Patent GB-190628046-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Vending Machines.
Inventor: GARSON ISAAC HENRY
Filed: 1906-12-08
Granted: 1907-06-20
Abstract: 28,046. Garson, I. H. Dec. 8. Sale apparatus; casings.-Vending-machines are adapted to deliver one or more cigars, according to the value of the coin inserted, from an ordinary cigar box 8, Fig. 2, which, after the bottom has been removed, is placed above the hopper 7, so that the box and its contents may be easily viewed through the transparent panels 2 in the sides and top of the casing. Coin action.-Separate coin-shoots are provided for coins of two values. A coin of the lower value enters the pan 34 of the weighted lever 35, Fig. 10, overbalances the lever, and rocks the shaft 44 through links 42, 43, thereby lowering the arm 45, Fig. 8, and permitting the pawl 47 to engage the ratchet 48. A coin of higher value overbalances the lever 38, rocks the lever 54, and withdraws the stop 56 from an aperture 57 in the disk 58, the lever 35 accompanying the lever 38 owing to the engagement of the arm 38<a>. Actuating - mechanism ; delivery mechanism.- After prepayment, the shaft 15 is rotated by an external handle, the arm 49 and pawl 47, Fig. 8, turning the sleeve 14 on which the recessed carrier 13, Fig. 2, is mounted, by means of the ratchet 48 ; the foremost cigar passes between the friction rollers 17, 17<a>, on the carrier and hopper respectively, into the delivery drawer 18. During its passage, the cigar rocks the arms 22, which pass between the different sections of the carrier, and thence through links 24, 26 operates the shaft 64, Fig. 7, and through links 26, 28, 29 rotates the shaft 30. If a coin of higher value has been inserted, the disk 58, being unlocked, is rotated by the pawl 70 and arm 69, owing to the spring connexion 67 between the latter arm and the arm on the shaft 15, until the pawl 63 engages one of the pins 58. The pawl 63, being mounted on the shaft 64, is disengaged from the pin 58 through the operation of the arms 22 by the passage of the cigar, so that the machine may be repeatedly operated and a cigar delivered at each operation until the stop 56 again engages the notch 57. A cam 72, Fig. 7, which rotates with the carrier, turns the link 74 by means of tbe roller 73 and depresses the plunger 80 through the links 76, 77, so as to remove the hooked end of the spring 81, which is attached to the drawer 18, from engagement with the casing, permitting the drawer to be pressed slightly forward by a spring and pulled out by the operator. The motion of the link 76 simultaneously turns the shaft 20, raising the arms 19, Fig. 2, through slits 21 in the hopper to drop a cigar into the rising empty compartment of the carrier. If the apparatus is operated after the cigars are exhausted, the arm 22 is not actuated, and consequently the disk 58 remains locked and the coin levers in the operative position, so that the cigar or cigars can be obtained without further payment as soon as the machine is refilled. A spring 71, Fig 10, serves to return the shaft 15, the rotation of which is limited by the arm 51, Fig. 8, working between stops 52, 53. Coin-discharging mechanism.-Arms 31, Fig. 10, carried by the shaft 30, pass through apertures in the coin pans and force the coins out laterally.