Patent GB-366061-A (GB)
Title: Fraud preventive devices for check controlled apparatus
Filed: 1930-09-19
Abstract: 366,061. Coin and check freed apparatus. KNEE, A. A., 609, E. Kingston Avenue, Charlotte, North Carolina, U.S.A. Sept. 19, 1930, No. 28068. [Class 27.] Testing coins.-In a coin or check testing mechanism for check-controlled apparatus, which tests the checks for surface configuration, weight, diameter and thickness, a check is pushed flatwise through an opening 27, Fig. 11, in a cylindrical casing 26, Fig. 1, the opening being normally closed by a locked disc 33. If the check is of proper diameter and configuration, pins 42, arranged in a ring, are pushed against the arms 39a of levers 39, pivoted to the disc 33, to raise the inner ends of these levers above a flange 65 on a back plate 28 of the casing, thereby allowing the disc to move inwards and the check to pass to a shoot 78. When the disc 33 moves inwardly, it straightens a toggle mechanism 88, which holds the disc in its inner position with the check entrance open, until the check, on passing down the shoot 78, trips a lever 83 to break the toggle and allows the disc to return to closing position under the action of a spring 63. The surface configuration of the centre of the check is tested by pins 52 which act against bell-crank levers 50 in such a way that at least one of these levers is not raised and causes a backward movement of a 56 against the action of a spring 59. The movement of the disc 33 causes movement of a pin 73, and the movement of the sleeve 56 rocks a lever 72. If the check is a flat disc the lever 72 will not be moved. The pin 73 through a linkage 102, 107, Fig. 1, rocks a weighted member 113 fixed to a shaft A, the weight 114 of the member having a pin 115 which engages and rocks a weighted arm 127 of a member 123 loose on the shaft A. The member 123 on returning to its normal position actuates by means of its hooked end 123b a deflector to determine the path to be taken by the check after it leaves a weight and thickness testing mechanism. The lever 72, when rocked, rotates a shaft 162 having an arm 165 which releases a hook 152 from engagement with a pin on the member 123, which would be held thereby if the check was not genuine and so would fail to actuate the deflector. The shaft A carries a double crank 135, 136 which reciprocates a wire frame 143 to rock a shaft 148, the crank also having an arm 137 to actuate an arm 139 and rock a shaft D carrying the hook 152. The shaft 148 has an arm 151 which coacts with a tongue 208 to open the weight testing mechanism to receive a coin or check from the shoot 78. The member 113 carries a hook 119 which engages a weighted governor 173, when the member 113 is rocked, to hold the member 123 in raised position for a time sufficient for the weight testing beam to become balanced. The weight tester comprises a beam 182, Figs. 1, 22, 23, which is pivoted at C and has an enlarged head 183 at one end and a weight 195 adjustable by a screw 196 at the other. The weight 195 has a pin 198 engaging an arcuate slot 129 in the member 123, and a pin 197 engaging the loop of a stabilizer 154 carried by a hook 153 which is mounted in a block 160 carried by the shaft 162. The beam has a feeler 189 carried by a pivoted arm 188 and pressed through a hole 184 in the head 183 by a spring 190. An opposing feeler 213 is carried by an arm 212 pivotally mounted on an arm 203, 204 which is pivoted to the weight 195 at 200. This arm carries also a guide 221 for the coin or check dropping from the shoot 78, and the tongue 208 by which the beam is opened. The check rests on a weighted member 227 held in position by a bell-crank lever 231, which has a fork 235 for actuation by the end 116 of the member 113 to release the coin or check from the testing beam 182. If the coin &c. is not of correct thickness as gauged by the feelers 189, 213, rods 192, 220 carried by the feeler supports engage a vane 133 on the deflector operating member 123 and prevent this from returning to its operating position. If the coin is of incorrect weight, the pin 198 engages either of two notches 131, 132 in the slot 129 and prevents the return of the member 123. The coin or check when released from the weighing-beam drops to a member 243 having two passages 244, 245 leading to the outside of the machine and to the checkcontrolled apparatus respectively. The checks will pass through the passage 244 unless a deflector 254 is moved thereinto and an obstruction 237a withdrawn from the passage 245. The deflector 254 and arm 237a is carried by a shaft 253 which is rotated by the hook 123b engaging a hook member 258 pivoted to a member carried by the shaft. To prevent two coins inserted quickly in succession from passing without being tested in the weighing mechanism, each coin actuates an arm 270 extending into the shoot 78 and through a link 272 actuates the bell-crank lever 231 to release the coin support 277, so that these coins are returned through the passage 244 without allowing the arm 123 to function. Registering.-The coins or checks passing through the shoot 245 trip an arm 275 which through a lever 278 and link 285 actuates an arm 286 of a counter 288 to their passage. The arm 286 is set when a check is passed through the opening 27 by the pin 73 operating through the linkage 283, 282, 280, 279, and arm 277 on the shaft 274 of the lever 278.