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US 12,527,383 B2Granted
Emergency cash system
AssigneeWisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
InventorJohn Duncan Wiley
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Abstract
An emergency cash container is constructed of a frangible glass to protect and allow ready access to contained cash while presenting a physical and psychological barrier to opening the container consistent with preserving the cash for emergency use.
Claims14
An emergency cash container comprising:
- a glass tube providing a glass outer wall and closed at opposite ends to provide a sealed volume;
- and
- paper currency having a value of greater than US $20 in 2023 positioned within the sealed volume;
- wherein the paper currency can be removed from the sealed volume only by breaking the tube;
- and
- wherein the opposite ends of the tube are sealed closed by glass.
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A method of fabricating an emergency cash container comprising:
- cutting a glass tube having an internal diameter of greater than 5 mm and less than 10 mm to a length of greater than 76 mm and less than 127 mm;
- sealing a first end of the glass tube closed by heating the first end while rotating the tube to provide an outwardly convex plug having a radius of greater than 3 mm;
- folding and inserting paper currency to fit within the glass tube to expose at least two digits of a denomination of the paper currency;
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- sealing a second end of the glass tube closed by heating the second end while rotating the tube to provide an outwardly convex plug having a radius of greater than 3 mm.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.