An Improved Method and Device for Making Up Rolls of Coin.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 19th Jan., 1899-Accepted, 25th Mar., 1899
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Method and Device for Making Up Rolls of Coin.
I, JOSEF BENEDIKT, of Karlsbad, Bohemia, in the Empire of Austria, Merchant,
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;-
In order to save the time-consuming counting-up of a large sum of similar
pieces of money, the cash is frequently made up into rolls of coin, which have
hitherto been made by hand. Great skill and experience is necessary for this,
and it very frequently happens that many of the rolls are not correct and the
counting of the coin always requires for cach roll a certain time and care.
The device which forms the object of the present invention entirely removes
all the drawbacks arising hitherto in the making up of the coin rolls and essen-
tially accelerates the counting of pieces of money. The separate pieces of money
are merely thrown into a previously made roll or tube of paper which is inserted
in a suitable holder and the corresponding number of pieces of money is immedi-
ately determined by the height of the roll formed.
In the accompanying drawings, Figures 1, 2, 4, 5 and 6 are elevations of
the apparatus necessary for making the money rolls; Figure 3 is a plan view
of a piece of paper employed for making a roll; Figure 7 a sectional view of a
finished money roll.
Suitable pieces of paper a, Figure 3, are first cut out and provided on both
sides with two lines b, the distance apart of which exactly corresponds to the
height of a given number of pieces of money placed one above the other, of a
certain value, for instance in the present case 50 pieces of money are provided
for. This piece of paper a, which is gummed along one side c, is so rolled on
a spindle d, Figures 2 and 4, the diameter of which corresponds to the diameter
of the pieces of money to be counted that the two imprinted lines coincide. The
gummed edge of the piece of paper a is then stuck down and the roll or tube
thus made is pushed so far forward that the end of the spindle & coincides with
the endmost line b. The overlapping end or margin of the paper roll is then
bent down or flanged over the end of the spindle and the roll together with
the spindle d is inserted in a holder, Figure 5. This holder consists of a pipe e
open at both ends and widening at the top into the shape of a funnel f, Figure 1,
is so cal-
and provided with a base g at the bottom. The height of the tube
culated that the inserted paper roll does not project beyond the same, Figure 6.
If the spindle d be then drawn out, the paper case a remains sticking in the
tube e, and the separate pieces of money h need only be thrown in at the top
without counting until their height coincides with that of the upper line b pro-
vided on the paper.
As already stated, the distance between the two lines b
exactly corresponds to the height of a given number of pieces of money piled
one upon the other. The roll thus filled, which exactly contains the number of
pieces of money indicated thereon, is then pushed out of the pipe e and the open
end of the roll folded down in the same way as was the case with the other end.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:―
1. The method of making up coin rolls, characterized by a sheet of paper (a)
provided on both sides with two imprinted lines (b) whose distance apart corre-
sponds to the total height or thickness of a given number of equivalent coins,
being rolled together by means of a spindle (d), the diameter of which corre-
sponds to that of the pieces of money to form the roll and being then stuck
together to form a tube or sheath, which latter is then closed at one end up to
one of the lines (b) by folding over the end and inserted in a suitable holder,
then filled up with pieces of money, then pushed out of the holder and closed
up at the other end, substantially as hereinbefore set forth.
2. For carrying out the method of making up coin rolls herein before described,
a device consisting of a pipe (e) widening out above to the form of a funnel (f),
the inner diameter of which pipe corresponds to the pieces of money to be
counted and in which the previously formed paper tube (a) is inserted by means
of a spindle (d) substantially as described.
3. For carrying out the method of making up coin rolls hereinbefore described,
.sheets of paper (a) gummed on one edge (c) and provided with visible marks or
lines (bb), the distance apart of which lines is equal to the aggregate thickness
of a given number of equivalent coins placed one above the other, substantially
as described.
Dated this 18th day of January 1899
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Of Lord Street, Liverpool, Agents for the Applicant.