US1037551A - Coin-receptacle. - Google Patents

Description

I. M. SHARP.

COIN REOEPTAULE.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 29, 1911.

Patented Sept. 3,1912.

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1. M. SHARP. COIN REGEPTAOLE.

APPLIOATION FILED JUNE 29, 1911.

Patented Sept. 3, 1912.

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ISAAC M. SHARP, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.

COIN-RECEPTACLE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed. June 29, 1911. Serial No. 636,058.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, IsAAo M. SHARP, of the city and county of San Francisco, State of California, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Coin-Receptacles, whereof the following is a specification.

My invention relates to receptacles made especially for a given quantity and'denomination of certain coins and its object is to provide ready means for packing same in banking houses and other establishments where a large quantity of coins are deposited or exchanged and thereby facilitating the counting and handling thereof.

To carry out my invention in practice I make use of a tube having preferably a cylindrical shape and close the ends thereof to form thereby a receptacle according to the size and quantity of the coins to be placed therein. I then cut away a longitudinal portion of the tube to form an opening and secure around its circumference a sleeve provided with a corresponding opening through which the coins are inserted into the receptacle above mentioned. The sleeve is movable around the circumference of the tube between projections provided for at its ends upon the tube to keep the same from sliding off and the opposite side of its opening is adapted to cover the cut away portion of the tube' and thereby locking the coins in the receptacle. Upon the tube or preferably the remaining portion of the sleeve which covers the opening of the tube, I provide a longitudinal slot through which the coins in the receptacle can be seen and the quantity thereof ascertained when the opening of the tube is closed and at suitable places either on the tube or sleeve, provide certain printed characters indicating the contents thereof or other matter that may be desired for advertising purposes or otherwise.

My invention further consists of other parts cooperating to accomplish the objects I have in view all of which will be described in detail hereinafter and their novel combinations pointed out in the claims.

By way of making my invention perfectly intelligible and explaining the means which I have found the best for carrying it into effect, I have, in the accompanying two sheets of drawings illustrated the same in what I consider its best form but I wish it understood that I do not limit myself to the peculiar construction thus shown, except as specially set forth in the claims at the end hereof.

In the subjoined drawings composed of eight perspective views forming a part of the following specification in which:

Figure 1, represents a general view of my invention as it appears opened and showing the coins placed therein. Fig. 2, is also a general view of my invention as it appears closed and showing the coins in the receptacle through the slot and printed matters thereon. Fig. 3, is a longitudinal section of Fig. 2 taken on dotted line a 5 showing the receptacle as it appears with the coins removed. Fig. 4;, is a cross section of Fig. 2 taken on dotted line 0 d showing the arrangement of my device at that point and the coins removed. Fig. 5, is a detailed portion of the tube showing its arrangement at one end and a part of the aperture thereon. Fig. 6, detailed portion of the sleeve showing a part of the aperture and the slot thereon. Fig. 7, is a sectional portion of a modification of my invention and Fig. 8, is a detached portion of my invention showing one of the various methods of fastening a printed card thereon for advertising purposes.

Referring again to the drawing, similar characters of reference denote corresponding parts wherever they occur throughout the several views.

In these figures, A represents the tube cut to form therein the receptacle 1 of required size; 2 and 2 the closing ends thereof; 3 the cut away opening of the tube and i its remaining portion all of which constitute the main body of my invention. The closing ends just mentioned, are provided with annular grooves 5 and 5 in which the ends of the tube A fit and glued or otherwise secured permanently in position therein. as particularly illustrated in Fig. The outer side of the grooves form shoulders 6 and 6 between which the sleeve 13 is retained in longitudinal position upon the tube and is rotatable around its circumference, the object of which will be hereinafter described and on the inner sides of the grooves, the closing ends 2 and 2 project inwardly in a line toward each other to provide suitable bearing faces for the ring shape portions 7 and 7 formed by the cutting of the opening 3 of tube A. This arrangement is fully illustrated in Fig. 3. On sleeve B is the aperture 8 formed upon one side thereof Patented Sept. 3,1912.

leaving ring portions 9 and 9' atits ends bearing on the ring shaped portions 7 and 7 and the circumference of the tube A, also a remaining part 10 opposite the aperture for closing the opening 3 of the tube as shown particularly in Figs. 8, t and 6. The size and shape of the aperture just mentioned correspond with the opening 3 of the tube A as shown in Fig. 1 and through which the coins 11 are inserted'in the receptacle 1 as already mentioned and plainly shown in Figs. 1 and 2, and preferably upon the remaining part 10 opposite the aperture 8 of the sleeve is the slot 12, shown in Figs. 2, 3, 1 and 6, through which the coins in the receptable 2 are exposed and the amount therein ascertained as already stated and particularly shown in Fig.2. The slot just mentioned may be made upon the remaining portion t of the tube if desired and the coins in the receptacle 2 exposed through the aperture 8 of the sleeve when the same is in the position shown in Figs. 3 and 4.

The modification shown in Fig. 7 consists to form the closing ends 2 and 2 above de scribed, in the shape of a ring that is leaving the central portion open as at- 18 and provide on the inner sides of the grooves projecting shoulders as at 14 for holding the coins in the receptacle. In this figure I have shown also another method of fastening the ends of tube A in the grooves 5 and 5 con sisting of pins 15 which bind the inner and outer projecting sides of the grooves together with the ends of tube A.

Upon the peripheral portion of the sleeve or at any other convenient part of my device, I stamp or print thereon certain characters as at 16, Figs. 2 and 4, to indicate the amount of coins therein and the address of the person using my device, either for advertising purposes, as shown at 17 in Fig. 8 or otherwise.

In the construction of my invention I may employ various material such as aluminum, papier mach or other substances suitable for my purpose and instead of stamping or printing, labels or cards may be used and secured in position by means of springs 18 shown in Fig. 8, which may be punched out from the body of my device or secured thereon in any other suitable manner.

In practice the coins 11 for which my invention is adapted, are placed in the receptacle 2 through the aperture 8 and opening 3 respectively of the sleeve B and tube A. I then turn the sleeve half way around the circumference of the tube thus closing with the remaining part 10 of the sleeve, the opening 3 of the tube and locking thereby the coins in the receptacle, in this manner the packages containing a given quantity of coins can be easily handled and the amount therein ascertained.

Believing I have produced novel and useful improvements in the class to which my invention appertains and having described the same in such manner to enable a mechanic skilled in the art, to make use and practice the same IVhat I claim and desire to secure by United States Letters Patent is '1. In a coin receptacle, a peripherally apertured hollow cylinder, end members each having an annular groove into which the respective ends of the cylinder are seat- .cd, and an apertured sleeve rotatable upon the cylinder between the end members all substantially as shown, for the purpose specified.

2. In a coin receptacle, a hollow tube having a peripheral aperture therein, a sleeve rotatably seated on the tube and having a peripheral aperture adapted to be brought into and out of registration with the first said aperture, and annular end members each having a. groove for receiving the re spective ends of the tube, each end member having an outer shoulder for retaining the sleeve on the tube, and each end member having an inner shoulder for preventing exit of the coins from the end of the tube.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereto set my hand in the presence of witnesses, this 27 day of May 1911.

ISAAC M. SHARP. lVitnesses 'I. D. HAWKINS, 13. C. CHESTER.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G.

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