IMPROVEMENTS IN TILLS AND OTHER RECEPTACLES FOR MONEY.
Year: 1852

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County of Middlesex, Off and Colorman, for the invention of
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County of Middlesex, Off and Colorman, for the Invention of
IMPROVEMENTS IN TILLS AND OTHER RECEPTACLES FOR MONEY.
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IMPROVEMENTS IN TILLS AND OTHER RECEPTACLES FOR MONEY.
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PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William George
Nixey at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Pétition, on the 1st October 1852.
I, WILLIAM GEORGE NIXEY, of Moor Street, in the County of Mid-
dlesex, Oil and Colorman, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN TILLS AND OTHER RECEPTACLES FOR
MONEY" to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object the prevention of fraud and error in
paying and receiving money over a counter or other place, and consists
of a revolving wheel or moving receiving compartments. Over one
spot is an opening into which the money paid is deposited and moved
away, but still for a time retained in a compartment, separate from pre-
vious and subsequent payments, and the payments so received into
separate compartments of the apparatus are ultimately deposited in a
till or other receptacle.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said William George Nixey in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 30th March 1859..
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I,
WILLIAM GEORGE NIXEY, of Moor Street, in the County of Middlesex,
Oil and Colorman, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the First day of October, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, in the sixteenth
year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and
grant unto me, the said William George Nixey, Her special licence
that I, the said William George Nixey, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as I, the said William George Nixey, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with,
and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during
the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use,
exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN TILLS AND OTHER RECEPTACLES FOR MONEY," upon
the condition (amongst others) that I, the said William George
Nixcy, by an instrument in writing under my hand and scal, should
particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention,
and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the
.same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar
months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William George Nixey, do hereby
.declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement thereof (that is to say):
This Invention has for its object the prevention of fraud and error in
paying and receiving money over a counter or other place, and consists
of a revolving wheel or moving receiving compartments. Over one
spot is an opening into which the money paid is deposited and moved-
away, but still for a time retained in a compartment, separate from

page_text: previous and subsequent payments, and the payments so received into
separate compartments of the apparatus are ultimately deposited in a
till or other receptacle.
And in order that my said Invention may be most fully understood
and readily carried into effect, I will proceed to describe the Drawings
hereunto annexed, in the various Figures of which the same letters of
reference are used to indicate the same parts.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1, is a plan; Figure 2, is a section; Figure 3, shows an under-
side view; Figure 4, shows an under side view, a side view, and a
section of the rotating receiver apparatus into which the money is first
introduced, and within a compartment of which it is retained for some
time, and until by a succession of receipts of money, or by successive
actions on the rotating apparatus, the bottom of the receiver in which
any money is placed comes opposite an opening in the cover of the till
or other receptacle, when, by reason of the bottom of the compartment
being no longer upheld, it will drop, and the money in that compart-
ment will descend into the till or other receptacle. I would remark
that the rotating receiver of the apparatus in the arrangement shown in
the Drawing has six compartments, but this may be varied in making
other similar apparatus. a, is the cover of the till or other receptacle,
having an opening through it at b, as shown. c, is the exterior cylinder
of the apparatus, which is closed at top by a thick plate of glass d, by
which the money in the several compartments of the rotating appa-
ratus is impounded. d', is an angular opening through the glass,
of the angular compartments of the rotating
At the side of the apparatus there is a slot or
opening through which a lever e, works, and by being moved causes
the rotating receiver to be moved a distance equal to one of its com-
partments; the lever e, moves on the hollow axis f, of the rotating
apparatus or receiver g. On the axis f, is fixed a ratchet wheel h, as
shewn; and motion is communicated to the axis by means of the click
or driver i, on an axis fixed on the lever e, the click or driver i being
pressed up to the ratchet wheel by a spring, as shown; and in order to
corresponding with one
apparatus or receiver.

page_text: prevent the rotating apparatus moving, except when the lever is moved,
the spring, is used. k, is a spring of vulcanized india-rubber, which
is fixed at ' to the apparatus, and to the end of the lever e, as shown,
'it passing partly round the pulley e', by which means the lever has at
all times a tendency to go back to its original position. The rotating
apparatus or receiver g, has, as before stated, six compartments, each
compartment having its angular bottom g', on necks or axes g. These
bottoms, except when they (in succession) come opposite the opening
into the till or receptacle, will be supported on the plate 7, through
-which there is an angular opening corresponding with the opening into
the till or receptacle; and the opening through the glass through which
the money is first passed is over the compartment of the rotating
receiver next beyond the compartment which has last come over the
copening into the till; hence the money last paid in will not arrive at the
till or receptacle till the rotating apparatus or receiver has been caused
to move through a succession of steps, and the money will remain in-
sight under the glass cover during such time.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention, and the manner
in which the same is performed, I would have it understood that I do
not confine myself to the details herein shewn and described; but
what I claim is, the combination of apparatus herein described.
In witness whereof, I, the said William George Nixey, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Fifteenth day of March, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three.
..
Witness,
S. CARPMAEL.
W. G. NIXEY, (L.S.)