US1474333A - Multiple-coin-registering bank - Google Patents

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3 Sheets-Sheet Filed Sept. 16 1920 A E JACOBS MULTIPLE COIN REGISTERING BANK Nov. 13, 1923.

Nov. 13 1923. 3 A. E. JACOBS MULTIPLE COIN REGISTERING QANK Filed Sept. 16 1920 3 Sheets-Sheet 3 INVENTOR ATTORNEY Nov. 13 1923.

A. E. JACOBS MULTIPLE COIN REGISTERING BANK Filed Sept. 16 1920 3 Sheets-Sheet 3 ATTORNEY Patented Nov. 13, 1923.. V

UNITED STATES ARTHUR E. JACOBS, OF CLEVELAND HEIGHTS VILLAGE, OHIO.

MULTIPLE-CDIN-REGISTERING BANK.

Application filed September 16, 1920. Serial No. 410,795.

To allwhom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ARTHUR E. JAoons,

a citizen of the United States, and resident of Cleveland Heights Village, in the county of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improve- -ments in Multiple-C0in-Registering Banks;

of which I hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertain's, to make and use the same.

The objects of the invention are to provide a bank in which the deposit of coins of different denominations of any country can be registered, and in which each individual deposit when made, and also the total amount deposited, can be visibly registered upon a suitable dial or dials. Also an alarm is sounded for each deposit made in the bank.

The device includes coin-controlled mechanism for operating a series of counting discs. It includes a coin chute or receptacle and means preventing the return of the coin after it has been deposited in the aforesaid chute until it falls into a final receptacle.

It also includes a rotatable flash plate, containing a coin chute, a casing in which the said flash plate moves, counting discs, a trip plate and a coin-controlled plunger in the aforesaid coin chute, and means in the wall of the flash plate for operating said plunger, to engage said trip plate and rotate the same, through an are determined by the denomination, and therefore by the diameter of the coin deposited.

It includes means for operating an additional counting disc, or series of discs, controlled by the movements of the first named disc.

The invention is hereinafter more fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and specifically pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Fig. 1 is a side elevation of the device; Fig. 2 is a front elevation thereof; Fig. 3 is a vertical trans verse sectionon line 33, Fig. 5; Fig. 4 is a transverse section on line 44c, Fig. 5; Fig. 5 is a full size longitudinal vertical section of the device; Fig. 6 is an'enlarged end elevation of the inner casing, showing one of the transverse partition walls, the trip plate behind the wall, and the alarm bell; Fig. 7 is an enlarged face view of the trip plate; Fig. 8 is a transverse section of the inner i and outer casings, showing the rotatable flash plate, containing the coin chuteand the coin-controlled plunger, and the-tripping plate engaged by" the plunger at a point where it will move the adjacent count ing disc to record the deposit of a 25 cent piece; Fig. 9 is a transverse section, on line Z--Z, Fig. 5, showing the spring pawl that actuatesthe second counting disc of a series; Fig. 10 is a perspective showing the coin chute and plunger which actuates the tripping disc.

In these views, A is the outer casing, provided with an opening, B, through which the counting discs or dials, C and D, respectively, are visible. E is the base of the casing which comprises the receptacle in which coins of all denominations deposited in the bank are received. E, is a shaft which passes through the inner casing, F.

The inner casing is spaced at F from the outer casing and is provided with glass-covered openings, F F through which the counting discs show clearly. It is also provided with transverse partitions, F, F, spaced apart to enclose the counting discs,

C and D, graduated in twenty divisions, and

the flash plate, Gr,and tripping plate or disc, H, respectively, all of which are loosely mounted upon the shaft, E. The flash. plate G, is cup-shaped, and a radiallydirected coin chute, G, is secured to the rear wall, G and side wall, G thereof.

A coin, W, introduced through an opening A in the outer casing, and through an opening, A in the inner casing, passes into the coin chute through the opening, G", in the side wall of the flash plate, G. The coin falls upon a plunger, I, reciprocablein the coin chute; This plunger is forced outwardly by means of the tension spring, 1', operating upon a rock arm, 1 pivoted at Rico the flash plate.

