Patent GB-191200191-A (GB)
Title: Coin Storing and Distributing Magazine.
Inventor: A PAUL JAPY
Filed: 1912-01-02
Abstract: 191. Japy, A. P. Jan. 7, 1911, [Convention date]. Void. [Published under Section 91 of the Act.] Money-delivering apparatus. -Relates to a money-delivering apparatus for use with cash registers. The coin-storing magazine is farmed with the coin-tubes in a number of rows 1, 1<a>, 1<b>, Figs. 3 and 4, and has the coin-ejecting slides combined with it. The slides are locked when the magazine is removed for filling and means are provided for facilitating its replacement. Fig. 1 shows the coin-introducing device for money received. A number of slots 9 of suitable breadth, and of width determined bv washers 16, are provided. The money rests on an inclined arm 11 behind a window 10 until the shaft 13 is rocked by a hand wheel or lever 15, when it falls into slots 20 which guide it into the corresponding tube in the magazine. The coins are guided by vertical plates 18, 19. When, as shown in Fig. 4, two tubes are provided in the magazine for coins such as tencentime pieces, an oscillating stop 21, Fig. 5, is arranged to send the coins to the tubes alternately, only one introducing-slot 9 being used. In a modification, Fig. 7. the stop 24 co-operates with a pivoted weight 27 so that the coins all go into the same tube unless the tail 25 of the weight is drawn aside by a bar 28, whereupon the coin passes on the other side into another tube. This arrangement may be used for dealing with coins of rare occurrence in machines in which a second magazine is provided for alternative use. Two magazines may be used with the machine. When one magazine is employed, the rare coins pass to the till by the passage x, but when the other magazine is employed, they pass by the passage y to one of the ten-centime tubes. In connexion with the stop 21, a bar is then provided by which it may be caused to pass the ten-centime coins into one tube continuously. The coin-ejecting slides 48, 49, 50, 51 of three tubes are shown in Fig. 3, and in underside view in Fig. 9. The slides work upon base-plates 54 on the magazine 2, and have tail bars 52 which have heels 53, Fig. 10, adapted to be actuated by sliderods 64. The slide-rods may be actuated by any known type of mechanism. The slides may be of a thickness suitable for delivering two coins at a time, or two slides, such as 48, 49, may be provided for one tube, so that two coins are delivered when both are actuated. The slides of different tubes may be connected together to give simultaneous actuation. In order to lock the slides when the magazine is removed from the machine, a spring-actuated sliding bar 65 having notched lugs 69 is arranged so that, when the magazine is removed, the notches engage projections 70 on the bars 52 and lock them, but when the magazine is replaced, a projection on the casing pushes-the slide 65 out of action. The casing is formed with inclines 73, Fig. 3, so that when the magazine is pushed in, the heels 53 are raised above and then dropped into the ends of the actuating-rods 64. Bank-notes are placed in metal envelopes in a pocket 4 and are similarly delivered. An indication of bank-notes received is given by a hundreds number-wheel 32, Figs. 2 and 14, a tens wheel 39, and a fixed cipher 43. The wheel 32 is operated by keys 80 which engage arms 79 of different length pivoted on a shaft 78. The arms engage pins 77 on a lever 76, and a displacement, corresponding to the key depressed, is communicated to the wheel 32. The wheel 39 is actuated by a single key to indicate fifty. These number - wheels are held by pawls 36, but return to zero by gravity when the pawls are lifted by working the coindropping lever 13.