US1260310A - Money-handling machine. - Google Patents

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H. T. BRUCKMAN. MONEY HANDLING MACHINE. APFLICAYION FILED uwza. 191s.

Patented Mar. 26, 1918.

R. T. BROCKMAN.

MONEY HANDLING MACHlNE Awuculon FILED 1pm.. ms.

1,260,310. Patented Mar. 20, 1918.

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Patented Mar. 20,1918.

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ROBERT T. BROCKMAN, OF TERRE HAUTE, INDIANA, ASSIGNOR TO INTERNATIONAL MONEY MACHINE COMPANY, OF TERRE HAUTE, INDIANA.

MONEYJIANDLING MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Yatent. 1

Patented Mar. 26, 1918.

Application died January as, 1915. Serial No. 4,883.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Romzu'r T. BROCKMAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at 'lerre Haute, in the county of Vigo and Stale of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in lVIoney-Ilandling Machines, ofwhich the following is a specification.

This invention comprises certain improvements in money handlin r machines and especially in machines of tlie type disclosed in the application of White, Overlin and Bullington, Serial Number 702,164, filed June 7, 1912, which latter machine-consists of a keyboard section'which is virtually a complete adding machine of itself, and a money paying section the operation of which is controlled from the keys of said adding section.

Depression of the keys effects operation of certain Selector mechanism cupab e of acting upon the ejectors of the money paying section whereby upon turning a suitable operating handle the money will be discharged from the machine. There is provided in the above described combined money paying and adding or calculatin machine suitable controllin means operabfe manually, whenever desirec in order to disconnect the money paying mechanism from the main actuator 0r handle so that. the adding or calculating machine is susceptible of operation indeptndently of paying out of money by said inbney payin mechanism. In the machine of the aforesai application the selector mechanism controlled by the keys, and which is provided solely for the purpose of coiiperation .with

the ejectors of the money section, continues to be operated notwithstanding the disabling of the connection between the main actuator cjectors.

An especial object of the present invention, therefore, has been to improve the means for disablin the operative connection between the calcu atirig or adding machine and the money payin section so that not only is the disab ing divice parable to disable the driving means for all which sets said ejecbors is likewise, by reason of the particular im rovements herein after descri ed, completely disabled by the e ejectors, but an operating connection lea'ding from the main actuator to the selector mechanism,-

means just referred to, the various parts of the money paying mechanism are practically totally disabled so that certain unnecessary and resultless operation .of parts of the money paying machine is avoided afi'ording a saving of wear and tear upon such parts and decreasin furthermore the load on the eperatin ham le or main actuator. In other words, 1: e disabling means above referred to when operated serves to entirely discontinue the ejector actuatin movement of the selector mechanism as well as all ejecting action of the ejectors themselves, the adtlin or calculating machine instrumentalities t en being operable independently of the normal operations of the selecting and, ejecting devices when the combination machine is being utilized.

The invention also embodies other detail features of im rovements which will be described more c early hereinafterf in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a partial front elevation of a machinclcmbodying the invention, the 'adding mechanism illustrated partly in Section, and the operative connection between the actuator and the selector mechanism being shown.

Fig. 2 is a, sectionalized right side elevation of the coin spaying section, a section being taken just ightly to the right of the sin 1e and double pay $20.00 coin ma azine.

igs. 3'and 4 show a plan view am right side elevation of the mechanism for disengaging the rock-shaft which operates the selector mechanism, and the means to disable the ejector mechanism.

Fig. 5 is a. sectional view through the calculatmg machine section of the combined machine,

General construction of the macliiqw.

