Patent GB-627101-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in machines for counting paper money
IPC: G06M7/06
Filed: 1947-03-17
Abstract: 627,101. Counting-apparatus. HAYES, T. E. March 17, 1947, No. 7351. [Class 106 (i)] A machine for number counting and value totalizing paper money comprises in combination a totalizer, a series of compartments (one for each denomination), into which bills or notes of corresponding denomination are fed, individual counters associated with each compartment and operatively associated with bill actuated means and with the totalizer for causing the latter to register a value count corresponding to the denomination of the bill. The machine, Figs. 1 and 2, is adapted to count dollars and comprises a plurality of vertical compartments 51 designated as shown. Above and at the front end of each compartment extends a horizontal shelf 10 on which a bill, of the correct denomination, is placed by the operator. The bill then passes between two rollers 6 and 7 and on to a pair of hinged shelves 13 at the top of each compartment 5<SP>1</SP>. The roller 6 is on a shaft 8 driven from an electric motor 9 by a belt and pulley connection. The movement of the roller 7 as a bill passes underneath it is used to effect actuation of an associated counter as described later. The pairs of shelves 13, Fig. 4, associated with the compartments for the$1.00, $5.00 and$10.00 bills have on their hinge shafts 23 respective levers 21, 22 interconnected by a link 24. Each lever 21 is held against a stop 21<SP>1</SP> by a spring 25 and one of the shafts 23 of each compartment has a handle 26 which when rotated rocks its associated lever 22 counterclockwise to open the shelves 13 and allow the bills to drop to the bottom of the compartment. The hinge shafts 23 of the shelves 13 of the$2.00 and$20.00 compartments carry slotted levers 27 which co-operate with two of the five pins 28 on a horizontal rock-shaft 15, Fig. 4. The other three pins 28 co-operate with the levers 21, 22. The arrangement is such that when the shaft 15 is rocked by an outward pull on the knob 19, Fig. 2, which is, Fig. 4, connected by a link 18 to a lever 17 on the shaft 15, the pairs of shelves of all the compartments are rocked to their open position. The slight upward movement of a roller 7 caused by the passage of a single bill causes the actuation of an associated micro-switch 38 which controls the circuit of an associated counter 29, Figs. 2 and 21, and through said counter the associated solenoid 22a-22e which actuates the corresponding wheel of the totalizer 30 as described later. Upon the closure of a micro-switch 38 a corresponding solenoid 85 of the associated counter 29 rotates its armature 84 and effects closure of the corresponding contacts 94, 95, whereupon the associated totalizer solenoid 22a-22e is energized. A solenoid 103 energized upon closure of the contacts 94, 95 attracts its armature to open a gap 90 and break the circuit to the solenoids 85, before the opening of the micro-switch 38, and reopen contacts 94, 95. A delay relay 99 keeps the' solenoid 103 energized long enough for it to effect closure of contacts 109 in a holding circuit so that contacts 94, 95 are kept open for the complete passage of a bill between the rollers 6 and 7. Passage, by mistake, of two or more bills or a folded bill under a roller 7 causes excess movement of the roller 7 and effects closure of a gap 112, Fig. 21, to energize a solenoid 116 which attracts its armature to open a gap 72 to break the circuit of the driving motor 9 and at the same time close a gap 124 of an electric brake circuit which brake is immediately applied to the motor. Each individual counter 29, Fig. 21, is arranged to effect closure of a corresponding gap 136 when it has counted one hundred, thereby closing a circuit to and energizing a relay solenoid 142 to open a second gap 73 in the circuit of the driving motor 9, closing a gap 146 in the electric brake circuit to stop the motor. A signal lamp 68 in a parallel circuit is thereupon lit. The operator can then by opening the appropriate shelves 13 allow the hundred bills to fall to the bottom of the compartment. The units wheel of the totalizer R, Fig. 17, is controlled by three differential gears A, B and C, actuated by the solenoids 22a, 22b and 22c respectively controlled by the solenoids 85 of the individual $1.00, $2.00 and$5.00 counters 29. The tens wheel of the totalizer is actuated by transfer from the units wheel and by two differential gears D and E actuated by the solenoids 22d and 22c controlled by the solenoids 85 of the individual$10.00 and$20.00 counters 29. The differential gears A, B and C are mounted on and control a shaft 213, rotary movements of which are transmitted to the totalizer " units " wheel 226 by wheels 227, 228. The differential gears D and E are mounted on and control a shaft 214, rotary movements of which are transmitted to the totalizer " tens " wheel 226. Two gears 215, 216 are continuously driven and are connected to the shafts 213, 214 respectively by slip clutches. The transfer pinion between the " units " and " tens " wheel is split into two parts 235, 236. The part 235 is stepped on by the " units " wheel and transmits its movements to the part 236 through two spur gears 238, 239, mounted on a shaft 240 carrying a gear 241, Figs. 16 and 17, meshing with a gear 242 on the shaft 214, movement of which is transmitted directly to the "tens '' wheel through the gears 242, 241, 239. A ratchet wheel 245 fixed to the gear 239 co-operates with two spring-pressed pawls 247 on a bushing 246 on the shaft 240 so that upon rotation of the shaft 240 the wheel 239 is carried with it to add directly to the " tens " wheel of the totalizer. The gear 238 is journalled on a sleeve 250 which extends into the ratchet wheel 245 and is provided with spring pressed pawls 251 which cause the gear 239 to rotate with the gear 238 during transfer from the " units " to the " tens " wheel of the totalizer, the indicating wheels of which are manually resetable. The differential gearing A is controlled by a toothed wheel 20a which co-operates with an escapement lever actuated by the solenoid 22a. The gearing comprises a drive sun-gear 80a, Figs. 13 and 11, fixed on the shaft 213, a driven sun-gear 81a integral with the disc 20a, and two pairs of planetary gears 82a, 83a. The gears 82a mesh with the sun-gear 80a and the gears 83a mesh with the sun-gear 81a, the respective gears 82a and 83a intermeshing. The pairs of gears 82a, 83a are rotatably mounted on pins 86a fixed to spaced plates 85a riveted to a spider 84a on a sleeve journalled on the shaft 213, the complete construction forming a carrier. The drive gear 80b of the differential B is arranged to rotate with the above described carrier of the differential A to which it is otherwise similar. The drive gear 80c of the differential C is arranged to rotate with the carrier of the differential B while its own carrier is fixed against rotation. Differentials D and E on the shaft 214 are identical with the differentials A and C respectively. The arrangement is such that when the disc 20a is released upon energization of its associated solenoid 22a, as previously described upon the counting of a $1.00 bill the shaft 213 rotates one-tenth of a revolution to add one unit to the units wheel. of the totalizer. If, however, the disc 20b or 20c is released two or five units are added to the units wheel of the totalizer. Actuation of two or three of the discs 20a, 20b, 20c, in quick succession results in a correct entry into the units wheel. The differentials D and E similarly control the rotation of the shaft 214 to add correct amounts to the tens wheel of the totalizer.