Improvements in Change-giving and Registering Apparatus.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 16th Oct., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 16th July, 1892-Accepted, 24th Sept., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Change-giving and Registering Apparatus.
I, GEORGE JAMES COURCELLE of 210 Jamaica Road, Bermondsey, in the
County of Surrey, Public-house Manager, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to the "takings" and money changing department of a
check till or similar instrument. Hitherto I have found considerable difficulty
with existing mechanisms in charging into the receptacle and counting the copper
takings and this invention is designed to simplify and improve this arrangement.
In carrying out the invention I prefer to employ a vertical shoot or equivalent
preferably made in the form of a cylinder of the proper diameter to take the
particular coin in question, say for example one penny. This shoot may be made
entirely detachable from the machine so that it can be filled apart from the machine
and may be provided with a longitudinal hinge or joint so that it can be opened
out it may with advantage also have at its lower end a longitudinal slot or
equivalent so as to exhibit the coins at the end to enable the operator to tell when
he must replace the empty shoot with a charged one.
The shoot when placed in the apparatus is connected in any suitable manner with
a socket into which it may fit the said socket being of sufficient height to contain
the required number of the coins for which it is intended change should be given,
say for example six pence, and has also a slide adapted to form a bottom to the
socket and one or more nippers or equivalent device or devices for the purpose of
preventing the passage of all the coins in the shoot above the number, in this
illustration six, which are required to be moved at each operation. The slide is
provided with a circular opening corresponding when the slide is pulled out with the
socket and shoot so that the change may drop through this opening into a suitable
bowl or equivalent where it is accessible to the attendant. The nipping device is
so arranged that when the slide is drawn out to obtain the change the first coin
above the number to be abstracted is gripped and this coin and all those above it
are prevented from falling with the ones to be abstracted. One way of arranging
the nipping device is to have two fingers pivotted upon the apparatus in connection.
with the slide or the socket the end entering through suitable openings of the
socket and so arranged with cam faces or the like that when the slide is pulled
these fingers are moved in to the socket and grip the coin and are released when
the slide is returned.
To prevent the slide from being withdrawn until the proper coin is inserted I
arrange upon or in connection with the slide a spring hook or equivalent adapted to
engage when the slide is closed with a fixed portion of the apparatus, a portion of
the hook or its attachments coming underneath the coin slot by which the coin to
be changed, in the above illustration a sixpence, enters, and so arranged that a
portion of the coin when resting on the hook projects. As the remainder of the
coin is forced into the slot the spring hook is disengaged from its fastening and
the slide can be withdrawn the coin then falling through the slot into a shoot or
equivalent and so to its proper receptacle in which may be arranged a gong upon
which the coin will fall as it enters the receptacle.
The slide may be connected with any suitable counting or indicating device.
connection with other
The slide locking mechanism may be employed in
departments of the machine besides the money changing.
CL
October 1901
W. P. THOMPSON & BOULT,
Agents for the Applicant.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Change-giving and Registering Apparatus.
1, GEORGE JAMES COURCELLE of 210 Jamaica Road, Bermondsey, in the
County of Surrey, Public-house Manager, 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 change-giving and registering apparatus and will be
best understood by reference to the accompanying drawings in which
Fig. 1 is a side elevation of the apparatus when in its closed or normal
condition.
Fig. 2 is a view partly in side elevation and partly in longitudinal vertical section
showing the apparatus in the operation of delivering change.
Fig. 3 is an elevation of the side opposite to that shown in Figs. 1 and 2 showing
the manner in which the registering device is operated.
Fig. 4 is a plan with the shoot removed and with the other parts in the respective
positions in which they are shown in Figure 1.
Fig. 5 is a transverse vertical section on the line 5-5 of Figure 4.
Fig. 6 is an elevation of the part of the apparatus into which fall the coins
for which change is given, showing the bell or audible signalling device and the
removable coin receiver, and
Fig. 7 is a horizontal section on the line 7-7 of Fig. 6.
Like letters indicate like parts throughout the drawings.
A is a vertical shout the upper end of which may be fitted with a funnel-
shaped mouth A' mounted in a wooden or other block or framing A' which may
form a bowl or receptacle for the coins to be ultimately given in change; these
coins in the example shown in the drawings being supposed to be pennies and
the coins for which change is to be given being supposed to be sixpences, six
pennies being delivered at each operation of the apparatus. The apparatus
may however be constructed for giving change of any desired coin in any coins
of a smaller value.
B is a socket into which the lower end of the shoot A fits and the lower
end of which socket rests on an indiarubber ring C of the nipping device
hereinafter described.
D is a slide which at one part d takes the form of a rectangular bar guided
in a bearing E¹ and at another part d' takes the form of a plate guided on a
bracket E which like the bearing E is rigidly secured to or forms part of the
fixed framing E. At its outer end the slide D is fitted with a knob d or
equivalent handle.
The part d' of slide D has a perforation of a size sufficient to admit of
the free passage therethrough of the coins to be given in change that is to say
of approximately the same diameter as that of the interior of the shoot A and
rubber ring C before it is compressed.
The lower part of the socket B and the rubber ring C are located in a
socket G the ring C being supported therein on a shoulder (Fig. 2). The
socket G forms part of or may be secured to the rigid framing E and it is
preferably provided with a bracket bearing g' for giving additional support to
the slide D.
I are two stops secured to the slide D one for abutting against the bracket E
for preventing the slide from being pushed too far into the apparatus and the
other for abutting against the bearing E' for preventing the slide from being
drawn too far out from the apparatus.
The slide D has mounted upon it a bracket or projection H carrying an anti-
friction roller which works over the cam-surface J' of a lever J pivotted at; to
a bracket E³ secured to or formed integrally with the framing E. As shown in

page_text: Figs. 4 and 5 the lever J is formed with a loop at the part at which it encircles
the lower end of the shoot A and upper end of the socket B and it is provided with
two studs which project inwards over the upper edge of the socket B, the lower
edge of the shoot A being recessed at a at diametrically opposite points to
accommodate the studs 1.
K is a detent pivotted at k to the slide D and provided with a projecting stud k¹
to which is connected a preferably indiarubber spring secured to any convenient
part of the casing as for example by means of a screw so as to tend always to
move the free or operative end of the detent upwards so that when said detent is
brought beneath the recess of the framing E its head will be immediately
forced into engagement therewith as shown in full lines in Fig. 1. A projecting
part Fig. 4 of the detent K extends into the shoot L down through which the
coins, for which change is to be given must be passed, and the size or position of
this projection is such that the said coin cannot be passed down the shoot
without first depressing the detent K sufficiently to release it from the recess e.
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M is a shoot for conducting the coins for which change is given into preferably
another shoot M' Fig. 6 arranged immediately beneath it and into which projects
the edge of a bell or gong M³ which may be supported in any convenient manner
The walls of the shoot M2 as shown in Fig. 6 are so inclined as to direct the
falling coin first on to the bell M³ and afterwards into a removable receptacle M*
where they automatically arrange themselves in "rouleaux to facilitate their
being subsequently made into packages, the receptacle M* preferably containing
exactly a convenient number of the coins say 40 sixpences £1. mare spring
fingers secured to the framing of the apparatus for supporting the receptacle M' in
proper position beneath M' and which admit of its being removed when full. The
lower or closed end of M' may be supported on a recessed block m³.
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S is a shoot for conducting the change to a receptacle convenient to the hand of
the operator.
N is a registering device which may be of any desired construction and operated
in any desired manner from the slide D. A convenient way of effecting this
operation is by means of the spring-controlled pawl O pivotted on a stud or arm O'
secured to the slide D and engaging with the ratchet wheel which, through its
shaft n¹ at each return stroke of the slide D transmits the necessary motion to the
various wheels of N.
The operation of the before described apparatus is as follows:-
A quantity of the coins to be given in change (in the present example, pennies)
are placed in the receptacle A' and these will automatically take up their proper
positions one above another in the shoot A the bottom one being supported by the
slide plate. A coin for which change is to be given (in this example a sixpence) is
then pressed into the upper end of the shoot L and pushes the detent K down-
wards so that its head k is moved out of the recess e as shown in dot and dash
lines in Fig. 1. The slide D is then drawn outwards by means of the knob & and
the slide perforation d is brought beneath the penny shoot A and the 6 lowermost
pennies fall through it into the shoot S to the outside of the apparatus convenient
to the hand of the operator all the other pennies being supported by the india
rubber ring C which by the operation of the roller on the cam surface J (as the
slide is moved) and the studs bearing on the socket B has been compressed so
that it grips the lowermost of the pennies which are to be retained in the apparatus
for subsequent change-giving. By this same movement of the slide D the detent K
is moved away from the shoot L as shown in Fig. 2 so that the sixpence which was
before supported by K drops down the shoot M into the desired receptacle and
may be arranged to fall on to the bell or gong M' to audibly indicate that the
apparatus is being used.
On the slide D moving outwards as last described the pawl O slips past the
ratchet wheel n without affecting it but when the slide D is pushed back, as it must
now be, the pawl partially rotates the wheel n and causes the device N to register
the operation. The arrangement and operation of ratchet and pawl may however

page_text: be reversed so that as the slide moves outwards the pawl operates the wheel and
slips upon it when the slide is returned. By this return stroke also the slide
perforation is moved from below the penny shoot A the pressure is removed
from the indiarubber ring C by the roller à passing to the appropriate part of the
cam surface J' and the detent K again engages with its recesse and the heel
will continue to engage with the end of the recess until again released from it by
the insertion of a sixpence.
The apparatus may be arranged for giving change of any required coin either
in full or less a certain amount which it may be desired to deduct from the value
of the coins changed; this last named result being obtained by reducing the space
left between the ring C and the slide D; if this space be sufficient to contain the
whole change the full amount will be given but if the space be not enough for this
a short amount of change will be given.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is,―
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1. In apparatus such as described the combination with a shoot such as A and
perforated slide such as D d of a lever such as Jhaving a cam surface J
a bracket or projection H sockets such as B G g and a compressible ring such as C
substantially as described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
2. In apparatus such as described the combination with a slide such as D d¹ d³
lever such as JJ sockets such as B G 9 compressible ring such as C bracket
or projection H of a spring controlled detent such as Krecess such as e for
receiving it and coin shoot L into which the part of the detent K projects
substantially as described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
3. In apparatus such as described the combination with a coin shoot of a bell or
gong projecting into it a removable receptacle such as M for collecting the coins
one above another and spring fingers such as m' for supporting the receptacle M
substantially as described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
4. In apparatus such as described the employment of a cylindrical receptacle for
the purpose of the automatic arrangement of the coins in "rouleaux " substantially
as described.
5. The combination and arrangement of parts constituting the complete change-
giving and registering apparatus substantially as described and illustrated in the
accompanying drawings.
Dated this 13th day of July 1892