US2617584A - Night depository construction - Google Patents

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Nov. 11, 1952 H. C. BEHRENS NIGHT DEPOSITORY CONSTRUCTION 5 Sheets-Sheet 1 Filed July 22, 1949 INVENTOR. Herfi eri C Belzrens ATTORNEYS Nov. 11, 1952 H. c. BEHRENS NIGHT DEPOSITORY CONSTRUCTION 5 Sheets-Sheet 2 v Filed July 22, 1949 IN VEN TOR. Henberz" CBehr'em BY A TTOR/VE Y8 Nov. 11, 1952 H. c. BEHRENS NIGHT DEPOSITORY CONSTRUCTION s Sheets-Sheet 5 Filed July 22, 1949 INV EN TOR. HerberiCBe/zrens w 99 f 226 ATTORNEYS Nov. 11, 1952 H. c. BE'HRENS NIGHT DEPOSITORY CONSTRUCTION 5 Sheets-Sheet 4 Filed July 22, 1949 IN V EN TOR.

w m M w P kw H W B a m M .m T A Nov. 11, 1952 H. c. BEHRENS NIGHT DEPOSITORY CONSTRUCTION 5 Sheets-Sheet 5 Filed July 22, 1949 IN VEN TOR. Herbem CBe/zrms BY ATTORNEYS za-z 38 Patented Nov. 11, 1952 NIGHT DEPOSITORY CONSTRUCTION Herbert C. Behrens, Canton,. 0hio,-assignor to Diebold, Incorporated, Canton, Ohio, a combration of Ohio Application July 22, 1949, Serial No. 106,219

hopper in which the deposited article in any form such as a bag or package of money may be placed when the door is open. When the door is closed the deposited article should fall from the hopper and slide down a chute into the bank vault.

In such a usual night depository construction, robbers have obtained a key to the door, and have opened the door and suspended wires or. cords having a bag or hooks on their lower ends which are suspended in the chute. Thedoor is then closed and the wires or cords are led out of the door frame in an unobserved manner. Th next deposited articleis caught by the suspended bag or hooks without the knowledge ofthe depositor. The robbers then return and open the depository door again and fish up the suspended bag or hooks in which the deposited article has been caught.

The objects of the present invention or discovery include the provision of an improved night depository construction, of the type, including a pivoted door and a hopper extending from the rear of the door, and which includes parts cooperating with the door and the hopper in such manner that the chute opening at all times is substantially closed off whether the depository door is open or in the course of being closed 0 in the course of being opened. V

Further objects of the present invention or discovery include the provision of such an improved night depository construction in which after a deposited article has been placed in the hopper when the door is open,. it is necessary for the door to be entirely closed without possibility of reopening in order that the deposited article shall drop down the chute. 4 Further objects. ofithe present: invention or discovery include the provision :of such an im-. proved night depository construction in which a deposited article is forcibly ejected from the hopper into the chute, and in which even if by some means there has been suspended in the chute a bag or hooks on which -the deposited article is caught, the deposited article will become wedged in a manner preventing opening of the door. 1 Further objects of the present invention or dis- 18 Claims. (01. 23244) covery include the provision of such an improved night depository construction -'in which the hopper includes a bottom wall fixed with respect to the door, and in which there is a swinging bottom wall in the hopper pivoted at the rear end of the fixed bottom wall, and in which cam track and cam follower means actuated by opening and closing of the door cause movement of the swinging bottom wall for the attainment of the previously defined objects. 1

The foregoing and other objects are attained by the night depository construction, improvements, members, parts, combinations, and subcombinations, which comprise the present invention or discovery, the nature of which is set forth in the following general statement, and preferred embodiments of which together with their mode of use are set forth by way of example in the following description, and which are'particularly and distinctly pointed out and set forth in the appended claims forming part hereof.

