US1243619A - Coin-register. - Google Patents

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M. H. MANDELBAUM.

COIN REGISTER.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 3. I913- 1',243,619. Patented Oct. 16, 1917.

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COIN REGISTER.

APPLICATXON FILED FEB. 3, 1913.

1,243,619. Patented Oct. 16, 1917.

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UNITE STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MAURICE H. MANDELBAUM, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

COIN-REGISTER.

To all whom it may concern: Be it known that I, MAURICE H. MANDEL- nAuM, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State, of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Coin-Regis'ters, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to coin registering mechanism involving what I believe to be a novel principle of operation.

In all registering mechanism with which I am familiar, particularly that class where coins are inserted within the mechanism, registration is effected either by the dropping of the coin or by the manipulation of some member necessarily operated as a part of the use of the instrument to effect registration.

In my construction, which relates particularly to coin registers, the coins may be deposited and the instrument relieved of all its functions, this without actuating the register mechanism, the latter being eiiected only as and when the coin is withdrawn and the construction being 'such that it is impossible to withdraw a coin Without actuating the register.

This new principle of construction enables the use of .register mechanisms where a coin or token is employed in a great many situations where such use was impractical. As for example, in coin operated registers used in telephones of a certain class, the operator must be provided with a coin of a designated size or Witha token and the operation of using the telephone efiects the registration. In certain classes of fare registers also the passenger deposits a coin in the register and the insertion of the coin actuates the register mechanism.

In my device the coins may be inserted to any number, within a suitable receptacle, and the register mechanism remains unaffected until the coins are withdrawn which they may be by the user or custodian of the .instrument at any time, the registration being 'efiected by the fact that upon each with drawal the registering mechanism is actuated and therefore settlement must be made according to the record thus produced.

I have designed as illustrative of my device a simple form of mechanism comprising a lobked receptacle which may be a fare register, a register box forv an automatic telephone, or any of a plural ty of o her de- Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 16, 1917.

Application 11166. February 3, 1913. Serial No. 745,765.

vices of this sort, and which comprises essentially only a coin receptacle, a registering mechanism comprising register wheels and an actuating key which effects the discharge of the coins one at a time and at the same time and simultaneously actuates the re ister.

y invention will be more readily understood by reference to the accompanying drawings, wherein,

Figure 1 is a vertical section through a coin receptacle and ejecting mechanism such as contemplated by me; V

Fig. 2 is a similar View showing a portion of the registering mechanism;

Fig. 3 is a plan view partly in section of the construction shown in Fig. 2;

Fig. 4 is a transverse vertical section;

Fig. 5 is a detail end elevation of the register mechanism.

Referring more particularly to the drawings, it will be seen that in one embodiment of my invention I provide a receptacle 10, having a closure 11, which, may be locked or sealed if desired. Within this receptacle I mount the registering and receiving mechaprovided with a slot 14, through which the coins may be inserted. This slot may be protected by a spring 15, to prevent the removal of the coins therethrough. The bottom of the tube is notched as at 16, the notch occupying a space equal to the width of the coin to be removed therethrough. The tube rests on a support 17 on which the coins in the tube also rest. The means for. ejecting the coins from the tube may consist of an ejector 18, pivoted at 19, and arranged for limited oscillation against a coil spring 20. This ejector is pivoted to a plunger 21, mounted in suitable ways 22, carried by a frame 23, supported in the receptacle 10, on the standards 24. This plunger 21 is normally held in retracted position by means of a coiled spring 25. The plunger rests on the roller bearings 26, by'means of which frictional resistance is largely eliminated. The means for causing the forward moveme t of J 28 extends into the slot 33, formed in the plunger 21, the diagonal face of the vertical plunger normally resting against a roller 34. lit will be seen that when the key 30 is dep essed, the plunger 21 is advanced carrying a the ej ctor 18, which ejector norm lly is seated behind the coin 35, in the bottom of the tube 18. Thereby the coin is ejected and falls to the door of the recepta ole it).

