Coin-freed Machine for Dating and Delivering Tickets or Vouchers for the Receipt of Money.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 8th July, 1899
Complete Specification Left, 9th Apr., 1900-Accepted, 19th May, 1900
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Coin-freed Machine for Dating and Delivering Tickets or Vouchers
for the Receipt of Money.
1, PERCY HEAD BAILY, of 55, New Broad Street, in the City of London, Gentle-
man, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
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My invention relates to coin freed mechanism for dating and delivering
tickets or vouchers for the receipt of money, and has for its object to provide a
machine for automatically carrying on the business of deposit banking, insurance
and so forth on the penny in the slot principle.
For this purpose it is necessary that the date of issue of the ticket or voucher
(together if required with a serial number) be imprinted. or impressed thereon
and the improvements of this invention are designed to accomplish this result.
The invention therefore consists mainly in the combination with any suitable
coin freed delivery mechanism (by which tickets may be delivered in succession
through the medium of coins successively introduced) of dating (or dating and
numbering mechanism) adapted to be brought into operation for the purpose
of dating (or dating and numbering) a ticket previous to delivery thereof by
the pulling out of the delivery slide or drawer and of chronometric mechanism
whereby the type wheels of the dating mechanism will be automatically adjusted
erery 24 hours.
For this purpose the dating mechanism will be mounted beneath the column
of tickets, in a movable frame adapted to be raised by an inclined cam carried
by or in connection with the delivery slide, so as to thereby imprint the lower-
most ticket of the column immediately before the push plate comes into action
to eject the ticket which it does only after the dating mechanism has been
allowed to fall back. On the return movement of the delivery slide the dating
mechanism is unacted on by the cam.
The mechanism for readjusting the type wheels or bands of the dating
mechanism from day to day, consists of a clock in combination with a snail cam
making one revolution every 24 hours, and acting on a lever carrying a driving
pawl adapted to engage ratchet teeth on the day of the month number wheel,
the lever being moved in opposition to a spring or weight during the rovolution
of the cam and allowed by the cam to suddenly oscillate at midnight, the slow
movement being the return and the quick movement the working stroke,
whereby the adjustment of the date wheel is effected. The same chronometric
mechanism may be applied to effect the adjustment of the dating mechanisms
of one or several sets of coin freed ticket or voucher delivery apparatus, the
pawl levers being on a common aliaft operated from the same cam and clock.
The setting of the month type wheel or band of the dating mechanism, at the
end of each month and the necessary adjustment of the day of the month
wheel, to bring it into accordance with the calendar might be effected by hand,
or preferably by the provision of what may be termed an annual wheel in the
nature of a locking plate or a cam graduated according to the relative lengths
and sequence of the twelve months of the year, whereby the propelment of the
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page_text: dating mechanism would he actuated so as to bring about the shifting of the
month type wheel and at same time the advancement of the day of the month
type wheels to the necessary extent to alter the date from the last day of a
month of less than 31 days to the first day of the ensuing month.
The serial numbering wheels (if any) would be shifted by ratchet mechanism
through the action of the delivery slide or drawer, the change being effected
preferably by the return movement of the slide.
The tickets would however, for purposes of control usually be serially num-
bered before being placed in the machine and in order to guard against fraud
by the insertion of metal discs other than coins, the latter on being released from
the delivery slide would be so guided as to be superposed in columnar form in
regular order, so that the serial number of the ticket or youclier issued in respect
of each can be readily ascertained.
Dated thin 011. L
£TI 1.000
Coin-freed Machine for Dating and Delivering Tickets or Vouchers
for the Receipt of Money.
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I, PERCY HEAD BAILY, of 85, New Broad Street, in the City of London,
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 relates to coin freed mechanism for dating and delivering
tickets or vouchers attesting the receipt of money, and has for its object to pró-
vide a machine for automatically carrying on the business of deposit banking,
insurance, and so forth on the "penny in the slot" principle.
For this purpose it is necessary that the date of issue of the ticket or voucher
be imprinted thereon, and the improvements of this invention are designed to
accomplish this result.
The invention therefore consists mainly in the combination with any suitable
coin freed delivery mechanism (by which tickets may be delivered in succession
through the medium of coins successively introduced) of dating mechanism
adapted to be brought into operation, for the purpose of dating a ticket previous
to delivery thereof, by the pulling out of the delivery slide or drawer, and of
chronometric mechanism whereby the type wheels of the dating mechanism
will be automatically adjusted every 24 hours.
Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming part of this
- specification wherein Figure 1 is a sectional side elevation of a
penny in the
slot machine embodying my invention, and Figure 2 is a front view of the
machine arranged as a double machine, that is to say, provided with two drawers
or, slides, the left hand lower portion of the figure being in section on line 1-1
Figure 1, and the right hand lower portion being in section on line 2-2
Figure 1. Portions of the machine are broken out in both views so as to reduce
the height.
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A is the casing of the machine, the upper portion of which contains a clock B
whose face B is exhibited in front of the casing, whilst the lower portion con-
tains one or more slides or drawers C for the delivery of tickets, two such slides
placed side by side being shewn in Figure 2 which illustrates a form of machine

page_text: suitable for the transaction of (say) both insurance and banking business. The
tickets to be delivered are stored in a vertical column as at D in the front of
the casing A immediately above the delivery slide C, the column resting upon
a plate which closes the bottom of the ticket well A', and the flatness of the
tickets and their descent in the well A (as successive tickets are withdrawn
from the bottom of the column) being ensured by a weight which rests on
the top of the column. The slide C when drawn outwards effects the delivery
of the lowermost ticket of the column 1 (after the operation of printing the
date etc., has been performed) by means of a horizontal ejector plate E which
is attached at e by its rear edge to the fear end of the slide Cand thence pro-
jects forward so as to be adapted to engage the rear edge of the ticket d (after
traversing a distance sufficient to permit of the printing operation being effected
as hereafter described) and to thrust said ticket out from under the column by
a forward movement," the ticket being delivered through a slit a in front of
the casing.
The ejector E is made of a plate very slightly thinner than a ticket so as to
avoid the possibility of the plate engaging more than one ticket at a time, and
in order to ensure the ejector striking accurately against the rear edge of the
ticket, the plate E is guided through a rearwardly flaring slit e¹ at the back
of the ticket well A', the bottom of said slit being formed by a rearward exten-
sion of the plate D on which the tickets rest and the slit being of such a depth
as to only just give passage to the plate E.
The slide C is provided at the front end with a handle by which it may be
pulled out or returned, and is normally prevented from being drawn out by the
engagement of the foremost tooth f of a rack Fattached to the inner face of
one of the side flanges of the box-like slide C, with a detent g on the front end
of a lever G pivoted on a transverse horizontal axis at the rear of the casing.
The lever G carries a downwardly projecting spring H which rests on a short
arm projecting rearwardly from a horizontal shaft I mounted in bearings i
in the frame A of the machine and extending transversely of and beneath the
front end of the slide C, so that when the shaft I is rotated in the forward
direction as hereinafter explained, the consequent raising of the armi h lifts the
lever G so far as to enable the detent .to ride over the tooth f. The forward
rotation of the shaft I is effected through the agency of the coin by which pay-
ment is made for the ticket, as follows:-In the horizontal plate I (forming
part of the frame A of the machine) over which the slide C passes when drawn
out, is formed a transverse slot close in front of the forward end
of the slide, this slot (when uncovered by the slide being pushed
back home) just admitting of the coin K being dropped through it so as to be
received and supported vertically on edge as shewn, in a slot formed in a cross
bar k carried by and moving as one with the slide but beneath the plate J, the
cross bar forming a bridge piece uniting the forward end of a pair of arms
which project downwards and forwards, from the side plates c of the slide C.
The coin when in this position rests upon the shaft I or upon a stop carried
thereby as shewn and against the rear side of an arm projecting vertically
from the shaft I. When the slide C is in the closed position as shewn in
Figure 2, there is sufficient clearance between the detent 9 and the foremost
tooth f of the rack F to permit of the slide being drawn forward a short dis
tance, say about a quarter of an inch as indicated, before the further progress
of the slide is checked by the tooth encountering the detent g. Consequently
when the coin K has been dropped through the slot into the position shewn,
the clearance between g and permits of the slide being drawn out until the
coin is brought to the position indicated by dotted lines in Figure 1, the coin,
as it moves forward with the slide, pressing against the arm and causing the
shaft I to rotate in the forward direction, thus raising the armi h by a corre-
sponding angular movement and, through the medium of spring H, lifting the
lever G so far as to allow of the detent'g riding over the upper side of the teeth of
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page_text: the rack F. These teeth are bevelled on their forward edge as shewn at f¹ whilst
the detent is correspondingly bevelled on its under face, which in length
slightly exceeds the distance between adjacent teeth of the rack, so that the
detent cannot, as the slide is drawn out, drop so far between the teeth f as to
again check the forward movement of the slide, which can therefore be drawn
out to its full extent as soon as the lever G has once been lifted as described.
