Improvements in Money Boxes, Cash Tills, and the like.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 2nd Jan., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 3rd Oct., 1892-Accepted, 12th Nov., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Money Boxes, Cash Tills, and the like.
I, CHARLES HAY TRaise Bikker, Junior, of 53, Charlotte Road, Birmingham
Warwickshire, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention consists in the herein described improved apparatus for use in
money boxes and cash tills to add together and indicate the value of coins of
various denominations as they are inserted in the money slit of the box or till.
I will describe my invention as constructed for receiving adding up and indicating
the value of shillings, sixpences and threepenny pieces, pence and halfpence, but it
is to be understood that my invention can be similarly applied for receiving adding
up and indicating the value of other coins of any values.
At a certain distance below the money slit I provide two discs which I will call
respectively A and B mounted side by side on axles and by preference arranged in
a vertical plane. Immediately below the money slit is a shoot down which any
coin smaller than a halfpenny can pass down to the back of the disc B so as to be
recorded thereby as hereinafter described and the upper part of this shoot is made
moveable by a pusher outside the box or till so that when a halfpenny or a penny is
inserted in the money slit it falls into this moveable part of the shoot where it is
retained vertically or nearly so and is prevented from passing on down as a threepenny
piece, sixpence or shilling would, by reason of the outlet at the bottom of the said
moveable part being too small to allow of a halfpenny or a penny to pass through.
By means of the said pusher the moveable part of the shoot is then moved through
a short space which brings the halfpenny or penny over another shoot down which
the said halfpenny or penny falls to the back of the disc A so as to be recorded
thereby as hereinafter described.
Or, instead of the copper and silver coins being inserted at the same money slit,
two or three separate money slits may be used one for the copper coins another for
the silver coins and another for the gold coins.
The face of the disc A which registers the copper coins is divided off into six
twelve eighteen or other number of equal parts which is a multiple of six as there
are six halfpennies in a threepenny piece the smallest coin which is registered by
the disc B, and these divisions on the disc A. are marked respectively from 0 to 2
advancing by on each division. For instance there may be twelve divisions on
the disc A marked respectively 0, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 0, 1, 1, 11, 2, 21. The disc B
which registers the threepenny pieces and sixpences is also divided off into twelve,
sixteen, twenty or other number of equal parts which is a multiple of four and
these are respectively marked 3, 6, 9, 0, 3, 6, 9, 0 and so on all round the disc.
Only one division of each of the discs A and B can be seen at one time through
corresponding openings in the box or till.
When a halfpenny is inserted in the money slit of the box or till the disc A is
by mechanism hereinafter described moved through one division and similarly when
a penny is inserted the disc A is moved through two divisions and when 2 is passed
and 0 appears at its opening in the box or till and the disc A is moving to bring
the next division viz. Ô to shew through the opening a tooth on the disc B turns
the disc A through one division which is equal to three pence and the next deposit
of a halfpenny or of a penny in the box will cause or 1 respectively to appear.
Thus the disc A is turned through one division every time the deposits of pence
or halfpence recorded by the disc A. amount to threepence.
When a threepenny piece is inserted in the money slit the disc B is, by the
mechanism hereinafter described, moved through one division so as to shew an

page_text: increase of 3 at the opening corresponding with one of the divisions of the disc B,
similarly when a sixpence is inserted. the disc B is moved through two divisions and
when a shilling is inserted the disc B is moved through four divisions. Every time
the disc B is moving through the fourth division one of a series of teeth thereon
engages with one of the teeth of a shillings disc which is divided into twenty parts
and which I will call C and registers a shilling more, and when this shillings disc
has turned through its twenty divisions one of its teeth engages with one of the
teeth of a pounds wheel which may be divided into any convenient number of parts
to indicate pounds.
I will now describe the mechanism by which the disc A is caused to move
through one division when a halfpenny inserted in the money slit and through
'two 'divisions when a penny is inserted therein. Fixed to the back of the disc A
is a ratchet wheel having 12 teeth corresponding with the said twelve divisions on
'the face of this disc. Adjacent to this ratchet wheel are two slides which I will
call the motion slide and the ratchet slide respectively. The motion slide can be
moved to and fro by a part of the slide which projects through the side of the
money box or till, and the ratchet slide is provided with a ratchet engaging with
the said ratchet wheel. The movement of the motion slide and of the ratchet slide
in either direction is limited by stops.