The calculating or adding section of the machine is designated A and the money a section em ies suitable amount. keys'C and a 'disabling key D. It. is DQllbQllBVOd necessary to describe the details of the mechanisms of either of the sections'A add I B, these being practicall the same in broad principle of action an cooperation of parts as an Burroughscty adding 11186111119, and a so the correspon ing of theapplication previousl identified, and this'invention not. 110

The calculating section 30 associated coin holder E,

tors being susceptible of adjustment in opinvolving the details of the adding ma chine whatever. In Fig. the main parts of the adding or calculating mechanism are illustrated, the accumulator being located 5 at the .front of the machine and including the adding wheels 84 and the adding rocks 82, the movement of the latter being controlled by engagement of a projection 80' on edch rack with index stops 90, the latter Up- 1 crable by the various keys 0 of the keyboard. The lower endsof the racks 82 are connected with levers 75 at" the front ends of the letter, said levers being connected at their rear ends with type bars 95 forming a part of suitable listing mechanism. Suitable springs 76 connect with arms 75 of the levers 75- to actuate the latter when released incident to operation of the main handle F of the machine. It may be noted,

however, that the money paying section B is virtually a complete and separate functioning mechanism, to work jointly with the calculating mechanism, or remain inactive with regard to the letter, and comprises the money holders or coin receptacles E at the base portions of which operete the ejectors or actuatingmembers for coinsg or the like,

designated 1307, themejority o the ejectors being adapted to eject a. single com from the at certain ejeceration to discharge one, or two coins, this being desirable in order to make up certain "emounts'where two, pennies, tw o mckels or two coins of other denominations are preforably ejected. The ejectors 1307 are provided at their rear ends with lateral projections 1307' (see Fig. 2). Normally these projections 1307 are not engaged with ejec- 4o tor"arms 5&5 one of which 'is provided for" each ejector and mounted on the ejector shaft 615. By the provision of seector mechanism including the selector bars (1 having projections a anyone or more 0 the ejectors 1307 may be moved laterally.

at its rear end to interlock the projection 1307 with the adjacent arm 545. This in-' terlocking is effected by a. longitudinal movement imparted to the selector bars a, at 59 the commencement of the forward pull on the lnfndle Fwhich is the main actuator, if

the selector bars a are previously set in a.

position-to beengaged bye selector bail 520 (see Fig. 11). The amount keysC of the keyboard A are adapted to engageprof barsa when the keys C are depressed. .Such

ot' the burs a as may be depressed by. the -ac-.

'- lion of the keys Gwill have hooks formed @0' at -one end thereof. engaged ,with the bail.

520 so that. when the bail 520, rocks rearward 11s seen-in Fig. '1, longitudinal movement-will he imparted to the bars a. that have been thrown into coiiperation with the bail. The

05 longitudinal movement of the actuated burs mentioned will now be set forth. ebling key D previously referred to has one a is transmitted to the rear ends of the ejectors 1307 associated with such bars, through the projections 1307' and these ejcctors are thus interlocked with bifurcations at the lower ends of the coacting arms 545 on the ejector shaft 615. The means to actuate the bail 520 are shown clearly in Figs. 3 and l and comprise an arc-shaped cam fixed to the main shaft'625 carrying the handle F, seid cam cooperating with e roller 691 of the lever 523 carried by the rock shaft 674. The lever 523 is connected by a. link 522 with an arm 521 projecting from the shaft 520' to which the bail 520 is fixedly attached. It will thus be seen that so long as the connection.522 is at normal as shown in Fig. 4, each time the handle Fv is ulled' forward the cam 502'will rock the bail 520 and actuate the selector bars a engaged with said bail by means of the keys U. The ejector shaft 615 is likewise operable from the mainshaft 625 through the provision of the forked lever 515' coacting with an am 625' tiltable by the movement of the shaft 625. The lever 515 is carried by a to engaged with the stud 515;

; Disabling of mechanism.

It beingjborne in mind that the instrumentalities just described a provide "connections of the selector bail 520 end the e'ector shaft 615 with the main shaft 625, 'an that operation of the shaft 625'will co ndingly simultaneously actuate the bai 520 and shaft 615 when the at normal, the means to disable t econnections just The disproection 282 atuits lower end enga able wit the arm 5 on the'second stub an a- -'(see Figs. 8 and-4) the latter carrying a 101:; arm (1 above e hook 542 an adaptedto one said hoo whereby 1.0.115 disen go the parts-542-end515 when the key as Hop and held depressed by the notch D 1 near its 11 r: ortlon en 'in'g. with the top of k board.