The nature of the improved night depository construction of the present invention or discovery may be stated in general terms as including in combination with other usual parts of a night depository, a pivoted door and a hopper extending from the rear of the door. The hopper includes a bottom wall fixed with respect to the door, and a swinging bottom wall in the hopper is pivoted at the rear end of the fixed bottom wall. The pivoting of the swinging bottom wall is effected by a shaft fixed to the swinging bottom wall and pivoting on the fixed bottom wall. The hopper operates in a hopper compartment which'includes a wall adjacent one end of the shaft. An arm is fixed on the-shaft end and the arm mounts a cam follower roller. Track cam means are mounted on the adjacent hopper compartment wall, the track cam means including track sections opening towards and receiving and guiding the'cam follower roller for efiecting movement of the swinging bottom wall relative to the fixed gottom wall during opening and closing of the cor.

the swinging bottom wall extends across and bafiles the chute opening communicating'with the The cam track sections are four in number and hopper compartment. Opening of the door produces a series of movements of the swinging bottom wall, continuing its baiiiing action until the door is fully open. At the fully open position of the door, the swinging bottom wall lies substantially parallel with the fixed bottom wall, and the swinging bottom wall is ready to receive a deposited article, and the rear end of the hopper is then in bafliing position across the chute opening.

After receiving a deposited article, when the door is being closed, further movements of the swinging bottom wall occur by which th deposited article is ejected from the hopper down into the chute, and the swinging bottom wall is returned to its bafiiing position across the chute at the final closing of the door.

The various relative movements of the door and hopper and the swinging bottom wall are effected by means of the cam follower on the arm of the swinging bottom wall pivoting shaft and the guiding of the cam follower through the four sections of the cam track.

By way of example, preferred embodiments of the night depository construction of the present improvements are illustrated in the accompanying drawings forming art hereof, in which:

Figure l is a vertical sectional View showing a preferred embodiment of the improved night depository construction installed in a bank wall opening, the several parts of the construction being shown in their relative positions when the door is closed;

Fig. 2 is a view similar to Fig. 1 showing the parts when the door is substantially halfway open and just before access to th hopper is about to commence;

Fig. 3 is a view similar to Figs. 1 and 2 showing the parts when the door is fully open;

Fig. 4 is a view similar to Figs. 1, 2, and 3 showing the parts just before final closing of the door;

Fig. 5 is a top plan sectional view as on line 5--5, Fig. 3;

Fig. 6 is a front elevational view looking in the direction of the arrows 66, Fig. 3; and

Fig. '7 is a vertical sectional view as on line 'i--l, Fig. 3, showing details of the preferred separable track cam plate and its mounting on an apertured side wall of the hopper compartment, and

also showing details of parts mounted on the track cam plate.

Similar numerals refer to similar parts throughout the drawings.

One embodiment of the improved night depository construction is indicated generally by [0, and is shown installed in a vertical wall I I of abuilding which is usually a bank building, and the wall H is usually either an exterior wall or the wall of an entrance hall of the building. Also, the wall H is usually solid as shown and made of materials such as masonry or reinforced concrete. The wall I I has formed therein a rectangular opening 12 and has a front face l3 and a rear face l4.

The improvednight depository construction l includes a rectangular door frame indicated generally by [5, and walls indicated generally by [6 form a hopper compartment C and extend from the rear of the door frame l5. As shown the door frame I includes a front flange ll extending around a rectangular opening I8, and from the rear face of the front flange l1 and perpendicular thereto there extends a connecting flange I9.

The walls I6 formingthe hopper compartment Q include a front connecting neck having a 4 rectangular opening telescoping over and being connected with the flange I9 of the door frame l5. The walls [6 extend from the front connecting neck 23 rearwardly and downwardly and terminate in a rear chute connecting neck 2| extending around a rectangular opening.

The walls It forming the hopper compartment C include an upper wall 22 extending from the rear end of the upper wall 23 of the neck 20, and sloping upwardly therefrom, and a lower wall 24 extending from the rear end of the lower wall 25 of the neck 23 and sloping downwardly therefrom. The hopper compartment walls It furthermore include vertical side walls 26 and 21. The opening H! in the building wall H has top and bottom faces with sloping portions conforming to and fitting the sloping walls 22 and 24 of the hopper compartment. All the faces of the opening l2 conform to the hopper compartment walls fitted therein.

A door indicated generally by 28 is pivotally mounted adjacent its lower end in the door frame opening is by usual means, which as shown include at each side of the door frame a trunnion 29 extending from a door frame sid member and pivoting in the bore of apivot bearing block 30 extending from the rear of the door 28.

