US2101011A - Fare receptacle - Google Patents

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Nov; 30, 1937. w. P PITT ET AL 2,101,011

FARE RECEPTAGLE Filed May 24, 1935 v 4 SheetsSheet l INVENTORS W10, @tb

BY Wm J7Zah ATTORNEY Nov. 30, 1937. w P. ITT Er A 2,101,011

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FARE RECEPTACLE Filed May 24, 1935 4 Sheets-Sheet 4 A TTORNE V Patented Nov. 30, 1937 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE FARE RECEPTACLE Application May 24, 1935, Serial No. 23,231

14 Claims.

' fare receiver having a fare inlet and a fare outlet, the receptacle having a safe with a fare inlet 01 and lockingly removable to and from operative relationship to the receiver, and having an exteriorly opened lid for closing the inlet, the safe being movable to and from a position in which the lid will register with the receiver outlet and, when closed, will catch fares discharged from the outlet, the receiver having observation means by which the fares deposited on the lid may be exteriorly inspected.

One of the objects of our invention is the provision of novel means for releasably locking the fare receiver to its support.

Another object of our invention is the provision of novel means for preventing a loose connection and rattling between the receiver and the safe.

A further object of our invention is the provision of novel means for effecting operative removable engagement between the safe and the fare receiver.

Still another object of our invention is the provision of novel means for releasably locking the safe from removal by an unauthorized person from the fare receiver.

Another object of our invention is the provision of novel means for releasably locking the lid of the safe in the closed position, which will prevent its being opened even by the person authorized to remove the safe from the receiver, or

by any one else excepting one authorized so to do and having the knowledge and equipment for unlocking the lid, but which will permit the person authorized to remove the safe to restore it to operative fare receiving position.

Our invention provides further a device of the kind described which is simple, durable, not likely to get out of order and which prevents pilfering of fares deposited therein.

Other objects of our invention and the novel features of our invention are hereinafter fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, which illustrate the preferred embodiment of our invention,

Fig. 1 is a reduced front elevation of our im-. proved fare receptacle.

Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same.

Fig. 3 is a top view of the same.

Fig. 4 is a reduced side elevation of the same, showing the safe detached from the fare receiver. Fig. 5 is a reduced side elevation of the safe.

Fig. 6 is an enlarged perspective view of the ring member for locking the lid closed.

Fig. I is an enlarged perspective view of the split resilient ring member for holding the bolt of the safe lock disengaged from holding engagement with the lid locking ring member.

Fig. 8 is a reduced top view of the safe, showing the lid in the closed position.

Fig. 9 is an enlarged central vertical section of a, portion of the safe and a portion of, the 'fare receiver operatively engaged with each other and the lid closed.

Fig. 10 is an enlarged horizontal section through the safe and fare receiver taken on the plane of the line I0--l0 of Fig. 9, showing the safe and receiver in operative relationship, and the lid opening ,rnember, in solid lines, operatively engaged with the lid and, in dotted lines, disengaged therefrom.

Fig. 11 is a vertical section through portions of the safe and the fare receiver, shown enlarged and in operative relationship, and the lid tilted to a partly open.

Fig. 12 is an enlarged section on the line l2-l2 of Fig. 10, showing in solid lines the lid operating member held locked in its operative position.

Fig. 13 is an enlarged side elevation, partly broken away, of the lid operating member.

Fig. 14 is a section on the line l4l4 of Fig. 13.

Fig. 15 is a plan View, partly broken away and enlarged, of portions of the safe.

Fig. 16 is an enlarged front elevation, partly broken. away, of portions of the safe, including 'the lid supporting member, the lid locking member, the resilient split ring, the safe lock and its supporting member, and the lid shown held open by its latch.

Fig. 17 is a section on the line |'l'l1 of Fig. 16.

Fig. 18 is a plan view, partly broken away and enlarged, of the portions of the fare receiver and the safe, showing the lid, in solid lines closed and engaged with the lid operating member, and, in dotted lines, in the open position and disengaged from the lid operating member. l

Fig. 19 is a plan view, partly broken away and enlarged, of what is shown in Fig. 18, showing the safe turned to the removing position in the receiver and disengaged from the Iidpperating member, and the latter withdrawn from its operative position, and thelid held open by its latch.

Fig. 20 is a reduced top view, partly broken away, of the parts shown in Fig. 19, showing the lid closed and held locked by the ring lid locking member.

Fig. 21 is an enlarged View of our improved fare receptacle, shown partly in vertical section, partly in side elevation, and partly broken away, the fare receiver being shown locked to its support, and the safe disposed in its operative position.

