Patent GB-190715858-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Machines for the Delivery of Coin.
Inventor: RANDELL SAMUEL
Filed: 1907-07-10
Granted: 1908-07-09
Abstract: 15,858. Randell, S. July 10. Money-delivering apparatus.-A machine for paying out various sums for wages &c. comprises a rocking shaft E, Fig. 4, carrying adjustable pins E3 which, on the actuation of figured keys H, operate pushers D to eject coins from troughs B<1>, the suitable pushers being determined by selective strips F. The pushers D, Fig. 6, have hooks D<3> at their ends with which the pins E<3> can engage. Above these hooked ends is disposed the shaft E, which is square in section and bears a series of sliding collars E<2>, each carrying a pin E<3>; Above the rocking shaft lie the selective strips F in number corresponding to the number of collars E', each strip having on its underside two arms F<1>, Fig. 17, which lie on each side of one of the collars E', as shown in Fig. 8. On the upper edge of each strip, one or more projections F<2> are formed. Over the selective strips are placed a series of bell-crank levers, which communicate the motion of the keys to the strips and effect the selection of the necessary combinations of the latter. Each bell-crank lever, Fig. 8, comprises a flat arm G<3> engaging projections F<2> on a suitable number of strips F, and a second arm G having a rounded nose G<1> and a flat portion G<2>on which the end H<2> of a spring-pressed key rod bears. The action of the machine is as follows. When a key is depressed, during the initial downward movement, the nose H<2> turns a bell-crank lever, the arm G<3> of which shifts the selective strips by engaging with projections F<2>. The nose H<2> then slips off the flat G<2> and over the nose G<1> to hold the bell-crank and selective strips locked. The arms F<1> on the strips shift the collars E' on the shaft E, thus placing the pins E3 in engagement with the hooks D<3> of the respective pushers. The continued downward movement of the key causes a projection H<4> on the key-rod to act on a rod J, Fig. 4, which through a toothed sector K acting on a pinion L and through links L<2>, M, E<4> rocks the shaft E to eject the coins. The shart E is turned back to its normal position by a spring N. The pushers are withdrawn free from pressure of the pile of coins by means of an angle-plate A<6>, through which the pushers pass and which is rocked by means of pins E<8> on a rod E<6>, moved by a lever E<5> on the shaft E. The rocking of the plate A<6> causes the pushers to be depressed beneath the pile of coins. The return of the selective strips is effected by the broad arm O<1> of a bellcrank O, Fig. 18, engaging with notches F<3>. Lugs H<5>, on a key which is being depressed, act on rods Q to turn the arm O<1> allowing the strips F to be shifted. A bell-crank Q<2>, Q<3>, pivoted on a fixed rod R, is connected to the rods Q so that, when the coins are ejected, a spring Q' attached to the arm Q<3> returns the arm O<1>, thus bringing the strips back to their normal position. When necessary, a lug G<6> on the arm G<3>, Fig. 14, of a bell-crank lever may act on the arm G<3> of an adjacent lever so that more than one lever may be actuated by the depression of a single key. It is stated that the rockshaft may be geared to make two oscillations for a single depression of a key, thus ejecting two coins and also that the key rods may be provided with nicks so that they can be held. by a detent when the selecting-mechanism has been set, and a spare key can be used to turn the rocking shaft. The pushers may be returned by springs or counterweights, or by pins on a secondary rocking shaft. Instead of pushers, other methods of ejection, such as levers which throw up the ejecting-knives, may be used, and the pushers may be inclined so that the coin troughs can be disposed at any angle. It is also stated that the machine may be combined with a recording - mechanism operated by the selective strips.