Improvements in Coin Operating or Automatic Delivery Machines.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 20th June, 1891
Complete Specification Left. 21st Mar., 1892-Accepted, 18th June, 1892.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Coin Operating or Automatic Delivery Machines.
I ARTHUR HOLLINSHED of 12 Montague Place Russell Square in the County
of Middlesex Gentleman do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
My invention relates to improvements upon an invention for which Provisional
Protection was granted to me dated the 31st day of October 1890 Number 16767
and the object of my present invention is to substitute for the delivery chain a
reciprocating pusher.
In carrying my invention into effect I fix upon the delivery shaft a cam wheel or
cylinder formed upon the end thereof with two gradual rises terminating in sudden
falls which act directly or through suitable connections upon the short arm of a
horizontal lever which is mounted upon a centre of motion and is held against the
cam wheel by a spring whilst the long arm of the lever is loosely connected with a
sliding pusher plate or block working in a slot or groove formed in the platform of
the delivery mechanism upon the underside of which is mounted a vertically
moveable pusher or tooth normally held depressed by a spring or weight so that in
the outward traverse which the pusher plate receives through the lever from the
cam wheel it will engage the package and carry it through the issuing orifice and
in its return or inward traverse it will rise or be pressed upward by the column of
packages so as to freely pass over the next package to be delivered until it reaches
the rear thereof when it will again descend into position for work.
Dated this 20th day of June 1891.
WHITE & WOODINGTON,
27, Southampton Buildings, London, Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Coin Operating or Automatic Delivery Machines.
1, ARTHUR HOLLINSHED of 7, but formerly of 12 Montague Place Russell
Square in the County of Middlesex, Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of
this invention and in what inanner the same is to be performed to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
My invention relates to improvements upon an invention for which Letters.
Patent were granted to me dated the 31st day of October 1890 No. 16767 and the
object of my present invention is to substitute for the delivery chain a reciprocating
pusher and thereby to render the machine more certain in its action.
In carrying my invention into effect I fix upon the delivery shaft a cam wheel or
cylinder formed upon the end thereof with two gradual rises terminating in sudden
falls which act directly or through suitable connections upon the short arm of a
horizontal lever which is mounted upon a centre of motion and is held against the
cam wheel by a spring whilst the long arm of the lever is loosely connected with a
sliding pusher plate or block working in a slot or groove formed in the platform
of the delivery mechanism and upon the underside of which is mounted a vertically
moveable pusher or tooth normally held depressed by a spring or weight so that in
the outward traverse which the pusher plate receives through the lever from the
cam wheel it will engage the package and carry it through the issuing orifice and
in its return or inward traverse it will rise or be pressed upward by the column of
packages so as to freely pass over the next package to be delivered until it reaches
the rear thereof when it will again descend into position for work.

page_text: carried into effect, will proceed aided by the accompanying drawings more fully
to describe the same.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 is a vertical longitudinal section taken on the line 1-1 of Figure 2,
representing so much of a coin operating or automatic delivery machine as will
serve to illustrate my invention.
Eigure 2 is a vertical, transverse section. thereof taken on; the line- 2—2 of
Figure 1.
Figure 3 is a horizontal section taken on the line 3-3 of Figure 1.
Figure 4 is a vertical longitudinal section taken on the line 4-4 of Figure 3, and
Figure 5 is an underside view of the pusher block and pushers.
Figure 6 is a similar view to Figure 1, but representing a slight modification.
Figure 7 is a transverse section taken on the line 5-5 of Figure 6, and
Figure S is a horizontal section taken on the line 6-6 of Figure 7.
In the several figures like parts are indicated by similar letters of reference.
As the general features of the machine are substantially the same as those shown
and described in the Specification of the hereinbefore recited Letters Patent and
will be fully understood upon reference thereto I will only refer to such parts as
are modified or are intimately connected with my present invention which relates
to the substitution of a reciprocating pusher for the delivery chain referred to in
the above recited Specification.
Referring to Figures 1 to 5, a represents the case of the machine, a represents
the money slot in the front of the machine which in this case is arranged vertically
instead of horizontally, represents the money-shoot which is correspondingly
arranged, e represents the releasing lever which through a system of links and
levers c¹³ acts to disengage the locking pawl d from the locking wheel e in a
similar manner to that described by me in my said former Specification, whilst the
co-acting cams and their action are also substantially the same.
