Patent GB-388236-A (GB)
Abstract: 388,236. Tills; sorting coins. GODEFROID, A., 50, Hohenstaufenstrasse, Berlin. April 6, 1932, No. 9871. Convention date, June 29, 1931. [Class 116.] In a till comprising in combination a coin receiver and a sorting device, an intercepter is so arranged between the coin receiver and the sorting device as to intercept some of the coins while allowing others to fly past and pass directly to the sorting device, movable means being provided for throwing the coins off the intercepter on to the sorting device, so that the coins are delivered from the coin receiver to the sorting device in two successive groups. The coin receiver and intercepter are preferably operatively connected. In the embodiment illustrated in Fig. 1, a rocking coin-receiving plate b, pivoted at one end, is connected by means of a link pivoted to its free end to an arm g on the shaft f. A trough-shaped intercepter l, pivoted on a pin m, is provided with an arm k at the free end of which is a roller which, by the action of a spring on the pin m, or by the weight of the intercepter, is held in contact with a cam i on the shaft f. By moving the handle h, fitted on the shaft f, in the direction of the arrow, the coin-receiving plate and the intercepter are brought into the positions indicated by dot-and-dash lines, the coins on the plate sliding on to the intercepter, which retains the lighter ones whilst the heavier ones are shot past the rear edge and pass via the sorter n (of any suitable kind) to the collector o. On returning the handle to its original position the coins on the intercepter slide down into the sorter. In a modification, Fig. 2 (not shown), the plate b is replaced by a band conveyer passing over two pulleys and actuated by means of a toothed sector fulcrumed to an arm on the shaft f and engaging a ratchet wheel on the shaft of one of the pulleys. In another modification, Fig. 3, the plate b, pivoted about its centre, delivers the coins to the conveyer p which is fitted with transverse ribs 5 so that the amount of each payment is received between two ribs and displayed beneath a glass plate 7. At each depression of the handle b, the conveyer is moved through one pitch of the ribs 5 by means of a pawl 15 mounted on an arm of a tee lever fulcrumed at 18, and engaging a ratchet wheel s on the shaft of the pulley q. The intercepter l is moved by means of a slotted, double-armed lever 11 which is engaged by a lug 10 on the handle h below the shaft f. In another modification, Fig. 4, the conveyer p is moved, on depressing the handle h in the direction of the arrow, by means of a notched arm 35 pivoted to the free end of a lever 34 and engaging pins 37 on the pulley q. The intercepter is a three-armed star 27, which on returning the handle h in the direction opposite to the arrow, is moved through 120 degrees by means of the toothed arm 27 fulcrumed to the handle h, the tooth 30 of which engages the pins 31. In another modification, Fig. 5, a slotted stationary intercepter 41 is curved in an arc of a circle about a pivot 55 and provided with a check bar 43. A pair of arms 47, fulcrumed about the (duplicated) pivot 55, and actuated by a system of levers attached to an arm on the shaft f, carry a rake the teeth 45 of which project into the slots of the intercepter 41. On depressing the handle h, the arms 47 and teeth 45 move past the check bar 43 and past the coins retained on the intercepter. On returning the handle h the teeth engage below the coins on the intercepter and sweep them off.