Patent GB-465632-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in coin-freed vending machines
IPC: G07F5/26
Filed: 1936-01-17
Abstract: 465,632. Coin-freed article-delivery apparatus. FITZPATRICK, H. J. (Maatschappij van Berkel's Patent N. V.) Jan. 17, 1936, No. 1523. [Class 27] Articles stored in separate compartments.- Articles to be vended are stored in receptacles closed by shutters 6 and arranged one above the other in side-by-side groups, each group having a blocking device to prevent opening of more than one shutter in the group at once, and also a control member, the several control members being interconnected with a further blocking device to prevent opening of a shutter in more than one group at once, and also with coin-freed locking mechanism. As shown, the shutters 6 (Figs. 2 and 3) of each vertical group of receptacles are connected by links 9 with fingers 11 insertable into a row of blocking element 15, and with links 10 having a one-way pin-and-slot connection 13 with a sliding control member 14. Each of the control members 14 of the several side-by-side groups has a one-way pin-and-slot connection with a respective arm 18 secured to a shaft 19 freed for movement after the insertion of a coin, and also a finger 20 insertable into a row of blocking elements 21. Opening of a shuter 6, after insertion of a coin, causes the corresponding finger 11 to separate the blocking elements 15 to prevent opening of any other shutter in the same group, and displacement of the control member 14 whose finger 20 separates the blocking elements 21 to prevent movement of the other control members 14, and opening of any of the shutters in the other groups. In a modification, the shaft 19 is replaced by a sliding bar operating in a similar manner. Articles stored in piles.-The apparatus may also include, in addition, one or more groups of side-by-side receptacles in which, for example, the articles are piled and delivered one at a time by a drawer. The drawers or other closures of such a group operate sliding bars 53 Fig. 7, interconnected by blocking elements 55 to prevent opening of more than one at a time. The bars 53 also have a one-way connection with a control member 52 which is interconnected with a control member 43 (equivalent to the above shaft 19) common to the above described side-by-side groups, whereby only one of all the closures may be operated at the same time. The control members 43 and 52 are also connected with a coin-freed sliding bar 59. Coin-action, mechanical-connection ; coindischarging mechanism.-Rotation of the shaft 19 by movement of a shutter 6 is normally prevented by engagement of the nose 32 of an arm 27, Fig. 4, secured thereto with a pivoted locking lever 26. An inserted coin 23 is secured between a cam 24, also secured to the shaft 19, and a step 25 on the locking lever 26 so that, when the shaft 19 turns as a door 6 is opened, the cam 24 acts through. the coin 23 to displace the locking lever 26 against the action of a spring 30 so as to free the arm 27, permitting full movement of the shaft 19 and opening of the door 6. During the continued movement of the shaft 19, the arm 27 engages the upper part of the locking lever 26 which it displaces further to discharge the coin. Specification 457,990 is referred to.