Improvements in Change Delivering Apparatus.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 14th Dec., 1897
Complete Specification Left, 1st Apr., 1898-Accepted, 7th May,
1898
PROVISIONAL. SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Change Delivering Apparatus.
We, HENRY LOFTUS MUNRO GOODRIDGE, of 3, Braxfield Road, Brockley, in the
County of Kent, Engineer, and ALFRED BROWN, of the Dover Castle, Broadway,
Deptford, in the County of Kent, Licensed Victualler, do hereby declare the nature
of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in that class of apparatus commonly
known by the name of "change tills" in which the insertion of a coin of a certain
value into a slot in the apparatus liberates a slide containing or carrying an
amount of change equivalent in value. to the coin-inserted in the slot, and allows the
said slide to be drawn out so that the change can be removed from it while the
coin inserted into the slot drops into a receptacle adapted to receive it.
According to this invention a separate slide is provided for each denomination of
coin for which change is to be provided, and each slide is placed at the lower end
of a vertical compartment or tube in which a number of trays or receptacles are
stacked on one another each containing an amount of change corresponding in
value to that of each of the coins for which the particular slide and its connected
apparatus is adapted. The lowermost of the aforesaid trays rests in the slide
and is drawn out from under the upper trays with the slide when the same is
withdrawn, so as to bring the change within reach. The slot in the apparatus
through which the coins, are passed is in communication with a guide tube at the
lower end of which is placed a balance lever on to one end of which, say the front
end, the coin is guided by the tube. The other end, say the rear end, of the
balance lever is provided with a pin or latch which engages with certain stops, on
an arm fixed to or formed with the corresponding change slide. In front of the
balance lever is a sliding rod or other equivalent device provided with a stop or
stops so placed that when the sliding rod is in its normal position (in which it is
held by a spring) any coin dropping through the guide tube on to the balance
lever comes to bear against one of the said stops and is thereby prevented from
falling into the coin receptacle until the change slide is drawn out; or from
being ejected through a spurious money opening as hereinafter described until the
aforesaid sliding rod is operated.
It will now be understood that on inserting a coin, such as a sovereign for
example, into the slot provided for that particular value of coin, such coin will
fall down the tube connected with that slot on to, say, 'the front end of the balance
lever and will depress that end of the said lever, but will be prevented from rolling
off therefrom by the stop on the beforementioned sliding rod and by a stop fixed on
the change slide. The depression of the one end of the balance lever causes the
other end thereof say the rear end to rise and to unlock the change slide, which can
then be drawn out. By drawing out the change slide..the lowermost tray with
20 shillings worth of change in it is drawn out from under those trays superposed
unon it, and can be removed from the slide. The act of drawing out the change
slide draws forward the stop fixed on it and this allows the sovereign 'to fall off the
end of the balance lever into the coin receptacle when, but not. before, the slide
has been drawn out far enough to liberate the tray of change. Then on pushing

page_text: the change slide in again the arm on it, which is shaped at its rear side as an
inclined plane, lifts the stop or latch on the rear end of the balance lever over the
top of the arm, and the stop or latch falls in front of the arm and in front of a stop
on the same and locks the slide in its closed position until another coin is introduced
at the slot. When the slide is pushed home another tray of change falls into it in
readiness for the next operation.
In order to prevent drawing out a second tray of change without inserting
another coin in the slot, by pushing back the slide after having got out one tray
of change until another tray has fallen into it but before the slide is again locked
in its closed position, a second stop is employed on the arm of the slide which gets
locked by the stop or latch on the end of the balance lever before the slide has been
pushed in far enough to receive another tray of change from the pile in the vertical
storage compartiment.
If a spurious or light coin is introduced into the slot it will not be heavy enough
to depress the balance lever therefore it will fail to unlock the slide, and conse-
quently the latter cannot be drawn out, and the change cannot be
got at; but inasmuch as it is desirable to recover the spurious or
light coin from the apparatus this can be effected by the sliding
spring rod above mentioned, which may be appropriately called a releasing device.
