Improvements in Coin-displayers.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 7th Nov., 1892"
Complete Specification Left, 23rd Dec., 1892-Accepted, 11th Feb., 1893
PROVISIONAL
SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Coin-displayers.
I, REGINALD HADDAN, of the firm of Herbert Haddan & Co., of 18 Buckingham
Street, Strand, W.C., London, Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention a communication to me from abroad by Thomas Carney, of Dayton,
State of Ohio, United States of America, to be as follows:-
This invention relates to devices of that class which are employed for the purpose
of receiving and temporarily exposing to view the various coins received by the
clerk or cashier in an establishment where the devices are used. Their principal
object is to prevent disputes concerning the character or values of coins received
from customers, though it is sometimes desirable for other purposes to temporarily
hold the coins received exposed to view. The devices may be used either alone or
in combination with other contrivances employed in the handling and disposition of
the cash received.
The improved coin-displayer is especially designed to be used in connection with
a cash-register and to be operated automatically by such machine.
The improved device consists of a suitable frame or casing having a receiving
mouth or opening into which the coins may be dropped and a discharging mouth or
opening through which they may be discharged from the device into any suitable
receptacle for instance into the money drawer of a cash-register. Journaled in
the casing or frame is a revolving disk provided with holes or recesses arranged
around its periphery and intersecting the latter, which holes or recesses constitute
the receptacles for the coins, being adapted to receive the coins at the receiving-
mouth of the casing and carry them around and deliver them at the discharging-
mouth thereof. These holes or recesses are covered at one side and, if desired, at
both sides of the disk by a glass plate or plates, through which the coins contained
in the receptacles may be observed from the exterior. Such glass plate or plates
may be secured to the side or sides of the revolving disk or they may form a
fixed part of the casing, as desired, or each separate receptacle may be covered
by its own individual transparent plate.
The coin-receptacle may be formed of circular holes extending entirely through
the disk and intersecting its periphery at such a distance from their centres as to
form suitable openings for the reception and discharge of the coins. The sides of
these boles may be closed by two circular glass plates, secured to the opposite
sides of the disk, so that when the device is used alone the coins in it may be
observed from either side. The revolving disk is provided with a ratchet, with
which co-operates a pawl carried by a lever which projects through the base of the
machine into the drawer-compartment into position to be engaged and moved by the
money-drawer or some part carried thereby, though any other suitable form of
connection of the revolving disk, either with the money-drawer or any other part
of the cash-register which is moved at each operation of the machine, may be
employed.
From the foregoing description the following explanation of the operation of the
device will be clearly understood. When a coin is received in payment, the clerk
will operate the machine to indicate and register the amount of the sale and will
drop the coin into the open mouth of the displayer and will take any change that
may be required from the cash-drawer, which has either opened automatically or
which he will pull open for that purpose. When he closes the drawer, the disk
will be turned to carry the receptacle, into which the coin has been dropped, away
from the receiving mouth of the casing and another receptacle will be brought into
position to receive a coin. At the next operation of the machine the coin deposited

page_text: will enter this second receptacle and the closing of the drawer will cause such
receptacle to be carried away from the receiving-mouth and the third receptacle be
brought into position to receive a coin. At the two succeeding operations of the
machine the third and fourth receptacles will each receive a coin and be carried
around past the receiving-mouth, while the receptacle which received the first coin,
will be carried around to the position of the lowermost one and will drop its coin
through opening into the money drawer. At the next operation of the machine
the coin contained in the second receptacle will be dropped into the money-drawer,
and so on continuously, each coin received being held exposed to view during two
succeeding operations of the machine. In this manner a coin received from a
customer is carried out of reach of the clerk or cashier as soon as the money-drawer
is closed, but is held exposed to view, so that if any question arises as to what the
coin was when the clerk hands the customer his change or fails to hand him any
the coin will be in view and settle the question.
As stated at the beginning of the Specification the particular construction and
arrangement of the various parts may be varied without departing from my
invention.
Dated this 7th day of November 1000
R. HADDAN.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Coin-displayers.
I REGINALD HADDAN of the firm of Herbert Haddan & Co. of 18 Buckingham
Street Strand London W.C. Patent Agents do hereby declare the nature of this
invention, a communication to me from abroad by Thomas Carney of Dayton,
State of Ohio, United States of America, and in what manner the same is to be
performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement :-
My invention relates to devices of that class which are employed for the purpose
of receiving and temporarily exposing to view the various coins received by the
clerk or cashier in an establishment where the devices are used. Their principal
object is to prevent disputes concerning the character or values of coins received
from customers, though it is sometimes desirable for other purposes to temporarily
hold the coins received exposed to view. The devices may be used either alone or
in combination with other contrivances employed in the handling and disposition of
the cash received.
My improved coin-displayer is especially designed to be used in connection with
a cash-register and to be operated automatically by such machine. In the accom-
panying drawings I have illustrated it as applied to one of the well known forms of
cash-registers and arranged to co-operate with-and be actuated by the sliding
money drawer of such machine and it will be described in combination with such
machine in the following Specification. Its novelty will be herein set forth and
particularly pointed out in the claims.
