Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 15th Oct., 1887
Complete Specification Left, 10th Aug., 1888
Complete Specification Accepted, 14th Sept., 1888
I, PERCIVAL EVERITT, of No. 47, Cannon Street, in the city of London, Engineer,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improvements applicable to all kinds of automatic coin
freed machines such as my patent for Automatic weighing machines and my various
patents for delivering postcards, sweetmeats, cigarettes, matches and other articles
and the present improvements have for object to return or deliver the equivalent
value in goods and articles, or results to be obtained on coins of various denominations
being inserted through one aperture in the apparatus so that the mechanism shall for
example, deliver, say, two packets of sweets for a penny and one packet for a half-
penny or when my improvements are applied, for example, to apparatus for delivering
liquids the apparatus is arranged to deliver twice the quantity (or two charges) of
liquid for a penny that it does for a halfpenny or in a combined machine for
delivering liquids and food or the like, a portion of each.
As an illustration of one way of carrying my present invention into effect 1 could
use, in the case of a weighing machine, two buckets, one below the other to couple
up on to one lever. The upper bucket would be so constructed that it would receive
either a halfpenny or a penny but the lower bucket would only retain the penny or
larger coin, therefore the penny would allow two persons to be weighed as the coin
would first act on the top bucket and secondly after leaving the upper bucket it
would act on the lower bucket.
It will be obvious that my improvements can be carried out in various ways
depending on the class of machine to which the invention is adapted, for example
when adapting the invention to automatic delivery boxes or the like, one coin bucket
or receptacle receives the larger of the coins (if the box or the like is arranged to

page_text: exchange two different quantities or kinds of goods) and releases one delivery slide,
drawer, liquid-tap, or the like, and allows it to be actuated, after which the coin passes
into the second bucket or receptacle, and allows another drawer, slide, tap, or the like,
to be actuated. If the smaller coin, videlicet, one which would pass through the first
bucket or receptacle, but is large enough to be caught in the second bucket be used,
only the second drawer, slide, tap, or the like, will be released, and can be therefore
actuated.
Dated the 15th day of Ontabon 1997
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London,
Agents for the Applicant.

page_text: Improvements in or Applicable to Automatic Coin-freed Apparatus.
I, PERCIVAL EVERITT, of No. 47, Cannon Street, in the city of London, 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:
This invention relates to improvements applicable to all kinds of automatic coin-
freed machines such as my patent for automatic weighing machines and my various
patents for delivering post-cards, sweet-meats, cigarettes, matches and other articles
and the present improvements have for object to return or deliver the equivalent value
in goods and articles, or permit other results to be obtained on coins of various
denominations being inserted through one aperture in the apparatus so that the
mechanism shall for example deliver, say, two packets of sweets for a penny and one
packet for a halfpenny or when my improvements are applied, for example, to apparatus
for delivering liquids the apparatus is arranged to deliver twice the quantity (or two
charges) of liquid for a penny that it does for a halfpenny or in a combined machine
for delivering liquids and food or the like, a portion of each.
In order to enable my invention to be fully understood I will describe how
it can be carried out in practice by reference to the accompanying drawing, in
which,
Figure 1 is an elevation of an arrangement suitable to be used with my well known
automatic weighing machine; and,
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Figure 2 is an elevation of an arrangement suitable to be used with automatic coin-
freed apparatus for delivering goods of the kind described in the Specifications of
the
former Patents granted to me and now commonly known as automatic boxes
arrangement in the drawing being shewn applied to an apparatus for delivering
liquids.
I will first describe the arrangement shewn in Figure 1 in which a is the counter-
weighted quadrant of an automatic weighing machine, which quadrant in this case is
provided with two arms b, b¹ each carrying a money bucket, marked e and c¹ respect-
ively; the upper bucket c is constructed so that it will be operated by both a half-
penny and a penny, but the lower bucket c¹ is constructed to contain and be operated
by a penny only, a halfpenny falling through it into the usual receptacle.
C
By this arrangement if a halfpenny be inserted in the apparatus it will fall into the
upper bucket c and will operate the quadrant a in the usual manner and as the bucket
is tipped by the pin the halfpenny will be discharged into the lower bucket c' and will
pass right through the same without operating it.
If, however, a penny be inserted in the apparatus, it will first operate the upper
bucket and then on being discharged into the lower bucket c¹ will operate this also,
thus allowing two persons to be weighed for the one coin.
In the arrangement shown in Figure 2, the upper bucket c retains and is operated
by a penny, but allows a halfpenny to fall through it to the lower bucket c¹ adapted

page_text: to be operated by the smaller coin; e is a measuring tap of the kind described in the
Specification of Patent No. 15065 of 1885.
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C
The upper bucket c is attached to the end of the counterweighted lever f, fulcrumed
g and jointed to the stop of the tap e, and the lower bucket c¹ is connected to a
similar lever fulcrumed at g¹ and jointed to the stop h¹ of the tap.
By this arrangement, if a halfpenny be inserted in the machine it will fall through the
upper bucket c into the lower bucket c¹ which falls, moving the lever f¹ and raising the
stop ; the tap handle i can now be moved up to the stop f and a fixed portion of its
contents be drawn off; the coin is released and discharged, and the bucket returned to
its normal position in the usual manner.
If a penny be inserted in the apparatus it falls into and is retained by the upper
bucket c,
and as the bucket falls under the weight of the coin it raises the stop h; the
stop is also raised (because the lever fin moving moves the lever f¹ by means
of the projection j) and the handle of the tap can be fully opened and the full contents
drawn off.
Although I have described and illustrated in Figure 2, my double bucket coin
arrangement applied to a measuring tap it will be obvious that it is equally applicable
to automatic boxes for delivering two different kinds of or different quantities of goods,
one bucket being arranged to release one delivery slide, drawer or the like so as to
allow it to be actuated, the coin passing into the second bucket and allowing another
delivery slide, drawer or the like to be actuated, or falling through the said second
bucket into the money till or receptacle without operating the bucket whereby two
different kinds of goods can be obtained for a given coin, or one kind can be obtained
for a smaller coin; or if different quantities or different values of goods are to be
delivered, the larger coin will release the delivery slide or drawer for delivering the
larger goods or those of larger value, and the smaller coin will operate to release the
delivery slide or drawer for delivering the smaller goods or those of less value as
the case may be.
In all cases the money buckets are tipped to effect the discharge of the coin by
known means such for example as by the arrangement described in the Specification
of Patent No. 12576 of 1885 which is the arrangement shewn in the drawing and
therefore needs no description.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. The construction and application to automatic coin freed machines of a double
money bucket arrangement arranged and operating substantially as, and for the purposes,
nereinbefore described.
2. The improved double money bucket arrangements hereinbefore described and
illustrated in the accompanying drawing.
Dated the 10th day of August 1888.
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London,
Agents for the Applicant.