Improvements in Apparatus for Automatically Obtaining Desired Change for any Coin or Check.
Year: 1894

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Automatically Obtaining Desired
Change for any Coin or Check.
FREDERICK JOHN JOHNSON 65 Cranbrook Road St. John's, London S.E.
Licensed Victualler do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
My invention relates to a method of balancing or releasing a spring or lever by
inserting any desired coin into a slot or crevice, the act of pressing the coin actuates
this spring or lever and releases the lid or cover, thus exposing the money change
placed there for that purpose, the coin used for opening passes into a locked
receptacle, the lid or cover cannot be re-shut or closed without the aid of a
master key which locks the whole apparatus. I may apply this invention singly or
in a series of tiers suited to different sized coins such as would be used by licensed
victuallers or other establishments where change is required for different amounts
of money thus saving time and acting as a safeguard against theft and dishonesty.
I may similarly apply it to the payment of workmen in factories using their metal
tickets substantially as described above.
In further explanation of my invention I make one large case or cabinet divided
and partitioned off into lesser spaces to suit the desired amount of change.
The whole of this case or cabinet is made to open like an ordinary box, that is,
with hinges and lock and key, each of these lesser spaces is constructed with a lid
hinged at the back with a flat spring fixed thereon, the extreme end of this spring
slightly projects through the inner edge of the slot at a distance of about half the
diameter of the inserted coin, so that when the coin for which change is desired is
pressed home through the slot the spring is released and the lid flies open. The
coin after releasing the spring passes into a narrow crevice just sufficient to hold it
and cannot be removed until the apparatus is unlocked. The action of the spring
is the same in all cases of different sized coins or checks.
Dated this 1st day of November 1894.
Improvements in Apparatus for Automatically Obtaining Desired
Change for any Coin or Check.
FREDERICK JOHN JOHNSON 65 Cranbrook Road St. John's London S.E.
Licensed Victualler do hereby declare the nature of this invention 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 a method of automatically supplying change for a given
coin, especially gold coin, at the same time placing the coin for which change is
obtained in a secure receptacle and is especially applicable for the use of licensed
victuallers or establishments where a large amount of change is required. I use a
case or box divided into any number of separate compartments each compartment

page_text: of a rectangular shape with a hinged lid having a spring on the inside. Immediately
at the back of the hinged lid is a slot large enough to take the desired coin-when
the coin is pressed into the slot the spring is released and the lid opens. The entire
case of compartments is divided through the middle between top and bottom, the
two halves being hinged at the back, and the front secured by a lock and key. In
making a combined number of these compartments one lock is intended to secure
the whole the back being hinged to suit the number. As soon as the coin or check
is pressed into the slot and releases the spring it passes into a crevice where it is
secure until the apparatus is unlocked. When the box or case having the proper
amount of change placed in each respective compartment none of the lids can be
opened unless the proper coin is pressed into the slot in the top of the compartment.
This opens the lid and allows the change to be taken out.
Referring to the annexed drawings
Fig. 1 is a cross section of a change compartment.
Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section of a compartment and shows one with lid closed
and a part section of the next compartment with spring released and lid open.
Fig. 3 is a section of front showing lock and key.
Fig. 4 is a plan of compartments.
Figs.
5 and 6 show spring enlarged to illustrate shape of end.
A is the lid to which is fixed the spring B shown in Fig. 2 as closed and open.
Lis the spindle on which each lid is hinged. D and D are thin strips of suitable
metal having slots, S to suit the intended coin or check, after the coin is pressed
through slot S the spring B is pushed from its catch on the plate O¹ and opens the
lid. The change which is rested on a raised strip P is readily removed. The coin
then drops into the crevice J made by the lower plate O and cannot be removed
until the whole box or case is unlocked. The aperture e in the lower plate O is
made for the more easily removal of the coin. The box or case is divided into
two halves at line R and hinged at H and locked by key W. Figs. 5 & 6 show the
spring B enlarged with a notch or nick C to catch on plate O' and thus preventing
anyone opening the lid without the insertion of a coin.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what my
claim is :-
1. The spring B fixed to lid A with the notch C catching in plate O' substantially
as shown and for the purposes described.
2. The compartments divided at R and hinged at H with lock substantially as
shown and described.
3. The crevice J made by plate to secure the coin after releasing the
spring B.
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3 L
. ... 1. 100%
F. J. JOHNSON.