Improvements relating to Machinery for Receiving, Delivering, Sorting, and Registering Coins.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd Oct., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 24th July, 1893-Accepted, 21st Oct., 1893
Improvements relating to Machinery for Receiving, Delivering,
Sorting, and Registering Coins.
I, EDWARD MORIARTY of 180 North End Road Fulham in the County of
Middlesex, Beer Retailer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention relates to the machinery for receiving, delivering sorting and
registering coins patented to me under date of 8th October 1890 and
Number 15988, and it consists in certain improvements more particularly intended
to be applied to the said machinery.
The first improvement relates to the change giving mechanism and its object is
to provide a separating till especially for the purpose of receiving coins for which
change is given and so arranging this till that the coin received is carried to the
respective trough in which coins of the same denomination are stacked. There may
be separate tills for the silver and the copper money and a separate one if desired
for the gold money. The till is an inclined channel with a slot at the upper end to
receive the coin, the height of the channel is diminished from time to time in such a
way that the largest coin will be stopped nearest the entrance while the smaller
coin will pass further into the place corresponding with its height, the smallest
coin being capable of passing to the furthest distance from the slot. I arrange a
number of knock outs one for each coin so that on operating a key any coin that is
in this aforesaid channel is knocked out in such a way that it falls into the
respective chute which carrics it into the trough containing coins of that
denomination which are intended eventually to be delivered as change. A further
improvement lies in so arranging these aforesaid knock outs with the mechanism
which controls the change delivering knock outs that the latter can only be
operated when a coin of the proper denomination has been already put into
the aforesaid till. There may then be only one key to be operated by hand and
this key will move all the till emptying knock outs, all those before which there is
no coin will move idly but that in front of which there is a coin in the aforesaid till
will not only propel the coin laterally from the till but will cause it to be pushed
into a forked holder or other device thus allowing it to make connection which will
carry along, or commence to carry along the particular mechanism which will
operate the change giving knock out or knock outs proper to deliver the exact
change for the coin inserted.
The coin troughs need. not be curved but may be straight and inclined at a
suitable angle, the change delivering knock outs may be straight reciprocating bars
moving in the lower ends of the troughs. There may be connected to any knock
out several driving bars slotted longitudinally each driven by a separate key or
lever moving loosely in the slot but abutting against the end thereof.
depression of any of the keys or levers connected to the respective knock out in
this manner, will move the knock out while the driving bars of the other connected
keys are simply drawn idly over the keys or levers.
The
It is preferable only to allow the coin leaving the aforesaid till to commence the
driving of the respective change delivering knock out mechanism, since the coin
may then become free to fall into its chute. On falling it may turn a registering
wheel or equivalent recorder.
In connexion with the change giving knock outs there may be small springs so
arranged that should any coin trough become empty or so far depleted that there
are not left sufficient coins for change then the spring moves forward and so brings

page_text: into action a suitable mechanism to stop the machine or that part of it or in some
manner to warn the attendant of the fact so that the trough may be replenished.
Dated this 22nd day of October 1892.
HERBERT & Co.,
Agents to Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements relating to Machinery for Receiving, Delivering,
Sorting, and Registering Coins.
I EDWARD MORIARTY of 180 North End Road Fulham in the County of
Middlesex, Beer Retailer, 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 :-
This invention relates to machinery for receiving, delivering sorting and
registering money in the form of coins and principally relates to that patented to
me under date of 8th October 1890 and Number 15988, and it consists in certain
improvements intended to be applied to or used in substitution for the said
machinery or part thereof.
The first improvement relates to the change giving mechanism and it consists in
providing a till, separate from that for the actual cash takings, and intended solely
for the purpose of receiving the particular coins for which change is to be given
and so arranging this till that it assorts the coins delivered to it to the respective
troughs or tubes containing coins of the same denomination.
The near approximation of size between various gold silver and copper coins
renders it advisable to provide three such tills, one for the gold coins one for the
silver, and one for the copper but where change for copper coins is not required
the till for receiving the copper coins for which change is to be given may be
omitted.