When closed, the door 28 fits in the opening l8 of the door frame 15. Adjacent its upper end the door 28 is provided with an outwardly extending pull handle 28-I. There is mounted on the inner face of the door 28, a usual key-operated lock 3| including a bolt 32 extendable into and retractable from a keeper in the top member 33 of the door frame 15, the lock 3| also including a nose 3l-l extending through a cylindrical opening in the door 26, a key cylinder being operative in the nose'3 1-! in the usual manner.

Walls extending from the rear of the door 28 form a hopper indicated generally by 34. The hopper forming walls include a vertical wall 35 at one side of the door and a similar vertical wall 36 at the other sideof the door. Each of the walls 35 and 36 has the same peripheral shape. Describing the wall 35 in detail, its periphery includes a curved outer edge 31 which extends from a junction with the upperend of the rear face of the door 28 in a circularly curved portion 38 and terminates in a rear straight portion 39 constituting atangential continuation of the circular portion 38. The rear peripheral corner 43 of the hopper side wall 35 continues as a circular are from the rear end of the straight edge portion '39, and the periphery of the hopper side wall 35 furthermore includes a straight edge portion 4| extending forwardly fromthe arcuate corner 40, the straight edge portion 4| being at an angle with the door 28. From the front end of the straight edge portion M a notched edge portion 42 extends to the lower side of the door 28. The notched edge portion 42 of the hopper side wall 35 includes anoutwardly opening notch 43, and an upwardly extending stop wall 44 is provided on the bottom wall 25 of the hopper compartment in a usual manner, the notch 43 fitting over the stop wall 44 when the door is closed v(Fig.1).

The walls forming the hopper 34 furthermore include a hopper bottom wall 45 extending between the hopper sidewalls 35 and 36 and hav ing a front flanged endr46 located intermediate the top and bottom ends of the door 28 and a rear end 4'! aligned with the rear corners 4!) of the side walls 35 and 36. A hopper front end wall 48 extends between the side walls 35 and 36 and upwardly from the bottom wall-front end 46 to a top end 48-l located intermediate the ends of the circularly curved peripheral portions 38 or the hopper side walls and 36. A cylindrically curved hopper top guard wall 49 extends between the side walls ,35 and 36 from .the upper end of the door 28 to a curved and flanged rear end 58 which is connected with the upper end 48-| of the hopper front end wall 48. The hopper walls 35, 36, 45, 48, and 49 are connected with each other at their junctions, preferably by welding; and the hopper side walls 35"and 36 and the hopper top guard wall 49 are connected at their junctions with the rear of the door 28, also preferably by welding.

The foregoing described parts of the depository I9 and their arrangement with each other constitute usual depository construction prior to the present improvements. According to the present improvements, there is located in the hopper 34 a movable and preferably swinging bottom wall indicated generally by 5| which includes a fiat rectangular portion 52 having a straight front edge 53. and straight parallel side edges 54 and 55 which are perpendicular to the front edge 53' The edges 54 and 55 extend with close clearance along the inside, respectively, of the hopper side walls 35 and 36, and the edge 53 extends with close clearance along the inside of the hopper front end wall 43 which has a cylindrical curvature as shown. The swinging bottom wall 5| terminates in an angled rear end portion 56 extending rearwardly from a curved corner junction 57 with the rear end of the flat portion 52.

Means pivotally mount the swinging bottom wall 5| on the hopper bottom wall 45 which is fixed with reference to the other hopper walls and the door. As shown the pivoting means constitutes a piano type hinge indicated generally by 58 connecting the rear ends of the fixed bottom wall 45 and the swinging bottom wall 5|. As best shown in Fig. 5, the hinge 58 includes spaced cylindrical bends 59 formed on the rear end of the swinging bottom wall 5| and spaced cylindrical bends 68 formed on the rear end of the fixed hopper bottom wall 45, the bends 68 fitting between the bends 59, and the bores of the bends 59 and 60 registering with each other. A pivot or hinge shaft 6| extends through the registering bores of the hinge bends 59 and 60 and also through fitting apertures formed in the rear corners of the hopper side walls 35 and 36 59 is secured to the shaft 6| as by a pin 62. I The shaft 6| includes an end 63 extending beyond the hopper side wall 54 which is spaced from the hoppericompartment wall 26, and the shaft end 63, terminates adjacent the hopper compartment wall26.,. 71

Between the hopper side wall 54 and the hopper "compartment wall 26 there is located an arm 64 including an end 65 secured on the shaft end 63, and the arm 64 extends from the shaft end 63 towardsthe door 28, and on the outer end 65 of the arm 64 there is mounted a cam follower roller'61.

