Improvements in or Applicable to Apparatus for Automatically Effecting the Sale and Delivery of Goods.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 5th Aug., 1887.
Specification Accepted, 6th Sept., 1887.
Improvements in or Applicable to Apparatus for Automatically
Effecting the Sale and Delivery of Goods.
I, THOMAS ROBERT HAY FISKEN, of East Greenwich, in the County of Kent,
Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of the said 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 certain improvements in or applicable to apparatus for
automatically effecting the sale and delivery of goods of various kinds.
The improvements constituting the present Invention are illustrated in the
accompanying drawings, on which Fig. 1, represents the same in sectional elevation
through the line, a, b, Fig. 2. Fig. 2, representing a plan view of Fig. 1, Fig. 3.
represents a modification hereinafter more particularly referred to.
In accordance with the present improvements, the delivery of the goods is effected
by being automatically ejected from a containing casing, 1, into an open delivery
tray or receptacle, 2, (both of which parts, 1, 2, may be made of any suitable
formation adapted to the nature of the goods being sold) by an arrangement of
actuating gearing hereinafter described which is normally under the control of a
peculiar escapement also hereinafter described, when released from such control by the
deposit onto the controlling part of the escapement motion of a definite or predetermined
coin, upon which being effected such actuating gearing is operative by means of a
crank and connecting rod or its equivalent, 3, in automatically ejecting the goods as
aforesaid, and in automatically returning the ejecting detail to a position ready to
operate upon the next article when similarly released.
The improved apparatus is constructed with suitable side frames, 4, which are held
together and apart by suitable stay bolts or rods, 5. The automotive agent consists
of a coiled spring, 6, hooked to the spindle, 7, and to a drum, 8, which is fast with a
toothed wheel, 9, mounted loosely upon the spindle, 7. The spring, 6, is prevented
from uncoiling by means of a ratchet wheel, 10, fast on the spindle, 7, and spring
pawl, 11, centred to the framing at, 12, and it imparts its motive effect through the
said drum, 8, and toothed wheel, 9. The wheel, 9, gears with and actuates a toothed
pinion, 13, fast on a rotating spindle, 14, on which is also mounted fast a spur
wheel, 15, which gears with and actuates a toothed pinion, 16, fast on a rotating

page_text: crank shaft, 17, on which is mounted fast an escapement cam, 18, and an actuating
crank, 19, which latter is connected by the rod or bar, 3, with a sliding ejector, 21,
which may be of any suitable formation, and is guided by the adjacent parts of the
case, 1, or in any other suitable manner.
The operation of the mechanism is controlled by means of a balanced lever, 22,
centred at, 23, to any suitable support, 24, and formed at or adjacent to one end with
a detaining pin, 25, the function of which is to automatically arrest the apparatus at
the completion of each operation, and to detain it in inoperative position (vide the
full lines in Figs. 1 & 2) until the lever, 22, is overbalanced (vide the dotted lines in
Fig. 1.) and actuated by the deposit of the said coin onto its free end, which may be
adapted in any usual or suitable manner beneath the coin slot of a surrounding
casing which may be of any suitable formation, with any usual or suitable provision
for preventing the said lever from being improperly actuated. The pin, 25, of the
lever, 22, effects its said control by engaging with the side of the vertical part, a, of
the cam groove, 26, when the lever is in the position shown in full lines in Fig. 1, but
releases it when it has been moved in the manner hereinbefore described to the
position shown in dotted lines, when it permits of the spring, 6, causing one complete
revolution of the shaft, 17, and cam, 18, and crank, 19, thereon, which is effective by
means of the said rod, 3, in causing, as aforesaid, an automatic delivery of the goods
and return of the ejecting detail.
27, represents a brake spring which may be adapted to the periphery of the cam, 18,
to prevent the too rapid action of the apparatus.
The shaft, 14, and its gearing, 13, 15, may be dispensed with; in which event the
pinion, 16, would be directly actuated by the wheel, 9, and the groove, 26, in the
cam, 18, would require to be reversely placed. Or the grooved cam, 18, may take
the place of the wheel, 9, the groove, 26, then remaining as represented in the
drawings. On the other hand, a like arrangement of gearing to that illustrated on
the drawings may be still further extended, the gearing in each particular case being
preferably so arranged as to cause each complete unwinding of the spring, 6, to effect
a number of reciprocations of the ejecting detail equal in number to that of the
separate articles in the containing casing, 1.
The apparatus may be so adapted as to require to be operated by two or more given
coins, in which event the lever may be adjusted so as to be operated only by such
number of such coins, or the cam groove, 26, may be made with a series of such
stopping parts, a, equal in number to that of the coins intended to be used (say, for
example, two pennies for a twopenny article) in actuating the apparatus, such stopping
parts being contiguously arranged, vide Fig. 3, so that the angular movement of
rotation of the cam will not be sufficient to permit of the article on sale being ejected
or got at until the final coin for such article is deposited in the apparatus. In such
an arrangement, the deposit of the first coin and of each of the following coins of the
series, excepting the last one, only permits of a small movement of rotation of the
cam which is arrested at each such movement by the next contiguous stop, the release
of the last of the series of which permits of the completion of the rotation of the
cam and of the completion of the reciprocating movements of the ejector.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said Invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is :-
In apparatus for automatically effecting the sale and delivery of goods ;-
1. Effecting the delivery of goods by automatically ejecting the same from a
containing casing by a reciprocating ejecting detail, and automatically returning the
ejecting detail to within the casing, by means operating substantially as hereinbefore
described.
2. In combination with a reciprocating ejector adapted for effecting such operations,
a connected crank or its equivalent, spring actuated gearing, a controlling escapement
cam formed with an automatically locking groove, and a controlling lever engaging
with such cam groove and operated by the deposit thereonto of a given coin and by
the said groove, substantially as hereinbefore described.

