An Improved Self Recording Money Box.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 24th Sept., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 15th May, 1891-Accepted, 20th June, 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Self Recording Money Box.
I, CHARLES HAY TRAISE BIKKER, Junior, of 53, Charlotte Road, Birmingham,
Warwickshire, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention consists in the herein described improved arrangement of
mechanism for use in money boxes for automatically indicating and recording the
aggregate value of the pennies or other coins of equal value placed therein.
In carrying out this invention as applied to a pence money box I provide a lever
inside the money box arranged to partly cover one end of the slot through which
the pennies pass into the box. One end of this lever is notched or otherwise formed
so as to engage with a toothed wheel which I call the pence wheel. This wheel
has 12 teeth and its face is divided into 12 equal parts numbered 0, 1, to 11 and
adjacent to this wheel is a second wheel which I call the shillings wheel. This
wheel has any convenient number of equal parts and teeth but preferably twenty so
as to indicate up to twenty shillings. A third wheel having say 10 teeth and
10 divisions on its face may be added to gear with the shillings wheel to indicate
pounds. One of the numbered divisions on the face of each of the wheels is visible
from the outside of the box through a corresponding aperture.
The act of pushing a penny into the slot forces the said lever to one side and its
notched end moves the pence wheel through or nearly through the space of one
division, the movement of this wheel being completed when the penny has passed as
the lever is then by a spring caused to resume its normal position.
The pence
shillings and pounds wheels do not gear together but the pence wheel has one long
tooth which moves the shillings wheel through the space of one tooth every time
the pence wheel has made one revolution and the shillings wheel has a similar long
tooth for operating on the pounds wheel.
When the money box is not required to indicate and record pounds the pounds
wheel is dispensed with.
A detent engages with the shillings and pounds wheels and prevents their being
moved back.
Dated this 23rd day of September 1890.
CHARLES BOSWORTH KETLEY,
Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Self Recording Money Box.
I, CHARLES HAY TRAISE BIKKER, Junior, of 53 Charlotte Road, Birmingham,
Warwickshire, Engineer, 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 consists in the herein described improved arrangement of
mechanism for use in money boxes for automatically indicating and recording the
aggregate value of the pennies or other coins of equal value placed therein.
I will describe my invention by referring to the accompanying drawing on which
Fig. 1 represents a general view of a money box constructed according to my
invention;
Fig. 2 is a sectional elevation of the same looking from the inside so as to shew
the internal mechanism ;
Fig. 3 is a sectional plan of the same across the nence slit ●

page_text: Fig. 4 shews partly the same as Fig. 2 to illustrate the action of the mechanism ;
and
Fig. 5 illustrates a modification of my invention.
In carrying out this invention as applied to the pence money box A which may
be of any convenient form I provide a lever B inside the money box arranged to
partly cover one end of the slot C through which the pennies pass into the box.
This lever turns on a fulcrum pin D. One end of this lever is notched so that the
sides of the notch will engage with an inclined toothed wheel E which I call the
This wheel, which is very similar to an escapement wheel, has
pence wheel.
12 teeth and its face is divided into 12 equal parts numbered 0, 1, to 11 and
adjacent to this wheel is a second wheel F which I call the shillings wheel. This
wheel has any convenient number of equal parts and teeth but preferably twenty as
shewn so as to indicate up to twenty shillings. A third wheel having say 10 teeth
and 10 divisions on its face may be added to gear with the shillings wheel to indicate
pounds. One of the numbered divisions on the face of each of the wheels is visible
from the outside of the box A through a corresponding aperture marked
respectively G and H.
The act of pushing a penny into the money slot C forces the lever B to one side
(see Figs. 2 and 3) and one side of its notched end catching one of the teeth of
the pence wheel E moves this wheel nearly through the space of one division, the
movement of this wheel E being completed by the lever B moving over the next
tooth (see Fig. 4) when the penny has passed the lever as the lever will then by the
The pence,
spring I be caused to resume its normal position shewn in Fig. 1.
shillings and pounds wheels (when a pounds wheel is used) do not gear together but
the pence wheel E has one long tooth e¹ which moves the shillings wheel F through the
space of one tooth every time the pence wheel E has made one revolution and when
a pounds wheel is used the shillings wheel F has a similar long tooth for operating
on the pounds wheel.
When as shewn in the drawing the money box is not required to indicate and
record pounds the pounds wheel is dispensed with.
A spring detent J engages with the shillings wheel F and another detent engages
with the pounds wheel when a pounds wheel is used and prevents their being moved
back.
When the money box is not required to indicate more than a few shillings, the
shillings wheel F may be dispensed with as in the example shewn by Fig. 5, where
the wheel E only is used and furnished with figures arranged in two circles to indicate
pence from one penny up to three shillings.
When the money box is required for coins other than shillings and pence the
wheel E is, or the wheels E and F are, divided off to suit as will be readily under-
stood.
I am aware that prior to my invention money boxes have been made in which the
coin operated indicating or recording wheels through a lever but this mechanism
was arranged and it operated differently to that hereinbefore described and illustrated
on my drawing.
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 :-
In a money box, the combination with the money slit C and one or more toothed
wheels such as E, of the lever B constructed and arranged for joint operation with
the said wheel or wheels in the manner substantially as hereinbefore described and
illustrated by the accompanying drawing.
Dated this Ninth day of May 1891
CHARLES BOSWORTH KETLEY,
Agent for the Applicant.