Fig. 22 is a top view, partly broken away and enlarged, of the locking ring which is oscillative in the safe.

Fig. 23 is a vertical section on the line 23-23 of Fig. 21.

Fig. 24 is a horizontal section on the line 24-24.

Similar characters of reference designate similar parts in the different views.

The fare receptacle comprises three principal parts:A fare receiver, a support therefor from which it is removable, and a safe removably associated with the receiver and adapted to catch fares discharged therefrom and to safely hold them until they are removed by a person authorized so to do.

The fare receiver comprises a ring like base I having the vertical opening 2 therethrough constituting a fare outlet. A vertical tubular transparent glass cylinder 3 rests at its lower end on the upper side of the base I, and in its top supports a cap 4 provided with a fare intake 5 and fastened to the cylinder 3 and base I by rods 6 which extend downwardly inside the glass cylinder 3, which provides means of observation for inspection of fares deposited through the intake 5.

Extending obliquely in the glass cylinder 3 from near one side thereof to near the other side thereof isa deflecting baffle plate I, the upper end of which is attached to the cap 4, and which is intended to prevent the felonious insertion of any devices downwardly through the fare intake 5, with the intent of interfering with the proper operation of the fare receptacle, but which baffle plate permits the fares to pass downwardly to and through the fare outlet 2.

The support for the fare receiver comprises, as shown, Figs. 3, 4 and 21, a vertical post 8 to the front and rear sides of which are respectively clamped by bolts 9, front clamping plates I0 and rear clamping plates II. The front sides of the front plates ID are respectively provided with downwardly converging T shaped slots I2, disposed in vertical alinement and adapted to removably respectively receive and to have supported therein by the plates In two T shaped pro- .jections I3 vertically alined on the rear side of a channel plate I3 into which the base I extends and is fastened.

A safe having a cylindrical body I4 has rigidly afiixed in it a top ring I5, the vertical passage therethrough constituting a fare inlet I6. The upper end portion of the body I4 is vertically 1e movably insertable into the lower end of the base I in which the fare inlet concentrically registers with the fare outlet 2 of the base I. Radially extending from the top ring I5 and exteriorly projecting from the body I4 are three pins H, which are respectively vertically slidable upwardly in three vertical channels IS in the inner wall of the base I until the body I4 reaches the position shown in Fig. '21. The safe body I4 is then adapted to be axially revolved in the base I to an operative fare receiving position shown in Figs. 9, 10, 11 and 18, following certain steps to be taken, as will be later herein described. The guiding pins I7, when the safe body I4- is so turned, counter-clockwise, as shown in Fig. 10, will respectively travel in three horizontal channels I9 provided in the inner wall of the base I and respectively connecting with the vertical channels I8 at the upper ends thereof.

The safe is provided with a substantially circular fare receiving lid 20 provided on its under side adjacent to its front edge with two ,lugs 2I through which horizontally extendsa shaft 22 rigidly attached to the lugs and having its end portions respectively oscillative in two alined holes 23 and 24 extending through the top ring I5 and the wall of the cylinder body I4, as best shown in Fig. 10. When the safe body I4 is turned in the base I to the operative position, shown in Figs. 9 and 10, the hole 24 will aline with a horizontal hole 25 in the base I, in which hole the shaft 26 of a lid opening member is oscillative and longitudinally slidable to and from an inner operative position in the hole 24, in which position, when the lid is closed, a flat diametrical projection 21 at the inner end of the shaft 26 is adapted to enter aslot 28 in the adjacent end of the lid'shaft 22, whereby the shaft 26 is adapted to turn the shaft 22 and with it the lid 20 to an open position, as shown in Fig. 11, to dump fares therefrom into the safe.

For so turning the shaft 26 it has afilxed to its outer end a crank 29. A coil spring 30, which encircles the shaft 22 between the lugs 2I bears at its ends respectively against the under sides of the top ring I5 and the lid 20, Figs. 9, 10, 11, 17 and 19, and normally exerts a tension tending to close the lid 20.

