Year: 1896

page_text: I, MOSES KOHNSTAM, of Fuerth, in the Kingdom of Bavaria, and 24, Milton Street,
in the City of London, Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:-
My invention relates to a money-box constructed in the form of a clock and designed
to automatically indicate or register on a dial or dials the amount of money placed
therein, it being understood that each box must be adapted for a coin of a certain
denomination.
In a suitable arrangement for carrying out my invention, beneath the money slit of
the box which is made of the required size to allow of the coins to pass, say pennies,
I arrange a spring flap one end of the pivot of which is cranked and carries a pawĺ
taking into the teeth of a ratchet wheel on the end of the arbor of which is a hand or
pointer moving over a dial on the front of the box so that as each penny is placed in
the box the wheel is moved one tooth and with it the hand over one division of the
twelve divisions with which the dial is marked, thereby indicating that one penny has
been placed in the box and so on for each penny. When twelve pence have been
placed in the box. the said ratchet wheel moves another ratchet wheel one tooth and
operates a small hand over what may be termed a seconds dial thereby registering one
shilling and so on.
A door having a lock is provided to allow of the money being taken out of the box
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G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicant.
I, MOSES KOHNSTAM, of Fuerth, in the Kingdom of Bavaria, and 24, Milton Street,
in the City of 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 :-
My invention relates to a money-box constructed in the form of a clock and designed
to automatically indicate or register on a dial or dials the amount of money placed.
therein, it being understood that each box must be adapted for a coin of a certain
denomination.
In a suitable arrangement for carrying out my invention, beneath the money slit.
of the box which is made of the required size to allow the coins to pass, say pennies,
1.arrange a spring sliding pawl (or a spring flap one end of the pivot of which is
cranked and carries a pawl) taking into the teeth of a ratchet wheel on the end of the

page_text: arbor of which is a hand or pointer moving over a dial on the front of the box so that
as each penny is placed in the box the wheel is moved one tooth and with it the hand
over one division of the twelve divisions with which the dial is marked, thereby
indicating that one penny has been placed in the box and so on for each penny.
When twelve pence have been placed in the box the said ratchet wheel moves another
ratchet wheel one tooth and operates a small hand over what may be termed a seconds
dial thereby registering one shilling and so on.
A door having a lock is provided to allow of the money being taken out of the box.
To enable my invention to be fully understood I will describe the same by reference
to the accompanying drawings, in which :-
Figure 1 is a front elevation; and,
Figure 2 a longitudinal section of a registering money-box constructed according
to my invention in which the coins operate a spring sliding pawl:
Figure 3 is a section on the line 3-3 of Figure 2:
Figure 4 is a similar. view to Figure 2 but shewing the arrangement in which the
coins operate a spring flap in connection with the pawl; and,
Figure 5 is a section on the line 5-5 of Figure 4.
Similar letters in all the figures indicate similar or corresponding parts.
a is the money-box provided with a money slit b in the top and with a hinged door c
at the bottom, secured by a lock d, to allow the money to be taken out of the box.
e is the dial on the front of the box a, marked with twelve divisions, and f is the hand
or pointer moving over one division of the said dial each time a coin is placed in the
box; g is the small or seconds dial and h is the hand moving over one division of the
same for every twelve coins placed in the box. i is the ratchet wheel, the arbor j of
which carries the large hand f, and k is the ratchet wheel, the arbor 1 of which carries
the small hand, the said wheel k being moved forward one tooth for each complete
revolution of the wheel i by means of a pin m on the face of the latter taking into the
teeth of the wheel k; n and o are springs for preventing the backward rotation of the
wheels and respectively; p is the case or frame of the mechanism.
9, Figures 2 and 3, is the spring sliding pawl for operating the ratchet mechanism
through the medium of the coins placed in the box, such pawl being formed of a plate
having lugs sliding in slots s in the case or frame and a curved portion
projecting underneath the money slit b, and upon which the coins must press before
they can pass into the box; t is the spring of the pawl q for raising the pawl after it is
relieved from the pressure of the coin such spring being secured to the pawl q and to
the case or frame p.
When a coin, say a penny, indicated by dotted lines at u is placed in the box a it
presses down the pawl q and thereby tuins the ratchet wheel i one tooth and con-
sequently moves the large hand fone division on the dial. When twelve pennies
have been placed in the box the ratchet wheel i and hand f will have completed one
revolution and the ratchet wheel k will revolve to the extent of one tooth and the
small hand h will move over one division of its dial thereby indicating that one
shilling has been deposited in the box and so on up to twelve shillings.
The arrangement shewn in Figures 4 and 5 is similar to that hereinbefore described
with reference to Figures 1, 2 and 3 except that instead of a spring sliding pawl
I employ a spring flap v, the pivot w of which is cranked at a and carries the pawl q
for operating the ratchet wheel i, the free end of the flap v being located underneath
the money slit b so that when a coin u is inserted in the said slit it will depress the
said flap before passing into the box a and thereby actuate the pawl q, ratchet wheel i
and large hand or pointer f
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-
1. The combination and arrangement of parts forming a registering money-box,
substantially as herein before described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.

page_text: 2. The manufacture and use of the improved registering money boxes herein before-
described and illustrated in Figures 1 to 3 and in Figures 4 and 5 respectively of the
accompanying drawings.
Dated this 12th day of April 1897
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicant..