Patent GB-190822548-A (GB)
Title: Automatic Coin Counting and Packaging Machines.
Inventor: LILLEBERG CHARLES LEONARD
Filed: 1908-10-23
Granted: 1909-10-25
Abstract: 22,548. Lilleberg, C. L. Oct. 23. Counting apparatus.- Relates to machines for counting coins &c. and packing them in cartons carried on a rotating table, the coin shoot being made to register successively with the open ends of the cartons. The hopper, Fig. 7, comprises a ring 21 held in an inclined position by supports 20, 22. A circular disk 24, journaled at 25 carries a series of plates 27 pivoted at 28 to the edge and each provided at one edge with a stud 29 to pick up the individual coins, the guide ring 21 at the top of the hopper being bent outwards and downwards so as to cause the plates to bend back and to deliver the coins into the shoot 31. The difference in thickness between the plates 27 and the disk 24 is less than that of a coin, so that, if two are picked up, the other one falls back into the hopper. A ring 33, rectangular in cross-sectiou, extends over the plates 27, gradually increasing in depth towards the delivery opening. The feeding - disk is rotated from a shaft 40 by gearing 41, 42, and on the same shaft is a gear wheel 59, which drives a governor shaft 60 through gears 60, 62, 63. A friction disk 71 on the governor is adapted to rido up against a stud 72 on an adjustable arm 73 so that the speed can be adjusted. A controlling- lever 77 with a handle 79 is connected to a link 81, Fig. 10, with a stud 82 adapted to be moved into engagement with yielding stop arm 83 on the governor shaft. The cartons 88, Figs. 4 and 7, are carried in clips 95 on a ring 89 adapted to be rotated on rollers 90 and prevented from riding up by clips 92 ; it is rotated from the shaft 98 by gearing which acts on the internal annular gear 108. As the coins fall down the shoot 31, they impinge on the plate 125 on a light flexible arm 123 connected to an arm 122 carrying an escapement part 118, and rotate it in the direction of the arrow. This allows a wheel 120 to rotate until a tooth on the wheel 121 acting on the pawl 119 returns the pawl 118 into engagement again. The rotation of the wheels 120, 121, transmitted through gearing 115, 114, 111, controls the rotation of the wheel 89. The shoot is pivoted on the stud 131, Fig. 5, and is engaged by an upright pin 132 on a crank arm 136 of a shaft 137 which is connected by a crank 138, Fig. 10, and link 139 to a controlling lever 140 adapted to engage studs 142 on the ring 89, each stud corresponding to a carton. As the ring 89 rotates, the links on the lever 140 are moved to release the stud 142 at given intervals. Therelease coincides with the registry of the mutilated part 114<a> of the gear 114 with the gear 115, so that the ring can travel until the lever 140 engages the next stud 142 ; the shoot is thus held d centred above one of the cartons, where a given number of coins fall into it, and is then moved into position above the next one. The pin 143 engages with a slot in a crank 144 of a shaft 145 and rotates the gear 147, the shaft 150, Fig. 5, embracing the shaft 145 in its hollow end and carrying a numbered dial 152 co-operating with a pointer 153. The shaft 150 is adapted to be pressed down against the action of a helical spring out of gear with the driving-mechanism to reset the dial. When the machine is to be set to fill a given number of cartons, the dial is set at that number. The number being completed, a stud 161, Fig. 10, engages an arm 162, the lug of which forces the catch 165 into engagement with the arm 167, the lug 168<a> of which arrests the stop arm 83 of the governor shaft, stopping the machine. Simultaneously, the arm 169 on the arm 167 moves the arm 171 so that the hook 173 prevents the passage of more coins.