Improvements in Money Savings or Contribution Boxes.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd Apr., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 12th Jan., 1892-Accepted, 9th Apr., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Money Savings or Contribution Boxes.
I JOHN THOMAS MEDLICOTT BURGESS, of 64 Hunters Lane, Aston, near
Birmingham Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention relates to the construction and arrangement of parts constituting
the registering mechanism employed in connection with money savings boxes,
whereby the amounts deposited are indicated from time to time so that the amount
so deposited may be readily seen.
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In consists primarily in the combination and employment of a switch coin chute
having more than one groove with a lever action, in conjunction with a ratchet
tooth, and ratchet wheel, and a registering disc or discs.
In the box is a slot through which the coin is passed. Below this slot, and
upon the one, side is placed a double grooved or switch coin chute, capable of a
sideway movement, and down which the coins are pushed. These grooves are of a
different depth to suit coins of different size and value, and are arranged at their
upper end or entrance with an inclined switch, that should the smaller coin be passed
therein it passes down the groove which is normally presented to the entrance slot,
whereas, should the larger coin be inserted, such coin bears upon the inclined
switch, and in the pushing forward of the said coin the switch is thereby forced
sideways, so that it (the coin) may pass down the deeper_groove.
This
In combination with this double groove coin chute, I employ a lever having at
its front end provision made, so that the coins shall engage therewith when they
are passing down the coin chute aforesaid and cause a forward motion of the said
lever. Upon this lever is a tooth which engages into a ratchet wheel carried upon
a disc whose face is marked with graduated amounts, such amounts passing an
aperture in the box, so that from the exterior such amount may be read off.
lever is brought back into its normal position by means of a spring, and the disc
or discs or wheels may be steadied by means of a suitable brake. The disc or
wheel (first) may further give an intermittent motion to a second wbeel and
indicating disc, by which larger amounts may be registered. In some instances if
desired, a third disc may be operated similarly from the second, so that pence,
shillings, and pounds may be indicated when deposited.
Dated this 21st day of April 1801
CHARLES T. POWELL,
Applicant's Agent.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Money Savings or Contribution Boxes.
I JOHN THOMAS MEDLICOTT BURGESS, of 64 Hunters Lane, Aston, near
Birmingham Merchant, 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 relates to the construction and arrangement of parts constituting
the registering mechanism employed in connection with money savings boxes,
whereby the amounts deposited are indicated from time to time so that the amount
so deposited may be readily seen.
It consists in the combination and employment of a switch coin chute having
more than one groove, with a lever action, a ratchet tooth, a ratchet wheel, and a
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page_text: Fig. 4, is a rear view of the box, with the back plate removed, so as to show the
interior works.
Figs. 5, 6 & 7, are detailed edge and side and plan views of the coin
chute.
Figs. 8 & 9, are detailed front and edge views of the combined brake and
spring.
Figs. 10 & 11, are front and edge views of the operating lever.
Figs. 12, 13 & 14, are front, sectional side, and back views of the pence and
halfpence indicating disc.
Figs. 15, 16 & 17, are front, sectional side, and back views of the shillings
indicating disc.
Similar letters of reference, throughout the several views refer to the same
thing or part.
In the box A, is a slot B, through which the coin is passed. Below this
slot B, is placed a double grooved or switch coin chute C, capable of a sideway
movement, and down which the coins are pushed. These grooves D & E, are of
different depths to suit coins of different sizes and value, viz., halfpennies and pennies,
and are arranged at their upper end or entrance with an inclined switch G, so that
should the smaller (halfpenny) coin be passed therein, it passes down the groove D,
which is normally presented to the entrance slot B, but, when the larger (penny)
coin is inserted, it bears upon the inclined switch G, and in the pushing forward of
the said coin the chute is forced sideways, so that the penny may pass down the
deeper groove E. The coin chute leg U, is springy or flexible, so that it may
yield sideways.
In combination with this double groove coin chute C, I employ a lever H, having
at its front end the surface I, upon which the coins shall engage when they are
passing down the coin chute C, and cause a downward motion of the said lever H,
see Fig. 4. Upon this lever is a tooth J, which engages into a ratchet wheel K,
carried upon a disc L, whose face is marked with graduated amounts, say from one
halfpenny to eleven pence halfpenny, the record of such amounts passing an
aperture M, in the box, so that from the exterior such amount may be read off.
