Patent GB-391172-A (GB)
Abstract: 391,172. Money-delivering apparatus; coin - freed article - delivery apparatus. VELAZQUEZ, F., 66, Rue de Seine, Paris. Oct. 12, 1931, No. 28264. Convention date, Oct. 25, 1930. Addition to 365,733. [Classes 7 and 116.] The rotating coin-delivering wheels of the Apparatus described in the parent Specification are replaced either by an apertured plate sliding between the coin tubes and a plate provided with discharge apertures, or by sliding rings disposed beneath the tubes. In either case, the final discharge of the coins is controlled by stops released by the action of electromagnets. Further, the distribution of the goods is effected by means of a block provided with an aperture in which goods may be carried from the container to a trap, from which they are electromagnetically released. Coin-action, electric connection; change-giving apparatus.-In one form of money-delivering apparatus, a coin 234, Fig. 2, inserted in the appropriate shoot such as 33j bridges contacts 235, 236, and energizes an electromagnet 242 to attract the corresponding lever 37j of the series 37i .. 37m, Fig. 12 ; an electromagnet 238 is thus energized and an armature 239 attracted to close the circuit of a motor 24, Fig. 1, to rotate a wheel 7. The circumference of the latter has smooth and toothed portions 15, 16, the latter serving to transmit the drive from the motor and the former having a notch 171 normally occupied by a detent 224 upon a spring-pressed conductor 225, which during rotation of the wheel, is held in contact with a member 241 to maintain the motor circuit, the detent meanwhile riding upon the wheel. The coin is released when a raised sector 229 on the wheel engages a brush 230 to energize a magnet 231 and withdraw the contact 236. By means of a spindle 12 and rods 219, 219<1>, the rotation of the wheel imparts to and fro motion to a plate 201, having apertures 205, normally coincident with apertures in a bridge supporting the coin-tubes a .. f ; coins are thus deposited in apertures 204 in a plate 203 where they are supported by stops 208, 209, the number of coins deposited being controlled by members 216<1>, on a hinged member or members 216 which are rotated by a carriage 214 carried by the plate 201. The coins are released and fall into a hopper 271 when the stops 209 are withdrawn by the energization of the appropriate electromagnets of the series 22a.. 22d by the corresponding levers 37i .. 37m. The motor 24 may be replaced by a lever or flywheel actuated manually. In another form, Fig. 3, rings such as 301<1>b, 302<1>b, are disposed beneath each coin tube ; coins are released when a stop 306b on a rod 306<1>b carried by a member 18b, is withdrawn on energization of the corresponding magnet 22b, the coin-stack being meanwhile supported by the ring 301<1>b which is carried by a rod 303b so arranged upon the member 18b that it is moved before the rod 306<1>b. Articles stored in piles.-When goods are to be delivered in addition to change, one of a series of rods 410, Fig. 5, secured to a block 401, having an aperture 403 normally disposed beneath a pile of articles 113, is moved to bring the lowest article above a discharge aperture normally closed by a pivoted trap 405. Each rod carries a member 413o .. 413r, Fig. 12, carrying brushes 415 upon an insulating core, which brushes normally engage fixed pairs of contacts 416. Each member 413o .. 413r has an additional pair of brushes 415<1> which, when the rod 410 is pushed fully home engage contacts 416<1>, and a coin being inserted, the - appropriate electromagnet 165o .. 165r is energized ; a pawl 406 is thus withdrawn to release the trap 405, which pivots about a hinge 405<1>, extensions 411 of the trap meanwhile being accommodated in a recess 412 in the block which serves to restore the trap when the block is replaced. At the same time, certain electromagnets of the series 22a .. 22h are energized to deliver the appropriate change, certain pairs of contacts 416 being permanently interconnected for this purpose.