Patent GB-355253-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to coin-freed mechanism
IPC: G07F11/22
Filed: 1930-04-10
Abstract: 355,253. Coin-freed article delivery apparatus. HIGGINS, J. A., Aigden, Kingsley Grove, Audenshaw, near Manchester. April .10, 1930, Nos. 19371/31 and 19372/31. Divided on 354,710. [Class 27.] Testing coins; returning coin; coin action with stationary coin forming abutment.-In a coin-freed vending machine wherein the coin is tested for its milled edge, diameter, and thickness, the coin is led to a pocket 79, Fig. 2, in a slide 75 and is supported on a plate 103 between a fixed blade 81 on the slide 75 and a blade 82, slidably mounted in a bracket 83 on a slide 66. The slide 75 is mounted in a slot 74 in the slide 66 which is moved forward by operation of a handle 68 on a shaft 67 which is connected to the slide by arms 71, 72, Fig. 3. During the initial movement of the slide 66, the blade 82 engages the milled edge of the coin and presses it against the made 81, the coin being gripped above its centre. The slide 75 is meanwhile held stationary by a roller 78, Fig. 3, on a spring-controlled arm 77 engaging a notch of a cam 76 on the slide. A pin 104, Fig. 2, on this slide engages the plate 103, pivoted on the slide 66 and removes it from underneath the coin, the plate being held removed by a pivoted catch 105. Meanwhile the front end of a lever 95, pivoted at 96 on the slide 66, has been tilted upward, to engage the underside of a plate 100a on the frame by its heel 97, Fig. 3, engaging an extension of the pivot 98 of the lever 77. The rear end of the slot 74 now engages the slide 75, moving it forward so that the roller 78 rides over the cam 76 and a lever 92, Figs. 2 and 4a, pivoted on the slide 75, moves along the underside of the cam face 101 of a plate 100 on the frame. A spring 89, Fig. 2, presses a projection 94, Fig. 4a, on the underside of a lever 86, pivoted on the slide 75, in contact with a cam 93 on the lever 92. When the latter rises as it moves along the cam face 101, the lever 86 moves to the left, as shown in Fig. 2, under the influence of the spring 89 and a feeler 87 thereon moves through a slot 88, Fig. 4d, in the wall of the pocket 79 and engages.the coin. With the two slides moving together the lever 95, Fig. 2, is released at its heel and falls on to the lever 92 so that its head 99, Figs. 2 and 3, moves along and engages the underside of a catch-plate 102. The lever 95 is depressed which then depresses the lever 92 and by means of the cam 93 withdraws the feeler 87 from the coin. Towards the end of the forward movement of the slide 66 a pivoted guide 109, Fig. 1, is moved by a cam across the underside of the coin pocket 79 so that the coin when released falls to a drawer 111. A smooth coin inserted in the pocket 79 is not gripped by 'the blades and falls down on to a plate 122, Fig. 1, when the plate 103. is removed from under the coin. A small coin falls below the ledge 80, Fig. 4, and is not held by the feeler 87. If the coin is ,thin or has a hole in it, the feeler moves in too far and the head 99 of the lever 95 engages the catch 102 on the plate 100 and holds the slide 66 against further movement. In a modification, Figs, 6, 8, and 9, the coin is led through a slot 162, Fig. 8, to a coin chamber 159a where it is supported on a counterweighted lever 195, Figs. 6 and 8, which is pivoted in a slot formed in a lever 191. The lever 191 is pivoted on lugs 189 on the front plate of the coin chamber. The initial movement of a handle 171 removes a lever 167 from a pin 186 on a pivoted blade 183. The latter then moves forward under the action of a spring 185 and its blade 184, engaging the edge of the coin, presses it against a fixed blade 182. Further movement of the handle brings the lever 167 against a stud 168 on a slide 159 mounted in grooves 158 on a frame 157. The lever 195 is then withdrawn by the engagement of the lever 191 with a cam 165. At the same time the blade 183 engages a stop 164 and is moved back to release the coin which is then supported by a screw 199 on a thickness-testing lever 197. The upper end of this lever is released by the cam 165 and the screw'199 is pressed by.a spring 209 on'the pivot of the lever against the face of the coin. A screw 201 on an arm 200 of the lever 197 tilts a lever 202 and raises a lever 205 supported thereon.. The slide 159 moves forward until a portion 206, Fig. 9, of the lever 205 engages a stop lever 174 when the lever 205 ,is depressed; thereby moving the lever 197 outwards and releasing the coin. Simultaneously a guide 203, Fig. 6, is moved by a cam 177 across the exit of the coinchamber and directs the coin to a drawer. If the' coin is too thin or if the feeler screw 199 enters a hole in the centre of.the coin, the lever 197 moves farther inward' and the lever 205 is' raised so that its end 207 engages the forked end of a pivoted stop .174. On further movement of the slide the lever 174 is swung downward and depresses the lever 205 which, through the levers 197, 202, releases any coin which is held by the screw 199. Small coins fall below a ledge 181 at the back of the coin chamber and a smooth coin is pressed down by the blades and falls or is pushed by the screw 199 below the stop 181 and is returned. Specification 345,710 is referred to. Articles stored in piles.-When the slide 66, Figs. 1 and 2, is pulled out an arm 117 thereon engages an arm 116 to withdraw spring-controlled flaps 113, 114, connected together by a link 115, from underneath the bottom packet in a magazine 20. A catch 118 engages the following packet and holds it while the bottom packet is released. On the return of the slide a stud 121 engages a cam 120, connected to the catch 118, and releases the packet which is then supported by the flaps 113, 114.