Improvements in or appertaining to Apparatus or Machines for Selling or Vending Articles.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 18th July, 1893
Complete Specification Left. 13th Sept., 1893-Accepted, 16th Dec., 1893
PROVISIONAL SE MOTIVATION.
Improvements in or appertaining to Apparatus or Machines for
Selling or Vending Articles.
A communication by SALLY CAIN, of Bahnhofstrasse, Aix-la-Chapelle, in the
Empire of Germany, Manufacturer.
I, WILLIAM PHILLIPS THOMPSON, F.C.S., M.I.M.E., of the Agency for
Foreign Patent Solicitors, 6 Lord Street, Liverpool and 6, Bank Street, Manchester,
both in the County of Lancaster and 323 High Holborn, in the County of
Middlesex, Civil Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention has for its object an apparatus or machine which will deliver in
exchange for a prepayment, particulars of the addresses in alphabetical order and
classified according to their businesses of the various firms in a town.
This apparatus consists of the combination of any suitable number of separate
vending apparatus or machines, the coin slots of which are indicated by numbers or
in some other suitable manner, and the number of which corresponds to the number
of the kinds of trades or businesses the addresses of which it is desired to sell. A
notice board indicating or giving a list of the different kinds of trades or businesses
is attached to the apparatus or machine, the inner construction of the latter being
of any suitable kind, and, on this notice board, the purchaser can by reading suitable
numbers prefaced to each trade or business, ascertain the kind of trade or business,
a list of which will be delivered on the insertion of a coin in any given slot.
Another modification of this idea consists in combining any suitable number of
storage squares or compartments for the sale of various articles and providing them
with only one coin insertion slot and one delivering apparatus, by which means
the internal construction of the apparatus is considerably simplified and rendered
more easy of use by the public.
The
The apparatus may consist of an underpart or base on which the cover of the
apparatus is supported by means of four columns. Between the base and the cover,
the magazine frame is arranged. This consists of any suitable number of compart-
ments shaped to suit the articles to be sold. These compartments may have their
outside fitted with glass panes or the like. This magazine frame is connected by
means of arms with a pivot running in a step supported by the covering plate. The
whole magazine frame thus hangs on this pivot and revolves with the same.
magazine frame may be caused to run or rotate more easily on the axis of the appa-
ratus or machine if the same is made not to rub or touch on the underpart of the
apparatus but to hang free of the same with room for play and only resting as a
precaution in an annular projection of the base or underpart. The coin passage
which opens into the cover of the apparatus will therefore always remain fixed
when the parts are rotating, and the delivering apparatus which is arranged in the
base will also do the same. In the present instance this is a sliding drawer.
The intending purchaser selects the desired article either through the transparent
front of the compartment, or from a notice plate relating thereto, and then turns
the magazine frame in such a way that the compartment desired stands over the
delivering drawer. He then inserts the coin in the slot by which means the
delivering apparatus is released so that it is possible to take the desired article from
out of the same.
The delivering apparatus consists in this case of a sliding drawer which has a
recess for receiving the article which is to be delivered. The under surface of the

page_text: recess is level with the surface of the base on which the charges of the magazine
compartments slide during the rotation of the magazine frame, so that an unim-
peded rotation may take place. The releasing mechanism consists of hooks or
catches having projections and turning on pins. These hooks are fitted on the
delivering drawer and are held by means of springs, so that they rest against stops
on the drawer. The projections of the catches engage behind a suitable double hook
which is attached to the base of the apparatus or machine so that when the projections
have engaged behind the double hook, it is impossible to draw out the delivering
drawer. The drawer has further a metallic strip with a longitudinal slot of such a
size that the coin to be inserted in the apparatus, owing to its being somewhat wider
than such slot, cannot fall through but, whilst still guided by the lower end of the
coin passage rests against the edges of this slot. If the drawer be then drawn
forwards, the coin is pressed against projecting parts of the catch lever and forces
them apart, it being a necessary condition for this that the projections of the hooks
or catches have some play behind the double hook so that it is possible to draw out
the drawer. The coin then holds the catches apart until the projections have passed
the double hook and then held by the coin passage and having reached the end of the
sheet metal plate, it drops into the cash box.
Dated this 17th day of July 1893.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or appertaining to Apparatus or Machines for
Selling or Vending Articles.
A communication by
SALLY CAIN, of Bahnhofstrasse, Aix-la-Chapelle, in the
Empire of Germany, Manufacturer.
I, WILLIAM PHILLIPS THOMPSON, F.G.S., M.I.M.E., of the Agency for
Foreign Patent Solicitors 6 Lord Street, Liverpool and 6, Bank Street,
Manchester, both in the County of Lancaster, and 323 High Holborn, in the
County of Middlesex, Civil 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 has for its object an apparatus or machine which will deliver, in
exchange for a prepayment, particulars of the addresses in alphabetical order and
classified according to their businesses of the various firms in a town, and, as a
modification of the machine, advertisement notices may be combined with the lists
of addresses. The addresses are delivered by the apparatus in a pamphlet or roll
form.
This apparatus consists, as is shown in Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings,
of the combination of any suitable number of separate vending apparatus or
machines, the coin slots of which are indicated by numbers or in some other suitable
manner and the number of which corresponds to the number of the kinds of trades
or businesses the addresses of which it is desired to sell. A notice board, Figure 2,
indicating or giving a list of the different kinds of trades or businesses is attached
to the apparatus or machine, and on this notice board, the purchaser can, by reading
suitable numbers prefaced to each trade or business, ascertain the kind of trade or
business a list of which will be delivered on the insertion of a coin in any given
slot.
The internal arrangement of the apparatus may be of such a kind that as many
complete separate automatic devices are arranged side by side as there are different
articles sold, and are combined in an outer case to form a single whole apparatus, so
that in this latter the number of insertion slots, coin passages and delivering devices
must be equal to that of the articles to be sold.
The arrangement of the separate parts may therefore be quite similar to the one

