An Arrangement for Locking or Releasing the Mechanism of Machines for the Delivery of Goods upon the Insertion of a Coin, Coins, or Counters into the same.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 5th Jan., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 7th Oct., 1889-Accepted, 9th Nov., 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Arrangement for Locking or Releasing the Mechanism of
Machines for the Delivery of Goods upon the Insertion of a Coin,
Coins, or Counters into the same.
I, GEORGE COWLEY BINGHAM of Holland Works, Alscot Road, Bermondsey
London in the county of Surrey, Engineer do hereby declare the nature of this in-
vention to be as follows:-
This invention consists of a pawl pawls or catch working upon a surface having
notches, groves or stops upon it, and of a receptacle or receptacles for the coin, coins
or counters, so arranged that the pawl pawls or catch fall into or against the notches,
groves or stops and so locking the mechanism. But the receptacle or receptacles are
so arranged that upon the introduction of a coin, coins, or counters they form inclines
up which the said pawl etc. travel upon the mechanism being moved and thus passing
over the said, notches etc., allowing the mechanism to be freely moved. But the
receptacle is so formed that the coin etc. is discharged from it at a suitable point of the
mechanism's movment, so that upon the mechanism returning or approaching its
normal position it is again locked.
Dated this 5th
1000
GEORGE C. BINGHAM.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Arrangement for Locking or Releasing the Mechanism of
Machines for the Delivery of Goods upon the Insertion of a Coin,
Coins, or Counters into the same.
I, GEORGE COWLEY BINGHAM of Holland Works, Alscot Road, Bermondsey,
London in the county of Surrey Engineer, 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 improved locking or releasing arrangement for use in
coin-freed apparatus and the like whereby the mechanism or action of apparatus is
released by the insertion of coin, coins, or it or their equivalent into a receptacle or
receptacles arranged for it or them.
For this purpose I make use of the shape of coin, coins or it or their equivalents
(generally round discs) to raise or pass a pawl or catch, of any desired shape, over a
notch or other obstacle placed to prevent the working of the mechanism or action of
the coin-freed apparatus.
To more fully explain the nature of my invention I give in the accompanying
drawings Fig. 1 & 2 the arrangement adapted to a slide or pull having a backward
and forward motion, the action of which is released by a single coin: Fig. 1. being
the elevation and Fig. 2. the plan.
In Fig. 1 & 2, A. is the slide or pull, the motion of which in the direction of arrow,
is supposed (for the purpose of explanation) when pulled out sufficiently far to operate
the coin-freed apparatus.
To prevent the motion as indicated a notch B is cut in the slide A and into this
drops a pawl or catch free to revolve only about the point (a) arranged so that the
slide cannot be pulled, in the direction of arrow, beyond the point where the face of
pawl comes into contact with the face of notch, but upon the coin being introduced
into the receptacle D, as shown by dotted lines, the receptacle being attached to the
slide, it will form an incline up which the pawl will travel over the notch B when the
slide is pulled out, thus allowing it to be pulled freely in the direction of arrow.

page_text: The arrangement described & illustrated can be modified in various ways thus:
instead of the coin being moved with the slide, the pawl can be attached to it and
moved with it, the receptacle for coin with the notch or obstruction being
stationary.
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Again the receptacle could be made to take two or more coins, either arranged so
as to pass the pawl over a series of stops or obstructions or over one. Also the same
arrangement could be constructed to work in circular or other motions.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is.
1. The manufacture and use in so called coin freed apparatus and the like, of
mechanism or parts constructed as herewith described and illustrated with their
modifications.
2. The manufacture and use in so called coin freed apparatus and the like, of
mechanism or parts constructed such as to make use of the shape of coin, coins or it
or their equivalents to form an incline inclines or surface to raise or pass a part or
parts of the mechanism over or by another or others whereby the action or working of
the coin freed apparatus and the like are released.
Dated this 5th day of October 1889.
GEO. C. BINGHAM.