In the drawings,
Figure 1 is a perspective view of a cash register having my improved coin
displayer applied to it;
Fig. 2 a vertical section through part of the frame or casing of the coin-displayer
and through the drawer-compartment and drawer of the register as indicated by the
dotted line 2. 2. in Fig. 3;
Fig. 3 a vertical section through the coin-displayer and one side of the drawer-
compartment and drawer on the line 3. 3. of Fig. 2, and
Fig. 4 a side elevation of the coin-receiving disk having the glass plates secured
to its sides and provided with a ratchet for turning it.
The same letters of reference are used to indicate identical parts in all the
figures.

page_text: My improved device consists of a suitable frame or casing having a receiving
mouth or opening into which the coins may be dropped and a discharging mouth
or opening through which they may be discharged from the device into any suitable
receptacle in this instance into the money-drawer of a cash register. Journaled
in the casing or frame is a revolving disk provided with holes or recesses arranged
around its periphery and intersecting the latter which holes or recesses constitute
the receptacles for the coins being adapted to receive the coins at the receiving
mouth of the casing and carry them around and deliver them at the discharging
mouth thereof. These holes or recesses are covered at one side and if desired,
at both sides of the disk by a glass plate or plates, through which the coins con-
tained in the receptacles may be observed from the exterior. Such glass plate or
plates may be secured to the side or sides of the revolving disk or they may form
a fixed part of the casing, as desired, or each separate receptacle may be covered
by its own individual transparent plate.
In the drawings I have shown the coin receptacle as formed of circular holes
extending entirely through the disk and intersecting its periphery at such a distance
from their centers as to form suitable openings for the reception and discharge of
the coins. I have shown the sides of these holes as closed by two circular glass
plates, secured to the opposite sides of the disk, so that when the device is used
alone the coins in it may be observed from either side. I have shown the revolving
disk provided with a ratchet, with which co-operates a pawl carried by a lever
which projects through the base of the machine into the drawer compartment into
position to be engaged and moved by the money-drawer or some part carried
thereby, though any other suitable form of connection of the revolving disk, either
with the money-drawer or any other part of the cash-register which is moved at
each operation of the machine may be employed.
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Referring now more particularly to the accompanying drawings it will be seen
that the casing or frame A of the coin-displayer is secured to the top of the drawer
compartment of the cash-register, which has an opening B beneath the displayer
for the passage of the coins into the drawer. The casing of the displayer is shown
in this instance as formed of two halves, each consisting of an upright standard
portion, an annular portion for the reception of the revolving disk, and one-
half of the receiving mouth or opening in which the coins are deposited. The
two halves of the casing are secured together at their upper sides by a
passed through ears on them and at their lower sides by cross rods A. Fast upon
a shaft or spindle C, journaled at its ends in the uprights or standards of the frame,
is the revolving disk D, provided with the series of circular holes E, extending
through it and intersecting its periphery. This disk has secured upon its opposite
sides two circular glass plates F. The peripheries of the disk and these circular
plates fit snugly within the annular portion of the casing A, which latter pre-
vents the coins escaping from the receptacles formed by the holes and the glass-
plates until the receptacles are brought opposite the discharging-mouth of the
casing. Fast upon the shaft C outside the glass plate upon one side of the
disk, is a ratchet G with which co-operates a pawl H, pivoted to the upper end
of a lever 1, which in turn is pivoted near its middle upon a screw-stud J,
entering the upright portion A, of the outer half of the casing. A spring K,
connected to the pawl and to the lever I presses the pawl into engagement with
the ratchet while a spring L, secured to the casing and to the lower end of the
lever 1, tends to pull the latter forward against a stop-pin M upon the casing.
The lower end of the lever I extends down through the opening B in the top of
the drawer-compartment into position to be struck by one of the cross-partitions N
of the sliding money-drawer O. This drawer is or may be provided with the
usual or any suitable locking device arranged to be automatically released by the
operation of any one of the keys of the machine and having behind it a spring
which will throw it outward when so released. When the drawer is closed, the
partition N Fig. 2, will hold the lever 1 in the position shown by the dotted lines,

page_text: and when the drawer is released and opened the spring L will pull the lower end
of the lever I forward against the stop M, causing the upper end of the lever to
be turned rearward and the pawl H to be lifted and engaged with another tooth of
the ratchet G. When the drawer is now pushed inward, its partition N will strike
the lower end of the lever I and throw it rearward to the position indicated by the
dotted lines, thereby throwing forward its upper end and causing the pawl H to
turn the ratchet G and disk Ď with its attached plates F. A holding-pawl P,
engaging the ratchet G, prevents backward movement of the latter and disk.