It has been explained above that a stop on this rod prevents the coin from passing
direct into the coin receptacle, and if the coin be spurious or light it will not
depress the balance lever, but will remain bearing against the stop on the releasing
device, and the change slide will not be released. If now the releasing device be
operated in opposition to its spring, which tends to hold it in a normal position, the
spurious or light coin will be released and will fall not in the coin receptacle but
into a shoot or guide through which it will pass into a receptacle at the outside of
the apparatus and from which it can be recovered.
The guide tubes for the coins are provided at their lower ends with suitable
guides to keep the coin upright until discharged into the coin receptacle, or until
rejected or returned to the outside of the apparatus, and with means to prevent the
coin from rebounding and getting thereby displaced.
The apparatus may be constructed so as to give change for coins of different
denominations, each coin having its own slide, guide tube, slot, and so forth.
Instead of each quantity or amount of change being placed in a tray it may be
made up into a packet or be otherwise kept separate from the adjacent quantity
or amount.
Dated this 15th day of December 1897
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Change Delivering Apparatus.
We, HENRY LOFTUS MUNRO GOODRIDGE, of 3, Braxfield Road, Brockley, in the
County of Kent, Engineer, and ALFRED BROWN, of the Dover Castle, Broadway,
Deptford, in the County of Kent, Licensed Victualler, 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 improvements in that class of apparatus commonly
known by the name of "change-tills" in which the insertion of a coin of a certain
value into a slot in the apparatus liberates a slide containing or carrying an amount

page_text: of change equivalent in value to the coin inserted in the slot, and allows the said
slide to be drawn out so that the change can be removed from it, while the coin
inserted into the slot drops into a receptacle adapted to receive it...
And in order that the said invention may be fully understood we will now proceed
to describe the same with the aid of the accompanying three sheets of drawings,
in which Figure 1 is a vertical sectional elevation, taken on the line X-X of
Figures 2 and 3, of a "change-till" constructed in accordance with the invention,
Figure 2. a front elevation with the front of the upper part of the containing case
removed and with the right hand slide in section taken on the line Y-Y of
Figure 3, and Figure 3 a sectional plan taken on the lines Z-Z of Figures 1 and 2,
also with the front upper part of the containing case removed.
In the drawings the apparatus is shown enclosed in a wooden case 1, the front 1"
of the upper part of which is preferably arranged as a hinged door provided
with a lock, or is otherwise arranged so that it can be secured in a closed position but
opened or removed when it is required to charge the apparatus with a supply of
change. 2 is a horizontal partition of the enclosing case, on which is mounted the
greater part of the apparatus. 3 is a drawer forming the receptacle into which the
coins for which change is to be given are delivered, and which may be locked by means
of an ordinary lock and key, or by means of a locking pin 4, passed through a hole in
the partition 2 and into a hole in the front 3° of the drawer as shown in Figure 1
before the front 1" of the case 1 is closed.
