A NEW APPARATUS FOR RECEIVING AND CHECKING MONEY
Year: 1880

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henry Lyon, of No. 2, Goswell Road, in the County of
Middlesex, Licensed Victualler, for an Invention of "A NEW APPARATUS FOR
RECEIVING AND CHECKING MONEY."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henry Lyon at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 30th July 1880.
HENRY LYON, of No. 2, Goswell Road, in the County of Middlesex, Licensed
Victualler. "A NEW APPARATUS FOR RECEIVING AND CHECKING MONEY."
The object of the apparatus is to simplify the means of checking dishonesty by
removing the receipts from the control or fraudulent manipulation of those employed
to receive them, and exposing to view several of the last coins placed in the
receiver, for which purpose I have invented a brass frame (or box) with a wheel
inside, something in the form of a paddle wheel, with enclosed sides and divisions
(or cells) to receive the money, which revolves vertically, the whole enclosed by a
glass top, through which several of the coins are kept in view. When a coin or
coins are taken, they are passed into one of the cells through a slot (or opening)
for that purpose, and the thumb or finger is then pressed on a knob or lever
which strikes a gong or bell, and causes the wheel to revolve one cell, which cell
containing the coin is then covered by the glass, and another cell appears under
the slot ready to receive the next coin; as the wheel revolves, the cells empty
themselves into the till or drawer underneath. By this means, when a person is
giving change, you know money is being received, and you expect to hear the gong
or bell strike, or it is evident a fraud is being attempted; and should the gong
strike and any of the cells in view (except the one under the slot) be found not to
contain coin, you know that a fraud has been committed, as money once passed
through the slot cannot be extracted.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Henry Lyon in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 28th January
1881.
HENRY LYON, of No. 2, Goswell Road, in the County of Middlesex, Licensed
Victualler. "A NEW APPARATUS FOR RECEIVING AND CHECKING MONEY."
The object of this Invention is to simplify the means of checking dishonesty by
removing the cash receipts from the control or fraudulent manipulation of those
employed to receive them, and in exposing to view several of the last coins placed
in the receiver, consisting of a wheel, something in the form of a paddle wheel with
enclosed sides and divisions (or cells) to receive the money. The wheel is caused to
rotate vertically, and is covered by a glass top (through which several of the coins
are kept in view). When a coin (or coins) are taken, they are passed into one of
the cells through a slot (or opening) for that purpose, and the thumb (or finger) is
then pressed on a knob (or lever) which strikes a gong (or bell), and causes the
wheel to rotate one cell, which cell (containing the coin) is then covered by the
glass, and another cell appears under the slot ready to receive the next coin. As
the wheel rotates, the cells empty themselves into a till or drawer underneath.
The box, which may be of brass, is applicable to any portable till or cabinet, or
can be fitted to an ordinary counter top by bolts, the heads of which may have a
deep cut nick, that they may be used as bad coin detectors.
Figures 1 and 2 of the annexed Drawings clearly illustrate how I carry my
Invention into effect.
A is a wheel with blades B arranged radially from a common centre, like those
of a paddle wheel, as to form a series of cells or coin receivers. The axle has on
one side a ratchet wheel C, into the teeth of which a lift paul D is caused to engage
under the action of the spring E, when the button head F is depressed by the
thumb or finger after each coin falls therein, the coin being passed singly through
the mouth G, from whence it falls into the cell of the wheel, as will be understood.
H is a spring stop paul serving also to prevent the wheel being acted upon in the
reverse direction. I is a jumper roller supported by the arm J from a pivot pin K,
that it, i.e., the jumper roller, may lodge itself between the two lowermost blades of
the wheel under the action of the spring L, as an additional means of fixing the
wheel when the button head F is not being depressed. At other times the roller I
gives by the action of the next blade upon its edge overcoming the spring L,
whereby the roller takes behind that blade and fixes the wheel in position again
until the button head is again depressed, and so on successively after each insertion
of a coin through the mouth G. M is a lip of a hammer lever centred at N, that as
the wheel moves each blade past its end it is thrown over a given distance to move
the hammer P away from the gong Q, this action putting tension into the spring R,
as to produce a sharp sound when the lip M slips from the blade at the conclusion
of each motion of the wheel. S is a segmental shaped cover of glass to the wheel A,
that a few of the last taken coins are exposed to view before they are permitted to
fall into a receiver underneath.
The adaptation of my foregoing Invention to portable tills or cabinets is
exemplified by Figures 3 and 4, in both of which a means of checking receipts of
money taken during any given periods of time can be established and be used in
combination, and thereby form a complete system of preventing peculation on the
part of the receiver of such monies. In an ordinary case, such as fixing my
Invention to a counter top, the coins, by the rotation of the wheel, would simply
fall into a drawer or receptacle placed under the box for the purpose of receiving it,
but when affixed, as shown at Figures 2 and 3, the coin, say, for the first two
hours of a day, would fall into the drawer T at the bottom of the cabinet, and at

page_text: the end of that time a plate would be pushed into the lower slot in the door U, as
to shut off communication with the drawer, so that the money dropping from the
wheel during the next two hours would fall on to this plate and be kept separate
from the first monies. In the Figures (3 and 4), I have shown slots for 7 sliding
plates, so that the takings of the working day of, say, 14 hours, can be divided into
7 portions of two hours each. Any number of slots may be formed, and any
number of plates employed to suit other divisions of time as found convenient. The
plates when once pushed in cannot be withdrawn again without the front door
being first unlocked and opened.
The upper portion of the cabinet is provided with bowl tills to be kept constantly
supplied with small change and coppers, say, to the extent of two pounds, and this
amount should always be found in those bowl tills, notwithstanding change having
been given.
At the end of the day's business the front door is opened and the drawer
removed, which will be found to contain the amount taken up to the time the first
slide was inserted. The drawer is then replaced, and the bottom slide withdrawn,
when the money taken during the next period falls into the drawer, which is again
removed, emptied, and replaced, and the next slide withdrawn, and so on until they
are all removed. The money is thus divided every two hours, or at other determined
periods.
Having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, I declare that I claim,--
The particular arrangement of apparatus, as shown at Figures 1 and 2 of the
annexed Drawings, for the purpose or purposes described, especially the vertically
fitted wheel as a money receiver, and the appliances for effecting its intermittent
rotative movement as set forth.
Secondly. claim the adaptation of my vertically fitted wheel and its adjuncts,
in combination with a cabinet in which separate division plates can be inserted as
described, and substantially as shown at Figures 3 and 4 of the annexed Drawings,
for the purpose or purposes described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henry Lyon, have hereunto set my hand and
seal, this Twenty seventh day of January, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and eighty one.
5 Witness,
RICHARD C. GARDNER,
40, Fleet Street,
E.C.
HENRY LYON. (L.S.)