I provide that each coin for which change is given shall be delivered to the
particular trough from which by the operation of the change giving mechanism
like coins are at proper times delivered in change for coins of higher denomination.
This is effected by the principle of construction of separating till chosen for
receiving the coins for which change is to be given. The till is an inclined
channel with a slot at the upper end to receive the coin. The height of the
channel is diminished from time to time in such a way that the largest coin will be
stopped nearest the entrance, but any smaller coin inserted will pass further along
the channel to the position equivalent to the diameter of the respective coin, and
the smallest coined piece of money will pass to the position furthermost from the
inlet. These, positions are disposed relatively to the receiving tubes for coins of
the same denomination so that when the coin for which change is to be given is
eventually released from the till by action of a knock out, displacing floor or
equivalent, it falls into the particular tube containing coins of the same
denomination.
I however first utilize the presence of the respective coin in its proper position
in the till to cause the delivery of the proper change for that coin, by so connecting
the change delivering knock out system with a knock out or rocking piece or
equivalent to be operated by the coin that the particular coin sets up a connection
which carrics along the particular combination of knock outs which causes full
change for that coin to be given.
Since the presence of the coin alone determines whether and how much change
shall be delivered, it is possible to operate the whole change delivery mechanism
by one lever, or, what is the same thing, by any one of a series of levers without
distinction. I am thus enabled to use a series of levers for registering the actual
cash purchase, and the operating of any one of these levers will not only register a

page_text: cash receipt equivalent to the value marked on the lever but will cause the machine
to deliver full change for any coin that may have been just previously put into the
"change till," the intention being that the salesman shall then deduct the amount
of the purchase from the change, hand the balance to the purchaser and place
the amount of the purchase in the "cash till."
I may use any kind of separating or sorting till, or also an ordinary till or
receiving chamber for the "cash till "which forms no part of the present invention.
but inasmuch as it may be advisable to supplement the number of coins in the
change holding troughs or tubes from the cash takings, more especially for the
smaller denominations such as the sixpenny pieces, penny and half penny pieces, I
prefer to employ for the cash receipts a form of till which will also deliver coins to
their respective chutes as hereinafter described but which I do not claim in the
present application for Letters Patent.
In place of making the coin troughs or tubes curved as described in the
Specification of Patent No. 15988 of 1890 I make them straight and inclined at
a suitable angle, the change delivering knock outs are straight reciprocating bars
moving in the lower ends of the troughs.
In connexion with the change giving knock outs there may be small springs so
arranged that should any coin trough become empty, or so far depleted that there
are not left sufficient coins for change then the spring moves forward and so brings
into action any suitable mechanism to stop the machine, or that part of it, or in
some manner to warn the attendant or manager of the fact so that the trough may
be replenished. In connection with this part of the invention I have illustrated
small fingers pressed by springs against the edges of the coins in the trough so that
when the trough is exhausted the fingers losing their support on the edges of the
coins move under the pressure of the springs. This movement may release a
locking pawl to lock the operative parts of the machine, or it may make or break
an electric current for this purpose or to sound an audible signal. This may be
done in any way that is within the competence of an ordinary mechanician and I
lay no claim to any particular method.
In the annexed drawings
Fig. 1 is a front elevation of the machine after removal of the exterior casing.
Fig. 2 is a cross section on the line 2. 2.
Fig. 3 a cross section on line 3. 3. of Fig. 1.
Fig. 4 is a plan of the plate carrying the change troughs with the knock outs
and operating lever combinations. Fig. 5 is a rear elevation of these parts.
Fig. 6 is a side elevation of a check action to ensure full stroke to each key lever,
Figs. 5 and 6 being on a larger scale.
Fig. 7 is a sectional view on line 7. 7 of Fig. 1 on a yet larger scale.
Fig. 8 shows part of the cash receipts till in perspective.
