Improvements in Check Tills.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 5th Oct., 1889-Accepted, 11th Jan., 1890
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Check Tills.
We GEORGE BURNEY of The British Queen Hotel; East Greenwich, in the
county of Kent, Licensed Victualer, and HENRY LOFTUS MONRO GOODRIDGE, of
80 Pattison Road, Plumstead, in the County of Kent, 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 :-
This Invention relates to certain improvements in check-tills and to certain
improvements upon the subject matter of the Specification under application for
Letters Patent No. 18741, dated 22nd December 1888.
The object of this Invention is to provide means for, (a), receiving coins paid for
goods sold, (b), for receiving a given amount of money for purposes of "change" and
providing for a separate receptacle for the coin or coins changed, (c), the special
apparatus for receiving the coins and means for conveying the same to their several
compartments, drawers or boxes, and (d) means for the division of the apparatus by
movable screens to divide the takings at different times so that when one person has
had charge of the instrument and has been receiving and paying or changing money
therefrom one
set of receptacles may lie divided off from another sot and the
instrument be then used for a second set of takings and giving change by another
person.
In order that the Invention may be well understood there is annexed hereto a
sheet of drawings illustrative thereof, wherein :-
Fig. 1, is a general view of the combined apparatus.
Fig. 2, shows the door of the upper part of the cabinet removed.
Fig. 3, is the internal view of the upper part of the cabinet.
Fig. 4, is a front view showing a modified form of the coin receiving and passing
mechanism detached.
Fig. 5, shows detached views of parts of the change-coin holders and dis-
chargers.
The cabinet shown in Figs. 1 to 3 is fitted for receiving coins for giving change
and also for receiving the amount of money taken for goods supplied.
There are two coin slits a, a¹, respectively for receiving the coins to be changed
and for receiving the money taken.
From these slits the coin goes to the checking mechanism which may be of the
kind shown in the Specification of my Patent aforesaid and as indicated in Fig. 1 of
the drawings hereof or it may be of the modified form shown in Fig. 4.
In working this method of coin checking the double set of mechanism will be
employed as described in reference to the Fig. 3, of the drawings of the said
former application for Patent, and any construction of check-till coin-receiving
mechanism of this class when so duplicated, as directed, can be used in a cabinet
constructed according to the following description.
The coin receiving mechanism hereinafter to be described in reference to Fig. 4,
of the drawings annexed hereto may be received in the central space b, Fig. 3, and
instead of having, the glazed space c, in the middle part of the door, as shown in
Figs. 1 and 2, there will be two glazed spaces corresponding to the coin receiving
compartments d, d, of Fig. 4, provided in the door; and the back of the cabinet
may have a glass covered aperture in either case.
The coin receiving mechanism shown in Fig. 4, is of double construction and the
slits a, a, will be correspondingly placed on the top of the cabinet.
The two pushes e, e, are provided to operate the levers of the coin receiving
mechanism of my former Patent Specification.

page_text: The drawers f, f¹, are for receiving the coins as they leave the coin receiving and
passing mechanism. The receptacles g, gl, are tubes, glass or metal, with graduated
scale for receiving a quantity of coins (and at any time gauging and showing the
exact amount remaining without necessity for counting it out) for purpose. of giving
change; say sixpenny pieces in the receptacle g, and one shilling pieces in g, and
with a sliding draw-plate h, at the bottom of the said tubes, of the thickness of the
coin.
A hole is provided in the draw-plate in position under the hole of the tubes,
wherein the bottom one of the coins will find lodgement until the draw-plate is
pulled forward.
There is a fixed plate i, under the draw-plate and there is an aperture in the said.
fixed plate through which the coin drawn forward by the draw-plate h, will fall and
pass out of the openings k, for purposes of giving change. Thus the amount of.
coin left available at any moment of the day can be seen at a glance and the
receptacles, being removable and interchangeable, a refilled receptacle can be placed
in position at a moment's notice.
In using this improved construction of cabinet the following method is employed,
for instance-if a quantity of wine or spirits to the value of sixpence he served out
to a customer and a two shilling piece be tendered in payment and for change the
person serving will pass the received coin into the slit a, for "change," and press the
push e down so ringing the bell, and causing the coin to take up its position upon
the upper of the separating arms or bars of the coin receiving and passing
mechanism. A shilling and two sixpences will then be drawn out from the
holders g, g, h, k, whereof one sixpenny piece will be placed in the slit a', being.
the amount of "takings," and the other sixpenny and the shilling pieces will be
handed back as change to the customer.