According to this invention a separate slide is provided for each denomination of
coin for which change is to be provided; the slide 5 for example being intended to
deliver change for sovereigns and the slide 6 change for half-sovereigns. Each
slide is placed at the lower end of a vertical compartment or tube in which a
number of trays or receptacles are stacked on one another, each containing an
amount of change corresponding in value to that of each of the coins for which
the particular slide and its connected apparatus is adapted. For example, the
compartment or tube 7 corresponding to the slide 5 has a number of trays or
receptacles 8, each containing change for a sovereign, while the compartment or
tube 9 corresponding to the slide 6 has a number of similar trays or receptacles 10,
each containing change for a half-sovereign. The lowermost of the aforesaid trays
or receptacles 8 rests in its corresponding slide 5 on ribs or flanges 5° of the latter and
the lowermost of the trays or receptacles 10 in its corresponding slide 6 on ribs or
flanges 6 of the latter and each of these lowermost trays is drawn out from under
the trays above it along with its slide and by means of the ends of the ribs 5b or Gb
which ribs or flanges stand higher above their slides than the ribs or flanges 5° 6°
80 as to form supports for the trays or receptacles 8 and 10 above
the lowermost trays or receptacles, when the slide is drawn out SO as
to bring the change within reach. The trays above the lowermost are prevented
from being drawn out with the latter by the front 1 of the containing case. The
slots through which the coins are passed may be made in the front, top or other
suitable part of the case, one is shown at 11 in the front 1° in Figure 1 and is, in
the case illustrated, that through which the half-sovereigns are in-
troduced. Continuing the description with reference to this particular
slot it will be seen that it is in communication with a guide tube 12. At the
lower end of this guide tube is placed a balance lever 14 pivotted at 15 to a
fixed carriage 16. On to one end of this lever, the front end in the arrangement
shown, the coin 17 is guided by the tube 12. The other end, (the rear end in the
arrangement shown) of the balance lever 14 is provided with a pin or latch 18
which engages in front of the stop 19 on a part 20 fixed to or formed with the
corresponding change-slide" 6.
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In front of the balance lever 14 is a sliding rod 21 or other equivalent device
provided with a stop 22, so placed that when the sliding rod 21 is in its normal
position, as shown in Figures 1 and 2 (in which position it is held by a spring 23)
any coin 17 dropped through the guide tube 12 on to the balance lever 14 comes
to bear against the said stop 22 and is thereby prevented from falling into the

page_text: receptacle 3 until the change, slide 6 is drawn out; or from being ejected through
a spurious-money opening 24 as hereinafter described, until the aforesaid sliding
rod 21 is operated.
It will now be understood that on inserting a coin; such as a half-sovereign-for
example, into the slot. 11, such coin will fall down the tube 12 on to the
front end of the balance lever 14, and will depress that end of the
said lever into the position shown by dotted lines in Figure 1; but will
be prevented from rolling off therefrom by the stop 22 on the sliding rod 21 and
also by a stop 25 fixed on the "change-slide" 6. The depression of the one end of
the balance lever 14 causes the other end thereof to rise so as to lift the pin or
latch 18 clear of the stop 19 thus unlocking the "change-slide" 6; which can then
be drawn out by the knob or handle 26. By drawing out the "change-slide" the
lowermost of the trays 10 with ten shillings worth of change in it is drawn out
from under those of the trays 10 that are above it (these latter remaining supported
on the ribs or flanges (b) and can then be removed from the slide 6: The act of
drawing out the "change-slide" 6 draws forward the stop 25 fixed on it, and this
allows the half-sovereign 17 to fall off the end of the balance lever 14 into the coin
receptacle 3. Then on pushing the "change-slide" in again; the part 20 on it,
which is shaped at its rear end as an inclined plane, lifts the pin or latch 18 on
the rear end of the balance lever 14 over the top of the said part 20; and the
said pin
or latch falls in front of the stop 19 and locks the slide 6 in its closed
position until another coin is introduced at the slot 11. When the slide G is
pushed home the next tray of change falls on to the ribs or flanges 6" in readiness
for the next operation.
In order to prevent drawing out a second tray of change, without inserting
another coin in the slot; by pushing back the slide (after having got out one tray
of change) until another tray has fallen into it, but before the slide is again locked
in its closed position, a second stop 19 is employed on the part 20 of the slide
which, gets locked by the pin or latch 18 on the end of the balance lever 14 before
the slide has been pushed in far enough to receive another tray of change from
the pile in the vertical storage compartment 9; and prevents the slide being drawn
out again until a fresh coin has been inserted at 11 to unlock it.
