Improvements in Appliances for Effecting the Automatic Closure of Collecting Bags or Receptacles when Removed from the Apparatus with which they are Used, and for Registering the Amount Passed into the Bag or Receptacle.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 14th July, 1888.
Complete Specification Left, 8th Apr., 1889
Complete Specification Accepted, 8th June, 1889
Improvements in Appliances for Effecting the Automatic Closure
of Collecting Bags or Receptacles when Removed from the
Apparatus with which they are Used, and for Registering the
Amount Passed into the Bag or Receptacle.
I SAMUEL STANBRIDGE of 4 Woodville Grove St. Ann's Road Stamford Hill in
the County of Middlesex Engineer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to
be as follows:-
My Invention has for its object to provide a simple and efficient device by which
collecting bag or receptacles are automatically closed as they are removed from the
apparatus with which they are used. According to my Invention I provide the
mouth of the bags or receptacle with a neck piece which has side extensions which
can be slidden into guides attached to the apparatus with which the bag or receptacle
is used. The said neck piece has in it a flap which turns upon pivots or a hinge so
that it either lies down parallel with the interior of the neck piece or is brought into
a horizontal position to close the passage through the neck piece. This flap is raised
or allowed to fall by means of a wedge shaped sliding piece sliding in one of the
side extensions and having a projection protruding therefrom when the flap is open.
This projection when the neck piece is slidden into the guides in putting the bag or
receptacle in place comes against a part of the guide which partly raises the flap so
as without locking it to prevent coins dropping into the bag or receptacle until the
neck piece is fixed in proper position as hereinafter described. By the further move-
ment of the neck piece the opening through it coincides with the opening from the
apparatus with which it is used and then the projection from the wedge shaped sliding
piece comes opposite a slot in the guide so that the flap is allowed to fall. A pawl
in the opposite guide engages with ratchet teeth in the opposite side extension of the
neck piece and this prevents the said neck piece and bag or receptacle attached from
being withdrawn from the side at which it was inserted into the guides but it can he
removed by a continued movement of the neck piece and bag or receptacle in the
same direction but in so doing the projection from the wedge shaped sliding piece

page_text: comes against a portion of the guide which forces the projection, and the wedge
shaped piece inwards so that the flap is fully raised and passes a bevilled spring catch
which holds the flap firmly in its raised and closed position.
.To release the flap to gain access to the bag or receptacle it is necessary to use a
special key which by passing through a key hole in the flap or other convenient part
of the apparatus will cause the spring catch to recede and release the flap so that the
interior of the bag or receptacle can be had access to.
The flap must be in the open position when the bag or receptacle is to be again
put onto the apparatus with which it is used.
I may adapt the appliance for registering the amount of money which is introduced
into the bag or receptacle.
For this purpose the flap or an equivalent obstruction is arranged so that it is
normally kept in a raised position (when the appliance is.in place on the machine) by a
spring but so that when a coin falls onto it, it yields to allow the coin to pass and at
the same time a pawl or attachment actuates a counter mechanism by which indica-
tion is made of the number of times the flap operates and consequently of the amount
there should be in the bag.
The spring returns the flap after each coin passes.

page_text: Improvements in Appliances for Effecting the Automatic Closure
of Collecting Bags or Receptacles when Removed from the
Apparatus with which they are Used, and for Registering the
Amount Passed into the Bag or Receptacle.
I SAMUEL STANBRIDGE of 4 Woodville Grove St. Ann's Road Stamford Hill in
the County of Middlesex 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 :-
My Invention has for its principal object to provide a simple and efficient device
by which collecting bags or receptacles are automatically closed and locked as they
are removed from the apparatus with which they are used. I will describe my
Invention with reference to the accompanying drawings Figure 1 of which is a
sectional elevation of an appliance constructed according to my Invention in position
in the support by which it is held during use. Figure 2 is a part plan and part
horizontal section of the same and Figure 3 is an end view corresponding to
Figure 2.
According to my Invention I provide the mouth of the collecting bag or like
receptacle with a mouth piece A having a neck A² (to which the bag or like receptacle
is securely fixed) and having also side extensions a a¹ which can be slidden into
guides formel on the hopper B or other apparatus with which the bag or
receptacle is used. The mouth piece A has in it a flap C which turns upon pivots or.
a hinge e so that it either hangs down in the interior of the mouth piece (as shewn
by full lines in figure 1) or is brought into a horizontal position (as shewn by dotted
lines in Figure 1) to close the passage through the mouth piece A. This flap C is
raised into the horizontal position by means of a wedge shaped sliding piece 1) sliding
in an opening d in one of the side extensions (a) and having a projection d² pro-
truding therefrom when the flap C is open. The mouth piece A is inserted in the
guides in the direction indicated by the arrow in Figure 2 and when being
inserted the projection d comes against the part e of the guide & which partly raises
the flap so as without locking it to prevent coins dropping into the bag or receptacle
until the neck piece is fixed in proper position. By the further movement of the
mouth piece A so as to cause the opening through it to coincide with the opening g
from the hopper or apparatus with which it is used the projection on the
wedge shaped piece D comes opposite to and enters the slot or opening & in the

