US678563A - Coin-registering bank. - Google Patents

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No. 673563,' y Patented my |6j|9o|.

J. F. HEALY. CIN REGl-STERING BANK.

(Application filed Apr. 20, 1900.) (No Model.) 5 Sheets-Sheet l.

N0. 678,563.` Patented lilly I6, |90l. '.l. F. HEALY.

COIN REGISTERING BANK.

' (Applicacicn med Apr. so, 1900.', v(No Mode.) 5 Sheets-Sheet 2.

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J. F. HEALY.

COIN HEGISTERING BANK.

(Applcatioxi lerl Apr. 20, 1900.1 (N o Model.) 5 Sheets-Sheet 3.

No. 678,563. Patented luly I6, 190|. J. F. HEALY.

COIN REGISTERING BANK.

(Appheat on filed. Ap 2O 1900 5 sheets-sheet 4.

(No Model.)

No. 678,563. Patented my le, |901. J. F. HEALY.

COIN REGISTEBING BANK.

(Application filed Apr. 20, 1900.)

5 Sheets-Sheet 5.

(No M odel.)

UNITED STATES vPATENT EEicE.

JAMES E. HEALY, or FLORENCE, MASSACHUSETTS.

COIN-REGISTERING BANK.

slrncrirroafrron forming para of Letters Patent No. 678,563, dated .my 16, 1901.

Application tiled April 20, 1900.

.To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES F. HEALY, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of Florence, in the county of-Hampshire and State of Massachusettmhave invented'certain new and useful Improvements in Coin-Registering Banks, of which the following is a full, clear, and eXact description.

This invention relates to a machine or mechanism,preferably comprised in a bank or cash-V reeeptacle, for receiving and sorting coins of different sizes and denominations and registering the same, showing ata glance at the portion of. the registering' mechanism which is visible the total amount of all the various coins which may have been received into the registering-bank. V

The invention embodies, in conjunction with registering-wheels of a'total-adding mechanism and actuating means for the re` spective wheels which have normal positions of disengagement relatively to the registering wheels, parts affected by 'the contact thereagainst ofthe coins and which insure the register-wheel-actuating means assuming their position of engagements with the register-wheels, so that when the primary or common actuator for all the individual registeractuating means has given thereto its operation, as by the turning of a shaft through anr externally-located crank-handle, those register-wheels, in conjunction with the individual actuators against which coins have been brought in contact, will be operated to register the amount corresponding to the denomination ot' such coin.

The invention comprises in a machine of the character substantially as indicated also provisions for insuring that the Acoins of various denominations and of the different sizes will automatically after being pushed into the coin-entrance slot or opening in the case of .the bank or machine be gnid'ed to their proper and respcctiVely-required positions to establish the conditions for their registration.

The invention consists inthe combination of mechanisms and the constructions and combinations of parts, all substantially as hereinafter described and as set forth in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying Serial No. 13,641. (No model.)

drawings, in which this improved coinregis Vterin g bank is illustrated, and in which- Figure l is a front View of the coin assorting land registering bank as seen with the Vfront portion of thecasing removed. Fig. 2

and denominations to their proper places in the machine for their controlling effects on the registering mechanism. Fig. 4. is a rear side view ot' the appliance shown in Fig. 3. Fig. 5 is aA front view'of the registering mechanism and of certain parts in novel arrangement in conjunction therewith. Fig. 6 is a plan view of the mechanism shown in Fig. 5, the lower portion of the appliance seen in Figs. 3 and 4. being shown in horizontal crosssection as taken on the line G G, Fig. 3. Fig. 7 is an end elevation of parts of the mechananism as seen beyond the plane 'indicated by line H H, Fig. 5, looking in the direction of the arrow 16. Figs. 8, 9, l0, l1, l2, and 13 are respectively sections as taken on the lines -ticability in the mechanism. Fig. 16 is a sectional view resembling Fig. 7, but showing an approved modification.

' Similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

The machine, as shown, comprises threey dial- wheels 21, 22, and 23, the first of which registers pennies and nickels or five-centl pieces, the second for dimesand multiples of dimes, while the first and second together register quarter-dollars, and the third wheel 23 is for registration of dollars and multiples thereof. All the dial-wheels are loosely vmounted on the same horizontal shaft 19 therefor. The dial-wheel 2l has on one side a tentooth gear-wheel 24 and on the other a tentooth pinion 25, both fast thereto. Dial 22 has on opposite sides thereof two lten-tooth gear-wheels 2G and 27 and also on opposite Fig.

