Improvements in or relating to Coin-freed Apparatus suitable for the Sale of Tobacco, Cigars, Cigarettes, or the like.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 8th Dec., 1898
Complete Specification Left, 23rd Dec., 1898-Accepted, 10th June, 1899
Improvements in or relating to Coin-freed Apparatus suitable for the
Sale of Tobacco, Cigars, Cigarettes, or the like.
I, SAUL LANDSBERGER, of 58, Oranienburgerstrasse, Berlin, N., Germany,
Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:
This invention relates to automatic apparatus suitable for the delivery of tobacco
of all kinds, cigars, cigarettes, and the like, in which an igniting-device will be
automatically operated during the delivery of the goods.
An example of automatic apparatus constructed according to the invention is
illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which
Fig. 1 is a front elevation,
Fig. 2 is a section corresponding to the line aa of Fig. 1,
Fig. 3 is a section corresponding to the line y y of Fig. 1, and
Fig. 4 is a side elevation of the mechanism for operating the igniting-device.
The automatic apparatus, which is intended exclusively for the sale of cigars,
cigarettes, snuff, smoking tobacco, and chewing tobacco, and other articles, com-
prises an outer casing a, in the front wall of which there are provided coin-slots b,
from which leads a coin-shoot c.
to
From here, the coin passes on a
lever d, which is jointed to a rod e that carries at its lower end a slide f. The
slide closes the delivery-aperture for the goods, which are piled up in a shaft g.
Below this shaft there is arranged a slide h, which is provided at its outer end with
a knob i. There is also provided in the casing a box for the reception of the
coins. To the slides h there are secured toothed rods or racks which engage
with toothed sectors m. The sectors m are mounted on a shaft n upon which is
also keyed a contact-arm o. In the front wall of the casing there are arranged
boxes, which exhibit the igniting-device proper. With the construction shown
in the drawings an electric current is employed for the production of the source
of heat, and is generated by means of cells q. Finally, a cigar-cutter r may be
provided on the apparatus.
The mode of operation of the apparatus is as follows:-
The proper coin having been introduced into the apparatus through the coin-
slot bit slides down the coin-shoot c and passes out at s onto the counterbalanced
leverd. This lever is of such dimensions that the weight of the coin falling
thereon moves the lever exactly into the position shown in dotted lines in Fig. 2.
The coin then slides into the coin-receiver k, and the lever and slide return to
their normal position owing to the counterbalancing weight. In consequence of
the altered position of the lever, the slide f will have moved upwards and have
uncovered the outlet-apertures of the goods shaft g. The slide h at the same time
that the coin is dropped into the apparatus, is pulled out and the goods or article
contained on the same removed. The movement of the slide h in the outward
direction causes, through the engagement of the rack with the toothed sector m
the contact-arm o to rotate through 90° and to close the circuit of the electric
current produced by the cells q. In consequence, the igniting-device 2 comes into

page_text: operation and remains in operation until the slide has been pushed back into
its original position, whereby the contact-arm o is, of course, moved back again
through 90° into its normal position.
It should be expressly noted that the arrangement of the several goods-shafts,
as also the nature of the source of heat, do not affect the invention; the essence
of the arrangement is that an igniting-device can be caused to enter automatically
into operation by the removal of the cigars, cigarettes, etc., from the apparatus,
and will burn until the apparatus has been restored to its original condition..
Dated this 8th day of December 1898.
F. WISE HOWORTH,
40, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C.,
Agent for the Applicant.
Improvements in or relating to Coin-freed Apparatus suitable for the
Sale of Tobacco, Cigars, Cigarettes, or the like.
I, SAUL LANDSBERGER, of 58, Oranienburgerstrasse, Berlin, N., Germany,
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:-
This invention relates to automatic apparatus suitable for the delivery of tobacco
of all kinds, cigars, cigarettes, and the like, in which an igniting device will be
automatically operated during the delivery of the goods.
An example of automatic apparatus constructed according to the invention is
illustrated in the drawings filed with my, Provisional Specification, in which
Fig. 1 is a front elevation,
Fig. 2 is a section corresponding to the line a of Fig. 1,
Fig. 3 is a section corresponding to the line y y of Fig. 1, and
Fig. 4 is a side elevation of the mechanism for operating the igniting-device.
The automatic apparatus, which is intended exclusively for the sale of cigars,
cigarettes, snuff, smoking-tobacco, chewing-tobacco, and other articles, com-
prises an outer casing a, in the front wall of which there are provided coin-slots b,
from each of which leads a coin-shoot c. From here, the coin passes on to a
leverd, which is jointed to a rod e that carries at its lower end a slide f. The
slide closes the delivery-aperture for the goods, which are piled up in a shaft g.
Below this shaft there is arranged a slide, which is provided at its outer end with
a knob. There is also provided in the casing a box for the reception of the
coins. To the slides there are secured toothed rods or racks which engage
with toothed sectors m. The sectors m are mounted on a shaft n upon which is
also keyed a contact-arm o. In the front wall of the casing there are arranged
boxes which exhibit the igniting-device proper. With the construction shown
in the drawings, an electric current is employed for the production of the source
of heat, and is generated by means of cells 7. Finally, a cigar-cutter r may be
provided on the apparatus.
The mode of operation of the apparatus is as follows:-
The proper coin having been introduced into the apparatus through the coin-
slot b, it slides down the coin-shoot c and passes out at s on to the lever d. This
lever is of such dimensions that the weight of the coin falling thereon moves the
lever exactly into the position shown in dotted lines in Fig. 2. The coin then
slides into the coin-receiver k. In consequence of the altered position of the
lever, the slide f will have moved upwards and have uncovered the outlet-aperture

page_text: of the goods-shaft g. The slide h can now be pulled out and the article
located on the same removed. The movement of the slide h in the outward
direction causes, through the engagement of the rack with the toothed sector m,
the contact-arm o to rotate through 90° and to close the circuit of the electric
current produced by the cells g. In consequence, the igniting-device comes
into operation and remains in operation until the slide has been pushed back
into its original position, whereby the contact-arm o is, of course, moved back
again through 90° into its normal position.
It should be clearly understood that the arrangement of the several goods-shafts,
as also the nature of the source of heat, do not affect the invention: the essence
of the arrangement is that an igniting-device is caused to enter automatically
into operation by the removal of the cigars, cigarettes, etc., from the apparatus,
and burns until the apparatus has been restored to its original condition.
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. An automatic apparatus for the sale of cigars, cigarettes, smoking-tobacco,
chewing tobacco, snuff, and other smoking-articles, in which an igniting-device p
is caused, by the delivery of an article by means of the slide h, to enter auto-
matically into operation and to burn until, by pushing back the slide h, the
apparatus has been restored into its original condition.
2. An apparatus according to the preceding claim, in which, through the medium
of a toothed rack in combination with a toothed sector m, a contact-arm o is
operated by the pulling out of the slide h, in such a manner that the circuit of
an electric current produced by cells is closed, whereby the igniting-device p
is rendered incandescent.
Dated this 2nd dow of December 1808
F. WISE HOWORTH,
46, Lincoln's Inn Fields. London, W.C.,
Agent for the Applicant.