Improvements in Automatic Vending Apparatus.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 31st Mar., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 31st Dec., 1892-Accepted, 4th Feb., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Automatic Vending Apparatus.
We EDWARD MANN of Palace Chambers in the City of Westminster and
JOSEPH APPLETON of 92 Queen Victoria Street in the City of London Electrical
Engineers, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows :-
In apparatus constructed according to our invention the drawer slide or other
receptacle containing the article to be sold when a coin is deposited into the
apparatus is held locked in the closed position by means of a bolt and catch
and the drawer is enabled to be disengaged so that it can be drawn out by the
purchaser after that he has put the coin into the apparatus the coin partly entering
a slot in the slide so that a projecting part of the coin comes against and actuates
the catch whereby the bolt is disengaged.
A suitable construction of apparatus for selling boxes of matches postcards
packets of cigarettes and other articles is as follows.
The magazine containing the boxes of matches or packets is arranged above a
slide capable of being pushed in and out of the enclosing box of the apparatus the
slide having a cross recess of the size of the box or packet so that the lowermost
box in the magazine always fills the said recess. Behind that recess there is
another recess for a guided locking bolt to descend into a spring or weight assisting
to hold it in the down position and return it into same after it has been lifted out
of the said recess. To raise the bolt and thereby disengage the slide a bell crank
lever is provided one arm of which engages with a slot in the bolt while the other
arm forms a catch for disengaging the bolt. The lower part of the shoot terminates
just over a slot through the back end of the slide so that the coin when dropped in
takes its place in the said slot while resting upon a ledge below. The slide has a
slight amount of lost motion so that it can be pulled out to that extent. The upper
part of the coin will then just touch the bottom part of the edge of the lower arm
of the bell crank lever. The slide with its matchbox or other article can now be
drawn out wholly because the coin then comes in contact with the said lower arm
and forms as it were a hook or carrier which draws the said lower arm forward
whereby the upper arm of same is thrown up and raises the bolt leaving the slide
free to be drawn out and the coin to drop into a receptacle below when it has got
free of its lower supporting ledge. The back end of the slide has a sloping notch
to allow the bolt to rise upon the slide and again enter its locking recess when the
slide is being pushed in. The box has a hinged door for access to the interior.
This form of apparatus is for instance applicable to the selling of packets of
cigarettes or boxes of matches in railway carriages.
Dated this 31st day of March 1892.
JENSEN & SON,
77, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Patent Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Automatic Vending Apparatus.
We, EDWARD MANN of Palace Chambers in the City of Westminster, and
JOSEPH APPLETON of 92 Queen Victoria Street in the City of London, Electrical
Engineers 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 :-
In apparatus constructed according to our invention the drawer slide or other

page_text: receptacle containing the article to. be sold when a coin is deposited into the
apparatus is normally held in the closed position by means of a bolt entering a
longitudinal recess in the slide and by a catch which engages with the bolt. When
the drawer is to be disengaged for being drawn out by the purchaser the coin is
put into the apparatus, and after, partly entering, a transverse slot in the slide rests
upon a projection in the box. The operator. then. pulls out, the slide a short
distance, the long, recess for, the bolt admitting of this movement,, until a projecting
part of the coin comes against and actuates the catch, whereby the bolt is dis-
engaged and raised out of the way so that the drawer can be pulled out to the
required extent; the coin during this latter part of the motion of the drawer is
pulled off its support and drops into a receptacle below.
A suitable construction of apparatus for selling boxes of matches, postcards,
packets of cigarettes and other articles is shewn in the accompanying drawings of
which Figure 1 is a front view and Figure 2 a vertical cross section. Figure 3¹is
an end view of the bolt and catch.
""
The magazine containing the boxes of matches or packets A is arranged above
a slide B capable of being pushed in and out of the enclosing box of the apparatus,
the slide having a cross recess B¹ of the size of the box or packet A so that the
lowermost box in the magazine always fills the said recess. Behind that recess
there is another recess B for a guided locking bolt C to descend into, a spring. D
or. weight assisting to hold it in the down position and return it into same after it
has been lifted out of the said recess. To raise the bolt C and thereby disengage
the slide B a bell crank lever is provided one arm E of which engages with a
slot Cin the bolt while the other arm E¹ forms a catch for disengaging the bolt C.
The lower part of the shoot F terminates just over a slot B through the back end
of the slide so that the coin shewn at G in dotted lines when dropped in takes its
place in the said slot while resting upon a ledge H below. The slide has a slight
amount of "lost motion so that it can be pulled out to that extent the recess B³
being for this purpose made long as shewn. The upper part of the coin will then
just touch the bottom part of the edge of the lower arm E of the bell crank lever.
The slide B with its match box or other article can now be drawn out wholly
because the coin then comes in contact with the said lower arm E¹ and forms as it
were a hook or carrier which draws the said lower arm forward whereby the upper
arm E of same is thrown up and raises the bolt C leaving the slide B free to be
drawn out and the coin to drop into a receptacle I below when it has got free of
its lower-supporting ledge H. The back end of the slide has a sloping notch. Bto
allow the bolt C to rise upon the slide and again enter its locking recess B*when
the slide is being pushed in. The slide B is guided on rods K and the bolt C which
works upon the wall N of the magazine is guided by the slot C and screw C³.
The box has a hinged door L for access to the interior. M is a weight for
depressing the boxes A, it has the word "Empty." engraved on its front; this
word shews through the glass pane, L' when down. This form of apparatus.is. for
instance applicable to the selling of packets of cigarettes, or boxes of matches in
railway carriages.
.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is :-
1. Automatic vending, apparatus, in which the slide, or drawer containing the
articles to be sold is provided with a longitudinal recess for a locking bolt to enter
and a transverse slot for the coin to partly pass, through, a ledge being, provided
for the coin to rest upon and a catch being also provided for holding the bolt
engaged with the slide, all so arranged that after the slide has been drawn out to a
slight extent the projecting part of the coin comes flat against the catch and, by a
continued pulling out motion disengages the bolt from the slide so that the latter
can-be-fully drawn out during which motion the coin drops off its support and falls
into a receptacle below, substantially as set forth.

page_text: 2. An automatic vending apparatus operating as firstly claimed and constructed
as described with reference to the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 31st day of December 1892.
JENSEN & SON,
77, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Patent Agents.