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sides thereof outside of said gear-wheels the ten- tooth pinions 28 and 29,\all fast thereon. Dial 23 has one ten-tooth gear 30 fast thereon.

Vith the gearnwheel 24 of dial 21 meshes a twenty-toothed gear-wheel 31, which is loosely mounted on a horizontal shaft 32, which is below and parallel with shaft 19, said wheel 31 having as one therewith a ten-toothed ratchetwheel 33, adapted to be engaged by the pawl 34, the position of which is controlled by onecent pieces brought into contact with the pawl-arm 35, which are led down the runway, hereinafter pointed out. The pawl 34 is mounted for its rocking movement on and extends forwardly from the pawl-snpporting shaft 36, while said pawl-arm 35 extends rearwardly. Now if a penny depresses the pawlarm 35 to throw the pawl 34 from its normal position of disengagement relatively to the ratchet-wheel 33 into 'a position of engagement therewith and the pawl is given, by means later described, bodily a thrust movement forwardly sufficiently far to turn the ratchet-wheel a full one-tenth of a rotation such ratchet-wheel, through the twenty-tooth gear 31 moving also one-tenth of a rotation, causes the ten-tooth gear-wheel 24 and the dial-wheel 2l to be moved onetenth rotation to advance one of the ten indicating-numerals O to 9, inclusive, to the display position in the machine.

The gear- wheels 24 and 31 are shown as of equal diameters, and the ten teeth on gear 24 are spaced at double widths, while the twenty teeth on gear 31 are twice as frequent.

l/Vith the pinion 25 on the first dial 21 meshes the spur gear-wheel 37 on shaft 32, which has teeth in live separated series of five, Fig. 9, and on this spur-gear is the livetooth ratchet-wheel 38, with which the pawl 34", that is the counterpart of the one, 34, engages in the same way when a five-cent piece comes upon its rearwardly-extended arm 35". Said wheel 37 has on its side opposite that at which ratchetwheel 38 is fixed another similar ratchet-wheel 33a. (Seen in edge view, Fig. 5.)

Vith the ten-tooth pinion 23 on the second dial 22 a peculiarly-toothed wheel 39 (best seen in Fig. 10) engages, this wheel having thereon a five-tooth ratchetwheel 40 alongside the ratchet-wheel 38, with which the pawl 34c engages when a quarter-dollar coin comes upon and depresses the arm 35c of this pawl. The pawl 34c is so wide, Fig. 5, as to engage both the ratchet-wheel 40 on second dial 22 and the ratchetwheel 38 on the wheel 37, operating first dial 21 and to turn both said ratchet-wheels and said dial-wheels at the same thrust-that is, to turn wheel 21 through gearing 37 25 five spaces and wheel 22 through gearing 39 and 28 two spaces, thus registering five cents on dial-wheel 2l and twenty cents on dial-wheel 22. It will be explained that the spur-tooth and half-length spur-tooth of said wheel 39 repeated five times and each separated by long spaces, as

shown in Fig. 10, will cause on the given thrust of the pas/'134c the fifth rotation of the dial-wheel. If the two teeth on wheel 39 were comparatively long and both of full length, they would stay in mesh with pinion 2S more than a period sufficient to insure one-fifth of a rotation of the pinion and the registering on dial-Wheel on which it is fixed. Of course the amount or extent the one wheel will propel the other depends somewhat on the length of the intermeshing teeth, and it would be practicable to construct the teeth of such shorter radial lengths that they were all of equal lengths; but the manner of designing the teeth has been found advantageous for efficiency of action and durability.

With the gear-wheel 27, which is fast on the side 0f dial 22, meshes the gear-wheel 42, mounted on shaft 32 loosely, said gear being provided with the ten-toothed 1atchetwheel 43, with which coacts the thrust-patri 34d, having the rearwardly-extended arm 35l for the reception thereupon of dimes which may be led thereto and precipitated thereon. (See Fig. 11.) With the pinion 29, which is also a part of the rotatable dial-wheel 22, meshes the larger toothed or spur wheel 44. The teeth on this wheel, as seen in Fig. 12, are arranged in live series of five each, separated by spaces between the series as long as those occupied by the series of teeth, so that each series and a space occupy one-tifth of the circumference of wheel 44. This wheel 44 has fixed thereon a vfive-toothed ratchet wheel, coacting with which is another one of the duplicated. thrust-pawls 34C, down onto the rearwardly-extended arm 35U of which to place the pawl into engagement with the ratchet-wheel descend the half-dollars. The thrust of the pawl imparts a movement of the ratchet-wheel equal to the full length of one of its teeth, and a fifth rotation of the wheel 44, .the size of which to the pinion 29 is relatively IOO such as to turn the latter half a rotation, and

