IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR COLLECTING AND RE- CORDING MONEY OR TICKETS AND OTHER SIMILAR PURPOSES."
Year: 1876

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Griffin, of Leeds, in the County of York, for
the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR COLLECTING AND RE-
CORDING MONEY OR TICKETS AND OTHER SIMILAR PURPOSES."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Griffin at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 18th March 1876.
WILLIAM GRIFFIN, of Leeds, in the County of York. "IMPROVEMENTS IN
APPARATUS FOR COLLECTING AND RECORDING MONEY OR TICKETS AND OTHER
SIMILAR PURPOSES."
The object of this Invention is to prevent fraud on the part of persons employed
as receivers of money, tickets, checks, and articles of a similar nature, of which a
correct record is desirable.
For purposes in which a great variation in the amount of receipts is likely to
exist, a box is provided with divisions corresponding to the different coins in circu-
lation. Each compartment of the box contains an indicator movement, which is
operated by the attendant pushing a coin through a slit provided for the purpose;
the same movement which works the indicator also causes a bell to be struck, the
bells in each division sounding different notes.
The person in charge is provided with a certain amount of money for the purpose
of giving change; this amount never varies in value, as the receipts are to be placed
in the receptacle above described, and are then out of reach of any but the person
having the key of the same.
For receipts varying little in amount a box of different construction is used as,
supposing it is for the receipt of the prices of admission to a public place or
entertainment of which there are only three varieties, then only three divisions are
required, the amount being deposited so as to be visible to both payer and receiver,
the latter of whom by means of a trap-door or valve actuated by a lever or handle
allows the money to fall into a safe receptacle, and by the same movement operates
the indicator.
Tickets or notes may be pushed or placed within an aperture, the opening to
which is provided with a spring lid, similar to an ordinary letter box, so arranged
that the opening of the lid shall actuate the recorder and sound the bell.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said William Griffin in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 18th September
1870.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN
WILLIAM GRIFFIN, of Leeds, in the County of York.
APPARATUS FOR COLLECTING AND RECORDING MONEY OR TICKETS AND OTHER
SIMILAR PURPOSES."
The object of this Invention is to prevent fraud on the part of persons employed
as receivers of money, tickets, checks, and articles of a similar nature, of which a
correct record is desirable.
For purposes in which a great variation in the amount of receipts is likely to
exist a box is provided with divisions corresponding to the different coins in circu-
lation. Each compartment of the box contains an indicator movement, which is
operated by the attendant pushing a coin through a slit provided for the purpose;
the same movement which works the indicator also causes a bell to be struck, the
bells in each division sounding different notes.
The person in charge is provided with a certain amount of money for the purpose
of giving change; this amount never varies in value, as the receipts are to be
placed in the receptacle above described, and are then out of reach of any but the
person having the key of the same.
For receipts varying little in amount a box of different construction is used as,
supposing it is the receipt of the prices of admission to a public place or entertain-
ment of which there are only three varieties, then only three divisions are required,
the amount being deposited so as to be visible to both payer and receiver, the
latter of whom by means of a trap-door or valve actuated by a lever or handle
allows the money to fall into a safe receptacle, and by the same movement operates
the indicator.
Tickets or notes may be pushed or placed within an aperture, the opening to
which is provided with a spring lid, similar to an ordinary letter box, so arranged
that the opening of the lid shall actuate the recorder and sound the bell.
In order that my Invention may be more fully understood I herein give reference
to the accompanying Sheets of Drawings illustrative thereof.
Figs. 1, 2, and 3 illustrate a till constructed for receipts which vary in amount,
and is adapted to receive most of the coins in circulation. It consists primarily of
a box divided into separate compartments, through a slit A. in each of which the
coin passes or is pushed by the attendant. Each compartment of the box contains
an indicator movement or mechanism. Fig. 2 represents an elevation of one of
these movements, and Fig. 3 a plan view of two. As they are identical in con-
struction a description of one will suffice. Mounted loosely on an axis B are a
ratchet wheel C, a pog wheel D (upon the periphery of which are Figures from 0 to 9),
two toothed wheels E, and two plain wheels or discs F figured upon the periphery
the same as the wheel D. The ratchet wheel C and peg wheel D are fast together,
and the two figured wheels are each fast to the pinion next to them upon the axis.
The axis B also carries two wheels G, each having one tooth, one of these wheels
being fast to the wheel D and the other to the wheel F. Upon another stud H are
two star wheels J and two toothed wheels K fast together in pairs. The toothed
wheels K. gear with the toothed wheels E. Underneath the orifice or slit A is a
valve or plate a hinged at b. This valve is connected to a jointed lever c, one arm
of which is mounted loosely on the axis B, and is extended to the other side of
the axis terminating in a hammer d. The lever arm c carries a catch, which is
kept in gear with the ratchet wheel C by a spring c.
The action is as follows:-When a coin is pushed through the orifice A it
depresses the valve a and with it the jointed lever c causing the catch to turn the
ractchet wheel C round one tooth. This motion is imparted to the units figure
wheel D which is turned round one figure. At the same time the hammer d
strikes the bell L. When this operation has been repeated ten times the one
toothed wheel G gears with the star wheel J, turning it round a tenth part of a

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revolution. This movement is communicated by the pinions K and E to the
tens" dial plate, which is moved round one figure, and by similar means motion
is communicated to the "hundredths" plate and may be extended indefinitely, so as
to indicate any required number.
To the valve a is attached a finger f, which, when the valve is pushed down
enters the space betwixt the pegs in the wheel D and prevents it turning round
more than the required distance. The ratchet wheel C is prevented from turning
in the wrong direction by the spring catch M. The coiled spring y is attached to
the hammer d, and serves to render the stroke more forcible. The dishes N in the
tray are for the purpose of containing change, a certain quantity of which is
placed therein at the commencement, and this amount will never vary, as, if a
purchaser tenders a shilling for a sixpenny purchase the attendant places the shilling
in the tray and takes (say) two sixpences therefrom, one of which he gives to the
purchaser and the other he places in the till. It will be thus seen that the amount
in the tray is unaltered, but in course of time it will be comprised of the larger
kinds of coin.
A modification of the foregoing apparatus adapted for receiving amounts which
do not require separation is shewn in Fig. 4. The principal parts are lettered in
accordance with the foregoing description. It consists of a single receptacle P and
indicator movement R. The receipts pass through a slit S in a glass cover, and
fall upon a table T, where they are open to inspection. The attendant then raises
the hook which, by the connection of jointed levers s, lowers the table T and
allows the receipts to fall into the receptacle, at the same time working the indicator
and striking the bell.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Griffin, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Fifteenth day of September, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and seventy-six.
Witness,
J. W. TASKER,
Patent Agent,
Halifax.
WILLIAM GRIFFIN. (L.S.)