When a penny or halfpenny is inserted in the money slit the upper part of the
said shoot is moved by the pusher as above described, the said penny or halfpenny
falls down and 'rests between the motion slide and the ratchet slide and between a
lateral projection on each of them so that the said coin forms a solid connection
or distance block between the said lateral projections, then when the motion slide
is pulled outwardly its movement or part of its movement is transmitted through
the coin to the ratchet slide and both slides then move together and the ratchet
turns the ratchet wheel and disc through one division if a halfpenny is between
the slides and the dial shews that a halfpenny has been deposited in the box;
similarly when a penny is between the slides and the motion slide is pulled
outwardly as the penny is of a larger diameter than the halfpenny the whole or a
greater portion of the travel of the motion slide is transmitted to the ratchet slide
and the ratchet wheel and disc are moved through two divisions and the disc A
shews that a penny has been deposited in the box or till. Directly the motion
slide commences to be moved back the coin falls from between the slides into the
*box or till.
When there is no coin between the motion slide and the ratchet slide and the
motion slide is moved to and fro the ratchet slide and disc remain stationary as
there is nothing to transmit the movement of the motion slide to the ratchet slide.
The said stop which prevents the slides and disc being moved too far may take
the form of a lever jointed at one end to the motion slide so as to move therewith.
"The free end of this lever is notched or shaped so that when the motion slide has
moved the ratchet slide a distance corresponding with the coin held between the
slides, one of the said notches or shaped parts of the lever comes into contact with
a fixed stop and prevents the slides moving further. One side of the said lever is
stepped or shaped and this side is by a spring kept in contact with a projection on
the ratchet slide so that as the motion slide and its lever are moved forward to
record a deposit the said projection moves the lever and brings opposite the stop
that notch or shaped part which corresponds with the coin which is between the
slides, and thus regulates the distance through which the slides will move.
This lever stop is not of so much importance as applied to the disc.A which is
only for two sizes of coins, but for the disc B which has to register three sizes of
'coins, or for a money. till which has a disc similar to B but arranged to take any
silver coin Bay from a threepenny to a five shilling piece where the diameters of the
coins do not increase in regular proportion, the said lever stop is very valuable and
forms an important feature of this invention, as it ensures the disc moving only
through the division or number of divisions corresponding with the coin which is
between the motion slide and the ratchet slide.
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page_text: The said disc B is furnished with a ratchet wheel having teeth corresponding
with the divisions on the disc B and the disc B has a ratchet slide and a motion.
slide and lever stop arranged to take either a threepenny piece, sixpence or shilling
similarly as above described with reference to the disc A.
It will be seen that the disc B can be similarly made to take any silver coin up
to a five shilling piece the divisions being numbered the same as above described
and the motion slide and ratchet being arranged so as to move the disc B through
one two or more divisions corresponding with the number of 3 penny pieces which
would be contained in the coin which is held between the motion slide and the
ratchet slide. Similarly the disc D which registers pounds may have a ratchet
wheel, ratchet, motion slide and ratchet slide so as to register sovereigns and half
sovereigns deposited in a separated money slit.
It will be seen that each coin as it is deposited in the box is by the motion slidė
caused to move one or more of the discs A, B, C, D and the value of that coin is
added on to the total value indicated by the discs.
Dated this First day of January 1892
CHARLES BOSWORTH KETLEY,
Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Money Boxes, Cash Tills, and the like..
I, CHARLES HAY TRAISE BIKKER Junior, of 53 Charlotte Road, Birmingham,.
Warwickshire, Engineer, 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 consists in the herein-described improved apparatus for use, in
money boxes and cash tills to add together and indicate the value of coins of
various denominations as they are inserted in the money slit of the box or till.