page_text: 3. The application to such apparatus of the peculiar escapement motion herein-
before described, the same consisting in the cam, 18, adapted with the stopped or
repeatedly stopped groove, 26, in combination with the balanced lever, 22, adapted
with the controlling pin, 25, substantially as herein before described.
4. The application to such apparatus in combination with such escapement motion,
of the crank or its equivalent, 19, reciprocating rod or bar, 3, and connected
ejector, 21, substantially as and for the purpose hereinbefore described.
5. The application to such apparatus, of the cam, 18, adapted with the stopped or
repeatedly stopped groove, 26, substantially as and for the purpose hereinbefore
described.
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DAY, DAVIES & HUNT,
321, High Holborn, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicant.

page_text: Improvements in or Applicable to Apparatus for Automatically
Effecting the Sale and Delivery of Goods.
I, THOMAS ROBERT HAY FISKEN, of East Greenwich, in the County of Kent,
Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of the said 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 certain improvements in or applicable to apparatus for
automatically effecting the sale and delivery of goods of various kinds.
The improvements constituting the present Invention are illustrated in the
accompanying drawings, on which Fig. 1, represents the same in sectional elevation
through the line, a, b, Fig. 2. Fig. 2, representing a plan view of Fig. 1, Fig. 3.
represents a modification hereinafter more particularly referred to.
In accordance with the present improvements, the delivery of the goods is effected
by being automatically ejected from a containing casing, 1, into an open delivery
tray or receptacle, 2, (both of which parts, 1, 2, may be made of any suitable
formation adapted to the nature of the goods being sold) by an arrangement of
actuating gearing hereinafter described which is normally under the control of a
peculiar escapement also hereinafter described, when released from such control by the
deposit onto the controlling part of the escapement motion of a definite or predetermined
coin, upon which being effected such actuating gearing is operative by means of a
crank and connecting rod or its equivalent, 3, in automatically ejecting the goods as
aforesaid, and in automatically returning the ejecting detail to a position ready to
operate upon the next article when similarly released.
The improved apparatus is constructed with suitable side frames, 4, which are held
together and apart by suitable stay bolts or rods, 5. The automotive agent consists
of a coiled spring, 6, hooked to the spindle, 7, and to a drum, 8, which is fast with a
toothed wheel, 9, mounted loosely upon the spindle, 7. The spring, 6, is prevented
from uncoiling by means of a ratchet wheel, 10, fast on the spindle, 7, and spring
pawl, 11, centred to the framing at, 12, and it imparts its motive effect through the
said drum, 8, and toothed wheel, 9. The wheel, 9, gears with and actuates a toothed
pinion, 13, fast on a rotating spindle, 14, on which is also mounted fast a spur
wheel, 15, which gears with and actuates a toothed pinion, 16, fast on a rotating

