Improved Apparatus for Facilitating the Handling of Money.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 12th Dec., 1890-Accepted, 5th Sept., 1891
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Apparatus for Facilitating the Handling of Money.
I, ARTHUR KIESEL of 30 Moritz-strasse Wiesbaden in the Empire of Germany
Student of Divinity do hereby declare the nature of my said invention and in what
manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement :-
The board or counter hereinafter described has for its object to enable the various
coins placed thereon say in payment for articles of purchase &c. to be collected by
a simple pressure of the hand that is to say by merely raising a bottomless goblet
or funnel thus dispensing with the inconvenience and loss of time involved in
picking up the coins separately and which is necessitated in all counters as
heretofore constructed.
This invention illustrated in Figs. 1, 2, 3 and 4 consists essentially 1st of a
board P provided with bars or ledges 1, 1, 1, 1, as well as with the projection f and
side wings band 63 and pivoting upon the axis a. This board is shown in plan in
Fig. 3. 2nd of a stopping device consisting of two bell crank levers w¹ and w
pivoting upon the axes c¹, and provided at their shorter extremities with the
rectangular notches o¹, o², these levers preventing the board p being moved out of
its normal position by pressure applied upon its surface. 3rd of the two collecting
funnels or bottomless goblets and pivoting upon the axes and and firmly
connected together by the bar v; the funnel is shewn in section in Fig. 1. 4th of
the two side plates and d which carry the axes a, c¹ and c³, 21 and 22. To receive
the first three axes each side plate is furnished with a corresponding circular hole
while two vertical slots and serve for the axes and and are so arranged in
order that by raising the collecting funnel (Fig. 2) the axis remains in its
normal position while the axis slides up in the slot h¹ whilst on the contrary when
the funnel is raised the axis remains motionless while the axis slides up
in the slot h². Each of the two side plates further carries a tray m² m² resting upon
the upper and flat part 9 of the pillar g and are fixed thereto by screws or in any
other suitable manner. The axes and of the connecting baru pass through
the rectangular notches o', o' of the crank levers w² and already referred to.
When one of the two collecting funnels is raised; the funnels (Fig. 2) for
instance, the latter moves in consequence thereof upon its axis 2 while the axis 2¹
slides upwards in its slot ' and moves the crank lever w¹ in such a manner that its
upper arm slides below the projection 6' and presses against the projection f. The
consequence is that the plate p is inclined towards the collecting funnel s' which is
in a raised position and the coins lying thereon fall into the funnel 8' and into the
hand of the person who raised it. When the pressure applied from below against
the funnel s¹ ceases the latter turns by gravity to its former position the axis =¹
moves the crank lever w¹, in such a manner that its upper arm first presses against
the projection and then when the plate p has turned to its former position the
lever w¹ rests below 61 and the plate is locked in position.
In order that the plate p may return easily and rapidly to its resting position the
weight of the projection f is so arranged that the centre of gravity is disposed below
the axis a..
To prevent the axes c'e' and ', ' sliding out of their bearings when the apparatus
s in use they are partly thicker (Figs. 44 & 4B) than the holes in the side plates
these thickened parts are omitted in Figs. 1 & 4 for the sake of clearness.
In lieu of the connecting bare each funnel may be provided with a special arm
or extension. In the modified apparatus shewn in Fig. the collecting funnel,¹
has an arm and a pivot ! and the funnel has an arm and pivot In this
pparatus the pins t¹ and fixed to the arms v³ ³ (or more exactly ¹³) serve to

page_text: move the two bell crank levers as the axes 21 & 2 cannot be used for this purpose.
The openings h and 2 of the side plates are in this case dispensed with.
For the rest the modified apparatus is substantially the same as the preceding
one. The apparatus can be surrounded by a casing as shewn in Figs. 6 & 7
consisting of eight side wings or walls which are fixed to two plates u¹ u forming
the bottom of the casing. This roof like formed bottom has an opening u³ through
which enter the upper arms of the two crank levers 2002 and the projection f and
it is fixed to four flat projections (two of which d³ and are only seen in the
drawing) on the side plates d' d. The side plates receive thereby an altered form
as between i and y a small strip of a width corresponding to the thickness of the
bottom plate being cut off. The side walls u & u have an opening & below
through which the coins slide in order to fall in the funnel when the apparatus is
being used.
Having thus particularly described and ascertained the nature of this my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
:-
1st. A counter or board characterized by a plate or table p furnished with bars
or ledges pivoting upon an axis a and provided with a projection f. This plate or
table being inclined when one of the two collecting funnels &¹³ is raised and
delivering the coins into the hand that raised the said funnel in consequence of the
lever (or levers & ) of the said funnel actuating the respective bell crank
levers to or w² which leave when a funnel is raised the supporting points 1 or 2 of
the plate or table p and trip the latter by striking against the projection while
when the raised funnel is released the bell crank levers w¹ or w² bear again against
the supporting points 6 or 62 of the plate or table p and so hold the latter in its
normal position substantially as and for the purpose hereinbefore described and
illustrated on the accompanying drawing.
2nd. The improved apparatus for handling money arranged constructed and
operating substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated on the accom-
panying drawing.
Dated this 11th day of December 1890.
JOHN G. WILSON,
Agent for the Applicant.