Improved Money Changing or Check Giving Apparatus, Applicable as a Till or Change Rack.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 4th Aug., 1888
Specification Accepted, 12th Oct., 1888
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Money Changing or Check Giving Apparatus, Applicable
as a Till or Change Rack.
We, SARAH ANN BRITTAN and CHARLES FOREMAN of 21 Hermes Street, London, N.
Electrical Engineers, 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:—
The present invention relates to an improved ticket or money changing apparatus,
and its object is to provide an apparatus which will deliver change for money or checks
in money or checks, the apparatus being locked so that the stock of money or checks
from which change is delivered is not accessible to the attendant, and as the
mechanism of the apparatus must be actuated first by introducing the coin or check
to be changed, which cannot afterwards be withdrawn, the apparatus serves as a rack
and till combined.
In the accompanying drawings:-
Fig. 1 represents a front elevation of the apparatus.
Fig. 2 represents a plan of the drum containing the mechanism the top plate being
removed.
Fig. 3 represents a side elevation of one of the mechanisms in its locked position.
Fig. 4 represents the same in its unlocked position before the depression of the key
lever.
Fig. 5 is a detail of the slide.
Fig. 6 represents a vertical section of the no change delivering common till device in
its locked position.
Fig. 7 represents the same in its opened position.
The case consists of a preferably square lower casing A containing drawers B B¹
as hereinafter described, between which is arranged the opening B2 through which is
delivered the change.
This casing A is surmounted by a preferably cylindrical drum of brass or
equivalent, which in front is formed with vertical slots preferably four in number, in
which work the levers which actuate the corresponding money or check delivering
mechanisms by being depressed after the said mechanism is unlocked by the intro-
duction of the coin to be changed. The said levers are at their outer ends provided
with small ivory or other tablets or keys on which is marked the value of the change
the apparatus will deliver, when the respective lever is depressed. The coins or checks
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page_text: from which change is to be delivered are stored or stacked in vertical tubes D¹
arranged above the said drum Cand covered with a suitable casing D locked or
fastened to the apparatus. On the casing A inside the drum C is fastened a suitable
framework E in which are fastened or mounted the different parts of the mechanism.
On a cross piece of the framework are fastened four tubes D for the reception of the
coins to be given in exchange i.e. one for 6d., one for 1s., one for 1s. 6d. in which
18. pieces and 6d. pieces are placed alternately and one for either 28. pieces or two 18.
pieces. The tubes D₁ are immediately above the frame on which they rest, formed
with slots through which reach the slides F. These slides are formed with a circular
opening for the reception of the lowest coin or coins of the stack and this opening is
exactly underneath the money column when the mechanism is in a normal position.
Referring to figures 3 and 4 which represent one of the four mechanisms arranged
under the tubes DG is a lever pivotted in the framework E and provided with a
counterweight H and a receiving scale or scoop I. This lever locks the slido F by
engaging with its end in a hole formed in the said slide and in this manner the slide
cannot be operated by the key lever K pivotted to the frame ink and engaging with
its end in a hole formed in the slide until the lever G unlocks the slide by being
depressed. This unlocking is done by the introduction of the coin to be changed
through one of the slots L formed in the covering of the drum C. This coin falls
into the receiving scale or scoop I and by its weight depresses the lever G which
unlocks the slide F by disengaging its end from the hole in the slide. The key
lever K may now be depressed by depressing its key K' and the other end
engaging in a hole of the slide F will move this forward. The slide being exactly of
the thickness of the coin or coins to be delivered will take the lowest coin or coins with
it and drop it into a shoot O extending under all the four mechanisms and ending
in the front of the casing A between the drawers B B¹.
When the coin is introduced it will not immediately roll off the receiving scale or
scoop after depressing the lever G but will be held on the scale or scoop by the
sheath N arranged under the money slot L and adjusted to the size of the coin. The
coin will thus be held until the key lever is depressed and lowers a bent arm M
fastened to it in which the lover G rested. The coin now further depresses the lever G
and rolls off the scoop through an opening formed in the casing A into the respective
partition of the money drawers underneath shown in plan underneath the figure 1.