The. hopper compartment side wall 26 has formed therein an opening 68 as best shown in Figs. 3 and 7 Q A cam plate 69 is secured in abutment with the outerface i0 on the hopper compartment side wall .26 preferably by bolt and nut sets each indicated by H. The cam plate 69 has formed therein an endless cam track including track sections each constituted by a straight lilach of the swinging bottom wall hinge bends 6 parallel side groove 12 opening through the hopper compartment side wall opening 68 towards the hopper side wall 54. The cam follower roller '61 is received in and guided by the cam track grooves 12.

The cam track sections connect with each other at corners, and include. as best shown in Fig. 3, a rear track section 13 extending from a lower rear corner 14 to an upper rear corner 15. and an, upper track section 16 extending from the upper rear corner 15 to an upper front corner 11, and a front track section 18 extending from the upper front corner 11 to a lower front corner 19, and a lower track section 80 extending from the lower front corner 19 to the lower 7 rear corner 14.

Below the lower cam track section 89 astop or throw pin 8| extends from the inner face of the hopper compartment side wall 26 towards the hopper side wa1l35. As shown in Figs. 3 and 7 the mounting of the pin 8| is effected by means of a mounting plate 82 secured to and depending from the cam plate 69 on the outside of the wall 26. The pin 8| extends through an aperture 83 formed in the wall 26, and the pin 8| includes a reduced threaded outer end 84 extending through an aperture in the plate 82 whereby the shoulder formed between the pin 8| and the threaded end 84 abuts the inside of the plate 82, and a nut 85 is screwed on the threaded end 84 against the outer side of the plate 82.

-In the operation of the improved depository construction It], as will be hereinafter described in detail, it is desirable that the cam follower roller fil move only in a counterclockwise direction around the four sections of the cam track.

as shown in Fig. 3. For preventing reverse or clockwise movement of the cam follower in the cam track sections, one or more of the cam track sections have associated therewith dog means preventing clockwise movement of the cam 01 lower. As shown such dog means are provided for the front track section 18 and the lower track section 86. -The front cam plate portion 36 has formed therein a recess having openings 81 and 88 into the front track section 18. In the recess of the cam plate portion 86 there are pivotally mounted dogs 89 and 98 having dog ends extending into the front track section '18, the dogs 89 and 96 being arranged to permit counterclockwise movement of the cam follower 61 in the front track section 18, and prevent clockwise movement thereof. Similarly, a double ended dog 9| is pivotally mounted in a recess formed in the central portion :92 of the cam plate 69, and the dog 9| includes double ends, one of which extends into the track corner 19 and the other of which extends into the lower track section 80, and the double ended dog 9| likewise ermits counterclockwise movement of the cam follower 61 from the front track section 18 into the lower track section 88 and from the lower track section 89 to the corner 14, and prevents reverse movement of the cam follower.

.As shown and preferably each of the track sections 53, 7-6, 18, and have different lengths. The upper track section 16 includes two straight angled'portions, and the other track sections 13, 18, and 88 are arcuate. From a broader standpoint, each of the track sections 13, 16, 18, and 89 deflects from a straight line. 7

The chute connecting neck 2| of the hopper compartment as shown is telescoped in and connected with a chute 93 which extends downwardly and communicates with a bank vault, not shown,

where the deposited articles are received. The walls forming the hopper compartment C furthermore include a downwardly sloping rear wall 94 lower portions of which are a rear wall of the chute connecting neck 2 i.

The operation of the improved night depository construction I is as follows:

In Fig. 1 the parts of the night depository construction H] are shown in their relative positions when the door 28 is closed and locked and with the hopper 34 extending downwardly in the hopper compartment C, the cam follower roller'Bl being located in the lower rear corner 14 of the cam track, and the swinging bottom wall being in a position in which its fiat portion 52 is substantially vertical and extends across the downwardly sloping chute neck 2| of the hopper compartment, with the front edge 53 of the swinging bottom wall 5| located closely adjacent to the inner face of the hopper compartment rear wall 94. Thus, no deposit can be retained by itself in the hopper or on the bottom wall 5|.

