An IMPROVED COIN ASSORTER
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henry Woodward, of Birmingham, in the
County of Warwick, Gun Manufacturer, for the Invention of "An
IMPROVED COIN ASSORTER."
Sealed the 18th September 1874, and dated the 25th July 1874.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henry Woodward at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 25th July 1874.
I, HENRY WOODWARD, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick,
Gun Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of tho said Invention
for "AN IMPROVED COIN ASSORTER," to be as follows, that is to say :-
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This Invention consists in arranging within a box, till, drawer, or
other suitable casing a series of plates, trays, or slides perforated with
holes.
The plates are fixed one above the other, and each one is picreed with
onc sizo of hole to retain one particular coin and allow all of a smaller
size to pass through, so that by shaking the box or case the coin is
riddled, cach size into its own tray or slide. Ono cnd or side of the box

page_text: or case is made to open to allow of the trays being removed, so that
each individual description of coin may be withdrawn without mixing
with the other.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Henry Woodward in the Great Scal Patent Office
on the 23rd January 1875.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HENRY
WOODWARD, of Birmingham, the County of Warwick, Gun Manu-
facturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-fifth day of July, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in the
thirty-eighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and
successors, give and grant unto me, the said Henry Woodward, Her
special license that I, the said Henry Woodward, my executors, admini-
strators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Henry Woodward,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree
with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter
during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make,
uso, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for
"AN IMPROVED COIN ASSORTER," upon the condition (amongst others) that
I, the said Henry Woodward, my executors or administrators, by an
instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and
seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said
Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and
cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six
calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Henry Woodward, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement, that is to say :-
This Invention consists in arranging within a box, till, drawer, or

page_text: other suitable casing a series of plates, trays, or slides perforated with
holes.
The plates are fixed one above the other, and each one is pierced with
one size of hole to retain one particular coin and allow all of a smaller
size to pass through, so that by shaking the box or case the coin is
riddled, each size into its own tray or slide. One end or side of the box
or case is made to open to allow of the trays being removed, so that cach
individual description of coin may be withdrawn without mixing with
the other.
I will now proceed to describe my Invention more fully in detail by
aid of the Drawings hereunto annexed, reference being had to the
letters and figures marked thereon. Fig. 1 is a closed view, Fig. 2 an
open view, and Fig. 3 a vertical section of a cash-box or case fitted with
my improved means for assorting coin, consisting of a series of plates,
trays, drawers, or slides (a) perforated with holes which may be round,
as shewn, or angular if desired.
to.
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The series of plates, trays, drawers, or slides (a) are fixed one above
the other by suitable means, and each one is pierced with a size of hole
to retain a particular description of coin, and so as to allow all coins of
a smaller size to pass through, for instance the plate or tray, Fig. 4,
will be above that shewn in Fig. 5, and by preference I emboss or raise
the spaces between the holes, as shewn in Figs. 3, 4, and 5, marked (6)
to assist the falling through of smaller coin on to other plates or
trays.
By the arrangement described, to complete the assorting of the coin it
will merely be requisite to shake the box or case, when the coin will be
riddled, each size into its own tray or slide, and as shewn in Fig. 2. One
end or side (c) of the box or caso is made to open to allow of the trays
or slides (a) being removed, thus each individual description of coin may
be withdrawn without mixing with the remainder.
;
My improved means for assorting coin may be applied to any con-
venient form of one or more boxes, tills, drawers, receptacles, or other
casing for containing the trays or slides already described.
Fig.6_is_a_plan,-Fig. 7- a longitudinal-section;-and-Fig-S-an-end-
clevation of my improvements as applied to a banker's shovel. (d) is the
ordinary shovel bottom having raised sides (d') and fixed liandle (ē);

page_text: upon the shovel (d) is attached with a hinged joint (f) a second
perforated shovel or plate (9) also having raised sides (9'). The shovel
(9) is held down upon the bottom of the lower shovel (d) by means of
a strong suitable spring (h), when in use the coin is shovelled on to the
upper perforated shovel or plate (g), when the smaller coin will pass
through the perforations into the lower shovel (d) and the coin will be
thus assorted. To remove the smaller coin from the bottom shovel (d)
the thumb-picce (i) must be pressed down, causing the upper shovel or
plate (g) to be raised from the lower shovel (d), and thus the coin con-
tained in each shovel may be separately removed therefrom.
Having thus described the object and nature of my said Invention,
and the manner in which the same is to be carried into effect, I claim,
without limiting myself to these precise details, the improved arrange-
ment for assorting coin by means of one or a series of perforated plates,
trays, drawers, or slides arranged within a box, till, receptacle, or other
suitable casing, substantially in manner as herein moro fully set forth
and specified.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henry Woodward, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twenty-first day of January, One
thousand eight hundred and seventy-five.