Improvements in and relating to Machinery for Receiving, Sort- ing, and Indicating Coins, and for delivering Goods or Change in Coins therefor.
Year: 1893

page_text: Reprinted as amended in accordance with the decision of the Comptroller
General, dated the 19th day of September 1899.
Date of Application, 21st July, 1893
Complete Specification Left, 23rd Apr., 1894-Accepted, 21st Aug.,
1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and relating to Machinery for Receiving, Sort-
ing, and Indicating Coins, and for delivering Goods or
Change in Coins therefor.
I, EDWARD MORIARTY, of 180, North End Road, Fulham, in the County of
Middlesex, Beer Retailer, do hereby declare the nature of my invention to be as
follows:-
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This invention relates to machinery for dealing with coined money and for deliver-
ing goods, usually, but not necessarily also in the shape of coined money, to an equal
value but in a different denomination or denominations, in return for the coins
received, also for sorting and storing the coins received, indicating by means of raised
tablets the value of any such coin received or registered, locking the change deliver-
ing mechanism in certain events, and also more especially in so arranging the
delivering mechanism which delivers goods to value, or change in return for
specially inserted coin or coins that not only will it automatically deliver goods or
change appropriate to the value of any one coin, but if two or more of such coins are
inserted it will give articles or change appropriate to the combined value of said
coins, for instance a penny or a penny article in return for two halfpennies, or two
farthings or a halfpenny article in return for one halfpenny only, there being no
essential difference in the mechanism whether goods or coins are delivered in return
for the coins received.
The selecting or sorting till is made with or of a chamber to receive the coins
falling therein and adapted to hold such coins upon their edge. This chamber in
itself has no floor but below it is a floor in the form of a grid of which the bars lie
athwart the general length of the chamber and are at such distances apart as to
allow all coins but the largest which the till is intended to receive to fall through.
Below this said grid is another of which the bars coincide with the grid above but are
of greater thickness so that the intervals between them are of less width. Certain of
the coins which would pass through the upper grid cannot pass through the lower
one. There may be other grids below of increasing thickness of bar, but in ordinary
ircumstances the two grids will be sufficient. I prefer to make the lower grid
movable and place under it a plate or guard so that coins falling through this grid are
deflected to one side of the plate but when the grid is moved away the coins which
were upheld by the grid will fall to the other side of the said plate and so pass to.a

page_text: different destination. The upper grid prefer to remain fixed while the chamber
above the grid is made to move or rock so that when the latter is moved it passes from
over the grid and the largest coins are carried to another destination.
In applying this principle to a cash receipts till, there may be a separate compart-
ment for the copper coins and a separate compartment for the silver coins. That for
the copper coins is made so that the pennies are retained by the first grid, the half-
pennies by the second grid, and the farthings or any silver smaller than the half-
penny or gold coins fall through both grids. When the coins are thrown into the
chamber the pennies and half pennies alone remain there, and upon removing the
lower grid the half pennies are released and fall into a separate chute, the pennies
remaining to be dropped into another chute when the chamber itself is rocked. This
device is of convenience when this till is combined with a changę giving apparatus
since the chutes in which the pennies and half pennies are stored are apt to become
soon depleted unless their contents are reinforced from the cash takings. In applying
the principle to the compartment for the silver, the only coins necessary to carry to
the change chutes will usually be the sixpenny pieces; the lower grid allows three-
penny pieces to fall through but retains the sixpenny pieces, the upper grid retains
all coins above the size of the sixpenny piece; the movement of the lower grid throws
down the sixpenny pieces to their chute, the subsequent movement of the chamber
itself releases the larger coius direct to the cash drawer.
If desired a similar arrange-
ment could be fitted to the gold receiving compartment.
I prefer to arrange above the receiving chamber of this till a movable roof plate
above which is a second chamber with glass front, the cash takings remain in view in
the upper chamber until the next operation of the machine when they fall and
undergo separation as previously described.