In making a deposit, the depositor inserts a key in the lock 31 and retracts the bolt 32 from its keeper in the wall door frame 33, and then swings the door 28 from the closed position shown in Fig. 1 downwardly, and Fig. 2 shows an intermediate position of the door during its opening movement, when the door is substantially half-way open, having been swung substantially degrees from its closed position. At the position of the door shown in Fig. 2 the curved end 58 of the hopper top guard wall 49 has not yet cleared the door frame, and access to the hopper 3'4 is not yet possible. The cam follower 6'! has been pushed up the rear track section 13 swinging the armiid, the connected shaft 6!, and the connected swinging bottom wall 5| in such manher that its front edge 53 moves upwardly in close proximity with the hopper compartment rear wall 94, and the hat portion 52 of the swinging bottom wall 51 takes a position sloping upwardly and substantially parallel with the hopper compartment sloping rear wall 94, when the cam follower reaches the cam track corner 15, as shown in Fig. 2. Thus, any deposit retained on wall 5| by other means will be squeezed between walls BI and 9d and jam the mechanism.

In Fig. 3, the door is shown fully open, having beenswung 90 degrees from its closed position. Access can now be had to the upwardly opening hopper 3s. The cam follower 67 has been advanced along the upper track section 16 and has reached the upper front corner ll. During movement of the cam follower along the upper track section T6, the front edge 53 of the swinging bottom wall 51 first advances forward in close proximity to the hopper upper wall 22, and then the swinging bottom wall 5! swings down to the position in which its flat portion 52 is substantially parallel with the hopper fixed bottom wall 45, ready for a deposited article to be received on the top of the fiat portion 52 of the swinging bottom wall 5|. Meanwhile, the rear 58 of wall 5! and the rear end of wall 45 move close to casing wall 9 3 to close off any passage through the chute.

After a deposited article has been placed in the hopper on the top of the flat portion 52' of the swinging bottom wall 5i, the depositor swings the door 28 upwardly, and the cam follower Bl is advanced down the circular front track section 15 to the cam track corner 19, and the door is thenin the position shown in Fig. 4, within about '7 to 8 degrees from its closed position. The corn ter of the circular front track section 18 is on the axis of the door trunnions 29, and consequently there is no relative movement of the swinging bottom wall 5| with respect to the fixed bottom wall 45 as the cam follower 61 advances down the front track section 13.

When the cam follower 6'. reaches the cam track corner 13, the arm 64 abuts the stop-or throw pin 8|, as shown in Fig. 4. During'the final closing movement of the door from the po sition shown in Fig. 4 to the position shown in Fig. 1, the cam follower advances along the lower track section from front to rear, by a coaction of the-pin 8| abutting against the arm 64 while the pivot shaft 6i swings forwardly, whereby the swinging bottom wall 5! is rapidly swung from the position shown in Fig. 4 in which the flat portion 52 is substantially parallel with the fixed bottom wall 45 to the chute closing position shown in Fig. 1 in which the flat portion 52 of the swinging bottom wall 51 is angled substantially 30 degrees with respect to the fixed bottom wall 35. If a deposited article has not already slipped from the hopper 35 through the chute neck 2! and into the chute 93, by the time the door and attached parts have reached the positions shown in Fig. 4, the very rapid movement of the swinging bottom wall 51 from the position shown in Fig. 4 to the position shown in Fig. 1 forcibly ejects the deposited article from the hopper 3'1.

Considering now the improved night depository construction it from the standpoint of burglary prevention, it is noted that during an opening movement of the door, the front edge 53 of the swinging bottom wall 5! is first in" close proximity to the rear wall 94, and then to the top wall 22 of the hopper compartment as shown in Figs. 1 and 2. Then the rear end portion 56 of the swinging bottom Wall 5| comes in close proximity with the rear wall 94. Consequently, at no time during the opening movement of the door is there any substantial space through which a robber might insert hooks or bags suspended on a line or lines over the hopper and into the chute and later remove them witha deposit.