From the foregoing description the following explanation of the operation of the
device will be clearly understood. When a coin is received in payment, the clerk
will operate the machine to indicate and register the amount of the sale and will
drop the coin into the open mouth A' of the displayer and will take any change
that may be required from the cash-drawer, which has either opened automatically
or which he will pull open for that purpose. When he closes the drawer, the
disk D will be turned to carry the receptacle E into which the coin has been
dropped, away from the receiving-mouth of the casing and another receptacle E
will be brought into position to receive a coin. At the next operation of the
machine the coin deposited will enter this second receptacle E and the closing of
the drawer will cause such receptacle to be carried away from the receiving-
mouth A' and the third receptacle be brought into position to receive a coin. At
the two succeeding operations of the machine the third and fourth receptacles E
will each receive a coin and be carried around past the receiving mouth A', while
the receptacle E which received the first coin, will be carried around to the position
of the lowermost one in Fig. 2 and will drop its coin through the opening B into
the money-drawer. At the next operation of the machine the coin contained in
the second receptacle E will be dropped into the money-drawer, and so on con-
tinuously, each coin received being held exposed to view during two succeeding
operations of the machine. In this manner a coin received from a customer is
carried out of reach of the clerk or cashier as soon as the money-drawer is closed,
but is held exposed to view, so that if any question arises as to what the coin was,
when the clerk hands the customer his change or fails to hand him any the coin
will be in view and settle the question.
As stated at the beginning of the Specification, the particular construction and
arrangement of the various parts may be varied without departing from my
invention.
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So far as I am aware, I am the first in the art. to construct a coin-displayer
consisting of a frame or casing a revolving disk or receptacle-frame journaled
therein and provided with holes or recesses or other suitable receptacles for the
coins and a transparent plate or plates for covering said receptacles at either one
or both sides of the disk, for the purpose described, and my claims, therefore, are
not intended to be restricted beyond the terms in which they are expressed.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
inveution and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :
1) A coin-displayer consisting of a frame or casing provided with receiving and
discharging openings a revolving disk journaled therein and provided with
receptacles for the coins, adapted to receive them at the receiving-opening and
deliver them at the discharging-opening and a transparent covering for the
receptacles at one side of the disk, through which the coins contained in them may
be observed and means for revolving the disk to bring its coin receptacles
successively to the receiving and discharging openings, substantially as described.
(2) A coin-displayer consisting of a frame or casing provided with receiving and
discharging openings for the coins, a revolving disk journaled therein and provided
with receptacles for the coins, adapted to receive them at the receiving opening
and deliver them at the discharging-opening and a transparent covering for the

page_text: receptacles, secured at one side of the disk, through which the coins carried by the
latter may be seen, and means for revolving the disk to bring its coin-receptacles
successively to the receiving and discharging openings, substantially as described.
3) A coin displayer consisting of a frame or casing provided with receiving and
discharging openings for the coins, a revolving disk journaled therein and provided
with a series of holes or recesses intersecting its periphery and adapted to receive
the coins at the receiving opening and deliver them at the discharging-opening a
transparent covering at one side of said disk, through which the coins carried by it
may be seen, and means for revolving the disk to bring its coin receptacles
successively to the receiving and discharging openings, substantially as described.
4) A coin-displayer consisting of a frame or casing provided with receiving and
discharging openings, a revolving disk journaled therein and provided with a series
of holes intersecting its periphery and adapted to receive the coins at the receiving
opening and deliver them at the discharging opening, and two transparent plates
secured upon the opposite sides of the disk through which the coins carried by the
latter may be seen, and means for revolving the disk to bring its coin-receptacle
successively to the receiving and discharging openings substantially as described.
5) The herein described coin-displayer, consisting of the casing having the
receiving and discharging openings, the disk D, journaled therein and provided
with the circular openings E intersecting its periphery and co-operating with the
receiving and discharging openings, the glass plates F, secured upon opposite
sides of the disk D, the ratchet G, applied to the disk, the pawl H, and means for
actuating the pawl to turn the ratchet and disk, substantially as described.
6) The combination, with a cash-register provided with a movable money-drawer,
of a coin-displayer consisting of a suitable frame or casing provided with receiving
and discharging openings, a revolving disk journaled therein and provided with
receptacles adapted to receive the coins at the receiving opening and deliver them
at the discharging-opening, and a transparent covering for the receptacles at one
side of the disk, through which the coins contained in them may be seen, and con-
nections between the movable money-drawer and the revolving disk for turning
the latter by the movements of the former, substantially as described.
7) The combination, with a cash-register having a backwardly and forwardly
sliding money-drawer, of a coin-displayer consisting of a suitable frame or casing
provided with receiving and discharging openings, a revolving disk journaled.
therein and provided with receptacles adapted to receive the coins at the receiving-
opening and deliver them at the discharging-opening, a transparent covering for
the receptacles at one side of the disk, through which the coins contained in them
may be seen, a ratchet for turning the disk, an actuating-pawl for the ratchet, and
a lever co-operating with said pawl and with the sliding money-drawer, substantially
as and for the purpose described.
Dated thin 02-2 dow of December 1892