The lid operating shaft 26, when operativelyengaged with the shaft 22, holds the'safe from being turned clock-wise, as viewed in Fig. 10 and Fig. 18, to the safe removal position in whichthe guiding pins will register with the vertical chan-- nels I8. When the shaft 26 is withdrawn from engagement with the shaft 22, to the release position, the shaft 26 will not hold the safe from removal from the base. To lock the shaft 26 from such withdrawal, there is provided in the base I a lock 3I which is key operated and has a bolt 32 oscillative to and from the locking position, shown in solid lines in Figs. 10 and 12, in which the bolt will enter an annular groove 33 in the shaft 26. being withdrawn from operative engagement with the lid shaft 22 by any one not having the proper key for the lock 3 I. By using the proper key, the bolt 32 may be turned thereby to the release position shown in dotted lines in Fig. 12.

A manual means is also provided for holding the shaft 26 from withdrawal from its operative position, comprising a pin 34, Figs. 1, 2 and 12, which is slidable in a hole 35 in the base I into and out of the annular groove 33. A coil spring 36 encircling the pin 34 and bearing against the enlarged inner end of the pin and against a plug 31 in the hole 35 and having a'hole in which the pin is slidable. The pin 34 extends to the exterior of the base I where it may be manually gripped to withdraw it from the annular groove 33, thereby permitting the shaft 26 to be withdrawn, when the bolt 32 is out of the groove 33.

As a further guard against the safe being turned from its operative position in the base I to a position in which the pins I'I will register with the channels I8 so as to permit the safe being slid downwardly out of engagement with the base I, there is provided in the'channel of the channel plate I3, Figs. 2, 4, 21 and 24, a bolt 38 oscillative to and from a locking position in a verticalgroove 39 in the outer side of a boss The shaft 26 is thus held from,

40 provided on' the outer side of the safe cylinder body I4, said bolt 38 being on and oscillative with a shaft 4I of a key operated lock 42 mounted in the channel plate I3. By employing the proper key in the lock 42, the bolt 38 can be turned to the release position, shown in dotted lines in Fig. 21.

The boss 40 serves a further function in having its lower edge bevelled and adapted to engage the upper side of a strong flat' spring 43, Figs. 4, 21 and 24, so as to ride upwardly on the spring when the safe body I4 is turned from the entering to the operative position. The spring exerts a pressure which holds the upper end of the safe body I4 tightly against the under side of the base I, as shown in Fig. 21, thereby preventing rattling between the safe and base, when the receptacle is subjected to vibration due to traveling on buses or cars.

For locking the base I from unauthorized removal from the supporting post 8, a locking member comprising a screw 44 is revolubly mounted in a threaded horizontal hole extending outwardly from the inner side of the base I to the rear outer side of the channel plate I3. The outer end of the screw 44 extends under and is adapted to engage the upper front plate I0 of the support, and thus hold the base I and parts carried thereby from being lifted upwardly so as to disengage the T shaped projections I3 from the front plates I0 respectively.

The inner end of the screw has a flat head disposed in the countersunk inner end of the hole in which the screw is fitted, and the head -has on its inner end a screw driver receiving groove enabling it to be unscrewed out of its looking position, from the inner side of the base I, when the safe body I4 is removed from the fare receiver.

When the safe body is in the base in the operative position, it will prevent the inward retraction of the screw 44 from its position for lockingly engaging the upper front plate I0,

, thereby preventing the removal of the fare receiver from its support.

As a further safeguard toprevent the turning of the safe body I4 from its operative position in the base I and its removal therefrom, excepting when the lid 20 is closed, as shown in Figs. 9 and 18, or is in the predetermined open position, shown in Figs. 17 and 19, the lid 20 has in its front edge a notch 45 for receiving a projection 46 on the front inner side of the base I adjacent to the top thereof.

The projection 46 will enter the notch 45, when the lid 25 is tilted from the closed position, thereby, through the lid, holding the safe body I4 from being turned from the operative position in the base I.

This arrangement will render ineffective, the holding of the lid in an open position by inserting any article, as a rubber hose into the fare receiver through the intake 5, so as to tilt the lid to the open position, as the projection 46 will enter the notch 45, and thereby hold the safe body I4 from being turned from its operative position to a position in which the body I4 can be removed from the base I. Thus a person having a key to the lock 3I, or having a proper key to the lock 42, can not turn the safe body I4 from the operative position in the base I with the lid tilted from the closed position.

