Patent GB-190601862-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Coin Handling and Delivering Apparatus.
Inventor: WILKES THOMAS SCOTT
Filed: 1906-01-24
Granted: 1907-01-17
Abstract: 1862. Wilkes, T. S. Jan. 24. Money-delivering apparatus.- The apparatus, which may be combined with a cash-register, is for giving change equal in value to an inserted coin, or equal to the difference between the value of the coin and the value of a purchased article. The change may be made up in different ways. The machine is described in connexion with American coinage, slots being provided for the following coins, namely : a dollar, a half-dollar, a quarter-dollar, a nickel, a dime, a second dime, a second nickel, a cent, a second cent, and so on up to five cents. Fig. 6 shows a sectional elevation on the line 4-4, Fig. 6. A coin a, say a half-dollar, is inserted in the slot 27 and rests on one of a series of disks 13. A shaft 11 fixed to the disks is then turned by a handle outside the casing. The coin, if of the right size, is thus pressed against the grooved arm 93 of the lever 88 pivoted at 89. The lever 88 forces down a hinged spring bail 79 so that this bail enters slots in the coin-feeder 35 and the coinfeeder operator 36. The coin then passes on to the conductor 90 and the coin-holding tube 39 for half -dollars. The bottom coin of the pile in each tube 39 rests in a groove in the feeder 35, and the feeder is moved to and fro when it is coupled by the bail 79 to the operator 36 reciprocated by the lever 64, link 69, and cam-groove 72 in the disk 13. The coins forming the change pass into the delivery tubes 45, which are tilted by pins 60 acting on camslots 109 so as to remove the coins and allow them to slide into the open trough 9. The coin deliverers 45 are hinged to vertically sliding bars Qr controllers 102, which are coupled up in a special way and are under' the control of a finger-plate 144, Figs. 4 and 6, and three banks of keys 1 to 10, 10 to 100, and 10 + to 90 +. The plate and keys raise certain of the controllers 102 (numbered 119 to. 113 in Fig. 6), which thus do not operate to pick off the coins from the feeders 35. When the plate 144 is in the raised position shown, the cams 150 connected to the plate raise the second dime controller 115 and single cents are given in change. When, on the other hand, the plate 144 is depressed, the controller 114 and the five controllers 113 are raised so as to be inoperative. A dime is thus delivered in change instead of a nickel and five separate cents. When no keys are depressed, all the feeders 35 corresponding to coins of lower value are coupled up by the overlapping of the bails 79, with the exception of those thrown out by the plate 144 above mentioned, and full change is obtained on rotation of the shaft 11. The numbered keys are used for deducting the price of a purchased article. When small change is not required, the plate 144 is pressed down and the numbered keys 1 to 10 and 50 + to 90 + cannot be used. The keys operate levers, which are coupled up by pins 129 and wires such as 190, 218 and rock-shafts, so that each key throws out controllers of equal value. Thus, the key 50 raises the controllers 118, 117, 116, 115 corresponding to 25, 5, 10, and 10 cents, respectively. When the quarter-dollar slit 25, Fig. 2, is open, the halfdollar and dollar slits 159, 160 are closed, and vice versa. This is effected by shutters 163, 157 which operate by a lever 170 suitable coupling-devices affecting the controllers. The coin tubes 39 are coupled to a hinged bar 48 which may be tilted and then drawn out laterally from the casing of the apparatus.