Patent GB-190302344-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Coin-delivering Devices for Cash Indicators and Registers.
Inventor: JANIK EDUARD
Filed: 1903-01-31
Granted: 1904-03-31
Abstract: 2344. Janik, E. Jan. 31. Receipts, checking and recording.-Relates to change-giving apparatus for cash indicators of the type described in Specification No. 25,394, A.D. 1902, wherein a coin-ejector provided for each of the coin receptacles is adjusted in height by a stepped disc having imparted to it a forward rotation corresponding to the amount paid in and a backward rotation corresponding to the amount paid out. The depression of keys causes racks to gear with long pinions, carrying the stepped disc, and with toothed sectors, which are turned to draw the racks over the pinions before the operation of the ejectors and are afterwards reversed to return them. In a decimal system of coinage, there is a pinion 6, Fig. 1, with nine pairs of racks 19, 20 and two sets of nine keys 14, 17 for each place of figures, the pinions being connected by carrying- mechanism, and the racks having from one to nine teeth to engage the pinions, and equal numbers of teeth 28 to engage the toothed sectors 48, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33 on a shaft 34. The stepped disc or snail 3 is applicable for supporting a lever 68 bearing a sliding ejector 65 to deliver from one to nine single pfennig-pieces from a pile in a tube 66, but the stepped discs 3, 4, 5 dividing the long pinion into sections 6, 7, 8, 9, shown in Figs. 3 and 5, are designed to set the levers 68 so that the ejectors make up the change from three tubes 66 containing respectively one-pfennig pieces, two-pfennig pieces, and five-pfennig pieces. Repetitions of the construction are provided for the pieces of higher value. In the operation of the device, the racks 19 are adjusted by the keys 14 to the amount paid in, and the racks 20 are adjusted by the keys 17 to the amount which ought to be paid in and retained. Then the crank handle 39 is turned, and as the ratio of gearing from the crank shaft 38 to a shaft 41 is 1 : 2, a wheel 42 makes half a revolution in one turn of the crank, and a rack 37 on a guide 36 takes a downward movement from a crank-pin 43, by which the shaft 34 has a complete revolution imparted to it. The sectors 48 with few teeth, on the shaft 34, come into action and draw all the racks 19, 20 which have been pushed forwards by the keys 14,17, and which are held by the rolls 45 engaging with notches 47, into the position for engagement with the corresponding principal toothed sectors. The toothed sectors 29 draw the racks 19 completely to the front until they are held by the rolls 49 entering notches 46. A similar forward movement is then imparted to the racks 20 for the tens of marks by the toothed sectors 30, and in like manner the forward movement is communicated successively to the racks 20, for the units of marks by the toothed sectors 31, for the tens of pfennigs by the sectors 32, and for the units of pfennigs by the sectors 33. At the beginning and end of these operations, arms 72, 74 on the crank shaft act on a cross 71, 73 to turn a double cam 70 which lifts and lowers the levers 68 bearing the ejectors. After the adjustment of the stepped discs, toothed sectors 78 engage with racks connected by a rod 77, and the ejectors 65 push the coins on to a plate 67, which, owing to the action of an arm 83 on an arm 82, is raised immediately afterwards by an arm 80 to deliver them. In the second turning movement of the crank handle 39, the plate 67 is first lowered again in consequence of the release of the arm 82 by the arm 83, whereupon the toothed sectors 78 push back the racks 76 and thus also the ejectors 65. Then the toothed sectors 33, 32, 31, 30, 29 are set in motion in the reverse order and push back the racks 20, 19, thereby causing the stepped discs to return again to their original position. The machine is furnished with an indicator 87 and with a totalizer 91 for the amounts to be paid-in each time. If the stepped discs of any place of figures are turned forwards a smaller angle than backward, carrying-mechanism on a shaft 57 is brought into action.