Patent GB-190409766-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Mechanical Cashiers.
Inventor: IMRAY OLIVER
Filed: 1904-04-28
Granted: 1905-04-27
Abstract: 9766. Imray, O., [Fairchild, C.]. April 28. Money-delivering apparatus.-A machine adapted to receive money, deliver change, indicate and register the amount of the transaction, and record the amount while delivering tally checks or tickets if required, is shown in perspective in Fig. 1, in vertical section in Fig. 7, and in part in Figs. 10 and 25. A coin or bill received in payment, or required to be changed, is inserted into one of the tubes 23 through its appropriate slot. These tubes can be inspected through a glass window 2, and discharge when full into a receptacle. Purchase levers 9, a change lever 11, and controller keys 7 project from the casing, and windows 12, 13 exhibit the ribbons 185, Fig. 7, or indicators of the purchase and change levers, while the window 14 shows the amount recorded on the totatizer. Each purchase lever has a release key 16. The main operating-crank 21 and the operator's individual key 18 are arranged at one side of the machine. A coin, when inserted into its slot, passes through the slots 27, Fig. 7, into position against a stop-piece and lies over the plunger 29, by which it is raised into its tube. Supporting-fingers support the coin pile in position after the plunger 29 is retracted, the lowest coin then lying in the slot 47 of the ejecting-slide 48, which serves to project the coin into the receiving- trough 3. The coins may be pushed out singly or in pairs ; when in pairs, the ejecting-slide is made in two parts. For handling paper money or bills, separate boxes 53 are placed in the chambers 50 through the apertures 52, the empty boxes 53 being fed through the guideway 55 by the pivoted dog 104, which is connected to the controller lever 7 by the rod 102. The rod 102 carries the pawl 106 which locks the parts against operation when the chamber 50 is depleted. Slides 48<b> eject the bill boxes. The controller 7 cannot be depressed fully, unless a coin is inserted, owing to the action of the lock hook 73, and the full stroke of the controller is ensured by the engagement with its steppedteeth 84 of the pawl 85. The plungers 29 are lifted by pin and cam-slot gearings with the controllers 7. The amount of rotation of the discs which select through intermediate mechanism the money receptacle from which a coin has to be ejected, is determined by the movements of the pinion 68 and the rack 67. When the twenty-five cent. controller is moved, the mechanism transfers movement both to the dime and the nickel selector groups. The selector discs are arranged in groups along the shaft 100, each group being carried by a separate sleeve 126, 126<a>, 126<b>, as shown in Fig. 27. These discs are notched appropriately, the notches controlling the selector tumblers 130 and the latches 139, so that, when the ejector bar 142 is forced to the front of the machine, all the ejector slides 48 which are connected to the ejector bar by the latches 139 are thrown forward to eject coins. Pawl-locking mechanisms for the selector sleeves prevent the operation of ejectors corresponding to money of higher denomination than the amount deposited in the machine. Flat plates interposed in the path of the controllers prevent more than one controller from being operated at one time. These locking-plates are also used to lock the machine, when not in use, by means of a sliding looking bar. By carrying from a lower to a higher selector cylinder or sleeve, the machine can deliver the change required for a particular total. In this carrying-mechanism, the sleeves 126, 126<a>, 126<b> have toothed discs 171, 171<a>, 171<b>, engaging with tentoothed wheels 172, 172<a>, 172<b>, mounted loosely on the shaft 173. Connected with each ten-toothed wheel is a pinion 174 and a bevel pinion, the pinion 174 engaging the operating-pinion 68, so that for every revolution of a lower sleeve that next above is turned through one-tenth of a revolution. The selectors are prevented from overrunning by the detent pawls 176 and by the escapement yokes 177. The purchase levers 9 are loose on the shaft 180, and have attached to them the toothed discs 183 for engaging the register and recorder mechanism. By depressing their respective release keys 16, the several purchase levers may be successively operated, and the discs 183 rotated, and the corresponding selector cylinders turned backwards to an extent equivalent to the amount of the purchase so that the proper change is ejected. The ejecting-mechanism is driven from the crank 21. Forward movement of the lock-bolt engaging arm 219, Fig. 25, by the projections 221, 222 locks the lever 208 and the release and purchase keys. When the main shaft is rotated, the shaft 180 is rocked first in one direction and then in the other. The purchase levers are re-set by this rocking movement. When the change lever is operated, no purchase lever can be pushed down, and the change lever is locked until the purchase levers are in their normal positions. Each purchase and change lever is connected by links with type bars, segments, or wheels of a recorder. In " exchange " or other positions of the change levers, the purchase levers are interlocked, so that the connections to the recorder-type mechanism may be operated, but the casbier part of the machine may not be operated. The cashier part is therefore disconnected from the purchase levers and the register at these positions. In a modified construction of the machine, the keys controlling the coupling-mechanism are mounted with respect to the purchase levers in such manner that a release key and its corresponding purchase lever can be operated conjointly by one hand. A positive stop device co-operating with a star-wheel prevents overrunning of the mechanism in either direction, a safety device prevents the operating-crank from being turned unless all the purchase levers are definitely in purchase positions, and devices prevent the movement of the operating-crank unless all the controller levers are in their normal positions and also prevent the movement of any controller lever until the operating-crank has completed its movement.