An Improved Apparatus for Receiving and Counting Coins.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 31st Aug., 1894-Accepted, 27th Oct., 1894
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Apparatus for Receiving and Counting Coins.
A communication to me from ANTON HÖCHSMANN, of Bensen, Bohemia, Savings
Bank Manager.
I, EDMUND EDWARDS, of the Firm of Edwards and Co., Patent Agents and
Engineers, of 65 and 66 Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex, 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 and
accompanying drawing, that is to say:―
This invention has for its object a novel device for receiving and counting coins,
the indicating apparatus of which is connected with a slit or opening upon a box or
table, so that each coin as it falls through the opening points out by an index hand
the number of coins introduced, upon a dial plate.
The accompanying drawing, which is in illustration of the invention, shews the
money counter, in side view in Figure 1, and in front view in Figure 2.
Figure 3 shews a vertical section of the counting apparatus together with the
opening through which the coins are inserted, upon a larger scale.
Figure 4 is a plan of Figure 3, and
Figures 5 to 8 are detail views of the said opening and of the counting gear.
a represents the box for receiving the coins, to the top of which a' the counting
and indicating gear and the coin opening bare attached.
The counting gear or clockwork, which is contained between two discs or plates d
and d', connected together by distance pieces m (Figure 3), is enclosed between.a
glass disc n above and a cap n' below and is arranged as follows:-
Below the lower disc d a ratchet wheel e is placed which is turned one tooth at
a time by means of a palle pressed in one direction by a spring e. Upon the
axis of the ratchet wheel e the pall lever e³, provided with a spring pall e*, fits freely
and is (by means of a rod or wire fjointed to it, the outer end f' of which is
bevelled,) capable of being pressed inward, the bevelled end projecting through an
opening in the longer side of the opening b through which the coin is inserted, so
that it is pressed back for a short distance by the weight of such coin, the pall e¹
being thereby drawn back over one of the teeth of the ratchet wheel e.
Upon the upper end of the axle of the ratchet wheel, a toothed pinion i is fixed
which gears with a larger toothed wheel i. This wheel has 100 teeth and its axle
turns in the upper disc d' (Figures 3 and 5), and this axle carries at its upper
end an index hand c. This index hand points to divisions numbered from 1 to 100
marked upon a dial c fixed upon the upper disc d', and moves one division forward
each time a coin passes through the coin opening.
In order to mark or indicate 100 after the index hand has made a complete
revolution, there is fixed below the toothed wheel and the disc d'a ratchet
wheel with 10 ratchet teeth upon an axle turning in the discs d, d', and a pall k
so that after each complete revolution of the large toothed wheel and index
hand c' the wheel is turned one tooth forward, by a pin 2 which comes in contact
with one of the teeth upon k. Upon the axle of the ratchet wheel k is fixed a
second index hand c, which points to divisions numbered from 100 to 1000 marked
upon a second dial plate c³.
From the description the working of the apparatus will be clear.
By the passage of a coin z through the opening b, the rod or wire fis, by the

page_text: weight of the coin pressing upon its bevelled end, forced backward and thereby
the ratchet levere is so operated that the pallet passes back over one tooth of the
ratchet wheel e. When the coin in the opening has passed the point of the rod the
latter together with the ratchet lever e³, and pall, is pressed back into its original
position by the spring, and the ratchet wheel e is thereby moved one tooth
forward. This movement is at the same time by means of the toothed wheels i, i¹,
transmitted to the axle of the index hand c', and the wheel is made to turn so
that the index hand moves through one division upon the dial plate c, and thus
indicates the passage of a single coin.
The movement of the ratchet lever is limited by two vertical pins e³ and e, so
that the movement of the ratchet wheel through a space of more than one tooth is
prevented.
After the hundredth movement the pin on the wheel engages with the
ratchet wheel k, and moves the latter forward through a space of one tooth, so
that the small index hand c indicates upon the dial plate the figure 1,
signifying 100.
In this manner the number of coins can be indicated up to 1000 without
interruption, and the operation can be repeated after the coins have been removed
from the drawer a².
It is evident that by a suitable arrangement and proportion of the toothed wheels,
the ratchet wheel k and the divisions of the dial plate c³, higher numbers than 1000
can be easily indicated.
In order to count coins of different sizes the arrangement shewn in Figures 7
and 8 may be used, in which a separate lining of the size required may be inserted
and fixed in the coin opening or funnel b, as shewn at p or p¹, the opening through
such lining corresponding with the thickness and diameter of the particular coins
which are to be counted. These linings p or p' are provided with projections » at
their ends, which pass through openings or slits in the outer passage b, and are held
in position by a spring s.
It should be noticed that the rod or wire f does not pass through the centre of
the coin-opening, but about one-third of the distance from the end of the latter, as
shewn in Figure 4, so that its bevelled end 1 can pass between two adjoining coins
as shewn in Figure 7. The object of this is that for coins introduced quickly one
after the other each may be able to give a separate indication.
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 :-
1. The apparatus for receiving and counting coins, consisting of clockwork
arranged in a box or under a counter a provided with a coin opening b, so that by
the falling of each single coin through the opening, each such coin is registered
and indicated by an index hand c' upon a dial plate c, the hand moving forward
through one division of the dial plate as soon as the falling coin has pressed back
by its weight the end of the bar or wire f which enters the opening, and so
that when the latter is brought back to its original position by a spring it moves
the ratchet wheel k forward through one tooth by means of the ratchet lever e
and palie, the movement being communicated by the toothed wheels i, i, to the
axle of the index hand.
2. In the apparatus described and claimed in Claim 1, the arrangement of
linings p or pl (of sizes corresponding to those of the different coins to be counted),
in the opening b, these linings being held in position by the projection r and
springs, for the different sized coins which are to be counted.
3. The arrangement of a ratchet wheel k near the wheel ¹ which is fixed upon
the axle of the index hand c' described in Claim 1, so that after each complete
revolution of the latter, the ratchet wheel k is moved forward through one tooth
by a pin upon the wheel ¹, and thereby the index hand c³ fixed upon the axle

page_text: at is moved through one division of the dial plate c³ after the passage of each
100 coins through the coin opening.
Dated this 31st day of August 1894.
EDWARDS & Co.,
65 and 66, Chancery Lane, London, Agents for the Applicant.