An Improved Method of and Apparatus for the Transmission of Cash, Invoices, Bills, and the like from one Department of a Building to another or from one Building to another.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 8th Jan., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 8th Oct., 1891-Accepted, 24th Dec., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Method of and Apparatus for the Transmission of
Cash, Invoices, Bills, and the like from one Department of a
Building to another or from one Building to another.
We, ROBERT NICOL REID, and JAMES REID, both of 12, Wharf Road, City
Road, in the County of London, Telegraph Engineers and Contractors, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows :-
This invention relates to an improved method of and apparatus for the transmission
of cash, invoices, bills and the like from one department of a building to another
or from one building to another, and is specially applicable for the collection of
cash in the form of coin etc. from and the distribution of change to the several
assistants in business establishments.
In carrying out our invention we employ a pneumatic arrangement having pipes
or tubes of rectangular shape in cross section, the carriers or cases for containing
the coins, invoices, bills or the like being of corresponding section. The collecting
or vacuum tube passes from the various departments to the cashier's or central
office and a constant or intermittent vacuum is maintained therein by suitable
known means.
This tube is provided at intervals with openings closed by slides or
covers, through which openings the carriers containing the coins to be sent to the
cashier's office or other part of a building can be introduced into the tube, and
the slides or covers are fixed in such a manner that when closed the tube is air-
tight and when the slide is opened the carrier can be placed in the tube in so short
a time and in so simple a manner that practically no loss of the vacuum power is
sustained. In the cashier's office or other place to which the collecting tube is
carried the tube terminates in a box divided into two compartments by means
of a hinged lid which is partially controlled by a spring which allows the vacuum
to overcome it and keep it in position, the carrier coming through the tube
passes this hinged door and drops into the other compartment of the box with
practically no loss of vacuum power.
Each department has its own set of return or distributing tubes worked by
pressure, the number of such tubes depending on the number of assistants in each
department. Each tube terminates in a box fitted with an air-tight cover and
provided with a compartment into which the carriers fall.
We provide our carrier with a hinged lid on the top secured when closed by a
spring or other suitable fastening. At one end of the carrier are several layers of
felt or other elastic material to act as a buffer, or the carrier may be formed in
two parts, one sliding on the other.
1001
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Method of and Apparatus for the Transmission of
Cash, Invoices, Bills, and the like from one Department of a
Building to another or from one Building to another.
We, ROBERT NICOL REID, and JAMES REID, both of 12, Wharf Road, City
Road, in the County of London, Telegraph Engineers and Contractors, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be

page_text: performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:—
This invention relates to an improved method of and apparatus for the trans-
mission of cash, invoices, bills and the like from one department of a building to
another or from one building to another, and is specially applicable for the
collection of cash in the form of coin etc. from, and the distribution of change to, the
several assistants in business establishments.
In the accompanying drawing:
:-
Figure 1 is a longitudinal section shewing a portion of a pneumatic tube and a
carrier or case contained therein forming our improved apparatus for the trans-
mission of cash, invoices, bills and the like.
Figure 2 is a plan of the said tube, and
Figure 3 is a section on the line a, a, of Figure 2.
Figures 4 and 5 are respectively a side elevation and a plan of the carrier, and
Figure 6 is a section on the line y, y of Figure 5.
In carrying out our invention we employ a pneumatic arrangement consisting of
pipes or tubes of rectangular shape in cross section as shewn at a Figures 1, 2, and 3,
the carriers or cases 6 for containing the coins, invoices, bills or the like being of
corresponding section.
The tubes a worked either by air pressure or vacuum extend from the various
departments to the cashier's or central office, or from any other points, a constant
or intermittent flow of air being maintained therein by suitable known means.
The tubes a are provided at intervals with openings closed by hinged (or sliding)
covers c through which the carriers b containing the coins or anything that can be
put within them, to be sent to the cashier's office or other part of a building, can
be introduced into the tube a.
The slides or covers are fixed by means of fastenings d in such a manner that
when closed tbe tube a is air-tight and when open the carriers b can be inserted in
the tubes a.
When working the collecting tubes by vacuum the tubes terminate in the
cashier's office or other place to which they are carried in a box (not shewn in the
drawing) divided into two compartments by means of a hinged flap which is partially
controlled by a spring which allows the vacuum to overcome it and keep it in
position. The carrier coming through the tube passes this hinged flap and drops
into the other compartment of the box.
Each department can have its own set of return or distributing tubes worked
either by pressure or vacuum, the number of such tubes depending on the
requirements of the department. When working the tubes by pressure each tube
terminates in a box fitted with an air-tight cover and provided with a compartment
into which the carriers fall.
The carriers are formed with hinged lids e on the top secured by a spring for
other suitable fastening. At one end of the carrier are several layers g of felt or
other elastic material to act as a buffer; or the carrier may be formed in two parts,
one sliding on the other.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :-
(1.) The method of transmitting cash, invoices, bills and the like from one
department of a building to another or from one building to another by the use of
a pneumatic arrangement consisting of pipes or tubes of rectangular section extending
from the various departments to the cashier's or central office, and provided with
air-tight doors at suitable intervals, and of carriers also of rectangular section for
containing the coins, invoices, bills or the like, such carriers being caused to travel
through the said tubes by air pressure or vacuum, substantially as hereinbefore
described.

page_text: (2.) The improved apparatus for the transmission of cash, invoices, bills and the
like from one department of a building to another or from one building to another
substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated in the accompanying
drawing.
Dated the 8th dox of October 1901
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicants.