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US 5,632,408 AGranted
Apparatus for securing and dispensing currency
OwnerJerry B. Mitchellinventor
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Abstract
A safe box is provided with currency containers and a plurality of separate currency chutes with time delay access for security. Manually operated apparatus is provided for aligning and releasing containers into the chutes as well as manually operated drawers for selecting and dispensing only one container from the chutes during any time delay. A door is provided in the front panel for access to the interior of the safe box and the front panel of the safe box is hinged to open the box for servicing.
Claims8
Limited access currency securing and dispensing apparatus comprising:
- a safe box including a front panel and a primary chamber;
- a plurality of cylindrical currency containers, each of like dimensions and having a longitudinal axis;
- a plurality of container receiving chutes sized to hold said containers, with said axis horizontal, in a single stacked row;
- at least two apertures in said front panel, each said aperture being aligned with one said container receiving chute and sized to allow only axial insertion of one said container therethrough at a time;
- at least one container support bar located to support said one container, as inserted through one said aperture, on at least two points along a line parallel to the longitudinal axis of said one container so as to align said one container with said one container receiving chute;
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- means for lateral movement of said support bar so as to drop said supported and aligned one container into said one container receiving chute.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.