I will describe my invention by referring to the accompanying drawings. which
illustrate my invention applied to a money box constructed for receiving adding up
and indicating the value of shillings, sixpences and threepenny pieces, pence-and
halfpence, but it is to be understood that my invention can be similarly applied for
receiving adding up and indicating the value of other coins of any value.
On the accompanying drawings
Fig. 1 is a general outside view of a money box with my invention applied;
Fig. 2 is an elevation of the box with the front removed so as to shew the adding
up and indicating mechanism;
Fig. 3 is a back view of the said mechanism;
Fig. 4 is a cross sectional elevation of the same; and
Fig. 5 is a cross sectional elevation of the money slit and shoot ;
Figs. 6, 7, 8 and 9 each shew detailed parts of the said mechanism as hereinafter..
fully described;
Figs. 10 and 11 shew the adding up and indicating mechanism partly in sectional
elevation so as to illustrate the action of the same.
The same letters of reference indicate the same or corresponding parts in all the
figures.
At a certain distance below the money slit E I provide two discs marked respec-
tively A and B mounted side by side on axles a¹ b¹ and by preference arranged in
a vertical plane as shewn. Immediately below the money slit is a shoot F¹ down
which any coin smaller than a halfpenny can pass down to the back of the disc B
so as to be recorded thereby as hereinafter described and the upper part. F' of this
shoot is made moveable by a pusher foutside the box or till G so that when-a
halfpenny p (see Figs. 2, 4 & 5) or a penny is placed in the money. slit it falls into
this moveable part of the shoot where it is retained vertically or nearly'so (see

page_text: Fig. 2) and is prevented from passing on down the shoot F¹ as a threepenny piece,
sixpence or shilling would, by reason of the outlet at the bottom of the said
moveable part F' being too small to allow of a halfpenny or a penny to pass
through. By means of the pusher the moveable part F of the shoot is then
moved through a short space to the position shewn by Fig. 5 which brings the
halfpenny or penny over another shoot F down which the said halfpenny or penny
falls through a hole f³ (in the casing L which is fixed to the plate and contains
the motion and ratchet slides hereinafter described) to the back of the disc A so as
to be recorded thereby as hereinafter described.
Or, instead of the copper and silver coins being inserted at the same money slit
as above described two or three separate money slits may be used one for the copper
coins to the disc A. another slit for the silver coins to the discs B and C and another
slit for the gold coins.
The face of the disc A which registers the copper coins is divided off into six,
twelve, eighteen, or other number of equal parts which is a multiple of six as there
are six halfpence in a threepenny piece the smallest coin which registered by the
disc B, and these divisions on the disc A. are numbered respectively from 0 to 2
advancing by on each division. For instance there may as shewn on my drawings
be twelve divisions on the disc A marked respectively 0, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 0, 1, 1, 1,
2, 2. The disc B which registers the threepenny pieces and sixpences is also
divided off into twelve, sixteen, twenty or other number of equal parts which is a
multiple of four (as there are four threepenny pieces in a shilling) and these are
respectively marked 3, 6, 9, 0, 3, 6, 9, 0 and so on all round the disc. Only one
division of each of the discs A and B can as shewn by Fig. 1 and by Figs. 10
and 11 be seen at one time through the corresponding openings g'g' in the front G¹
of the box or till G.
When a halfpenny is inserted in the money slit E of the box or till G the disc A
is by mechanism hereinafter described moved through one division and similarly
when a penny is inserted the disc A is moved through two divisions and when 2 is
passed and 0 appears at the opening g' in the box or till and the disc A is moving
to bring the next division 0 to show through the opening a tooth a' on the disc A
(of which in this case there are two as shewn) engages with one of the teeth 6³ of
the disc B and turns the disc B through one division which is equal to three pence,
and the next deposit of a halfpenny or of a penny in the box will turn the disc A
and cause or 1 respectively to appear at the opening g'. Thus the disc B is
turned through one division every time the deposits of pence or halfpence recorded
by the disc A amount to threepence.
