An Improved Receptacle for Coins and the like with Registering Dial, and with or without Ejecting Mechanism.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 5th Aug., 1893-Accepted, 7th Apr., 1894
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Receptacle for Coins and the like with Registering
Dial, and with or without Ejecting Mechanism.
I CHARLES FERDINAND VEIT of 28 Bartlett's Buildings, London, Merchant
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 receptacles for coins and other small articles, which
are capable of being collected together, and is designed to show on a dial or
register, the number received in the container, and further, if desired, to eject them
when a certain number have been received.
In the following description I will explain the invention as employed to collect
coin for a money box or saving's bank. It is arranged to indicate the number of
coins up to a dozen on a small dial, and to eject the coins when the appointed
number 12 has been received.
It must however be understood that I do not confine the application of the
invention to any precise form of box or case, or to coins only, or to any particular
number of articles.
Fig. 1 shews a back elevation of my invention applied to a small circular
clock-case the door and back plate being removed.
Fig. 2 shew's a side view of same with the case in section.
Fig. 3 shews the dial and hand..
Fig. 4 shews a side view of the invention applied to a small model clock of the
upright or hall pattern, known as the "Grandfather's clock."
Fig. 5 is a back elevation of the working parts of the same sectioned on line 1-2
of Fig. 4.
The apparatus consists of the following parts namely, a small clock-case or other
exterior casing with dial face and hand, or other recording instrument; a slot
to receive the coin which in its passage downwards strikes either automatically or
otherwise, a small arm which presses forward a small pawl, which in turn pushes
forward a ratchet wheel one notch thereby also moving the hand of the dial which
is mounted on the same arbor as the wheel. The ratchet wheel has a detent hook
and spring to ensure regularity of action, and there is also a stud or pin u either
on the wheel or on the arbor, which comes into play once with every revolution of
the said wheel. This mechanism is shown in Figs. 1 and 2. This pin is timed to
act after the full complement of coins has been received and its function is to lift
or unfasten a small spring bolt t, thereby opening a door in the case, and allowing
the coins to escape. This door is closed by hand and re-fastened either by the
bolt itself acting as a spring catch or by the bolt falling when the stud has passed
by and the hand of the dial arrives again at the number one.
a is the case. is the ratchet wheel. c is the arbor to which the ratchet
wheel and hand e are connected. d, is the dial. e is the hand or needle. f is
the slot to receive the coin. g is the pawl which pushes forward the ratchet
wheel b; h is the detent hook and spring.
The above parts are common to most of the figures.
Figs. 1 and 2 shew the mechanisms in which a small lever i fulcrumed at ; is
used to supplement the weight of the coin. This lever is pressed down by means
of a button k, and drawn back by the coiled spring 1. Its function is to press
forward the coin m which as shewn by dotted lines lodges against the link n, being
held there by the coiled spring o. The link n is pivotted to the end of the arm p,
When the
which carries the pawl g, and is held in position by the spring o.
button k is depressed, the lever i at the end of which is a small hook ¹ forces the

page_text: coin past the link and by so doing presses the arm p and pawl 9 against
the teeth of the wheel b, and causes it to move forward one tooth. This motion
is conveyed by the arbor c to the hand e which then indicates another number
on the dial. n' is a stop for the link n. y is a small bridge which forms the
bearing for the arbor c. , is a sloping shelf at the bottom of chamber s on which
the coins lie pressing against the door s¹ as shewn in Fig. 2.
Referring to Fig. 2, t is a small bolt with spring t¹ which fastens the door st, in
the chamber s. At every revolution of the ratchet wheel b, this bolt is opened by
a stud u on the arbor c. This is effected in the following way; at the lower end
of the bolt t is a small curved hook 2 which engages with a fixed pin which is
attached to the bottom of the case s. On the stud u pressing back the angular
head of the bolt t, the book is disengaged from the pin and the door s¹ is
unfastened.
The coins resting on the sloping shelf will now open the door and the coins
will escape. The door is closed by hand as before described when the spring t¹
again causes the hook t' to engage with the pin and the door is fastened until
the stud u again unlocks it.
Figs. 4 and 5 shew my invention in the simplest form. No pressure is needed
as in Fig. 1 for the mechanism works entirely by gravitation. The coin enters
at and is guided by the projecting plate on to the horizontal pivotted plat-
form w, by depressing which it elevates the sliding plate which has a pawl g
and spring z at its upper end which pawl moves the ratchet wheel and the hand of
the dial as shewn in Fig. 5.
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The door is closed by the bolt t, which is opened at each complete revolution
of the wheel b by means of a stud y fixed on the said wheel which lifts the
bolt t.
The sliding plate is guided by the screw a working in the slot ². The
bolt t has an angular head which engages with the study on the ratchet wheel />
in such a manner that at every revolution of the pin y lifts the bolt t and by
so doing unfastens the door which is bolted by the lower end of the bolt t. The
lower end of the bolt t engages with two eyes t³ Fig. 5 one of which is on the
frame and one on the door.
Additional dials counting up to any required number can of course be added to
work in train with the first, so as to shew any desired number of coins or other
articles passed through the slot on the well known principle of a registering train.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. A money box or receptacle for coins and like articles, furnished with a dial
for indicating or registering automatically the number received, as herein described
and set forth.
2. In a money box or receptacle, the automatic receiving and registering
apparatus before described, with or without an automatic arrangement for ejecting
the coins or other articles and refastening the door when closed; consisting of a
revolving stud, spring bolt, sloping shelf and swing door, by means of which the
door is opened, and when closed by hand is refastened, at each complete revolution
of the ratchet wheel, as herein described and set forth.
3. In a money box or receptacle, the combination of a case or container a, with
a slot or passage f, and chambers, for coin and the like; with or without a small
lever i and hook, for pushing forward said coin, and with a ratchet wheel, pawl
and detent, actuated by said coin in passing downwards, the arbor of which wheel
operates the hand of a small recording dial as herein described and set forth.
· Dated this 5th day of August 1893.