Patent GB-191013416-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Coin-handling and like Apparatus.
Inventor: KADAR MICHAEL
IPC: G07D9/06
Filed: 1910-06-02
Granted: 1910-09-22
Abstract: 13,416. Kadar, M. June 2. Coin-handling appliances.-Relates to apparatus of the type in which coins are thrown into a hopper and discharge tube, and from which a predetermined number are ejected one by one into a hopper communicating with a paper tube, and consists in oscillating the feed-hopper so that the coins are readily stacked in the discliarge-tube, the movement being also utilized to eject, at each oscillation, the lowermost coin, and to count the number of coins ejected, while the mechanism producing the movement is also utilized to remove a filled tube and place another in position. The movement is automatically stopped when the discharge - tube becomes empty. The feed-hopper 10 connects with an apertured discharge-tube 11 mounted on arm 12 of a sleeve rotated on a standard 14. A crank 18 on a shaft 16 is connected to one of the arms 12 to oscillate the hopper when the shaft is turned from the handle 21. An extension of one of the arms 12 is connected by a link 70 to a lever having a spring arm 73 acting as an index finger on the disk 75 and having a pin for engaging one of a series of holes therein, a spring locking - pin also extending from below, the disk also having a zero finger 77. The number of oscillations and coins ejected is thus counted, and an adjustable stop 80 may actuate a spring hammer 79 of a bell 78 after a predetermined number of movements. The end of the tube 11 is closed, but just above are opposite slots through which work a fixed tongue 26 to eject coins into hoppers 27 mounted on a table 49, and connected to paper tubes 29 mounted in sockets on the table 31. To replace a filled tube, the hoppers are automatically removed, for which purpose a wheel 32 gears with a pinion on the shaft 20, and its shaft carries a disk 34 having a recess 35 and carrying a smaller disk 36 with a recess 37 and a ratchet-wheel 38 keyed thereto. The ratchet-wheel is moved one step per revolution by a fixed pin 40, and the number of teeth adjusted so that the recesses 35, 37 register after a predetermined number of ejections. The shaft 33 also carries an eccentric 41 connected by links and levers to a lever 46 which carries a pawl 53 for operating a ratchet wheel 51 loose on the table supporting shaft 47, the tables being secured to a sleeve 48. To the table 31 is connected one end of a spiral spring 50, the other end of which is connected to the ratchet-wheel 51, which thus winds the spring up. The table 31 has projections 54, 55, 56, one of which normally engages the disk 34. When the notches 35, 37 register, the projection 54 is freed, and the spring 50 turns the table until the next projection engages the disk 34, thus removing a filler and substituting an empty tube 29. The spring is then again wound up, and is so adjusted that it is wound to the necessary extent in the interval required for filling a tube. The disk 34 is also provided with a series of spring-pressed pins 57 to act on the projections 54, 55, 56, so as to oscillate the hoppers 27 to ensure correct stacking of the coins. The machine is stopped and removal of a partly filled package prevented, when the tube 11 is empty, by a spring-pressed pawl 61 mounted on an arm 60 attached to the tube 11, which pawl has a projection 62 which normally passes through an aperture and presses against the coins. When the tube 11 is oscillated to the right, the end of the pawl passes outside a fixed projection 64, which removes the projection 62 to allow free passage of the coins. When the tube is empty, the projection is pressed into the tube, and is then moved against the end of the member 64, thus stopping the machine.