US172016A - Improvement in toy money-boxes - Google Patents

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I. HALL.

TOY MONEY-BOX. No. 172,016. Paten,t ed. Ian.11,1B76.'

METERS, PNOTO-UTHOGRAFNER, WASHINGTON. D C.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN HALL, OF WATERTOWN, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN TOY MONEY-BOXES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 172,016, dated January 11, 1876; application filed April 28, 1875.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, JOHN HALL, of Watertown, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Toy Money-Boxes; and I do hereby declare the same to be fully described in the following specification and represented in the accompanying drawings.

The object of my invention is to construct a toy money-box, in such a manner that the different parts or sections of which the box is composed may be put together, and be held firmly in place without the use of a bolt or screw heretofore used for the purpose. Thus a very important saving in the cost of manufacturing is effected, not onlyin the cost of a bolt or screw, but also in the time required'to drill and tap for the same.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a vertical section of the box; Fig. 2, a plan of the bottom; Fig. 3, an inside view of one of the sides, and Fig. at shows the mode of elevating the front above the sides.

The bottom is constructed with openings through it, as shown at e e, at suitable distances from the edge, arranged with respect.

to and to receive the .lugs 01 d, hereinafter named. Fig. 3 represents a side of the box, having three lugs or claspsone, 0, extending from the top, and two, d d, from the bottom. Each lug is formed with a shoulder on the outer side, which is forced over the edge of the top or bottom when the sides are pressed outward. A channel is formed to receive the front and back of said box by flanged edges to n extending at right angles inward, and by projecting studs 8 8. Both sides are constructed in the same manner. The top I) has two corresponding openings through it to receive the lugs c 0.

Suppose, now, we have before us the various parts of which the box is composed, and

desire to put them together. The bottom being in the position as represented in Fig. 2, place the side G, Fig. 3, in an upright position on the bottom, with the lugs 01 '61 through theright-hand openings 00. The other side is placed in a like position in the opposite side. This having been done, the back and front may be slid downward in the channels to their proper places, pressing the sides outward, and clasping them, by means of the lugs d d, to the bottom B. The top or cover is adjusted by pressing the sides inward, so as to admit the clasps c c in the openings made through the cover to receive them. When the clasps are thus arranged the elasticity of the metal will admit of the cover being forced downward to its place, when the clasps c a will become locked to the cover, thus uniting the whole box firmly together.

When it is desirable to elevate the front above the sides a projecting stud, m, serves for a bearing to keep the front in place.

It is obvious that the parts having the lugs or clasps may be made to represent the front and back of said box; or one clasp at the bottom may serve the purpose, and operate in substantially the same manner.

The designshown in this application is the subject of a pending application for a design patent.

I do not claim the channel formed by the flanged edges n n and raised studs 8 s, as described, for that is not new.

What I do claim is A toy money-box consisting of the bottom, sides, andtop, secured together by means of the lugs or clasps c 0' and dd, the whole combined and arranged to operate substantially as shown and described.

JOHN HALL. Witnesses:

ALEXANDER GREGG, GEORGE E. KIDDER.

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