US678620A - Cash-receptacle. - Google Patents

Description

' No. 678,620. Patented lu'ly I6, 190|.

C. HUTCHINSUN. GASH BECEPT'ACLE.

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CHARLES nUfromNsoN, oE GREEN rsLAND, NEW Yoan.

CASHHRCPTACLE.

SPECIFXCATIQN forming part of Letters Patent No. 678,620," dated. July ld, 1901. Application tiled February 21, 1900. Serial No. 6,005. (No model.)

.To all whom, z'ft mfr/ zj concern:

Be it known that l, CHARLES HUToHINsoN,

a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Green Island, in. the county ot Albany and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cash-Receptacles; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to whichA it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

lily invention isa. cash-receptacle, and differs from what are ordinarily known as cashregisters by the fact that it receives the/cash, but does not register the amount paid for every single purchase at the time said purchase is made by displaying simultaneous with the action ofthe plunger a numeral indicating such amount.

The objects of my invention are to render the possibilities of stealing the deposited cash as small as possible, to have said receptacle lock itself in case of its being tampered with and to unlock itself automatically, to enable the largest reasonable amount of money to be deposited by means of a tablet system, to furnish a change-drawer separate from the controlling devices tha't regulate the reception of cash, to render mistakes impossible by furnishing only one key for ringing up the cash deposits, and finally to simplify the coin-admittin g means, so that they are cheap to manufacture and easy to repair. How l accomplish these different objects can best be eX- plained in connection with the various means as they will be described in the ensuing description.

In describing m y improved cash-receptacle l shall cali attent-ion to the accompanying drawings, wherein like letters of reference indicate corresponding parte in the different views.

Figure l shows a section of my receptacle, showing the general arrangement of the interior, the side panel or frame turning toward the spectator being to that effect removed. Fig. 2 is a front view of the receptacle as seen in Fig. 1, given more especially to show the arrangement ot the tablets. Fig. il is a top sectional View of the receptacle through the lineX X in Fig. l. Fig. 4 is a eide View of the mechanism for controlling the deposit of the coin in the deposit-drawer, shown in about its natural size. Fig. 5 is a front view of said mechanism looking at Fig. Il in the direction of the arrow Y. Fig. 6 is a top View, partly in section, of the drum and the parts that control and operate it as they are seen in Fig. 5, and Fig. 7a sectional view on aline YY in Fig. 5. Fig. l7 shows a sectional detail View of the upper part ot the receptacle, illustrating the slot A5 clearly; and Fig. 8, a section on a line X 'X in Fig. 5.

In Fig. l, A indicates the frameof the receptacle, divided into two compartments A and A2. In the upper compartment themechanism (shown in enlarged detail in Figs. 4, 5, andl 6) is located that controls the admission of the coin first into the space A3 and from thence into the cash-deposit drawer A4. Describing this operation more minutely the coin is dropped through the slot A5, is caught by the drum B, and deposited in the space A3, and when the plunger-arm C' is manipulated said coin will by a cooperation between the said plunger and a trap-door D be deposited in the underneath-located depositdrawer A4.

Referring now to the detailed construction of the plunger mechanism, to which end the enlarged Views in Figs. 4, 5, and 6 are furnished, such mechanism will be seen to be constructed as follows: A drum B, having its two journals B and B2 furnished with pulleys B2 and B, so that the journals, the pulleys, and the drum are all one solid part, is pivoted in bearings E2 and E3, said bearings formed in arms projecting` from the standards E4 and E5, the journal B2 located in the bear-` ing E2 of the'standard E5, and the journal B' located in the bearing E3 of the standard. E4. l/Vound around the pulleys B3 and. B4 and secured to the drum sigles at,respectively,points B5 and B are two cords B7 and B8, each of said cords passing over pulleys B9 and B10, pivoted loosely to the standards F and F2. The other ends ot these cords B7 and B8 are secured to a bar F3, said bar inserted firl ly at a right angle to the axis of the plunger-C in the plunger C. Coiled around eaelot' the bearings E2 and E3 isa spring, G lying around stopped the springsG' and G2, having during the pull exercised on the corde been contracted, will exercise an expansion movement which will revolve the drum in a direction reverse to the one indicated by arrows Z' and Zz-in fact, in `the direction of an arrow Z,

.as observed in. Fig. d.

