Patent GB-425479-A (GB)
Abstract: 425,479. Coin-freed coupon-issuing machines. DOHERTY, W. J., 19, Tillock Street, Haberfield, and GILFORD, E. F., 64, Margaret Street, Petersham, both in New South Wales, Australia. Sept. 12, 1933, No. 25214. [Class 27] [See also Group XIX] A coin-freed machine for issuing share tickets in lottery tickets comprises means for exhibiting each lottery ticket, means for issuing a predetermined number of share tickets in respect of each lottery ticket and means for moving the exhibited lottery ticket to a position of concealment within the machine and replacing it by another when the predetermined number of share tickets have been issued. The lottery tickets are temporarily secured in metal holders stacked in a magazine, the top ticket being stamped as each share ticket corresponding to it is issued and then removed to an adjacent magazine when all its share tickets have been issued. The top lottery ticket is visible through a glazed aperture and the number of share tickets issued in respect thereof is shown on a roller through a glazed aperture. Coin action, mechanical connection ; exhibiting coins.-The machine is provided with a coin slot 24, Fig. 8, from which the coin 25 passes down the shoot 26 to a V-shaped throat 27 on the arm 27<a>. Downward movement of the operating arm 23 causes the coin to engage the cam face 45 on the inverted U-shaped piece 45 to move the catches 44 out of the path of the stop 46 on the arm 27<a> rigid with the arm 23. During the downward movement of the arm 23 the lever 59 strikes the plate 52 to move the trap member 48 and allow the previously inserted coin 25 exhibited at the glazed aperture 49 to fall to the bottom of the coin receptacle 26<a>. After actuation by the lever 59 the member 48 is returned to normal position by the spring 54 to receive and exhibit the coin 25 falling from the throat 27 in the downward position of the arm 27<a>. Coupons, issuing.-The share tickets 61, Fig. 11, are stored in a tubular magazine 62 of rectangular cross-section and provided with a wide slot 63 along one side and with a slot at the bottom front and rear sides. Downward movement of the arm 23 actuates the linkage system 73<a>, 73, 67, 68 to move to the left the block 69<a> having a stud pin 70 passing upwards through a slot 71 in the platform 65 and secured to a sliding drawer plate 72 having an aperture therein to receive the lowermost ticket from the pile 61 which falls into the ticket shoot 74 which has been allowed to gravitate to a horizontal position on the rubber-tipped buffers 83 during downward movement of the arm 23 and anticlockwise movement of the cam 82. The shoot 74 is returned to a normal inclined position and the ticket ejected through the aperture 76 by the upward return movement of the arm 23, the cam 82 engaging the anti-friction roller 81 to slide the rod 79 in the fixed guide block 80. The share tickets are surmounted by a loose weight 181 which enters the aperture in the drawer plate 72, after the last ticket has been issued, to prevent further actuation. Each purchaser of a share ticket writes his name and address upon the portion of a roll of paper 158, Fig. 7, positioned on a plate 159 and exposed through the writing aperture 32 from which the spring- controlled cover plate 30 is removed on the insertion in the slot 24 of a coin which on its passage through the shoot 26 actuates the spring-controlled catch 28, the end 28<a> of the catch becoming disengaged from a catch 29 on the end of the cover plate 30, Fig. 1. The cover plate 30 is replaced to cover the paper during the issue of a share ticket. The paper passes round the roller 163 to which it is held by the pivoted spring - controlled pressure roller 172 and passes to the bottom of the machine. The paper is marked to correspond with markings on each share ticket to enable the purchaser of any particular share ticket to be identified.