Improvements in or relating to Coin-freed Apparatus.
Year: 1899

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Coin-freed Apparatus.
I, Dr. FRIEDRICHI ADOLF RICHTER, of 65, Schwarzburger Strasse, Rudolstadt,
Thuringen, in the Empire of Germany, 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:—
This invention relates to a coin-freed apparatus having two separate delivery
mechanisms ie, a main or ordinary and a secondary delivery mechanism, the
latter being of such a construction and operation as to indicate clearly to the
person using the apparatus whether or not he will receive a prize.
To this end the invention generally speaking consists in the arrangement of a
secondary delivery mechanism in coin-freed apparatus of any type comprising
a driving and an ordinary delivery mechanism and specially consists in the
arrangement and combination of parts more fully hereinafter described and
shown in the accompanying drawings, whereof Figure 1 illustrates the secondary
apparatus for delivering the object or article to the user as seen from the front.
The driving mechanism and the main delivery mechanism may be of any suit-
able kind or of any type used heretofore in combination with fortune telling
apparatus or exhibiting or other automatic apparatus and, therefore, need not
be specified.
Upon the stand a two standards columns or uprights b and c are screwed, and
rigidly connected to the standard b is provided a disc d having a slot Figure 2.
Two discs e and f Figures 1 and 3 formed with slots g are fixed upon the sleeve h
which is loosely mounted upon the standard b, in such a manner as to arrange
the slots g of which there are ten in this case, in registering position to each
other. The sleeve is kept in position by the screw i and is pressed against the
screw head by a spring k. The disc e Figures 1 and 3 is provided with teeth on
its edge such teeth having a certain proportion to the slots. On the sleeve m
Figure 1 rotating upon the standard e to which friction is imparted by a spring o
arranged beneath the screw is fixed the star wheel Figures 1 and 3 and
also another toothed disc g Figures 1 and 8. In the teeth of this disc engages
the projecting tooth r of the driving mechanism or the hook of the pull bar of
an automatic apparatus and thus moves the disc for one tooth at each use of the
apparatus causing the star wheel p Figure 1, 3 and 6 fixed to the sleeve to move
accordingly.
The delivery from the secondary apparatus is effected in the following manner:
After the apparatus has been worked, say 30 times the disc 7 having 30 teeth
has completed one rotation and with it also the three-armed star wheel fixed to
the same sleeve has performed a rotation. Each arm of the star wheel by acting
upon the teeth of the disc e moving the dises e and f for one tooth said discs
will finally be so placed as to bring one of its slots g exactly above the slot / of
the stationary disc d Figure 2. At the moment this occurs the flat object (such
as a round candy tablet or the like) placed in the slot Figures 1 and 4, falls
through the slot of the stationary disc d into a chute t leading to the exterior
and can be received by the user. In order to draw the attention of the user to

page_text: the object to be delivered the disc y is fitted with a stud Figure 1 which at
each completed rotation of the disc strikes against the hammer of the bell w
and causes the latter to ring.
If desired to cause the tablets to issue from a more elevated point without
having to raise the apparatus, the disc e is provided with a ring y having slots .r,
such ring being of a smaller diameter than the teeth of the disc and furnished
in the interior with an inclined or conical bottom plate Figures 5 and G. In
order to prevent the tablets from escaping through the side slots a cap or
hood is secured to the standard said cap being formed with a single side
slot and with a number of slots 2 on the top Figures 7 and 8 so that the tablet
can only drop out when in front of the slot Figure 7.
To indicate the number of times the secondary delivery apparatus has been
operated I provide a counting apparatus. To this end the sleeve 4, Figure 9, is
provided with a disc 5 with figures marked upon it, these figures together with
those on the plate, see Figure 10, give the number of operations. The arrange-
ment shown in Figures 9 and 10 is as follows: In lieu of the toothed disc q
Figure 1 the sleeve 4 is provided with a ratchet wheel 8 having 30 teeth which
is moved for one tooth by means of a pawl 6 on a lever 7 operated by a tooth
of the driving mechanism every time the apparatus is used. As the disc 5 is
marked three times with the number 0 to 9 and the disc f only moves for one
tooth after every ten motions of the disc 5, it will be obvious that the disc f
gives the tens and hundreds while the disc 5 gives the units. The proportion
of the indicator gear may, however, be altered to suit special circumstances.
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
1. In coin-freed apparatus the combination of an ordinary or main delivery
apparatus and a secondary delivery apparatus characterized by a rotary disc
formed with a number of slots arranged above a stationary disc having a single
slot, the rotary disc being operated by the driving mechanism of the automatic
apparatus in such a manner that after a number of operations of the automatic
apparatus has been indicated as described and illustrated one of the slots is
brought in registering position with the slot of the stationary disc and so allows
the object to be delivered to fall out.
2. In a coin-freed apparatus as claimed in Claim 1, the arrangement of the
stationary disc having a vertical ring inside which the object is placed upon an
inclined plane with tendency to escape through side slots but being prevented
from doing so by another ring in connection with the stationary disc in which is
a single slot for dropping out the object to be delivered.
3. In a coin-freed apparatus as claimed in ('laims 1 and 2, the arrangement
of a border with numbers upon the one dise working side by side with another
dise also marked with numbers and geared together in such a manner that the
numbers on the two dises at the point where they are in contact together denote
and exhibit the number of operations of the secondary delivery apparatus and
consequently those of the main (or automatic) apparatus.
Dated this 1st day of June 1899.
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicant.