US1291416A - Tolling-machine. - Google Patents

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R. COOK.

TQLLING MACHINE.

APPLICATION 11151111. 26, 1918.

Patented Jan.141,1 919.

ATTORNEY I .R. COOK. POLLING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 26' IQIB- Patented Jan. 14, 1919.

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R. COOK.

,TOLLING MACHINE.

APPLICATION m5!) MAR. 26, 1918.

Patented Jan.14,1919.

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Patnted Jan. 14,1919. v 4 $HEETS-SHEET I INVENTOR WZNESSES ATTORNEY UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ROY COOK OE MILLPORT, ALABAMA.

TOLLING MACHINE.

To all IiitI/I/l if may concern:

Be it known that 1, Her Coon, a citizen of the United States, residing the county of Lamar and State of'2\labama, have invented certain new and useful Im- [)lOVtlllellls in 'lolling-Machines, of WlllC-ll the following is a specification.

This invention relates to coin handling, and more especially to change makers {and the object of the same is to produce a machine which will take a certain toll from Bach user by accepting a coin from him and returning change. As Illustrated anddesay that, whereas the device herewith is.

shown capable of changing any coin up to one dollar inclusive, it. migh'tbe made on a smaller scale. Also other modifications and claborations aie possible within the spirit of my invention, as will beunderstood. The following specification and claims set. forth one embodiment. of the idea, and reference is made to the accompanying drawings, wherein:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the machine entire,

.Fig. 2 is a vertical section on an enlarged scale taken on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 a horizontalscction on the line 3-3 of Fig. 2,

F ig. 4 a sectional detail taken on about the line 4-4 of Fig. and Y Fig. 5 is a. vertical section on the line fi -5 of Fig. 2, y

Fig. (3 is a perspective view of the group of key levers and associated parts,

Fig. 7 is a perspective view of one yoke connecting a rod and stem, and the parts associated therewith,

Fig. 8 is a per fastener,

Fig. 9 is a perspective view of a key,

Fig. 10 is a perspective view oi a portion 0 the ma-in cross bar.

Fig 11 is a perspective view of one slide.

'lhefeasing of this machine comprises a base 1 frth iwh sc rear portion rises an ex- "tension cons ituting a hopper chamber 2, the

Specification of Letters Patent.

at =Millport, in

r coins is two cents, but

perspective detail of one hop- Patented Jan. 14, 1919.

Application-filed March 26, 1918. Serial No. 224,823.

whole presenting about the appearance shown in Fig.1. Througha slot 3 in the top of the base projects a main lever or prime mover 4 adapted to be swung forward by the operators hand; and, as above suggested, the movement of this lever may perform other work'without departing from the spirit of this invention. At one end the top otthe base is provided with a series of coin slots 5 into which are inserted the coins to be changed, and the change is delivered to the operator by means of a receptacle 6 from which he picks it in a manner which will be clear. This casing as a whole may mounted upon a standard or table, it may form part of another machine, or it may be secured against a wall or other upright. Its size, shape, proportion. material, and features of ornamentation are imimportant, and it is simply thehousing for the mechanism yet to be described. hinged at 8 and preferably locked at 9 so that access may be gained to the interior for the purpose of inserting the hoppers filled with change, and it may have a normally locked drawer 10 which from time to time can be withdrawn for removing thecoins which have been changed. Otherwise we are not concerned with the structure of the easing except that it acts as a support for other parts- Across the interior of the casing at the bot-- carries a series of ring-slumped supports U- as best seen in Fig. Upon each of these supports rest a coller 15 slu'roundmgthe lower portion of anupright tubular hopper '16. the upper end of the hop' 'ier when in place being held by a fastener 17 mounted on springs 18 as best seen in Fig, 8. These hoppersa're tubes of appropriate sizes respeclively to receive pennies. nickels. dimes,

quarters, and half dollars; and for .the pur-,

pose of niaking the matter clear l have indicatc'd ou the hoppers the denominations of the respective coins. The latter are retained Within the hoppers by slides I!) movably mounted in channels across the upper face It. should have a panel 7 of the shclt' ll. each slide having an opening it) of exactly the proper size and disposition I to register with the bore of the hopper when the slideis drawn forward by mechanism yetto be described, this opening carries acoin or;

' after which the slideis returnedito its'nor malposition for another eoinyor-coinsfromthehopper, x

The slides are all operated-5b). mechanism the slideis pushed to the rear; whereas, when coins along over the-shelf and drops it"or them through the notch 1 into'tlie chute 13 I of the same structu re, these; mechanisms are trlpped n a-Inanner yet to be described.