therewith the second dial 22, advancing .the numerals thereon tive numbers to make the registration of the half-dollaron the said second dial. The third dial'wheel 23, for dollars, which has thereon simply the one said tentooth wheel 30, has below the wheel 30 the wheel 46, of equal diameter with one, 30, and in mesh therewith. (See Figs. 5 and 13.) Fast on wheel 46 is the ten-tooth ratchetwheel 47, coacting with which is another of the duplicated pawls 34f, down onto the rearwardly-extended controlling-arm of which pawl comes the dollar-pieces when entered into the bank to come upon the runway.

The shaft 36, on which all of the aforementioned duplicated thrust-pawls 34 to 34f and their extension-arms 35 to 35 are mounted for rocking movements relatively thereto, has its support at or near opposite ends thereof in the lower ends of the bars or arms 43 48, which are arranged in vertical planes at opposite ends of the registering mechanism which has been described, and these bars 48 are pivoted at 49 alongside of the brackets 50. With the portions of the said bars 48 which extend above their pivotal points 49 the springs 52 are applied (see Fig. 7) for maintaining the pawl-carrying shaft or rod 36 in its normal rearward position. Coacting with each bar or arm 48, the upper forward corner of which is rounded, is a lever 53, arranged adjacent which is a cam 54, fast on the crank-shaft 55, on which is the crankhandle 56. The crank handle and shaft being rotated in the direction of the arrow, Fig. 7, the lever 53 is forced rearwardly and correspondingly forces the upper arm of the support-bar 48 for each end of the pawl-carrying shaft 36, consequent on which rearward movement of the upper part of each bar is a forward movement of the lower part of each bar and a corresponding movement of the shaft 36 and the pawls mounted thereon. Said pawls have their thrust movements below and to clear the ratchet-wheels with which they are respectively in proximity, and only such of the pawls the rearward extension-arm of which' is borne upon by the coin led down thereto will be swung into engagement with the ratchet-wheels for the operation of registering-wheels as required on the thrust being impartedthereto by the forward movement of the pawl-carrying shaft, as explained.

On the crank-shaft 55, which isto the rear and somewhat above the shaft 19, on which the dial-wheels are mounted, are toothed transferring-wheels, as follows: is a tentooth spur-wheel which meshes with the spurwheel 24 and makes one rotation to one of the said wheel 24. Movable as one with this wheel 60 is a single-toothed part 62, which is adapted to mesh every timeit rotates with the ten-toothedwheel 26 on the second dialwheel. Thus every time the cents dial-wheel 2lv reaches the extent of its capacity of registration the single-toothed part 62 causes a progression of the second dial-wheel to the extent of that number and on the tentoothed wheel 27, which is on the opposite side of the second or dimes dial-wheel, meshes a ten-toothed wheel 63, which is loose on the crank-shaft and in unison with which rotates the single-toothed part 64, which one every revolution thereof forces around the third dial-wheel 23 b v meshing in the ten-toothed wheel 30 thereof. The parts 6'0 and 62, movable in unison both loosely on the crankshaft, are independent of the parts 63 and 64, which are both movable in unison loosely on the crank-shaft.

By having the teeth on the dial-wheels and I also the teeth on the lower transfer-wheel of turn the spur-wheel on the dimes-dial onetenth of a turn at each complete rotation of the cents-wheel.

Now it will be seen on reference to Fig. l that if the wheel 26, as also the wheel 24 and 60, had twice as many teeth as they havethat is, twenty instead of tena tenth rotation imparted to transfer member 62 to turn the dimes-dial one step as produced from the complete rotation ofcents dial-wheel would leave the tooth of member 62 still in mesh with the dimes spur-wheel, and this would result in the independent rotations of this dial and wheel, practically back gearing onto the cents-dial to result in overregistration. This might be of course avoided in another way by a delicate and somewhat complicated provision of clutch connections between the parts comprised in the paired transfer members; but providing against this overregistration by the arrangement of the teeth of the spur-wheels is in practice a simple, inexpensive, and satisfactory one.

