Patent GB-190820626-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Machinery for Counting and Packing Coins.
Inventor: GUNYON STEPHEN EDWARD
Filed: 1908-09-30
Granted: 1909-09-30
Abstract: 20,626. Gunyon, S. E., [Frey, A.]. Sept. 30. Counting-apparatus.-The packing function of machines of the type described in Specifications No. 23,320, A.D. 1906, and No. 15,042, A.D. 1907, [Abridgment Class Packing &c.], for counting and packing coins, can be suspended to permit of counting and delivering into canvas or other bags a predeiermined number of coins. For this purpose a detachable spout is provided which can be fixed to the coin cradle-bars of the machine, and, in order to allow a larger number of coins to be counted than could be conveniently formed into rolls, additional counting-mechanism is provided together with means for stopping the apparatus when the proper number of coins has been counted. The apparatus illustrated in Fig. 1 is to a large extent similar to that described in Specification No. 23,320, A.D. 1906. The ratchetwheel 34 of the counting-mechanism is, as before, driven by a bell-crank lever actuated by the passage of the coins. An additional index hand g mounted upon a sleeve is driven by the spindle 37, carrying the index hand 38, through bevel-gearing i, j, spur-wheels m, n, and worm gearing p, q. When the proper number of coins has been counted, a cam u driven from the sleeve concentric with the spindle 37 by means of bevelgearing r, s trips a lever v, and unlocks the upper end of a lever B pivoted upon a rocking stop-bar C. A spring Q is thus free to turn the stop-bar, and causes its end to engage in a notch E in a drum D fixed to the counter-spindle 37. The counting-mechanism is thereby stopped and the movement of the coin-lever 9 is prevented by a coin blocking its path. The spring-controlled lever 12, 13, which normally forms the driving connexion between the levers 5, 9, is thereupon rotated into its inoperative position, so that the continued rotation of the main shaft 1 of the apparatus does not result in the operation of the machine. The coins are as usual pushed along the coin cradle-bars 58, 59 by means of the packing-pins 41 mounted upon the packing-lever, but the coin follower or pusher 68, described in the before-mentioned Specification No. 23,320, A.D. 1906, is disconnected and the detachable spnut c connected to the cradle-bars, as shown in Fig. 3, by means of the hinged upper portion b. The horizontal portion of the coin-passage in the spout c is provided with an internal finger e for the purpose of turning the coins so that they drop between the bars 58, 59. To restore the lever 12,13 to its operative position in order to effect a second counting-operation, a bar G is pulled out, and an arm L thereon engages with and returns the lever 12, 13 to its original position, while a pin F engages the depending arm H of a bell-crauk lever H, K, thus causing the arm K to depress the stoparm C and release the drum D. To expel a bent coin which is blocking the path of the coin-lever 9, the bar G is forcibly held so as to maintain the lever 12, 13 in its operative position. The packing function can be suspended at any time, without throwing out of gear any of the other working parts of the machine, by means of a handle N and cam P, by which the bar 82 is disengaged from the bar 81 connected to the clutch.