Means or Apparatus for Paying Wages, Commissions, Discounts, Bonuses, and the like.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 9th Feb., 1887
Complete Left, 7th Nov., 1887
Complete Accepted, 16th Dec., 1887
Means or Apparatus for Paying Wages, Commissions, Discounts,
Bonuses, and the like.
I JOSEPH FREEMAN of 13 Stanbridge Terrace Putney in the County of Surrey
Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
I use my invention in combination with various machines which when operated
upon or supervised by a person or persons or an animal supervised by a person or
persons or otherwise repeat their motions in a regular way so that by my invention
I cause such machine to automatically deliver at certain periods or intervals coins or
their equivalents such as cheques tickets coupons and the like as wages commissions
discounts bonuses and the like so as to save the cost of a paying clerk &c.
For instance as regards a mill for grinding say corn or seeds coffee pepper spices &c
1 apply to the same a receptacle for the coins or equivalents to be delivered by the
machine so constructed and placed that for every given number of revolutions of a
handle or wheel working the grinding mechanism, payment for the labour is deposited
in a drawer shoot or other convenient place accessible to the operator.
I prefer to accomplish this by means of a ratchet or escapement wheel and pawl or
equivalent so placed that each revolution of the mill handle or wheel permits or
causes the ratchet or escapement wheel to move one tooth, the number of teeth the
wheel contains to be regulated by the amount of work and the price to be paid for it.
In a convenient part of this wheel is placed a stud which actuates a lever at each
revolution which in its turn and at a regulated interval forces out of the first named
receptacle or releases therefront the particular coin or equivalent in payment for the
work done.
The wages receptacle I prefer to make in the case of the particular kind of machine
named of a cylindrical shape secured at the top and just large enough to allow a
given number of coins of the required value or their equivalents when placed upon
each other to fall to the bottom thereof upon a moveable disc or plate having an
aperture corresponding in size to the base of the cylinder and the thickness of one
coin or equivalent which aperture upon being propelled by the lever under the
cylinder receives the coin and carries it forward where it is allowed to slide into the
wages drawer shoot or other convenient place. But I may vary my mode by using

page_text: a combination of wheels and levers or by making an aperture into which the coin or
equivalent may pass from the cylinder, in the wheel itself so as to discard the lever
and revolving disc altogether, or the wheel or wheels may be actuated by bands or
chains or equivalents passing round a drumm or other part of the machine to which
my invention is applied.
When however my invention is applied to other machines its construction must
necessarily vary to suit the particular machine. Where for instance the motion of the
machine doing work is not circular or approximately so, as in pumping or in a sewing
or other machine worked by a treadle each upward or downward stroke of the handle
or treadle actuates the mechanism of my invention by means of a lever or levers or
equivalents or a clutch releasing the motion of a wheel counterpoised by a weight or
spring or machines using clutch and treadle mechanism to convert reciprocating into
rotary motion.
Every different machine to which my invention is applied will cause the details
and form of my apparatus to vary to suit the same but the main feature is that the
machine to which it is attached shall at certain periods or intervals automatically
place within the reach of the person or persons working operating or supervising the
same a coin of a given value or its equivalent, as hereinbefore named by way of
wages bonus discount or commission after each given number of motions of said
mechanism.
My invention might be so used that a series of persons could successively operate
the mechanism and a particular one of them or an attendant receive the wages discount
bonus or commission as for instance where public waterclosets have to be entered
through a door gate or turnstile unlocked by the price of admission thereto (say one
penny).
My invention is also designed to act as a register of or check to the number of
revolutions or motions of the machine to which it is applied and in cases of appli-
cation to automatic machines operated by a coin as above as a register of the number
or amount of such coins.
As my invention may also be applied to machines and apparatus worked by steam
electricity wind, air under pressure gas water or other liquids and fluids alone or in
combination, I may utilize any or all these and other forces besides direct human or
animal agency in producing the before named results.
Dated this 9th day of February 1887.

page_text: Bonuses, and the like.
I, JOSEPH FREEMAN, of 13 Stanbridge Terrace, Putney, in the County of Surrey,
Gentleman, 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:-
My invention is designed for the purpose of automatically paying wages for work
done or commissions, discounts, bonuses and the like to persons entitled to the same, or to
a particular person of a series, say every 20th, 50th or 100th, nevertheless in all cases
at a constant recurring interval; the object being to save the cost of employing a
paying clerk to pay such person or persons.
Under some circumstances it may be desirable that these constantly recurring
intervals instead of being regular may be of the nature of regular irregularities.
I use my invention in combination with various machines and it may be combined
with any machine or apparatus moved by any power, whether manual, pedal, animal,
wind, water, electricity, heat, or any liquids or fluids under pressure or otherwise,
and my apparatus may be so constructed as to be worked by any or all the means
above stated, so as to deposit or drop into a receptacle constructed for that purpose, or
other wise deliver a coin or its equivalent at recurring intervals, within reach of an
attendant or other person entitled to the same.
A charitable institution for instance desiring to afford relief without encouraging
begging may erect a mill for grinding seeds, corn, coffee, pepper, spices or the like;
or a machine to accomplish other work upon its premises, whilst the handle or lever
for working the same, as also my automatic wages payer connected therewith may be
placed within the reach of those desiring to earn some money by their labour. After
a given number of revolutions of the handle or movements of the lever, which
accomplishes a certain amount of profitable labour, a coin or its equivalent is auto-
matically placed within reach of the operator as payment.
My invention may also be used in cases where payment is to be made for supervision
of work done. For instance :-It may be used in combination with my automatic
Turnstile, which is unlocked by means of a coin as described in my Letters Patent
No. 1968 of the year 1886, and when this Turnstile is used for admittance to Theatres
and other places, vehicles, water closets and the like the attendant may, at recurring
intervals, be paid, either as wages or commission, for his services without incurring
the cost of a paying clerk. My invention may also be used in connection with any
suitable mechanism or apparatus accomplishing similar objects or results.
Further, my invention may be used to pay discounts or bonuses where a number of
persons make a similar purchase or are rendered a similar service. For instance:-
A club, school or other body of people may use my Turnstile Weighing machine
(described in the specification of my Patent above referred to) which when combined