This disc L, may be stamped or cut from sheet metal, having upon its front face
the necessary figures or marks, or such marks or figures may be first put on paper
and thus gummed to the said disc L. This disc L, is then rivetted to the wheel K,
by rivets L', or it may be soldered thereto.
It will be seen that the graduation of the indicating marks or figures commence
at zero, and follow by a successive increase of one halfpenny, so that if the said
disc is moved through one division only an increase of deposit of one halfpenny only
is shown, but if moved through two of such divisions, an increase of deposit of one
penny is indicated.
The distance between the front of the lever at I, and the bottom of each of the
grooves D & E, is made such, that when the penny is inserted the lever with its
tooth J, is pushed forward twice the distance as when a halfpenny is inserted,
consequently the disc L, is moved correspondingly.
It will be seen that the spring N, and the brakes O and O', are all made and
combined in one piece; the spring N, acting upon the lever H, in order to always
return it to its receiving position, and the brake O, serving to steady and preserve
the wheel K, with its disc L, from unintentional motion; while the brake O',
serves the wheel P, in a similar manner. The projections O³, are passed into
corresponding holes in the front plate of the box A, and rivetted or bent over &c.,
to secure the said brakes and spring thereto.
If desired only one disc L, may be used to indicate pence and halfpence, or in

page_text: some cases, this wheel K, may further give an intermittent motion to a second
wheel P, and indicating disc Q, by which larger amounts may be registered. This
wheel P, has the arms S, raised upon its surface, and further, has the disc Q,
gummed or otherwise attached to its front. Upon the disc L, is an outstanding
projection R, which in every revolution comes in contact with one of the arms S,
upon the wheel P, and pushes it forward one division, and leaves the succeeding
arm in a similar position for a repeat operation from the projection R, when the
disc I, has made another revolution. Thus upon inserting a halfpenny coin down
the slot B, the lever H, is pushed forward and the tooth J, moves the disc L, so
that a halfpenny is registered through the aperture M. If a penny coin is inserted,
the coin chute is pushed to the one side to allow of its passing down the E,
groove
when the lever H, is pushed forward as before, and the disc L, registers this
addition through the aperture, and so ou until a shilling is about to be registered.
When the deposits complete or exceed a shilling, the projection R, presses
against and moves forward one of the arms S, on wheel P, so that one shilling will
be registered through the aperture T. As for instance, when eleven pence las
been inserted, and the next contribution is one peuny, or two successive half pennies,
the disc Q, registers one shilling and the disc L, nought. But if eleven pence
halfpenny has been inserted, and then a penny is inserted the disc Q, will be moved
to indicate a shilling, but the disc L, will have been moved sufficiently far to
also indicate one halfpenny, thus registering one shilling and a halfpenny.
In reference to the manner of marking the ilisc Q, it will be seen that,
commencing say at 1, that a smaller figure 1, follows it, and also that a similar
small figure 1, preceeds the larger figure 2. The object of this is that when the
projection R, engages with one of the arms S, upon the wheel P, (which as before
intimated moves as one with the disc Q,) it takes perhaps more than one insertion
to move the disc Q, from one large figure to the next: hence, between the large
figures 1, and 2, small figures 1, 1, are placed, thereby indicating that the preceding
indicating figure was 1. This same arrangement is carried out between each of
the successive large figures and for the same purpose.
I do not claim that the coin chute by itself is new, nor that indicating disc
operated by levers, nor the manner of marking them are new, and therefore I do
not claim these parts broadly, but,
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is :-
In money savings boxes, the combination of the slot B, apertures M, and T, the
moveable coin chutes D, and E, having the inclined switch guide G, with the
operating lever H, having the surface L, and tooth J, operating the wheels K,
and P, and discs L, and Q, as set forth and for the purpose specified.
Dated this 11th dow of January 1899
CHARLES T. POWELL,
12, Cherry Street, Birmingham, Applicant's Agent.