Abstract: A gravity conveyor chute section (10) includes a door/ledge assembly (20), having a ledge (30) which is hingedly attached to a sidewall (12) of the chute section below a side opening (16) into the chute section and first and second side supports (56, 58), which extend from side edges (32, 34) of the ledge to the chute sidewall beyond side edges (36, 38) of a front panel (18). The ledge can be moved to a laterally-extending position for forming a ledge below the side opening and to a closed position for closing the side opening. When the ledge is moved to the closed position, the side supports move along side panels (22, 24) of the sidewall beyond the first and second side edges of the front panel. A door (68) is hingedly mounted on the ledge for being selectively rotated to the laterally-extending position with the ledge and to a closed position with or without the ledge.

Abstract: A dispensing and deposit machine comprises a container from which goods are dispensed or deposited. Instructions for a dispensing or deposit transaction are provided by a user from a vehicle. The user operates a data input, a dispensing and deposit component, which is mounted on a first carriage mechanism, controlled to move the component to a position adjacent a window of the vehicle. The goods to be dispensed or deposited are conveyed to the data input, dispensing and deposit component from the container and vice versa by a carriage device consisting of an enclosure movable by a second carriage mechanism.

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 bag depository for a drive-up type of automatic teller machine features a drum having a deposit receiving cavity. The drum rotates about its axis between deposit receiving and deposit dump positions. As the drum rotates from its dump to its receiving position the drum also moves forwardly from the rear to the front of its housing to receive a deposit and then retreats to the rear of the housing to dump the deposit. At an intermediate position in its forward movement the drum engages a drawer and pushes the latter forward to an open position at which point the drawer forms a forwardly extending shelf upon which the customer places his deposit and from which the deposit slides into the drum cavity. When the drum retreats it pulls the drawer closed and then alone continues on rearwardly to dump the deposit.

Abstract: A special door is added to the coin receiving mechanism of a pay telephone or other vending machine to discourage the practice of stuffing the mechanism with paper or other foreign matter to trap deposited coins. A slot in the door is normally aligned with the regular slot for coin deposit. If stuffing occurs, the door slides over, misaligning the two slots and preventing deposit of any further coins.

Abstract: A rectangularly-shaped debris-conveyor chute section (10) which can be nested with other sections to form a debris chute has a side opening (30) for receiving items to be conveyed by the chute. The side opening (30) has a rotatable door/ledge assembly (32) mounted thereat which can be rotated, as a unit, into the chute opening to bring a ledge thereof flat against a sidewall (22) of the chute section covering the opening (30) or out of the chute opening to bring the ledge perpendicular to the sidewall (22) of the chute and the door over the opening in the sidewall. A baffle (62) is placed on the inside of the sidewall immediately above the side opening to protect the door/ledge assembly (32) from items falling through the chute. Hoisting eyelets (64) are located on the interior of each chute section so that they can be reached through the opening. The conveyor chute sections are mounted inside a building by means of screw jacks (72) attached to the rotatable door/ledge assemblies.

Abstract: A disposable bag for returning refund bottles to a store is provided that consists of a body of thin flexible sheet material being wide and long enough to accommodate refund bottles of a two liter size which will fit into the proper size container for support and have a counting device built within the container to tally the amount of bottles deposited within.

Abstract: An improved after hour depository is disclosed which essentially comprises a door casing turnable about a shaft extending across both the side walls of a framework on a bank building, a movable wall in operative association with the door casing so as to a develop a pocket, a rotary stopper fixedly secured to the door casing at its lower end part, a sleeve roller adapted to be displaced together with the movable wall, a ratch mechanism for defining the movement of the sleeve roller, a sliding member for turning the movable wall and a steal activity protection means.The improvement consists in that the stealing activity protection means comprises a stealing activity protection plate fixedly secured to the movable wall at its lower end part and an arm ratch so that any close clearance between the corrugated surfaces of both the door casing and the guide member is completely filled.

