Improved Coin Freed Apparatus for the Sale of Newspapers, Periodicals and the like.
Year: 1899

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Coin Freed Apparatus for the Sale of Newspapers,
Periodicals and the like.
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I, ALICE MARY ARGLES; of Overdale," Woodside, Wimbledon, County of
Surrey, Gentlewoman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention relates to appliances affixable in a casing in order that news-
papers, periodicals, and the like may be withdrawn therefrom after a predetermined
coin has been pushed into a slot, by the pressure of which the appliances become
released and the coin discharged into a till or cash receiver.
To carry the invention into practice, I prepare a casing with a series of slots
in the face, this being somewhat at the rear, so that the newspapers or periodicals
can be arranged on the flat or on edge in a folded condition in front of
same. Behind each slot is a lever, against which a coin on edge can be forced,
and the lever is so jointed that when moved away from the slot it releases a
spring tongue or finger which otherwise rests upon, or against, or within the
paper with sufficient grip to prevent the paper being withdrawn unless it be
partially destroyed, or the tongue or finger be released for the paper to be removed
freely.
The tail of the tongue or finger is behind the front of the casing and as the
front projecting end of each of them becomes released, it moves sideways or folds
upwards but as the papers are placed in position singly, the tongues can be
operated and be set which allows the lever' to be replaced ready for action by the
coin.
The tail of each tongue, besides having the spring, is provided with a notch
into which the lever can engage, or under which the lever can lodge due to the
action of a spring or trigger like catch, and as the lever is forced in, its tail end
becomes released from the tail of the finger simultaneously with or just before the
fall of the coin.
The grip surface of the tongue or finger on or against the paper may be by
short pins, or by the face being roughened.
The casing can be large enough to take any fair number of the different daily
papers arranged in series or in piles, such as side by side, or superposed so that
a purchaser has only to insert the coin and remove the paper so selected.
The invention is specially applicable for entrances of suburban railway stations,
and outsides of shops, where a person could obtain a paper or periodical in passing,
a printed or painted tablet indicating at a glance the names of the papers without
the usual necessity of walking to the usual bookstall.
Dated this 6th day of April 1899.
H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said Alice Mary Argles.

page_text: Improved Coin Freed Apparatus for the Sale of Newspapers,
Periodicals, and the like.
I, ALICE MARY ARGLES, of "Overdale," Woodside, Wimbledon, County of
Surrey, Gentlewoman, 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 appliances affixable in a casing in order that news
papers, periodicals, and the like may be withdrawn therefrom after a predetermined
coin has been pushed into a slot, by the pressure of which the appliances become
released and the coin discharged into a till or cash receiver.
To carry the invention into practice, I prepare a casing with a series of slots.
in the face, this being somewhat at the rear, so that the newspapers or periodicals
can be arranged on the flat or on edge in a folded condition in front or side of
same. Behind each slot is a lever, against which a coin on edge can be forced,
and the lever is so jointed that when moved away from the slot it releases a
spring tongue or finger which otherwise rests upon, or against, or within the
paper with sufficient grip to prevent the paper being withdrawn unless it be
partially destroyed, or the tongue or finger be released for the paper to be removed
freely. The tail of the tongue or finger is behind the front or side of the casing
and as the outside projecting end of each of them becomes released, it moves
sideways or folds upwards but as the papers are placed in position singly, the
tongues can be operated and be set which allows the lever to be replaced ready for
action by the coin.
The tail of each tongue, besides having the spring, is provided with a notch
into which the lever can engage, or under which the lever can lodge due to the
action of a spring or trigger like catch, and as the lever is forced in, its tail end
becomes released from the tail of the finger simultaneously with or just before the
fall of the coin.
The grip surface of the tongue or finger on or against the paper may be by
short pins, or by the face being roughened.
The casing can be large enough to take any fair number of the different daily
papers arranged in series or in piles, such as side by side, or superposed, so that
a purchaser has only to insert the coin and remove the paper so selected.
My invention will be clearly understood by reference to the annexed drawings.
Figure 1 sectional side elevation of two of my tongues or fingers. in the respec-
tive positions they occupy, one open and the other closed.
Figure 2 plan view of a couple of my coin freed newspaper, journal, magazine,
or periodical suppliers, one ready for the reception of a coin, and the other when
operated by a coin.
Figure 3 shows a face view of a cabinet from which six different kinds of papers
can be exposed ready for the reception of coins and the release of papers thereby
for removal.
A, front of casing. B, back of same. C, C, shelves on which newspapers or the like
can be placed singly in any desired order or condition but preferably folded to
increase their thickness. D, D, tongues or fingers projecting from the front
of the casing directly over the shelves C, said tongues or fingers D being spring
pivotted at E, E, from within the casing and having their tails or inner ends F, F,
of such length that they may bear upon the legs G, G, of coin push-in levers H, H,
which are also pivotted, as at I, I, within the casing, said legs being returnable

