improved Apparatus for Enecting Denvery of Goods upon requering the Prearranged Value for same in Coin.
Year: 1888

page_text: improved Apparatus for Enecting Denvery of Goods upon requering
the Prearranged Value for same in Coin.
WILLIAM HENRY JONES 3 Chances Row High Road Tottenham London N.
Perambulator Manufacturer, 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 invention is to effect the delivery of small articles or goods of any
suitable kind upon tendering the prearranged value for same in coin; To effect this
end the coin alone is employed to engage with, and bring into operation the delivery
slide or equivalent device for discharging the goods without the intervention of levers
or complicated mechanism of any kind. The operation of the device employed will
be readily understood by reference to the annexed drawings in which :-
Fig. 1, is a front elevation of one form of machine to which my improvements are
applicable.
Fig. 2, is a plan of same.
Fig. 3, is an elevation, the front cover being removed.
Fig. 4, is a plan; the top cover at A B being removed, and part of the
magazine.
1, Fig. 1, 2, 3, 4 is the exterior case of machine which may be of any desired form,
and constructed of wood, metal or other substance suitable for the purpose; 2, is a
perforation of the exact size to permit the prearranged coin to pass. Immediately
under perforation 2, is a plunger 3, which may be of square section and which is
fitted with an exterior knob or handle. This plunger 3, has a slot corresponding in
size to 2, passing transversely through it; a groove 4, is ploughed out of plunger,
and within this attached thereto; and to wall of case at 6, is a spring 5. Upon
opposite side of plunger at 7, is another groove so placed that its outer edge shall be
coincident, or nearly so with that of the coin employed for the purchase of the articles.
The slot in 3, cuts the groove 7, transversely. Contiguous to plunger 3, is a delivery
device 8, this may be so formed as to meet the shape of the articles to be sold, and in
the drawing is arranged for goods of square or oblong section.

page_text: The delivery device slides in grooves or equivalent 9, 9, formed in the case; and on
the plunger side a thin slip, or tongue of metal 10, is so mounted as to enter groove 7,
about midway in plunger 3. The goods are mounted upon shelf 11, in front of which
is a glass plate 12, extending upwards to top of case; this constitutes the magazine
for holding the goods for sale: Immediately under and in front of shelf 11, is a spout
or opening 12. Attached to side of plunger is a pin 15, which serves to force back
the delivery device and keep same in position. Under plunger 3, are mounted two
wires 13, these are so arranged as that a smaller coin than that determined upon for
the purchase of the goods, will drop through them, without effecting delivery of the
article. These wires terminate abruptly a short distance inside the front wall of case
and immediately over till 14.
The operation of my invention is as follows:-Upon the insertion of the prearranged
coin in slit or perforation 2, (see Fig. 3) it passes through slot in plunger 3, until
intercepted by wires 13, occupying the position shewn. It will be observed that the
groove 7, is transversely cut by coin; upon the purchaser drawing out plunger 3, the
coin will encounter the tongue 10, attached to delivery device 8, and both will travel
forward together until the coin reaches the end of wires 13, when the coin drops into
Full 14, and the article is delivered to the purchaser through spout 12º. The spring 5,
reacting pulls hack plunger 3, and by means of pin 15, the delivery slide; the pin 15,
also prevents the plunger from being pulled quite out.
Having now described my invention and in what manner the same is to be
performed, I would wish it understood that I am aware that various devices have been
employed for effecting the delivery of goods by means of locking gear actuated by
levers, ratchets, pawls, and other complicated mechanism the coin being employed
to couple up such or indirectly actuate the same, I lay no claim to these but 1
claim:
1st. The particular combination herein described for effecting the delivery of
articles, the prearranged coin alone operating the delivery device by means of the
tongue as described.
2. The combination in apparatus for delivering goods operated by means of pre-
arranged coin of the plunger 3, having grooves 4, containing check spring 5, the
slot 2, therein transversely cutting groove The tongue 10, attached to delivery
device 8, projecting into groove 7, the gauge wires 13, all combined and operating
as described for the purpose specified.
Dated September 21st 1888.