' Leading-forward from each slide 19 is a within the yoke 23 and forming therear exc 33 and with the main leveri;

stem 21 Which passes loosely through. un eye 22 at the rear end'of a. yoke 23 as best seen in ;Fig. 7. v The stem 'then passes 'tln'ough a j coiled expansive-spring 241 forward of which iticarries a plate orshclf 25 ,-and forwarder this inturn it has-an enlargehead,26 in'turn is a tongiie 27 standing tremity of a rod 28 which constitutes the shank of said yoke; and these parts are supported and guided within a slot, 29 in a seen in Fighfdfthe crossheatl '31 causes the; forward movement of all the rmls123 and;

all the yokes'23 whereasm ly such stems 21 i may move. forward have no'ohstructions or keys in frent of their hearls '26. Consi-quently the vselective forivaril movement of the stems 21an l the r" slides 19 depends {would move only the shuns 21 connected upon the selection of the keys which are raised out of the path of the heafls'26l For. example; if thekeys alinecl'with the ten ,eerit amltwenty five cent hoppers were raised; forward inovcn'ient of the main lever with the slides beneath these hoppers. and clia-nge from them would. be delivered accordingly, Whereas nothing would be delivered from the remaining hoppers. lfno key hatever israisou, manipulation of the prune mover or mam leverwouhl have no effect, and no change would be delivered to the receptacle f.

beneath the hopper for the pennies. in ad- (lition' to the slide 19 there is a suhjaeent and thicker slide 19 having its own stem 21f, yoke 23 and rod 28, the latter conneeted with; the main lever iat the same pointas the rod 28, all being for a purpose yet to appear. I might also say that. the

(lime hopper has a special slide beneath it ment or head 26 adapted to co-afct with a; key yet to bedesoribed. Forward'of this It will he ohserverl from Fig. 2fl-lhat there are-two slides asbest seen in Fig. 5. This slide is twice! the thicknessfof'a (lime so that when moved foi'ivardi it vvill (lrop two dirnes. "The slides, beneath the' penny hopper will collectively drop four pennies,jtheuppernmst, being thethicknessjof one cent and the lowermost the! v thickness of three cents; but *the. slidesv beneath the three remaining hoppers drop I only ion'eicoin eacln Hanging. Just in rear of the' nniin cross bar 30 are keys40,'eaclrofwhich is a fork Ias'best seen In Fig; 9," its fingersstanding astride the-tongue"2'7 and itsshankheing 1 pivotecl'at 41am crank a'rm Hat-zone end,

of a-rock shaft 43 Thereforefive'ofthese' shafts superposed-over each'other as best secn-iIrF-ig; ZandfeXte'nde'd' tothe left end i of. the base *1 of the 'casingfvvhere they have other crank arm's 44 'asbest seen in r'igli;

and I purposely omit an illustration'of the.

hearings in which thesha-fts are-mounted,

because they would confuse the drawings.

The crankarms 44' are" severally; connectecl by links 45 withthe rear arni'eioffivef' key-levers 46; these" levers having s'leeves" 47 mounted onaf u lcr umrod 48'. Finally,

each lever 46 has a'fin ger rojecting rearwardend overlying the body of the next lever, so that =thefy depression of one lever will depress all" those to the reaixof' it. An

exception exists with respect to the fiiiger on the third or twenty five cent key lever, which finger hasa hu1np50 carried overthe lever next acljacentixalul its extremity continues tothe 'last lever for a purpose yet: to ap pear; Asshown by the figures on the key levers and 'on-the rock shafts, the one dollar'lever-actnhtes the fifty cent rock shaft,

and in fact each key leverectuates the rock shaft of the next lower. denom nation; there fore 'we nust not hecomi confused by the designationycof the sev'eralparts;

The eomilslptso inithe topof 'the baseof the .casingficommunicete respectively with coin tuhes5l las best seen "in Fig. 4, Each" tube is preferably straight throughout, most of its length and cu'r vc 1;at its lowercnd as at I on an are around the fulcrum rod 1L8;

the curved portion being slottedmsl M353 'forthe admission-of the long armof a key lever 46, whicherm by reference carries latter on"the-lower side of itsfcurvedeml;

has a hingedj-gate 55, and al'l"the-gates are v mounted :fastonja reel-(shaft 56 which; turned hy a spun? 57in a (hrec'tio throw them nor'mu l leads over suitable pulleys 60$ to themslin 1mm, and the cord is given proper slack treme of nioveinent'the shaft 56 is turned and properly attached to tltenminlever so that as the latter're'aches its forward exto open all the gates 55 and deliver into the drawer 10 ahycoin which may have been inserted into one of. the slots 5. As above 'spggested, the drawer'is' withdrawn from tune to time to collect the coins, probably on the same occasion when the hoppers 16 are refilled. with change. y 7

