Patent GB-390654-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to coin freed amusement devices
IPC: G07F17/34
Filed: 1932-05-04
Abstract: 390,654. Coin-freed amusement apparatus. BURTON, W. W., 1191, Stratford Road, Hall Green, Birmingham. May 4, 1932, No. 12860. [Class 27.] In a coin-freed amusement device in which a percentage of the coins inserted are retained in the apparatus while the remaining coins are returnable to the operator, under certain conditions, and are passed to delivery means, the returnable coins are delivered to one or other of a series of containers mounted on a rotatable carrier and means are provided so that, if the carrier comes to rest with one of the containers in alignment with or under the control of discharge means, the operator receives the coins in that container. The carrier 14, Figs. 2 and 3, rotatable on ball bearings 18, 19 about a fixed vertical spindle 13 comprises a series of circularly arranged coin containers 25 mounted between top and bottom plates 15, 16. The plate 16 carries figures 111 to represent a "Roundabout " and the containers are apertured at 28 for their contents to be visible through a glazed window 11 of the apparatus. After insertion of a coin through a slot 36, an outside hand-lever can be operated, a cam 39 on the shaft of the lever, by engagement with a roller 43, actuating a three-armed lever 40, Fig. 4, a depending arm 44 of which engages and rocks a lever 20, Fig. 5, against the action of a spring 23. When the lever 20 is returned by the spring 23, a spring-controlled pawl 22 thereon, by engaging a ratchet wheel 17, sets the carrier 14 in rotation. The lever 20 through a link 76 actuates a lever 75 to rock out of engagement with the carrier a prizedelivery actuating lever 73, and to operate a a lever 78 which through a slotted link 80 actuates a three-armed lever 81. One arm 81 of this lever has a rod 83 to retain the lever 73 in its withdrawn position, a second arm 94, through a rod 95, closes a switch 97 to close the circuit of an electric lamp 98a illuminating the interior of the apparatus, and the third arm 85 has a pin 86 which rocks an arm 87 to withdraw a tooth 90 thereon from engagement with the toothed edge 88 of the bottom plate 16 of the carrier. The arm 87 is held in released position by a spring-catch 91 engaging a fixed stop 92. The lever 81 is returned to its initial position under the control of a retarding windvane 98 by a spring 112 actuating the lever 78, and the catch 91 is released for the tooth 90 on the arm 87 to engage the teeth 88 and stop the carrier 14. The operator may stop the carrier earlier by pulling a knob 106, Fig. 9, thereby allowing a spring 110 to pull a roller 109 on a lever 108 into braking engagement with the plain portion of the carrier disc 16. Prize-delivery mechanism.-The bottoms of the containers 25 are closed by spring controlled slides 30 provided with apertures 32. If the carrier stops with one of these slides in alignment with the lever 73, this lever, when released by the rod 83, is rocked by its spring 74 to move the aligned slide inwardly thereby permitting the contents of its container 25 to pull through the aperture 32 to a delivery shoot 99. Coin action, mechanical-connection.-The inserted coin in a shoot 34, Fig. 3, is forced past a projection 37 on a lever 38 by a loose pin 34 which is moved down a curved slot 55 in the shoot by an arm 53 having a slot 56 in which the pin engages. The arm 53 is connected by links 50, 51, 52 to one arm of the lever 40, Fig. 4. The lever 38 is connected by a link 49 to a lever 46 and moves a shoulder 47 on this lever out of the path of a projection 48 on the lever 40. Diverting coins periodically.-The coins pass - down a shoot 57 to the containers 25. When a container is full, the top coin 104, Fig. 2, Tests in an inclined position on a pin 103 and deflects surplus coins to containers 101 which are covered by a hood 105. One coin in eight is diverted from the shoot 57 to a shoot 58 leading to a money-box under the control of the proprietor of the apparatus. An eighttoothed ratchet wheel 62, Fig. 4, is driven step by step by a pawl 66 on an arm 65 connected by a rod 67 to the lever 40. The wheel 62 carries a disc 63 having a pin 64, Fig. 8, which, once in each revolution, actuates a lever 68 to withdraw a projection 69 normally blocking the shoot 58 and insert a projection 71 to block the shoot 57.