A further improvement relates to the rods carrying the indicating tablets usually
fitted to indicate the amount of the registered purchase, and to the means for
supporting these rods. All the rods are beut at a suitable place to provide a nose
adapted to press upward and arrive above a cross bar pivoted in such a way as to press
against all the rods. This bar may be faced with rubber or other frictional surface
and the weight of the raised rod tends to hold the bar in surface engagement. When
any rod is raised the cross bar is momentarily displaced by the nose on the rod and
any other bar upheld thereby falls, while the rod raised is itself upheld by the
immediate return of the cross bar.
To lock the change giving mechanism, such as described in the completo
Specification of Patent No. 18,981 of 1892 so that when a coin is inserted it will be
impossible to operate the machine till that coin has reached its proper position I
provide just above the coin slot, a guard piece which must be pressed back before
the coin can enter the slot. This guard piece is integral with a lever which is thus
moved forward and carries a tongue into the path of a hook on the chauge operating
frame, while the lever itself is locked by a pawl arriving within a catch. If the coin
has arrived at its proper place the tongue operated by that coin will rock the hook
on the frame out of the path of the tongue on the lever so that the frame can then
move upward and cause change to be delivered. During this upward movement
of the frame the pawl on the lever is released by an arm on the frame and the guard
piece returns to its first position under influence of a spring.
To reverse or amplify the method of giving change, which is also applicable like
the preceding method of change giving to the delivery of goods of the value of the
coin inserted without any special alteration of principle or construction otherwise
than changes of size and shape necessitated by the class of goods delivered, that is
to say to deliver a single coin or article of a higher value for two or more coins of a
lower denomination, for instance a penny or penny article for two half pennies; I
make the receiving till as for the giving of change but continue the length of the
position or positions to contain the coin of the lower value and so arrange that one
or more of such coins must be first put in the till to fill up the unoccupied pro-
Jongation of the position before the coin which will stay at the operative part of the

page_text: position to obtain a coin or article in change of a higher value. The last coin is
supported in its operative position by the idle coins preceding it so that the coin or
article of higher value can only be had after the required number of coins of the
lower value is put in.
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By an appropriate construction or combination of knock out mechanism, the first
of such coins of lower denomination if inserted alone and no other be put in will
operate to deliver goods or change equivalent to its own value whereas if the insertion
of the coin be followed by another or others before the delivery of the article the
connection will deliver an article or coin as change equivalent to the combined value
of the coins inserted, the same for instance as would be produced by the insertion
of a single coin of the higher denomination though in the case of change giving the
latter will effect the delivery of an equivalent value in coins of lower denomination
or denominations.
R. HADDAN,
Agent to Applicant.
Improvements in and relating to Machinery for Receiving, Sort-
ing, and Indicating Coins, and for delivering Goods or
Change in Coins therefor.
I, EDWARD MORIARTY, of 180, North End Road, Fulham, in the County of
Middlesex, Beer Retailer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and
in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement:-
This invention relates to machinery for dealing with coined money and for delivering
goods, usually, but not necessarily, also in the shape of coined money, to an equal
value but in a different denomination or denominations, in return for the coins received;
also for sorting and storing the coins received, indicating by means of raised tablets
the value of any such coin received or registered; locking the change delivery
mechanism in certain events; and also more especially in so arranging the delivering
mechanism which delivers goods to value or change" in return for specially inserted
coin or coins that not only will it automatically deliver goods or change appropriate
to the value of any one coin, but if two or more of such coins are inserted it will give
articles or change appropriate to the combined value of said coins, for instance a
penny or a penny article in return for two half-pennies, or two farthings or a half-
penny article in return for one halfpenny only, there being no essential difference
in the mechanism whether goods or coins are delivered in return for the coins
received.