The single metallic peculiarly-apertured and bent plates 66 (seen in Fig. l5)`serves in a very simple manner to keep various of the parts and devices comprised in this mechanism in the proper relative positions of separation, and the tongues 67, formed by integral portions of the metal, constitute detent ngers or pawls to prevent any retrograde movement or backward motion of the ratchetwheels with which they respectively engage.

kThis plate is secured in place on the supporting-brackets, as shown in Figs. l and 2 and 8 to 13, and the apertures 68 in the top engaged between the sets of wheels on the shaft 32 keeping these parts in their proper places, while the portions of the apertures 89 in the lower rearward portion of the same metallic -bent plate serve to hold the thrust-pawls in proper separated positions and also to guide them in their swinging or rocking motions.

The whole mechanism is inclosed in a casing such as is shown in Figs. l, 2, and 14, in the upper portion of one end wall of which is the slot 90, through which the coins'of various denominations are introduced to comel upon the ledge or runway 92 in a-slightly inclined or leaning position, the upper edges or corners of the coins as they run down the inclined runway bearing against the wall 93, which has the velapertures 94 of graduallyincreasing sizes, as seen in Figs. l and 3, the first being only large enough to permit the passage therethrough of a dime, the second of a penny, the third of a nickel or five-cent piece, the fourth of a quarter-dollar, and the fifth of a half-dollar.

Figs. l and 3 show the front of a runway and chute appliances, while Fig. 4shows the rear view.

Inasmuch as the pawl-arm 35d occupies the fourth place from the entrance end of the machine, the dimes after. falling off the runway through the first aperture 94 into the chute 97 are guided by said chute, as indicated by IIO the dotted lines in Fig. 4, to the fourth position and precipitates the dime into the space at the lower rear part of the machine, across or through Which the pawl extension 35I extends. The chute 98, into which the pennies fall through the second aperture 94, leads down to the first pawl extension. The fivecent pieces, which pass through the third aperture into the third chute 99, pass to the position of the second pawl extension 35b by having its course outside of and to the rear of the guide-conduit for the dimes,the one guideway crossing the other, as seen in the rear view of Fig. 4. The quarters when precipitated through the fourth opening 94 to fall off the runway 92 pass down the properly-di rected conduit therefor to the space intersected by the third pawl extension 35C, the pawl of which, as has hereinbefore been explained and as shown, engages the ratchetwheels 38 and 38 for operating at one thrust the first and second dial-wheels. The halfdollars, which are next larger than the quarters, pass from the runway through the fifth aperture and are precipitated by the downwardly-directed conduit to the position upon and to depress the fifth pawl extension 35e. The largest coins, (the dollar pieces,) instead of toppling forwardly through an aperture in the Wall 93, run off the end of the runway and drop into the chute 102 therebelow and are guided down into the space across which the last pawl-arm extension 35f extends.

1 have as a practicable way of making the runway and chutes having their courses for directing the coins to the pawl extensions, which are arranged in the proper succession, constructed these appliances in two parts or castings, as indicated in Fig. 6 in horizontal cross-section and Figs. 3 and 4 in front and rear views, clamping between them the plate or upstanding wall 93.

Inasmuch as the guidance of the coins after passing through `the apertures 94 of sizes, respectively, therefor may be by conduits comprised in parts or castings of different speciic design, I do not wish in my patent to be limited to any particular construction of these applicances.

From the foregoing description of the mechanism and from the manifest or intimated operations thereof it will be apparent that the coins respectively introduced into the machine will come to their proper places upon pawl extensions to place the pawls in engagement with their respective ratchet-Wheels and that then by turning the operating-shaft 55 all of the pawls, those which are disengaged as well as those which are engaged with the ratchet-Wheels, will, through the mechanism described in conjunction with Fig. 7, havein unison forward thrust movements, and such of the pawls as are controlled by coins thereon will operate on their respectively adjacent ratchet-wheels to turn them, and with the dial wheel or Wheels operated thereby, and that when cach dial-Wheel has been rotated to the extent of its capacity of registration a transfer is made onto the dial-wheel of the next higher denomination. The coins corning down on the pawl extensions, depressing same, there remain until the forward thrust motion is imparted to the whole series of pawls, whereupon they all advance forwardly beyond the area of the spaces down into which the coins come, permitting the coins to fall therefrom down into the bottom of the bank, so that when the paw] extensions are returned to their places, which transpires at the completion of the rotation of the operating-shaift 55, all the pawls are found in their normal po sitions in readiness to be affected again by coins which may come thereupon.

