Patent GB-307491-A (GB)
Title: A device for sorting, counting and packing coins and the like
IPC: G07D9/06
Filed: 1929-02-18
Abstract: 307,491. Chiger, S. March 9, 1928, [Convention date]. Counters for coins.-A device for sorting, counting, and packing coins comprises a rotatable pusher which withdraws coins one at a time from a coin tube and passes them over an aperture of less diameter than that of the coins to be packed so that the smaller coins pass through this aperture and are eliminated. The coins to be packed fall through another aperture, and actuate a counting device which, after a predetermined number of coins have passed, automatically stops the rotation of the pusher, and brings into operation a fastening apparatus to close up the coin tube into which the counted coins have dropped. The closed coin tube drops through a trap and actuates a counter which records the number of coin tubes packed. Means are provided for automatically restarting the rotation of the pusher. A coin tube 1, filled with coins 2 to be sorted, is carried on a base 3 on which is rotatably mounted a disc 4 formed with pushers 5. The pushers 5 are bevelled, or hollowed out, on one side to press the coins against a side wall of the, base 3. The disc 4 is driven by a sleeve coupling 6 from a spindle 7. Apertures 8, 9 are formed in the base 3, and a stationary cover 10, with pressure springs 11, 12 centrally positioned over the apertures 8, 9 lies above the disc 4. A toothed wheel 14, formed with a notch 17 on its undersurface, is mounted on a boss 13 on the base 3. A roller 16, carried by a rod 15, engages the undersurface of the wheel 14. The rod 15 is pivoted to a coupling fork 18, and to a rod 19, the fork 18 engaging a groove in a sleeve coupling 20 fixed to the spindle 7 by a pin 21 fitting in an elongated slot 21a. A pawl 22 engages the teeth of the wheel 14, and a lever 23, mounted on the base 3, is adapted to lie in the path of a coin as it passes towards the aperture 9. The pawl 22 is spring-pressed against the teeth of the wheel 14. Beneath the aperture 9 is a disc 26 mounted on a spindle 27 and supporting coin tubes 25, teeth 28 on the spindle engaging the teeth of a wheel 29 which is rigidly secured to a sleeve coupling 30 adapted to rotate with the spindle 7. Above the disc 26, and mounted on the, spindle 27, is a cam 31, with a cam path 32a, in which engages a roller 33 on a rod 32. The rod 32 is guided in a bridle 35 mounted on a base 34 and linked to a lever 37 pivoted to the base 3. The lever 37 is connected to claws 39 pinned to a bracket on the base 3. A wheel 42 is secured to the spindle 27, and is fitted with pins 43 which are adapted to engage a pin 44 on the wheel 14 to rotate it. The coin tubes 25 are circumferentially arranged on the disc 26, and a hole 45 in the base 34 leads to a hopper 46. In operation, the sleeve coupling 20 rotates the disc 4, and each pusher 5 carries forward a coin 2 from the tube 1, over the apertures 8, which test the coins for size, to the apertures 9, where the spring 11 presses the coin through into a coin tube 25. Between the apertures 8, 9, the coin displaces the lever 23 which rotates the wheel 14 and actuates the counter. After a predetermined number of coins have passed, the roller 16 drops into the notch 17, thus actuating the rod 15 to disengage the sleeve coupling 6 and engage the coupling 20 with the coupling 30. The disc 4 is thus stopped, and the spindle 27 is rotated from the teeth 28 and the wheel 29 so that the filled coin tube is brought under the claws 39, and an empty coin tube is carried under the aperture 9. The roller 33 in the cam path 32<a> presses the rod 32 upward so that the lever 37 moves the claws 39 downwards, the claws 39 being pressed together to close the tube 25 which then falls through a trap 45 to actuate a counter. The coupling 20 is re-engaged with the coupling 6, to restart the rotation of the disc 4, by the pin 43, which, on the ejection of the closed container, strikes the pin 44 and rotates the wheel 14 so that the roller 16 leaves the notch 17.