Patent GB-190600910-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Vending Machines
Inventor: WHITNEY WILLIAM CHESTER
Filed: 1906-01-12
Granted: 1907-01-12
Abstract: 910. Whitney, W. C. Jan. 12. Sale apparatus.-Relates to a machine having a rotary storage frame with radial compartments, the object being to vend a variety of goods at different prices. Casings.-The cylindrical casing on a base-plate has a conical glass cover 8 in a ring 5 which is secured by pins in inclined slots in the rim of the casing, spring catches thereon engaging the pins. An attached casing 35 in front contains the, coin mechanism. Displaying samples.-Beneath the cover a conical displaying- tray 31 on a hub 33 with radial compartments is secured by a set-screw 32 to the central shaft. Storage. - A rotary storage frame is provided on a central vertical shaft 10, which rises from an antifriction footstep to a collar 9 at the centre of the cover and there carries a turning-knob 13. The storage frame is made up of a circular open-work plate 22 and attached radial partitions 20 round a central cylinder on a hub 23. Ledges 24 are provided at the bottom of the partitions to support piles of cartons 95 of keystone shape, which are confined by shutters 27 hinged to crosspieces 26. By turning with the knob 13 at the top, the desired pile of goods is brought round to the delivery shoot 96 at the bottom of the front case 35. Displaying " empty " notices. - When a compartment containing no goods is brought round to the front, a weight 30 left at the bottom of the compartment depresses the foot 34 of a tod 36 depending from a disk 37, which is accordingly turned to show the word " empty.' Delivery mechanism; actuating-mechanism.-A slide 91 in guides 89 carries an ejector 25 and has a connecting-rod 88 to an arm 86, which is loose on a shaft 77 but is operated therewith by means of a fast disk bearing two screws to catch the arm after play. Coin action coin-discharging mechanism.-The operating shaft 77 is normally prevented from turning except to the extent of a slight play by a pawl 80 engaging a pin 79 on a sector 60. A tubular holder 57 forming a continuation of the principal shoot leads the coin to the sector and holds it in front of a bar 78 thereon. Accordingly, when the shaft is turned through the angle of play, the holder is pushed back sufficiently to disengage the pawl 80 by catching a pin 81 thereon. In further action, the coin is thrown over the bar 78. Money shoots ; fraud, preventing.-Grooved entrance shoots 39 each of just sufficient width for a certain coin allow smaller coins to drop straightway down a returning shoot 42<a>, and direct the proper coins to a second returning shoot 42, but normally a deflector 43, set according to the price of the article chosen, intercepts the coin, so that it falls into a guide 41 descending to the freeing-mechanism. The deflector is set as required because it is connected by a rod 44 to a radial lever 45 with curved inner end 47, which is in the path of screws 48 projecting through a star-wheel 49 on the central shaft 10. To prevent a onecent coin from being jerked through the five-cent entry shoot, a depending deflector 111 is provided therein. Returning coins.-When the storage compartment from which goods are wanted is empty, a deflector 53 hinged to the front of the guide 41 is set by the residual weight 30 so as to send the coin into the returning shoot 42<a>.