Referring to the construction of the drum B, it will be seen when looking at Fig. @t

that it has an opening in its circumference stretching across it, as indicated icy` the letter H, the rest-of the circumference heinga solid shell. This ,opening `given admission to a chamber in the. drinn, which chamber ie formed by the hat sides of the drum, the partiton-wall H' inside ofthe cylinder, and the external curved part of the circumferential shell, (marked H2.) liuto this chamber the coin is dropped, being prior thereto in the slot .d5 and resting on the solid part of the circuinference H2 until'the drum-opening H by the action. on the plunger-handle C' is ewung around to receive it. A shield l, having au opening-or slot l'. cnt therein corresponding in size lengthwise tothe opening in the drum,

'is placed in front of thc drum, being attached to the plate J, to vi'hich all the other elemente similarly are secured. The part l2 of this shield leads the coin on its downward passage and supporte it in front of a transparent periiLion-wall 13, said partition-wall supported between two brackets li. Thecoin renting there as having been deposited for a certain purchase made can thus be viewed hy the purchaser, the whole upper part of the frame A facing these coin-depositing means being to that effect made of glass or other traneparent material. The ineane which support the coin while resting against the part l2 is a sliding trap-door D, operated from the plunger as follows: Attached to the plate .l is standard J', to which standard is pivoted a lever K," to whose arm K' there is attached a weight K2, said weight K2, by means of an. arin K4, resting on a pin K3. This pin K3, which will be more distinctly alluded to in connection with the plunger, forms a part of such plunger. K has a linl; KG pivotcd to it, which link finally is pivoted to 'the sliding trap-door D. lf consequently the weight la?? is unsupported-that is to say, if the supporting-pin K3, forming part of the plunger C, is withdrawn-the lever K, pivoted in the bracket d', will necessarily move in the direction of the arrow Z4, actuated by the dead-weight of The other arrn K5 of the lever crecen the weight lig, and in so doing will draw the linlz l, and with it the trap-door D, to which itis attached, thus permitting the coin to drop through the passage D', which will guide it down into the cash-deposit drawer A4, `which was the desired object. y

The construction of the plunger, which has the two .iunctione of oscillating the d ruin and withdrawing the trap-door forthe deposit of the coin in the drawer A4, ie as follows: Supported, as above stated, by the crocs-har F3 is the plunger C, guided by a hearing lL, at-.

tached to the plate J.. Secured at the lowest end of the plunger C is a locking-tongue G2, Y

attached to the plunger in such manner that except the cach-receptacle ie kept in an absolutely vertical position the said lockingtongue will prevent the downward movement ot" the plunger C. end are the following: ln the first place, free swinging` motion must be given to the said tongue C2. This is accomplished, as seen in Fig. e, hy inserting the screw-cut end C3 of the tongue U2 into a glolmlar-forined nut C, said nut iC4 resting on the upper odge ol a hole C5, formed in the bolt C, said holt CG secured in the lower hollow part of the plunger C. Thusl the tongue will he given a .free swinging motion to all sides. To cooperate with this tongue C2, a cup M is furnished, having a centrally-located hole M', pcrpcndlcularly situated directly underneath the suspended tongue C, and a circular channel or groove lll/l2, adapted'to .receive the rounded end of the tongue at the moment the receptacle should be ewaycd into any position except the true perpendicular.v This cup lil is secured in a l"crochet M3, suitably seen red to the plato I.

