An Improved Apparatus for Determining the Amount of Coin Contained in a Cash-box.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 31st Oct., 1890-Accepted, 24th Jan., 1891
An Improved Apparatus for Determining the Amount of Coin
Contained in a Cash-box.
I, JACOB HOCK of Deggendorf, in the Kingdom of Bavaria, Empire of Germany
Revenue Official, 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 :—
The object of this invention is an improvement on the apparatus embodied in my
application for Letters Patent No. 5539 dated April 11th 1890. In this apparatus
the coins formed into columns in the grooves a a could be measured group-fashion,
viz. in round sums, usual for forming coin rolls, by means of marks provided on the
bottom of each groove or, for ascertaining any contents of a groove, by means of a
special measuring tool. The first mentioned measuring was therefore always restricted
to equal amounts, and any surplus or deficiency in the contents of the grooves could
only be approximately ascertained. To exactly determine the amount of coin
contained in the groove by means of a measuring tool, a scale is required for con-
verting the measures of length into the value-figures of the measured quantity
of coin.
By means of the improvements forming the subject of the present application, any
quantity of coin can be measured in the groove without the measuring tool and scale,
and without the necessity of taking the coins out of the receptacle, by means of slide-
like plates; the value of the coins can be read off in numerals of value.
The flap c. e. at the receptacle mouth is dispensed with, the introduction of the coins
into a roll having been rendered superfluous by the device constituting the subject of
my application for Letters Patent No. 15350 dated September 27th 1890. The
receptacle with the grooves having been moreover described in the Specification to
the first mentioned application, one only of a number of grooves forming a receptacle
is represented in the accompanying drawing, in which
Fig. 1. is a top view of the groove.
Fig. 2. the same showing the coin column as shifted forward to be measured.
Fig. 3. a longitudinal section to Fig. 2.
Fig. 4. a cross section along line A. B. Fig. 1.
As shewn, the bottom of groove a, on which the coins rest with their rim, has a
slot extending over its whole length. Below this slot a plate c. is provided which
slides on flanges b. b. and projects in front outwardly through the face e. of the
groove, while it carries at its rear end a perpendicular plate d. moving in the
groove. This plate, which is rigidly connected by a neck or connecting piece with
plate c, forms with the latter a slide guided on b. b. and by said connecting piece in
the slot of the groove. The plate c. provided with a value scale, that is to say:
at distances corresponding to the thickness of the respective sort of coin, lines are
made, and numerals are provided which designate the money value corresponding to
the number of lines. The fore end of the plate may also show in large characters
the sort of coin contained in the groove. The width of the slide plate admits of good
size and great distinctness of the numerals for each single coin.
The value of the quantity of coin to be measured is read off in front of e. by the
first visible number. The thickness of the face side of the tube must be considered
when making the scale, for which reason a space corresponding to such thickness and
in addition a space corresponding to the thickness of the coin, must be left unmarked
near plate d.
To measure a quantity of coin contained in the groove, the plate at the fore end
of the receptacle is merely drawn out, so that the coins are shifted firmly together
toward the fore end. Subsequently the numeral is noticed which is visible close to

page_text: the face plate e, this numeral indicating precisely the number of coins enclosed in
the receptacle. The contents of a cash box can thus be ascertained without the latter
being removed from its place for instance from the cash-cupboard or safe.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, 1 declare that what I
claim, is:
A circular or semi-circular groove or shell corresponding in inner diameter to the
respective coin and having at the bottom a longitudinal slot, said groove or shell,
which serves as a coin receptacle, having underneath a plate e with value scale, and con-
taining a movable plate d, said two plates being rigidly connected with each other by a
neck or connecting piece and constituting together a slide guided with said connecting
piece in the slot, the amount of coin contained in the groove being determinable by
the scale of the slide, when the latter is drawn outwardly whereby the coins are
placed together in the front portion of the groove, substantially as set forth.
Dated this
100020010
Сир асто
1630.
JACOB HOCK.
Per Huelser & Co.,
Temple Chambers, London, his Agents.