APPARATUS TO FACILITATE THE DELIVERY OF COINS FOR THE GIVING OF CHANGE AND THE LIKE
Year: 1859

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Whitmore Baker, of Downham, in the County of
Norfolk, Surgeon Dentist, for the Invention of "APPARATUS TO FACILITATE
THE DELIVERY OF COINS FOR THE GIVING OF CHANGE AND THE LIKE."
Sealed the 11th May 1860, and dated the 16th November 1859.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Whitmore Baker at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 16th November 1859.
I, WHITMORE BAKER, of Downham, in the County of Norfolk, Surgeon
Dentist, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "APPARATUS
TO FACILITATE THE DELIVERY OF COINS FOR THE GIVING OF CHANGE AND THE LIKE,"
to be as follows:-
The coins are arranged in series in different columns or chambers adapted
to their size or value, a separate column or chamber being employed for each
separate class of coins.
According to one arrangement, the coins for the time placed in each column
or chamber are borne upwards by a spring, or it may be by a weight against
a stop, which prevents their being forced outwards by the action of the spring
or weight, whilst there is an opening at the top of each chamber of dimensions
adapted to admit of only one of the coins therein being slided therefrom at a
time, when the next below takes the place of that withdrawn. For con-
venience I arrange a series of these receiving columns side by side, in number

page_text: corresponding with the coins in use; and to facilitate the filling of them I
apply to each a trough or conductor in an inclined direction and, communi-
cating with it, so that when any coin is placed therein it may have a tendency
to slide into its place in the column, the spring or weight being held down for
the time, to facilitate the receipt of the coin.
By another arrangement, the coins fed into the column at the top are with-
drawn as required from the bottom, which is provided with a stop, to prevent
them falling therefrom, and also a groove to admit of single delivery.
Apparatus such as referred to may also be used as a pocket holder for
retaining several descriptions of coin in separate chambers, and admitting of
their being singly withdrawn, as required.
A scale or indicator may be employed to indicate the number of coins at any
time in either of the chambers.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Whitmore Baker in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
16th May 1860.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WHITMORE
BAKER, of Downham, in the County of Norfolk, Surgeon Dentist, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Sixteenth day of November, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, in the twenty-third year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Whitmore Baker, Her special licence that I, the said Whitmore
Baker, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I,
the said Whitmore Baker, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should
at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time, and at all times
thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might
make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for
"APPARATUS TO FACILITATE THE DELIVERY OF COINS FOR THE GIVING OF CHANGE
AND THE LIKE," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Whitmore
Baker, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my,
or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and
ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same
was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal

page_text: Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the date
of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Whitmore Baker, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof, that is to say:-
The coins are arranged in series in different columns or chambers adapted
to their size or value, a separate column or chamber being employed for each
separate class of coins.
According to one arrangement the coins for the time placed in each column
or chamber are borne upwards by a spring, or it may be by a weight against a
stop, which prevents their being forced outwards by the action of the spring or
weight, whilst there is an opening at the top of each chamber of dimensions
adapted to admit of only one of the coins therein being slided therefrom at a
time, when the next below takes the place of that withdrawn. For con-
venience, I arrange a series of these receiving columns side by side, in number
corresponding with the coins in use; and to facilitate the filling of them,
I apply to each a trough or conductor in an inclined direction, and com-
municating with it, so that when any coin is placed therein it may have a
tendency to slide into its place in the column, the spring or weight being held
down for the time to facilitate the receipt of the coin.
By another arrangement the coins fed into the column at the top are
withdrawn as required from the bottom, which is provided with a stop to
prevent them falling therefrom, and also a groove to admit of single delivery..
Apparatus such as referred to may also be used as a pocket holder, for
retaining several descriptions of coin in separate chambers, and admitting of
their being singly withdrawn, as required.
A scale or indicator may be employed to indicate the number of coins at
any time in either of the chambers.
'
But that the nature of these improvements, and the means which I adopt in
carrying the same into effect, may be fully understood, I will proceed to
describe the Drawings annexed, in the various Figures of which the same
letters are used to indicate like parts wherever they occur.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 shows a front view, Figure 2 a plan view, and Figures 3 and 4
two sectional views of apparatus according to my Invention, and adapted to a
railway station or other place where change in various of the coius of the realm
is being required. The arrangement shown by these Drawings is adapted to

