Patent GB-687068-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to recording apparatus having a removable magazine
IPC: H04H1/00
Filed: 1949-10-21
Abstract: 687,068. Recording-apparatus delivering money or articles when serviced. NIELSEN CO., Ltd., A. C. Oct. 21, 1949 [Oct. 29, 1948; Oct. 29, 1948]. Nos. 27155/49 and 27156/49. Class 27. [Also in Group XIX}. Money-delivering apparatus. Coins, tokens, or other articles are released when a replenished magazine is fitted to a recording unit such for example as that described in Specification 680,323, [Group XIX], for recording the listening habits of users of wave signal receivers. The coins etc. thus serve as an inducement to the user to insert the replenished magazine: their delivery may be dependent upon the performance of an operation'subsequent to fitting the magazine. In the construction of Figs. 17 and 18 the magazine 122 is fitted to an extension 121 of the base plate of the recorder 120 and is secured by spring clips 125 which engage over lugs 124 on the extension 121. A pocket containing two coins 129 is defined by the rear wall 123b of the magazine and a member 127 and is normally closed at its lower end by a U-shaped .wire member 133 pivoted at 133a to the walls of the magazine. When the magazine is fitted to the recorder a pin 138 on the extension 121 passes through a hole in the base of the magazine to raise a spring 123 the end 139a of which normally latches the wire member 133 in position. A subsequent (unspecified) operation causes a pin 141 on a member 140 in the recorder to pass through registering holes in the walls of the recorder and the magazine and to deflect the wire member 133 so that the coins 129 are pushed out of registering slots 130, 131 in the bases of the magazine and the recorder by springs 142. In the construction of Fig. 1 the magazine 32 fits into a space 31 in the recorder 30, where. it is secured by spring catches 36, 37. The casings of both the magazine and the recorder are of non- magnetic material. A member 41, Fig. 3; within the magazine defines with its rear wall 32a a channel containing coins which normally rest on the end 50a of a member 50 pivoted at 51. When the magazine is inserted in the recorder a magnet 61 in the latter attracts an armature 60 on the member 50 so turning it against a spring 53 to withdraw the end 50a from beneath the coins which fall from the magazine through a slot 48, Fig. 1, in the recorder and are delivered by a shoot through a slot 48. In the construction of Fig. 7, a latch 83 is turned about its pivot 84 in the magazine against the action of a spring 85 when a magnet 72 in the recorder attracts an armature 88 on the latch. The latch releases a coin pocket 75 which is then turned about a pivot 76 in the magazine by a torsion spring 77 to a position in which a coin 78 carried by the pocket projects through an opening in the magazine and may be withdrawn against the friction of a spring blade 80 which prevents the coin from rattling. In a further construction a pin at the rear of a space in the recorder similar to that shown in Fig. 1 fits into a hole in the rear wall of the magazine and engages a member inside the magazine to cause a shoot containing coins to tilt against a spring into register with a slot in the casing of the magazine so that the coins may fall out. A spring may be provided to force the coins out and to prevent them from rattling. In a further construction a pin on the recorder is arranged to release a catch holding a lid on the magazine: when the lid is slid back a pocket holding coins sufficiently tightly to prevent rattling is ejected by springs. The coins &c. may be stored in the . recorder instead of in the magazine, one or more being delivered each time a fresh magazine is inserted.