Abstract: This ash receiving device is designed to prevent ash dust from entering a room when ashes from a fireplace or wood stove are dumped into the device. Primarily, the device consists of a container with a removable ash receiving receptacle on its interior. It also includes a foot pedal operated vacuum producing mechanism in its base, which by an attached hose, will cause outside air to be drawn through openings through an internal chute in which the ashes are dumped to fall in the receptacle. This incoming air being drawn in by suction, pulls the ash dust produced when dumping, into a removable filter included in the chute.

Abstract: The fare box contains an elongate, vertically disposed chute, the upper end of which registers with a slot formed in the top of the box for inserting paper currency into the chute. The chute has a cross sectional area substantially greater than that of a dollar bill, so that once the bill has been inserted into the chute, whether rolled or folded, it could fall by gravity downwardly through the chute to a space provided therefor in the bottom of the box. An endless belt is mounted adjacent the chute to be driven unidirectionally in a path which causes one run of the belt to travel vertically downwardly in a groove formed in one side of the chute. At equi-spaced intervals along its length the belt carries a plurality of transverse tine-supporting bars, which carry a plurality of spaced, parallel tines or fingers that project part way into the bore of the chute as the support bars travel downwardly in the chute.

Abstract: A depository includes a frame, a door casing pivotally mounted to the frame for movement between closed and open positions, a movable wall member pivotally mounted to the door casing to permit pivotal movement thereof in response to the door casing being moved between the closed and open positions. A security mechanism is provided so that direction reversal of the pivotal movement of the door casing is prevented by virtue of a pair of ratch members which define a space therebetween and in which a roller moves during pivotal movement of the door casing towards the closed position. A cam surface is defined on one of the ratch members which also has a linkage member pivotally attached thereto so as to be movable between an engaged and disengaged position with respect to the other ratch member.

Abstract: A drawer-type night depository is disclosed which has a drawer which slides in and out of a housing embedded in a wall. The drawer has an unusable dead space in the front thereof and a partial floor comprised of spaced stationary fingers. The night depository also includes rotor fingers which are designed to rotate through the drawer as the drawer is closed. The item being deposited is placed on the stationary fingers. Then as the drawer is closed, the symmetric rotor fingers rotate between and through the stationary fingers, picking up the deposited item and flipping the deposited item through an opening in the drawer and housing into a bin below. The rotor fingers are fixedly attached to a shaft which passes through the drawer. The shaft is rotated by a clutch mechanism as the drawer is closed. The clutch mechanism is designed such that the shaft, and thus the rotor fingers, are rotated 180.degree. each time the drawer is closed.

Abstract: An apparatus for depositing money in a receiving safe of a bank in which a door having a concave rear wall is rotatable between open and closed positions. A movable wall is mounted rotatably with the door to form a pocket with the concave wall when the door is open for receiving a money bag or envelope, the movable wall scraping the concave rear wall as the door rotates to its open position. A pawl is likewise mounted for rotation with the door to engage a ratchet and prevent reopening the door after it begins to close and has rotated to a position where the pocket is inaccessible.

Abstract: A dustless container for ashes or the like, comprising a receptacle having a bottom wall, a semicylindrical front wall portion extending upwardly therefrom, a flat vertical rear wall extending upwardly from the bottom wall opposite the front wall portion, and side wall portions extending between the front wall portion and the rear wall, and a cover for opening and closing the top of the receptacle, the flat vertical rear wall being adapted to stand close to a wall of a room in which the container is kept.

Abstract: In a stack of two or more drawers, the upper drawer has a removable bottom and several ways are shown for selectively ganging the drawers together. Thus, each two drawers vertically adjacent one another in the stack may be used separately, or the bottom may be removed from the or each relatively upper drawer and the respective drawers ganged together to effectively exchangeably provide a larger number of shallower drawers or a lesser number of deeper drawers.

