Patent GB-190324270-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Coin Delivery Devices.
Inventor: ALLISON CHARLES ARTHUR
Filed: 1903-11-09
Granted: 1904-05-05
Abstract: 24,270. Allison, C. A., [Johnson, M. H.]. Nov. 9. Money-delivering apparatus.-The mechanism of a change-giving apparatus, arranged specially for dealing with dollars, cents, &c., comprises key or thumb levers connected to a series of ratchetwheels which actuate rocking toothed bars so as to move certain of a second series of ratchet-wheels connected to coin-ejecting slides, the arrangement of the teeth on the bars being such that the proper slides are actuated in any given case to deliver coins of the total value marked on the depressed lever. The rock-bars and the shaft 27, Figs. 2, 3, and 4, which carries the two series of ratchetwheels, are all mounted in brackets 26, 35 on a plate 7, which closes the rear of the upper part of the casing in front of the coin rack 8 and is covered by the detachable front 6 of the casing. The key-levers 32 form extensions from the first set of wheels 29, which turn freely on the shaft 27 and are spaced apart along with the second set 30 by washers 34. Two of the rock-bars 39, rotating to the dollar and cent ejecting-slides respectively, are shorter than the others, and are supported in alignment, their outer ends being mounted in the supporting-brackets 35 of the other five bars 39. The teeth of the similar wheels 29, 30 are set in opposite directions, so that the bars 39, which are moved by the engagement of the teeth 29<a> of the wheel 29 corresponding to the depressed lever 32 with their teeth 39<a>, will act each on its corresponding wheel 30 by another tooth 39<a> on each. The wheels 30 which are thus rotated act through attached arms 31 and links 40 on pivoted levers 41, which operate the coin-ejecting slides 15 under the coin rack 8. The arms 31 of the actuated wheels 30 press against and force back a bar 47 carried by arms 48 on the shaft 27, and a spring 49 afterwards returns the bar 47 and wheel 30 when the lever 32 is released. The tension of the spring 49 is adjustable by a screw stem 52 workiug in the end of a lever 50 to which the spring is anchored. Other springs 37 attached to a plate 36 return the levers 32 after their operation. As shown by the numbers on the thumb-pieces 33 in Fig. 3, the above mechanism allows the delivery of change from one cent up to one dollar. The dollar-ejecting slide and wheel 30 may, however, be coupled to any of the levers 32 by pulling up a stirrup 60 under the delivery scoop 13, so that a dollar, in addition to the sum indicated on the then depressed lever 32, is ejected. The action of the stirrup 60 consists in raising an end rod 57 and so moving a hooked spring slide 53 on one of the arms 48 of the bar 47 into engagement with the dollar-ejecting wheel 30. The coin rack 8, Figs. 2 and 11, comprises seven chambers, which contain dollars, half-dollars, quarter-dollars, nickels, dimes, and cents, there being two dime chambers, in which the stacks of coins are supported by bottom ledges 8<c>, as shown in the underneath plan view, Fig. 12. The rack 8 is pivoted on end pins 9 on the casing 5<a>, and is locked against the plate 7 by spring catches engaging under the turned-over upper edge of the casing 5<a>. By pressing the buttons 12<‹>, Fig. 11, on leaf springs attached to these catches 12, the rack 8 may be unlocked, and can be tilted backwards to expose the coin receptacles. Underneath the rack 8 and within the casing 5<a> is placed a plate 14 which carries the ejecting-slides 15 operated by the levers 41 as described above. The slides 15 are supported by slotted bars 24, 25, Figs. 2 and 7, under the plate 14, and carry pivoted dogs 17 which, on the forward movement of the slides, push the bottom coins of the corresponding stacks forward off the ledges 8<c>. When the slides 15 are in the retracted position, the forward ends of the dogs 17 are held up in slots 8<g> of the rack 8 and behind the bottom coins by springs 22 on the plate 14, and the bottom coins rest at the forward parts on bevelled projections 15<h> of the slides 15. The coins drawn forward with the slides 15 finally tilt on the projections 15<h> and drop through holes in the plate 14 and slides 15 into the delivery-scoop 13. The springs 22 depress the dogs 17 as shown in Fig. 7 while the slides 15 are being retracted, and thus relieve the dogs from the weight of the overlying coins.