page_text: of my machine a description of its functions stating precisely at what intervals of move-
ment the discount or bonus will be delivered.
Having explained the objects of my invention I will now describe how it may be
carried into effect, but it is obvious that my invention will be varied in size form and
design according to the requirement of the particular machine or apparatus to which
it may be applied or with which it may be combined, and doubtless altogether different
mechanism may be employed to effect the same result.
In the accompanying drawing.
Fig. 1 is a front elevation.
Fig. 2 a longitudinal section, and
Fig. 3 a transverse section of a suitable form of apparatus to be employed in
carrying my invention into effect.
Figs. 4, 5 and 6 are respectively side elevations showing the construction of the
three ratchet wheels employed in such apparatus.
Like letters of reference refer to like parts in all the Figures. A, B and Care discs
placed parallel to each other and so as to be capable of each revolving independently
of the other upon a centrally placed fixed shaft D carried by an outer case E suitably
constructed to contain and protect the mechanism and coins.
Each of these discs as shown in Figs. 4, 5 and 6 is furnished with ratchet teeth or
notches upon its periphery in which engage the corresponding prongs of the three-
pronged pawl F. The points of these prongs are however as shown in Fig. 3 not upon
the same plane. Assuming the one over C, to be the lowest the one over B is higher
than it, and that over A is higher than that over B. These prongs never change their
position with relation to each other and that position is clearly shown in Fig. 2 of the
drawing. Under this arrangement of the discs. C, would be the units disc, B, the
tens disc, and A, the hundreds disc. The disc A, is attached to and revolves with a
dise I which I call the "magazine disc," because it contains apertures, recesses or
depressions in a circle concentric to its axis and upon the front or outward face of
the disc, in which recesses the coins are stored ready for delivery. Such disc I
occupies nearly the whole area of the circular case between the disc A, and the sheet
of plate glass J as shown in Fig. 3.
Now, if it is intended that a coin shall be presented opposite the hole H, in the plate
glass J and also in the case E at every hundredth forward movement or thrust of the
pawl, each disc A, B, and C, would be provided with 10 ratched teeth around its
periphery, but B, and C, would each have one notch deeper than their other notches as
is clearly shown in Figs. 4 and 5, B being the deep notch in B, and the deep notch
in C. Setting the machine at zero 9 forward movements of the pawl would by means
of its prong operate 9 teeth of the units disc C, without in the least affecting B, but at
the ninth retrograde movement the prong over C, would drop into its deep notch C,
which would so let down the prong over B, as to bring it into contact with one of the
ordinary notches around B, and therefore the tenth forward movement of the pawl
would advance both B, and C, one notch. Thus one notch of B, (the tenths disc)
would be advanced at every tenth stroke of the pawl and when it had been so advanced
nine times the next stroke of the pawl would take effect in its deepest notch B¹ which
would in like manner let down the prong over A, into contact with a notch around it
and thus the whole three discs would at the hundredth stroke of the pawl be for the
first time moved together. The deep notch in C, is of course proportionately deeper
than that in B.
In the case just supposed there would be ten equi-distant recesses in the magazine
disc each containing a coin, and it is obvious that when, at the hundredth stroke of
the pawl, a coin was presented opposite the hole H in the plate glass J and the corre-
sponding hole in the outer case E that it could be removed by the person entitled to it

page_text: or that it might by propulsion from behind by a spring or by a slight suitable
inclination of the back of the recess be propelled or made to drop into the trough or
other receptacle K in front. The other holes L in the outer case opposite the recesses
in the magazine disc are to show the coins in them through the plate glass J.
A regular irregularity in the delivery could be effected by spacing the recesses I¹
for any two or more coins at such a greater or less distance apart than the others as
might be necessary to effect the desired result, or one or more recesses I might be
omitted or left empty.
In the drawing M is a rod communicating movement from any convenient
mechanism or power by means of its joint N to one end of a lever pivotted at O,
and the other end of which carries the three-pronged pawl F before described, by
means of the joint P. G is a steadying spring and pawl to prevent undue movement
of each of the discs A, B and C.
Another way of carrying my invention into effect would be to mount a vertical tube
containing a column of coins over a horizontal rotating disc with a hole beneath the
column into which a coin could drop at (say) the hundredth movement of a pawl
acting upon ratchet teeth formed upon its periphery and thus be born forward for
delivery; but I prefer the former plan.
I wish it to be understood that I do not claim nor do I limit myself to any particular
form of mechanism for carrying my invention into effect, those above referred to being
simply intended to show suitable forms of apparatus for this purpose, but which are
capable of being varied or altered in construction and arrangement to suit the
particular circumstances under which the invention is to be employed.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said Invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is :-
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The combination with a prime mover of a machine for automically delivering a coin
or coins or its or their equivalent at certain selected and prearranged intervals during
the operation of such prime mover.
Dated this 8th day of November 1887
ALLISON BROS.,
Agents for the Applicant.