Within the casing A. is the standard frame B carrying the inclined plate Con
which the coin tubes are fixed. These tubes D are preferably arranged in the
following position to the number of eight; commencing from the left hand side, a
half penny tube, a penny tube to deliver three pennies at a time, another penny
tube to deliver two pennies only at a time, a blank space equivalent to three-
penny pieces which are not required for change, a tube for sixpenny pieces, a
tube for shilling pieces, a tube for florins a tube for half crowns, a tube for half
sovereigns. Four and five shilling pieces and sovereigns are not received in chauge
tubes.
The table C is cut out at E underneath each tube in a semicircular manner, the
recess so made extending to the axis of the tube to facilitate the release of the
coin or coins pushed therefrom by the slide plates F. The combination adopted
requires that there shall be two knock outs F to the sixpenny piece tube and also
to the shilling tube.
The tubes D commencing from the left are cut away for so much of their front
portions at their lower ends and the knock outs E are of the proportionate thickness

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to propel from the several tubes, 2 halfpennies, 3 pennies, 2 pennies 2 and 1 six-
penny pieces, 1 and 2 shilling pieces, 2 florins, 1 half crown, and 1 half sovereign.
Each of these ten sliding knock outs is connected by a link G to a separate
lever H freely pivoted on the cross bar J.
Above the five tubes on the right hand side extends the silver change till K
which is inclined at an angle to permit the coin inserted at the entrance slot K to
pass to its proper position by gravity. The till consists of two plates fixed at a
suitable distance apart rather more than the thickness of the thickest coin. Between
these plates is a roof plate K' cut step fashion to provide the positions
marked III III IV V VI, for five shilling pieces, half crowns, florins, shillings,
sixpenny picces and threepenny pieces. The space between the plates K K³ is
closed below by a removable floor plate K' suspended by bars K K7 pivoted
at K8 KB. In the front plate K² are a number of vertical slits K' one corre
sponding to the diameter of each coin as it lies in its respective position. The
floor plate K is also slit at K" at places corresponding to the slits K. On a
stepped cross bar L moving vertically in guides L on the till K are a number of
sleeves Leach carrying a plate L³ projecting into one of the slits K and a
depending hook L'. The cross bar L is connected by vertical bars L' to a cross
bar L which traverses all the key levers M. When any one of these levers is
depressed, the frame L L L is lifted and the gang of plates L³ move upward in
the slits K. If there is a coin at any of the positions I to VI the respective
.plate L is moved outward thereby and the corresponding hook L on that
sleeve L2 is also moved outward.
In front of each hook L is a hooked rod N and each rod N is connected to a
lever N on the rod by movement of which lever the particular combination of
coins equivalent in change to the coin in the relative position in the change
separator, is delivered. When the hook I is thrown outward it engages with the
equivalent rod N and further upward movement of the frame L L L results in
the lifting of the engaged rod N and delivery of the change by virtue of
the combination set in motion by that rod. Where there is no coin inserted in the
change till the rods N remain disengaged and no change is delivered.
The gold change till is of the same construction but has only two positions I and II
for sovereigns and half sovereigns respectively. Equivalent letters indicate like
parts with relation to this till. If desired an equivalent till for penny and halfpenny
pieces can be arranged on the left of the machine and a tube for farthings for change
for the halfpenny.
The frame L L L on rising presses against the bowed out edge of the bar K
and presses back this bar thus pushing back the floor plate K and suffering the
coin to fall out of the change till. Each coin being situated above a tube
containing coins of the like denomination falls therein. The sovereigns, five and
four shillings pieces and three-penny pieces fall down into the drawer at the bottom
of the machine.
Since the four shilling pieces are few, the machine is made so that they remain
at position I change as for five shillings being given, a receptacle may be
provided into which the salesman places the odd shilling, this receptacle should
always contain as many shillings as the cash drawer is found to contain four
shilling pieces.
