Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 219, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1910 — MACHINE TO SEPARATE COINS [ARTICLE]

MACHINE TO SEPARATE COINS

Blmple Dev toe Invented by Pennsylvania Man Great Convenience In Bank. Harrisburg, Pa.—At the age of 8* years, Daniel Drawbaugh, the prollflo Cumberland county Inventor, to whom many people give the credit for being the originator of the modem telephone, Is organising a company and planning to erect a big factory for the manufacture of a coin separator which his brain has recently evolved. The separator consists of a series of brass plates, one above another, perforated with holes sufficiently large to allow a coin of a certain size to slip through, and no larger. Mr. Drawbaugb’s model works to perfection. He dumps in a shovelful or so of dollars, halves, quarters, dimes, nickels and cents, gives the crank a turn and the dollars drop into a tube; another turn and out come the halves, etc. Pressure of a button In the tube separates the coins Into piles of five, ten. twenty, etu, tor easy rolling into packages. ? Mr. Drawbaugh says two sixes of the separator will be marketed, one retailing at $66 and the other at $76. The price, he claims, will bring the machine within the reach of every financial Institution or counting worn which needs one, while previous separators have been so complicated or so expensive ar to be either praa tlcaUy useless or beyond the reaoh the average Individual or tiixo.