Electro-mechanical toy bank

Claim 1

A BANK COMPRISING A BASE; A CARRIAGE MOUNTED ON THE BASE FOR MOVEMENT BETWEEN A COIN RELEASING POSITION AND A COIN GRASPING POSITION; MEANS FOR MOVING THE CARRIAGE BETWEEN THE COIN RELEASING POSITION AND COIN GRASPING POSITIONS; A COIN RECEPTACLE ADJACENT THE COIN RELEASING POSITION FOR ACCUMULATING THE COINS DEPOSITED THEREIN; A COIN RECEIVE ADJACENT THE COIN GRASPING POSITION FOR ACCEPTING COINS TO BE DEPOSITED IN THE RECEPTACLE; AND GRASPING MEANS ON THE CARRIAGE FOR GRASPING A COIN IN THE RECEIVING AND DEPOSITING IT IN THE RECEPTACLE, THE COIN GRASPING MEANS INCLUDING A PAIR OF JAWS CONFIGURED TO RECEIVE THE COIN THEREBETWEEN; ONE OF THE JAWS BEING RELATIVELY RIGID AND CONCAVELY CURVED FROM A POINT VERTICALLY SPACED FROM THE COIN RECEIVER TOWARD THE COIN RECEIVER THE OTHER JAW BEING COMPLEMENTARILY CURVED WITH RESPECT TO THE RIGID JAW AND BIASED THEREAGAINST; AND MEANS SLIDABLY MOUNTING THE OTHER JAW FROM A FIRST POSITION, EXTENDED WITH RESPECT TO THE RIGID JAW, FOR INITIALLY CONTACTING THE COIN TO A SECOND POSITION, RETRACTED WITH RESPECT TO THE RIGID JAW, FOR INCREASING THE BIASING FORCE BETWEEN THE JAWS AND COIN, AND THEN TO A THIRD POSITION EXTENDED WITH RESPECT TO THE RIGID JAW SLIDABLY MOVING THE OTHER JAW TO RELAX THE BIASING FORCE BETWEEN THE JAWS AND COIN WHEN BOTH JAWS ARE IN A DOWNWARDLY INCLINED POSITION TO RELEASE THE COIN INTO THE COIN RECEPTACLE.