Patent GB-190400539-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Coin Counting, Registering and Wrapping Machines.
Inventor: BATDORF CHARLES STINE
Filed: 1904-01-08
Granted: 1904-02-25
Abstract: 539. Batdorf, C. S. Jan. 8. Counting - apparatus.-A coin counting, registering, and wrapping machine is shown in side elevation in Fig. 1, and in vertical section in Fig. 3. The coins placed upon the table T are passed under the guide-bar C<1> to detect bent coins, and are engaged and separately advanced after passing to the coin shoot by the reciprocating push-bar 25. The table T when not in use is turned about its vertical socket C<3> to lie over the machine and form a protecting cover. A curved plate directs the coins in a forward horizontal direction as they drop vertically into the path of the push-bar 25, and an escapement or pivoted dog projecting into the path of the push-bar is located at the discharge end of the coin conducting shoot. As the coins pass from the runway to the bunching devices they lift the pivoted bar 32 and, through the rod 34 and the pawl 39, advance the ratchet-wheel 37. A suitable adder or register 231 is thereby actuated. A pair of segmental jaws, one 40 movable, the other fixed but capable of yielding, form a coin holder. As the coins are ejected by the push-bar they are entered between the jaws of the holder, the lateral slide bar 41 which forms the bottom support being locked by a pressure roller. When a definite number of coins are assembled in the holder, the grippers 84 seize the bunch and transfer it to the wrapping-mechanism, which is automatically set in operation by the last coin of the bunch causing the registering-devices to trip the dog 62, and a disc on the shaft 70 to be locked by a sliding pin to a ratchet-wheel rotating continuously with a driven sprocket-wheel. At the same time the paper-feeding devices supply the paper for a succeeding bunch of coins. Suitable cams on the shaft 82 control the action of the grippers. The heads of the grippers are faced with suitable material, aud are loose or swivelled upon their rods at right-angles to the arms 86. The coins are transferred by the converger to the verticallyswinging frame D, the coins being deposited between the roller 102 and the rollers 103, 103<1>. The frame D is raised to its operative position by the cam 82<1> on the shaft 82 engaging the lever 104. After the frame is elevated, the horizontal screw-carrying frame E, Fig. 5, is swung forward about the shaft 127. Two segmental nuts 132 carried by the arms 133 are engaged by the right and left screws of the frame E to cause the crimpers 137 carried by the arms 133 to approach and engage the edge of the rolled sheet to form a finished and crimped package of coins. The package is delivered to the shoot 138<1>. The toggle 140 between the screw shaft and a fixed part of the machine is straightened out when the screw is advanced into the open nuts, and the point is automatically broken when the screw rotation is arrested to return the screw by a spring to its normal position. The paper feed mechanism is set in motion by the downward movement of a rack-bar which engages a pinion fixed to a one-tooth ratchet, the pawl of which is carried by a disc on the shaft of the roll 150. The paper strip passes between the rolls 150, 162, over the V-shaped cutter 164, through a guide, and its end hangs loose just in front of the rollers 102, 103, 103'. The roll and the guide are carried by a carriage. The paper guide comprises a back portion with side wings and a hinged front mounted to slide vertically between the wings and over the face of the paper strip. An arm on the shaft 150' is normally in engagement with a shoulder on a collar fixed to the rock shaft 182 to hold it against its spring power. The arm releases the shoulder at the beginning of rotation of the feed-roll and again engages the shoulder to return the parts to normal position at the completion of revolution of the feed-roll. The several shafts and cross-rods are mounted in eccentric bushings 300 to permit of adjustment, locking-screws 301 are employed, and sliding wedges 302 and adjusting screws are also used for the adjustment of the longitudinally extending bar 105.