Improvements in and connected with Counters for Coin-freed Instruments or Apparatus.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 1st Jan., 1397-Accepted, 6th Feb., 1597
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and connected with Counters for Coin-freed
Instruments or Apparatus.
We, CARL ALBERT ROEPKE, and ROEPKE AND COMPANY LIMITED, of
31, Lees Street, Ancoats, Manchester, in the County of Lancaster,- Musical
Instrument Manufacturers, 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 relates to improvements in and connected with counters for coin-
freed instruments or apparatus, the object being to provide greater simplicity of
construction and certainty in action and guard against fraud.
And in order that our invention may be more fully understool we have caused
to be appended hereunto one sheet of drawings marked with letters of reference
indicating like parts in the various figures.
Figs. 1 & 2 are respectively a sectional front and side view, Fig. 3 a plan and.
Fig. 4a detached view of our improvements as applied to an orchestral.
Tu carrying out our invention we employ, inside the case of the instrument.
or apparatus in connection with the coin slit a, an angular or V shaped
shoot b.
The upper end of the lower part of this shoot we form crosswise with an.
aperture 6 and in connection therewith we employ a lever c, preferably pivoted to
the said shoot. This lever has a lip or other projection c¹ which reaches across the
said aperture. The free end of this lever, by means of a rod d, is connected to
the pawl lever c of a counter adapted to indicate, for instance in £. s. d., the
amount of money inserted into the instrument or apparatus. By preference we
form the said counter with three or more wheels g, g¹, g², the first one for instance
having 12 teeth, the second and third each twenty teeth. The first wheel g is.
operated by the pawl el on the lever e, the second and third wheel by pins / & h
fixed upon the first and second wheels respectively.
In connection with each of the said wheels a dial i, i, , and upon each wheel
spindle, a finger k, k', k², are arranged respectively adapted to indicate in £. s. d..
the amount of money inserted into the instrument or apparatus.
The coin when inserted into the shoot b, in rolling down its lower part, contacts
with the lip or projection c¹ and thereby raises the lever c, as shown in dotted lines.
Fig. 1, which causes the rod d and thus the counter lever e to be lifted sufficiently
to cuable the pawl e' to engage the adjacent tooth of the wheel 9, see dotted lines
Fig. 2. At this point of the operation the coin will have passed the lip or
projection c¹, the lever c will resume its original position and its weight and that of
the rod d assisted by the spring klifts the pawl el and moves the wheel
tooth. On the twelfth operation taking place the wheel g¹ is noved one tooth by
the pin on the wheel g and thus records on the dial in shillings, the pence-
indicated on the dial i. On the wheel g' having made the twentieth turn the pin /¹
on the wheel g¹ turns the wheel g' and thus records on the dial in pounds, the.
shillings indicated on . To prevent the said wheels from moving reversely back-.
pawls 1, 1, are employed in connection therewith.
g one.
In order to prevent the lever c, c' being lifted by a wire or the like and thus the
counter unduly operated, we form the inner end of the shoot b with an opening b³,
so that wire or the like pushed down the upper part will be caused to pass out.
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page_text: instead of bending and entering the lower part of the shoot b. The said opening
also causes coins of smaller size than those intended to free the instrument or
apparatus to fall out of the shoot and thus not operate the lever c, c¹.
c¹
It will thus be readily seen that owing to the angular or V shape of the coin
shoot b, its opening 2 at the inner end and the employment of the coin lever C,
in the lower part of the coin shoot any attempt to operate the counter unduly in the
manner described will be prevented and thus the latter render reliable.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that
what we claim, is—
1st. In and connected with counters for coin-freed instruments or apparatus, a
coin shoot b of angular or V shape having at its inner end an opening 62,
substantially as and for the purpose set forth.
2nd. The coin shoot b, b specified in the preceding claim, formed across its
lower part with an aperture 61, in combination with a coin lever c having a lip or
projection creaching across the said aperture, all substantially as and for the
purpose set forth.
3rd. The coin shoot b, b1, b2 and lever c, c¹, specified in the preceding claims, in
combination with a counter adapted to indicate and add up the amount of coins
inserted, all substantially as set forth.
Dated this 31st day of December 1896.
F. BOSSHARDT & Co.,
4, Corporation Street, Manchester, Agents to Applicants.
F. BOSSHARDT & Co.,
4, Corporation Street, Manchester, Agents to Applicants.