The slide must however be drawn out to the full extent before it can be returned,
any attempt to close the slide when partially drawn out being frustrated by the
engagement of the outer end of the detent with the inner end of whichever
tooth of the rack F said detent may first encounter.
When the slide C has been fully drawn out, and the ticket delivered, the
detent g drops again to its former level in the same plane with the rack F so
that the slide may be returned to the closed position, 'the upper bevelled face of
the detent pressing during the return movement against the lower side of the
teeth of rack F, and preventing any attempt to again draw out the slide after
the return movement has commenced, by the engagement of the inner end of
the detent with the outer end of whichever tooth of the rack said detent may
first encounter.
When the slide C has been drawn out so far as to bring the coin K to or just
beyond the position indicated by dotted lines in Figure 1, the coin ceases to be
supported by the arm and therefore falls into the receptacle provided for it as
hereafter described. thus permitting the shaft I with the arms 7 and to he
returned to normal position under the pressure due to the weight of lever G
acting through spring H. When in normal position an arm on shaft I (which
may be the arm h) rests against a stop h¹ on the frame of the machine and
affords a fixed abutment for spring H during the inward travel of the slide C
when the detent presses against the underside of the rack teeth as above
described. The axis on which the lever G is pivoted, is placed in aligument
with the teeth of rack F as shewn, so as to permit the vibratory movements of
the detent to take place virtually in a plane perpendicular to that in which
the rack Flies, by which arrangement undercutting of the teeth of the rack
is rendered unnecessary and the smooth working together of the rack and detent is
ensured, the operation of the rack and detent being similar for each direction
of motion of the slide.
The coin K on being released from the delivery slide C at the commence-
ment of the forward movement of the latter, falls into a vertical tubular recep-
tacle M having a flaring mouth m. This receptacle M is suspended by a pair of
chains m from the underside of the horizontal plate J, these chains being so
arranged as to permit of the cross bar & and arms attached to the slide C.
passing between them. The coin K being held in the slot in the cross bar k
vertically on edge, tends to fall edgewise down the tube M. and in order to pre-
vent the coin, after it strikes the flat bottom m² of the tube, or the last intro-
duced coin, from remaining either on edge or in an inclined position, means
are provided whereby the tube M is so shaken as to compel the coin to rest in
the horizontal position. These means comprise first, a projection (preferably a
light spring) such as attached to the cross bar and adapted to strike against
one of the chains in passing, so as to cause the tube M to vibrate somewhat
violently as the coin falls, and secondly, a fixed buffer ring or series of buffer
stops such as N surrounding the lower part of the tube M and adapted, by limit-
ing the vibratory movement of the tube, to communicate to the latter a series
of shocks which effectually prevent the coin from coming to rest until it has
assumed the horizontal position.
The tube M is so formed as to render the contents visible without removal
from the tube, so as to enable the column of coins to be visible as a whole so
that the serial number of any ticket which may have been obtained by the
fraudulent use of a disc other than a coin of the realm, or by the use of a coin
of a wrong value, can at once be identified and recorded in order that payment

page_text: on presentation of the ticket so obtained may be stopped. The tube M might
be of metal with a slip of glass let into the side throughout its length, but
would preferably be formed entirely of glass, and be provided with a pad m³ of
felt or other soft or elastic material at bottom to prevent breakage of the glass
by deadening the shock due to the first coins introduced fulling the whole
length of the tube, which must be considerable in consequence of the necessity
for providing room for as many coins superposed upon one another as there are
tickets for sale in the column D. The tube M is made removable to facilitate
examination of its contents, and also to enable the tube to be emptied. For
this purpose the tube might be attached to the chains m¹ by means of hooks on
the chains engaging with holes in the lip of the flaring mouthpiece m, or, as
shewn in the drawings, by the chains m being coupled to ears m projecting
laterally from a collar M through which the tube M is passed, the collar sup-
porting the tube by its engagement with the shoulder formed by the flaring
mouth m, and the tube being removable either by unhooking the chains m¹ from
the ears. m or by withdrawing the tube bodily from the collar M.