page_text: hereinafter more particularly described, apart from the there shown peculiar
construction of the magazine squares.
Another modification of this idea consists in combining any suitable number of
storage squares or compartments for the sale of various articles and providing them
with only one coin insertion slot and one delivering apparatus, by which means the
internal construction of the apparatus is considerably simplified and rendered more
easy of use by the public.
Figures 3 and 4 are two sections through such an apparatus or machine in a
vertical and horizontal direction, whilst
Figure 5 shows an outside view, and
Figure 6, a plan view of the same.
Figures 7 to 9 illustrate an arrangement of the delivering apparatus, which,
however, may be made in any other suitable manner as may be seen from the
drawing.
The apparatus may consist of an underpart or base a, on which the cover c of the
Between the base and the
apparatus is supported by means of four columns b.
cover, the magazine frame d is arranged. This consists of any suitable number of
compartments e shaped to suit the articles to be sold. These compartments may have
their outside fitted with glass panes el or the like. This magazine frame is connected
by means of the arms f with a pivot g running in a step c¹ supported by the
covering plate c. The whole magazine frame thus hangs on this pivot and revolves
with the same.
The magazine frame may be caused to run or rotate more easily on
the axis of the apparatus or machine if the same is made not to rub or touch on the
underpart of the apparatus, but to hang free of the same with room for play and
only resting as a precaution in an annular projection a' of the base or underpart.
The coin passage, which opens at ' into the cover of the apparatus, will therefore
always remain fixed when the parts are rotating, and the delivering apparatus which
is arranged in the base will also do the same. In the present instance, this is a
sliding drawer i.
The intending purchaser selects the desired article either through the transparent
front of the compartment, or from a notice plate relating thereto, and then turns the
magazine frame in such a way that the compartment desired stands over the
delivering drawer. He then inserts the coin in the slot, by which means
the delivering apparatus is released, so that it is possible to take the desired article
from out of the same.
The delivering apparatus consists, in this case, of a sliding drawer i, which has a
recess for receiving the article which is to be delivered. The under surface of
the recess is level with the surface of the base on which the charges of the magazine
compartments slide during the rotation of the magazine frame, so that an unimpeded
rotation of d may take place. The releasing mechanism consists of hooks or
catches having projections and turning on pins kk. These hooks are fitted
on the delivering drawer i and are held by means of springs m in the position shown
in Figure 8, so that they rest against the stops nn. The projections of the
catches engage behind a suitable double hook o which is attached to the base a of
the apparatus or machine, so that, when the projections have engaged behind the
double hook o, it is impossible to draw out the delivering drawer.
The drawer has further strip of sheet metal 7 which has a longitudinal slot » in
it of such a size that the coin, which is to be inserted into the apparatus and which
is carried with its greatest width crosswise to the slide slot, cannot fall through such
slot because its diameter is greater than the width of the slide slot, see Figure 9,
but, whilst still guided by the lower end of the coin passage, rests against the edges
of this slot. If the drawer be then drawn forwards, the coin is pressed against the
projecting parts p p of the catch levers s and forces them apart, it being a necessary
condition for this that the projections have some play behind the hook o, so that
it is possible to draw out the drawer. The coin then holds the catches apart until
the projections have passed the double hook o and then held by the coin

page_text: passage, and, having reached the end of the sheet metal plate, it drops into the
cash box.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, as communicated to me by
my foreign correspondent, I declare that what I claim is :-
1. A selling or vending apparatus or machine for delivering, in a pamphlet or roll
form, an alphabetically arranged list of addresses of trades or businesses, consisting
of a number of storage or magazine compartments corresponding to the number of
the various trades, with corresponding coin slots, coin passages and delivering devices
which are combined to form a whole machine in such a way that the insertion slots
have numbers which correspond to the number on a tablet attached thereto on which
the contents of the divisions of the apparatus in question are given, substantially as
described.
2. A selling or vending apparatus or machine for delivering, in a pamphlet or roll
form, an alphabetically arranged list of addresses of a trade or business or any other
suitable article, consisting of a suitable number of magazine compartments formed
side by side and parallely into a cylinder, which compartments are carried by a
pivot or pin attached to the fixed inner frame of the apparatus and revolve thereby
on the axis of the apparatus, whilst only one insertion slot and delivering apparatus
is employed for all the magazine compartments, so that articles can always only be
delivered from the compartment which is standing at the time over the delivery
drawer or mechanism, substantially as described.
Dated this 12th day of September 1893.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Agents for the Applicant.