Patent GB-190206366-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Apparatus for Giving Monetary Change and for other Similar Purposes.
Inventor: ROTHERAM KEVITT
Filed: 1902-03-15
Granted: 1902-06-05
Abstract: 6366. Rotherham, K., Jackson, J., and Johnson, W. March 15. Money-delivering apparatus.-Relates to improvements in apparatus of the kind described in Specification No. 12,522, A.D. 1901, for delivering copper coins or tokens from a coin-freed gas meter or the like in exchange for silver coins. A copper coin or counter is inserted in a slit 3, and a plunger 4, formed with a shoot 5, is drawn back against the force of a spring 11 until the shoot is in line with the slit. On releasing the plunger, an edge of the coin projecting from the sheet 5 acts on a pin 33 of a counting-lever 31 carrying a pawl 30 which moves the ratchet teeth 26 forward one at a time. The number of coins inserted is indicated by a dial 16, which turns with the ratchetwheel 25 on the trunnion 14, and moves behind an aperture in the casing. When the shoot 5 comes over a slot 10 in a partition plate 9, the coin drops into a box mounted on trunnions 14 in the casing 2. Accidental motion of the dial is prevented by spring pawls 18, 27 engaging with the ratchet teeth 17, 26. The pawl 18 is raised out of action, when the plunger is pulled out, by a flange of the plunger acting on a projection 21 of the pawl. When the six copper coins have dropped into the box, a stop-pin 22 of the dial prevents the plunger from being drawn out, and a projection of the ratchet-wheel 25 comes in contact with a pin of the collecting-box. The apparatus is set back to the starting-point again by inserting a sixpence in a slot 56, pressing back a slotted spring bolt 48 clear of a stop-block 59 by forcing the sixpence inwards by means of a lever 54, and then rotating the collecting-box by means of a handle fixed to the trunnion 14. The sixpence drops into a box at the bottom of the casing, and the copper coins are tipped through a shoot 62 in exchange. The pawls 27, 30 are disengaged from the ratchet teeth 26 by a cam 36, fixed to the box, coming into contact with pins projecting from the pawls. The dial is moved back by a projection of the box until a shoulder 24 of the dial comes in contact with a fixed stop pin 23. The spring bolt 48 is recessed to receive a sixpence, and is guided by the trunnions and bosses 46, 47 of a cam-plate 43 fixed to the collecting-box. A pawl 58 engaging with a recess in the cam-plate 43 prevents any backward movement of the box. The box is locked, when the lever 54 is raised for the insertion of the coin, by a projection 53 of the lever entering a recess 44 in the cam-plate. The camplate prevents the lever from being lifted when the box is tilted. After the coins have been tipped out, the box is returned to its original position. The apparatus may be modified to allow change to be given for coins of different values. An arrangement is described in which the first six coins can be exchanged for a sixpence, or twelve coins for a shilling. Two slits in the casing are controlled by a slotted plate acted on by a cam on the trunnion 14. The sliding bolt is built up of slotted plates arranged to form two pockets for the reception of sixpences and shillings.