Improvements in Apparatus for the Reception of Coin and the Delivery of Articles or Imparting of Information in Exchange therefor.
Year: 1886

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for the Reception of Coin and the
Delivery of Articles or Imparting of Information in Exchange
therefor..
I, JOHN STEWART WALLACE of Cliftonville Avenue, Belfast, in the county of
Antrim, Timber Merchant, 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 :-
My invention relates to improvements in apparatus for the reception of coin and the
delivery of articles or imparting of information in exchange therefor and is designed
to render the apparatus more simple.
In a suitable box or casing A I place a suitable device such as a rod or bar or its
equivalent B through which I cut a slot C so as to enable a coin of any desired size to
pass through. This rod terminates at the other end in a handle D or other suitable
pushing arrangement. In another part of the box just over where the rod B terminates
I place the articles to be delivered which are contained in a receptacle, the bottom of
which is partly open as shewn in Figure 2. The front of this box also has a small
part cut away so as to allow the bottom article to be pushed forward. Under the
rod B there is a plate in which there is a slot cut just under the normal position of the
slot in the rod. The rod is of such a length as to be partly or almost wholly under
the articles to be delivered.
The method of working is as follows. The coin passes down the shoot E till it rests
on the bar B. The handle is then pulled out to its fullest extent when the coin drops
into the slot C but is prevented from going through by the before mentioned plate.
The handle D is then pushed home when the edge of the coin projecting above the rod
forces the lowest article out & the slots in the rod & plate beneath coinciding the
coin is free to escape.
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Or the edge of the coin may press against the moving flap of the hopper described
my former specification 15631 or be employed in connection with the various parts
of the apparatus described in my specification 1963-1886.
In figure 3 I shew a method of preventing the bridging or jamming of the articles
in the reservoirs. The small bent levers J are fitted in the hopper and pivotted at a

page_text: suitable point while the other and short end is fixed to the moving flap H of the
hopper so that with each movement of the flap the end of the lever J in the hopper is
moved and breaks up any bridging or jamming of the articles.
In all these apparatus I may employ cubes counters tickets or equivalent articles
instead of coins.
Having now fully described and ascertained the nature of my said invention and
the manner in which the same is to be performed I declare that I am aware of patent
No. 2033 of 1883 and do not claim anything which is thereby covered, but what I
claim is :-
1. In apparatus for the reception of coin and supply of goods or information the
combination of a rod with slot or equivalent method whereby the coin itself comes in
contact with the article to be delivered or directly operates mechanism for imparting
information.
2. In apparatus for the purposes hereinbefore described the method of releasing the
coin by causing the slot or equivalent in which the coin is held to come over a slot or
equivalent when in the position of rest so as to allow the coin to drop through.
3. In apparatus for the purposes hereinbefore described the method of preventing
the jamming or bridging of articles in the hopper substantially as described.
J. W. ROBBS,
Agent for the Applicant.

page_text: Date of Application, 14th Dec., 1886.
Specification Accepted, 22nd Feb., 1887:
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for the Reception of Coin and the
Delivery of Articles or Imparting of Information in Exchange
therefor.
I, JOHN STEWART WALLACE of Cliftonville Avenue, Belfast, in the county of
Antrim, Timber Merchant, 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 :-
My invention relates to improvements in apparatus for the reception of coin and the
delivery of articles or imparting of information in exchange therefor and is designed
to render the apparatus more simple.
In a suitable box or casing A I place a suitable device such as a rod or bar or its
equivalent B through which I cut a slot C so as to enable a coin of any desired size to
pass through. This rod terminates at the other end in a handle D or other suitable
pushing arrangement. In another part of the box just over where the rod B terminates
I place the articles to be delivered which are contained in a receptacle, the bottom of
which is partly open as shewn in Figure 2. The front of this box also has a small
part cut away so as to allow the bottom article to be pushed forward. Under the
rod B there is a plate in which there is a slot cut just under the normal position of the
slot in the rod. The rod is of such a length as to be partly or almost wholly under
the articles to be delivered.
The method of working is as follows. The coin passes down the shoot E till it rests
on the bar B. The handle is then pulled out to its fullest extent when the coin drops
into the slot C but is prevented from going through by the before mentioned plate.
The handle D is.then pushed home when the edge of the coin projecting above the rod
forces the lowest article out & the slots in the rod & plate beneath coinciding the
coin is free to escape.
Or the edge of the coin may press against the moving flap of the hopper described
in my former specification 15631 or be employed in connection with the various parts
of the apparatus described in my specification 1963-1886.
In figure 3 I shew a method of preventing the bridging or jamming of the articles
in the reservoirs. The small bent levers J are fitted in the hopper and pivotted at a

page_text: suitable point while the other and short end is fixed to the moving flap H of the
hopper so that with each movement of the flap the end of the lever J in the hopper is
moved and breaks up any bridging or jamming of the articles.
In all these apparatus I may employ cubes counters tickets or equivalent articles
instead of coins.
Having now fully described and ascertained the nature of my said invention and
the manner in which the same is to be performed I declare that what I claim is :—
1. In apparatus for the reception of coin and supply of goods or information the
combination of a rod with slot or equivalent method whereby the coin itself comes in
contact with the article to be delivered or directly operates mechanism for imparting
information.
2. In apparatus for the purposes hereinbefore described the method of releasing the
coin by causing the slot or equivalent in which the coin is held to come over a slot or
equivalent when in the position of rest so as to allow the coin to drop through.
3. In apparatus for the purposes hereinbefore described the method of preventing
the jamming or bridging of articles in the hopper substantially as described.
J. W. ROBBS,
Agent for the Applicant.