This invention is illustrated in the annexed drawing in which Figs. 1 to 3 show in
perspective view the selecting or sorting till. Fig. 4 the tablet holder. Figs. 5 and 6
the locking device. Figs. 7 to 9 the aforesaid goods or coin delivery mechanism for
separate or combined values.
The selecting or sorting till (Figs. 1, 2 and 3) is made with or of a chamber A to
receive the coins falling therein and adapted to hold such coins upon their edge. This
chamber in itself has no floor, but below it is a floor in the shape of a grid B of which
the bars lie athwart the general length of the chamber and are at such distances
apart as to allow all coins but the largest which the till is intended to receive to fall
through. Below this said grid B is another C, of which the bars coincide with the
grid above but are of greater thickness so that the intervals between them are of less
width, Certain of the coins which would pass through the upper grid B cannot pass

page_text: through the lower one C. There may be other grids below of increasing thickness of
bar, but in ordinary circumstances the two grids will be sufficient.
I prefer to make the lower grid C movable and place under it a plate or guard CI
so that coins falling through this grid are deflected to one side of the plate as
in Fig. 1 to the left, but when the grid C is moved away as in Fig. 2 the coins which
were upheld by the grid C will fall to the other side for instance the right (Fig. 2)
of the said plate Ci and so pass to a different destination for instance through
chute D. The upper grid B I prefer to remain fixed, while the chamber A above the
grid is made to move or rock so that when the latter is moved outward as in Fig. 3 it
passes from over the grid B and the largest coins are carried to another destination
for instance through the chute E.
In applying this principle to cash receipt tills, there may be a separate compart-
ment A for the copper coins and a separate compartment A2 for the silver coins.
That for the copper coins is made so that the pennies are retained by the first
grid B, the halfpennies by the second grid C and the farthings or any silver or gold
coins that may accidentally be put in smaller than the halfpenny, fall through both
grids. When the coins are thrown into the chamber the pennies and half-pennies
alone remain there, and upon removing the lower grid C, the half-pennies are released
and fall into the chute D, the pennies remaining to be dropped into the other
This device is of conve-
chute E when the chamber itself is rocked as in Fig. 3.
nience when this till is combined with a change giving apparatus as has been
heretofore illustrated and described in reference to my Patent No. 18,981 of
1892 which covers the change giving apparatus referred to above (and to which
the locking device, Figs. 5 and 6 is applicable) since the chutes in which the pennies
and half-pennies are stored are apt to become soon depleted unless their contents are
reinforced from the cash takings. In applying the principle to the compartment for
the silver, the only coins necessary to carry to the change chutes will usually be the
sirpenny pieces; the lower grid C here allows threepenny pieces to fall through but
retains the sixpenny pieces, the upper grid B retains all coins above the size of the
sixpenny piece; the movement of the lower grid C throws down the sixpenny pieces
to their chute, the subsequent movement of the chamber A itself releases the
larger coins direct to the cash drawer. If desired a similar arrangement could be
fitted to a gold receiving compartment.
I prefer to arrange above the receiving chamber A of this till a movable roof
plate F above which is a second chamber G with glass front; the cash takings will
not then pass directly into the chamber A, but will remain in view in the upper
chamber until the next operation of the machine when they fall and undergo
separation as previously described.
To operate these parts two rods H J, are connected to move together in conjune-
The
tion with the levers of the machine or with any other hand, operated part.
rod H passes through a hole in the end of the lever arm C2 on the hinged plate C¹
which carries the grid C. At the end of the rod H is a head H¹ and under the
The floor F is carried by a post FI
arm C2 is a spring H2 for instance on the rod H.
pivoted at F2 and having an arm F3 whose end engages in a slot J in the rod J. At the
end of the rod J is a pivoted pawl J2 which is held thrust against a stop pin J3 by
a spring J4. On the end of the chamber A which is suitably pivoted at or near its
upper edge is a pin A³.
