Patent GB-394951-A (GB)
Abstract: 394,951. Money-delivering apparatus ; coin - freed article delivery apparatus. FURBER, H. J., Chicago, U.S.A. Sept. 29, 1931, No. 27157. Convention date, Oct. 9, 1930. Void [Published under Sect. 91 of the Acts]. [Classes 27 and 116.] Relates to a device for recording a sum tendered in respect of a purchase, and the calculation and ejection of the change represented by the difference between this sum and the price of the purchase. The device may also include means for delivering goods in addition to change, provision being made for selecting goods from one or more magazines. The device comprises a number of sections, each corresponding to coins or notes of a given value, and includes members respectively displaced proportionately to the value of the purchase and to the sum tendered and means connecting the two sets of members so that the latter set is returned either to .zero or beyond it, in proportion to the excess tendered to control the change ejected. When a coin &c. is inserted in the appropriate section, transmission is effected to sections of higher and lower value, the members thereof being proportionately displaced. Construction and operation of a single section. Each section comprises a toothed wheel 12, Figs. 1, 2, 4, 5 and 6, fast on a shaft 13, and a wheel 11 loose on the shaft ; one part of the thickness of the wheel 11 is divided into toothed sectors 11<1>, the number of which depends on the monetary system employed, and the other part is continuously toothed at 11<11>. The wheel 11 is moved in the direction f to be set to a purchase or debit value by suitable means, e.g. a mutilated rack 14 engaging the teeth 11<11>, the wheel 12 being held stationary by a member 26 engaging a socket 25; during this movement, the sectors 11<1> act through a train 37, 39, 40 to turn a mutilated pinion 42 and a pinion 43 in the direction opposite to f<5>. The wheel 12 is then turned in the direction f<2> to an. extent corresponding to payment or credit value, the movement of the wheel 12 acting through a lever 19 engaging a notch 17 to move the wheel 11 in the same direction, and thus moving the pinions 42, 43 in the direction f<5>. A motor is then energized to rotate a shaft 31 and mutilated pinion 30 through one revolution in the direction f<3>, the pinion 30 acting on the mutilated wheel 12 to restore it to its initial position, and the wheel 12 returning the wheel 11 to its selected price position. Simultaneously, a cam groove 35 swings a frame 32 to bring the pinion 42 into mesh with a pinion 30, and the pinion 43 into mesh with a bevel gear 44 to drive a mutilated pinion 48 in the direction f<6>, Fig. 2a ; the pinion 48 acts through racks 49, 50 to reciprocate a coin ejector 56 acting on a coin stack 53. The motor switch comprises a fixed disc with contacts 59, 59<1>, 60, 601, and contacts 57, 58 on a disc 61 carried by a shaft 62, the shaft having mutilated pinions 63, 64 co-operating with toothed segments 65, 67 on the wheels 11, 12. Electrical connection between sections. The contacts 59 .. 60<1> of various decimal sections are connected as shown in Fig. 11, the arrangement being such, that the circuit of the motor M is completed when the sets of contacts 57, 58 are in connection with the contacts 59, 60 ; the circuit is also completed when established through contact points 59<1>, 60<1>, provided it is also established through the points 59, 60 of the sections of higher value. Connections between sections. Each section is connected to the next decimal section of higher value in a discontinuous and non- reversible manner. The shaft 13a, Fig. 7, of section A dealing with cents, has a mutilated pinion 70a acting through pinions 71<1>, 71<11> on the shaft 13c of section C dealing with dimes. Similarly, section C is connected with the section dealing with dollars, and so on. Connections exist between non-decimal sections, e.g. section C is connected in a continuous and reversible manner to section B by a pinion 73c on shaft 13c geared to a pinion 76b on the sleeve shaft 13b, and section B is connected in a discontinuous and non-reversible manner with section D (25 cents) by mutilated pinion 77b, pinion 78b, pinion 79b, and sleeve shaft 13d. Sections may also be connected to sections of lower value by means rendered operative by receipt of a coin or note, and having in some cases means for rendering an upward transmission from the lower section inoperative. As an example, the shaft 13b of section B may be connected to shaft 13a of section A by moving a sleeve 81b so that pinions 82b, 83b mesh with pinions 84b, 85a ; the sleeve is moved by a rod 86b moved upwards when a coin is received, a cam 90b then breaking the connection from section A to section C by displacing the double pinion 71a. An example is given of the general operation of the device. Key-operated form. The wheels 11, 12, Fig. 14, of anv one decimal section are connected through gearing. Depression of the appropriate debit arm 104 turns the wheel 11 in the direction f<1>, after which depression of the appropriate credit arm 109 turns it in the opposite direction, the credit being shown by visual devices. The wheel 30 is then operated to cause the delivery of change, and return the parts to their initial positions. Vending apparatus, Figs. 20 and 21. The wheels 11 of the various sections are adjusted to selected price valves by means of racks 111 on bars 14, which also carry mutilated racks 131a, &c. and continuous racks 132a, &c., engaging continuously toothed and mutilated pinions 133a, 135c respectively, so that when a wheel 11 of one section has completed one revolution, the wheel 11 of the next higher section in decimal series is advanced. The introduction of a coin 53 in any section acts through a lever 122 to elevate a bar 86, so that a slot 125 swings a shaft 128 relatively to its support 127, to cause it to engage recesses 130 of the unmoved bars ; the motion of the bar 86 also brings a mutilated pinion 112 into engagement with a pinion 113. The swinging movement of the shaft 128 brings a pinion 129<11> into mesh with the pinion 113, so that a power shaft 127 driven by the coin operating a contact 136, operates the wheels 11, 12. After payment has been completed and the bars 86 have fallen, the power shaft is operated owing to the completion of a circuit by the switch 61, to return the wheel 12 and deliver change and goods. A number of goods magazines may be provided, associated with means for operating the bars 14. Each magazine is provided with a set of wheels 140a, &c., Figs. 22 and 23, which are adjusted to the respective prices. A collar 142 carrying a number of gear sectors 141a is movable along a shaft 143 so that an arm 144 may be entered into an angular slot 146 of any magazine ; movement of the arm 144 in the direction f<17> then causes the sectors to engage the adjusted wheels and return them to zero, and through racks, pinions 151a, &c., and other connections act on the requisite bars 14.