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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE
EMMITT STONE WALKER, OF ROSCOE, TEXAS.
POSTAL CASH-SALES RECEPTACLE.Specification of Letters Patent.
Patented May 9, 1911.
Application filed April 16, 1910. Serial No. 555,969.
To all whom it may concern:
Be it known that I, EMMIrr STONE
WALKER, a citizen of the United States, re-
siding at Roscoe, in the county of Nolan and
5 State of Texas, have invented certain new
and useful Improvements in Postal Cash-
Sales Receptacles, of which the following
is a specification.
This invention relates to cash sales re-
10 ceptacles for rural mail boxes.
The object of the invention is to provide
a receptacle adapted to be placed in a rural
mail box and comprising a frame or casing
having a plurality of indicating dials and
15 a combined cash and stamp drawer sliding
in the casing.
Another object resides in providing a
small and compact receptacle adapted to
be deposited in a rural mail box and having
20 means whereby the amount of stamps, pos-
tal cards or stamped envelops desired may
be indicated and the cash in payment for
the purchase inclosed in a drawer provided
in the device.
.25 Finally the object of the invention is to
provide means of the character described
that will be strong, durable, efficient, and
easy of operation, simple and comparatively
inexpensive to construct, and also in which
30 the several parts will not be likely to get
out of working order.
With the above and other objects in view,
the invention has relation to certain novel
features of construction and operation, an
35 example of which is described in this speci-
fication and illustrated in the accompanying
drawings, wherein:
Figure 1. is a side elevation of the recep-
tacle, Fig. 2. is an elevation of the opposite
40 side, Fig. 3. is a plan view, Fig. 4. is a lon-
gitudinal vertical sectional view on the line
S-D of Fig. 3, Fig. 5. is an end elevation,
Fig. 6. is a similar view with the drawer
open at the cash box end, Fig. 7. is a similar
45 view with the drawer open at the opposite
end, Fig. 8. is a sectional view of the recep-
tacle as shown in Fig. 1 with the side of the
casing removed, Fig. 9. is a similar view of
Fig. 2 with the side of the casing removed,
50 Fig. 10. is a view similar to Fig. 3 with the
casing broken away to show the dials, Fig.11. is a transverse vertical sectional view,
and Fig. 12. is a detail in elevation looking
from the interior and the casing being
broken away to show the springs for hold- 55
ing the dials in position.
In the drawings the numeral 1, designates
an elongated metallic casing substantially
square in cross section and open at each end.
This casing has false walls 2 at each side 60
and a similar wall 3 at the top. By means
of these false walls, suitable spaces are pro-
vided between the latter and the side and
top walls, 4, 5 and 6 respectively..
Between the false walls 2 and 3 and the 65
bottom of the receptacle a drawer 7 is
mounted to slide. This drawer has substan-
tially the same length as the casing and is
provided at one end with a knob 8 by which
it may be pulled from the casing or pushed 70
out the other end of the casing. This drawer
is divided by a central partition 9 into two
compartments 10 and 11 or a cash box and
a stamp box respectively. A transverse pin
12 secured to the partition engages in lon- 75
gitudinal slots 13 in the false walls 2 and
the slots terminate short of the ends of the
casing whereby the sliding movement of the
drawer is limited and it cannot be displaced
from the casing. 80
The cash box or compartment 10 has ex-
tending from the partition, a cover 14 pro-
vided with a spring hinged member 15
adapted to open upward when the drawer
is pushed from the casing as shown in Fig. 85
6. The cash for the purchase is placed in
this compartment and when the drawer is
pushed into the casing, the spring cover
member will be closed down by engagement
with the edge of the false top wall 3. The 90
drawer is pulled open to expose the com-
partment 11 as shown in Fig. 7 and the
stamps placed therein by the postman, who
then' pushes the drawer into the closed po-
sition shown in Fig. 4. 95
This receptacle is placed loosely in a
rural mail box and may be attached thereto
with a chain or the like (not shown). One
desiring stamps, envelops, stamp books or
postal cards and not desiring to wait until 100
the postman arrives, sets certain indicating
mechanism, hereinafter described, places the991,567.
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Walker, Emmitt Stone. Postal Cash-Sales Receptacle., patent, May 9, 1911; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth513100/m1/3/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.