If, however, any such fishing equipment were inserted into the chute 93 during an unauthorized opening of the door 28, when the door is subsequently closed and then opened again for the receipt of a deposited article from an authorized person, and such deposited article is caught on the suspended hooks or bags in the hopper compartment C or the chute 93, if the hooks'or bags are located in the chute connecting neck 2|, the deposited article caught therein will be jammed when the swinging bottom wall 5| reaches the position shown in Fig. 2, so that the door 28 cannot be opened. If the suspended hooks or bags are lowered down in the chute 93, the upper end of the chute passageway is blocked at every position of the door 28, the hopper 3 4, and the swinging bottom wall 5| during an opening move 'ment of the door.

As above stated, the dog means associated with the front and bottom track sections 18 and80 prevent any reverse movement of the door after the door has started to close, with the consequence that the door 28 must be fully closed before any subsequent opening is permitted, and

whereby a deposited article is consequently foreibly ejected from the hopper 34 before any subsequent openi'ng of the door is permitted, and

ber mounted for movement in the hopper 35 by cam follower and cam means operative between the ejector and baflie member and an adjacent wall of the hopper compartment. Likewise, from a broader standpoint, the connection between the hopper 34 and the door 28 may be made in any desired manner so as to cause the hopper to swing with the door. 7 I r In the foregoing description, certain terms have been used for brevity, clearness, and understanding, but no unnecessary limitations are to be implied therefrom beyond the requirements of the prior art, because such words are used for-descriptive purposes herein and are intended to be broadly construed l Moreover, the embodiments of the improved construction illustrated and described herein are by way of example, and the scope of the present invention is not limited to the exact details of construction.

Having now described the invention or discovery, the construction, the operation, and use of preferred embodiments thereof, and the advantageous 'new and useful results obtained thereby; the new and useful constructions, and reasonable mechanical equivalents theerof obvious to those skilled in the art, are set forth in the appended claims.

I I claim:

1. In night depository construction and the like including opposite side walls and other walls forming a.-hopper compartment havinga door frame front opening and a chute neck rear opening, a door, means pivoting the door adjacent it'sflo'wer side in the door frame front opening, a hopper extending from the rear of the door, and the hopper including a first bottom wall; the" combination including a swinging hopper bottom wall, shaft means fixed to and pivoting the swinging bottom wall on the first bottom wall, and means operatively associating the shaft means and one of the side walls of the hopper compartment for oscillating the shaft 'means and the swinging bottom wall relative to the first bottom wall, the hopper compartmentwalls and the door frame front opening during opening and closing of the door.

v. g. In night depository construction and the likeas set forth in claim 1, and in which the shaft meansfixed to and pivoting the swinging bottom wall on the first bottom wall is at the rear end of the first bottom wall.

.3. In night depository construction and the like 'as set'forth in claim 1, and in which the shaft oscillating means are operative to permit movement of the door from the closed position to the open position and from the open position to the closed position and in which means are included preventing reverse movements of the door after a closing movement has'commenced. 4. In night depository construction and the like as set forth in claim 1, and which includes dog means associated with the shaft oscillating means and operative to permit movement of the door from the closed position to the open position and from the open position to the closed position and preventing reverse movements of the door after a closing movement'has commenced.

5. In night'depository construction and the like as set forth in claim 1, and in which the means for oscillating the shaft means include a' cam follower operatively connected with the shaft means and a cam for guiding the cam follower, the cam being located on said one side wall of the hopper compartment.

6. In night depository construction and the like as set forth in claim 1, and in which the means for oscillating the shaft means] include a cam follower operatively connected-with the shaft means and a cam for guiding the cam.

follower, the cam being located on said one side wall of the hopper compartment, and dog means'associated with the cam and permitting movement of the cam follower so as to permit movement of the door from the closed position to the open position and from the open position to the closed position and preventing'reverse movement of the cam follower and reverse move-- ments of the door after a closing movement has commenced. v 7. In night depository construction and the like including walls forming a hopper compartment having a door frame front opening and a chute neck rear opening, a door, means pivoting the door adjacent its lower side. in the door frame front opening, a hopper extending fromthe rear of the door, and the hopper including a first bottom wall; the combination including a swinging bottom wall in the hopper, means pivoting the swinging bottom wall on the first bottom wall, the pivoting means including a' shaft fixed to the swinging bottom wall and pivoting on the first bottom wall, the hopper,

' operating in the hopper compartment and the hopper compartment forming walls including" a side wall adjacent one end of the shaft, an

arm fixed on the shaft end, a cam follower roller mounted on the arm, track cam means mounted on the hopper compartment side wall, the track cam means-including track sections opening towards and receiving and guiding the cam follower roller for oscillating the shaft and the swinging bottom wall relative to the first bottom wall, the hopper compartment walls and the door frame opening during opening and closing of the door. j

8. In night depository construction and the like as set forth in claim '7, and in which there are four cam track sections which connect with each other at corners.