page_text: guide b¹ so that the flap C is allowed to fall into the position shewn by full lines in
figure 1.
In the opposite guide 6 is a spring pawl h which engages with ratchet teeth i in
the opposite side extension a of the neck piece and this prevents the said mouth piece
from being withdrawn from the side at which it was inserted into the guides.
The said mouth piece may however be removed by a continued movement of the
said mouth piece in the direction of the arrow but in so doing the projection d'
from the wedge shaped sliding piece D comes against the portion e' of the guide 61
which causes the wedge shaped piece D to be forced inwards so that the flap C is
fully raised. As the flap is rising the front thereof presses inwards a spring neck or
catch which when the flap is fully raised springs out again and engages with
underside of or with a recess in the side of the flap and retains the flap firmly in its
raised and closed position. The entrance to the bag or receptacle is thus closed and
locked by the simple act of removing the mouth piece A from the apparatus with
which it is used.
In order to release the flap C to obtain access to the interior of the bag or
receptacle it is necessary to use a special key for forcing the spring sneck or catch
out of engagement with the flap C. The flap C should of course be in the open or
unlocked position when the bag or receptacle is to be again connected to the apparatus
with which it is used.
To prevent fraud by removing the cover plate E of the mouth piece A and thereby
obtaining access to the spring Catch to release the flap C the said cover is slidden
in grooves m in the sides of the neck piece and fixed by screws q and on the flap C
a projection n is provided which when the flap C is raised to its horizontal position
enters a notch or recess p in the underside of the plate E so that although the
screws may be removed it is not possible to slide off the said plate so long as the
flap C is closed.
The appliance may be arranged to register the number of times the flap Cis
operated to admit coins or the like to the bag or receptacle; for which purpose the
flap is maintained in its normal unlocked position nearly horizontal by a spring or
the like but so that when a coin or the like falls onto the flap it yields so as to allow
the coin or the like to pass into the bag or receptacle and then resumes its normal
position again. This motion of the flap C is caused to act through the wedge shaped
piece or otherwise on a pawl or other attachment so as to actuate a counter mechanism
(which may be of ordinary construction) and thereby register the operations of the
flap.
It will be obvious that the Invention is not limited to the precise details which
I have illustrated as what I consider the best means of carrying my Invention into
practical effect.
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 I
olaim is
First. A collecting bag or receptacle provided with a mouth piece having a move-
able flap which is automatically caused to close the passage through the said mouth
piece when the bag or receptacle is removed from the support or apparatus with which
it is used substantially as hereinbefore described.
Second. In combination with collecting bags or receptacles the mouth piece A
having a moveable flap C and piece D the said mouth piece being provided with
extensions a a¹ for engaging with guides b b in the support or apparatus with which
it is used the said support or apparatus being provided with a recess for allowing the
flap to fall when the bag or receptacle is in place and' with a projection and locking
device which effect the closure of the bag or receptacle when it is removed substan-
tially as herein before described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
Third. In combination with the subject matter of the last preceding claiming clause
a projection for causing the flap to be raised but not locked when the bag or receptacle

page_text: is being put in place and means for preventing the bag or receptacle from being
withdrawn without the secure closure being effected substantially as herein before
described and illustrated in the accompanying Drawings.
Fourth. The general arrangement and combination of parts constituting the device
or appliance for the purpose described either with or without there being used in
combination therewith counting mechanism operated by the introduced coins sub-
stantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated.
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J. H. JOHNSON & Co.,
47, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C.,
Agents.
J. H. JOHNSON & Co.,
47, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C.,
Agents.