Improved Means and Appliances or Apparatus for the Supply of Refreshments after Receipt of Coin in Hotels, Boarding Houses and the like.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 25th Oct., 1898
Complete Specification Left, 24th July, 1899-Accepted, 26th Aug., 1899
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Means and Appliances or Apparatus for the Supply of
Refreshments after Receipt of Coin in Hotels, Boarding Houses
and the like.
I, JOHN TWEEDY SCOTT, of Etherland House, Devonshire Road, Blackheath,
Kent, Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention has for object an apparatus or vehicle which can be attached
to some part of a room, a passage or other place such as in a hotel, boarding
house or the like to enable persons after the insertion of a coin to release a bottle
of soda water, a nip of brandy, a cigar or other beverage, refreshment
luxury without the necessity of servants being called for supplying those articles
or things as at present.
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For the purpose of this invention I make a shallow or other box or casing
in which in compartments bottles of sodawater, small quantities of brandy, a
cigar or the like can be exposed to view. These bottles or containers are locked
in position by flaps or barriers which can only be released after the insertion
of a coin of corresponding value to that of the article or thing desired.
Each compartment has a flap or barrier and after a coin has been inserted
through a slit a handle or knob can be turned which permits of the flap being
opened and the selected article removed, the coin being retained partly as a lock
to the appliances until the handle or knob has been turned to its fullest extent
and then it, i.c. the coin can drop and slide into a general receptacle or till after
the flap has been reclosed.
By index mechanism a record can be kept.
For carrying the invention into practice I arrange a nest or series of part
receptacles for holding the articles exposed, these being pressed upwardly within
holes of a barrier fitted above for the purpose. Each part receptacle is in the
form of a depression or hollow directly behind a flap which when shut fixes the
article in position. .
The flap is capable of being locked by a spring bolt or by a shot bolt such as
by the turning of a. handle the spindle of which is slotted for the reception of
a coin when inserted in a slit in the cover, which coin also passes through a
slotted arm of the lock bolt above the slotted knob spindle, the coin being main-
tained upright by guide plates. and its lower edge resting on a fixed support.
The coin thus becomes a block or stop piece so that when the handle or knob
is moved a certain distance, the lock bolt is withdrawn from the flap for it to
fall, the coin being still between the slots in the spindle and arm of the lock bolt.
On the flap being replaced it is again locked, and then the turning of the
knob or handle back to a normal position releases the coin by separating the
coin slots of the bolt and spindle respectively, to fall free into a till common to
all the receptacles by inclines leading thereto.
Dated this 25th dow of Ontohan 1000

page_text: Improved Means and Appliances or Apparatus for the Supply of
Refreshments after Receipt of Coin in Hotels, Boarding Houses
and the like.
I, JOHN TWEEDY SCOTT, of Etherland House, Devonshire Road, Blackheath,
Kent, Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what
manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascer
tained in and by the following statement:-
This invention has for object, an apparatus or vehicle which can be attached
to some part of a room, a passage, or other place, such as in a hotel, boarding
house, or the like to enable persons after the insertion of a coin to release a bottle
of soda water, a nip of brandy, a cigar, or other beverage, refreshment, or
luxury without the necessity of servants being called for supplying those articles
or things, as at present.
For the purpose of this invention, I make a shallow or other box or casing
in which in compartments, bottles of sodawater, small quantities of brandy, a
cigar, or the like can be exposed to view. These bottles or containers are locked
in position by flaps or barriers which can only be released after the insertion
of a coin of corresponding value to that of the article or thing desired.
Each compartment has a flap or barrier, and after a coin has been inserted
through a slit, a handle or knob can be turned which permits of the flap being
opened and the selected article removed, the coin being retained partly as a lock
to the appliances until the handle or knob has been turned to its fullest extent
and then it i.e. the coin, can drop and slide into a general receptacle or till after
the flap has been reclosed.
By index mechanism, a record can be kept.
For carrying the invention into practice, I arrange a nest or series of part
receptacles for holding the articles exposed, these being pressed upwardly within
holes of a barrier fitted above for the purpose. Each part receptacle is in the
form of a depression or hollow directly behind a flap which when shut fixes the
article in position.
The flap is capable of being locked by a spring bolt, or by a shot bolt, such as
by the turning of a handle, the spindle of which is slotted for the reception of
a coin when inserted in a slit in the cover, which coin also passes through a
slotted arm of the lock bolt above the slotted knob spindle, the coin being main-
tained upright by guide plates and its lower edge resting on a fixed support.
The coin thus becomes a block or stop piece so that when the handle or knob
is moved a certain distance, the lock bolt is withdrawn from the flap for it to
fall, the coin being still between the slots in the spindle and arm of the lock bolt
but capable of being released on completion of the unlocking movement of the
handle.
On the flap being replaced, it is again locked, and then the turning of the
knob or handle back to a normal position may release the coin by separating the
coin slots of the bolt and spindle respectively, to fall free into a till common to
all the receptacles by inclines leading thereto.
My invention is clearly represented by the annexed drawings, in which
Figure 1 is a front elevation partly in section of a cabinet capable of being affixed
to a wall, or resting on a table, or sideboard, and holding six bottles of mineral
waters, the sectional portion showing the flap locking mechanism.
Figure 2 is a plan of the flap locking mechanism, and Figure 3 is a front
elevation of same.
The cabinet or casing is comprised of, say, two box like receptacles A, A, and

page_text: two holed barriers or shelves B, B, the receptacles A, A, having recesses or holes
in top and in front flaps C capable of being locked by the mechanism herein-
after set forth.
The flaps Care first unlocked and the bottle of mineral water, cigar, or other
article is placed with one end in the hole of the barrier B, and its bottom resting
in the recess of the receptacle. A, and on the closing of the flap C it is impossible
to remove such article by reason of it being held between the barrier B and recep-
tacle A until a coin, say, a sixpence, be dropped into the slot D, and the handle
H turned, which coin passes into a slot E in the end of a spring actioned locking
bolt and also into the slot G of the turning handle H, the coin resting on a
fixed support I and occupying a position in the slot G of the handle H, the upper
part of the coin being in the slot E of bolt F, so that on the turning of the
handle H, the upper part of the coin will engage the wall of the slot E and with-
draw the bolt and release the flap C, which flap either falls open by its own
weight, or is pressed open by a spring J, a continued movement of the handle
causing the coin to disengage itself from the slot E, and its lower end by this
time becomes free of the fixed support the coin falls from the slot G on to the
chute K and slides down into the money box L, the bottle of mineral water R,
or other article being free to be removed by the person operating the handle.
The locking bolt F is returned to its locking position by a spring M, and the
handle by a spring N secured to an arm P thereof and to the casing.
The flap C has a catch Q which on the closing of the flap engages the nose of
the bolt and which enters the catch in the well known manner.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is
1. The improved means and appliances or apparatus for the supply of refreshi-
ments, cigars, and other articles after the receipt of coin, consisting of a box or
case having a series of receptacles or holders for containing the articles between
two of them, the articles being capable of removal by the opening of a door or
flap, as set forth.
2. In locking mechanism for coin freed apparatus of the kind described, pro-
viding the bolt and handle with slots for holding the inserted coin and by which
coin on the turning of the bandle, the bolt can be withdrawn from the flap or
door, as set forth.
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