Year: 1898

page_text: I, WILLIAM SINCLAIR MACDONALD, of 181, West Regent Street, in the County
of Glasgow, North Britain, Steamboat Purser, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows, that is to say:-
My said invention has for its object the construction of improved receptacles for
money, and to thereby facilitate the collecting or receiving of fares or other pay-
ments of various kinds and provide for the systematic arrangement, and facilitate
the counting of different coins or notes and diminish liability to mistakes.
In carrying out my invention I construct what I term a cashboard for coins,
which consists of a shallow box, divided into separate compartments for the several
kinds of coin. Each compartment has fitted into it one or more removable coin
holders, and each holder is made with one or more cavities, by preference semi-
circular, of a size corresponding to the coin proper to the compartment, these
cavities being adapted to receive the coins on edge, and being of lengths suitable
for holding definite numbers of coins when full. For example, each cavity for
shillings may be of a size to hold five, ten, or twenty. The cashboard
is to be made with as many compartments as the number of different coins likely
to be dealt with. If a coin is by mistake put into a wrong compartment, its not
fitting the semicircular cavities therein, will at once indicate the error. The
cashboard may also be used in giving change and will diminish liability to making
mistakes in doing so.
From the cashboard the coins may be transferred to what I term cashmeters;
or these may be used without the cashboard. A cashmeter is a circular box divided
diametrically into halves which are hinged together, a spring catch retaining them
when closed. The cashmeters are made of diameters corresponding to the different
sizes of coins to be dealt with; and each is made of a size, measured axially, to hold
a definite number of its particular coins, as for example a shilling cashmeter to hold
ten shillings, a half-crown cashmeter to hold eight, or whatever may be considered
convenient.
The cashboard may be made with an extension formed with compartments for
bank notes of different values; or a separate cashboard for bank notes may be
provided.

page_text: I, WILLIAM SINCLAIR MACDONALD, of 181, West Regent Street, in the County
of Glasgow, North Britain, Steamboat Purser, 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, that is to say:
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My said invention has for its object the construction of improved receptacles for
money, and to thereby facilitate the collecting or receiving of fares or other pay-
ments of various kinds and provide for the systematic arrangement, and facilitate
the counting of different coins and diminish liability to mistakes.
In carrying out my invention I construct what I term a cash counter or cash-
board for coins, which consists of a shallow box, made with separate compartments
for the several kinds of coin. Each compartment has fitted into it one or more
removable coin holders, and each holder is made with one or more cavities, by
preference semicircular, of a size corresponding to the coin proper to the compart-
ment, these cavities being adapted to receive the coins on edge, and being of lengths
suitable for holding definite numbers of coins when full. For example, each cavity
for shillings may be of a size to hold five, ten, or twenty. The cash counter or cash-
board is made with as many compartments as the number of different coins likely
to be dealt with. If a coin is by mistake put into a wrong compartment, its not
fitting the semicircular cavities therein will at once indicate the error. The cash
counter or cashboard may also be used in giving change, and will diminish liability
to making mistakes in doing so.
From the cashcounter or cashboard the coins may be transferred to what I term
cashmeters; or these may be used without the cashboard; or again the cashmeters
may be placed open in cells in the cashboard and when filled may be removed there-
from and empty cashmeters substituted. A cashmeter is a circular box divided
diametrically into halves which are hinged together, a spring catch retaining them
when closed. The cashmeters are made of diameters corresponding to the different
sizes of coins to be dealt with; and each is made of a size measured axially, to hold
a definite number of its particular coins, as, for example, a shilling cashmeter to
hold ten shillings, a half-crown cashmeter to hold eight, or whatever may be con-
sidered convenient.
The cash counter or cashboard may be made with an extension formed with com-
partments for banknotes of different values; or a separate cashboard for bank notes
may be provided.
The cash counter or cashboard for coins may be made in various sizes, that is-so
as to contain a smaller or larger number of coins to suit the several business
applications for which the various sizes are made. On an accompanying sheet of
explanatory drawings what may be regarded as a comparatively small size is shown
by way of example; the construction and arrangement are however obviously
susceptible of enlargement or of variation otherwise.
Figure 1, of the drawings is a plan of the cash counter or cashboard as with the
cover removed; and Figures, 2, and 3, are longitudinal and transverse vertical
sections as with the cover closed. The other figures show modifications of details.
In these drawings the same reference letters are used to mark the same or like parts
wherever they are repeated.
Fixed in openings in a plate, A, which serves to separate the compartments and
keep them distinct there are cells, T, for three-pences, S I, for six-pences, SH, for
shillings, FL, for florins, C, for half crowns, 4 S, for four-shilling pieces, C, for

page_text: crowns, SF for small florins, P, for pence, H, for half-pence, S, for half sovereigns,
and, S, for sovereigns. Coins are indicated by dotted circles in Figure, 3, in which,
also, one each of the cells, C, and F, are shown in section exhibiting their semi-
circular form. To distinguish the cells those for silver may be silvered, those for
copper coppered or made of copper, and those for gold gilded.
Instead of the cells being made with semicircular cavities they may be simply
rectangular as shown in section in Figure, 5, to which figure, Figure, 4, is a corre-
sponding plan. The width of the rectangular cell should be equal to the diameter
of the coin it is intended for, and the depth equal to the semidiameter.
Figure, 6, is a plan and Figure, 7, is a cross section of what I have herein before
described as a cashmeter, the cashmeter being shown open. Figure, 8, is an end
view of the cashmeter in its closed state. It consists of a pair of semicylindrical
halves hinged together, and which when closed are secured by a spring clip, B,
on one side engaging with a bead, D, on the other side.
The cash counter or cashboard may be made with cells adapted to receive cash-
meters of the kind shown in Figures, 6, 7, and 8, so that the coins may be put
directly into the cashmeters which may be removed when filled, and empty ones
may be placed in the cells.
Separate cash counters or cashboards may be constructed each for coins of one
denomination. Thus for paying wages in large works a cashboard may be arranged
for containing a large number of half-sovereigns, for example, with separate cells
or holders each for 10, 20, or other convenient number.
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 construction of cash counters or cashboards substantially as herein before
described with reference to Figures 1, 2, and 3, of the accompanying drawings or
with any of the modifications hereinbefore indicated.
2. The construction and application of cashmeters substantially such as herein-
before described with reference to Figures, 6, 7, and 8, of the accompanying draw-
ings.
Dated this Twenty-fourth day of January 1899
EDMUND HUNT,
Applicant's Agent.