An Improved Coin Freed Apparatus for the Delivery of Prepaid Goods.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd Aug., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 20th May, 1891-Accepted, 27th June, 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Coin Freed Apparatus for the Delivery of Prepaid
Goods.
CHARLES RAINEY 67 Grove Hill Road Denmark Hill S.E., Mechanical
Engineer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:
The object of this machine is to produce a simple and reliable coin freed apparatus
that will on the insertion of a halfpenny deliver one article and by putting a penny
into the same slot deliver two articles: also when the container is empty to return
the coin. It is constructed as follows:-A B & C D Fig. 1, are two cut off slides
working in grooves, one above the other.
The slide A B is locked by the pawl F and C D is fitted with the pawl M. L.
which locks into a slot in the groove along which it moves. When a halfpenny
is put into the machine it is carried into the channel T and drops into the slot G
Fig. 2 resting on the pawl F which it presses down thus unlocking the slide A. B.
which is then drawn along by means of a knob fastened on the rod E which
has a spiral spring upon it so as to make the slide return after the article has
been delivered to its normal position.
On the slide being drawn out it carries the halfpenny with it until it reaches
the slot H through which it drops into the money box, at the same time the
article is delivered.
The halfpenny sinks sufficiently low in the slot G to allow of its passing
underneath the slide C D but when a penny is put in Fig. 3 being larger it
projects so much above the slot G that on the slide A B being drawn out the
top of the penny comes in contact with the point L which lifts up M unlocking
the slide CD which it draws along with it thus delivering two articles.
the slide A B returning the plate K carries the slide C D also.
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In Fig. 4 N N is the container. Projecting through the back of the container
is the lever P on to which is attached a piece of channeling which extends.from
the money slot to the channel T. On the container being filled the goods keep
the lever P pressed down which places the piece of channel directly in front
of the money slot R. Fig. 4 but when the container is empty the lever rises
(by means of the end of the channel being weighted) thus the channel leaves
the money slot and takes up the position of the dotted lines in Fig. 4 so that
if a coin is inserted it drops straight down and is conducted into the tray where
the goods are delivered.
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COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Coin Freed Apparatus for the Delivery of Prepaid
Goods.
CHARLES RAINEY 67 Grove Hill Road Denmark Hill S.E. Mechanical
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 :-
The object of this machine is to produce a simple and reliable coin freed
apparatus that will on the insertion of a halfpenny deliver one article and by
putting a penny into the same slot deliver two articles, also when the container
is empty to return the coin.

page_text: Referring to the drawings filed with my Provisional Specification, AB
and C D Fig. 1 are two cut off slides working in grooves one above the other
and directly under the container.
The slide A B is locked by the pawl F which is kept in position by a spring
or may be weighted. CD is fitted with a lock M L which locks into the
groove along which the slide moves. When a halfpenny is put into the machine
it is carried into the channel T by means of a channel hereafter fully described
and drops into the slot G Fig. 3 resting on the pawl F which it presses down
thus unlocking the slide A B which is then drawn along by means of a knob
fastened on the end of the rod E, which has a spiral spring upon it so
make the slide return after the article is delivered to its normal position.
as to
On the slide being drawn out it carries the halfpenny with it until it reaches
the slot H through which it drops into the money box at the same time as the
article is delivered.
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The pawl is sufficiently weighted or has a spring strong enough to resist the
weight of a farthing and the slot is made large enough for two coins to go in
side by side so that the farthing does not block the machine.
The halfpenny sinks sufficiently low in the slot G to allow of its passing under-
neath the slide CD but when a penny is put in Fig. 2 being larger it projects
so much above the slot G, that on the slide A B being drawn out the top of
the penny comes into contact with the point L which lifts up M unlocking
slide C D which it draws along with it thus delivering two articles. On the
slide A B returning the plate K carries the slides C D back also.
In Fig. 4 N N is the container. Projecting through the back of the container is
the lever P. on to which is attached a piece of channeling which extends from the
money slot R to the channel T Fig. 1. The container being filled, the goods keep
the lever P pressed down which places the end of the channel directly in front of
the money slot R Fig. 4, but when the container is empty the lever rises (by means
of the end of the channel being weighted) thus the channel leaves the money slot
and takes up the position of the dotted lines in Fig. 4 so that if a coin is inserted
it drops straight down and is conducted into the tray where the goods are
delivered.
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 :-
A coin freed apparatus for the delivery of prepaid goods which delivers one
article for a halfpenny or two for a penny and returns the coin when empty as
herein before fully specified.
Dated this Eighteenth day of May 1891.
CHARLES RAINEY.