'9. In night depository construction and the like asset forth in claim 7, and in which there are four cam track sections which connect with each other at corners, and in which each track",

section deflects from a straight line.

10. In night depository'construction and the.

like as set forth in claim ,7, and in which, there are four cam track sections which connect with each other at corners, and in which each track section has a different length than the others.

11. In night depository construction and the like as set forth in claim 7, and in which there like as set forth in claim 7, and in which 'there are four cam track sections which connect with each other at corners, the four track sections constituting in sequence a rear track section extending from a lower rear corner to an upper rear corner, an upper track section extending from the upper rear corner to an upper front corner, a front track section extending from the upper front corner to a lower front corner, and a lower track section extending from the lower front corner to the lower rear corner, the upper track section being angled and each of the other track sections being curved.

13. In night depository construction and the like as set forth in claim 7, and in which there are four cam track sections which connect with each other at corners, the four track sections constituting in sequence a rear track section extending from a lower rear corner to an upper rear corner, an upper track section extending from the upper rear corner to an upper front corner, a front track section extending from the upper front corner to a lower front corner, and a lower track section extending from the lower front corner to the lower rear corner, the upper track section being angled and each of the other track sections being arcuate.

14. In night depository construction and the like as set forth in claim '7, and in which there are four cam track sections which connect with each other at corners, the four track sections constituting in sequence a rear track section extending from a lower rear corner to an upper rear corner, an upper track section extending from the upper rear corner to an upper front corner, a front track section extending from the upper front. corner to a lower front corner, and a lower track section extending from the lower front corner to the lower rear corner, and a stop pin extending from the hopper compartment wall mounting the track cam means, the stop pin being located below the lower track section and bein adapted for abutment by the arm on the pivoting shaft as the cam follower moves through the lower track section.

15. In night depository construction and the like including opposite side walls and other walls forming a hopper compartment having a door frame front opening and a chute neck rear opening, a hopper, means pivotally mounting the hopper in the hopper compartment, a door connected to the hopper and movable into and out of closed position in the door frame front opening and the hopper having an upper opening and pivoting with movements of'the door so as to position the upper opening into and outside of the hopper compartment and the door frame front opening thereof; the combination including an ejector and baflle member in the hopper, means on the hopper mounting the ejector and bafile member for movement with respect to the hopper, and

means operatively associating the ejector and baffle member and one of the side walls of the hopper compartment for moving the ejector and baflie member with respect to the hopper, the

hopper compartment walls andthe door frame front opening during opening and closing of the door.

16. In night depository construction and the like'as set forth in claim 15, and in which the movements of the ejector and baffle member are in repeating cycles during movements of the door from the closed position to the open position and from the open position to the closed position;

17. In night depository construction and the like as set forth in claim 15, and in which the movements of the ejector and baffle member are in repeating cycles during movements of the door from the closed position to the open position and from the open position to the closed position, said movements of the ejector and baflie member positioning the ejector and bafie memher so as to block passage from the hopper compartment front opening to the chute neck rear opening at the closed positionof the door and during opening movement of the door and so as to eject a deposited article from the hopper during the finalclosing movement of the door.

18. In night depository construction and the like including opposite side walls and other walls forming a hopper compartment having a door frame front opening and a chute neck rear opening, a door and hopper member, means pivot-ally mounting the door and hopper member in the hopper compartment, the hopper having an upper opening located inside the hopper compartment when the door and hopper member is closed and outside the door frame when the door and hopper member is open; the combination including an ejector and baffle member in the hopper, means on the hopper mounting the ejector and bafile member for movement with respect to the hopper, and means operatively associating the ejector and baflie member and one of the side walls of the hopper compartment for moving the ejector and baffie member with respect to the hopper, the hopper compartment walls and the door frame front opening during opening and closing of the door and hopper member.

HERBERT C. BEHRENS.

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