Title: Savings bank

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1. A molded savings bank consisting essentially of:

first and second hollow body parts, said parts being molded so as to fit together and thereby form an essentially closed hollow money chamber,

said first body part including an elongated hollow plug member integrally formed therewith,

said second body part including an elongated hollow socket member integrally formed therewith,

said plug member and said socket member having interfitting cross-sectional configurations and being of lengths such that said members telescopically engage each other over a substantial portion of their length,

a distal end of said socket member including furcations formed such that said socket member is radially and resiliently expandable,

said socket member further including inwardly projecting lugs integrally formed on said furcations,

said plug member including recesses formed therein equal in number to the number of said lugs and axially disposed so as to be engaged by said lug when said body parts are united for releasably locking said body parts together, and

a money slot formed in one of said body parts.

2. Savings bank according to claim 1, characterized in that said socket and said plug have a partially flattened cross-section coordinated on one another, whereby the flats run parallel to the slots forming said furcation.

3. Savings bank according to claim 1 and including, a key with projection means located in axial alignment with said recesses when said key is inserted in said plug member to disengage said plug member from said socket member.

4. Savings bank according to claim 1 characterized in that said socket member and said plug member are arranged approximately in the vertical axial center of said savings bank.

5. A molded savings bank as in claim 1 and wherein:

said plug member includes projecting ribs integrally formed thereon engagable with the slots forming said furcations for preventing relative rotation of said body parts.

6. A molded savings bank according to claim 1 wherein:

said hollow socket member is open at its end adjacent said second body part,

an enclosing member inserted in said socket member at said end and including said money slot formed therein.

Other info:

Inventors: Riegraf, Gerhard (Affalterbach, DT)
Rudolf, Hans (Leutenbach, DT)

Application Number: 743666
Filing Date: 1976-11-22
Publication_date: 1978-01-17
Assignee: Gerhard Riegraf KG (Affalterbach, DT)
Primary Class(es): 232/4R
Other Classes:
US Patent Ref:

640536	Jan, 1900	Cook	232/5.
743442	Nov, 1903	Brown	232/6.
1102256	Jul, 1914	Fisher	232/4.
1206380	Nov, 1916	Rupert	232/4.
1211248	Jan, 1917	Scully	232/4.
1476735	Dec, 1923	Stockel	232/4.
1700986	Feb, 1929	Moran	232/5.
1709157	Apr, 1929	Salinger	232/4.
2648494	Aug, 1953	Veschio	232/5.
2784903	Mar, 1957	Brasier	232/4.

Other Refs: 7,412 OF

, 1902	UK

Primary Examiner: Zugel, Francis K.
Assistant Examiner:
Attorney: Shlesinger, Arkwright, Garvey & Dinsmore