When a threepenny piece is inserted in the money slit E the disc B is, by the
mechanism hereinafter described, moved through one division so as to shew an
increase of 3 at the opening 92 corresponding with one of the divisions of the disc B
and similarly when a sixpence is inserted the disc B is by the said mechanism
moved through two divisions and when a shilling is inserted the disc B is moved
through four divisions. Every time the disc B is moved through the fourth
division one tooth of a series of teeth 62 thereon that is every fourth tooth say those
at the 0 marks engages with one of the teeth c of the shillings disc C which is
divided into twenty parts and has twenty teeth and thus registers a shilling more
by turning the disc C through one division; and when this shillings disc C has
turned through its twenty divisions one of its teeth c say that tooth opposite to the
number 16 engages with one of the teeth d of the pounds wheel D which may be
divided into any convenient number of parts say 10 as on my drawing to indicate
pounds. The teeth 63 at the 0 marks on the disc B are made longer and bent back-
wardly so as to engage with the teeth c of the disc C as above described but the
intermediate teeth of the disc C between those at the 0 marks pass over the face of
and do not engage with the teeth c of the disc C.
I will now describe the mechanism by which the disc A is caused to move
through one division when a halfpenny is inserted in the money slit E and through
two divisions when a penny is inserted therein. Fixed to the back of the disc A

page_text: is a ratchet wheel I having 12 teeth corresponding with the said twelve divisions
on the face of this disc A. Adjacent to this ratchet wheel are two slides which I
will call the motion slide J and the ratchet slide K respectively. The motion
slide J can be moved to and fro by a part of the slide which projects through
the side of the money box or till, and the ratchet slide K is provided with a
ratchet kengaging with the ratchet wheel I. The movement of the motion
slide J and of the ratchet slide in either direction is limited by stops hereinafter
described.
When a penny or halfpenny is inserted in the money slit E the upper part F³ of
the shoot is moved by the pusher above described, and the said penny or half-
penny falls down and rests as shewn in Fig. 10 on the bottom of the casing L
between the motion slide J and the ratchet slide K and between a lateral pro-
jection on the motion slide and a similar lateral projection of the ratchet
slide K so that the said coin forms a solid connection or distance block between the
lateral projections as shewn in Figs. 8 and 11, then when the motion slide J is
pulled outwardly in the direction of the arrow in Fig. 10 its movement or part of
its movement is transmitted through the coin to the ratchet slide K and both
slides J and K then move together and the ratchet & turns the ratchet wheel I and
disc A through one division if a halfpenny is between the slides and the dial A
then shews (see Fig. 11) that a halfpenny more has been deposited in the box;
similarly when a penny is between the slides J and K and the motion slide J is pulled
outwardly as above described, then, as the penny is of a larger diameter than the
halfpenny, the whole or a greater portion of the travel of the motion slide J is
transmitted to the ratchet slide K and the ratchet wheel I and disc A are moved
through two divisions and the disc A shews that a penny more has been deposited
in the box or till. Directly the motion slide J commences to be moved back the
coin falls from between the slides J and K through the hole see Fig. 3 into the
box or till.
When there is no coin between the motion slide J and the ratchet slide K and
the motion slide J is moved to and fro the ratchet slide K and disc A remain
stationary as there is then nothing to transmit the movement of the motion slide to
the ratchet slide K.
The said stop M which prevents the slides J and K and disc A being moved too
far outwardly to register the coin as above described, by preference takes the form
of a lever M jointed at one end m¹ to the projecting part of the motion slide J
so as to move therewith. The free end of this lever M has two notches m³ m³ or is
otherwise shaped so that when as shewn in Fig. 11 the motion slide J has moved
the ratchet slide K a distance corresponding with the halfpenny held between the
slides J and K one of the said notches or shaped parts viz. the upper notch m² of
the lever M comes into contact with a fixed stop N' and prevents the slides J and K
moving further. One side (in the mechanism shewn this is the lower side) of the
lever M is stepped or shaped at m' and this side is by the spring m kept in contact
with the projection on the ratchet slide K so that as the notion slide J and its
lever M are as shewn in Fig. 10 moved forward to record a deposit, the
lever M slides along the projection until the step m rests beyond the pro-
jection as shewn in Fig. 9 so that the notch or shaped part m³, which
corresponds with the coin (in this case a halfpenny) which is between the
slides J and K is brought opposite the stop N' and thus the distance through
which these slides are moved is regulated according to the coin between them.