The outward movements of the plunger and rock arm are restrained by the oblique 'edge, J, of an opening in the partition, F,

adjacent to the flash plate, the edge of which engages the arm, 1 which is also definitely guided by the are, 1 in the flash plate wall. The flash plate is rotated by means of a sprin actuated arm, K, projecting through the s ots, L and M, in the inner and outer casings respectively. As the flash plate rotates, the extremity of the rock arm is controlled by the inclined edge, J, from mov-:

ing too rapidly as the plunger is forcedoutward, and until the coin, W, engages the inner surface, N, of the inner casing. Upon the rock arm, I is attached a projection, O, which extends through the opening in the partition, and when the coin can travel no further outward, the projection, 0, will engage selectively with one of the projections, P, Q, R, and S, spaced radially and circumterentially upon the closely adja ent tripping plate, H. The lug engaged will be determined by the size oi the oin in the chute and the positions of the plunger and the extremity, I controlled thereby.

By placing the lug, 0, upon the swinging arm, 1 perfect accuracy of movement of the p rts can be. obtained to the lugs upo the tripping plate in their proper order. also a suitable support tor the inner end or the plunger is provided thereby.

These projections are shown in Fig. 7, where P representsthe projection engaged when a 25 cent piece is introduced into the chute, Q the projection engaged when an American 5 cent piece is introduced, and S theprojection engaged when a Canadian silver 5 cent piece is introduced, thus adapting the bank to Canadian usages.

I is the projection enga ed when an American dime is deposited.

Other engaging projections can he added if desired, or they can differently spaced to adapt the bank toother ii oreign mintages. The dash plate will always travel through five circumferential divisions before the coin is depositedin the receptacle below. Therefore the lug" 0 will travel through four graduations oet'ore coming in contact with lugs Q, or S for five-cent pieces and there' fore the trip plate ll will move only one graduation.

The projection, l, is engaged when a 25 cent piece is introduced, am hence the this 1 plate must be turned through five divisions ot the flash plate after engagci'ncnt before the coincan be deposited through the open,- ing, T, leading into the receptacle below.

After the projection, Q, for five cent pieces, isengaged, only one division must be traversml before depositing the coin the receptacle, and after the projection P. is engaged, the flash plate .must move through two divisions before depositing the coin, and attcr engaging thev projection for Canadian 5 cent pieces, the flash plate must move through only one division before depositing the coin.

As the trip plate moves through one or more of the divisions. a spring pawl. V, in

its wall, engages with one of the regularly spaced ratchet teeth or projections V", V upon the. adjacent counting disc, and. advances it a corresponding number of divisions. I

-Ea'ch counting disc is graduated with twenty equal divisions, corresponding with the divisions or movements of; the flash plate. The first operated counting discuvill therefore register to $1.00 as a total deposit, and the second counting disc, which is retated through one division by a complete revolution of the first counting disc, will register $20.00, or other combinations can be employed and the number of divisions changed to suit all requirements.

The ii s: disc provided with a spring pawl or wire, X, which projects through a circular opening in the partition wall between the two discs and is held, out of contact with the ratchet teeth, X, of the second disc, by the circular edge oi the opening. But when the first disc has made one complete revolution, notch, X in this edge, permits the spring pawl to fall and engage with the ratchet teeth, X and move the second disc.

The pawl is prevented rom remaining in the notch by inclining ts edge at X.

This incline withdraws the pawl from the notch after the second disc has advanced one division.

bent spring, Y, having a hammer, Y, at its outer end and secured. in the inner casing, serves as a detent to prevent loose movement of the first disc, and also serves as a bell clapper to sound the bell, Y whenever the operating arm is pulled.

