Improvements in Automatic Coin Freed Apparatus.
Year: 1889

page_text: * Date of Application, 4th Nov., 1889-Accepted, 7th Dec., 1889
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Automatic Coin Freed Apparatus.
I GUSTAV HÖVERMANN of Adolfstrasse No. 32 Altona in the Empire of Germany,
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 :-
It frequently happens with so called automatic machines, that the receiving slot
for the coin becomes obstructed, whereby the money, when inserted, does not operate
the machine.
This invention has for its object to enable everyone to receive his money back
again i.e. to clear the receiving slot without opening the apparatus itself.
It consists in placing in front of the coin slot a removable separate insertion-
slot, into which the coin is to be introduced. If this assistant receiver is blocked
up, the same can be taken off or even cleared by the purchaser, without the money
reaching and operating the apparatus itself.
The assistant receiver may be constructed in different ways for instance it may be
a channel for the coin, arranged on hinge joints above the receiver proper. If the
assistant-channel is blocked up, the purchaser turns the same on its hinges and
removes the obstructing parts.
The accompanying drawing of which Fig. 1 is a sectional elevation.
Fig. 2 a section on line
Fig. 3 a section on line
fig. 1.
fig. 1.
Fig. 4 a plan, shows a convenient mode of performing the invention, c is the
receiving slot proper of the automatic machine, is the channel in the assistant-
receiver for receiving the coin and having the lower slot b, which must correspond
with the opening e in the automatic machine. The device is arranged on hinge-joints
on a sledge, which slides in the guides a. The spring g holds the sledge in such a
position that the receiving slot d corresponds with band c. The slot corresponds
exactly with the size of the coin, whilst b and c are larger, so that all objects which
enter through d must fall likewise through band e; an obstruction can therefore
only take place at d. If this occurs, the sledge with the receiving slot is moved
sideways, when the sledge covers the opening and the divided receiving slot d
actuated by the spring g spreads asunder, as soon as the hinge joint e is beyond the
control of guide a. Then the object either falls out or may be removed from the
receiving slot d.
The spring withdraws the same into its ordinary position and the sledge-guide a
presses together again the two parts of the slot d.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:
A receiving slot for coins on automatic coin freed machines, consisting of the
parts d connected by hinges and movable by the sledge in the guide a said parts
being removable from said guide by means of a handle and spread asunder by the
spring g fastened to one part of the receiving slot and to the guide a substantially as
illustrated and described.
Dated this 1th day of Navamlı 1980
HERBERT & Co.,
18, Buckingham Street, Strand, Patent Agents.