Patent GB-473206-A (GB)
Title: Method and arrangement for the distribution of articles
IPC: G07F11/02
Filed: 1936-04-09
Abstract: 473,206. Coin - freed article delivery apparatus. VERE, C. DE. April 9, 1936, No. 10539. Convention date, Feb. 15. [Class 27] Articles stored in rows.-Articles 45, Fig. 8, such as post cards, packeted razor blades, &c. arranged alternately crosswise and lengthwise are stored in an horizontally mounted rotatable magazine 2 and are pressed by a plate 46 and spring 47 against a front plate having a cross-shaped slot, Fig. 2, corresponding to the interior section of the magazine. The end card &c. is pressed against guides 49, 50, while a thin flat spring 51 engages the second card. After prepayment, the magazine is given a quarter-turn so that the end card passes between the guides 49, 50 and, being separated off by the blade 51, drops down a hopper 52, Fig. 8, from which it is tilted by an apron 54 into another hopper and passes to a delivery opening 55. The magazine is carried and rotated by a wheel 1 meshing with a wheel 3, Fig. 1, on a shaft 5 having another wheel 8, Fig. 2, connected by a chain 9 to a wheel 10 which is coupled to a shaft 11 with a slight lost motion provided by pins and slots 13, 15, the shaft 11 being rotatable by an outside knob. The chain 9 is kept taut by a tensioning device 44. A ratchet wheel 17 on the shaft 11 engaged by a pawl 18 prevents reverse rotation and an eccentric 21, also on the shaft 11, is connected by a rod 22 to a vertical slider 23. The wheel 3 is rigid with a cam disc 4 having a notch 6 into which, in the position of rest, the nose 37 of a lever 36 is pressed by a spring 40. The disc 4 also has a peg 7 which, normally to prevent rotation of the wheel 3 engages a catch 34 carried by a shaft 32 and held in locking position by spring-pressed finger piece 35. Coin action, mechanical-connection ; coins acting in succession ; coin-slit closing-devices.- The inserted coins pass to a shoot 42, the bottom coin resting on end of slider 23. During the first idle movement of the shaft 11, allowed by the pins and slots 13, 15, the slider 23 pushes the coin past a bevelled button 30, Fig. 3, thereby pressing a pivoted spring- pressed catch 28 out of the path of a shoulder 27 on the slider. The catch 28 displaces a finger 33 to rock the shaft 32 and withdraw the locking catch 34 out of the path of the peg 7 on the disc 4 rigid with the wheel 3. Rotation of the wheel 3 and disc 4 rocks the lever 36 and causes its other end 38 to project into the shoot 42, thereby preventing any other coins in the shoot from moving down to position on the slider until the cycle of operation is completed. Exhibiting coins.-The coins pushed up by the slider into a shoot 43 rest on the button 30 and can be viewed from the outside of the machine through a window 62, Fig. 11 (not shown). The coins are ultimately pushed out of the top of shoot 43 to fall to a money-box 66. Fraud preventing.-The coins are inserted flatwise into a slot 56 in a deep socket 57, Fig. 9, the inside diameter of which corresponds exactly to that of the coin. When the coin is pushed to the bottom of the socket, it falls through a slit 58 and then passes through usual coin-testing devices 59, Fig. 2, to the shoot 42. Rejected coins are returned at the delivery opening 55. Filling storage receptacles.-The magazine 2 is filled from a frame, Fig. 10 (not shown) which has been loaded with cards &c. in a factory. The frame, which has the same crosssection as the magazine, is put at the end of the magazine and the contents then pushed into the latter.