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crank shaft, 17, on which is mounted fast an escapement cam, 18, and an actuating
crank, 19, which latter is connected by the rod or bar, 3, with a sliding ejector, 21,
which may be of any suitable formation, and is guided by the adjacent parts of the
case, 1, or in any other suitable manner.
The operation of the mechanism is controlled by means of a balanced lever, 22,
centred at, 23, to any suitable support, 24, and formed at or adjacent to one end with
a detaining pin, 25, the function of which is to automatically arrest the apparatus at
the completion of each operation, and to detain it in inoperative position (vide the
full lines in Figs. 1 & 2) until the lever, 22, is overbalanced (vide the dotted lines in
Fig. 1) and actuated by the deposit of the said coin onto its free end, which may be
adapted in any usual or suitable manner beneath the coin slot of a surrounding
casing which may be of any suitable formation, with any usual or suitable provision
for preventing the said lever from being improperly actuated. The pin, 25, of tho
lever, 22, effects its said control by engaging with the side of the vertical part, a, of
the cam groove, 26, when the lever is in the position shown in full lines in Fig. 1, but
releases it when it has been moved in the manner hereinbefore described to the
position shown in dotted lines, when it permits of the spring, 6, causing one complete
revolution of the shaft, 17, and cam, 18, and crank, 19, thereon, which is effective by
means of the said rod, 3, in causing, as aforesaid, an automatic delivery of the goods
and return of the ejecting detail.
27, represents a brake spring which may be adapted to the periphery of the cam, 18,
to prevent the too rapid action of the apparatus.
The shaft, 14, and its gearing, 13, 15, may be dispensed with; in which event the
pinion, 16, would be directly actuated by the wheel, 9, and the groove, 26, in the
cam, 18, would require to be reversely placed. Or the grooved can, 18, may take
the place. of the wheel, 9, the groove, 26, then remaining as represented in the
drawings. On the other hand, a like arrangement of gearing to that illustrated on
the drawings may be still further extended, the gearing in each particular case being
preferably so arranged as to cause each complete unwinding of the spring, 6, to effect
a number of reciprocations of the ejecting detail equal in number to that of the
separate articles in the containing casing, 1.
The apparatus may be so adapted as require to be operated by two or more given
coins, in which event the lever may be adjusted so as to be operated only by such
number of such coins, or the cam groove, 26, may be made with a series of such
• stopping parts, a, equal in number to that of the coins intended to be used (say, for
example, two pennies for a twopenny article) in actuating the apparatus, such stopping
parts being contiguously arranged, vide Fig. 3, so that the angular movement of
rotation of the cam will not be sufficient to permit of the article on sale being ejected
or got at until the final coin for such article is deposited in the apparatus. In such
an arrangement, the deposit of the first coin and of each of the following coins of the
series, excepting the last one, only permits of a small movement of rotation of the
cam which is arrested at each such movement by the next contiguous stop, the release
of the last of the series of which permits of the completion of the rotation of the
cam and of the completion of the reciprocating movements of the ejector.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said Invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, I wish it to be understood that
I do not claim broadly the ejecting of the articles by means of a sliding pusher
actuated by a crank, but I declare that what I claim is :-
In apparatus for automatically effecting the sale and delivery of goods ;-
1. Effecting the delivery of goods by automatically ejecting the same from a
containing casing by a reciprocating ejecting detail, and automatically returning the
ejecting detail to within the casing, by means operating substantially as hereinbefore
described.
2: In combination with a reciprocating ejector adapted for effecting such operations,
a connected crank or its equivalent, spring actuated gearing, a controlling escapement
cam formed with an automatically locking groove, and a controlling lever engaging

page_text: with such cam groove and operated by the deposit thereonto of a given coin and by
the said groove, substantially as hereinbefore described.
3. The application to such apparatus of the peculiar escapement motion herein-
before described, the same consisting in the cam, 18, adapted with the stopped or
repeatedly stopped groove, 26, in combination with the balanced lever, 22, adapted
with the controlling pin, 25, substantially as hereinbefore described.
4. The application to such apparatus in combination with such escapement motion,
of the crank or its equivalent, 19, reciprocating rod or bar, 3, and connected
ejector, 21, substantially as and for the purpose hereinbefore described.
5. The application to such apparatus, of the cam, 18, adapted with the stopped or
repeatedly stopped groove, 26, substantially as and for the purpose hereinbefore
described.
DAY, DAVIES & HUNT,
321, High Holborn, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicant.