DE374151C - Payment device, especially for telephone stations - Google Patents

Description

874151

The invention particularly relates to cash register devices for apparatus with insertion slots for telephone payment systems. It consists in putting a money box in a Housing is used, which is suspended from the base plate of the apparatus. Of the The entire device can be closed with a lid and is set up in such a way that that for the operation of the facility not only the exact insertion of the cash box in its housing, but generally also the introduction of a money box into the housing is required. As the housing for the money box in the base plate of the device is suspended, the supervisor can pull out the housing to inspect the device without being aware of the contents of the Cash box is accessible and without a signal being sent to the central station. is given.

An embodiment of the subject matter of the invention is shown in the drawing; posed. j

Fig. Ι shows the general arrangement j of a telephone cashier built according to the invention device with schematically indicated circuit.

Fig. 2 is a side view, shown partially in section, and

Fig. 3 a detail on a larger scale. :

The cash register device has a base plate and a lockable one Cover 2. In a housing 4, a money box 3 is removably inserted from the open front 5 of the housing and held by a snap spring 6 will. The slot 7 gives the coins to the box 3, with them on the guide 8 slide along and through the slot 9 of the housing and the slot 10 in the lid step through the money box.

The electrical circuit contains a battery, the intercom in the office 12, the Intercom station 13 of the paying office and signal tongues 14 triggered by the money slot, which with the base plate 1 are electrically connected · The circuit is through either the isolated contacts 15 of the said tongues closed when the payment signal is transmitted, or when speaking through the hook switch 16. Located on the office the usual signal lamp 17.

In the circuit is a against the base plate ι by an insulator 19 is isolated Spring contact 18 switched on, which together with a contact 20 on the box housing 4 is working. Usually the contacts 18 and 20 are through an insulated pin 21 of the Box 3 kept separate from each other, which protrudes through an opening 22 in the housing 4, as long as the money box for receiving money is in its housing. If, however, the box 3 is pulled out, the contacts 18 and 20 come to one another against each other and close the circuit to signal lamp 17 of the office, which then indicates that the money box has been removed and, as a result, the intercom is temporarily out of order.

The housing for the money box is only with its lower edge 23 on the base plate ι is attached and is held up by a screw 24. After losing weight this screw can move the casing with the money box to the one shown in Fig. 2 be brought dotted position, whereby the throw-in 7 and the other parts of the apparatus become accessible to the person watching. However, the cash box can never be brought into a position in which Coins fall out or can be illegally removed.

Claims (1)

Patent claim: Payment device, especially for telephone stations, with removable in A cash box inserted into a housing, characterized in that an electrical Circuit in that position go of the cash box (3) in the housing (4), in which the cash box is ready to receive incoming coins, by a located on the box, passing through an opening in the housing (4) and is kept open on a switching device acting on the housing, on the other hand, is closed as soon as the money box is removed from the specified location and a signal is sent to the office or a Puts the monitoring body into operation. 1 sheet of drawings.