Patent GB-190510853-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Coin-freed Apparatus for Registering Letters and the like.
Inventor: FODOR ANTON
Filed: 1905-05-24
Granted: 1906-04-26
Abstract: 10,853. Fodor, A., Buky, A., and Szabo, E. May 24. Postmarking-machines.-Fig. 1 shows the apparatus in plan aod Fig. 8 shows coin-feeding mechanism therefor. The letter or packet to be registered being dropped into a box 24, and one revolution beiog given to a shaft 12, a cam 35 and an opposing spring reciprocate a piston 52, so that, when a protruding rod 54 backed by an intervening spring feels the letter, a gap occurs between the piston and the block behind it, letting a bar 59 parallel to the shaft be pulled by a spring. Simultaneously, a cam 36 and lever raise and lower inking-rollers over the stamps 72, 73 for the letter and a receipt form, respectively. The parallel bar 59 thus released and moved sets one arm 62 of a bell-crank lever 77 in the plane of a cam 37, which acts near the end of the revolution and makes the lever work the stamps. A companion cam and lever 38, 78 assist the return action. In the stamps, the numbering-wheels are automatically rotated, whilst the dating-wheels are adjusted by hand, the driving-pawls of the former being worked by levers 89 encountering rods 90, and those of the latter by rods 94. The dating-wheels consist of a unitswheel having the numerals 1, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 0, and of a tens-wheel having the numerals 1, 1, 2, 3, 0, the ratchet-wheel 96, Fig. 11, in connexion with the former having two notches 97, 98, separated by a tooth, and the rathet-wheel in connexion with the latter having two opposite notches. Being dropped down a shoot 4, Fig. 8, the coin makes a long lever 6 momentarily trip a detent 9 from a bolt 15, which holds a disk 13 with slot 14 on the shaft 12. The bolt is accordingly drawn by a spring, but is finally reshot by a cam 21. A lever 29 with a tail 31, which follows the tail 33 of the bolt, draws open the cover 27 of the box 24 to admit the letter or packet, and a cam 34 makes a lever open and close the bottom of the box. The letter or packet, being of variable size, is thrust to the stamping-end of the box by a spring finger, which is applied by a lever 129 under the action of a cam on the disk 13. The receipt forms 110 contained in a trough 111 are delivered as follows :-The bar 59 parallel to the shaft applies a lever 116 to a cam 40, so that the lever is made to work an ejecting-slide 113, while a cam 39 works a foot supporting the form while it is stamped. The pressure plate 112 behind the receipt forms disengages a latch 119 from an arm on a shaft 120, so that this is turned partly by a spring and shifts a shutter 123 for the coin slit 1. As described in Specification No. 10,803, A.D. 1899, [Abridgment Class Coin-freed apparatus &c.], a magnet 3 is arranged above a break or hole in the money funnel. The proper coins being of nickel are slightly attracted and slid over the break into the shoot 4. Coins which are not attracted, however, fall through the break and drop down an inclined passage, which delivers them into an external tray 5. Coin attracted with full force are, on the other hand, returned over the break, and, when the next coin is introduced, a lever is operated to bring the attracted coin clear of the magnet, so that it also falls into the tray 5.