Patent GB-190623320-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Machine for Counting and Wrapping-up Coins.
Inventor: BECK WILLIAM HENRY
Filed: 1906-10-20
Granted: 1907-06-13
Abstract: 23,320. Beck, W. H., [Frey & Co., A.]. Oct. 20. Parcelling.- Relates to the coinwrapping machine described in Specification No. 539, A.D. 1904. The coins, supplied in great number and irregularly, fall down a glass-faced shoot to escapement stops, from which they are fed one by. one by an oscillating lever with terminal segment to a receiver, which is moved to the wrapping- up apparatus after a certain number of coins have been fed. The feeding- lever 9 bearing a Jug 15 is oscillated by a spring-pressed lever 12, lever 5, connecting-rod 4, and a continuously driven crank - disk 3. The stops consist of vertical and horizontal bell-cranklevers 26, 29, and while the feeding-lever works the first by a link, the segment 10 on the lever 9 pushes the lowest coin against the second, which is thrust aside and operates a ratchet - wheel. The coin enters the receiver 11 and indication is obtained by a pointer 38 and dial 39. The oscillation of the lever 9 is communicated to a bell-crank, which operates a lever in the shoot to loosen the coins. If a coin is jammed so as to prevent the segment from moving forward, the spring-pressed lever 12 is thrown over and the actuating-lever 5 oscillates alone. The first coin in the receiver is pushed into position against a pusher, which is supported on rods 58, 59, and pressed by a lever and spring. The cam-operated lever 53 is attached to a plate carrying pins 41, which serve to move the roll of coins endways for the addition of another coin. The coins at one end are held by a spring-pressed flap 63. Fixed on the same shaft as the ratchetwheel is a helical cam, against which a lever is forced by a spring. When the required number of coins, fifty say, have been supplied to the coinreceiver, the lever is moved upward together with a depending rod. The rod engages a projection on the horizontal rod 81, Figs. 2 and 12, lifting the latter rod clear of an engaging projection on a fixed bracket. The rod 81 is then free to be moved by the action of the spring 120. The lever 91, carrying at one end a wheel 93 which at this instant is in a depression of the cam 94, is moved to bring the element 92 of a claw clutch into engagement with another element 97 loosely mounted on the shaft 1; thereby the wrapping-up apparatus is brought into operation. Immediately before this, the shaft 107, and cam-wheel 94 which rotates once during the time required for the placing of fifty coins on the coin receiver, are brought to rest momentarily by the wheel 93 dropping into the depression 96. The rod 81 at this moment is engaged by a projection, so that the lever 91 turns about a pin 90 on the rod, disengages the clutch members, and brings to rest the shaft 107 which is driven by a skew and worm gearing from the clutch element 97. The clutch element also drives by skew gearing two rollers 154, 155 against which the roll of coins is placed for wrapping. A series of cam-surfaces are mounted on the shaft 107, and serve to operate mechanisms for grasping tightly the ends of the roll of coins moving them and the paper into the shell 173, forcing the shell and coins into the dotted position, and completing the wrapping process. Two arms 128 on the shaft 121, one at each end of the roll of coins, are pressed together by a cam-slot action with sufficient force to grip the coins for the transference of the roll. This is obtained by the rotation of the shaft 121 under the influence of a spring, when a lever on the shaft slips off the edge 118 of a cam 116. The rotation of the shaft 121 carries with it the arms 128, and the roll of coins is pressed against the paper p and into the shell 173. A roller 153, coin - delivery shoot 149, and rod 169 move into the dotted position about a pivot 159, at about the same time as the shell is turned on its pivot 147 against the action of a spring. A spring 166 acts on one end 165 of a pivoted lever 161, which bears on a roller 162 carried by a lever 158, and when a wheel on the lever drops down the cam-face 113, the lever rotates about the shaft 159 under the action of the spring. The parts move into the dotted position with the rollers 153, 154, 155 bearing against the roll of coins. The roller 153 is cut away at the middle, which corresponds to a part of the skeleton framework, so as to bear against the roll at .the other parts. The feed-rollers 181, 182 rotate less quickly than the rollers 154, 155, so that the paper is stretched for its serration by the teeth 183<1> on the plate 183 and subsequent cutting by knifeedges on the same plate. When the roll is completed, horns are operated by cam-surfaces on the shaft 107, and the paper at each end of the roll is tucked in spirally so that the middle only of the end coins are left exposed. The action of the camsurface 113 at this instant brings the roller 153 and money shoot 149 back to the position shown in full lines, and the completed roll falls down the shoot into a box. The arms 128 on the shaft 121 are brought to their initial position by the engagement of a stop with one end of a lever 136, the other arm 137 of which engages a lever on the shaft 121 and brings the latter to its initial position. At the same time, the roller 93 falls into the depression of the wheel 94, and the wrapping-up apparatus is brought to a standstill before the corresponding levers escape from the edge 118 and stop.