Improvements in Coin Freed Machines for Delivering Cigarettes, Matches, and other Goods.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 14th Nov., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 14th Aug., 1891-Accepted, 19th Sept., 1891
ROYDONATI DIMIFICATION.
Improvements in Coin Freed Machines for Delivering Cigarettes,
Matches, and other Goods.
I; ALEXANDER MOUNTAIN HAXFORTH of the Colonade Hotel, Douglas, Isle
of Man, Contractor, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
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This invention has for its object a very simple coin-freed machine for delivering
small goods.
The penny or other coin is delivered from the slot in which it is inserted down a
flat tube stepped to prevent the insertion of a hoop iron and also with a break to
prevent sand and other like material coming down. The shoot has also holes a
little smaller than the coin used so that any lesser coin will fall through while the
right sized coin will go on. The drawer placed below the usual pile of packets has
a guard on the end of it. This guard is placed to one side of the spout and forms
when the drawer is shut the lower side of a box with a sloping bottom. The whole
of this box with the exception of its aforesaid lower side is fixed to a lever or trigger
pivotted at any convenient point and catching in a recess attached to the drawer.
When the drawer is pushed in and there is no penny in the box the lever holds it
firmly. The moment, however, a penny drops into the box the lever rises and is
released from the drawer. The drawer can now be pulled out at any time. The
moment, however, the drawer is pulled out with the lowest package of goods in its
recess, the lower side of the box is withdrawn from the rest of the box and the
penny at once slips off the sloping bottom into a receptacle below. The lever
at once tilts over and on the closing of the drawer catches therein until another
penny releases it.
It is obvious that the numerous devices already well known for preventing lead
and iron washers being used instead of coins can also be applied to this machine.
A series of these machines can be placed side by side in the single framework and
thus a large number of different articles can be on sale at the same time. The
arrangement being very compact.
I can further arrange it that a single slot hole can work all the drawers as the
boxes can be arranged in a semi-circle and the slide directed into any of them by
means of a handle having the name of the particular goods on an index. The
pivot I prefer to use would be similar to the knife edge of a weighing machine and
in this case I put a cap on the bearing so as to prevent the lever being shaken off.
The coin receptacle can be drawn out from the inachine at one side.
Dated this 11th day of November 1890.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Of 6, Lord Street, Liverpool, Patent Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Coin Freed Machines for Delivering Cigarettes,
Matches, and other Goods.
I, ALEXANDER MOUNTAIN HAXFORTH of the Colonnade Hotel, Douglas, Isle
of Man, Contractor, 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 has for its object a very simple coin-freed machine for delivering
small goods

page_text: The manner in which the invention may be carried into effect is as follows,
reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which :-
Figure 1 is a plan, and
Figure 2 a side elevation of the mechanism constituting the invention.
The penny A, or other predetermined coin, is inserted through a slot B, and
passes down a flat tube or slide C which is placed at a suitable inclination and is
stepped, as at C', to prevent the insertion of a piece of hoop iron or the like. The
tube is also provided with a hole C2 which prevents sand or other material from
coming down it, and is made a little smaller or narrower than the coin to be employed,
so that any smaller coin will fall through, while coins of the right size will proceed
down the slide. The lower end of the tube is also split as at C³, with the object
of preventing anyone from working the machine repeatedly by tying a string to
the coin. The string falls through the split C3 when the coin drops out of the tube
and the coin cannot again be lifted into the tube.
D, is the drawer or slide which is placed in the usual manner below the pile of
packets E to be sold, and is provided with a recess D₁ large enough to contain
one such packet and with a handle D. The drawer D has a guard F on the end
of it, which is located normally opposite to the lower end of the coin slide C and
forms, when the drawer is shut, one side of a box G having a bottom sloping
downwards towards the guard.
The box G, with the exception of the side guard F, is mounted upon one end of
a lever or trigger G' pivoted at any convenient point as at G2, and provided with
a catch G³ adapted to engage the side of a recess D³, or other equivalent device,
carried by the drawer. I prefer to mount the lever G upon knife edges G' and
to secure a cap G* over each knife edge to prevent the lever being shaken off its
bearings.
When the drawer D is pushed home and there is no coin in the box G, the lever
catch G³ holds the drawer firmly in position. When, however, the proper coin is
inserted into the slot B, it passes down the tube C and drops into the box. The
lever now moves into the position shown in Figure 2 (its further movement being
prevented by a stop G') and the drawer D is disengaged from the catch G³, and
can be readily drawn out. The moment, however, the drawer is pulled out with
the lowest package of goods in its recess D', the side guard F of the box is with-
drawn from the rest of the box and the coin at once slips off the sloping bottom
thereof into a receptacle below. The lever G' at once tilts over into its normal
position, and, on the closing of the drawer, an inclined plate D thereon catches
the rounded nose of the catch and tilts up the lever sufficiently to permit the catch
to re-engage itself with the recess D³ and hold the drawer fast until another coin
releases it.
It is obvious that the numerous devices already well known for preventing lead
and iron washers, etcetera, from being used instead of coins can also be applied to
this machine. A series of these machines can be placed side by side in a single
framework, and thus a large number of different articles can be on sale at the same
time, the arrangement being very compact.
I can further so arrange the machine that a single slot B can serve for all the
drawers, the boxes being arranged in a semi-circle and the tube C directed into
any of them by means of a handle having the name of the particular goods on an
index. The coin receptacle can be drawn out from the machine at one side.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. The improved mechanism for locking and freeing the delivery slide of a coin
freed machine, in which mechanism the delivery slide is retained in its closed
position by a catch movable with a balanced coin box having a sloping bottom,
upon which the coin is retained after the depression of the box, by a guard plate

page_text: movable with the delivery slide, and adapted to release the coin from the box on
the withdrawal of said slide, substantially as described.
2. The coin slide and coin freed mechanism, taken as a whole and combined
and arranged, substantially as described and illustrated and for the purposes
specified.
Dated this 13th day of August 1891.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Of Liverpool, Manchester, Nottingham, and London, Patent Agents.