One end wall 110 of the case or cabinet has in its bottom the .slot 112, through which the coins which mayhave beenintroduced into the bank and are registered may when desired be withdrawn. The cent-slot has a closing-plate therefor, (indicated at 113 in Figs. 1 and 2,) the same being pivotally hung upon the lower end of a piVotally-mounted plate or arm 114, coincident with the pivotal point of mounting of which is a key-socket 115 for the reception of a special key. By introducing the key into the socket the part 114 may be partially rotated, thereby lifting the closing-plate 113 to open the slot 112 for the withdrawal of the coins, which may be slid out therethrough by canting the bank at the proper inclination.

In Fig. 16 is shown a means :for imparting the bodily movement to the shaft or rod 36 on which the series of thrust-pawls 34, dac., are mounted, the same resembling that shown in Fig. 7, but being somewhat simplified in that the lever 48 has the extension-arm 48', against which the cam 54 directly acts. The spring 52', composed of a single length of wire, has its intermediate part formed into a coil and surrounds the rod, and one of the extremities of this wire is engaged with the shaft 36, while the other is engaged with a fixed part of the framing.

Vhere the machine is to be constructed for use for registering the reception therein of coins of different countries, of course modifications in the mechanical construction would be necessary and could be carried out without any departure from the principles and general plan of organization herein rendered manifest. For instance, where the machine is to be used strictly for Canadian money, Where there is no dollar silverpiece, the pawls actuating thrust mechanism for the dollar-wheel 23 could be omitted, or the machine could be designed to receive and register the current Canadian coins and also have the capability of receiving and register ing American dollars or coins of other denominations.

Having thus described my invention, what 1 claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a coin-registering bank of the character described, the combination with a ro- IOC) tatable registering or dial wheel having a ratchet-wheel in operating connection therewith, of a pawl in normal disengagement with said ratchetwheel, a movable support on which said pawl is mounted for a swinging movement relatively thereto and a bodily thrust movement in unison therewith, a guide for conveying a coin to a position to throw the pawl into engagement with said ratchetwheel, and means for imparting a back-andforth movement to the pawl-support, for the purpose set forth.

2. In a coin-registering bank of the character described, the combination with a rotatable registering or dial wheel having a ratchet-wheel in operating connection therewith, of a movable support mounted for a backward and forward movement a pawl mounted on said support to swing relatively thereto to engage and disengage said ratchetwheel and having a horizontal arm or extension, a guide for conveying a coin down onto said pawl extension, means for imparting a bodily forward movement to the pawl-support and pawl for operating the ratchet-wheel and dial-wheel, for withdrawing the pawl eX- tension from its position of support under the coin, leaving the latter free to fall through an unobstructed space which is thereunder for its passage therethrough, substantially as described.

3. In a coin sorting and registering bank, the combination with a series of registering dial-wheels, having ratchet-wheels in operating connection therewith, of a series of pawls respectively adjacent said ratchets, a common carrier for the several pawls, a runway for coins and guides into which they automatically enter, and which convey them to automatically operate the pawls for engaging the registering-wheels for such coins and means for imparting a reciprocatory movement to said pawl-carrier, for the purpose set forth.

4. In a coin-registering machine, in combination, two registering or dial wheels for coins of different denominations, as for cents and dimes, one having a ratchet-wheel in operating connection therewith and the other. having two ratchet-wheels in operating connection therewith, a coin-controlled pawl for the iirst ratchet-wheel and a coin-controlled pawl adapted to engage the pawls for the other two ratchet-wheels, means for imparting bodily thrust movements to said pawls, and suitable coin-guides leading to said pawls, for the purpose set forth.

5. The combination with the cents dialwheel 21, and two ratchet-wheels 33 and 38 both having driving` connections with said wheel 2l for different extents of movements thereof, of the two pawls 34 and 34b automatically coin-controlled to engage, and adapted to normally disengage said pawls and means for imparting to said pawls bodily a thrust movement in unison.

6. In combination, the dial-wheel21 having .thereon the toothed wheel 24 meshing with which is the toothed wheel 3l having the tentooth ratchet, the pawl 34, a movable support therefor on which it rocks, a coin-guide-leading to a part of said pawl and means for imparting a movement to the pawl-support.

