Abstract: A visually pleasing box according to the present invention has six opaque panels. A light transmissible window is provided at one panel and a partition plate for dividing the interior of the box body into two half spaces is disposed on a flat face defined by one diagonal line of a given panel among the four panels abutting the panel formed with the window and other diagonal line of a panel opposite to the given panel and parallel to the diagonal line of the given panel. Furthermore, a light-reflective area is provided on a surface of the partition plate substantially over the entire surface thereof and facing the window. Thus, the reflecting operation of the reflective area is utilized to be visually pleased, and the box in which the state and the utility can be variably modified as a saving box, pencil stand box, flower stand box, stock box ornament box, etc. can be provided.

Abstract: A coin bank having a cylindrical tubular intermediatre portion, a cap portion which has a hollow interior and a coin slot to the interior of the cap portion and a base portion which has a bottom wall. The cap portion has a cylindrical lower end which is inserted into the top of the tubular intermediate portion in a snug fit. The base portion has a cylindrical upper end which fits into the bottom end of the tubular intermediate portion in a snug fit for attaching the base portion to the intermediate portion.

Abstract: The present invention concerns a money saving box, wherein independently rotatable combination rings each marked with different colors, symbols etc., allow, when positioned in a predetermined arrangement, to open or lock the box.

Abstract: An amusement device has a large transparent circular funnel element having a convexly flared inner wall and an outlet. A hemispherical reflector has a concentric opening and is disposed below and spaced apart from the funnel element with the outlet extending through the opening. The funnel element is supported by a circular container. A transparent hemispherical plastic dome covers the funnel element and includes a pair of coin chutes molded therein. A coin placed at the top of a chute and released is guided to roll down the chute to be tangentially injected through an opening in the dome to roll on edge around the funnel surface. The reflector causes the rolling coin to appear to be floating in air and produces a reflection of the coin. The coin will spiral downward and drop through the outlet. A gong is mounted below the outlet and is struck by the coin. The container includes a door in its sidewall for access to a coin collection tray disposed beneath the outlet.

Abstract: A bank containing a coin receiving base portion and a detachable top portion containing a battery operated locking system. Such system contains an electromagnetic coil lock for locking together the two portions. A switch responsive to placement of the top portion on the base portion for opening a circuit to de-energize the coil lock so as to lock the portions together. A coin slot switch is also provided to temporarily light a lamp upon dropping of a coin. A mercury switch is also provided to prevent opening of the bank when inverted.A coin sensor is also provided on the top portion for allowing the coil lock to be activated to enable the removal of the top portion when the sensor senses the coin receiving base portion being sufficiently filled with coins.

Abstract: A modular coin bank permits construction of a variety of different geometric patterns of coin guideways for feeding coins from a receiving member to a coin storage base. The base has at least two coin receiving slots in it, and different geometric shapes of hollow guideway members are releasably interconnected together to form intricate pathways from a single coin receiving slot to the coin entry slots in the base. A coin dropped in the coin receiving slot takes one or another of the various pathways to the base. The various members are made of transparent material to permit observation of the path taken by a coin in its fall from the opening in the coin receiving member to the coin storage base of the bank.

Abstract: A device for collecting and playing with coins or the like includes a base in the form of an upward and inward sloping hollow pedestal having a generally flat bottom and a circular upper end concentric with and of substantially lesser cross-sectional area than the bottom. An open top main body, having a vertically extending circular upper rim and a circular downwardly and inwardly formed surface portion, extends from said rim to a lower aperture concentric with the rim and merging with the upper end of the pedestal, whereby the main body is supported on the pedestal along a common vertical centerline. A launching ramp is removably mounted on the rim and curves upward and inward over the main body toward the vertical centerline. The ramp has a downwardly and outwardly formed guiding surface arranged to cause disc-like objects placed thereon to roll onto the surface of the main body inside the rim and through a helical path of decreasing radius through the aperture and into the base.

Abstract: A toy bank having a coin discriminating mechanism for discriminating between coins of varying diameters. The mechanism includes a housing having a coin slot, the slot having two generally flat, spaced walls and two relatively narrow spaced sides, the sides defining the breadth of a coin passageway. A movable slide is disposed within the passageway and normally biased toward a resting position at least partially obstructing the breadth of the passageway. The slide is movable in response to insertion of a coin. Electronic circuitry is provided to detect movement of the slide and translate that movement into information relating to the denomination of the coin. Preferably the slide is movable in a direction not parallel to a line defined by a first point of contact between a coin and the slide, and a second point of contact between the coin and the first side of the passageway, said points of contact being identified when the slide is maximally displaced by the coin.

Abstract: A coin bank for separating a group of coins, forming the coins into a moving file, and for sorting the coins. The bank has a housing with an inlet for receiving a group of coins, coin bins for receiving coins of different diameters, a mechanism for separating individual coins from a group deposited into the inlet and for advancing the separated coins in a moving file, and a mechanism for receiving coins from the moving file and for sorting the coins in respective coin bins. The housing has a transparent wall disposed so as to allow coins in the moving file to be viewed therethrough, to provide the bank with a unique visual effect.

Abstract: A container for food products, which can be used as a money box after consumption of the products, comprises a hollow casing constituted by two trough-shaped bodies which can be joined together releasably at their complementary free edges. One of the free edges has a notch which defines a slot with other free edge when the bodies are joined together. The two bodies have shaped appendages which give the container an animal-like appearance, and some of the appendages serve to support the container with the slot facing upwardly.

Abstract: A combined bank for coins and noisemaker forms an attractive and durable hand-held device for displaying the name of a favorite athletic team or the like at indoor and outdoor events. Provision was made for advertising indicia on the device. The body portion can be shaped to resemble a football or other game ball.