For properly positioning the crank shaft 26 so that it will have its flat projection 21 enter the slot 28 in the lid shaft 22, the shaft 26 has a longitudinal peripheral groove 41 adapted to have enter it a screw 48 mounted in a threaded hole 49 extending from the exterior of the base I to thehole 25 in which the shaft 26 is slidable and oscillative, Figs. 10, 12, 13 and 14. When the crank 29 turns the shaft 26 to a position in which the screw 48 will register with the groove 41, the flat projection 21 will properly register with the slot 2B,'if-the lid is in the open position, and the safe body I4 is in operative position in the base I, as shown in Fig. 10. 7

It is designed to have the lid 20 closed and locked when the safe body I4 is removed from the base I, to prevent any one not properly author ized so to do from opening the safe. Provision is made for so locking the safe lid 20 in a manner such that the lid can not be moved to the open position even by a person having keys to the locks 3| and 42, who is usually the person who removes the safe from the fare receiver and takes it with the fares in it to the person author ized to open the safe and extract the fares.

The means for s0 locking. the lid closed comprises the following described parts.

In the safe body I4 against the under sideof the top ring I5 is'oscillatively mounted a horizontal locking ring 50, Figs. 6, 9, 10,15 to 19 and 22, having an upwardly extending projection 5I which when the lid is closed, and the safe is re' moved from the fare receiver, is disposed directly under so as to engage a projection 52 on the periphery of the lid 20 diametrically opposite the notch 45, and thus lockingly holds the lid closed, as in Fig. 20, but when the safe is inserted and turned to its operative position in the base I, the locking ring will be turned to release the lid from the locking projection 5!.

The locking ring is provided with a radial pin 53 which extends outwardly through a horizontal slot 54 in which the pinis oscillative horizontally for moving the projection 5I to and from. its locking position under the lid projection 52, Figs. 5, 6, 10, 15, 1'7 and 22.

For releasably locking the locking ring 50 from turning from the locking position, shown in Figs. 5 and 20 there is provided a key opened lock 55 fastened to the outer side of an annular member 56 fastened to the inner wall of the safe body I4, Fig. 9 and having its barrel extending outwardly through a hole 5'! in said body, to permit the insertion into the barrel'of a key applied from the exterior of the safe body, by an authorized person.

The lock 55 has an upwardly sliding bolt 58 normally forced upwardly to a locking position by a spring 59,'Fig. 9, and depressed for unlocking by the key to the lock. The under side of the locking member 50 has a lug 60-, Figs. 6 and 16, having an abrupt side for engaging and being held by the bolt 58, and having its other side inclined top remit the bolt 58 passing over the lug to engage the locking side thereof, when the locking member is turned to the locking'position.

To hold the bolt 58 depressed, when it is desired to turn the locking ring 56 to the locking position while the lid 26 is held open, there' is distion in which the bolt 58 will. be held out of engagement with the lug 55 of the locking ring 50, until the split ring is again turned from its bolt holding position.

-Pivoted to the inner side of the annular member 55, on a horizontal axis, is a gravity opened and closed latch 64 adapted to be swung from the release position, Fig. 9, to the lid holding position, Fig. 1'7, in which, when the lid has been forced against the pressure of th spring 35 to the vertical predetermined open position shown in Figs. 17 and 19. The safe is then inverted and the latch 64 will swing by gravity to a position in which it will engage and hold the lid 20 open, as in Fig. 17.

The pin 53 is then moved in the slot 54 to the position at the right, as viewed in Fig. 5, thus turning the locking member 50 in the safe body M, so that the lug 60 will have passed tothe right of the bolt 58, as shown in Fig. 16, and the projection 5| will be in the lid locking position, although the lid 25, at the time, will be held open by the latch 64. The split ring 5| will now be in the position shown in Fig. 22, with its lip 62 disengaged from the bolt 58.

The split ring 6| is then turned, through the intermediacy of its projection 53, counter-clockwise from the position shown in Fig. 22, to the position shown in Figs. 15 and 16, in which position the lip 62 will be over and will have depressed the bolt 58 out of locking engagement with the lug 60 of the locking ring 59. The locking member 55 will now be free for being retracted from its locking engagement with the lid projection 52, and from the position in which it is engageable with the bolt 58, after the safe body 54 is inserted into the body I and turned to its operative position therein.

The safe is now in condition for insertion, with its lid 29 open, into the base i. The base I has in its inner side a vertical channel 65 open at its lower end for receiving the guiding and holding pin 53 of the ring locking member 50, and the pin 53 is in position for entering the channel 55.

The channel 65 is located so as to receive the pin 53 when the pins I I enter the channels l8, as the safe is inserted into the base, and the ring 50 is in the lid lockin position, with the pin 53 at the right in the slot 55, as viewed in Fig. 5.

When the safe is thus inserted into the base I, the crank shaft 26 is in the release position withdrawn from engagement with the lid shaft 22, as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 1 and in solid lines in Fig. 19.