Reverting to the action of the sliding trapdoor D, it can now he more easily understood that as the weight K2, 'the erin Ki, and the lever li, all forming one integral part with eachother, rest on the pin K3, forming an integral part of the plunger C, the leverK will on the downward movement ot' the plunger C pivot around the pin K7 in the direction of the errow Z" by the gravitation oi the weight K2 and release the coin hy the withdrawal of the trap-door D. ln case there ehould he any deeire on the part of 'the person in charge of The means to attain this IOC the recetutacle to abstract any of the depositecl'caeh, it can now he understood that no cash-can loc depoeited unless the plunger C is in a perpendicular position above the hole M' in the cup lli, and in ceso eaid person or an yhody else should decire .to abstract a recentlydeposited sum oi' money and should to that effect turn the receptacle upside down the weight K2 will :tell down on the plate Il, and consequently keep the sliding` trap door locked.

lt can thus he gathered from the foregoing that in the upper part of the receptacle the main and novel features invented by me are the ewiveled drum B, the sliding trap-door D, actuated by the lever K and the thereuntoattached weight K2, and the plunger (l, hav- `ingasuspended rod C2 attached to its end,

' A and' make any eiort at tampering with such receptacle absolutely useless.A

l The lower part of the receptacle Acontains vtwodravvers A4 and R, of which the upper,

' lower is the change-drawer.

-wheel iirnily secured to the spur-gear O in.

A4, is the cash-deposit drawer, into Which'the coin transmitted through the Aslot and downwardlthrough the passage D drops, and thev v Thedrawer A4 is regulated in regard to theopening thereof by any ordinary register N. To connect this register operativelyfwith the opening of the drawer, I have devised the following means: The pinion N' as ordinarily used for transmitting the rotative power to the .indicatoriinger of such register meshes vwith a spurgear O, which spu r-gear, together with a spurgear Oof similar size, is mounted loose on a pin O2, said pin secured to the side frame f the receptacle. Attached to the drawer A4 is a gear-rack O8, with'which gear-rack the spur-gear O' meshes.v Pivoted to an arm of the' spur-gear 0' is a pawl O4, which pawl during the outward movementof the drawer will engage a ratchet-wheel'O, said ratchetany suitable mechanical manner, so as to move simultaneous with O. .'It can nowbe seen that when thedrawer is pulled out the gear-'rack Oiwill cause .the spur-gear 0' to revolve in the direction of the arrow W,.`and as said spur-gear O' has the pawl O4 attached to'it the pawl Ol will engage the ratchet-wheel O5, and as the ratchet-wheel and the spur-- gear O are made in one-partthe gear'O,` meshing with the pinion N', will-operate the indicater-finger of the register or indicator N. The return movement of the drawer will of course have noI eiiect o n the register, as the spur-gears 0 and O', as. before stated, vare mounted loosely on the pin O". This device 'will' consequently have the effect of establishing the number of times the drawer h'as been opened. To further establish the fact of any attempt to dislodge money, which a knowledge of the interior of the cash-receptacle of course would reveal as perfectly useless, a device consisting of a cup P and a ball P', lying therein, is attached to the bottom of the drawer, the natural consequence of which being that if the receptacle has been shaken or turned upside down the ball will roll out of the cup, proving beyond a doubt the abovestated motion'of the receptacle. In connection with the change-drawer R, frnishedbelow the deposit-drawer A, `I have devised the following means for rendering the -deposit of an unusually large sum of money possible without much trouble, and, further, for making only a very smallgamount of cash change necessary; and, iinally, for giving an easy record of outstanding dues, whether large or small obviating the necessity of any bookkeeping or memorizing of such outstanding the salesman.

vtablet indicating iifty cents andan ordinary silver iiftyscent piece. The tablet he depos-A cents .worth of goods and hands one dollar to. i

