Patent GB-645262-A (GB)
Abstract: 645,262. Checking fares. STUART, H. B. June 19, 1947, No. 16245. [Class 106 (iii)] A change-giving fare register having coin receiving slots each of a width corresponding to the diameter of a designated coin, shoots extending from the slots to coin collecting receptacles, and means for ejecting change from the receptacles, includes means responsive to a coin in a shoot for actuating the change. ejecting means when a coin exceeding the fare is deposited. General. In the described embodiment coin slots are provided for nickels B, Fig. 1, dimes B1, a common slot B2 for quarters and half dollars, and a slot B3 for tokens. The fare to be taken and registered is a nickel, but the machine can be adapted to take a dime. Rejected coins are directed into a receptacle D and change into a receptacle F, an illuminated label L drawing attention to the latter. Counters or registers for tokens and cash fares respectively, are visible through windows E and also windows at the back of the machine. Additional windows at the back enable an attendant to scrutinize inserted coins before the registration is completed, and slots are provided for manually feeding change to the receptacle F, as necessary. When a coin is inserted it passes down a shoot 60... 60C, Fig. 4, and, in the case of shoots 60A, 60C, over a byepass 62 (see Fig. 21) provided to direct coins of less than the proper size into the reject receptacle D. The coin is arrested by a step on an arm 65 which protrudes into the shoot, and is so held until the machine is actuated either manually or electrically. Manual operation is by depressing a lever 53, Fig. 14, thus rotating a shaft 52 and clutches 66 for each of the arms 65, each spring-urged pin 66 normally being in engagement with a notch 65C coupling the arm 65 to the shaft 52. When a coin blocks the movement of an arm 65, however, the pin 66 is forced out of the notch 65C, causing its opposite end to be projected and to engage a stop 67A on an arm 67, rocking the latter. During the return movement of the shaft 52, the frictional engagement of the pin 66 with the arm 65 rocks it clear of the coin shoot, allowing the coin to fall into a tube 63. Similar tubes 63 are provided for nickels, dimes and quarters, but half dollars and tokens are fed directly into a common receptacle R, Fig. 4, accessible through a door at the rear of the machine. The coins are retained in the tubes 63 by a door 75, Fig. 8, which can be released by pulling a slide 75A. Change slides 76 ... 76C, Figs. 8 and 9, having holes 77 equal in size to the coin tube with which they are associated, are actuated by the arms 67 as described above to extract a coin from the tube 63 and deliver it into a shoot F1 leading to the change receptacle. Luga 78, 79 on the slides 76 ... 76C co-operate to cause more than one slide to be operated in appropriate cases (e.g. change for a half dollar is a quarter, a dime, and two nickels). The nickel tube comprises two change slides, the upper one being operated by an arm 67 when a dime is inserted for a nickel fare, and the lower one having a lug 78 for operation from the dime slide when a quarter or half dollar is inserted. Provision is made for manual operation of the change slides by an attendant. Electrical actuation of the machine is initiated when a coin enters a shoot 60, Fig. 22, forcing a lever 90 clockwise and releasing a spring-urged bellcrank lever 88 from engagement with a notch in the lever 90. The lever 88 rocks a bail 87 fixed to a shaft 86 which also carries a cam 85, Fig. 25. The cam 85 forces a follower arm 84 counter-clockwise about a pivot 84A and, by engagement with a pin 82A, operates a switch 82 to close the circuit of a solenoid 54, Fig. 15. The consequent movement of an armature 55 is damped by a dashpot 58 operated from an arm 57A on a link 57 which also operates an arm 56 on the shaft 52 actuating the arms 65 as described above (see Fig. 14). A pin 112A following a cam slot in the arm 56, rocks an arm 110 at each machine cycle, reciprocating a bar 113, Fig. 19, to spring-urge a pin 114 into each coin tube 63. This is to ensure that there are at least two coins in each tube. If not, the pin 114 moves into the tube and a cam surface 114C lifts a member 115 and, through a link 118, causes a pin 119A to block the coin slot B. To ensure that the armature 55 performs a full stroke, a pivoted rack 126, Fig. 17, is spring-urged to co-operate with a projection 125 on the link 57, preventing reverse movement until the projection engages a cam surface 126B rocking the rack 126 clear where it is held by a latch 127B until the link rises again and the projection 125 lifts the latch. When a coin tube 63, Fig. 20, becomes full, further coins are byepassed to the main receptacle R down a shoot 302 by a member 300 spring-urged in a counter-clockwise direction at each machine operation. The insertion of a coin blocks all the coin slots until the machine has performed a registering cycle. A lever 106, Fig. 28, protruding into the coin slot is rotated clockwise by the coin until its pin 106C clears the end of a spring-urged lever 107 fixed to a shaft common to similar levers adjacent the other coin slots, whereby the arms 107A are rocked into a position blocking the insertion of any further coins. A pin 109, moving with the armature 55 of the actuating solenoid, restores the lever 106 to its initial position when it reaches the lower end of a slotted link 108. The two registers, counting the number of cash and token fares, respectively, comprise numeral wheels 100, 100A, Fig. 38, and transfer pinions 100B. The levers 67 (Figs. 4, 14, 37 and 38) and 167, 167A when rocked, as described above, protrude a pin 105 to engage a common bar and rock an arm 103 comprising a pawl 103A which steps on a ratchet wheel 104 fixed to the units wheel of the register. In adapting the machine to take a ten-cent fare provision for detecting two nickels in the coin shoot 60C, Fig. 32, comprises a modified arm 265 (cf. arm 65, Fig. 14) having an extended portion 265A supporting the coins and an abutment 265B engaging a lever 267 on a vertical shaft 266A which has an arm at its upper end pivoted to a pin 268A sliding into the coin shoot. The movement of the arm 265 is not blocked unless a second coin is in the shoot.