In this machine the levers N' are eight in number, and commencing from the
right are intended to give change for a sovereign, half sovereign, five shilling piece,
half crown, florin shilling-sixpenny piece-three-penny piece, to each lever N
is connected to move therewith a lever N2 and to certain of the latter are connected
cross rods by which they influence the levers H of the knock outs; thus the 3d.
lever is in one with the lever of the 2d. knock out and the rod N³ thereon moves
the knock out delivering two halfpence, the 6d. lever N is connected to lever N
carrying rod' N operating the first combination with the addition of the three-
penny pieces knock out; the 1s. lever N is in connection with the lever of the

page_text: knock out delivering one sixpenny piece and the latter lever rests against the tail
of the rod N thus delivering a sixpenny piece, two and three pennies and two
half pennies the 2. lever N' is in connection with the lever of the knock out
delivering one shilling piece and the latter lever carries a short projecting rod N³
engaging behind the lever of the knock out delivering a sixpenny piece, the
lifting of the two shilling knock out therefore delivers one shilling one sixpence
and the aforesaid combination of copper coins through rod N. The half crown
lever N is in connection with a lever N with a lateral rod N which operates
direct the one shilling knock out, the two sixpenny pieces knock out and through
the latter the combination of copper coins through rod N. The 5. lever N1 is
connected to the half crown knock out lever which has a lateral rod No engaging
behind a lug N on the lever N, the raising of the five shilling lever therefore
throws out one half crown and the combination just before mentioned: the 10.
lever N is connected to a special lever N with lateral rod N" extending behind
the levers of the half crown, two florins and two shillings thus throwing out the
combination due to five shillings with addition of two florins and an additional
shilling the £1 lever N is in connection with the lever of the half sovereign
knock out and the latter has a lateral rod N engaging behind a lug N¹³ in the
lever No, the raising of the £1 lever N' therefore throws out one half sovereign in
addition to the change given for the half sovereign.
;
As the pushing out of one shilling or sixpence from the respective tubes would
tend to carry the coin next above with it, (the opening in the tube having to be
sufficient for throwing out two of each of these coins), a finger O is pivoted to lic
before the coin next to that at the bottom. This finger is removed by a pin O' on
the thicker knock out when the latter commences its movement to throw out two
coins of the same denomination.
The change delivered falls into trays P. P.
The cash takings till which I have adopted to prevent depletion of the coin
troughs, more especially of the half pennies, pennies, and sixpenny pieces is
arranged along the upper part of the machine and comprises three compartments,
R for gold, R for silver, and R2 for copper, all open below and faced in front by
the glass window R³ Fig. 2. R is a movable bottom to the three compartments
and R is a rocking chamber pivoted at R near its upper edge and forming a
prolongation of the three chambers R. R' R2 under the shelf or bottom R. Below
the chamber R are the chutes R17 R18 and just below the chamber R° there is a
fixed cross grid R being a series of bars so spaced that half pennies in the copper
division and sixpences in the silver division can pass through but larger coins
cannot. Below this grid is a movable grid R hinged at the back of the
chutes R R and of which the bars are somewhat wider than those of the
grid R
It is obvious that when the shelt R is moved away any coins in the till
in divisions R R fall into chamber R and the larger coins are stopped by the
grid R. Only farthings and threepenny pieces can pass the lower grid R and
these immediately fall through onto the plate R which forms part with the grid R,
sliding off that plate into chute R* Fig. 2. If now the grid R be moved back as
shown in Fig. 2 the half pennies and sixpenny pieces which alone can pass the
fixed grid R now fall through and falling on the back of the plate R are deflected
into the chutes R" and R's respectively these carrying them to their respective
tubes. Only the larger coins now remain in chamber R' being supported by
grid R, and these are now got rid of by rocking the chamber forward on its
hinges R so as to bring its lower open edge forward from over the grid R10 which
guards the entrance to chutes R and R The coins losing the support of the
grid fall out in front of the chutes R and R¹s and the pennies drop into the
chutes R leading to the troughs for the penny pieces, while the silver coins
drop into chute R, Fig. 1, which simply carries them to the chute R delivering
them to the cash drawer. Gold pieces from division R fall direct to the cash
drawer.