'7. In combination, the dial-wheel 2l, having thereon the ten-toothed wheel 24 having wide spaces between the teeth, the wheel 3l of the saine diameter and twice the number of the same-sized teeth, and having the tentooth ratchet-wheel 33, the movable pawl-support 36, the pawl 34 mounted to rock thereon, a coin-guide to guide a coin against a part of said pawl and means for moving the pawl-support.

8. In a coin-registering bank, in combination, dial-wheel 21 having thereon the tentooth pinion 25, the spur-wheel 37 having the ive series of teeth separated by open spaces, and having the ratchet-wheel 38 thereon, the movable pawl-support, the pawl 34h, the guide for conveying nickels to the pawl, means for imparting the movement to the pawl-support.

9. In a coin-registering bank, for registration of cents and nickels, in combinatiomdialwheel 21 having on one end toothed wheel 24, and on its other pinion 25, toothed wheel 3l meshing wheel 24 and provided with tentoothed ratchet-wheel 33, wheel 37 having the iive series of teeth separated by open spaces and having the ratchet-wheel 3S, the movable pawl-support, the pawls 34 and 34", guideways for leading pennies and nickels to position to cause said pawls to engage the said ratchets, and means for imparting a bodily thrust movement to the pawl-support and pawls thereon, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

10. In a registering-bank for coins, in combination, different wheels of higher and lower denominations, as for dimes and cents, adjacently-located ratchet-wheels having through gearing which is interposed driving connection with both dial-wheels for rotating them in different extents upon a given rotational movement ofthe ratchet-wheels, a single pawl mounted on a movable support and having an independent movement thereon, imparted thereto by a coin, of engagement and disengagement with both ratcheti wheels, and a gnideway for conveying a coin upon a part or extension of the said pawl.

11. In a registering-bank for coins, in combination, the dimes-wheel 22 having thereon the gear-wheel 27 and the pinions 28 and 29, of the toothed wheel 39, with the ratchetwheel 40 and the toothed wheel 42 with the ratchet-wheel 43 and the toothed wheel 44 with the ratchet-wheel 45, the pawls 34C, 34d, and 34e, coacting with the respective ratchets, a movable support common to all of the pawls and on which they have individually rocking movements, means for guiding coins against portions of the respective pawls and means for imparting a bodily movement to the pawlsupport and pawls mounted thereon, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

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12. Ina coin-registering bank, in combinai and to be controlled by coins of various detion with dial-wheel 23 having gear-wheel 30 thereon, toothed wheel 46 in mesh therewith having ratchet-wheel 47, pawl 34f, movable support therefor, and means for moving said support and a gnideway for leading a coin to a position against a portion of said pawl, substantially as described.

13. In a coin-registering bank, in combination with a registering-wheel, and a ratchetwheel in driving connection with the registering-wheel, a shaft mounted on a support therefor capable of a b'odily swinging movement, a pawl having a rocking support in said shaft, and having a member thereof normally disengaged but in proximity to the ratchet-wheel and having an oppositely-eX- tended portion or finger, substantially as described.

14. In a coin-registering bank, in combination, the shaft 36, the pivotallymounted members 48, 48, between which said shaft is supported, the levers 53, 53, coacting with said members 48, the cam or cams 54 and means for rotating them, the series of pawls, as 34, having rocking supports on said shaft 36 and having the rearwardly-extended fingers, as 35, several ratchet-wheels with which the pawls respectively engage, registering or dial wheels with which the ratchet-Wheels have driving connections, and coin-guides leading to the respective pawl extensions or fingers, all substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

l5. In a coin-registering bank, in combination, the shaft 36, the pivotally mounted members 48, 48, between which said shaft is supported, the levers 53, 53, coacting with said members 48, the cam or cams 54 and means for rotating them, and the spring 52 exerting a retracting movement against each member 48, the series of pawls, as 34, having rocking supports on said shaft 36 and having the rearwardly-extended fingers, as 35, several ratchet-wheels with which the pawls respectively engage,registering or dial wheels with which the ratchet-wheels have driving connections,and coin-guides leading to the respective pawl extensions or fingers, all substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

1G. The combination with the units or cents wheel and the tens-wheel having thereon the spur- gears 24 and 26, a shaft parallel with the axis of said wheels having thereon a tentoothed Wheel engaging said spur-gear 24 and having rotatable means in unison therewith, a single-toothed part engaging the toothed wheel 26 of the tens-wheels, a ratchet-wheel in driving connection with the units-Wheel, a movable support on which it is mounted, a coin-controlled pawl, a guideway for conveying the coin to control the pawl, and means for imparting a reciprocatory movement to the movable pawl-support, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

17. In a registering-bank for coins in combination, a series of pawls corresponding to nominations, a movable support or carrier on which they are mounted for individual movements and also all bodily movable in unison therewith, a series of ratchet-wheels operated by the pawls, a series of registeringwheels with which the ratchet-wheels have driving connections, and means for moving the pawl-support, for the purpose set forth.

