Improvements in Coin-freed Beverage Machine.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd May, 1895
Complete Specification Left, 21st Feb., 1896-Accepted, 25th Apr.. 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Coin-freed Beverage Machine.
We, CORNELIO TRABUCCHI, Merchant, and GUGLIELMO BOTTO, Mechanist,
both of 60 Mittelstrasse, Berlin, in the Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of this invention is a money collecting automatic apparatus for the
delivering of liquids, actuated by throwing a coin into a slot by which the moving
of a wheel-work is effected with the help of weights, after the release of a stop.
The apparatus consists of a slot, for coins to be put in, and a channel, through
which the coin passes down till it reaches a small lever, attached to a large lever,
which is fastened to rotatory shaft. Both levers are pressed down by the weight.
of the coin, the movement of both being regulated by a sliding weight.
To the rotatory shaft is fixed a stop, resting with its broad point on a hollow
disk arranged next to a toothed wheel and being firmly connected with the latter.
This disk encloses a board, connected loosely to a shaft and which is held in
a certain position by a spring and standing out from the disk through two openings.
The disk is also provided with an incision at the outer edge, while a cross piece is
fastened to the prolonged part of the shaft. In all other respects, the con-
struction of the apparatus is equal or similar to that of automatic machines hitherto
known.
MAX WERTHEIM.
Improvements in Coin-freed Beverage Machine.
We, CORNELIO TRABUCCHI, Merchant, and GUGLIELMO BOTTO, Engineer,
both formerly of 60 Mittelstrasse, but now of 51 Unter den Linden, Berlin, in the
Empire of Germany, do hereby declare the nature of this invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement :-
This invention relates to an automatic apparatus for the delivery of a liquid, by
means of wheelwork set in motion by a weight on the introduction of a coin into
the apparatus.
In the accompanying drawings,
Figure 1 is a sectional elevation of an apparatus constructed in accordance with
our invention.
Figure 2 is a side view of the actuating wheelwork or clockwork, to a larger
scale than Figure 1.
Figures 3 to 6 show the main wheel of the clockwork in various position, and
Figures 7 to 9 show parts of the internal apparatus..
When a coin is inserted into the slot a it is conducted by means of a tube b on to
a pivotted lever c. Before reaching the tube 6 however the said coin is received
on an intercepting apparatus & pivotted at d just below the slot a and balanced by
a counterweight e. The intercepting apparatus d' only allows coin of the proper
value to pass to the tube b but lets light coins fall into the inside of the case. The
weight e is adjustable so that the intercepting apparatus d' may be balanced to suit
the particular kind of coin that is to be used.

page_text: When the coin has fallen through the tube b its weight causes the lever c, which
is carried on the outer end of a lever f fixed on a shaft g, to move downwards in
the direction of the arrow, and to carry with it the lever f, which latter is also
balanced by a counterweight h adjustable on the screwed outer end thereof.
On the shaft g is also placed a pawl i (see Figure 7) which rests with its broad
point on a hollow disc placed by the side of and fixed to the toothed wheel k
(Figures 4 and 5). This disc l, which with the tooth wheel k to which it is secured
is placed on a shaft k', and has in its hollow interior a cross piece m which fits
loosely on the shaft k¹, and is held in a certain position by a spring n. The two
ends of this cross piece project out through two openings o¹ in the periphery of the
disc l, which has also in its outer edge two notches o. On the extended part of the
shaft there is also fixed a cross bar p.
The apparatus operates as follows:-
:-
Immediately the coin falls on the lever c and presses down the end of the lever f,
the pawl i is raised out of the notch of the disc l; the clockwork which, operated
by a chain and weight, is thereby released, and the toothed wheel k and disc are
set in motion in the direction of the arrow. At the moment when the coin slides off*
the lever c and falls into the money till B, the depressed end of the lever f rises,
but the pawl i falls on to the inclined round part of the cross piece m projecting
beyond the disc and pressed forward by the spring n, (see Figure 6) and as the
wheel and disc continue their forward rotation the said pawl slides off the said
inclined surface of the cross piece m on to the smooth disc, until the toothed wheel k
and disc have made a half revolution, when the driving gear is stopped by the
opposite end of the cross piece m coming against the pawl i, which presses the cross
piece backwards in opposition to the spring n, and then falls by its own weight into
the notch o.
This action is repeated on the insertion of every fresh coin.
By the rotation of the toothed wheel k the cross bar p on the shaft k¹ is also.
rotated and comes to act, when in a perpendicular position, (see Figure 9) on a lever
arm 9 arranged below it, and pivotted on a fulcrum at r. This lever arm
is
connected by a rod s to a lever t fitted to a tank A placed in the upper part of the
apparatus, and containing the liquid to be delivered.
By the downward movement of the lever arm q and rods a valve v placed inside
the tank A, and connected to the lever t by a rod u is opened and so much liquid is
allowed to pass out through a pipe v¹ as is intended to be delivered in exchange for
the coin introduced at a; the valve then closes by its own weight, the liquid
continuing to run ouly while the disc makes a half revolution.
The delivering mechanism consisting of the parts g, s, u and t can be adjusted by
the screw nuts w and y.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :-
:-
An automatic coin-freed beverage machine consisting of a hollow disc 7, a cross
piece m, and spring a connected with the said disc 1, a toothed wheel k, a shaft k¹
driven by clockwork, a pawl i, a cross bar p, levers 9 and t, rods s and u, a valve v
and a balance releasing lever fƒ actuated by a coin inserted into the slot a of the
apparatus, combined and operating substantially as described with reference to the
accompanying drawings.
Dated this Old 1
C A 1
1000