Patent GB-190600871-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Mechanism for the Delivery of Sweets and the like.
Inventor: DOUGLAS WILLIAM PERCY
Filed: 1906-01-12
Granted: 1906-11-08
Abstract: 871. Douglas, W. P. Jan. 12. Toys for delivering sweetmeats and the like; mechanical toys.-Apparatus of the types described in Specifications Nos. 17,234, 17,713, 17,714, 18,122, 19,614, 19,743, and 21,155, A.D. 1905, for delivering sweets, marbles, toys, &c., are provided with a clock train for actuating the moving figure which effects the delivery, and the clock train is released by pushing in a slide &c., or by means of a coin in the latter case, the apparatus may be used as a money-box. The clock train may also actuate reeds so as to play a tune or the like. As shown in Figa. 2, 5, and 7, the invention is applied to a toy constructed somewhat on the principle of the windmill described in Specification No. 19,614, A.D. 1905. The sails of the mill are attached to a spindle d, Fig. 2, driven by pulleys and a cord from the clock train. The clock train also actuates, by means of a cam and a spring-controlled lever, a swinging frame v, which is provided with a shelf z adapted normally to retain a packet at the bottom of a casing f. When the frame v is moved, the bottom packet falls to a cart, which delivers it in the manner described in the prior Specification, the platform r being raised about its hinge by means of a lever and a cam on the clock train. A wire 3, Fig. 5, retains the packets until the frame v returns to its original position. The clock train is provided with a stop 6 engaged by a projection on a spring-controlled slide 4, which is pressed in order to release the clock train. Or, a coin-shoot 10, Fig. 7, may be so arranged that the coin falls on a spring- controlled lever 11, which normally engages a recess in a disk 14 geared to the train, so that the train is released when the lever is tripped. The lever stops the train automatically. The casing f may be slid in and out of the mill, so as to be recharged easily ; or, the top of the mill may be made to open. In a modification, which is similar to the apparatus described in Specification No. 17,713, A.D. 1905, the packets are delivered singly from a magazine 18, Figs. 8 and 14, by the beak 29 of a bird 21 mounted on a slide 22. The magazine 18 has two shelves 32, 31, and, at each actuation of the mechanism, one packet is delivered to the lower shelf by a projection on the hinged door of the cage, which is actuated by levers 23, 24 attached to the slide 22. The slide 22 is actuated by a lever 33, Fig. 11, on the clock train, a pin 36 on the lever being engaged by a slot in the slide. The clock train is released by means of a counterweighted lever 39, which is tripped by a lever actuated externally, or by the weight of a coin in a shoot 38, and frees an escapement. As the lever 33 is completing its revolution, its bent end acts on a spring lever 44, which bears on the coin and pushes it away to the receptacle, thereby releasing the lever 39 which stops the clock train. The clock escapement actuates bellows 43 which produce musical notes. The number of'coins introduced is registered by a dial, or dials, provided with a ratchet-wheel actuated by levers and a pawl each time a coin is pushed into its receptacle. The coins can be removed by means of a door 48. In a further modification, Fig. 15, the packets are delivered from a magazine by means of the figure's arms 76 with spring ends 77, the packet being guided by a shoot 52. The arms 76 are actuated by a pinion 75 and rack 74 connected by a wire 73 to a spring lever 66, the movement of which is limited by a stop. The lever 66 is actuated by a cam 72 on a disk which is driven by a clock train, or which may be rotated by band. The disk is formed with a snail which is engaged normally by a weighted lever 54, but when this lever is tripped by a coin or slide, the disk can be rotated. At the same time that the packet is delivered, the figure is bent forwards by means of a slide 65 connected to the jointed front leg. The slide 65 is actuated by a lever 62 connected to a crank-pin on the disk 53. For vending-machines or the like, a handle is used which enables a person to operate mechanism for rewinding the clock spring, or which actuates the delivery mechanism instead of a clock train. Other forms of apparatus are described ; one of these is similar to that described in Specification No. 18,122, A.D. 1905, but a model cat is used, and the sweets or tablet are made in the form of mice. Other forms of coin-release mechanism may be used.