Abstract: A remote depository for receiving bank transaction deposits in envelopes at an unmanned location under conditions of security. The depository has a belt conveyor having entry and exit ends, one of which is closed at all times. The conveyor discharges into a locked deposit receiver such as a container which may be locked when removing it from association with the conveyor. The container may be a sealed, tamper-indicating container latched to the conveyor when unlocked upon being connected with the container. The conveyor has a probe which enters the deposit receiver to sense when the receiver is filled to capacity. If the receiver is completely full, the probe disables the conveyor so that it will not accept additional deposit envelopes.

Abstract: An apparatus is provided for safeguarding tip money left for a waiter or waitress at a restaurant table. The apparatus is comprised of a base having a flat underside, an elongated member extending upwardly from the upper side of said base, harness means associated with the upper extremity of said elongated member, an apertured container engaged by said harness means, and locking means enabling said container to be releasibly secured to said harness means.

Abstract: A transaction drawer assembly is provided for use in carrying out transactions through the wall of a building. The drawer assembly fits onto an opening in a building wall and attaches to provide an entry through which transactions can be carried out. The drawer accepts items brought to the building and delivers items outside the building so they can be removed therefrom.

Abstract: An inner door is pivotally mounted adjacent one of the sides of a newspaper tube in the newspaper tube at a predetermined distance from the open mouth thereof and is rotatable perpendicularly to the top and bottom of the tube. A spring-biased device abuts the inner door and urges it to its closed position perpendicular to the sides of the tube. An outer door is pivotally mounted adjacent the top of the newspaper tube adjacent the open mouth of the tube between the inner door and the open mouth and is rotatable perpendicularly to the sides of the tube. The outer door is restrained in its open position by a lip extending perpendicularly from an edge of the inner door adjacent and parallel to the top of the tube and extending toward the open mouth of the tube. The lip of the inner door abuts the outer surface of the outer door in the area of the top edge of the outer door when the inner door is closed.

Abstract: In a safe deposit apparatus of the type having a horizontally pivoted sector-shaped door with an interior pocket formed by a pivoted wall serving to eject articles from the pocket when the door is closed, the pivoted wall is normally biassed to the pocket-forming position and is displaceable therefrom to the ejecting position by a cam arrangement which becomes operable as the door is closed. Another cam arrangement maintains the pivoted wall in the ejecting position during opening the door. A locking mechanism permits opening of the door to a first position at which envelopes may be deposited, but prevents opening to a second position for the deposition of wallets except when released by a user's key.

Abstract: A device for serving merchandise located in the interior of a building to a person located outside of the building is disclosed including a frame mounted in an aperture of the building and extending into the interior of the building. In the preferred embodiment, a drawer is slidably mounted in the frame from a first, open position extending out of the frame to the exterior of the building and to a second, closed position located within the frame. A door, pivotally mounted to the frame in conjunction with an elongated member attached to the drawer, close the frame when the drawer is located in its second, closed position. In the preferred embodiment, a second door, pivotally mounted to the drawer, substantially prevents air communication between the exterior and the interior of the building when the drawer is located in its first, open position.

Abstract: A bottomless container for household dry refuse such as garbage and rubbish is positioned within a bag having its upper edge folded firstly inwardly and then outwardly of the container edge, so that the refuse can be compacted and the bag removed when the bottomless container is raised off the bag. The system for filling the container comprises a box-shaped trap pivotally mounted to an external wall of the house, at the bottom of an aperture adapted to be closed by a double seal device operatively connected to the trap, so that when the trap is shut the aperture is closed by the bottom of the trap and by one of a pair of parallel vertical spaced curtains of the double seal device, and when the trap is open the aperture is closed by the pair of curtains. The aperture leads into a rubbish chute which receives the container in its bottom and which has means in its upper portion for compacting the refuse.

Abstract: A door for a linen chute for a building such as a hotel or hospital, the door having a double baffle so to insure against fire going therethrough, the double baffle comprising two individually hinged door plates, one behind the other.