The safe body i5 is then turned counter-clockwise, as viewed in Fig. 10, thus causing the boss 40 of the body M to ride on the flat spring 43' until the body reaches the operative position, shown in Figs. and 18, in which position, the lid engaging projection 5| is in the release position, at the right, as shown in Fig. 18. During the turning movement of the body M in the base I, the pin 53 of the locking ring 5 will be held stationary, and will hold the split ring 6| stationary, with its lip 52 moved from over the bolt 58 of the lock 55, so as to release the bolt 58.

The crank shaft 25 is then moved inwardly to the lid engaging position shown in Fig. 18, in solid lines. The crank 29 is then turned so as to swing the lower edge of the lid 25 to the left a little, as viewed in Fig. ll, whereupon the latch 64 will drop by gravity out of holding engagement with the lid 20, to the position shown in Fig. 9. The coil spring 30 will then swing the lid 25 to the closed fare receiving position, shown in Figs. 9 and 18.

Fares dropped through the fare receiver will fall upon the closed lid 20 where they may be inspected, and then dropped into the safe by operating the crank 29 to tilt the lid 20, as shown in Fig. 11. The one who has the keys to the locks 3| and 42 will replace the safe in the fare receiver, and will turn the bolts 32 and 38 tolockingly engage the shaft 25 and the boss 40 respectively, to hold the safe from being turned from the operative position, to which it has been turned in the base If it is desired to remove the safe from the fare receiver to extract the fares from the safe by the person authorized so to do, the person having the keys to the locks 42 and 3| releases the bolt 38 from the boss 40, and the bolt 32 from the crank shaft 26. He also pulls the pin 34 downwardly to release the shaft 26, after which the crank shaft can be withdrawn from engagement with the shaft 22 and with the safe body [4.

The operator can then turn the safe body to the removal position with the pins I1 alined with the channels l8, after which the safe body can be slid downwardly out of the base I.

The lid 20 will now be held locked by the projection 5| of the locking ring 50, and the latter will be held from turning to the unlocked position by the bolt 58, which can only be released from the ring 55 by the person having the key to the lock 55. After that person has unlocked the lock 55, he can turn the ring 5|] to the unlocked position by means of the pin 53, thus releasing the lid 20, which may be depressed to the predetermined latching position and so held by inverting the body l5, so that the latch 64 will engage and hold the lid 20 open, as shown in Fig. 1'7.

The procedure already described may then be again followed for reinserting the safe into the fare receiver, and turning the safe body to the operative position, after which the locks 3| and 42 will be operated to lock the body I4 from being turned from its operative position.

Many modifications of our invention, within the scope of the appended claims, may be made without departing from the spirit of the invention.

What we claim is:

1. In a fare receptacle, a fare receiver having a fare outlet, a safe having a fare inlet and removably engaging said receiver and revoluble to and from a position in which said inlet will register with said outlet for receiving fares discharged therefrom, means for closing said inlet, and means engageable by said inlet closing means for locking said safe from being turned from said position.

2. In a fare receptacle, a fare receiver having a fare outlet, a safe having a fare inlet and revoluble to and from a position in which said inlet will register with and receive fares from said outlet, means for closing said inlet, and means engageable by said inlet closing means for locking said safe from being turned from said position.

3. In a fare receptacle, a fare receiver having a fare outlet, a safe having a fare inlet and revoluble'to and from a position in which said inlet will register with and receive fares from said outlet, means for closing said inlet and key controlled means engageable by said inlet closing means for locking said safe from being turned from said position.

4. 'In a fare receptacle, a fare receiver having a fare outlet, a safe having an inlet and a lid movable from a position closing said inlet to a p edetermined open position, said. safe being revoluble to and from a position in which said lid will register with said outlet and will catch fares, when closed, discharged from said outlet, and means engaged'by said lid, excepting when in either of said two positions, holding said safe from being turned from said registering position.

5. In a fare receptacle, a fare receiver having a fare outlet, and a safe having an inlet and a lid movable from a position closing said inlet to a predetermined open position, said safe being revoluble to and from a position in which said lid will register with said outlet and, when closed, will catch fares discharged from said outlet, said receiver having means engaging said lid, excepting when the latter is in either of said two positions, and thereby holding said safe from turning from said registering position.

6. In a fare receptacle, a fare receiver having a fare outlet, a safe having an inlet and a lid movable from a position closing said inlet to a predetermined open position, said safe being revoluble to and from a position in which said lid will register with said outlet and, when closed, will catch fares discharged from said outlet, and a member operative from the exterior of said receiver and movable to and from a position in which it will engage and will be adapted to move said lid from said closed position, and, when so engaged, will hold said safe from turning from said registering position.

