Patent GB-378573-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to delivery apparatus
IPC: G07F11/16
Filed: 1931-06-04
Abstract: 378,573. Coin-operated signalling apparatus ; article delivery apparatus. TAYLOR, F. J., Willington House, LANGLEY, F., The Hollies, and SUMNER, H. C., Wyberton House, all of Kirton, Lincolnshire. June 4, 1931, No. 16222. [Class 27.] Coin action, electric connection and multiplecoin; indicators.-In an apparatus from which articles are delivered, the insertion of a coin or coins actuates a visible and/or audible signalling device which is rendered inoperative by means automatically operated by the delivery of an article. The insertion of coins in a receptacle 1, Fig. 1, situated on the outside of a wall 4 of a compartment or structure actuates a signalling device 2 inside the compartment to call the attention of an attendant, who delivers the article or goods required from a store through a shoot 3. When employed for selling hot chipped potatoes or other heated products, a storage oven is provided within the compartment. In an apparatus requiring the insertion of two coins, the first coin inserted at 5, Fig. 2, into a shoot 6 passes to a shoot 6a and rests on the tail 7a of a lever 7, in which position it deflects the second coin down a branch shoot 6b. This second coin makes an electric connection between the shoot and an arm 9 to energize solenoids 13, Fig. 2, and 18, Fig. 3. The core of the solenoid 13 depresses a rod 14 to tilt a weighted lever 15 which, through a link 15b, rocks the lever 7 to allow the first coin to drop to a money-box 8, and, through a link 17 and arm 16, rotates a block 10, carrying the arm 9, to allow the second coin to pass to the receptacle 8, thereby breaking the circuit of the solenoids. The counterweight 15a of the lever 15 restores the parts to their initial position, a spring contact arm 11 returning the arm 9. The solenoid 18, when energized, rocks a bell-crank lever 20 fast on a spindle 21, which carries two depending spring contact arms 26 to engagement with contacts 27 to light a signal lamp 19 and actuate a bell or buzzer. The lever 20 is held in this position by a weighted catch lever 23, when the circuit of the solenoid 18 is broken. An article or packet of goods sliding down the shoot 3 falls on to and depresses a hinged tray 30 thereby actuating a Bowden wire 31a, a head 33 on which raises the weighted end of the catch 23 and releases the lever 20. The lever 20 returns to its initial position, rocking the spindle 21 and breaking the circuits of the lamp and bell. Several signalling devices and coin-boxes may be incorporated in one apparatus, a single bell or buzzer being provided in connection with the several lamps, which may be differently numbered or coloured. In a modification, a hinged door, released automatically by the insertion of a coin, is placed at the upper end of the shoot 3 on which the goods are placed. According to the Provisional Specification, the apparatus may be entirely automatic in operation, means being provided for taking chipped potatoes from a cooking pan and passing them to a drainer, the potatoes being then placed in packets and conveyed to delivery shoots. This may be accomplished by intermittently moving endless belts or conveyers, governed by coinfreed mechanism. Registering.-The lever 20 is connected by links 36, 37 to a counter 35 which is thus actuated each time the solenoid 18 is energized. Coin-slit closing-devices.-The coin slit 5 may be closed by a lever 40 actuated, when desired, by an attendant by means of a chain 41.