Patent GB-273033-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in coin-freed vending apparatus
IPC: G07F11/20
Filed: 1926-04-07
Abstract: 273,033. Naunton, L. April 7, 1926. Delivery of articles stored in piles. - A coin-freed vending-apparatus, which can be set for operation either with a single coin, two or more coins of different denominations, or with a coin or two coins of the same denomination, comprises a magazine 8, Figs. 2 and 9, in which a pile of goods 20 are stored, the bottom article resting on a platform 9 and in a recess in a drawer 21. The drawer is normally locked by a stop 33 on one or more levers 32 pivoted in brackets 30 and engaging a slot 24 in the drawer. After prepayment, the drawer is pulled out by a handle 27 attached to pull bars 25 and the lowest article drops through an opening 55 in the platform 9 to a delivery tray 47. One side 11 of the magazine 8 is adjustable for goods of different sizes and is provided with pins 14 engaging slots 13 in brackets 12. Coin action, mechanical-connection and multiple-coin.-The coins are inserted in a slot 19 and pass through a sorting-shoot to a receiver 37 from which they drop to a coin-carrier -22 attached to the pull bars 25. The sorting shoot islaterally inclined and is divided into tracks 39,. Fig. 3, for different sized coins,by partitions 42 which have each an opening 43 to allow a smaller coin to pass to the adjoining track. The coin pass through openings 38 in the receiver 37 and are directed to openings 23. in the carrier.22. If the apparatus is to be freed by a single coin or by two or more coins of different denominations. openings in the platform 9 beneath the slots 23 of the carrier receiving these particular coins are closed by plates 48 on which the coins rest with their edges projecting above the carrier. Also the levers 32 corresponding to these coins are left in locking engagement with the drawer 21, but the other levers are turned and held out of engagement with the drawer by a removable, pin 34 passed through holes in the brackets 30 and holes 35 in the levers as shown in Fig. 2. When the handle 27 is pulled, the carrier 22 moves forward and the projecting edges of the coins lift the levers 32 from. locking engagement, there being: some lost-motion between the carrier 22 and the drawer 21. If the apparatus is to be freed by two coins of the same denomination, the portion of the carrier taking those coins is elongated and is closed by a plate 49, Fig. 12, the upper edge of which is inclined rearwardly. The first coin runs to the back of the slot 22 and forms an abutment for the second coin. When such a carrier is to be used with a single coin, a pin is passed through holes 50 to prevent the coin from rolling to the back of the slot. Coin-discharging mechanism; returning coin. - The coins after releasing the levers 32 drop from the carrier 22 through a slot 54 in the platform 9 into a money receptacle. The carrier and' drawer 21 are then returned by springs 28. Coins not required for releasing the apparatus drop' through the openings in the platform which are unprovided with plates 48 or 49 and pass by a runway 44, 46 to the delivery tray 47. Coin-slit closing-devices.-A projection 26 on a following weight 15 on the pile of articles actuates a lever 16 to move a shutter 18 across the coin slot, when the machine is empty.