An Improved Lock or Apparatus for Automatically Closing Receptacles for Coin or other Articles.
Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 1st Feb., 1886.
Complete Left, 28th Oct., 1886.
Complete Accepted, 5th Jan., 1887.
An Improved Lock or Apparatus for Automatically Closing
Receptacles for Coin or other Articles.
I PERCIVAL EVERITT of 47 Cannon Street in the city of London, Engineer do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:
This invention relates to an improved lock or apparatus for automatically closing
and locking bags, tills and other receptacles for coin, letters or other articles, when the
said receptacles are removed for the purpose of being emptied and for automatically
opening the said receptacles when they are replaced.
To the mouth or opening of the bag or other receptacle I adapt the frame of the
lock the said frame having an opening through which the coin or other articles pass to
the bag or other receptacle.
This opening is closed and uncovered by a tongue piece, bolt or flap which works
within the lock; the said tongue piece, bolt or flap is so placed and arranged that
when the bag or receptacle is placed in position a fixed key opens the said tongue
piece, bolt or flap and when the bag or other receptacle is removed the said tongue
piece, bolt or flap is closed and locked,
G. F. REDFERN,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London,
Agent for the Applicant,

page_text: Receptacles for Coin or other Articles.
I, PERCIVAL EVERITT, of 47 Cannon Street, in the City of London, Engineer, 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 an improved lock or apparatus for automatically closing
and locking bags, tills and other receptacles for coin, letters or other articles, when the
said receptacles are removed for the purpose of being emptied, and for automatically
opening the said receptacles when they are replaced.
To the mouth or opening of the bag or other receptacle I adapt the frame of the
lock, the said frame having an opening through which the coins or other articles pass
to the bag or other receptacle.
This opening is closed and uncovered by a tongue piece, bolt or flap which works
within the lock; the said tongue piece, bolt, or flap is so placed and arranged that,
when the bag or receptacle is placed in position, a fixed key opens the said tongue
piece, bolt, or flap, and when the bag or other receptacle is removed, the said tongue
piece, bolt or flap is closed and locked.
In order to enable my invention to be fully understood I will proceed to describe
the same by reference to the accompanying drawing in which figure 1 is a vertical
section shewing a lock or apparatus constructed according to my invention, for
automatically closing receptacles for coin or other articles applied to part of a weighing
machine such as that for which Letters Patent were granted to me dated the
13th December 1884, No. 16,433, the lock being consequently in its open position;
figure 2, is a plan of figure 1; figure 3 is a vertical section of the locking device and
mouth or opening of the bag when the same have just been removed from the machine
the said device being consequently closed; figure 4 is a horizontal section on line A. B.
of figure 3; figure 5 is a similar view to figure 4 but shewing the locking device and
mouth of the bag open; figure 6 is a vertical section and figure 7 a plan of the
portion of the machine to which the bag is attached shewing the fixed key thereon ;
figure 8 is a view of the loose key for opening the bag. Similar letters in all the
figures represent similar parts.
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In the drawing, a, represents the portion of the weighing machine to which the bag
to receive the money is to be applied; b, is the usual metal mouth or opening of the
bag;
is the frame of the lock which I adapt to the said mouth b; d, is the opening
in the said frame through which the coins pass into the bag; e, is the tongue piece,
bolt or flap which is pivotted at f, to the frame c, within which frame the said tongue
piece, bolt or flap e, works through the slot g, in the side of the frame c; h, is a lock
mechanism of any suitable construction; the tumblers i, of the lock mechanism are
slotted at j, and in the said slot works the pin or bolt A, fixed on the flap e; 1, is a slot
hole in the flap e, for the bit of the key to work against; m, is a pin over which moves
a slot n, in the flap e, for the purpose of limiting the inward movement of the flap ;
o, is the fixed key on the bottom part of the weighing machine.
When the lock is fastened the flap e, is in the position shewn in figures 3 and 4, that
is to say, the metal mouth or opening b, of the bag is covered and is retained in its
closed position by the pin or bolt k, and recess or enlargement j¹, of the slot j.

page_text: To apply the bag to the weighing apparatus the key hole p, (shewn in dotted lines
in figure 2) is passed over the fixed key o, figures 6 and 7, and the apparatus or device
being then turned in the direction of the arrow figure 2 the bit of the key will move
the tumblers i, so that the pin or bolt k, will be free of the recess, and the flap e, will
then be turned by the key into the position shewn in figures 1, 2 and 5 thereby opening
or uncovering the mouth, of the bag, and the parts will be locked in this position;
pins a, (shewn in dotted lines in figures 2 and 7) on the weighing machine limit the
turning of the bag and lock frame, and the bracket 7, helps to hold it in position;
when the bag is to be removed it is turned in the opposite direction to that herein-
before described and the reverse operation will take place, that is to say,
the flap e,
will be turned so as to cover the mouth 6, of the bag which can then be withdrawn
from the fixed key o, and the flap e, will be securely locked over the mouth of the bag
as shewn in figures 3 and 4. The bag can then be opened by a separate key such as
is shewn in figure 8, and the contents of the bag removed. The flap e, must then be
closed and locked by the key (figure 8) and the bag will be again ready to be placed
in the apparatus.
Although I have described my invention as applied to an automatic weighing
machine it will be obvious that it can be applied to many other uses as will be well
understood without further description.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I claim is
1. An apparatus or device for automatically closing and locking bags, tills and other.
receptacles for coin, letters or other articles when the said receptacles are removed for
the purpose of being emptied or otherwise, and for automatically opening the said
receptacles when they are replaced as hereinbefore described.
2. The combination with a bag, till or other receptacle for money, letters or other
articles, of a lock having a flap or cover adapted to be operated by a fixed key on the
apparatus to which the bag or other receptacle is applied, substantially in the
manner and for the purpose hereinbefore described and illustrated in the accompanying
drawing.
3. The improved lock or apparatus for automatically closing receptacles for coin or
other articles hereinbefore described and represented in the accompanying drawing.