page_text: eight different coins, vizt., sovereign, half sovereign, half crown, florin, shilling,
sixpence, fourpence, and threepence, each of which is for the time supported
in a column a, and as each column a is similarly arranged, the description of
any one of them will equally apply to all the others. Each column a is
provided with a spring b, supporting a plate c, upon which the coins are placed;
and in order, in the first instance, to supply any one of the coins to a tube a;
for which such tube is adapted, the spring b, with its plate. c; will have to be
drawn downwards, for which purpose the plate c is connected to one end of a
string e, which passes downwards through a guide tube f, and at its other end
has affixed to it the knob or handle g, by which the operator will with one
band pull down the plate c, and thereby collapse the spring to admit of coins
passing into the tube a, whilst with the other hand the operator will move
forward coins from the compartment to the spout i, the lower end of each of
which opens into the upper end of a tube a, and by which the coins will be
conducted therein as indicated by the sketch, Figure 5, till such tube a is filled,
when the operator will release his hold of the cord e, and the spring will then
acting on the plate c, force the coins upwards against the rim a' of the tube a
And it will be seen that this rim a¹ extends only partly round the upper part
of each tube a, and that at the front part where it is omitted the upper portion
of each tube is also cut away just sufficient to admit of a coin being withdrawn
therefrom, when slight pressure is applied thereto with a forward motion, as
indicated by dotted lines in the Drawing, and also by the sketch Figure 6.
a² are slits, one to each tube a, by which the quantity of coins therein will be
seen, and if desired the edges thereof may be graduated and a pointer be
applied to the plate c, to show the exact number for the time contained in the
respective columns.
The apparatus shown by Figures 1, 2, 3, and 4, is arranged to shut up in a
box or case, of which j is the bottom, the back, the lid, and (upon which
the troughs h are formed) the front, which is capable of being fitted into its
place by means of pins and bolts ", and then the whole, with its contents,
may be secured as an ordinary box, by means of lock and key, as indicated by
Figure 4.
Figures 7 and 8 show two views of a modification of the apparatus adapted
as a purse for the pocket. The chambers a, a, are adapted (1) for sovereigns,
(2) for half sovereigns, (3) for threepenny pieces, (4) for fourpenny pieces,
(5) for sixpenny pieces, (6) for shillings, and if desired such purses may be
adapted to contain other coins; and each is formed with a rim a', and is
provided with a spring band plate c. But the coins are introduced singly
through the opening in the rim a', by which they are afterwards withdrawn,

page_text: and they are withdrawn somewhat as already explained in respect of the
previous Figures, but by a tilting forwards as well as an outward pressure on
the coin, as indicated by dotted lines. In the present case a slight tilting of
the coin is necessary, as the front of each chamber a at the upper part is raised
to prevent the coin falling out except when acted upon for that purpose. The
chambers a in this arrangement are enclosed in a case with a pouch k and
cover l, capable of being held together by an india-rubber band m, and in this
form it is adapted for the pocket.
I would here remark that in place of employing a spring to force the coins
upwards, there may be a weight for that purpose, or they may simply descend
from a suitable receiver and be withdrawn from the bottom, which would be
formed somewhat as the upper part of those already described.
Having thus described the nature of my said Invention, and the best means
I am acquainted with for carrying the same into effect, I would have it under-
stood that I do not confine myself to the precise details shown and described,
as these may be varied; but what I do claim is, the arrangement, adaptation,
and combination of means to facilitate the delivery of coins for the giving of
change and the like, substantially as explained.
In witness whereof, I, the said Whitmore Baker, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Fifteenth day of May, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty.
WHITMORE BAKER. (L.S.)
Witness,
B. J. B. MILLS,
Clerk to William Brookes,
Patent Agent,
73, Chancery Lane, London.