When this system is in its lowest position, the head H' holds down the arm (2
(Fig. 2) and the grid C is thus moved back. As the system rises, the head H¹
permits the spring H2 to lift the arm (2 and the grid C is released (Fig. 1). As the
system further rises the outer inclined face of the pawl J2 meets the pin A3 and
throws out the chamber A (Fig. 3) thus releasing any coins left therein from the
previous operation of the machine. As the system approaches its highest position
the pin A3 falls back under the lower end of the pawl J and the chamber A falls
back again whereupon the arm F³ meets the lower extremity of the slot J¹ and the
floor is slid back thereby. !

page_text: Any coins now in the chamber G fall into the chamber A and such as can pass the
grid fall out at once.
When the system moves down again, the floor F is pressed back into its place by a
spring (not shown) the pawl J2 gives for its passage over the pin A, and eventually
the head H draws down the arm C2 and the grid is removed, so that the middle sized
coins fall through the grid B into the chute D (Fig. 2). In this position the system
rests until the machine is again operated so that it is obvious that the larger coins
remain in the chamber A until the next operation of the machine.
A further improvement-relates to The rods K (Figure 4) carrying the indicating
tablets usually fitted to indicate the amount of the registered purchase, and-to-the
means for supporting these rods: All the rods-K (Fig. 1) are bent at a suitable place
to provide a nose K' adapted to press upward and arrive above a cross bar L pivoted
in such a way as to press against all the rods. This bar L may be faced with rubber
or other frictional surface L' and the weight of the raised rod tends to hold the bar
in surface engagement. When any rod K is raised, the cross bar is momentarily
displaced by the nose K in the rod and any other bar upheld thereby falls, while the
rod raised is itself upheld by the immediate return of the cross bar under the nose of
the rod then raised.
To lock the change giving mechanism, such as described in the Complete Specifica-
tion of Patent No. 18981 of 1892 so that when a coin is inserted it will be impossible
to operate the machine' till that coin has passed into the coin slot entirely out of
reach to prevent its withdrawal, I provide just above the coin slot M of the change
giving till a guard piece M³ (Figs. 5 and 6) which must be pressed back before the
coin can enter the slot to pass into the till. This guard piece is integral with a
lever M3 pivoted to the back of the till and having its lower end M³ extending in
such a position that when the guard piece M¹ is pressed back from over the coin slot,
the end M³ arrives above a hook M* fixed on the frame which is lifted by the
depression of any one of the keys. By this action the lifting of said frame is
temporarily arrested owing to the engagement of the hook M with the end M³ of the
lever so that the frame cannot be moved until pressure on the guard M³ ceases
and the spring M³ has returned the guard and lever M² to their original position thus
freeing hook M. It is found in practice that this return of the parts to their position
which can only occur after the coin is fully in the slot is sufficient in the time it
occupies to allow the coin to pass onward to the position at which it is intended to
rest before the frame can be lifted by depression of the key high enough to cause
the coin to be arrested before it arrives at its place, by which change for a higher
denomination than the coin represents might at times be obtained.
To reverse or amplify the method of giving change, (or in other words the method
by which any articles whether goods or coins are delivered on or by the placing in
the machine of the coin of the same aggregate value as the goods or coin's
delivered) so that instead of giving two or more coins or articles of a lower value for
one coin of a higher value, the machine will deliver one article or coin of a higher
value for two or more coins of a lower value, I make the till into which the coins are
to be placed in the same manner as described in the Specification of Patent No. 18981
of 1892 that is to say of a chamber of convenient length along which coins will roll
on their edge after insertion in the coin slot, the roof of said chamber being gradually
and successively lowered towards the lower end of the chamber so that any coin
dropped therein will be arrested at a prearranged position in said chamber according
to its diameter, those of largest diameter being arrested nearest the entrance, and
others in successive places towards the lower end of the chamber in proportion as
their diameters are less, the coins of the smallest diameter only passing to the end of
the chamber. In said chamber the part of the chamber which would be occupied by
a coin of any given diameter and which would not be occupied by any part of a coin
of the next larger or smaller diameter was not less than nor much greater than the
length of the diameter of that coin; in the present modification however."the
depressions in the roof of the chamber of which one is indicated by N³ in Fig. 7 and
J
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page_text: the next by N+ are placed so far apart that that part of the length of the chamber
lying between these points may serve to contain at least two coins of the diameter
intended to stop in that position, namely of the diameter which will pass below N
but not below N.
