Modular coin bank
OwnerLela R. Borrmann, Judson P. Borrmanninventors
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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.
Claims22
A modular coin bank including in combination:
- a coin storage base having at least first and second coin entry slots therein;
- a hollow coin receiving member having a coin entry end and a coin discharge end therein;
- a plurality of hollow guideway members having input ends and exit ends therein;
- at least one hollow guideway splitting member having an input end and first and second exit ends therein;
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- means for interconnecting said coin receiving member, said guideway splitting member, and said plurality of guideway members with said first and second coin entry slots in said storage base to provide at least two alternate paths for coins to travel between said coin receiving member and said base.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.