Lock box construction

Claim 1

A lock box mountable in an aperture of a cabinet wall, and comprising in combination; an open-topped coin receptacle dimensioned for passage through said aperture, said receptacle having a front upright wall, side walls and a back wall, said front wall having inner and outer faces, said front wall having an opening therethrough, a transversely bored forward face member having a rear surface and peripheral edges; means for mounting said face member upon the receptacle in substantial covering relation with said outer face of said receptacle front wall; a lock normally supported within the transverse bore of the face member, said lock including an elongate cylinder having at one end an enlarged head, and at the other end a shaft rotatable by means accessible at the head end of the lock cylinder, the other end of the shaft extending through the front wall and into the receptacle, a seat within said bore providing an abutment for the lock cylinder head, to limit projection of the cylinder inwardly through said bore; bolt means carried by said face member, including at least one bolt movable to extended and retracted position relative to a peripheral edge of the face member, to engage a marginal portion of the cabinet wall aperture incident to extension of the bolt means; connecting means adjacent the opening in the inner face of the front wall and detachably mounted upon the lock shaft for moving said bolt means incident to rotation of said shaft; the connecting means being of a dimension slightly smaller than The opening but still substantially cover the same, a displaceable lock cylinder anchor means adjacent the opening for normally holding the lock cylinder head stationary relative to the seat aforesaid; the lock cylinder being bodily withdrawable forwardly from said bore upon displacement of said anchor means and said connecting means inwardly into said receptacle, leaving intact the coin receptacle mounted on the face member.