Retailing Goods in Exchange for Coin.
Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 8th Mar., 1886
Complete Specification Left, 7th Dec., 1886-Accepted, 7th Jan., 1887
Retailing Goods in Exchange for Coin.
We, PERCY Wood, of 11 Air Street Regent Street in the County of Middlesex,
Tobacconist and WILLIAM HENRY JONES of 19 Holland Street, Clapham Road in the
County of Surrey, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:-
Our Invention relates to improvements in apparatus for automatically retailing
or delivering cigarettes or other goods in exchange for coin, the apparatus being
of that kind in which the weight of a coin of given value is the medium by which
the locking mechanism that controls the delivery of the goods is released.
The improvements consist first in the employment of a pivoted shoot for the
coin so balanced and arranged in relation to a fixed shoot that only coins of the
proper dimensions and weight will be permitted to act on the locking apparatus,
coins, or fraudulent substitutes for coins, of other than the proper dimensions and
weight being rejected. This balance shoot receives the coin from the inlet aperture
and it is provided with an opening of such size as to allow coins of less than the
proper value or dimensions to fall through, the shoot being of a width corre-
sponding to the diameter of the coin which the apparatus is intended to receive,
and being normally at such an inclination that the coin will slide down it flatwise.
Opposite the lower end of this shoot is the mouth of a fixed shoot so shaped and
arranged that the coin received from the balanced shoot will be caused to roll on
its edge down the fixed shoot, the month of the fixed shoot being so situated
relatively to the balanced shoot that if a coin, piece of metal, or other fraudulent
substitute for a coin, of more than the proper weight be allowed to pass down the
balanced shoot the latter will be oscillated so as to be no longer opposite to the
mouth of the fixed shoot, and the coin &c. will not fall down the latter but into
a special receptacle. The fixed shoot delivers the coin on to a tray carried by a
lever which is oscillated by the weight of the coin upon the tray. The oscillation
of this lever and tray causes the coin to be delivered into a special receptacle an

page_text: the tail end of the lever at same time acts on and disengages the locking apparatus
which controls the delivery of the goods.
The apparatus for delivering the cigarettes or other goods consists of a drawer
adapted to receive and withdraw the cigarettes or goods one at a time from a
suitable hopper, said drawer being locked by a self engaging detent lever engaging
therewith. It is this lever which is acted on, and disengaged by the lever carrying
the tray before mentioned whereby the drawer is free to be drawn out for the
purpose of delivering the goods. The act of pulling out the drawer causes the tray
to be reset for the next coin. The drawer is provided with fixed arms which
project upwardly through slots in the hopper and assist to regulate the delivery
of the cigarettes to be drawn.
D WOOD
DWOOD
.W. H. JONES.
By A. M. & Wm. Clark,
Patent Agents,
53, Chancery Lane,
London.

