Automatic Delivery of Goods in Exchange therefor.
Year: 1885

page_text: Automatic Delivery of Goods in Exchange therefor.
I CHARLES HENRY RUSSELL of 43 Bedford Row, London in the county of
Middlesex Gentleman do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention relates to certain improvements in apparatus for the reception of
coin, and the automatic delivery of goods in exchange therefor, and has for its,
object to provide an apparatus in which the goods for sale may be stored and
automatically delivered upon the introduction into a slot provided for that purpose
of a coin of the realm of such value only as may be determined beforehand, thus
dispensing with the necessity for an attendant.
In carrying my invention into effect I provide a slot in the frame of the box for
the introduction of the coin determined upon. The said coin passes down a shoot
or inclined plane or planes, designed to return or reject any other coin, or
substance, than the one intended. It then falls upon the extremity of a rocking
shaft suitably centred: the other extremity of the said rocking shaft is thus raised,
and engages with a balanced or slung platform or plate provided with a projection
on its upper surface. The goods to be delivered are arranged upon an inclined
plane, above which supplementary chambers may be arranged or not as desired.
At the lower end of this inclined plane, and at a slightly higher level another
inclined plane or platform is arranged. An opening is left between the two
inclined planes, through which the aforesaid projection travels. The article to be
delivered rests in the opening and the weight of the coin, depressing one extremity
of the rocking lever, raises the other extremity, and the slung platform with its
projection, which then travels through the opening, thereby lifting the article to
the lower inclined platform, down which it passes to the exit or delivery aperture
formed in the frame of the apparatus.
The action of one or more of the above mentioned moving parts may be utilized
to release a suitable escapement, and set in action a musical box arranged within
the apparatus.
The whole may be contained in a casing or box, provided with a suitable lock.

page_text: Automatic Delivery of Goods in Exchange therefor.
I CHARLES HENRY RUSSELL of 80 Gray's Inn Road, London in the county of
Middlesex, Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of my 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 certain improvements in apparatus for the reception of
coin and the automatic delivery of goods in exchange therefor, and has for its
object to provide an apparatus in which the goods for sale may be stored and
automatically delivered upon the introduction into a slot provided for that purpose
of a coin of the realm of such value only as may be determined beforehand, thus
dispensing with the necessity for an attendant.
In carrying my invention into effect I provide a slot in the frame of the box for
the introduction of the coin determined upon. The said coin passes down a shoot
or inclined plane or planes designed to return or reject any other coin or
substance than the one intended. It then falls upon the extremity of a rocking
shaft suitably centred; the other extremity of the said rocking shaft is thus raised
and engages with a balanced or slung platform or plate provided with a projection
on its upper surface. The goods to be delivered are arranged upon an inclined.
plane above which supplementary chambers may be arranged or not as desired.
At the lower end of this inclined plane and at a slightly higher level another
inclined plane or platform is arranged. An opening is left between the two
inclined planes through which the aforesaid projection travels. The article to be
delivered rests in the opening and the weight of the coin depressing one extremity
of the rocking lever, raises the other extremity and the slung platform with its
projection which then travels through the opening, thereby lifting the article to
the lower inclined platform down which it passes to the exit or delivery aperture
formed in the frame of the apparatus.
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The action of one or more of the above mentioned moving parts may be utilized
to release a suitable escapement, and set in action a musical box arranged within
the apparatus.
The whole may be contained in a casing or box provided with a suitable lock.
The invention is clearly illustrated in the accompanying drawings in which the
figures are longitudinal sectional elevations through an apparatus showing two
alternative arrangements. a is a money slot in the casing of the box beneath
which the shoot b is fixed and constructed preferably curved or angular so as to
prevent the passage down it of a wire or rod. A coin of proper size passes down b
and an aperture c is formed in the lower side of it of a size adapted to let any coin
or substance smaller than that intended, fall into the base of the apparatus without
actuating the delivery device, or a second shoot as shown at c' may be connected

page_text: to c if desired terminating in an aperture formed in a lower part of the casing
down which such rejected coin or substance would pass and be returned. The
proper coin passing down 6 falls on the end of a rocking shaft d suitably centred
as at e and the end whereon the coin falls may be advantageously formed with a
knife edge. The articles to be delivered are arranged next each other on an
inclined plane fof a width suitable to the length of the goods above which a
supplementary goods chamber or chambers or a second inclined plane such as f¹
may be provided if desired; at the lower end off a second inclined plane g is fixed
either in a slightly higher plane than the first or having a projecting piece such
as gl against which the lowest article, i.e. the article next to be delivered, always
rests by gravity. An intermediate aperture h is left of sufficient width to allow of
the free passage through it of a projection i fixed upon a hinged or balanced
plate k situated above the lower end of the said rocking shaft d; on the upper end
of d being depressed by the weight of the falling coin as shown in figure 2 the
lower end is raised, and engaging with the said moving plate & causes i to pass
through h, the lowest article is thus raised sufficiently to pass over gl and roll
down g to a delivery orifice / formed in the casing of the box and provided with a
convenient holder . The coin falls from the end of the rocking shaft d into a
money receptacle m. The coin having depressed d and delivered an article falls in
to the receptacle m and d returns to its normal position as in figure 1; the
remaining articles at once move down by gravity and the lowest article takes the
place of that just delivered: To prevent the admission of coin except at the proper
time, during each operation the money slot a is closed by a cover plate o fixed to
the end of one arm of a counterbalanced cranked lever p centred on the frame of
the box: The other arm is connected to the rocking shaft and by a lever wire or
cord such as q, the action of which is obvious. Inside the apparatus in some cases
a musical box may be fixed as shown at r and set in action by releasing an
escapement device of any suitable type by the movement of a rod p¹ worked from
the cranked lever p at each action of the apparatus. An indicator 8 of any
suitable type is provided to record the number of operations of the apparatus and
may be worked from the rocking shaft d, or from the spring of the musical box r.
The indicator is or may be arranged that when the last article, or any number to
which it may be set, is delivered a projecting arm t is moved and engages with the
shaft d preventing its return to normal position as shown in figure 2. thereby
causing the slot a to remain closed by cover plate o so that no further coin can be
inserted, or, to effect the same purpose a small roller may be provided and arranged
to follow down the inclined plane or planes after the last article and a semicircular
slot formed in the projection i so that when the last article is delivered the roller
engaging partly in the slot, would hold up projection i, and the weight of i and k
being thus removed, the shaft d, would not return to normal position but remain
depressed thereby closing a as described.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is:-
1.) The combination with an inclined plane or planes on which the goods are
arranged and a delivery plane and an intermediate aperture, of a moving platform
with projection and a rocking shaft actuated by the coin for raising and delivering
an article substantially as described and illustrated.
2.) The combination with the herein described mechanism for delivering goods
of a device for closing the money slot at each action of the machine such as is
specified.
3.) The combination with the herein described apparatus for automatically
delivering an article and closing the money slot after the introduction of a coin of
either an indicator or a roller adapted to permanently close the money alot when
any fixed number of articles have been delivered substantially as described.

page_text: 4.) The construction as herein described and represented by the figures of an
automatic goods selling apparatus alone or in combination with a device for
releasing an escapement and setting in action a músical box arranged within it as
described.
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