The printing mechanism whereby each ticket is printed with the date imme-
diately before delivery, comprises a set of type wheels supported beneath an
opening in the plate D upon which rests the coluinn of tickets D, the wheels
being mounted to rotate side by side on a transverse horizontal axis o journalled
between a pair of lever arms O pivoted upon a transverse horizontal axis o' in
rear of the slide so that in the operation of printing, when the type wheels O
are raised through said opening into contact with the bottom ticket d of the
column D, the upward movement of the wheels is in a direction substantially
perpendicular to the surface of the ticket. This upward movement of the type
wheels at the moment of printing is produced by means of a pair of inclined
cams P pivoted at p and resting on stops p on the inner faces of the side
plates of the slide C, the cams P extending parallel to the direction of motion
of the slide C so as, at the commencement of the outward movement of the
slide, and before the ejector plate E has encountered the bottom ticket d, to
raise the lever arms by passing beneath a pair of lugs projecting laterally
from said lever arms. The cams P are of such length as to pass clear of the
lugs o before the forward edge of the ejector plate E meets the ticket d, and
the cams P are prevented from again raising the arms during the return move-
ment of the slide, by themselves then riding up over the lugs o³, the meeting
edges of the cams and lugs being suitably bevelled.
The rotation of the day of the month type wheel is effected step by step at
intervals of 24 hours by a corresponding angular movement communicated to
a ratchet wheel Q rotating as one with that particular type wheel, by means of
a spring pressed pawl carried by one arm R of a bell crank lever fulcrumed
on the axis o in such manner as to be capable of angular movement about said
axis independently of the lever arms O pivoted on the same axis. The other
arm R of the bell crank lever rests against the surface of a snail cam S which
is caused by the clock B to rotate once in 24 hours, the rotation of the cam S
gradually bringing the pawl q into position to act upon the ratchet wheel Q.
which it does suddenly under the impulse of a springs so as to instantaneously
actuate the type wheels 0 at the moment (12 o'clock midnight) when the step
of the cam passes beneath the end of the lever R which is in contact with
the cam. Rotation of the type wheels in the reverse direction is prevented by
means of a spring detent pawl g¹ engaging with the teeth of the ratchet wheel Q
which is in one with each type wheel 0, the several pawls q appertaining to the
various type wheels being carried by a cross bar attached to the two lever
arms 01
When the lever arms 0¹ supporting the type wheels 0, and ratchet wheel Q,
are raised by the drawing out of the slide C, they engage with and lift, by means
of a pin r, the lever R, so that there being no relative motion between the pawl g
and ratchet wheel Q, no angular movement of the latter takes place, the spring 8

page_text: merely yielding to allow the end of lever R' to be temporarily lifted out of
contact with the cam S.
The setting of the month type wheel of the dating mechanism, at the end of
each month and the necessary adjustment of the day of the month wheel, to
bring it into accordance with the calendar would be effected by hand.
The same chronometric mechanism may be applied to effect the adjustment of
the dating mechanism of one or several sets of coin freed ticket or voucher
delivery apparatus, the pawl levers being on a common shaft operated from the
same cam and clock.
The type wheels O are made to produce an inked impression by means of an
inking ribbon T presented immediately beneath the opening in the plate I)
through which the type wheels O pass upwards at the moment of printing. The
ribbon T is preferably endless as shewn, and in the case of a double machine as
illustrated in Figure 2 is stretched over four rollers carried by the frame of the
machine, and serves for the printing of both sets of tickets. Of these rollera
the two upper ones ttare idle, whilst the lower ones U U. are rotated, the one or
the other, by the action of pulling out the one or the other of the
two slides C, so as to cause 2. fresh portion of the ribbon to be
presented between the type and the ticket each time a delivery takes place. For
this purpose each of the lower rollers U rotates as one with a ratchet wheel V.
which is rotated, step by step at each withdrawal of the adjacent slide, by means
of a spring pressed pawl carried by a lever V pivoted on the axis of the
ratchet wheel V. .On the withdrawal of the slide the lever is oscillated
so as to cause the pawl to actuate the wheel against the stress of a spring w;
by a cam surface W on one of the arms on the slide C. coming against a
bevelled head to on the lever V¹.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that
what we claim is:-
1. The herein described combination with coin-freed ticket delivery mechanism
of chronometrically advanced ticket dating mechanism adapted to be operated,
for the purpose of dating the ticket, by the motion of the delivery mechanism,
substantially as described.
2. In the herein described coin-freed ticket delivery and dating mechanism,
the combination with the delivery 'slide of mechanism for causing the inking
ribbon to be shifted by the motion of the delivery slide substantially as
specified.
3. In a coin-freed ticket delivery mechanism a coin receptacle in the form of
a vertical tube adapted to receive and collect the coins in columnar form and
permit of ready inspection as described.
4. In a coin-freed ticket delivery. mechanism the combination with a sus-
pended coin receptacle, of means of causing the said receptacle to be agitated by
the motion of the delivery slide, so as to ensure the superposition of the coins
in columnar form, as described:
Dated this 9th
A, M. & WM., CLARK,
Chartered Patent Agents, 53, Chancery Lane, London.