Patent GB-749666-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to coin freed vending apparatus
IPC: G07F5/06
Filed: 1954-09-03
Abstract: 749,666. Coin freed vending apparatus. STANDBL VENDORS, Inc. Sept. 3, 1954 [Oct. 15, 1953], No. 25692/54. Class 27 Coin mechanisms for apparatus vending articles of two different values, such as sixpence and a shilling, is adapted to control release of a sixpenny article on insertion of a sixpenny piece or of a shilling, change being issued in the latter case, and to control release of a shilling article on the insertion of either a shilling or two sixpenny pieces. Selector knobs 26, Fig. 1, on pull-out rods 23 are provided for each article magazine and when one knob is pulled out the rod is latched to a bar 13 and the remaining rods are locked against movement by interlock tumblers 30 spread by a projection on the operated rod 23. The bar 13 is linked at both ends to levers 41 on a shaft 35 and, at one end, is connected by a link 19 to a control lever 63 which, as the bar is pulled forward, is rotated through a small angle until its upper end meets a coin-controlled stop 85 and its toothed lower end approaches a fullstroke pawl 77. The stop 85 is carried by a hinged member 87, Fig. 10, rotatable on a rod 89 but connected with the rod when a stud 115 engages the end of an opening 113 in the member 87. An arm 119 on the rod and arms 109 and 111 on the hinged member extend into coin shoots in a coin receiver 155 movable horizontally above a fixed lower coin shoot assembly 125 by means of a link 267, Fig. 16, to a crank on the shaft 65 of the control lever 63. A magazine 135 for sixpenny change pieces is provided in the fixed assembly 125 and also an overflow shoot by which sixpenny pieces are diverted to a coin box 139 when the magazine is full. Spaced plates 156, 157, 158 in the movable receiver 155 define a shilling shoot 164 and a sixpenny shoot 175. An inserted shilling D-1, Fig. 23, is intercepted by a deflector 166 which rotates on its pivot 167 to deposit the shilling on a support 173 where it is lodged between the arm 119 and an arm 172 of the deflector but if a second shilling D-2 is inserted, the deflector is in a position to deflect it into a return shoot 171: a second shilling suptake two one shilling pieces. A first sixpenny piece N-1, Fig. 21, in the shoot 175 falls until it rests on a finger 255 where it lodges against the arm 111 and an arm 239 of a pivoted pusher 235 which it has port 211 and deflector 212 are, however, provided for adapting the apparatus to rotated so that a tail 243 rocks a lever 249 into a horizontal position. A second sixpenny piece N-2 deposited in the shoot 175 comes to rest on the first sixpenny piece and lodges between the arm 109 and the -upper arm 241 of the pusher 235. A third sixpenny piece, if inserted, will be returned underneath a plate 178. When a shilling has been inserted and a shilling selector rod is pulled, the receiver 155 is moved rearward by the shaft 65 and link 267 and the shilling D-1 on the support 173, moved rearward by the deflector arm 172, acts on the arm 119 so that through the stud 115 the stop 85 is moved clear of the lever 63. Full movement of the lever 63 is then, permitted and a link from the selector rod to the dispensing mechanism releases a sixpenny article into a trough 5. As the coin receiver returns into its initial forward position, the shilling is kicked off the support 173 into a shoot leading to the coin box. If two sixpenny pieces are inserted instead of a shilling, the two coins prevent pivoting movement of the pusher 235 and, when a shilling selector rod is pulled out, they act on the arms 109 and 111 to move the stop 85 clear of the lever 63. If a single sixpenny piece is inserted, the pusher 235 could pivot when it engages the coin and to prevent this a roller 297, Fig. 1, provided on all the selector rods but adjusted into operative position only on the sixpenny rods, acts on an arm 298 on a shaft 289 and, through a crank 291 and stud 243, Fig. 15, raises a bar 281 so that a finger 282 engages the lever 249 to hold it horizontal and keep the pusher from pivoting. The sixpenny pieces, on return movement of the receiver, are kicked off the support 255 by the return movement of the pusher, into the magazine 135 or into the coin box 139. Change-giving.-Supported on a fixed pivot 269, Fig. 15, is a lever 271 having an upwardly-extended arm with a finger 277 engageable with the arm 119 and a forwardly-extended arm 275 engaged with a stud 301 on the bar 281 and carrying a follower roller 279. If a shilling is inserted and a sixpenny selector rod is pulled, the rearward movement of the arm 119 and the upward movement of the bar 281 and stud 301 allow a spring 199 to raise the arm 275. A cam 309, Fig. 16, on a plate 305 attached to the coin receiver is then below the roller 279 and, as the coin receiver moves rearward, the cam engages the roller, thus raising the bar 281 still further, sufficiently for a finger 317 to operate a gate 313 at the foot of the magazine so that an upper finger 319 is moved into the magazine and a lower finger 312 is withdrawn to release one sixpenny piece in change. If a shilling rod is pulled with a shilling or two sixpenny pieces inserted, the bar 281 is not raised and if a sixpenny rod is pulled with a sixpenny piece inserted, though the bar 281 is partially raised, the lever 271 is locked by the engagement of its finger 277 with the arm 119 and, in these three circumstances, the cam 309 passes over the roller 279 and no change is issued. A rod 335 extending upwards from the bottom of the magazine 135 deflects inserted coins into a chute 325 if the magazine is empty. Returning coins.-If the return of inserted coins is desired, a bar 221 is depressed and by camming action at 231 moves a slide 189 rearward so that the shilling support 173, which is attached to an upward extension 195 of the slide, is withdrawn from beneath a shilling and so that a cam 217 pivots a plate 257 carrying the sixpenny support from beneath'the sixpenny piece position. The released coins are returned through the shoot 325 to the trough 5.