US1409156A - Money-container-alarm device - Google Patents

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W. C. DILLON.

Patented Mar. 14, 1922.,

MONEY CONTAINER ALARM DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED OCT. 9, I920.

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To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that l, WILLIAM C, DILLON, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Fort Dodge, in the county of Webster and State of lowa, have invented a certain new and useful Money-Container-Alarm Device, of which the following is a specification.

The ohj ect oi my invention is to provide a money container alarm device of the electrical type, so constructed and arranged that when money is withdrawn from the container-an .a'larmwill he actuated at any suitahle or desired place, the parts heing also so arrangediand constructed that there he 3 nothing to indicate-to the hurglar that lad sprung a trapor. operated1 alarm device. a W-ith this anol otherohjects view, invention consists in I the construction, errangement; and comhination the various parts of myfdevice, whereby the ohjects contemplated areattained, as hereinafter more fully set forth, pointed out in my claims, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which: 1 v

Figure 1 shows a top or plan view of a money container alarm device ernhodying my invention parts being broken away.

Figure 2 shows a vertical, sectional view taken on the line 2-2 of Figure l.

Figure 3 shows a vertical sectional taken on the line 33 of Figure 1.

Figure t shows a detailed, sectional talren on the line 4-4 of Figure 8.

Figure 5 shows a detailed, sectional taken on the line 55 of Figure 8.

Figure 6 is a detailed, sectional view taken on the line 66 of FigureTS and Figure 7 shows a diagrammaticview of the electrical circuit.

in the accompanying drawings, l have shown a money container of the type containing several compartments used for hold ing hills of difierent denominations on a hanlr desk or the like.

It will, of course, he understood that the money container may he in the form of a drawer, which can he placed in a desk or counter, or may he in the form of a corn tainer, which rests on the top oi the deslr, 1'

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Patented Il/ilar. El i, 1922..

Serial Ito. 415,934.

preferahly use a drawer or container, which rests on top of the desk and is secured thereto hy screws or the like not here shown.

ln the form of my invention illustrated in the accompanying drawings, l have shown a money container, comprising a base indicated by the reference character 10, having side walls ll secured thereto and having intermediate partitions 12 suhstantially parallel with side walls.

There is provided at one end of the walls ii and 12 a hack wall 18 having in its central portion opposite the money compartment located the partitions 12 a ver- Located rearwardly of the hack 13 is a false haclr wall 15 which may hedetachahly secured in position by screws or the like, not shown, so that he readily and easily removed.

Covering hot-h walls 13 andv 15 and ere tending forwardly for a short distance is top or cover member 16, shown particularly Figures 1 and 2. l

The wall mernhers 13 have inset in their ends adjacent to the wall memher ll upright hars or the lilre 1?, provided for portions of their length with teeth 18, shown in Figures 3 and 5 lln the ends of the members 14- are grooves 19 into which the bars 17 extend a short distance. Extending inwardly from the grooves 19 at points spaced from the top and bottom of the member ll are recesses 20. In the recesses 20 are pivoted the lower ends of pawls 21, which are fixed on rotatahle pins 22. In the hack of the member 14- are recesses 23 to allow access to the rear ends of the pins 22, which are angular in member projecting downwardly ill?) a source of electrical energy 32.

therefrom are silver contact pins. or the like 25, which are connected by a suitable current conducting wire 26.

In the bottom member 10 are recesses 27. Secured to the bottom member and projecting into the recesses 27 are spring contact strips 28, the free ends of which stand below the respective pins 25.

The strips 28 are connected by wires 29 and 30 respectively with an alarm 31 and The battery or otherwise 32 is connected with the alarm 31 by a wire 33.

In the ractical use of my device, the back mem er 15 is removed and the member 14 raised sufiiciently to permit the insertion of the ends of certain bills or ourrency 34 underneath the member 14 and thereafter the member 14 is allowed to drop and the back member 15 is secured in position.

It will readily be seen that the member 14 may be raised by gripping it between the fingers of the two hands or otherwise.

The pawls 21 may be moved to inoperative position by inserting knife blades between them and the teeth 18.

Another means for convenientl raising the member 14 is a air of keys, w ich may be connected with the angular ends 24, and the pins 22 may then be rotated for raising the pawls, and the keys may be also used for raising the member 14.

Ordinarily ,the teller or other person using the money container does not pull any bills out of the compartment having the member- 14 at its end. He may, however, pull all of them but one out without closing the circuit.

When a burglar siezes the money in that compartment and draws it out, the member 14 will drop by gravity for closing a circuit from the battery or the like through the wire 30, the strip 28, the connecting wire 26, the pin 25, the strip 28, the wire 29, the alarm device 31 and the wire 33.

The alarm may be placed at a police station or any desired point.

The opposition arising to ordinary alarm devices for iving an alarm in case of a daylight rob ery, is on account of the fact that many of them indicate to the burglar that the alarm has been set off, and the burglar will then sometimes injure the banker or other person in charge of the money.

One great advantage of my device arises from the fact that it is practically impossible to tell on any hasty examination that the member 14 is movable. When viewed from the top, it is covered by the member 16; when viewed from the rear, it is covered by the back 15; it can not be seen from the side on account of the side and partition wall members.( The member 16 also casts a shadow on the lower part of the member 14 on the inside of the container.

After the bills or currency are withdrawn, the device is of such construction that the lower edge of the member 14 stands below the surface of the bottom 10, so that no view can be had of the lower edge of the member 14. The ends of the member 14 are covered by the back 15 and the partition mem bers 12.

It will be seen that with a device of this kind, the burglar, himself, when he takes the money closes the circuit without any movement on the part of the person, who has the money in charge.

Some changes may be made in the details of the construction of the alarm of; my improved alarm device without departing from the real spirit and purpose of my invention, and it is my intention to cover by my claims, any modified forms of .structure or use of mechanical equivalents, which may be reasonably included within their scope. v

I claim as my invention:

1. In a device of the class described, a bottom member, a rear member, partition walls, a false rear member, said first rear member having a central portion slidably supported, the joint between the central portion and the other portion to said first rear member being covered by said partitions and by said 1 false back, a cover member for the. upper adapted to be held out of engagement by 100 inserting a separate member between them.

2. In a device of the class described. a bottom member, a rear member, artition walls, a false rear member, said rst rear member having a central portion slidably supported, the joint between the central portion and the other portion to said first rear member bein covered by said partitions and by said alse back, a cover member for the upper part of the back members, contact devices carried by said movable member and bottom adapted to be held out of engagement by inserting a separate member between them, and means for locking said movable member against movement away 11! from contact position, when contact position has once been assumed.

3. In a device of the class described, a bottom member, a top member, a rear wall device interposed between the top and bot-v 121 tom members, having a slidable portion, coacting devices on said sliding portion and the other parts of said rear wall member for locking said sliding portion against movement in one direction, contact points 12 carried-by said movable portion, conducting means for connecting said contact points, contact members set in said bottom below the surface thereof below said first contact points. 13

4. Ina device of the class described, a bottom member, a top member, a back member interposed between said top end bottom members, having a vertically sliding portion, partition members for covering the joints between said vertically sliding portion and the other parts of said back member, a false bacli member, enacting teeth and pawls on said slidable member and the other portions of said back member, contact points 10 m the lower-part of said slidable member, means for electrically connecting said contact points, spring contact strips set in said bottom below the surface thereof.

Des Moines, Iowa, September 24, 1920.

WILLIAM C. DliLLtlN,

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