:i'iously when the parts 542.1! 515 (no disjection's a ofone or. more of the selector and the selector actuating bail 520. For this purpose a shaft 229 mounted in the adding section A is rovided with an arm 163 an an arm 161, the latter being spring-retracted by the spring 161. At its lower end the arm 163 has a projection engaging the lever 949 intermcdiately pivoted on the was 1033, said lever having a link connection 250 with the link 522. Thus it is that depression of the key D causes a rocking of a lever 161 on the shaft 229, through engagement of the pro'ection 282 with the lower curved end of sai lever 161. The arm 161 is a part of the lever 161 and rocking of the shaft 229 by the member 161 correspondingl rocks the lever 949, exerts a pull on the link 950 and carries the link 522 toward the roar whereby to disengage a stud 675 on the lower end of said link 522, from the arm 52l. In this manner, therefore, the selector bail 520 may be disabled. The disabling of the selector means through the above operation is advantageous for the reason that said means is only used as a part of the money paying section of the machine and in the V machine of the previously mentioned application, of whic this is a continuation in part, the disabling of the paying section B was not complete, as is the case 1n the presout construction, (ml to the actuation of the selector bars and gie ejectors connected thereto, the latter, of course, not performing any ejectin movement.

t is evi out that so far as the section B of in machine is concerned this section is, in a roader sense, a predetermining m'echamsm which comprise actuators in the form of the ejectors 1307 whereby money transactions are adapted to be efi'ected. These money transactions may take the form, of amrse of money ejection or money prede-. known in the art that registers are susceptible of operatedby actuators such as theejectors 1309 wherebyamounts of transactions, of money set u on the adding machine may be divided into units of various "denominations which go to make up each transaction or amount accumulated.

thus described the invention, what isclaimed-asnewisr, i

1. In combination, a calculating machine manipulative controlling instrumerit itiqs,

a money payinigiihechanism aswith said machine andcomprising 1 a i trolling y aying devicescontrdlled, by, said W P means to operate the payingldevices andselector mechanism to control said paging devices preliminary to-o ration, an a condevice 0 erabe for disabling the .operaf ng means or, the paying devices and for disablin saidselector mechanism whereby the calcu sting-machine is susceptible of 1- operation alone.v t q byway of registration, it being lating machine, said mechanism including means to operate the paying devices and selector mechanism to control said paying dcviccs preliminary to operation, a manipulative member. and means operable by said member to simultaneously disable the ()|)l'l'- ating means for the paying devices and the selector mechanism controlling the same lllvices. f

3. In combination, a calculating nun-him complete in itself and comprising manipulative controlling devices and a prime mover. money paying mechanism associated with said machine and comprising paying devices, operating means for -the paying devices connected with the prime mover aforesaid, selector mechanism intermediate the controlling instrumcntalities and the paying devices, and means to simultaneously disable the selector mechanism and disconnect the operating means for the paying devices from the prime mover.

4. In combination, a calculatin machine comprising manipulative control mg members and a/prime mover, a money paying mechanism-including ayin devices, selector mechanism controllable y said controlling members and cooperative with the paymg devices, an operating connection between the prime mover and the selector mechanism to actuate the arts of the latter under the control of t e mani ulative members, operatin means for the paying devices, a. connection between said'operating means and the rims mover, and means to simultaneously isconnect said operating means for the pa 'ng devices and the operative connection or the'select'or mechanism from the prime mover. I

5. In a machine of the class dwcribed, the combination of money paying devices,

keyboard mechanism including amount keys, an accumulator controlled by said amount keys, :1. main actuator for the accumulator, selector mechanism for the paying devices, an operative connection between the main actuator and'said selector mechanism, operatin means for the paying devices, an operative connection between the operating 11mg instrumentalities 'of the calcumeans aforesaid and the main actuator, a iating machine, said niechanlsm including, disabhng key, and means intermediate said key and the operative connections between the main actuator and the selector mechanism whereby to render said operative conselector bail eoiipcrative with said selector bars. calculating mechanism including manipulative controlling keys capable of moving the selector bars into operative relation in respect to the selector bail, a main actuator, an operative connection between the main actuator and the selector bail, an operative connection between the main actuator and the o crating means for the paying devices, a isabling key, and means controlled from said key to simultaneously disconnect. the main actuator from the selector bai and render inoperative the connection herlvecn tli'smain nctuatonand the operating xncansfor the paying devices.

