Improvements in or relating to Automatic Money-changing Apparatus.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 16th Oct., 1895-Accepted, 18th Jan., 1856
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Automatic Money-changing
Apparatus.
1, CARL BERZDORF Salzmagasin Cöln a/Rh. Empire of Germany, 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 apparatus, represented in the annexed drawing, serves for the automatic
changing of money, inasmuch as, after the coin to be changed has been inserted the
apparatus gives out a corresponding number of coins of smaller value, (e.g., in
exchange for a 1-mark piece, ten 10-pfennig pieces: for a 50-pfennig piece,
5 10-pfennig pieces).
The apparatus is especially adapted for combination with automatic sale and
delivery apparatus such as are known as "coin-freed" machines," of all kinds, so
that whoever may desire to have recourse to one of these, and has no small change,
can obtain some by means of this invention.
Figure 1 is a sectional elevation and
Figure 2 a plan of the operative parts of the apparatus the working and
construction of which are as follows:-
The coins to be supplied as change are piled up in the pipe or tubular
magazine a.
Now, if the coin to be changed is inserted into the apparatus by the slot c
it will drop into the shovel or scoop d carried on one arm of a two-armed lever e
which in the weighted position of the said scopis counterbalanced by the
adjustable counterpoise on its other arm. As soon as the coin falls into the scoop,
coin and scoop drop down, together with the lever which is secured to the
spindle g into the vertical position, as indicated by the dotted lines in Figure 1;
whereby the gear train and k rotates partially in the several directions shown
by the errows. Thereby the hand-lever pivotted on to the main frame is
released by the stop-lever o pivotted at n and in connection with the toothed-
wheel (of the gear train) so that the handle in can be moved literally as shown
by the arrow in Figure 2.
Connected with the hand lever m on the other side of the pivot-point / is the
plate provided with an opening communicating with the coin-magazine and
having a thickness equal to the height of the pile of smaller coin which must be
given out simultaneously, as change for the coin pushed in at the lite. Then, by
the lateral movement of the hand-lever m in the direction of the arrow, the change-
coins contained in the plate bare brought over an opening in the bottom-plate of
the apparatus and issue thence, dropping into the holders from which they can be
taken at the outside of the apparatus.
is a lever which is in the path of part of the said wheel at one end, and is
firmly fixed at the other on a pin m² carried by the plate b, being secure at that
end to a short projection u fixed on the same pin and constituting with that arm t
a sort of double projection with unequal arms and having a downward pro-
Fection from the arm which projection engages with the lever e pivotted to the
main frame of the machine on a pin te. This levere is caused by the projection =
when the projections t u are operated by the wheel to rotate on the pivot-pin te,
and strain the spring the latter being connected to the main frame at one end
and to the lever at the other. So soon as, on further rotation, the projection and
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therefore the projection z releases the one arm of the lever by passing clear of
the end of it, the other arm with the cosperation of the reacting spring tlies
back so that it strikes against the coin in the depressed scoop (see Figure 1
showing the parts in readiness) whereby the coin is jerkel out of the scoop, and
drops into a electing-box while the rebased sempe is caused by the counter-
balance to assume its primary horizontal position, whereupon the lever o
assumes its original position and the projection passes again into the position,
relatively to the lever in which it is shown in Figure 2 because when the
lever is in the position in which it is seen in that figure the springe is neither
extended nor compressed and consequently after operating the lever to act on
the coin, it retains the said lever in about the position shown in Figure 2, merely
yielding to allow the projection to pass to the rear of the lever under the
influence of the spring.
The plate may also have a completely circular form and be provided with
several openings, so that, as soon as the opening is brought over the outlet-
opening to discharge its contents, the next opening in sequence on plate & would
lie exactly underneath the pipe-magazine a. The plate in such case would
be made to undergo a continuous rotation, which could be brought about, either
by means of a hand-lever to be operated from outside the machine, or by chuck-
work, released by the movements of the scoop-lever, continually renewed by the
introduction of fresh coins to the changed.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, 1 declare that what !
claim is :-
1. An apparatus for the automatic changing of money, wherein in exchange
for a given coin its equivalent in coins of smaller individual value is given out
the said change in small coin being starel in a magazine a in the apparatus
whence they drop out into a plate 6 through an opening in the plate whose
thickness or depth is arranged to be the equivalent of the height of the pile of
coins to be given in exchange for a specific coin. imultaneously, these coins
being thereupon by means of the rotation of the plate & brought about either
by motion of the lever m when released from a stop in consequence of a coin to be
changed being introduced through a slot, or by el ek work brought over a holder
so that they may drop into the same a d be then removed at the outside of the
apparatus.
2. Automatic money-changing apparatus wherein mechanism operated by the
insertion of a coin unlocks manually-operated coin-delivering apparatus which
latter actuates a spring percussion device such as e to restore the coin-operated
mechanism to its normal position substantially as described.
3. The combination and arrangement of parts constituting automatic money-
changing apparatus substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated in the
accompanying diawings,
Dated this 16th day of October 1895.
BOULT & WADE,
Agents for the Applicant.