Improvements in Coin Freed Apparatus for the Sale of Goods.
Year: 1897

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION..
Improvements in Coin Freed Apparatus for the Sale of Goods.
I, TWEEDY SCOTT, of Etherland House, Devonshire Road, Blackheath, County
of Kent, Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention has for object, the construction or arrangement of details of
appliances for operating after the insertion of a predetermined coin for the
delivery of articles such as packets of sweets, cigarettes, matches, etc.
For the purpose of this invention, I arrange a balance lever at the bottom of a
coin shoot. The back end of the lever rests against a fixed stop which the weight
of the coin clears to enable a slider to be drawn forward.
The slider has a rod with pinion teeth upon it into which mutilated pinion gears
for the depressed end of the lever to drop to enable the slider to expose the article
for delivery, the articles being superposed and fall in succession.
H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said Tweedy Scott.
Improvements in Coin Freed Apparatus for the Sale of Goods.
I, TWEEDY SCOTT, of Etherland House, Devonshire Road; Blackheath, County
of Kent, Merchant, 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:-
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This invention has for object the construction or arrangement of details of
appliances for operating after the insertion of a predetermined coin for the
delivery of articles such as packets of sweets, cigarettes, matches etc.
For the purpose of this invention I arrange a balance lever at the bottom of a
coin shoot. The back end of the lever rests against a fixed stop which the weight
of the coin clears to enable a slider to be drawn forward.
The slider has a rod with pinion teeth upon it into which a mutilated pinion gears
for the depressed end of the lever to drop to enable the slider to expose the article
for delivery, the articles being superposed and fall in succession.
The annexed drawings show my invention.
Figure 1.part sectional elevation.

page_text: A, box or casing. B article container. C pull out drawer or slider for delivery
of the articles singly. D toothed rack projecting from back end of drawer to
move with it. E toothed wheel in gear with rack 1) the movement of which is
determined by stop lever F the curve being so arranged that its pin G can ride
in the mutilated portion H for both motions of the wheel by abutting against
the terminals of the mutilated portion. I balanced or coin receiver lever pivotted
at J and having a claw K to engage in the teeth L as a check against the drawer
or slider C being operated except when the claw K is released such as by the
weight of a coin on the end M which coin for the time being is retained on and
by said end and partly by it being tilted against the wall of the shoot N.
The drawer or slider is then released and ready to be drawn out by its knob P
and as the pinion E is rotated thereby its end Q is withdrawn from the stop G
which stop follows the end Q and then enters the mutilated portion H due to the
weight of the coin, so that when the drawer has been fully opened the pin G of
the stop lever F is pressed against by the end R and a further depression of the
coin supporting lever occurs to free the coin which now rolls down the shoot S
into the till, the lever I being locked by its pin abutting against the end R until
the drawer or slider C is returned.
:-
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I claim is:
1. In coin freed mechanism for the sale of goods, the combination and arrange-
ment of appliances shown and acting in the manner and for the purposes described.
2. As a special mechanical feature in such a machine the mutilated wheel E
operable by rack D and working in relation to said wheel E a portion of which
at the ends of the mutilated portions serve as stops for the pin G of a curved
guide bar which forms part of or is attached to the coin receiving lever I
acting as and for the purposes explained.
Dated this on day or may
H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said T. Scott.
H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said T. Scott.