According to my present invention I fix upon the delivery shaft which is pro-
vided upon the exterior of the case a with a milled wheel by which it may be
turned, a cam wheel or cylinder f' formed upon the end thereof with two gradual
rises terminating in sudden falls, which rises f* act upon a vertical stud¹
carried by the short arm of horizontal lever g which is mounted upon an axis of
motion carried by the delivery platform a* and is held against the cam wheel or
cylinder by means of a coiled spring which at one end is connected to the
case a of the machine and at the other end is connected to a vertical stud of a
sliding pusher plate or block i, with which stud the long arm of the horizontal
lever is connected by means of a slot g² formed therein so that the rotation of the
delivery shaft by the operator will carry forward the pusher plate or block i
whilst the return movement is imparted thereto by the spring h.
The sliding pusher plate or block i works in a recess a
formed in the upper
side of the delivery platform a* and which is provided with laterally, projecting
flanges which work in corresponding grooves a* formed in the delivery
platform a in order to efficiently guide it in its movements, and it is provided upon
its underside with pushers or teeth which are mounted upon axes of motion *
and work in slots a formed through the delivery platform a*.
3
The teeth or pushers are normally held depressed by their own gravity aided
by springs ** in position to engage the top one of the column of packages upon
the forward or outward movement of the pusher plate or block and thus carry it
through the issuing orifice a² until it projects a suitable distance to be grasped by
the operator whilst on the return or inward traverse of the pusher plate or block
the teeth or pushers will rise or be pressed upward by the column of packages /
so as to freely pass over the next package to be delivered until they reach the rear
thereof when they will again descend into position for work.
It will thus be seen that by the peculiar arrangement of the cams upon the

page_text: insertion of a proper coin into the machine, a half revolution of the delivery shaft f
will through one of the rises of the cam wheel acting upon the horizontal
arm and pusher plate or block i cause one package of the column to be
delivered.
In the modification of my invention represented at Figures 6, 7 and 8, the
parts are arranged to deliver a package by a complete revolution of the delivery
shaft. f
In this case the spring is dispensed with and in lieu of the two rises f* upon
the cam wheel and sudden falls, a continuous cam groove 2* is formed therein
shaped to a gradual rise and fall so as by one rotation of the delivery shaft to
effect both the inward and outward traverse of the pusher plate or block i the
delivery shaft being normally locked with the same at the end of its outward
traverse, the cam wheels connected with the locking mechanism being timed to act
in unison therewith as will be readily understood upon reference to the drawings.
By dispensing with the delivery chain described in the Specification of my said
former Patent, and by adopting the arrangement of parts hereinbefore described, I
much simplify the construction of the machine and reader the delivery of the
packages more certain, added to which they are less likely to be injured by the
delivery mechanism.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is
1. In a coin operating or automatic delivery machine the combination of a
delivery shaft adapted to be rotated, coin freed means for normally locking the
shaft against rotation, a cam wheel fixed upon the delivery shaft, a reciprocating
pusher and means for communicating motion from the cam wheel to the pusher
plate or block substantially as herein shown and described.
2. In a coin operating or automatic delivery machine the combination of a
delivery shaft adapted to be rotated, coin freed means for normally locking the
shaft against rotation, a cam wheel fixed upon the delivery shaft, a reciprocating
pusher and a horizontal lever at one end acted upon by the cam, and at the other
end acting upon the pusher block, substantially as herein shown and described.
3. In a coin operating or automatic delivery machine, the combination of a
delivery shaft adapted to be rotated, coin freed means for normally locking the
shaft against rotation, a cam wheel fixed upon the delivery shaft, a reciprocating
pusher plate or block, a slotted delivery platform a pusher mounted upon an axis
carried by the pusher block and working in such slot and adapted to engage the
packages in its outward traverse and ride over them in its inward traverse, and a
horizontal lever at one end acted upon by the cam, and at the other end acting
upon the pusher block substantially as herein shown and described.
4. In a coin operating or automatic delivery machine the combination of a
delivery shaft adapted to be rotated, coin freed means for normally locking the
delivery shaft against rotation, a cam wheel fixed upon the shaft and formed with
two rises and two sudden falls, a reciprocating pusher, a horizontal lever at one end
acted upon by the cam wheel, and at the other end acting upon the pusher block
and a spring for holding the lever in contact with the cam wheel and retracting the
pusher block substantially as herein shown and described.
Dated this 21st day of March 1892.
WHITE & WOODINGTON,
27, Southampton Buildings, London, Agents.