Patent GB-201953-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to coin-actuated machines
IPC: G07F17/34
Filed: 1922-03-01
Abstract: 201,953. Forge, J. C. de. March 1, 1922. Delivery of articles stored in piles; casings.-In coin-freed apparatus of the kind which may deliver with the vended articles premium or profit-sharing checks which can be used to free again the apparatus, the actuating-mechanism is contained in a casing 10, Figs. 2 and 4, having a removable door 11 at the back and a separate side casing C in which the articles to be vended are stored. The checks are stored in a receptacle 191 within the casing 10, and one or more may be delivered first to a drawer 199, where they can be viewed through a window 209. On the next operation of the machine these checks are delivered from the drawer 199 through a shoot 210. The machine has two coin insertion orifices 113, 114 of different sizes for Canadian silver five-cent pieces and for American nickels and the premium checks respectively, there being only one release mechanism for the delivery of articles. Delivery mechanism.-When an outside handle 161 is actuated, a lever 160, Fig. 6, carried thereby and normally held against a buffer stop 165 by a spring 164, is depressed and by means of a cam 159 acting against a roll 157 actuates a lever 146, Fig. 22, pivoted on a lever plate 100 which is connected to the lever 146 by a pivoted spring- controlled dog 148 engaging a shoulder 147 on the lever. The consequent movement of the plate 100 through a dog 151 engaging a lever 176, Fig. 2, rocks a shaft 16, and an arm 179 carried thereby engages a cam surface 180 on a vertical sliding rod 181, Fig. 6, the movement of which frees a rod 189 which controls the actuation of a delivery drawer 190 in the casing C. Premium or profit-sharing checks, delivering; speed of moving parts, controlling.-The rocker shaft 16 by a depending arm 19 operates a bellcrank lever 24, Fig. 7, mounted on the shaft 23 of a governor D which controls the speed of the moving parts. The lever 24 is connected to a lever 39 which is freed from the lower arms of bell-crank levers 41. These levers are moved by arms on the shaft 16 to free fingers 43 from ratchet-wheels 44 on rotary drums 49 which have their peripheries marked with symbols. The drum shafts carry ratchet discs 50, which are actuated from the shaft 16 to rotate the drums, and which, when the drums stop and if the symbols are alike and in alignment, will have some perforations in alignment and will allow plungers to pass therethrough, thus freeing one or more pivoted fingers 75. The movement of the fingers 75 allows levers 197, Figs. 2 and 7, to be disengaged from corresponding drawers 193, 194 to deliver checks to the drawer 199. Coin action, mechanical-connection, multiplecoin, and with stationary coin-forming abutment. -The coin orifices 113, 114 lead to throats 111, 112, Fig. 27, having a curved slot 118 with a recess 119. A silver coin is held in front of the recess by a spring-controlled dog 131, and a nickel or check by a similar dog 127. In this position it forms an abutment for a pin 175, Fig. 2, on a lever 174 connected to a spring-controlled lever 167, preventing the lever 167 from being moved to bring a shoulder 169, Fig. 22, thereon into the path of an extension 145 on the plate 100. If a coin is absent, the plate 100 is locked, and during the movement of the lever 146 the dog 148 slips over the shoulder 147. The coins or checks, when being moved through the throat 112, act also on a lever 94 connected to a lever 89 to free the trip mechanism 189 of the delivery drawer 190. Coin-discharging mechanism; exhibiting coins. -A lever 120 having an offset end passing through the throats and working in the slot 118 forces the coins and checks past the dogs 131, 127. A silver coin passes to a money-box and the check is held by another dog 123, Fig. 4, in front of an observation window. The check is not discharged until another check is inserted. The lever 120 is actuated by the plate 100 through a link 122. Fraud, preventing.-A magnet 138 arrests discs of base metal placed in the throat 111 for silver coins. Washers are impaled on a rod 85 actuated by a lever 35, the lower end of which coacts with an upstanding pin 34 on a slide 28 operated by the bell-crank lever 24. Washers also do not operate the lever 94 which passes through them. Coin-slit closing devices.-When the casing C becomes empty, a weighted bell-crank lever 211 through a link 212 operates a member 213 to cause arms thereon to extend into the throats and prevent coins or checks from being fed to the machine.