The key lever in its depressed position is indicated in dotted lines in fig. 4 and being
under the influence of the spring P will at once return into the position shown in
figure 3, the arm M giving the weighted lever G an impetus to return also into the
position shown in fig. 3 relocking the slide and ready for the introduction of another
coin. The spring P is preferably a double one as represented so that when one might
break through an accident the other will still act.
It will thus be seen that the key lover cannot be depressed for the delivery of change
until the lever G unlocks the slide by the introduction of the proper coin and that the
slide will remain unlocked until the key lever is depressed by mechanical means. When
the key lever springs back under the influence of the spring P the slide F is drawn
back until its opening stands again underneath the money column and the lowest coin
or coins will enter the opening ready to be moved by the slide and to be delivered.
Every time one of the key levers is depressed its further end which operates the
slide will engage with a latch T pivotted on a spindle Q under the influence of a
spring S and provided with an arm U and ball V. The laich T will be lifted and the
spindle with the arm U turned by the end the key levor until it passes underneath the
latch when the spindle will spring back and the ball V strike the bell W. The latch T
being movable in the other direction the end of the key lever can pass it without
moving the spindle Q which is journalled in the frame E when the key lover returns
into its normal position. This spindle extends across the four mechanisms and so one
bell does the duty for all the four mechanisms there being a latch T for each key
lever.
For the purpose of introducing a coin into the till without change being required a
device is introduced in the drum in front of the upper casing D as represented in

page_text: figs. 6 and 7, fig. 6 representing the device in the normal position and fig. 7 when the
lever Y is moved back after the introduction of the coin. This device consists
essentially of a sheath or flat tube i behind which is pivotted a lover Y in /, this lever
is provided with two slides a and d; the lower one d of which is formed with a longi-
tudinal slot corresponding with the section of the sheath i, these slides enter the
sheath through suitable slots formed therein. In the normal position of the device
the slot of the slide d does not register with the sheath so that the last coin introduced
rests thereon and is seen through a circular glass plate inserted in the sheath i and
visible through an opening in the front of the drum C, and the upper slido a also
closes the sheath i. When it is desired to introduce a coin this is placed in the slot
formed in the top of the drum C above the sheath i and will rest on the upper plate a.
The lever is now moved back thus withdrawing the slide and pushing the slide d
forward. The slot of the latter will now register with the sheath and the coin resting
thereon will fall through the slot and roll down a shoot m Fig. 1 into a separate
partition of one of the drawers as represented in the drawer B' underneath fig. 1.
The coin introduced in the money slot of the drum C and previously resting on the
slide a is now free to enter the sheath i but is prevented from falling to the bottom by
the spring e filling the tube and will rest on this spring. When the lever Y is moved
forward again a pin & fastened thereto and reaching through a hole in the sheath i will
compress the spring c so that the coin can now fall down and rest on the slide d
which is drawn back by the forward movement of the lever Y while the slide a is
moved forward and again closes the sheath. The lever Y is further provided with
an arm e actuated by a spring and provided with an adjustable screw which strikes a
bell Z.
This apparatus has further the advantage that the business can be worked with less
ready money than with the ordinary change rack as for instance only one sixpence is
required for each shilling to be changed, whereas in the change rack two sixpences
must be placed for each shilling to be changed, and in proportion the same with the
other coins.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is:-
1. In a machine such as described the combination of a tube for containing a
stack of coins closed at the bottom with a perforated slide working in a slot formed
in the said tube and thick enough to contain the number of coins required to be
delivered in exchange for the coin inserted substantially as and for the purpose
specified.
2. In a machine such as described the combination of a stacking tube, perforated
slide for discharging coins receiving scoop, lever to unlock the said slide and key lever
to operate the said slide substantially as and for the purpose specified.
3. In a machine such as described the combination of a stacking tube, perforated
slide for discharging coins receiving scoop, lever to unlock the said slide, key lever to
operate the said slide and a shoot for the delivery of the coins substantially as and for
the purpose specified.
4. In a till for receiving money the combination of a receiving chamber with a lever
actuating a spring and two slides so that each motion of the lever opens a passage for
the reception of one coin and for the escape of another substantially as specified for
the purpose described.
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