page_text: Retailing Goods in Exchange for Coin.
We, PEROY WOOD of 11, Air Street Regent Street in the County of Middlesex
Tobacconist, and WILLIAM HENRY JONES of 19 Holland Street Clapham Road 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 :-
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Our Invention relates to improvements in apparatus for automatically retailing
or delivering cigarettes or other goods in exchange for coin; the apparatus being
of that kind in which the weight of a coin of given value is the medium by
which the locking mechanism that controls the delivery of the goods is released.
The improvements consist first in the employment of a pivoted shoot for the
coin, so balanced and arranged in relation to a fixed shoot that only coins of the
proper dimensions and weight will be permitted to act on the locking apparatus,
coins or fraudulent substitutes for coins of other than the proper dimensions and
weight being rejected. This pivoted shoot delivers the coin of the proper value to
the fixed shoot which in turn delivers it to a balance which is thereby oscillated
and unlocks a delivery drawer sliding beneath a hopper and adapted to withdraw
the cigarettes one at a time therefrom. The act of pulling out the drawer causes
the balance to be reset for the next coin.
Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming part of this specifica-
tion wherein Figure 1 is a perspective view of the improved apparatus with one of the
delivery drawers pulled out. Figure 2 is a vertical section on line 1-1 figure 3
which is a half plan with the top of the casing and the supply hopper removed. The
same letters of reference indicate the same parts in all the figures.
The apparatus herein illustrated, contains duplicate sets of mechanism contained in
different compartments of the casing, and is therefore adapted for delivering two
different kinds or qualities of goods. It will, however, be sufficient to describe on°
set only.
A is the balance shoot pivoted at a and so weighted or balanced as not to be oscil-
lated by a coin of the proper weight sliding down it from the inlet aperture a¹. The
shoot is of a width corresponding to the diameter of the coin which the apparatus is
intended to receive, and it is normally at such an inclination that the coin will slide
down the shoot flatwise. There is an opening a² in the bottom of the shoot near its
upper end, of such size as to allow coins of less than the proper value and dimensions
to fall through. bis the mouth of a fixed shoot B so situated relatively to the
balanced shoot A that a coin of the proper value will fall into it from the balanced
shoot, but if a coin, piece of metal or other fraudulent substitute for a coin, of more
han the proper weight he allowed to pass down the balanced shoot, the latter will be
Oscillated to such an extent that the coin etc will fall short of the mouth b down to the
bottom of the compartment in which the shoot A is situated, this compartment being
eparated from the remainder of the apparatus by a partition C. The fixed shoot B is
nclined, and passes through the partition C and is of such dimensions that a coin
eceived in it will be caused to roll down it on edge until it reaches a turn at the lower
ortion B down which it slides flatwise, and from whence it is delivered into the scale
an D. The scale pan or tray D is carried by a lever d which is pivoted on an axis d'

page_text: and is oscillated, as shown in dotted lines, by the weight of the coin upon the tray.
The oscillation of this lever and tray causes the coin to be delivered into a drawer E,
and the tail end d' of the lever at same time acts on and disengages the locking
apparatus which controls the delivery of the goods.
The apparatus for delivering the cigarettes or other goods, consists of a solid drawer
or slide F, fitted to work beneath a hopper G and having a cavity adapted to receive
and withdraw the cigarettes or goods one at a time from the hopper, said drawer or
slide being locked by a self-engaging detent lever H engaging with a notch f on the
underside of the drawer. This lever is pivoted at on a strong stud fixed to the side
of the casing and has a downwardly curved tail end in such a position as to be acted on
by a cross head on the tail end of the scale pan lever. When the latter is oscillated
as above mentioned, the lever H being thereby oscillated as shewn in dotted lines, is
consequently disengaged from the notch in the drawer which is then free-to be drawn
out for the purpose of delivering the goods. I is a downwardly projecting finger
attached to the inner end of the drawer F which finger by the act of pulling out the
drawer, as shewn in dotted lines, strikes the cross head on the tail end of the scale
pan lever and causes it to be reset for the next coin. The drawer F is provided with,
rigid arms K which project upwardly through slots k in the hopper G and assist the
delivery of the cigarettes to the discharge mouth or aperture of the hopper through
which they fall into the cavity of the drawer or slide F. This cavity is transversal,
and is of such dimensions as to hold only the proper number of cigarettes to be
delivered.
The casing is provided with a lid at top for filling the hopper G, the lid and of
course the drawer E being locked.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said Invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we claim is ;
1. In an automatic retailing or delivering apparatus, such as herein described, a
pivoted shoot so constructed balanced and arranged in relation to a fixed shoot that
only coins of the proper weight will be delivered thereby into the fixed shoot, coins
or fraudulent substitutes for coins if of less than the proper dimensions falling through
an aperture in the shoot, and if of more than the proper weight falling out at the lower
end of the shoot.
2. In an automatic retailing or delivering apparatus the combination of a balanced
shoot constructed and arranged in relation to a fixed shoot, as described, and a locking
and releasing mechanism for a delivery drawer consisting of a locking lever engaging
with the drawer, as described, and a balanced tray and releasing lever adapted to act
on the locking lever as described, for the purpose specified.
3. The combination and arrangement of the mechanism constituting the improved
apparatus for automatically retailing or delivering goods in exchange for coin, sub-
stantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated in the drawings.
T. WOOD.
W. H. JONES.
By A. M. & Wm. Clark,
Patent Agents,
53, Chancery Lane,
London.