7.."lhc combination with a calculating machine including operating instrumentali- Hes therefor, of special functioning mechanism comprising selecting and actuating means controlled from said operatin in strumentnlities of the calculating mac inc, and mechanism to disable the controlling action of said operating instrumentalities in relation to both the selecting and actuating means of said special mechanism.

8. The combination with a calcula'tin machine including operatin instruments. ities therefor, of special functioning mechanism for action coniointly with the calculating machine comprising selecting nnd'actuating means movable by said operating instruto interfere with the ,mentalities, and means movement of the selecting and actuating means by the calculating machine instru mentalities whereby discontinuance of the combined operation of the calculating and selecting means may be effected.

9. The combination with a culculatinglmachine including operating instrumenta ities therefor, of money handling mechanism comprising ejectin means and selecting devices to actuate t 0 same, mowing connections intermediate the operating instrumentalities and said ejecting means and selectdisable said moving devices, and means to combined payin ing connections whereby out and select ng parts may be discontinued.

10. The combination with a calculating machine including predetermmmg key s, operating instrumentalities, of ctg lointly FQ l BJ means controlled by said k and ilelectmg operable mechanism comprising means controlled from said keys and operating instrumentalities of the calculatln ma chine, an mechanism to interfere 'w t the controlling action of snidoperating instrumentalitiesin relation to both the selecting and ejecting means, so that the said maeh1ne be' disabled as regards anismadaptcd to enact ting the operating meansvwith respective the actuators, an accounting machine including 11. The combination with a calculating for rendering inc I mining devices,

functioning of the sai relieve "j the calculating machine of the loa'd incident to. the actuation of thoselecting deviefes and machine including operating instrumentalitics therefor, of conjointly operable mechanism' comprising actuating members and selecting devices to. actuate the same, moving connections intermediate the operating instrumentalities and said actuatin members and selecting devices, the ealcufiiting machine embodying a frame structure and the actuating and selecting means being supported by a frame structure, and means to disable said moving connections without disturbing the relation of the frame structures aforesaid, whereby combined calculating functioning and operation of the actuating and selecting parts may be discontinued.

12. The combination, with a calculating machine including manipulative predetermining devices, and operating instrumentalities, of special funtioningzrliechanism adapted to operate conjointly with the cal enlating machine and including selecting devices controlled from said manipulative predetermining devices, connections whereby the operating instrumentalities ofthe calculating machine may actuate said selecting devices, and means to disable the special functioning mec anisin relation 'to fthe calculating machine including mechanism rativeijths" connections between the operating. instrmnentalities and the selectin devices so that tlfe operating instrumnta ities may mlidilge'd of the load incident to actuatirigthe [selecting devicm when the special functioniiiig mechanism is disabled. f j

13. The combination, with a calculating machine comprising manipulative predator and operating instrumentalities, of a special functioning mechanism adapted to be operated eonjointlylwith the calculating mac inc and including selecting devices and actuating members ads ted to be selected for operation by saidso ecting devices, said selectingdcvioes and actuating members bein controlled by tho'aaid'predetermining w es of the calculating-machinqjnd mean. to disable the-special functioning mechanism aforesaid to permlt operation of the calcnlatizglrlachine while t e specialfunctioning-m ism: is inactive,

last mentioned means including conneetiona operable a manner, as to the operating instrumcntalities-of I 14. In combination, p moncy predetermining'mec axusm i actuatorsadaptr ed to e ect money transactions operatmg means for said actuate and. selector mechrpurposes of setmanipul tive controll1ng, 1,nstfl1nientalities-' arrange to control the selector'mechanism .1301

aforesaid. and :1 prime mover for the accounting maehine opernlivt-h' connected with the selector lllti'iltllllsfll for urinal-mg the latter, and menus wh reby tu rtifsniile the last named operati e cannon-ion and thereby discontinue the operation of the selector mechanism by the prime mover, and thus rendering the predetennining mechanism inactive relatively to the accounting mnehine.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses. 1

ROBERT T. BROCKMAN. i \Vitnesses Eow. C. BAKER, MAmzl, 'Bmvnn.

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