The salesman deposits the dollar in the change-drawerfBJ and takes out aits in the receptacle by depositing it in the, f

slot A5 and then'manipnlates the plunger, 'which notities the purchaser that hispurchase-deposit isl made, the transparent part of the'frame showing him the fifty-cent tab-,.-

let,fandA the vsilver fifty-cent piece he hands to the purchaser 'is his change. The salesman has thus saved fty cents in c'urrency of the 'realm as change' out `ot his. drawer, his change thus remaining the same, the receptacle holding him accountable for the liftycent tablet deposited. As an instance of the greater easeY by which larger amounts are deserve to illustrate Supposing a deposit of one hundred dollars has to be made in my recepten cle, the cash-receiver simply deposits a tablet having a-hundreddollar numeral inscribed on it, the deposi-tor being able both to hear 4and see that itfis deposited, yand the cash-receiver is held accountable by the machine for the deposited one-hundred-dollar tablet, the currency-bills received by him being kept, for instance, in his change-drawer R. Re- 'ferring to the blank tablets indicated in the drawing by reference-letters V', V2, V3, V4, V5, and V6 in the rack V, their useful and labor-Savin g qualifications are very apparent. supposing, for instance, that a customer desires to be credited for his purchase for some positedin my receptacle, the following will loo reason or other, the operator simply inscribes hisname and the amount involved on one of the aforesaid blank tablets, 'deposits the same in the already-described manner, and at the end of the day or the week or any desirable period he will know just what amount any such customers have been charged with by counting up the dierent tablets so deposited, which can then be redeemed, have the amount and name wiped 0E them, and then be restored to the rack for further use. The old and well-known means for signaling the def positshave vbeen used by me, consisting-of the bell-dome S, a standard S', having a lever S2 pivoted therein, said lever having one'arm Sa furnishe'd with a hammer S4 and the other arm with a lug S5. This latter lug Si' will be depressed by means of a pin S, secured firmly in the plunger C when the latter is manipulated, and when the pin has passed the lug it will be released, letting the hammer S4 fall on the bell.

As the coperation ofthe diierent elements with each other has unavoidably been referred to in describing the construction of this invention, np rsum'ofthe same would seem to be necessary.

VVhatI then in accordance -with the above description claim, and desire to secure protection for by Letters Patent oi the United States, is-

1. The combination in a cash-receptacle of a single plunger consisting of a projecting lever-arm secured to a vertical downwardextending plunging-rod; with a swiveled coin receiving and transmitting drum operated by said plunging-rod substantially as and for the purposes described.

2. The combination in a cash-receptacle ot" a single plunger having a suspended lockingtongue attached, aswiveled coin 0r tablet re-4 ceiving and transmitting drum operated by said plunger, a trap-door operated bya weight acting in conjunction with the plunger substantially as and for the purposes described.

3. The combination in a cash-receptacle ofy a swiveled coin or tablet receiving and trans initting drum with a single plunger, a loosely-Y suspended locking-,tongueattached to said plunger coperating with means for locking the receptacle, substantially as and for the- -purposes described.

4. The combination ina cash-receptacle of a swiveled drum, a single plunger operating said swiveled drum, a sliding trap-door, a 1ever moving lon a fixed pivot having a weight attached, said weight resting on means secured to the plunger and having connection with the trap-door substantially as and for the purposes described.

Y 5. The combination in a cash-receptacle of a swiveling coin-receiving drum, a sliding trap-door controlling a passage operated by a single manipulatingarmfa projecting. levierarm secured to a vertical downward-extend ing plunging-rod constituting said single manipulating-arm; with a cash-receiving drawer having a register attached operated by means attached intermediate the receptacle-'frame and the drawer substantially as described.

6. The combination in a cash-receptacle comprising an upperv and a lower compartment of a swiveled drum, a single plunger operating said drum, a trap-door operatedby a weighted lever secured in the upper compartment, a coin or tablet depositing drawer having an indicator and intermediate means attached indicating the opening of said drawer and a change-drawer substantially as illustrated and described. i

r'7. In a cash-receptacle, a single manipuJ lating-arm, consisting of alprojecting leverarm secured to a vertical downward-extending plunging-rod operating said receptacle,

have hereunto set my `hand this 25th day of i November, A. D. 1899.

' CHARLES HUTUHLNZSON.

Witnesses: v

PEROY L. GALLAoHnR,y AUGUsT M. Tassel-zow.

a swiveling drum controlling a passage, and

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