Patent GB-236092-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to coin freed delivery apparatus
IPC: G07F11/68
Filed: 1924-01-07
Abstract: 236,092. Brooker, H. Jan. 7, 1924. Delivery of stamps, labels, and other articles cut from strips.-The severing of a stamp, label or like unit from a strip 21 is effected by setting back or energizing a main lever 6, Fig. 1, pivoted at 7, which is then tripped to move to its normal position under the action of a weight 9, and, during this movement, feeds the strip forward from a roll 21<a> to place the next stamp in position. The severed stamp falls on a pivoted spring-controlled flap 49 of a box 26, the flap being opened, when the lever 6 is tripped, to allow the stamp to fall into the box which is accessible to the purshaser. The stamps are severed by a knife blade 27 attached to a vertically slidable block carried by two arms 34, Fig. 9, connected at their upper ends by two bars 35, the upper of which has a grooved ferrule. This ferrule is engaged by a pin 38 on a knife-actuating lever 39 which carries a pivoted spring-controlled cam 42. When the lever 6 is energized, a pin 47 on a plate 45 attached thereto engages the cam 42, thereby moving the. knife 27 upwardly to sever a stamp. In its return movements, the pin 47 passes idly over the cam 42. The knife carrierblock controls a spring-pressed bar having pins to engage the stamp strip and hold it, while, the knife is effecting the cutting operation. The stamp strip is fed forward by a lever 86 pivoted to the main lever 6 and having downwardly projecting fingers 85 to engage in the strip perforations. Accidental movement of the strip is prevented by a spring-pressed lever 78 having pointed projections engaging the perforations from below. The lever 78 is depressed to release the strip by a lever 81 actuated by a pin on an arm 84 carried by the main lever. The box 26 has a delivery opening closed by an inwardly movable door 63, Fig. 14, provided with a glass panel 64. A spring 65 holds the door closed, and a baffle plate 74 is disposed across the box to prevent fraudulent manipulation of the flap 49 by wire. A pawl on the main lever engages a fixed rack 6b and ensures a full stroke of the lever in each direction. Specifications 114,476 and 141,135 are referred to. Coin action, thrust and weight; testing coins. -A penny pushed through the insertion slot acts on an incline 11 on an arm 10 carried by the lever 6 and pushes the lever back against the action of the weight 9 until a tooth 12 on the end of the lever engages a tooth 14 on a coinlever 13. The coin then runs down an inclined shoot 3 and a vertical shoot 4 and tilts the lever 13 against a spring 16 to release the main lever 6. The pressure of the spring 16 may be adjusted to prevent the use of light coins. The end of the spring is coiled round the boss of a disc 18 which may be rotated and clamped by a screw 20 to adjust the pressure of the spring. Coin-slit closing-devices; 'empty ' notices, displaying.-The coin admission slot 2, Fig. 5, is closed, when the machine is empty, by a plate 90 slidable in a diagonal direction on the back of the front plate of the machine. The plate is actuated by a rod 96 sliding in guides 97 and adapted to rest on the stamp strip. When the strip is exhausted, the plate 90 falls and moves sideways to cover the slot 2 and display an ' empty ' notice through a slot 99.