Abstract: Integral with a high speed, computer control banking machine is a depository system to provide a fully automatic teller station. At the customer interface there is an entry gate controlled to an open position by a solenoid actuated in accordance with computer generated signals. A deposit envelope inserted through the entry gate is detected by a light sensor as it moves along a pinch roller transport extending to a printing station. An envelope transported to the printing station is held in a fixed position while a numeric print machine is actuated to imprint on the envelope identifying data. When the print cycle is completed, a computer generated signal energizes a solenoid to open a security door to a storage bin and reactuates the pinch roller transport to deliver the envelope into the storage bin. A sensor is activated when an envelope enters the storage bin and the security door is closed and locked as the trailing edge of the envelope passes the sensor.

Abstract: A rockable customer operated door for a chute to a safe type receptacle as in a bank for receiving parcels and/or envelopes, which door may be unlocked by a key, and when opened exposes a pocket into which a parcel or letter may be dropped, and which during the manual closing of the door, a pivoted wall of the pocket ejects the contents thereof into the chute. Spring urged lever and ratchet means control the movement of the pocket wall to not only eject its contents but to scrape the walls thereof as well as to prevent reversing movement of the door intermediate the ends of its travel. Movable trunnion pivots for the door are provided for removing the door for repairs to its mechanism. The lever means pivoted to the door is provided with pins that cooperate with the ratchet means which is pivoted to the frame for the door that is rigidly mounted in the opening of the chute. Stops and toggle means are provided for controlling and limiting the movement of the door, the movable pocket wall, and the lever means.

Abstract: This is a coin slot adapted to be applied to a flip-top type of can after its pull-out tab has been removed leaving a tear drop shaped opening in the top of the can. The coin slot is formed with a cap member dimensioned to cover the opening and extend diametrically across the top of the can and provided with a wedge-shaped extension partially insertable into the opening in the can top provided with a fulcrum groove engaging the can top adjacent the rim of the can such that a lever action is afforded to the cap member upon depressing the latter onto the can top while fracturing part of the can top bordering the opening therein and effecting a locking action between such fractured parts and grooved sides in the wedge-shaped extension.

Abstract: A residential trash disposal apparatus for conducting waste material from a kitchen area within a building and depositing the same in a receptacle exteriorly of the building. The container is provided with a cover member having a tubular sleeve projecting upwardly therefrom and which is telescopically and slidably received over the vertical discharge leg of a chute which is connected by means of a curved bend to a horizontal inlet leg of a chute which passes through the building wall and communicates with the kitchen area. By raising the cover member vertically until the upper rim of the sleeve binds against the curved juncture region between the vertical and horizontal legs, the cover member becomes frictionally locked in its raised position so that sufficient clearance is afforded for withdrawal of the container for emptying and replacement purposes.

Abstract: The invention provides a dual function safe deposit apparatus which may be operated either without a key to receive envelopes and deposit them in one compartment, or with a key to receive wallets and deposit them in another compartment. The apparatus has an opening to receive deposits, the opening being equipped with a withdrawable shield having a slot for the receipt of envelopes, withdrawal of the shield to provide a larger opening for wallets being key controlled and linked with movement of a diverter member which diverts wallets, deposited while the shield is withdrawn, into a separate compartment from that into which envelopes, inserted through the slot in the shield, are delivered.

Abstract: An after-hours depository entrance of the drawer type employs an inclined passageway down through the drawer to receive a deposit. As the drawer is opened the passageway is "intercepted" by means in the drawer to detect any object trapped in the passageway before the drawer is fully open to receive a new deposit. As the drawer is closed, the new deposit is carried rearwardly in the passageway and finally, when the drawer is fully closed, it drops out through the bottom of the drawer into the vault. Two versions of the invention are disclosed, one for envelope deposits in which, as the drawer is opened, any envelope trapped therein is in effect destroyed or the drawer jammed against further opening by the interceptor means. The other version is for bag deposits in which, as the drawer is opened and if there is a bag trapped in it, the interceptor means likewise jams the drawer against further opening. In both versions the action of the interceptor means also frustrates any fishing attempts.