Patent GB-289921-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to coin-freed ticket issuing apparatus with change giving if required
IPC: G07F17/42
Filed: 1927-01-28
Abstract: 289,921. Symons, D. T. Jan. 28, 1927. Money-delivering apparatus.-In a coin-freed apparatus for issuing tickets or other articles and giving change if required,' the issue, of a ticket is effected by depressing a ticket selector lever corresponding to the value of the ticket desired and by the subsequent insertion of one or more than one coin into one or more than one slot so as to release a slide or slides, the withdrawal of the slide or the last slide effecting the issue of the ticket. If a coin of greater value than the ticket is used, the correct change is ejected with the ticket. The apparatus is provided with mechanism so that it can be used for giving change only. The machine described is provided with twelve ticket selector levers corresponding to tickets of values Id. up to 1/-, and with seven coin-freed slides, 25, 294, 222, 297 - - 300, Fig. 5, adapted to be released by using 1d., 2d., 3d., 6d., 1/-, 2/-, and 2/6 respectively. There are twelve ticket hoppers 13, Fig. 2, and six hoppers 305 containing coins for change. To issue a penny ticket the selector lever 1 is depressed, and, through a rod 27, bell-crank lever 29, 30, links 31, 32, rocks a spindle 33 to withdraw a guide support 34 from a slide engaging lever 36 which drops and by its hooked end 37 engages the penny slide 25. The slide which is released by inserting a penny is then pulled out and through the lever 36 and an arm 39 rocks a spindle 40. The spindle 40 through an arm 43, link 44, bellcrank lever 45, 47, link 48, bell-crank lever 50, 51 loose on a shaft 52 and link 53 actuates a sliding plate 26 to eject the bottom ticket from the penny ticket hopper. As shown in Fig. 5, there are a series of sliding engaging levers superposed above the coin-controlled slides, and a series of spindles 337 - - 368 running across the machine at about the level of the slides. The first group 337 - - 350 are for actuating guide supports, the second group 351 - - 362 for actuating the ticket issuing bell cranks loosely mounted on the spindle 368, and the third group 363 - - 368 are provided for actuating changeissuing mechanism. Tickets value 2d., 3d., 6d. and 1/- are issued similarly to a penny ticket by depressing their respective levers and freeing the slides 294, 222, 297, 298. The slide 294 is released by two pennies, the slide 222 may be released by three pennies or a threepenny piece and the sixpenny slide by six pennies or a sixpence. Fourpenny and five penny tickets are issued on the withdrawal of the threepenny slide 222 but the particular slide engaging lever, which must engage the slide 222 to issue the ticket, has more than one guide support. In the case of a fourpenny ticket, the lever 437 has two guide supports 436, 438. The support 436 is withdrawn by the depression of the fourpenny selector lever and the support 438 by the insertion of a penny and withdrawal of the penny slide 25 which acts through a bar 91, Fig. 2, having a notch 93 to engage a pin 94 on a lever 95. The lever 95 rocks the spindle 350 carrying the support 438. The values of tickets from 7d. up to 11d. are similarly built up, there being three building up spindles 344, 347, 350 actuated by levers 95<1>, 95<1>, 95, When a coin of higher value than the ticket is used, say a half-crown for a penny ticket, the spindle 33 is rocked as before by depression of the penny selector lever. This withdraws a guide support 535 from a penny slide engaging lever 545 above the half-crown slide 300 When the slide 300 is pulled out the lever 545 rocks the spindle 40 to issue a penny ticket and also through links rocks some of the change spindles 363 - - 368. These actuate bell-crank and links similar to the ticket issuing mechanism to operate slides for ejecting coins from the coin hoppers. When change only is required, a 1. change only selector lever is depressed. Then, when the coin of higher value is inserted and the proper slide pulled, the change spindles are rocked to eject coins equal in value. to the coin inserted. An extra building up spindle similar to the spindle 350 is required to withdraw guide supports from change only slide engaging levers. When a selector lever is depressed, it is held in this position by a pawl 96, Fig. 2, engaging a notch 98 in the bar 27, until a ticket is issued or a resetting bar 78 is pulled. The selector lever also engages aligned notches in six slidable notched bars carried in a U- shaped frame 129. A notch of one of the bars is so shaped that that bar is moved and so prevents any of the other selector levers from being depressed until the mechanism is reset. Each of the slides used in building up the value of a ticket is held out until the last slide is pulled by a catch engaging, a recess in the slide. These catches are connected by links 72<1>, 72, 73 to arms 81 fixed to the spindle 52 which has arms 50<1> connected to the framing by springs 107. When a ticket or change is issued the arms 51 of the bell-crank levers loose on the shaft 52 act against cross-bars 51<1> connecting the arms 81 and extend the springs 107, which act to return the ticket and change ejecting mechanism to its initial position. The movement of the arms 81 releases the slide holding catches so that the slides are returned by springs 55. The arms 81 through links 83, 84, 86, 88, 486<1> 491<1> restore the levers 91. A bar 102 is also actuated by the movement of the shaft 52 to withdraw the pawl 96 and allow the rod 27 and the ticket selector lever to return under the action of a spring 110. The resetting rod 78 is connected by a pin and slot connection 76, 77 with the rod 73 so that the mechanism may be reset by hand.