7. In a fare receptacle, a fare receiver having a fare outlet, a safe having an inlet and a lid movable from a position closing said inlet to a predetermined open position, said safe being revoluble to and from a position in which said lid will register with said outlet and, when closed, will catch fares discharged from said outlet, a member operative from the exterior of said receiver and movable to and from a position in which it will engage and be adapted to move said lid from said closed position, and, When so engaged, will hold said safe from turning from said registering position, and means releasably holding said member from moving from said engaging position.

8. In a fare receptacle, a fare receiver having a fare outlet, a safe having an inlet and a lid movable from a position closing said inlet to a predetermined open position, said safe being revoluble to and from a position in which said lid will i register with said outlet and, when closed, will catch fares discharged from said outlet, a member operative from the exterior of said receiver and movable to and from a position in which it will engage and be adapted to move said lid from said closed position, and when so engaged, will hold said safe from turning from said registering position, a key controlled means for locking said member from moving from said engaging position.

9. In a fare receptacle, a fare receiver having a fare outlet, a safe having an inlet and a lid movable from a position closing said inlet to a predetermined open position, said safe being revoluble to and from a position in which said lid will register with said outlet and, when closed, will catch fares discharged from said outlet, and means actuated by said receiver for engaging and holding said lid closed when said safe is turned from said registering position.

10. In a fare receptacle, a fare receiver having a fare outlet,a safe having an inlet and a lid movable from a position closing said inlet'to a predetermined open position, said safe being revoluble to and from a position in which said lid will register with said outletand, when closed, will catch fares discharged from said outlet, means for holding said lid closed when said safe is turned on saidreceiver from said registering'position, and means for automatically locking said lid holding means in holding engagement with said lid when said safe is so turned.

11. In a fare receptacle, a fare receiver having a fare outlet, a safe having a fare inlet and a lid movable from a position closing said inlet to a predetermined open position, said safe being revoluble to and from a position in which said lid will register with said outlet, and, when closed, will catch fares discharged from said outlet, a member oscillatable in said safe to and from a position in which, when said lid is closed, it will engage and hold said lid closed, when said safe is turned from said registering position and said member is held stationary, said receiver having means engaging and holding said member stationary when said safe is oscillated, and key unlocked means for automatically engaging and locking said member in said lid holding engagement.

12. In a fare receptacle, a fare receiver having a fare outlet, a safe having a fare inlet and a lid movable from a position closing said inlet to a predetermined open position, said safe being revoluble to and from a position in which said lid will register with said outlet, and, when closed, will catch fares discharged from. said outlet, a member oscillatable in said safe to and from a position in which, when said lid is closed, it will engage and hold said lid closed when said safe is turned from said registering position, and will release said lid when said safe is turned to said registering position said receiver having means for engaging and holding said member stationary when said safe is oscillated, means for automatiically engaging and locking said member in holding engagement with said lid and releasable therefrom by akey, and means, operable manually from the interior of said safe when said lid is open, .for engaging and holding said automatic locking means unlocked, and engaged by said member and released from holding engagement with said automatic means when said safe is turned to said registering position.

13. In a fare receptacle, a safe having an inlet for fares and a lid movable from a position closing said inlet, a locking member oscillative in said safe to and from a position in which it will engage and hold said lid closed when the latter is in the closed position, and having means'for being held stationary when said safe is oscillated around the axis of said member, means for automatically engaging and locking said member in the lid holding position and releasable therefrom by a key, and means movable manually from the interior of said safe when said lid is open to a position holding said automatic means unlocked from said member, and engaged by said member and moved to a position releasing said automatic means when said member is moved relative to said safe from its lid holding position.

14. In a fare receptacle, a fare receiver having a fare outlet, a. safe having an inlet and a lid movable from a position closing said inlet to a predetermined open position, said safe being revoluble in said receiver from a position in which said lid will register with said outlet and, when closed, will catch fares discharged from said outlet, means normally forcing said lid to the closed position, releasable means for engaging and holding said lid in said predetermined position, and a lid operating member operable from the exterior of said receiver and movable thereon into operative engagement with said lid only when said safe is in said registering position and said lid is in said predetermined open position, and when in said operative engagement, being adapted to move said lid from. the closed position for discharging fares on the lid through said inlet into said safe. WILLIAM P. PITT.

FREDERICK D. PITT.

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