Patent GB-1026883-A (GB)
Abstract: 1,026,883. Coin sorting and delivery; cash registers. ANKER-WERKE A.G. Oct. 18, 1962 [Oct. 20, 1961], No. 39432/62. Headings G4T and G4X. In a process of automatically sorting coins and refilling the coin tubes of a change dispensing device associated with a cash register more than one coin tube is provided for at least one denomination of the coinage and means is provided selectively to fill one or other of these tubes. The arrangement is shown in Fig. 12 where a coin rail 123 gives passage to coins 111 and three coin tubes are shown for coins of a single denomination. Deflectors 126, 127 are mounted adjustably on the rail 123 and can be depressed one at a time, from a raised position out of range of the coins, to an operative position in which they are latched by a plate 310. Instead of operating' the deflectors by means of push buttons 300, 301, they may be controlled by solenoids working in conjunction with switches at the top of the coin tubes which operate to indicate a coin tube full. By this means the filling of the tubes in sequence may be made automatic; Figs. 14, 15 and 16, not shown. The change dispensing device is used in conjunction with a change-reckoning cash register and is shown in Figs. 4 and 5. Coins tendered to the cashier are deposited in a hopper 103 of a coin feeding device with a rotating feeding disc 109 driven from a motor 119. The coins are fed one at a time to the sorting rail 123 from which they are ejected into the corresponding coin tube 124, 125, &c. by means of the deflectors 126, 127, &c. The coin tubes are slightly tilted so that when a tube is filled, and no second tube is associated, coins overflow into a shoot 141 which transports them to an overflow cash box 148. Such overflow carriage may be transported by the shoot 141 to a coin sorting rail in the cash register by means of which it is deposited in the corrected compartments of the cash drawer. All the coinage may be directed to the cash register by means of the arrangement of Fig. 17 where the top of the coin rail 123 has a trap door 350 which may be opened by a self-latching push button 352 and closed by a latch release button 353. With the trap open all coins go direct to the excess coin shoot. The trap may be opened automatically by a solenoid connected into circuit by switches in the coin tubes to indicate that the tubes are full. Alternatively, when all the coin tubes are full the coin feeding mechanism may be disconnected automatically. As shown in Fig. 4, however, where no such switches are shown, overflow coins are encouraged to enter the shoot 141 by means of a pusher arm 137 oscillated by a rocker cam on the coin feed mechanism shaft 114. When the coin tubes approach exhaustion switches 136 mounted near their bases release to light a lamp indicating the tube that is running short. When exhaustion is imminent a probe such as 134 enters the tube and draws a switch operating arm 193 common to all tubes to' prevent the dispensing of change and to sound an alarm. The coin tubes are designed for German currency and the employment of two coin tubes for the same denomination is necessary in the dispensing of 10 pfennig pieces. One of these tubes, as shown in Fig. 4, can dispense one or two coins selectively, and the other tube dispenses two coins at each operation. The coin tube for 2 pfennig pieces is also like the tube shown in Fig. 4. All other tubes have just one coin dispensed at each operation. When change is called for a motor 159, Fig. 5, is coupled to a shaft 157, Fig. 4, over a onerevolution magnetic clutch 158. During a revolution of shaft 157 cams, such as 154, release restraining arms 163 so that springs 165 act on all coin-ejecting slides such as 150, 151. The coin slides which operate to eject coins into a change delivery shoot 177 are those that are released by withdrawing solenoidactuated detents such as 170, 171, under command from the change reckoning mechanism in the cash register. Control circuits are described with reference to Figs. 10 and 11, not shown, one of which controls separate motors for the coin feeding mechanism and the change dispensing mechanism and the other of which has a single motor for both mechanisms and magnetic clutches for selective operation. The sequence of operations is that a totalising button on the cash register is pressed when the subtotal has been obtained and sufficient cash received from a customer to cover the subtotal. The cash register computes the change required and transmits this information from camactuated contacts to operate the appropriate solenoid controlled detents on the coin ejector slides in the dispenser. In one revolution of the dispenser cam shaft the appropriate change coinage is ejected. When the cash register computation is complete the totalizing button, or a cam shaft in the mechanism, restores to prepare a circuit for the coin feed mechanism motor. Before such restoration the cash register draw is automatically opened. The received coinage is now placed in the hopper of the coin feeding mechanism and cash register draw is closed to operate contacts completing the circuit for the coin feed mechanism motor which drives for a period determined by a slow to release relay unless overtaken by a fresh transaction when operation of the totalizing button disconnects the motor earlier. Cash register.-The keyboard of the changecalculating cash register has a row of control keys with a totalizing key, a row of adding mechanism selector keys, and rows of amount keys 15, shown in the section of Fig. 2. The register has an amount indicator and an indicator showing the number of items entered in a transaction. Vouchers are made out and ejected on to a pay plate. In operation of the amount keys a sensing arm 17 rotates with a toothed segment 21 until arrested by a projecting one of the keys. The extent of this rotation is transmitted over link 25 to position a toothed segment 27. A balance calculating mechanism 51 can be brought into engagement with the segment 27 by means of lever 53. Coupled to the balance calculating mechanism by segment 55, on the same member as segment 27, is a gearwheel 58 which rotates apertured sleeve 59, 61 on a shaft 60. The position of the apertures after the actuation of the totalizing key indicates the change to be dispensed and the apertures are sensed by levers 67 carrying probes to test the sleeves. The levers 67 are released to test the sleeves when a catch 85 enters a notch in disc 87 rotated when the totalizing key is pressed and when an arm 80 is released by cams on the shaft 35. Those levers discovering an aperture in a sleeve 59, 61 rotate sufficiently to operate switches, such as 74, 75, to control the change dispenser.