Patents by Inventor Ulrich H. Thomas

Ulrich H. Thomas has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 4226044
    Abstract: A coin bank comprises a vehicle movable horizontally along an appreciable portion of the length of a support base, the vehicle having a coin-receiving slot in the top thereof. The vehicle interior has a pivotably mounted coin-receiving member which receives a coin, preferably vertically oriented, inserted through this slot. When this vehicle is moved to one extreme end of the path of travel of the vehicle, the coin-receiving member in the vehicle engages a cam surface which pivots the same at right angles to the direction of movement of the vehicle, to throw the coin into a preferably vertical slot in a vertical wall behind the vehicle. Preferably, the vertical coin slot-containing portion of the vertical wall is depicted as a teller's station in a bank. A roof-forming wall overlies the support base at the bank teller's station so that a coin cannot be placed in the top of the vehicle thereat. The coin slot in the vehicle is uncovered when it is at the opposite end of the support base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 1978
    Date of Patent: October 7, 1980
    Assignee: Banthrico Inc.
    Inventor: Ulrich H. Thomas