Sorting Till.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 6th Jan., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 6th Oct., 1893-Accepted, 11th Nov., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Money Sorting Till.
ANDREW ERSKINE MUIRHEAD Engineer Cart Forge Crossmyloof Glasgow
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
For sorting coins into separate drawers. The coins received as change are
placed in a shoot placed at an angle of say 25° to the level.
As they run along they pass over several slots the first and smallest being rather
wider than the smallest coin say 3 penny piece. Next slot is wider for sixpences
& so on. They cannot pass over wider slot so fall in and are received into drawer
divided below.
Dated this Sixth day of January 1893.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Money Sorting Till.
I, ANDREW ERSKINE MUIRHEAD, of Cart Forge, Crossmyloof, Glasgow, in
the County of Renfrew, North Britain, Engineer, 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 money sorting till.
In order that my invention may be properly understood and readily carried
into effect I have hereunto appended an explanatory sheet of drawings in the
several figures of which corresponding parts are marked with the. same letters of
reference.
Figure 1 is a plan.
Figure 2 is an elevation.
Figure 3 is a cross section taken through the line a b.
Figure 4 is a modification in which there is a double series of slots.
Figure 5 is a plan showing a different arrangement of slots.
The apparatus consists of a shute A in the form of an inclined plane, having a
series of oblong slots a¹, a², a³ etc. of different sizes. The upper slot is the
smallest, and the distance from ledge to outside of slot is just a little broader than
the diameter of the smallest coin. The other slots are made just a little broader
than the diameters of the different coins; for instance the first slot being made for
threepenny pieces, the next is a little wider for sixpences, and so on. The shute A
is inclined to the side in which the slots are made. Underneath the slots there is
a drawer B containing a series of compartiments b', 62, 63, etc. under the
slots a, a, a, etc.
The coins are all put into the opening C, which lies in a horizontal position,
and run down the shute A, and as they pass over the slots the several coins fall
through the slots made to suit them respectively into the drawer underneath.
At the upper end of the shute A there are a number of projections d', d², d³, d,
which tend to separate the coins and prevent smaller coins being carried on the
top of larger ones.
In the modification shown at Figure 5 only one slot is made which increases in
size from top to bottom.
At end of the apparatus a drawer is provided for notes and gold.
It is to be understood that although I have only shown a single and double row
of slots, three or more might be used.

page_text: 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 I
claim is :-
The apparatus for sorting coin substantially as described and illustrated on the
accompanying sheet of drawings.
Dated this 5th day of October 1893.
BOTTOMLEY & LIDDLE,
154, St. Vincent Street, Glasgow, Applicant's Agents.