It will be seen that for the two shillings value taken from the amount of the
change-money there will be an exactly similar amount found in the drawer f, and
the exact amount of the takings should be found in the drawer, when the
coins have been worked through the machine, if the taking and giving of the change
has been correctly carried out, thus affording a most efficient check.
The money bowls 1, 1, are 1, for coppers for change and , for takings in coppers
which from time to time may be changed for silver and the said silver be placed in
the slit a', and passed through. the machine to the drawer f.
Change for coins of high value may be dealt with in the ordinary way of putting
out an ascertained quantity of silver.
For the purpose of dividing the takings at different periods of the day so as to
check the work done by different attendants the casing or cabinet above the
drawers ff, is to be fitted with shelves or partitions or plates hinged or hung on
centres so as to be turned from a hanging position to a horizontal one; or, there
may be used dividing plates or shelves which may be passed into the casing through
slits or openings and he held when so placed by a clip or catch until the machine be
opened by the proprietor or other authorised person. This is not shown upon the
drawings it being perfectly inteligible from the description.
When one attendant has been working for a given time and using one of the
tills it may be found desirable that a change should be made and when this occurs
the next following attendant may have the exact amount of his or her takings
separated from those of the other by turning the pivot of the hinge or of the centres
of the hanging flap by means of a key or, as convenient; or, when a slide plate is
used the plate will be inserted by the authorized person.
The coin receiving and passing mechanism shown in Fig. 4 will be placed within
the upper part of the casing at b, Fig. 3, and it consists of a frame m, with two
clear-ways or coin passages d, d, and with movable cross bars o', projecting
alternately across said. passage ways d, d', and operated by the levers p.. The
levers: p, are free to turn upon or with pivots pl said levers p, being slotted at
each end to accomodate the pins g, attached to the centres of the horizontal
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page_text: bars o, o¹. The alternate bars o are attached to and connected by the bar r, by
screws the bars o¹, being actuated to and fro by the opposite forked ends of the
levers p.
Those parts of the bars o, o¹, upon which the coins are received are made with an
incline and the upper edges o², of these inclined portions of the bars are formed with
a vee groove. The bars o, o¹, are moved to and fro by the pin or handle s, which
will pass through a slot in the casing.
The bars may have imparted to them this to and fro motion by means of a
horizontal rack-bar and a toothed quadrant or two rack-bars and a double toothed
quadrant mounted upon a centre and turning by means of a knob or handle, not
shown.
A bell may be fixed in connection with any movable part to indicate when the
apparatus has been operated.
The spring hammer p of the gong will be acted upon by the passing end of
the bottom lever p, as the bars are moved, following upon the introduction of a
coin.
It will be seen that upon moving the bars o, o¹, from one side to the other there
will take effect a rising and turning of the coin by reason of the incline o², of the
end of the bars o, o¹, and this will traverse the coin without danger of its sticking
to the glass at the same time that the vee grooved upper edge of the bars will hold
the coin in a slightly tilted position. t is a block bar for the coin apertures a, a¹.
The working of this mechanism is as follows:-
Each compartment bas an opening at the top for the purpose of droping in the
coins, but only one opening is free at the same time. Through the free opening a
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coin is passed and is received on the incline of the topmost bar o'. The handle
the instrument being now moved the bars o¹, are withdrawn from the coin space on
one side and are projected across the coin-space of the opposite side and so the coins
fall and are received upon the next lower arm on their passage to the drawers f, f...
The mechanism may be employed without the block bar t, that is with both coin
slits open and in that case can be employed both as check upon the change and
takings.
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
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Firstly In check-tills the cabinet for holding coin-receiving check-mechanism
constructed and arranged as herein set forth to receive and give change" and
takings."
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Secondly In a check-till the removable and interchangeable scaled change-coin
receivers as and for the purpose herein set forth.
Thirdly The combination with the means for receiving holding and giving coins
for change," and separately holding the "takings" of the coin-receiving mechanism
specified under the Specification of my prior application for Letters Patent
No. 18741 of 1888, as herein set forth and shown by Figs. 1, to 3 of the drawings.
Fourthly-The coin-receiving mechanism for a check-till as herein specified in
reference to and shown by Fig. 4 of the drawings having the traversing bars o, o,
and operating mechanism for receiving the coins on the inclines o³, as and for the
WM. JORDAN,
120, Chancery Lane, London, Agent for the Applicants.