After the coins are deposited in the chute and pressed against the inner cylindrical surface of the inner casing by the plunger, they can not be withdrawn until deposited in the receptacle, because the casing wall is lrovided with spaced slits, V, V, against the inner edges o't which the coins will be projected by the movement oi the plunger, as shown in Fig. 8.

l-i aving descrilled the invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

I. In a multiple coin registering bank, '1- casing, a shaft mounted therein. a graduated counting disc, rotatable on said shaft, a rotatablc tripping plate adjacent to said counting disc, a rotatable flash plate, concentric with said casing and adjacent to said tripping plate, means operable from outside the casing for rotating said flush plate, a coin chute secured in said flash plate. a plunger in said chute. a rock arm coimected therewith and pivoted in said casing, a spring For moving said plunger outwardly in said chute, a retaining means for said plunger and arm prevmitiug the outward movement thereof until the coin deposited in sale chute engages the said casing. radially and circumtereutially spaced driving lugs on said tripping disc, said driving lugs e'ngageable in, turn with said. rock arm. as coins, of different denomination are do posited in said chute, and pawl and ratchet mechanism operatively connecting said tripping plate and said counting disc and adapted to communicate the circumferential movements of said tripping disc to said counting disc.

2. In a multiple coin registering bank, a casing having a cylindrical side wall, a shaft therein, a flash plate rotatable on said shaft and having a wall concentric withsaid casrevolves, means for forcing said plunger outwardly in said chute, means controlling the outward movement of said plunger until the coin in said chute engages said casing, a tripping plate and a counting disc in said casing, pawl and ratchet mechanism operatively connecting said tripping plate and said counting disc, and circumferentially and radially spaced lugs on said tripping plate, said lugs engageable in turn with said plunger operating mechanism, as coins of diiferent denomination are deposited in said chute.

3. In a multiple coin registering bank, a casing having a cylindrical side wall, ashaft therein, a flash plate rotatable on said shaft and having a wall concentric with said casing, said casing having spaced coin admission and coin deposit openings, a coin chute in said flash plate, communicating with said coin receiving and coin deposit openings in said casing in turn, as said flash plate is rotated upon said shaft, a plunger in said coin chute adapted to press the coin deposited in said chute against said casing as said flash plate revolves, a spring pressed device for forcing said plunger outwardly in said chute, means controlling the outward movement of said plunger until the coin in said chute engages said casing, a tripping plate and a counting disc in said casing, pawl and ratchet mechanism operatively connecting said tripping plate and said counting disc,

I and circumferentially and radially spaced lugs on said tripping plate, said lugs engageable in turn with said spring pressed device, as coins of different denomination are deposited in said chute, and means for preventing the backward rotation of the said-flash plate until the coin has been deposited from said chute.

4. In a multiple coin registering bank, in combination, an outer casing and an inner casing, a coin receptacle underneath said casings, said outer casing having a coin reopenings, said casings also provided with registering observation openings, a shaft mounted in said casings, a flash plate rotatable on said shaft, an arm projecting through said casings for rotating said flash plate, a coin chute in said. casing, normally registering with said coin receiving openings in said casings and rotatable to register with saiddischarge opening, a plunger in said coin chute, a spring pressed operating means for said plunger a tripping plate and counting discs rotatable on said shaft, radially and circumferentially spaced pro jections on said tripping plate adjacent to said flash plate and engageable in turn with said operating means for said plunger when at the outer limit of its movement, and a plate in said inner casing, said plate having an inclined edge engaged by said plunger, the said inclined edge adapted to restrain the outward movement of said plunger in said coin chute until the coin therein engages with the wall of said inner casing, pawl and ratchet mechanism connecting said tripping plate and first counting disc, and pawl and ratchet mechanism connecting said first and second discs.

5. In a coin registering bank, a casing provided with a coin receiving opening and a coin discharging opening spaced therefrom and provided with spaced shoulders upon its inner surface, a coin chute rotatable within said casing, and a spring actuated plunger insaid coin chute.

6. In a coin registering bank, a casing having spaced coin receiving and discharging openings in its wall, a coin chute rotatable in said casing between said openings, a plunger in said coin chute, means for forcing said plunger outwardly in said coin chute, and means for preventing a return movement of said plunger until the coin has been discharged therefrom.

7. In a coin registering bank, a casing having spaced coin receiving and discharging openings in its walls, a coin chute rotatable in said casing between said coin receiving and discharge openings, a spring actuated plunger movable outwardly in said coin chute, and coin engaging means on said casing, preventing the backward movement of said coin chute until the coin has been deposited from said discharge opening.

In testimony whereof, I hereunto set my hand this 9" day of September, 1920.

ARTHUR E. JACOBS.

In presence of WM. M. MONROE,

A. 0. Porn.

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