Patent GB-190919533-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and connected with Automatic Delivery Machines.
Inventor: SIELAFF MAX
IPC: G07F11/52
Filed: 1909-08-25
Granted: 1910-08-25
Abstract: 19,533. Sielaff, M., Aug. 25. Sale apparatus.- Relates to the type of apparatus in which the holders for picture postcards are pivoted to a rotating drum and are caused to fall one by one from an upper to a lower fixed stop, and consists in arranging the parts whereby projections on the holders move away from the centre of the drum in moving over the lower fixed stops so that the postcards may be viewed in a position below the horizontal. Exhibiting moving pictures and advertisements.-The cards are contained in cases 10 pivoted to disks 11 on a spindle 39, Fig. 3. Each case contains a number of cards, the upper edges of which are passed behind projecting tongues 46, Fig. 9, the lower edges being separated by mea of a comb 48 and shelves 49 with springs 50. Advertisements may be inserted between raised edges 60 on the rear side of each case. The magazine is rotated by means of a spring-controlled push-bar 12 and a ratchet-wheel 29, Fig. 2, the ratchet-wheel being rotated through one tooth and one card 10<b>, Fig. 3, escaping past stops 62 into the viewing position 10<a> at each operation. A bracket 18, Fig. 2, on the push-bar 12 carries a bell-crank 19, which, during the inward movement, engages a pawl 23, thereby forcing up a lever 24 against the action of a spring 30, a pawl 28 on the lever taking over the next tooth of the ratchet-wheel, in readiness to rotate the ratchet-wheel when the push-bar is released. A pawl 34 controlled by a pin 36 on the bell-crank 19 works over a fixed rack 37 and ensures a complete operation of the bar 12. The rods 44, Fig. 9, of each case 10 rest in holes in one disk 11, Fig. 3, and in circumferential slots 43 in the other, these slots being covered by a rim 52. To facilitate the removal of any case, one part of the rim is removable and forms part of an arm 54 carried by a spring-controlled lever 55. Delivery mechanism.-To obtain a card from the container 10<a>, Fig. 3, the purchaser inserts a coin and operates a pull-bar 15, whereupon a frame 77 is caused to traverse guide-rods @8, and a pusher 16, carried by a spring-controlled arm 80 pivoted to the frame, pushes the topmost card through the aperture 97, Fig. 3. The pusher comprises a number of parallel members, shaped as shown in Fig. 6, to ensure the engagement of the top card only by the shoulder 88. The frame 77 is reciprocated by a lever 75, Fig. 2, pivoted to the framework at 74 and having a pin-and-slot connexion 76 with the frame 77, the other arm 73 being operated first by the coin and then by a pawl 103, which is pivoted to a slide 64 and drops to engage the arm 73 when a pin 105 on the pawl escapes at 107 from the guide-surface 106, the pin being restored to the guide-surface during the return movement by a pivoted piece 109. A slide 96, Fig. 3, normally closing the slot 97, is raised to permit delivery of the card by the engagement of part of the frame 77 with a cam-surface on a lever 94, a weighted pawl 101, normally held up by the slide, simultaneously dropping into engagement with a rack 99, Fig. 2, on the frame 77, and thereby preventing return of the parts until the card has been removed and the slide 96 has again fallen to close the slot. During the operation of the pull-bar 15, a lever 112 normally held up by an arm 111 on the pull-bar, falls and masks the pawl 28. To prevent fraudulent operation by a wire, the delivery mouthpiece 17, Fig. 1, is curved, and is provided with a pivoted gate 120 which is raised by the issuing card. Coin action, mechanical-connexion.-The coin projecting from a pocket 14 in a slide 64, which is connected to the pull-bar by a spring 69, is drawn along a rack 71 and forms an abutment for the arm 73 of the lever 75. The rack 71 ensures a complete forward movement of the coin.