Now if the said coin be a halfpenny, a halfpenny if dropped in, will roll to the
position marked N in Fig. 7 and may there serve to operate a tongue and hook X as
described in the specification of my aforesaid patent and deliver a coin or article or
coins of the value of a halfpenny, or instead of this it may simply lie idle in position N
in order simply to support a second halfpenny in the position N", the latter being
then caused to operate the tongue and hook. In this instance the article would only
be delivered after two coins had been put in. By thus lengthening the distance
between points N³ and N and placing the tongue in an appropriate place along the
length of the chamber, the chamber may be made to receive any desired number of
coins before it is filled sufficiently to bring a coin to that position necessary to operate
the tongue and hook.
In the example illustrated, a coin at N' will operate tongue and hook X and
engage rod 0, unless there is also a coin at N" which latter will operate not only
to engage hook X with rod 02 but also to throw back rod by means of pin O¹
so that though hook X is also rocked, the rod O is not engaged thereby.
A larger coin such as a penny stopping at N will also operate the rod through
the hook X2, so that it is immaterial whether two halfpennies or one penny is used
to operate rod 02. Nevertheless if desired hooks X and X2 may operate different
rods 02 03 as shown in Fig. 9.
The rods 0 02 03 operate respective knock out mechanism for instance such as is
shown in the specification of my aforesaid patent to deliver the articles or coins
appropriate to the value of the respective coin or coins inserted to operate them,
these knock outs forming no part of the present invention.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is:-
1. A selecting or sorting till having a movable chamber divided or otherwise, and
adapted to receive coins and direct them into a shute or shutes in combination with a
series of grids of successively decreasing distance between the bars thereof forming a
floor or floors to said chamber substantially as described.
2. A selecting or sorting till having a chamber adapted to lie above a grid and to
be rocked from over said grid, in combination with one or more removable grids below
the aforesaid grid.
3. A selecting till having a rocking coin receiving chamber, a removable roof floor
thereto, a reeking second chamber below above said floor roof, a fixed grid below said
rocking chamber and one or more removable grids below said fixed grid for the purpose
set forth.
4. The combination of a series of tablet-rods having noses thereon, of a freely
pivoted--eam-ber-or-frame adapted to be moved-by-upward movement of-any-said
nose-and-to-return under and uphold said raised nose for the purpose-set forth.
4. The combination with a coin receiving till of the nature described of a
tongue covering the entrance slot thereto, a lever in connection with said tongue and
a hook upon the delivery frame as described, with a pawl and releasing device, adapted
to lock said frame until the coin has reached a desired position.
5. 6. A coin receiving till having successively narrowed positions for arresting
coins of different diameters at different places along its track, one or more of said
positions being elongated to receive two or more coins of the same diameter, whereby
one or more of said coins may serve to hold the last of the desired number of coins in
an operative position.
6. The combination with the said coin receiving till having elongated position
or positions, of an operative gear adapted to be set in action by the first cam or cams

page_text: in said position and an operative gear adapted to be set in action by existence of more
coins in the said position than would be needed to operate the first gear, the latter
gear being adapted furthermore when in action to set the first gear out of action for
purposes as set forth.
R. HADDAN,
Of the firm of Herbert Haddan & Co.,
18, Buckingham Street, Strand, London, W.C.,
Agent to Applicant.
R. HADDAN,
Of the firm of Herbert Haddan & Co.,
18, Buckingham Street, Strand, London, W.C.,
Agent to Applicant.