Patent GB-192139-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to coin-freed apparatus
IPC: G07F17/42
Filed: 1921-10-24
Abstract: 192,139. Huntsworth, G. H., and Anderson, T. G. Oct. 24, 1921. Delivery of articles stored in piles; coin action, electric-connection and multiple-coin.-In coinfreed delivery apparatus in which coins close electric circuits as described in Specification 187,689 by the aid of guide sections insulated from one another, a switch comprising a movable member bridging contacts, or plugs entering sockets, is controlled by the purchaser to complete the circuit according to the particular combination of coins used to make up the value of the article sold. means being provided whereby the vendor may set the machine to vary the price at which articles are to be sold. The bottom article of a pile in a compartment a<24> is delivered by a drawer d<47> normally locked by a pivoted catch which is released by an electromagnet when its circuit is completed by the insertion of a coin or coins through slots a<9> - - a<11> and by the movement of arms g or/and g<12> to positions on scales g<11>, g<20> corresponding to the price of the article and the combination of coins used. The arms g, g<12> control switch arms g<2>, g<14> adapted to bridge 'contacts and complete the circuit through the coins and through the insulated sections of grooved pairs of inclined coin guides a<7>, a<8> in which the coins rest against an insulated shutter d. The circuit is completed bv the switch arm g<2>, when combinations selected from six pennies and seven halfpennies are used to make up values from Id. to 6d., and by the switch arm g<14>, when combinations from four sixpences and three shillings are used to make up values from 6d. to 3s. The vendor or an attendant can set the machine according to the value of the articles stored in the compartment a<24> by plugging feeder bars e - - e3, the feeder bar e<1> being plugged when the switches are to be used in series. Instead of movable arms bridging contacts, the switches may comprise plugs and sockets. One of the Provisional Specifications describes an apparatus for selling tickets of different values stored in several compartments, each having a, delivery drawer, means being provided to signal when a certain number of tickets remain in each compartment. Coin-discharging mechanism.-An arm d<45> carried by brackets d<46> on the delivery drawer d<47> actuates through a spring-controlled arm d<43> a bell-crank lever d<39>, d<40> which moves the shutter d downwardly against springs d<19>, d<20> to cause slots d<7>, d<9>, d<11>, d<13> therein to register with the coin guides and with slots a<13> a<16> in a partition a<6>. The coins slide out of the coin guides along shelves on the shutter and drop through the partition a<6> into the money box. Returning coin.-Coins inserted in the wrong slots fall between the casing and a partition a<4> into a tray a<3>. Should the purchaser make an error in actuating the switches, the money in the coin guides is returned by turning the switch handles g, g<12> in the opposite direction. These through ratchets d<33>, d<36> and depending catch arms d<32>, d<35> actuate a lever d<28> which through a link d<26>, spring d<25>, and chain d <24> moves the shutter d upwardly to cause slots d<8>, d<10>, d<12>, d<14> therein to register with the coin guides. The coins slide through the shutter, hit against the partition a<6> and fall down to the tray a<3>.