Nova Patents
US2997201A

Coin trays

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US2997201A, drawing sheet 1
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Term

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Expired 22 August 1978, 48.1 years ago.

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2 claims: 2 independent, 0 dependent

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    I claim:A coin tray comprising a bottom wall, two side walls 60 “ ng from said bottom waI1 > two end υ walls extending upwardly from said bottom wall and terminating a substantial distance above the top of said side walls, the upper marginal ends of said end walls being mturaed to provide flanges parallel with said bottom wall, said bottom wall having a key slot therein underly2,997,201 COIN TRAYS Joseph M. Da Prato, 58 Industrial Road, Addison, Hl. Filed Nov. 10,1958, Ser. No. 773,058 1 Claim. (Cl. 220—97) My invention relates to coin trays and more particularly relates to coin trays for use in holding, transporting and storing wrapped coin packages. In banks, supermarkets and other places where a large number of coins are used, the coins are usually wrapped in rolls for ready handling. The rolls of coins must be transported and stored and coin trays which hold several rolls of coins are used for this purpose. For example, in banks, coins are stored in the vault in the trays and are transported to the cashier windows at the opening of business and are returned to the vault at the close of the business day. Since there are several denominations of coms used, and since fairly large quantities of coins are needed, several coin trays are usually transported at one time, generally by being carried. To enable a cashier to carry several trays, die trays are usually piled one on top of another. A large number of trays must be used in any place of business and, therefore, the trays must be relatively inexpensive and yet they must be strong and well constructed to withstand abusive use. Since several coin trays are usually carried together in a stacked condition and since each coin tray is quite heavy, it is extremely important that the entire assembly can be carried about as a unit without the danger of the individual boxes falling off. In the past, various types of coin trays have been proposed but these have generally been of elaborate and therefore expensive construction. Also, the prior art trays are subject to the danger of having one or more trays fall from the stacked array since no provision was made for positive interlocking between adjacent trays. Accordingt· 3 ? .°bj ect _°f my invention is to provide a coin tray which is relatively inexpensive to manufacture. Another object of my invention is to provide coin trays having positive interlocking action when the trays are stacked one with the other. A further object is to provide a coin tray which can be manufactured by simple machine operations and have positive locking means for interconnecting stacked trays. These and other objects and advantages will become more readily apparent as this description proceeds and is read in connection with the drawings, in which: . FIG. 1 is a perspective view of two of my coin trays in stacked interlocking engagement. FIG. 2 is a sectional view taken on line 2—2 of FIG. 1 showing the bottom tray in section. FIG. 3 is a sectional view taken on line 3—3 of FIG. 1 showing the trays in stacked interlocking engagement. FIG. 1 of the drawings shows a pair of my coin trays generally designated 10 which are generally of rectangular construction and are adapted to receive and hold wrapped rolls of coins 12. It will be appreciated that the coin rolls are of several denominations and sizes. The coin trays are made from a single blank of sheet metal and are formed into a box-like rectangular configuration by any conventional method. Tray 10 is provided with a bottom wall 14 having side walls 16 and - · - - - 2,997,: ing each of said flanges and comprising a large opening and an adjacent elongated slot, said elongated slot extending from said opening parallel to said end walls, each of said flanges having a pin extending upwardly therefrom directly over the elongated slot portion of said key slot, S each of said pins having a head portion smaller than said large opening but larger than the width of said elongated slot, said pins each also having a shank between the head and the corresponding flange, said shank being smaller than the width of said elongated slot, and the length of said shank being greater than the thickness of said bottom wall. References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS 814,178 Waters_________________Mar. 6, 1906 1,488,025 Poynter_______________Mar. 25, 1924
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    2,386,343 Regenhardt--------------Oct. 9, 1945 2,636,633 Carlson________________Apr. 28, 1953
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