Patent GB-190316577-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to Machines for Receiving Delivering, Sorting, Registering and Detecting Cash.
Filed: 1903-07-28
Granted: 1904-03-03
Abstract: 16,577. F. S. M. Syndicate, [Spear, E. H., and Moriarty, E.]. July 28. Receipts, checking and recording. - A machine for receiving, delivering, sorting, registering, and detecting cash in connection with sales or purchases or other monetary transactions is shown in front elevation in Fig. 1, and in vertical section in Fig. 3. The machine delivers change as between the amount of the sale or purchase and a coin of greater value, or change equal in value to a coin of a, certain denomination ; it also separates coins by directing them to various receivers or storage receptacles, and registers the cash received. In the machine, there is a bank of key-levers 6 for sales from five to ninety-five cents, there are four keylevers 69 for one to four dollars, and the levers 253, 254 are for changing coins or bills without sale. When a key-lever is depressed its rod 8 is elevated and the indicator 11 moved up. The primary cams 20, Fig. 31, are adapted to register sales from ten to ninety cents and the auxiliary cams 53 sales of five cents. These cams are actuated by means of studs on the key-levers 6. The register-wheel shaft is transversely movable and is suitably supported by the frame 39. Transferring-mechanism is used in connection with the registering-mechanism. It consists for the cents sales of the bell-crank lever 58, Fig. 31, adapted to prevent the movement of the transferring-bar 27, and for the dollar sales of similar mechanism. The cash changing, separating, and delivering mechanism, shown in Fig. 5, is arranged at the front of the machine above the coin tubes or receptacles 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, respectively for dollars, halfdollars, quarter-dollars, dimes, and nickels. The coin separating and delivering mechanism comprises the shoots 117, 118, the actuating-slide 125 upon the curved plate 123, the trip lever 126 engaging below with the shoot 118 and carrying on its upper end an actuating-finger which operates a lever mechanism for locking the key-levers and for operating the detecting-mechanism which throws out cents and nickels and counterfeit coin, and the finger 135 that engages the edge of a coin placed in the shoot 117. The finger 135 is adapted to actuate the deflecting-mechanism comprising the lever 139, and an arm extending through the opening 143 in the shoot 117. When the slide 125 is moved, and the lever 126 operated, an off-set from a locking-lever is withdrawn from the slot 120 and the coin is allowed to pass down the shoot 117. The coin is held by the arm 155, which is embraced by the arm 157 of the trip lever 126 and is engaged by the stop-lever 163. The stop-lever 163 also serves as a releasing-lever for the coin separating and delivering mechanism. The off-sets 160 in the slots 122 arrest the entrance of coins to the shoot 118, which is divided at its lower end by pins into different-sized outlets for the various coins. A closure plate is retained in position against the bottom of the shoot 118 by the hook 127 on the trip lever 126, and, when forced open by the action of a spring, it permits of the delivery of the coins to the tubes. Two operations of the slide 125 and lever 126 are required to distribute the coins. The coin tubes 110... 114 are arranged at an angle, and, when full, the coins overflow into the pocket 183. The change making and ejecting mechanism, Fig. 21, has ejectors 188, 189, 190, 191, 192, 193, for the various coins, mounted upon the plate 107. The ejectoroperating pins are worked by the change-regulating bars 215, 216, 217, 218, 219, mounted upon the shaft 7. The change-controlling mechanism comprises the feeling - finger 225 adapted to project through the slot 121 in the shoot 117 to engage the edge of the coin. The finger, Fig. 15, is turned or moved down the slot 121 through the rocking-frame 66, 67, raised by the depression of oae of the key-levers, the rack 232, the pinion 228, and a radially-sliding plate. The rocking-frame 248 operates the coin ejectors. When a coin is placed in the shoot 117 and retained therein by the off-sets 160 as a result of the operation of the slide 125, the sale key-lever is depressed, and the registering-mechanism is operated. The feeling-finger 225 is also moved down the slot 121 to engage the coin, and the bars 215 ... 219 corresponding to the sale are elevated and the regulating- pins of the ejectors lowered. The transverse member 250 moves forward, bears against the rigid pins, and carries the ejectors therewith, and discharges from the coin tubes the change less the sale. If the ejector-regulating pins are not moved, as when the no-sale change key-levers 253, 254 are depressed, the full change is delivered. To prevent recording a larger amount than the coin placed in the machine, the key-levers 6 are provided with a locking-mechanism consisting of a series of hanging flat locking-plates provided with elongated extensions or necks. The card 271 indicates the value of the coin to be changed and is carried by the rod 272, the movement of the rod being governed by the feeling-finger 225. For receiving, sorting, and delivering a coin to the receptacles when no change is required, the coin is placed in the top chamber 280 which is closed at the bottom by the sliding plate 281 actuated by the rack-bar 232. Coin-receivers and transferrers below the chamber 280 are adapted when swung forward to communicate, respectively, with the delivering and guiding shoots 309, 317, 318. When the arm 305, Fig. 15, is moved forward, it carries with it the plate 320 and releases the arm 279 from engagement with the studs 275 on the rod 272, 273, 274, permitting the rod to fall. If a key-lever is only partially depressed, locking-mechanism, consisting of the bar 327, prevents its return to the normal position until subjected to the full stroke. Simultaneous depression of two key-levers 6, 69 is prevented by a series of discs 336 provided between slotted plates, through which the keylevers extend. The cash-storage chamber 4 has a top 5, which is released and drawn back when the plate 343 is moved down, the shaft 342 rocked, and the arm 340 elevated, on the depression of a keylever 69, 253, 254. Simultaneously with the engagement and operation of the plate 343 by a key-lever, the controlling-mechanism for the coin-separating and delivering mechanism for the coin changing and ejecting mechanism is released from operative connection with the key-levers through the medium of the rocking-frame. Change ejected from the coin-tubes is retained in the shoot 357 until the sliding plate with the curved extension 359 is operated. Coin-shaped hollow receptacles of different diameters are used for the reception of bills or notes of different denominations. The detecting-mechanism for throwing out counterfeit coins is essentially a weighing-device, Fig. 39, consisting of the coin-pan 367 retained in position by the lever 375. The weighted portion 377 of the arm 368 forms the weight for the dime, the adjustable weight 378 in conjunction with the portion 377 the weight for the quarter, the weights 379, 378, 377 the weight for the half-dollar, and the weights 380, 379, 378, 377 the weight for the dollars. Cents and nickels or light counterfeits do not rock the arm 368 when inserted in the shoot 117, from which they are deflected as the lever 146 is not released. The machine is provided with a locking-mechanism and suitable means to secure the entire machine against operation. The cashstorage chamber is also provided with a locking- mechanism, which must be operated before the plate 5 can be drawn back by the action of its springs.