A New or Improved Mechanical Money Counter or Check.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 14th War, 191-ccepted, 18th Apr., 1591
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Mechanical Money Counter or Check.
1. JAMES GAW, of 7, Miller T. Rathglen, in the County of
Lanark, North Britain, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention,
an in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement:-
This invention which relates to a new or improved mechanical money counter or
check, has for its object to provide a money counter or check which will register
pounds, shillings and pence, and which is applicable to all automatic or coinfreed
machines, turnstyles, framears, and other places where money is collected mechani-
cally. The said counter or check, owing to its construction is unreversible from the
outside and it may be worked from any motive power, or travel, whether horizontal,
perpendicular, angular, circular or other motion.
But in order that my said invention may be more readily understood, and easily
carried into effect, I will proceed to describe one method of carrying the same into
practice with reference to the accompanying drawings,
Figure 1, of which is a front view, Figure 2, a similar view with front plate of
frame and dials removed, and Figure 3, a plan with top of case removed, of a
mechanical money counter or check for counting from one penny upwards by
pennies, such as might be used in combination with an automatic or coinfreed
inachine.
Referring to the said drawings I construct of brass or other metal, a frame A,
having a front plate a, and back plate a', the said plates being suitably connected
and having provision formed in them for carrying a series of wheels, preferably
three ratchet wheels, B, B, and 13, which are mounted on spindles, and, on
the front ends of which are mounted the pointers C, C', and C³, which are in front
of the dials D, D', and D. The first of the said ratchet wheels, namely 13, has
twelve teeth, and is ncinated from the motive power by means of a pawl E, so as to
register on its dial D by means of its pointer C, up to twelve pence, upon reaching
which it moves the next ratchet wheel B' which has twenty teeth, and pointer Cl
one twentieth of a circle, through the medium of a fixed pawl F, which is
preferably secured to the boss of the wheel C, and so registers on its dial D',
one shilling, the said dial being radiated and numbered so as to represent
twenty shillings. When the said pence wheel B, has been rotated twenty times,
the shilling wheel B¹ has been rotated once and so registers one pound on the
dial D, (which in this case is radiated and numbered as to indicate up to
twenty pounds, though it may be so arranged as to indicate smaller or larger
amounts as desired,) through the medium of another similarly mounted pawl F.
The whole of the said ratchet wheels are guided and guarded by means of
suitable springs G having bent or stop ends g, which engage with the teeth of
said wheels in such a manner as only to allow of their rotation in one direction
and so prevent reversal taking place.
And in order to prevent the said working parts from being tampered with 1
preferably enclose them in a suitable metal or other material case II, preferably
having a glass front h.
The whole arrangement thus indicating from one penny to one shilling, one
shilling to one pound and one pound to twenty pounds. Though if desired I
may so arrange the mechanism as to start with any other coin than a penny, by
altering the number of teeth in the ratchet wheels.

page_text: 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 :-
1st. The general arrangement, construction and combination of the various parts
constituting my improved mechanical money counter or check, all substantially as,
and for the purposes, hereinbefore described and shown in the accompanying
drawings.
2nd. In mechanical money counters or checks, the arrangement of a spring acting
stop on each ratchet wheel, whereby the counter or check cannot be reversed, all
substantially as hereinbefore described and shown in the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 13th day of March 1891.
JOHNSONS,
115, St. Vincent Street, Glasgow, Petitioner's Agents.