IMPROVEMENTS IN MONEY TILLS
Year: 1880

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Charles French and Charles French the younger, both of
11, Johanna Street, Lambeth, in the County of Surrey, for an Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN MONEY TILLS."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles French and Charles
French the younger at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 14th
April 1880.
CHARLES FRENCH and CHARLES FRENCH the younger, both of 11, Johanna
Stroot, Lambeth, in the County of Surrey. "IMPROVEMENTS IN MONEY TILLS."
The Invention has for its object to allow the money received at the counters of
public houses, shops, &c., during successive intervals of time to be counted
separately, for instance, to count the money received during each of six consecutivo
hours, and consists in providing the top of the till with slits for various coins, and
the interior with a number of drawers placed one over the other, and provided
with vertical partitions to make as many divisions as there are slits in the top of
the till; also in providing the till with devices for indicating the insertion of coins
and for directing them into the right drawer. These devices consist in a number
of vertical guide tubes or channels, one under each slit, and running from the top
to the bottom, these guides or tubes having vertical slits, through which the bars
of a fork can move up and down, said fork being preferably oblique at the top so
as to direct the coins which full upon it into the drawer, before which the fork is
placed. The fork or forks may be moved up and down by means of a vertical
screw spindle, which passes through a nut attached to the fork or forks, said screw
spindle being guided at the bottom of the till and passing through the top plate,
where it is provided with an ornamental handle. The coins passing through the
slits in the top plate of the till fall upon a deflecting plate, preferably an angle of bell
metal or other suitable sound producing material material, suspended horizontally by
a string or chain with the ridge at the top, from which they fall through the vertical
tubes or channels upon the fork. The position of the latter is indicated in front by
a projecting tongue attached to or made in one piece with the fork, the latter being
arrested as soon as the tongue has arrived at the desired position (before the centre
of a drawer). We prefer to make the till rectangular in cross section, and to
provide doors at the back and on the sides so as to give access to the mechanism,
while the drawers can be taken out at the front, where the interval between two
superposed drawers forms a false drawer.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Charles French and Charles French the younger in the Great
Seal Patent Office on the 13th October 1880.
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CHARLES FRENCH and CHARLES FRENCH the younger, both of 11, Johanna
Street, Lambeth, in the County of Surrey. "IMPROVEMENTS IN MONEY TILLS."
The Invention has for its object to allow the money received at the counters of
public houses, shops, &c., during successive intervals of time to be counted
separately, for instance, to count the money received during each of six consecutive
hours, and consists in providing the top of the till with slits for various coins, and
the interior with a number of drawers placed ono over the other, and provided
with vertical partitions to make as many divisions as there are slits in the top of
the till; also in providing the till with devices for indicating the insertion of coins
and for directing them into the right drawer.
These devices consist in a number of vertical guide tubes or channels, one under
each money slit, and running from the top to the bottom, these guides or tubes
having vertical slits, through which the bars of a guiding fork or forks can move
up and down, said fork being preferably oblique at the top so as to direct the coins
which fall upon it into the drawer, before which the fork is for the time being
placed. The fork or forks are moved up and down by means of a vertical screw
spindle, which passes through a nut attached to the fork or forks, said screw spindle
being held at the bottom of the till and passing through the top plate, where it is
provided with an ornamental handle. The coins passing through the slits in the
top plate of the till fall upon a deflecting plate, preferably an angle of bell metal
or other suitable sound producing material, suspended horizontally by a string or
chain with the ridgo at the top, from which the money falls through the vertical
tubes or channels upon the fork. The position of the latter is indicated in front
by a projecting tongue attached to or made in one piece with the fork, the latter
being arrested by a button and spring catch as soon as the tongue has arrived at
the desired position (before the centre of a drawer). We prefer to make the till
rectangular in cross section, and to provide doors at the back and on the sides so
as to give access to the mechanism, while the drawers can be taken out at the
front, the interval between two superposed drawers forming a false drawer.
The accompanying Drawing will serve to illustrate a convenient mode of
performing the invention, but the modo shown may be varied as regards design
and small matters of detail.
Fig. 1 is a plan or top view.
Fig. 2, a sectional elevation taken on lino A, B, on plan, Fig. 1.
Fig. 3, a cross section taken through line C, D, Fig. 2.
Fig. 4, a side viow with door open.
Fig. 5, detail of drawer locking device.
In all the Figures like letters represent like or corresponding parts.
A, money slots for various coins, as indicated.
a, money guides; a¹, gong; B, drawers; b, money slots over the drawers;
C, screw; c, nut for actuating the fork or forks c¹; c¹¹, tongue or indicator;
D, thumb button, knob, or plate; d, spring; E, revolving plate and handle for
actuating C; F, doors; G, metal plate with money slots; H, money shelves. The
Drawings will otherwise speak for themselves. The action is as follows:-A coin
is dropped through A, falls on the gong a³, passes down the tube a, till it falls on
the fork c, whereby it is deflected into the drawer B. At the end of an hour or

page_text: at other desired time the handle E is turned, and the fork c' is lowered or raised
to act as a feeder to the next or another drawer. The drawers may each have a
key, or the doors of the apparatus have a key, or both.
In witness whereof, we, the said Charles French and Charles French the
younger, have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Thirteenth day of
October, A.D. 1880.
CHARLES FRENCH. (L.S.)
CHARLES FRENCH (L.S.)