Patent attributes
A low profile depository cabinet-safe combination including a safe forming a hollow safe interior therein accessible through a lockable door, a depository cabinet set atop and locked to the safe, forming an enclosed cabinet interior accessible through a pivotally mounted lockable door by inputting an unlocking combination therein, an opening formed in the safe and an opening formed in the cabinet to place the respective interiors thereof in vertical communication with each other, deposit handling means in the depository cabinet including a deposit plate moveable from inside the cabinet interior, with the cabinet door, to outside the cabinet when the cabinet door is fully opened, on which to place a deposit and a deposit actuator for moving with the cabinet door to move the deposit plate and the deposit placed upon it from outside the cabinet into the cabinet interior, as the door is being closed, and off the deposit plate, over the communications opening, to allow the deposit to fall down into the safe interior and a snap lock for preventing the cabinet door from being reopened until another unlocking combination is inputted to unlock the cabinet front door.