Patent GB-1050321-A (GB)
Abstract: 1,050,321. Coin handling; delivering money. NEVADA ELECTRONICS Inc. Jan. 8, 1965 [Jan. 10, 1964], No. 904/65. Headings G4V and G4X. Coin handling apparatus comprises a coin transfer device which accumulates coins from a coin receiving section, and transfers an accumulation one by one to a conveyer which carries the coins in a column moving in the plane of the coins. In Fig. 1, coins are inserted by an operator into a slot 11, and pass by slot 13 into a cup 57. When the cup is full, the operator presses button 86, which connects a shaft 77 to an electric motor, so as to rotate the cup anticlockwise. Alternatively, the cup may be swung automatically when full, a finger 107 obturating slot 13. During the swinging, a W-shaped lever 19 is moved by resilient tab 95 past a sprung dead-centre position, so that a finger 89 holds the coin in the cup. In its final position, the base of the cup is located in an aperture 69, so that a slot in the base is aligned with a coin way 28. Flites 33 on a continuously moving chain 31 take the coins one by one from the cup-base slot, up way 28, and deliver them into a way 45 (see also Fig. 4) having a transparent front panel 47, whereby one face of each coin may be inspected. At the top of way 45, each coin is deflected to fall into a coin tube 50. When empty, cup 57 is returned to the position shown in Fig. 1. The coin delivery mechanism, Fig. 4, has a conventional pusher 111 reciprocable in a slot between the bottom of tube 56 and a base 109. The pusher contains a slot 115 with an enlargement 117. A plunger 129 of a solenoid 134 passes through slot 115, and the solenoid and plunger are mounted on a carriage 135 which is constantly reciprocated as shown by arrows 125, by crank mechanism 157, 153. Normally, a reduced portion 131 of the plunger moves freely in slot 115, and pusher 111 is held by spring 127. When the operator depresses a key, however, solenoid 134 is energized at one end of the carriage stroke, to engage a larger part 133 of the plunger in part 117 of the slot, so that the pusher is reciprocated with the carriage to eject coins. A plurality of the apparatus described; one for each denomination of coin, are mounted side by side to form a change giving unit. Fig. 7 shows a control and counting circuit. A microswitch feeler is inserted in each of the coin ways 45, to close switches 103p. . . 103DO respectively on receipt of, say, a penny, nickel, dime, quarter, half, and dollar. A progressive total is made by counter 163, which energizes lines 1751... 175100 when the count reaches 1 . 100 pennies, to energize one or more of relays 177 and close the corresponding switches 179. The operator can close contacts 181p ... 181DO to issue the various denominations of coins, to energize relays 134p 134DO if the counter 163 indicates sufficient credit. Each issue of a coin operates a switch 191p . . . 191DO (see switch 191, Fig. 4), to reduce the credit on counter 163 correspondingly. Thus to issue small change, the operator inserts a large coin (say a half) into the appropriate slot 11, so that lines 1751 ... 17550 are energized. He can then press a key to close any one of switches 181p ... 181H, and coins of the corresponding denomination will be ejected until the credit on the counter reaches zero. Equally, he can sweep a number of pennies into the penny slot 11, and press the quarter key, and a quarter will be ejected when the credit count reaches twenty-five.