I will later describe the operation-otthis machine as taking a toll'of. two cents from each silver dollar or half dollar deposited,

and a toll of one cent from any other coin deposited excepting a penny which of course need not be changed at all; but it will be shown first how the toll can he made the same for all coins if preferred. As-

suming that an operator approaches anddepositsv a silver dollar in the first and properly designated coin slot 5. Itfalls on y the left hand head 54 of Fig. 6 and depresses the appropriate key lever 46 and the sevoral fingers 49 cause the depression of all key leversexcept that marked ten cents.

These levers all rock on the fulcrum rod 1 4S and all rock shafts 43 are rotated excepting that marked five cents, with the result that all keys are raised e'xceptingthe one forward of the five cent hopper. Now the operator draws on the main lever 4:, and the cross head 31 moves all live rods 28 and yoltcs 23; accordingly the springs 25L move all of the stems fzl excepting that forward of the five cent hopper Whose head 26 strikes the key 40 which has not been raised. The result is that the slides under all hoppers but that containing nickles are moved forward, and there fall into the chute a fifty cent. piece a uarter, two dimes and four pennies; and tie aggregate change is delivered into the receptacle 6. The two dimes are'delivered because the slide under the dime hopper. is of double thickness, and

the four pennies are delivered because of the extra slide 19 under the penny hopper. Should the operator deposit a fifty cent coin in the second slot 5, the some action would take place excepting that no titty cent piece in change would be delivered to him. Should the operator deposit. a quarter in the third coin .slot. the change delivered is taken if the coin dopositcd is a silver dollar or a halt dollar. the coinitruction and action is as follows: If the key it) oppositc the penny slidc be raised only so high that its fingers clear the head it; of the lmvcrmost.

stem 21.. shown in Fig. 2 whereas they still stand in the path oi? the head of the uppermost stem, then when the main lever is swung forward it is the lower slide 19 with its three pennies which moves mfcr the shelf and drops them through he notch l2 instead of both slides 19 and 19 which would of course deliver tour pennies. Accordingly; the delivery of three or four pennies is to be determined by the distance to which this key is raised. (1 might say that the double slide under the diinehopper always delivers two dimes in order to make proper chap e, and it will merely bean ordlnary sh .e 19 of twice the thickness of a dime.) When it is desired, therefore,.that the toll from the largercoinsshall be two pennies instead of one penny as above def scribed, provision must loc made whcr lg the insertion of said larger coin will raise the key of the many slide not quite so high. This oan'loe etected in a nunilan' ya. and one practical way is by making; the dollarand half dollar coin lnhes shorter at their lower ends as indicatedy dotted lines in Fig. 4t. The result will he that the insertion of either coin swings'it-s licy leverf l6 and rocks the appropriate shat't or shafts 43, but the rocking; motion isnot carried to a degreewhich will lift "the heys past both heads 26, and therefore only the lower or three cent slides 19 is moved.

Actuation of the prime mover which in the present case is the lever l. firstdelivers the change into the receptacle 4 as above described. and toward the end of its movement puts tension on the cord 59. This draws on the arm 58, rocks the strait 56 and opens all the gates 55; and whatever .was the coin inserted for change. it now drops out of the tube 51 into the drawer 10. This immediately releases illi' key lever 46 which stood depressed hy the weight of said coin, and that in turn rclcas a all the other key levers which were depressed by the fingers li and accordingly the shafts 43 rock and the several ltcys descend behind the main cross bar 30 and forward of the heads :26. If it shouhlso happen that the operator is st ill holding the main lever forward, the keys droponto the shelves or plates 26 which sustain them until tho tiinc arrives when the stems Ql do niovc to thc rear and the heads 26 pass from undcr thc keys. I

Thus is produced a machine which will make change auttnnatically and which will 'simultancoiisly deduct a certain toll which 'may hc charg d the operator for the act of making change or for any other purpose; and provision is made for a little larger toll where the coin is of larger denomination. As suggested above: the actuation. of the prinic movcr at the time this toll is de ductcd from the coin inserted. may perform other service or start other mechanism, but