means for registering the number of coins ejected from the tube 13, and also as means preventing the accidental dis- ..ent of any such coins ll provide a "voted 37, to the cross piece 17, d with a lug 38, projecting into ne tube l3, and lying in the )ortmn '16 thereof. Thus a coin be ejected from. the tube without placing the lug 38 rocking the arm 36. The opposite end of the arm 36 has pivoted thereto a linlr 39, connected to a rocker d0, pivoted at 41 to a bracket 42, secured to a portion oi the frame 23. @ne arm of the rocker l0 projects into an opening in a lever la/best shown in Fig. 5, which lever is mounted for oscillation on a shaft A, which shaft (3 ies number wheels 4:5, i6, constituting the registering mechanism. Also carried on the shaft l l, is a ratchet wheel 4-7, with which a pawl 48, pivotedto the lever 43 coiiperates. The pawl is held in engagement with the ratchet by means of an ex pansion spring 4 9. lt will be seen that by the ejection of a coin from the tube 13, the rocker 36 is moved, thus transmitting motion to the link 39, rocker 40, lever L3 and ratchet ll. 'lhus motion is transmitted to the number wheels, which wheels may be or any usual or well known construction. The top wall of the receptacle 10 is provided with a window 50, as shown in Fig. 2, directly over the number wheels by means of which the amounts set up on the wheels may -be determined.

lfn the use of the illustrated device in connection with street cars, it is contemplated that the passenger shall insert the proper coin in the slot 14. These coins may, if desired, be displaced by the conductor by operating the key 30, the coins falling into the receptacle 10. However, as each coin is ejected from the tube it is registered on the number wheels. When the conductors box is turned into the auditor, the coins cannot .be removed from the tube by him except by actuating the key-operating registering mechanism. Thus, after the fare is collected from the passenger, there is no means for removing the coin from the box without registering the same. It will be noted that it no coins are in the tube 13, the key may be reciprocated freely without actuating the registering mechanism. I

As distinguished from ordinary change making machines wherein a given amount of change may be obtained from the machine while the machine indicates the amount of such change, in connection with which the coins are simply stacked in tubes or compartments, by the user of the machine, and may as readily be withdrawn from such tubes or compartments, ll believe i am the first in the to provide a collectingdevice into which the predetermined coin, as car-fare, telephone-toll, saleprices, as in a five and ten cent store, may be introduced, through a suitable inlet, but cannot be withdrawn through said inlet, so that the collected coins can only be obtained from the machine through a discharge apparatus adapted to register the various operations of the discharge, so that while the contents oi the collector are available to its custodian, for example, the salesman ll'l making change to give the customer, the proper coin for deposit in the collector, there will, however, be a progressive fined registration of the total amount discharged from the machine so that the amount to be turned in to the proprietor is always shown by the register, plus the remaining contents of the machine, the more convenient method of transacting the business being for the salesman to discharge from his own device the contents thereof completely, and turn in the full amount indicated by the register of the machine devoted to his personal use.

It will be obvious that the application of the device herein described is only one of many which might be suggested. Therefore 1 do not wish to be limited to the exact structure herein shown and described.

I claim:

A device of the character described consisting of a portable coin collector and counter including a coin receiving and storing chamber adapted to receive and store a stack of coins of a given denomination, said chamher being formed with a guarded inlet through which the coins may be freely insorted into the chamber-at will but out of which said coins are permanently prevented from withdrawal, a predetermined normally closed emergent discharge opening for said storing chamber, a handle whereby the dcvice may be conveniently held in one hand of the user, emergent discharge instrumentalities operatively associated with the coin discharge opening having a thumb actuable means. to b operated from the hand carrying the device for ejecting a single coin at a time from the storage chamber at the desire of the user and at a point accessible to the other hand of the user, and a coin counter adapted to be actuated by the releasing of each coin from the chamber to progressively count and indicate the total number of coins taken from the chamber and which added to the coins remaining in the chamber will denote the rand total of coins collected. M URIOE H. MANDELBAUM.

Witnesses:

CHAS. F. MURRAY, Gno. O. DAVISON.

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