Patent GB-298666-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in combined coin-freed vending and change making machines
IPC: G07F5/24
Filed: 1927-07-13
Abstract: 298,666. Nixon, C. W. July 13, 1927, Moneydetiv ering apparatus. - In a combined vending and change-making machine of the kind in which a carrier movable along rails supports a plurality of coin controlled units each adapted to be rendered effective by a deposited coin of a different denomination to serve as a means through which to impart movement by the carrier, the goods selling at different prices and different denominations of change coins are contained in a rotary magazine to be discharged therefrom through a corresponding plurality of bell-crank levers one of which is engageable by the effective coin-controlled unit to be actuated by the movement of the carrier, and each of which bell-crank levers comprises means for actuating an ejector for goods and ejectors for change coins so as to effect substantially and simultaneously the discharge of the chosen goods and of change of a total value equal to the chosen denomination of coin. A casing 10, Fig. 1, contains a rotary skeleton magazine 11 which includes an upper spider 12 with a ring 13 supporting a series of change-banks 14 and a lower spider 15 with a ring 16 supporting a series of goods-holders 17; 17<1> from which goods are discharged into a receptacle 18 by an ejector 19 operated by links &c. 20 - - 27 when one of three cranks 27 is moved by the carrier. An operating handle 32 is mounted in a bearing 33 of a forked member 34 pivoted at 37 to a bracket 35 and is adapted to be rotated and depressed. When rotated a pin wheel 36 engages a gear wheel 36<1> to rotate a shaft 28 and with it the magazine 11. When the handle 32 is depressed a bell-crank 40, pivoted to the bracket 35 at 41 and to the forked member 34 at 42 operates a lever 38, pivoted at 39 to the bracket, by means of a link 43 to draw a pull-bar 61 laterally to move the carrier. Delivery of articles-stored in piles; changegiving; storage.-There are ten goods-holders 17 on ring 16, ten change-banks 14 on ring 13, ten seats 85 for a centralizing plunger 90 on ring 13, Fig. 3, ten holes on gear wheel 36<1>, and ten goods dials on the cabinet front, the particular goods which will be ejected being indicated by a pointer 88 operated by rods 89 and gearing from the shaft 28, Fig. 3. The magazine is locked during the depression of the handle 32 by a pin 91 on the rocker 34 engaging in one of the holes on gear wheel 36<1>. Three differently sized coin deposit slots on the cabinet front are connected by shoots 93 with the three coin-controlled units. The change ejectors 30 comprise three interconnected prongs 100, 101, 102, Fig. 17, intershouldered at 95 whereby on ejecting strokes only the ejectors representing higher value command those representing lower value. Each change bank has four wells 96 - - 99. Ejector with prong 100, consonant with coin-space 67, controls ejection from all the wells. Ejector with prong 100, consonant with coin-space 66, controls ejection from wells 97 - - 99, and ejector with prongs 102, consonant with coin-space 65, controls ejection from wells 98 and 99. Where the purchase coin for coin-space 65 is of less value than the goods in a holder, the bank for that holder is provided with a pin 103, Fig. 22, to impinge a cam 104 on the slide of coin-space 65 and so cause the coin to fall and be returned through receptacle 31. Packages 107, 108, Fig. 21, may be discharged, respectively from holders 17 and extensions 17<1>, at opposite sides of a floor 109 by prongs 110 on ejector 19.