of soft rubber of close texture the super stratum b preferably
forming an integral part thereof, as shown, consisting of numerous rubber fibres
rising vertically all joined or connected together and constituting a continuous cellular
top layer of spongy or spongiform rubber. This layer can be easily depressed by
the tips of the fingers to facilitate picking up coins as shown in Fig. 2, and owing to
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page_text: its peculiar fibrous and cellular nature it will in a measure absorb any moisture that
may be deposited thereupon and it may be squeezed out similarly to an ordinary
sponge thereby rendering it very desirable and useful for the glass; marble, and other
counters, more especially where there is considerable moisture.
The foundation or base a composed of a soft rubber sheet is preferably made in one
piece with the fibrous and cellular layer of spongy rubber or otherwise united by any
of the usual methods practised to unite parts of soft rubber.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed 1 declare that what 1
claim is :-
The manufacture and use of my improved pad or coin mat for covenience in
handling and taking up coins on show cases and counters consisting of a base or
foundation piece a provided with numerous connected rubber fibres rising therefrom
and constituting a continuous cellular top layer of spongy rubber, substantially as
herein before described and illustrated by the drawings.
ly 1889.
. GEO. DOWNING,
8, Quality Court, London, W.C., Agent for Applicant.