US446438A - Change-receiver - Google Patents

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G. EDWARDS & O. D. EVERETT. E E

110; 446,438. Patented Feb. 17,1891.

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GEORGE EDXVARDS AND CHARLES D. EYERE' OF BEAR, DELAlVARE.

CHANGE-RECEIVER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 446,438, dated February 17, 1891. Application filed February 15, 1890- Serial No, 840,619. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that we, GEORGE EDWARDS and CHARLES D. EVERETT, citizens of the United States, residing at Bear, in the county of New Castle and State of Delaware, have invented a new and useful Change-Receiver, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to improvements in change-receivers.

The object of the present invention is to provide a change-receiver of simple and inexpensive construction and of neat and attractive appearance, adapted to readily receive money from a customer and quickly and conveniently deposit the same in the hand of the proprietor, and vice versa, and thereby prevent the customers hand coming in contact with disagreeable substances that may be upon the counter of a store.

- The invention consists in the construction and novel combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and pointed out in the claims hereto appended.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective View of a change-receiver constructed in ac cordance with this invention. Fig. 2 is a front elevation. Fig. 3 isa detail perspective view of a modification of the change-receiver.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, 1 designates the base of a change-receiver,wllich is constructed of suitable material, preferably nickel or some metal that can be readily plated, and the said base has rising from it two standards 9, that are suitably stepped in the base near the sides thereof, about midway the length of the same, and has pivoted between its upper ends 3 a change-receiver 4, that is adapted to be tilted to either side to deposit money in the hand of a person. A change-receptacle 4 is constructed in the form of a barrel, and is provided with a flaring mouth 5, in which the money is dropped. The money falls to the bottom 6, which is one of the curved sides of the barrel, and when the barrel is tilted slides out of one of the open ends '7 into the hand of the person. The change-receptacle is secured between the upper ends of the standards by pivots or pins 8, which pass through perforations in. said ends and engage the sides of the receptacle, and the latter is normally maintain ed in a vertical position by means of a weight or pendulum 9, that is secured to the lower face of the receptacle and depends therefrom and is arranged centrally below the pivots. The pend ulum or weight is preferably disk-shaped, and is provided in its upper edge with a curved recess, the sides of which conform to the configuration of the adjacent sides ofthe receptacle, and the pendulum is secured in place by screws or the like which pass through the bottom of the receptacle.

The change-receiver is operated by extending the hand and bringing the tips of the fingers in contact with the pendulum or weight, and by pushing the pendulum the change-re ceptacle is tilted, thereby causing the money within the receptacle to slide therefrom and fall into the hand, and obviating the necessity of picking the money from the top of the counter and getting the hands soiled by substances that have been accidentally spilled upon the counter.

As illustrated in Fig. 3 of the accompanying drawings, the receptacle maybe made of different shapes, indicative of the business or the character of the store in which it is used, and we desire it to be understood that we do not limit ourselves to the precise details of construction herein shown and described, as we may, without departing from the spirit of the invention, make minor changes therein, such as using a scoop instead of a barrel, or employing some other shape, such as a mortar for a drugstore and the like.

. From the foregoing description and the accom panying drawings the construction, opertion, and advantages of the invention will be readily understood.

hat we claim is 1. A change-receiver comprising the base, the standards rising from the base, the receptacle pivoted between the upper ends of the standards, so as to oscillate back and forth, and the pendulum depending from the receptacle and fitting between the standards and adapted to be pushed to either side to tilt the receptacle, substantially as described,

2. A change-receiver comprising the frame,

thebari'el-shaped receptacle having'open ends 7 and provided with a flaring mouth 5 and be ing pivotally mounted in the frame, and the l on 1' own we have hereto aflixed our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

GEORGE EDWARDS. pendulum dependin from the lower side of i T 5 the receptacle and being adapted to be pushed CHARLES ERET aside to tilt the receptacle, substantially as Vitnesses: described.

DAVID W. ELKINTON, In testimony that we claim the foregoing as \V. J. FERRIS.

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