' these details constitute no part of the present inventiom The machineis susceptible of modification and refinements With- &

in the ;possibilities of structures of this kind." l f What is claimed as new is 1. Theconibination'with a ho e slide moving thereunder and having-a coin-opening, and a stem projecting forward from seidjslide and having a transversehead at itsdiront end; of a prime mover, a rod connested therewith and standing in line-with said stem, the r'odihaving atongue' disposed adjacent 'said head, ayoke carried'by the rod'and having an eye in its rear end loosely mounted on said stem, an expansive spring coiled on the latter between the eye and head, a vertically movable-key, and meansfor disposing itfibetween said tongue and pose of securing change, and fingers on the head at Will. v v

2, In a coin changing machine, the -combination with hoppers for coinsof different denominations, means for delivering coins levers for thelarger coins overlying levers for the smaller coins whereby the descent of a lever by the insertion of a larger coin will depress another lever or levers and result in thedelivery of the change desired.

3. Ina coin changing'majchine, the coinbinationwith hoppers for coins of different denominations,independent means for delivering coins respectively therefrom, a

prime mover, and independent yielding connections between it and said several means;

of keys standing normally Within the several connections and preventing their action on the delivery means, a tr p. for displacing vwith the respective trips and adapted tobe actuated selectively by the coins inserted for the purpose of securing change, and fingers on the levers For the larger coins overlying, lever-s for the smaller coins whereby the descent of a lever by the insertion of a larger coin will depress another lever or i levers and actuate appropriate trips to detions between said cross head and the several delivery means; of check devices movably' interposed within the several connections toprevent the movement of the delivery means,

midi-mechanism in the respective tubes for acthating appropriate check devices, .for the purpose set forth. I

f 5.111 a changemaking machine, the combination With hoppers for coins of different denominations, means for delivering them respectively there'froin; a main lever, a cross head carried thereby, and yielding connectionsb'etwee'n said cross head and the several means; of keys interposed Within the several connections and preventing the move- .,ment ofthe 'means'by said cross head, trips for displacing said l eys,,coin"tubes for he insertion 'of the coins to be changed, outlet gates from said tubes, inechanism'in the respective tubes for actuating appropriate trips, and means for opening all said gates when the main lever is swung to the extreme of its movement, for'the purpose set forth.

6. change-makingmachine, the coin: bination, with hoppers for coins of 'dlii'erejm denominations, means for delivering respectively therefrom, a main lever, a cross head carried thereby, and yielding conned tions between said cross head and the several means; of keys interposed within theseveral connect ons and preventing the movement of the means by'said cross head,- tri s i for displacing said keys, cointubes for tie insertion of the coins to be changed, outlet gates from said tubes, a rock shaft on-ivhich all said gates are mounted, a crank arm on p 1 said shaft,a cord connecting thi'sarm with said main lever and ofa length to be drawn taut to open all the gates as the main lever reaches it's extremo'of movement, and levers connected with the respective trips and each having one arm entering a tube to be depressed by a coin inserted and released when the coin is dropped through said gate. 7. In a machine of the typedescribed, the

combination with a series of upright coin tubes curved and slotted at their'l'ower ends,

gates movably closing saidends, and means for opening said gates of a fulcrum rod, a each key, a series of keydevers connected" tubes having slots in their bodies and gates the same, and connections- In a machineofthe type'described, the combination with-a series of upright coin at their lower ends, ineans for,, opening said M gates, a series of. pivoted levers each havmg one end projecting through a slot in a tube, fingers on levers of larger denominaw ions overlying the levers of smaller denominations, one of said fingers having a hump whereby it is carried past the adjacent lever to the lever beyond, and trips actuated by the movements of said levers; of hoppers for connectedtherewith and standing in line coins of difi'erent denominations, a prime with said stem, the rod having a tongue dismover; yielding connections between it and posed adjacent said head, a yoke carried by the several delivering mechanisms, mechathe rod and inclosing the head and plate and 5 nism for delivering change from said hophaving an eye in its rear end loosely mounted 20 pers, and keys standing within said connecon said stem, an expansive spring coiled on tions and preventing the action of such the latter between the eye and plate, a vermechanism, each'key being connected with tically movable key, and means for dispos one trip, as described. ing it between said tongue and head at will 10 9. Thecombination with a hopper, a slide In testimony whereof I aflix my signature 25 moving 'thereunder and having a coin-openin presence of two witnesses.

ing, a stem projecting forward from said ROY COOK. slide and"havlng a transverse head at its Witnesses: 1 front end, g, plate-mounted on the stem V. .l'IAMlL'lON,

15 adjacent said head; ofa prime mover, a rod: W. N. (hmvnnn.

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