IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR ASSORTING OR DIVIDING COINS
Year: 1876

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Felix Alexander Nicolaus Thanisch, Apothecary, in
Hamburg, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR ASSORTING
OR DIVIDING COINS."
Sealed the 5th June 1877, and dated the 7th December 1876.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Felix Alexander Nicolaus
Thanisch at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 7th December
1876.
FELIX ALEXANDER NICOLAUS THANISCH, Apothecary, in Hamburg. "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN APPARATUS FOR ASSORTING OR DIVIDING COINS."
The purpose of this apparatus is to assort coin of different size in a simple and
expeditious manner.
My Invention consists of a set of cases or boxes open on the top end which may
be made of sheet metal, wood, or other suitable material, and which can be placed
either one above the other or partly one in the other.
The bottoms of the different
boxes are furnished with holes of different sizes. The bottom of the uppermost box
has borings which allow all coins of diameter next to the largest size to pass
through, while the second box has such borings through as can pass all coins of the
next smaller size. The borings of the third box allow the coins following next in
size to pass through, and so on. When coins of different sizes are placed in the
uppermost box and the set of boxes (one put on the top of the other) is shaken
sufficiently, the assorting of the different sizes takes place in such manner that the
pieces of largest diameter remain in the uppermost box, whilst the second size falls
through the holes in the bottom of the first box and remains in the second box; the
third size passes in similar manner through the first and second boxes, and is kept
in the third box, and so on.
The number of boxes that have to be used with my apparatus depends upon the
number of different sizes of coin that have to be assorted at same time.
I also connect in some cases the different boxes with a weighing machine, which
allows. of finding at any time in a simple manner the weight of coin contained in
each box. From this weight the value can be found by calculation.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Felix Alexander Nicolaus Thanisch in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 7th June 1877.
FELIX ALEXANDER NICOLAUS THANISCH, Apothecary, in Hamburg.
MENTS IN APPARATUS FOR ASSORTING OR DIVIDING COINS."
"IMPROVE
The purpose of this Invention is to assort coins of different sizes in a simple and
expeditious manner.
My Invention consists of a set of cases or boxes open on the top end, and which
may be made of sheet metal, wood, or other suitable material, and placed either one
above the other or partly. one in the other. The bottoms of the different boxes are
furnished with holes of different size. The bottom of the uppermost box has
borings which allow all coin of diameter next to the largest size to pass through,
while the second box has such borings through which can pass all coin of the next
smaller size. The borings of the third box allow the coin following next in size to
pass through, and so on." When coins of different sizes are placed in the uppermost
box and the set of boxes is shaken sufficiently, the assorting of the different sizes
takes place in such manner that the pieces of largest diameter remain in the upper
most box, while the second size falls through the holes of the bottom of the first
box and remains in the second box; the third size passes in similar manner
through the first and second boxes and remains in the third box, and so on.
The number of boxes that have to be used with my apparatus depends upon the
number of different sizes of coin that have to be assorted at same time.
In the accompanying Sheet of Drawings Figure 1 is a front view, Figure 2 a side
view, and Figure 3 a plan of my apparatus.
A, B, C, D, are four boxes forming a set for assorting four different sizes of coin.
The mixed up coin is placed in the uppermost box, and the box is then shaken to
ensure that the different sizes will assort themselves within the one box.
In some cases I connect the apparatus with a weighing machine which allows of
finding at any time in a simple manner the weight of coin contained in each box.
Having now described the nature of the said Invention, and the manner in which
the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim,-
Firstly. The apparatus for assorting coin, which consists of a set of cases or boxes
having holes in the bottoms in the manner and for the purpose described.
And, Secondly. The modification of my Invention, in which I connect my
apparatus with a weighing machine for finding at any time the weight of coin
contained in each box.
In witness whereof, I, the said Felix Alexander Nicolaus Thanisch, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this First day of June, One thousand eight
hundred and seventy-seven.
F. A. N. THANISCH. (L.S.)