18. In a registering-bank for coins, in cornbination, a series of pawls corresponding to and to be controlled by coins of various denominations, a movable support or carrier on which they are mounted forindividual movements and also all bodily movable in unison therewith, a series of ratchet-wheels operated by the pawls, a series of registeringwheels with which the ratchet-wheels have driving connections, mechanism for trans ferring the maximum of one registrationwheel to a registering-wheel of higher denomination, and means for moving the pawlsupport, for the purpose set forth.

19. In a coin-registering bank, in combination, several dial-wheels, loose on a shaft, several ratchet-wheels, loose on a second shaft, in driving connection with said dial-wheels, pawls loosely mounted on a bodily-movable shaft 36 having individual swinging movements thereon, and bodily movements in unison therewith, means for bodily moving the shaft 36, the curved and bent plate 66 having the apertures 68 the margins of which have restraining engagements with the several ratchet-wheels, and having the apertures 69 which serve both as guides for the thrust movements of the pawls and to keep them in their proper positions of separation.

20. In a coin-registering bank, in combination, the series of ratchet-wheels and shaft 32 on which they are loosely mounted, the series of pawls 34 and the bodily-movable shaft 36 on which they are loosely mounted, and means for moving same and the pawls thereon, the curved and bent plate 66 having the apertures 68, engaging on opposite sides of the ratchetprovided wheels, and having as integral parts thereof the tongues 67 for spring-detente for the ratchet-wheels, and having the apertures 69 separating and guiding the pawls, substantially as described and shown.

21. In a coin-registering bank or like apparatus, a runway for coins having at its inside a Wall rising thereabove which has the series of varying-sized apertures through which the coins may respectively topple as they roll, and chutes adjacent said apertures, operating-pawls to which the chutes respectively lead, a support on which they are movably carried bodily in unison and on which they are individually rocked by the coins which come thereagainst,means for moving the pawlsupport, ratcheted wheels, operated by the pawls and registering-wheels with which the ratcheted wheels have rotating engagements.

22. In a coin-registering bank, in combination, a registering-wheel, a normally-disen- ICO IIO

gaged paWl or driver to insure rotation of the registering-Wheel, a guide for leading a coin to engagement With the pawl or driver for setting it, in driving connection with the register-Wheel, and means for imparting a thrust motion to the driver.

23. In a cash-registering bank, the inclosing case having the coin-Withdrawal slot, the internally-located plate 113 for covering and closing said slot, the swinging arm 114-to which said plate is pivotally attached-having a key-receiving socket coincident with its center of swinging movement, as shown.

24. In a coin-registering bank in combination the shaft or rod 36, the pivotally-mounted levers 48, 48 between which the rod is mounted and having the arm 48, the rotary cam 54, the thrust-pawls 34:, 34E, mounted on and bodily movable with said rod, ratchet- Wheels adapted to be engaged by the paWls, registering-Wheels With Which the ratchet- Wheels are in driving connection, and coinguides for leading the coins to the respective pawls.

25. In a coin-registering bank, in combination, a rotatable registering-Wheel, a part in engagement therewith, and movable to rotate same, a paWl or driver normally disengaged from said register-wheel-engaging part,means for guiding a coin whereby the presence thereof in the machine causes the engagement of the pawl or driver with the part which is in connection with the register-wheel,and means for imparting a propulsive movement to the driver.

26. In anon-registering bank, in combination, a series of registering-Wheels, normallydisengaged pawls or drivers for insuring rotational movements of the registering-Wheels, devices whereby the presence of given coins in the bank Will set the pawls or drivers in driving connection With the register-Wheels, and means in common to all the drivers for imparting thrust motions thereto.

Signed by me at Springfield, Massachusetts, this 21st day of March, 1900.

JAMES F. HEALY.

Witnesses:

WM. S. BELLoWs, I. H. BARTLETT.

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