Patent GB-191025016-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Registering and Change Giving Machines.
Inventor: THOMPSON WILLIAM PHILLIPS
Filed: 1910-10-27
Granted: 1911-10-26
Abstract: 25,016. Thompson, W. P., [Union Special Maschinenfabrik Ges.]. Oct. 27. [Addition to 8636/10.] Money-delivering apparatus.-Relates to the change-giving machine described in the parent Specification, and consists in improvements whereby the adjustments necessary in the transfer to a subordinate kind of money are carried out automatically, the ejectors being so arranged as to dispense with a separate catchbar frame, and the means for operating the ejector couplings is placed under the action of several keys, so that one key may adjust various amounts according to previous adjustments. The keys, as before, have bars which carry projections for encountering and rocking yokes, which have joints and couplings connected with the ejectors, so that the adjusted coins can be ejected on turning the operating-handle. The ejectors 1 are flexibly connected to levers 9 loosely mounted on sleeves 2 loose on a shaft 3. Four sets of ejectors on four sleeves 2 are provided for ten-dollar and single-dollar coins, five- and one-cent and fifty- and ten-cent coins respectively. Each sleeve 2 carries a slotted lever 16, the slot in which carries a roller 4 on a link 48 attached to a yoke 47, the slot registering with an open slot 14 in a lever 13 attached to the shaft 3. The roller 4 therefore couples the shaft 3 to the sleeve 2 when advanced. A projection 15 allows the lever 13 to return the lever 16 when the coupling is out. Similar group couplings are provided for the other groups, and similar coupling-rollers 8 on links 12 connected to yokes 11, for coupling sleeve levers 92 to extensions 22 of the levers 9, thereby coupling the ejectors. The couplings 8 are normally in, and the group couplings 4 out. All the sale keys press on yokes, which turn a stop out of the path of a cam on the operating- shaft crank to unlock this shaft. The key projections are arranged to depress the required yokes. ' For instance, the ten-dollar receipt key depresses the yoke 47 for the coupling 4, and a yoke 59, which lifts a frame 61 acting on a pin 64 to raise a link 62 within reach of a claw 65 on a yoke 66. This yoke, which is depressed by all the unit-dollar sales keys, uncouples the coupling 4, these keys at the same time uncoupling their own ejectors as required and putting in the group coupling. All the ten-cent and unit-cent sales keys put in the ten-cent group coupling, and the unit-cent keys also put in the unit-cent coupling. All the cent sales keys also depress a yoke which withdraws a dollar ejector to make the transfer automatically. All the ten-cent ejectors are connected by links 29, Fig. 4, to spring-returned forks 28 pivoted at 78 in tubular yokes 27, the fork being also connected to a link 30, Fig. 6, having a pin 32 adapted to be engaged by a gripper 31 when lifted by an arm 35. When the fifty-cent sale key is depressed, it rocks the shaft 34 and lifts the links 30 for the four ten-cent ejectors, the forks 28 returning the couplings 8 and placing the pins 32 in the grippers 31. If now a unit-cent sale key is depressed, the yoke 36 is depressed to couple the four tens by the gripper 31, while another yoke 37 throws out the unit-cent group coupling. The key also presses its yoke 11 to put out the individual ejector of its group, according to its value. In connexion with the dollars, there is provided an arrangement of three yokes operated by different keys, as required, the first of which puts in the dollars group coupling, the second puts it out again, while the third again puts it in as required for the correct giving of the change. As soon as the amount of sale in dollars equals the amount received, a dollarejector must be uncoupled. For this object, a received key 23, Fig. 12, and a sales key 24 are releasably connected by bars 67, 68 passing through slots 74 in the bars. The bar 67 is pivoted at 70 and carries a roller 71, and the bar 68 has a slot 72 in which runs a pin 73 on the bearing 69. When the key 23 is depressed, the roller 71 presses the bevelled end 75, and forces the rod 68 into the slot 74, so that, when the key 24 is depressed, the rod 68 depresses a rod 76 to uncouple the yoke 44 of a dollarejector.