page_text: by springs J, J, when released under special conditions and as hereinafter
explained.
The tail ends F have one or more notches K, into which the legs G, G, can enter
when the coin levers H, H, are pushed sufficiently far so that each lever H in
succession becomes temporarily locked simultaneously with the depression of
the tail ends F under the action of the springs E, E, each coin being then freed
to overbalance itself and drop into its till at the bottom of or below the casing,
the coins such as K', K', being passed through slots such as K", K", as with most
coin freed apparatus.
The under face of each tongue or finger has spikes or pins L, or is sufficiently
roughened to grip into or upon the newspaper, journal, magazine, or pamphlet
placed upon the shelves C, C, to hold them firmly until the finger is released and
this can only happen after the receipt of a coin and then only when the coin is
pushed through the slot and is ready to fall, the tongue or finger being then
instantly released from contact with the paper by the action of its own spring E,
at which instant the end of the leg G enters the notch of F and locks it until
a fresh paper be placed upon the shelf C and the tongue or finger D forcibly
brought down upon the paper to temporarily fix it on the shelf whereon the
spring I returns the coin lever H to its first position ready for the passage of a
fresh coin.
At Figure 3 I have shown a casing for six tiers of shelves, fingers, and coin.
slots for six different kinds of papers, or for any admixture of such according
to the names shown on the tablets M, M, so that customers can readily select by
the heading any desired paper by pushing a coin through the selected slot and
remove the released paper freely.
The invention is specially applicable for entrances of suburban railway stations,
and outsides of shops, where a person could obtain a paper or periodical in passing,
a printed or painted tablet indicating at a glance the names of the papers without
the usual necessity of walking to the usual bookstall.
Although I have only described that the coin acting during its insertion directly
by the pressure exerted by the person requiring the paper or periodical frees itself
and falls into the till, I may as a modification make a receiver for the coin which
inserted horizontally from the side of the receiver or after insertion falls flat or
is kept on edge, and then the movement of the lever H by the coin can be actuated
by a push button N, as indicated by dotted lines at Figure 2, or the lever H itself
may be the coin receiver, and said coin may be retained therein after the push
button has been acted upon, so that the coins may be collected singly on the casing
being opened.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:-
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1. As an appliance by which a newspaper, a periodical, or the like can be
retained upon a shelf or other support, a pin or roughened faced tongue which
indents or punctures the paper with a grip action, as and for the purposes
described.
2. An apparatus for holding a supply of newspapers, periodicals, and the like
in single and separate order for ready selection after the passage of a coin through
a slot of the casing, said coin by pressure so operating a lever H that a pin or
roughened face tongue or finger D, which otherwise fixes the paper on a shelf C,
can be automatically released therefrom and the lever D and its tail F be locked,
the coin being simultaneously freed, all as and for the purposes explained and
substantially as shown on the annexed drawings.
3. In coin freed apparatus for the sale of newspapers, periodicals, and the
like, the arrangement of the spiked or pin faced tongue or tongues D, or their
equivalent and having notched tail ends F, as set forth, in conjunction with

page_text: compressure lever or levers H and legs G. to constitute the closing down, the
retaining, the unlocking, and the releasing appliances, as described and substan-
tially as represented.
The 19th day of May Love.
H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said Alice Mary Argles.