When a penny is between the slides J and K then the slide K does not move so
far relatively to the slide J and the lever M is by the projection only allowed to
fall far enough to bring the notch m³ opposite the stop N. These notches m³ m³
have to be cut just so far into the lever M as to allow of the slides and ratchet
being pulled outwardly far enough to move the ratchet wheel and disc A through
1. or. 2 teeth respectively corresponding with the halfpenny or penny which is
between the slides.

page_text: This lever stop M N' above described is not of so much importance as applied to
the disc A which is only for the two sizes of coins, but for the disc B. which has to
register three sizes of coins, or for a money till which has a disc similar to B but
arranged to take any silver coin say from a threepenny to a five shilling piece where
the diameters of the coins do not increase in regular proportion, the lever stop M N¹
is very valuable and forms an important feature of this invention, as it ensures the
disc B passing only through the division or number of divisions corresponding with.
the coin which is between the motion slide and the ratchet slide. ⚫
The disc B is furnished with a ratchet wheel O having teeth corresponding with
the divisions on the disc B (in this case 32 in number) and the disc B has a ratchet
slide K' with ratchet and a motion slide J¹ and lever stop M¹ N' arranged to take.
either a threepenny piece, sixpence or shilling similarly as above described with.
reference to the disc A. It will be seen that there are three notches marked
respectively m m m³ in the lever M', the notch me being cut in the proper distance
to allow of the disc B being moved through only one division when the part jt of
the motion slide J is pulled outwardly and there is a threepenny piece between
the slides JK' the projection of the slide K¹ being then in contact with, the
step m under the lever M'. The other two notches m² and m³ are as will be
understood cut in the proper depth for a sixpence and shilling respectively and the
lever M' is stepped at underneath at m10 to agree with the notch m' and at m¹¹ to 1
agree with the notch m³.
It will be seen that the disc B can be similarly made to take any silver coin up
to a five shilling piece the divisions being numbered the same as above described
and the motion slide J¹ and ratchet being arranged so as to move the disc B through
one two or more divisions corresponding with the number of threepenny pieces
which would be contained in the coin which is held between the motion slide and
the ratchet slide. Similarly the disc D which registers pounds may have a ratchet
wheel, ratchet, motion slide and ratchet slide so as to register sovereigns, and half
sovereigns deposited in a separate money slit.
It will be seen that each coin as it is deposited in the box is by one or other of
the motion slides caused to move one or more of the discs A, B, C, D and the value
of that coin is added to the total value indicated by the discs.
RR are springs applied to the motion slides JJ' to pull them back ready for
another coin after they have been pulled out and a coin registered.
In conclusion I wish it to be understood that I do not limit myself to the par-
ticular construction of the parts herein described and shewn. upon my drawings as
it will be evident that the same may be varied without departing from the nature
of my invention.
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. In apparatus for use in money boxes cash tills and the like for adding together
and indicating the value of coins. of various denominations as they are inserted
therein, and in combination with the revolving indicator such as A or B and the
ratchet wheel thereof; the employment of the ratchet slide, ratchet, motion slide
and lever stop all arranged together for joint operation substantially as herein
described so as to move the indicator only through the division or number of
divisions corresponding with the coin which is between the said slides as herein set
forth.
2. In apparatus of the kind herein described for use in money boxes cash tills
and the like for adding together and indicating the value of coins of various
denominations as they are inserted therein, the construction of the shoots F¹ F3 and
the moveable upper part F2 thereof arranged to separate the copper coins from the
silver coins and lead them to their respective motion slides substantially as herein-
before set forth,

page_text: 3. Apparatus for use in money boxes cash tills and the like for adding together
and indicating the value of coins of various denominations as they are inserted
therein, arranged and operating in the manner substantially .as herein before
described and illustrated by the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 1st day of October 1892.
CHARLES BOSWORTH KETLEY,
Agent for the Applicant.