To affect the movements of the shelf R³, the movable grid R with its plate 'R",

page_text: and the rocking of the chamber R, whenever any key M is depressed there
is attached to the cross rod L' a rod R. The cash takings remain on the
shelf R till the next operation of the machine. When a key M is depressed the
pawl R7 on the end of rod R first presses outward the hooked pin R on the rocking
chamber R which moves the said chamber and releases the larger coins which were
left from the previous cash takings, thus emptying the chamber R°. The pin RB
will move off the heel of the pawl R' and the chamber R will fall back over the
grid R just before the rod R moves the rod R" and through lever R" puts the finer
grid R under the grid R and also moves the lever R¹ and draws away the
shelf R. The coins previously above that shelf now fall into the chamber R³ and
the farthings from the copper chamber and the threepenny pieces from the silver
chamber, if any, alone fall through the finer grid R into chute R*, all larger coins
remain in the chamber R. When the key lever M is suffered to return the rod R
falls and with it the rod R3, the finer grid R is removed into the position shown
in Fig. 3 and now the halfpennies from the copper division and the sixpenny pieces
from the silver division can fall out into the chutes R" and R¹ respectively which
lead them to their tubes. The larger coins being still upheld by the larger fixed
grid R remain in the chamber R until the next operation of a key lever when
the rocking of the chamber R lets them fall out before the cash takings resting
on shelf R are suffered to fall into the selecting chamber R. A similar selecting
device could be arranged for the gold division if desired to carry the half sovereigns
to their tube D.
As any lever M will operate these devices before described I may utilize a
number of these levers and combine them with registers by which the value of each
cash taking may be added to the total. I do not confine myself to any particular
register but may use for convenience a separate counter T for the halfpennies and
farthings and also separate counters for the pennies, shillings and pounds as shown
at T1 T2 T3 and thus avoid difficulties in the carrying over. The lever M on its
depression strikes a cross bar T with its nose M¹ and this cross bar gives an
equivalent stroke to the rack bar T of the counter through lever T. The amount
of projection of nose M' determines the stroke which each lever will give to the
rack according to the value marked on the lever so that the same value shall be
added on the counter, the rack revolves the counting wheels in the known manner.
T' is a brake block on a lever T with cross bar T to be brought into action by the
lever M on completion of the stroke being pressed down thereby on the peripheries
of the counting wheels to avoid "racing" of the counter.
To insure full stroke to each lever I adopt the mechanism shown in Fig. 6.
On the cross rod J is pivoted the sector J' in rigid connection with the arm J',
which is one of the two which carries the cross rod L. On this sector J'arc
the two extreme teeth J J the central double wedge shaped block J' and the
contrarily inclined ratchet teeth J J'. On the wall of the casing are pivoted two
pawls JJ each with two rear faces J10 J against either of which a spring J12
presses. When the lever M is depressed the pawl Ja engages with the teeth Jo
until the higher tooth J³ eventually at the end of the stroke lifts the pawl so far
that the face J takes the place of the face J10. At this moment the block Jo will
have struck the pawl J and caused the face Jo to take the place of the face J"
on that pawl, the pawl J then engages with the teeth J7 until the return stroke of
the lever M is completed when the pawl J will be again raised by the nose J' and
the pawl J depressed by the block J. x is a contact spring adapted to move
when the tube is depleted and so make electric contact at . A similar device
may be arranged on each coin tube.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is ;-
In machinery for delivering receiving sorting and registering coins ;-
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and adented often

page_text: delivery of the appropriate change to carry the said coins to chutes containing others
of like denomination, the said coins in the meantime setting up a connection for
delivery of the appropriate change.
2. The construction of till in combination with coin chutes and knock out
mechanism substantially as described whereby the operation of one or any lever
delivers change appropriate to the value of the coin inserted in the till.
3. The construction of straight coin tubes with knock outs consisting of straight
reciprocating bars combined for simultaneous and separate action substantially as
set forth.
Dated this 22nd day of Jul. 1802
HERBERT & Co.,
18, Buckingham Street, Strand, London, W.C., Agents to Applicant.