Patent GB-190603533-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Coin-freed Apparatus for Picture Post-cards and the like.
Inventor: WISTOFT SOEREN
Filed: 1906-02-13
Granted: 1906-06-07
Abstract: 3533. Wistoft, S. Feb. 13. Sale apparatus ; storage.-Post cards, newspapers, &c. 32, 33, Fig. 4, are arranged crossways in V-shaped frames 13 and alternately forwarded through two slits. Several frames may be arranged one above the other, containing different varieties visible through the glass front of the casing, all being controlled by a single coin mechanism. Actuating - mechanism ; delivery mechanism.-To obtain a card from any compartment after prepayment, the purchaser pushes in the corresponding push-piece b, Fig. 6, pressing back the slide y and the plate 16 pivoted to it. The pin 19 on the plate works down the right-hand portion of the guideslot 21 in the fixed plate 20, and the hooked portion 17 of the plate presses back the pin 31 on the lever 29 against the action of the spring 34 and then passes behind it, the pin 19 entering the left-hand portion of the guide-slot as the plate 16 reaches its extreme position. The links 28, 29 are connected to pins 26, 27 on the rotary disk 22, the arm 23 of which carries a pin 24 working in a slot 25, Fig. 4, in the base of the carrier 13. When the push-knob is released, the slide y is returned by a spring 4, the pin 19 then passing up the left-band portion of the guide-slot, when the hook 17 engages the pin 31 on the link 29, moving it along the guide-slot and rotating the disk 22, the pin 24 moving in the slot 25 and partly ejecting the lowest card 33 through a slot in the casing. To operate the apparatus again, a fresh coin must be inserted, when the link 28 is actuated, the pin 24 moving in the reverse direction and ejecting the card 32. In a simpler form of mechanism, the delivery is effected on the bar y being pulled out. This bar is connected to links carrying pins working in angular slots. The pins have conical elastic heads for engaging with the cards. Empty machines, locking action of.-A bollow sleeve carrying a pin rests on the uppermost card, and, when the last card is delivered, the pin enters an aperture 46 in the slide y, locking it, or it may operate a suitable device to show the supply is exhausted. Coin action ; coin tipping or discharging mechanism. -Normally, only a slight movement of the pushrod is permitted, a portion of the plate i, which is mounted on the spindle m, abutting against a projection 10 on a spring-actuated lever v. The inserted coin, however, which falls in the bucket h carried by the plate i and rests on the portion n of the lever q mounted on the shaft s, so as to bear against the lever v, forces back the lever and withdraws the projection 10. This allows the shaft m and plate i to be rotated by the action of the beltcrank 6 and lever 7 when the push-rod is operated. As the plate 22 rotates to deliver the card, the projection 37 presses back the lever q, allowing the coin to escape. The shafts m, s are returned by the action of springs. These shafts extend through all the compartments of the machine, and each compartment is provided with a lever q and bellcrank 6, but the plate i, bucket h, and lever v are attached to the uppermost compartment only. Fraud-preventing.-To prevent more than one push-rod from being operated for one coin, a series of rods 38, Fig. 9, are provided, passing through bevelled apertures 39 in the slides y. The space between the uppermost rod and the stop 41 is equal to the thickness of one slide, so that when any push-rod is operated the rods 38 above are raised against the stop 41, and all the other slides are tightly locked.