If a spurious or light coin is introduced into the slot 11 it will not be heavy
enough to depress the balance lever 14; therefore it will fail to unlock the slide,
and consequently the latter cannot be drawn out; and the change cannot be got
at;, but, inasmuch as it is desirable to recover. the spurious or light coin from the
apparatus, this can be effected by the sliding spring rod 21; which may be
appropriately called a releasing device: It has been explained above that a
stop 22 on this releasing device prevents the coin passing direct into the coin
receptacle, and that if the coin be spurious or light it will not depress the balance
lever 14. In such case it will remain bearing against the stop 22 on the releasing
device, and the "change-slide "will not be released. If now the releasing
device: 21 be pressed downwards in opposition to its spring 23; the spurious or
light coin will be released and will roll over the depressed stop 22; through the
slot, 21 of the releasing device and will fall; not into the coin receptacle 3, but
into a shoot or guide 27, through..which it passes into a receptacle 28 at the
outside of the apparatus; and from which it can be recovered:
5.
The apparatus at the other side of the machine for delivering change for
sovereigns is exactly similar to that above described in connection with, giving
change for half-sovereigns except that the guide tube 12* may be made somewhat
larger than that for the half-sovereigns, and the balance lever 14* is counter-
balanced to suit the weight of the sovereign while the balance lever 14 is of course
counterbalanced to suit the weight of the half-sovereign, and the trays 8 are each
charged with change for a sovereign instead of with change for half a sovereign
as are the trays 10. In the drawings the other parts of the mechanism for giving
change for sovereigns are marked with the same figures of reference as the corres-
ponding parts of the mechanism for giving change for half-sovereigns but with

page_text: the addition of an asterisk. The mode of action is precisely the same in both
cases.
The guide tubes for the coins are so shaped that they hold the coin upright until
discharged into the coin receptacle or until rejected or returned to the outside of the
apparatus.
The apparatus may be constructed so as to give change for any number of coins
of different denominations, each coin having its own slide, guide tube, slot and
so forth.
Instead of each quantity or amount of change being placed in a tray or other
receptacle it may be made up into a packet enveloped in paper or other material,
or be otherwise kept separate from the adjacent quantity or amount.
To prevent over straining of the balance lever 14 in the event of undue pressure
being applied to either of the slides in order to force it open without inserting
a coin to unlock it, stops 29 30 are fixed in front of the latches 18 and 18*
respectively to resist the pull of the stop on the piece 20 or 20*, as the case may be,
against the pin or latch 18 or 18*.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is:-
First. In change-delivering apparatus the improvement which consists in the
employment of a number of trays, receptacles, or packets stacked on one another
each containing an amount of change corresponding in value to that of each of
the coins for which change is to be delivered, and devices whereby the lowermost
of such trays, receptacles or packets can be withdrawn from the bottom of the
stack when such devices are released by the introduction into the apparatus of the
coin for which change is required, substantially as described.
Second. In change-delivering apparatus the combination with a number of
trays, receptacles or packets arranged in stack form, and each containing or in-
tended to contain an amount of change corresponding in value to that of each of
the coins for which such stack of trays, receptacles or packets is intended to supply
change, with a slide arranged at the bottom of the stack and adapted to withdraw
the lowermost tray, receptacle or packet therefrom, and mechanism for locking the
said slide in the closed position and for unlocking the same by the weight of the
coin for which change is required, substantially as described with reference to
the drawings.
Third. In change-delivering apparatus the device for retaining and releasing a
spurious or light coin which fails to depress the balance lever so as to liberate the
withdrawing slide, and for enabling the same to be returned to the outside of the
apparatus, which consists of a spring-actuated rod provided with a stop which
retains the spurious or light coin until the releasing device is operated so as to
allow the coin to pass the said stop and be delivered into a passage leading out of
the apparatus, substantially as described with reference to the drawings.
Doted this 21st dox of Von 1900
Dated this 21st dox of March 1900
H. L. M. GOODRIDGE,
A. BROWN,
Per W. H. Beck,
115, Cannon Street, London, E.C., Agent.