IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR COUNTING COINS OF MONEY, TICKETS, AND OTHER SIMILAR ARTICLES, AND INDICATING THE NUMBER THEREOF
Year: 1865

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATON left by Jacob Schneuhr at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 11th February
1865.
I, JACOB SCHNEUHR, of St. Petersburg, in the Empire of Russia, but now
residing at Alderman's Walk, in the City of London, Merchant, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR
COUNTING COINS OF MONEY, TICKETS, AND OTHER SIMILAR ARTICLES, AND INDICATING
THE NUMBER THEREOF," to be as follows:-
My Invention is intended to facilitate the counting of money and other
similar articles without the necessity of counting the same separately in the
usual manner, and consists in the combination of an outer box or case and
inner boxes or drawers to receive and contain the coins or other similar
articles, with the apparatus herein-after described for counting and indicating
the number of the same admitted into the box or boxes.
In one form of the Invention the outer box is a case composed of wood or
metal, and contains a suitable number of drawers or inner boxes into which
the coins or other similar articles are to be dropped through apertures formed
in the outer case over an opening in the top of each drawer or inner box.

page_text: Underneath each of these apertures is fixed a tube leading to the opening
at the top of the drawer or inner box, such tube being furnished with a hinged
valve at the bottom, which valve is caused to open by the weight of a coin
or other similar article falling on the end of a lever herein-after named, and is
closed by means of a rod with a counterbalancing weight at one end. Within
the said tube is a stem with a forked opening at the top, such stem being
part of or connected to one end of a lever suspended from a pin or centre of
motion fixed into the top of the box; the other end of this lever is jointed
to a vertical rod which is connected with the ordinary wheels and dials for
the purpose of indicating the number of coins or other similar articles dropped
into the box. By means of the foregoing combination of mechanism each
coin or other article by falling on the forked end of the lever depresses the
same and opens the valve at the bottom of the tube, and passes through the
same into the drawer or inner box, the valve being closed again by the rod
on the removal of the pressure on the lever; at the same time by the
depression of such end of the lever the reverse end thereof is raised, and a
movement communicated to the counting apparatus by means of the vertical
rod connected thereto.
In a second form of the Invention the number of coins or other articles
dropped into the box is indicated on the dial by moving a handle connected
to an upper box which rests on a pivot fixed in the bottom drawer. By
moving the said handle the coin, ticket, or other article previously dropped
into the upper box is brought in contact with the end of the lever communica-
ting with the counting apparatus, and is afterwards brought over the opening
in the bottom drawer and allowed to fall thereinto; but when there is no
coin or other article in the said upper box there is no effect produced on the
lever.
In a third form of the Invention there is a sliding upper box or drawer
which is drawn out a limited distance so as to bring a passage or channel
within it under the slit in the lid of the outer box, then on returning the
drawer to its original position the coin or other article contained in the said
passage or channel is free to drop through the opening in the lower drawer.
The lever of the counting apparatus is acted upon by the sliding drawer in its
motion.
And in a fourth form of the Invention the coins, tickets, or other articles
are put into a closed box in an upright position; at the bottom of the box is
a slide with a recess in it to receive the lowest coin or other article of the
pile. In this case the number of the coins or other articles is indicated on

page_text: the dial by pulling out the sliding drawer and allowing the article contained
in the recess to drop out, the lever of the counting apparatus being so acted
upon at the same time by the movement of the slide as to cause the coin or
other article to be registered.