An Apparatus for the Automatic Sale and Delivery of Perfumes and other Articles, either Liquid or Solid, both on Draught and in Bottles.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 8th Aug., 1887
Complete Left, 8th May, 1888
Complete Accepted, 6th July, 1888
An Apparatus for the Automatic Sale and Delivery of Perfumes
and other Articles, either Liquid or Solid, both on Draught and
in Bottles.
I EDWIN APPLEBY of 29 Marney Road Clapham Common in the County of
Surrey Solicitors Clerk do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows
The object of my invention is to produce an apparatus whereby Perfumes and other
articles either liquid or solid and either on draught or in bottles may be sold and
delivered automatically and this is accomplished by my invention in the following
manner.
I shall first describe the means by which the perfumes or other liquid is sold and
delivered on draught.
Figure 1 is a small self charging force pump. A B. being a barrel or tube
containing a spring coiled round the piston rod D E to which is fixed the piston F.
The barrel A. B. is fixed on to the cylinder B. C at B where a stuffing box is placed
to prevent the fluid in the cylinder B C from running into the spring barrel.
At the end of the cylinder B. C. a union C K is fixed which is fitted with a
valve M. N which opens inwards towards the piston. The union is fixed by a rect-
angular piece of pipe to the reservoir O. P. containing the perfume or other liquid to
be sold and from which the pump draws its supply.
The spring barrel A. B. has a slot cut in the top part of it, nearly the whole length
of the same and a metal rod R. S. is passed perpendicularly down through it and
fixed into the piston rod-D. E which carries the rod R S up and down in the spring
barrel with it, as the piston rod is pushed in or out, and as the rod R. S. is fixed in
front of the spring, when it is pushed forward in the spring barrel it compresses the
spring as shown in figure 4.
The Cylinder B. C. is made of such a size that it will only hold the exact quantity
of perfume which is to be sold on draught for a given coin say a penny. At the
top of the cylinder and close to the union C. K a pipe of small bore is fixed which
rises above the force pump to the top of the reservoir O. P. and then turns at a right
angle and comes out at the front of the box or case in which the apparatus is
contained, above the knob D of the piston rod where a small nozle or rose Z is
fixed to it.
The Dumn is fixed to the box by a small plate UV.

page_text: The apparatus is worked in the following manner :-
The coin is dropped through a slot cut in the box and falls into a bucket fixed on
to a balanced lever. The bucket is shown at W X figure 1 and the lever with the
bucket attached is shown at figure 2 where it is represented as exactly balanced with
the end K resting in front of the perpendicular rod F P. (and which is the rod R S
in figure 1) at a right angle with it, but as soon as the proper coin or coins is or are
dropped into the bucket the end K figure 2 of the lever is at once raised to the position
shown at A. B. figure 3, the bucket still retaining the coin and being prevented from
going down any further than as shown at A. B. figure by a small spring placed at
the center of the lever. A small chain or pulley is attached to the bucket on the
lever and the other end of it is attached to the perpendicular rod R. S. figure 1, fixed
into the piston rod, and as the piston rod is pushed into the pump, the chain or
pulley draws the bucket containing the coin-down until it assumes the position E F.
shown by the dotted lines at figure 3, when the coin at once drops out of the bucket
into the drawer placed to receive the same.
When the piston rod is pushed into the Cylinder of the pump (figure 1) the
valve M N is immediately closed and the fluid contained in the chamber or cylinder B. C.
is consequently forced up the pipe at C and out of the nozle or rose Z where a person
holding a handkerchief or bottle will receive the same; as soon as the piston rod is
released from pressure, the spring which has been compressed in the spring barrel by
the perpendicular rod R S figure 1 pushing against it and compressing it (as shown
in figure 4), immediately forces the piston rod out again to the position shown at
figure 1, The valve M N being at the same time opened by the suction and a fresh
charge of perfume or other fluid drawn in from the reservoir, and the lever being
released from the strain of the chain or pulley regains its balance, by the aid of the
spring placed at its center and immediately drops accross the spring barrel again in
front of the perpendicular rod R. S. figure 1 thus preventing the piston rod from
being pushed in again until another coin is dropped into the bucket at the end of the
lever.
The valve of the union is more clearly shown at figure 5 where it is represented as
open to allow the perfume to flow in.
As it would be possible for dishonest persons to obtain more perfume than had
been paid for by pushing in the piston rod again before it had come right back so as
to allow the lever to fall in front of the perpendicular rod R. S. figure 1 and so lock
the pump the following arrangement is added for the purpose of preventing this:-
To the perpendicular rod R S figure 1 a small ratchet is attached so that it can
turn up and down freely as shown at A figure 6. A small lever of the shape shown
at B in the same figure is attached to the rod R S-figure 1, as shown in figure 6 so
that the head of it will be just underneath the ratchet A both being arranged so
that they can move up and down above the slot cut in the spring barrel with the
piston rod to which the perpendicular rod R. S. is fixed.
At the positions F and G at the side of the spring barrel figure 6. two small
rods project horizontally at right angles with the spring barrel, and at the top of
the spring barrel at the side of the slot cut in the same a strip of metal, cut in
teeth as shown at H figure 6, is fixed.
This arrangement acts in the following manner :-
When the rod R. S figure 1 is in the position shown at K figure 6 the ratchet
is raised above the teeth cut in the strip of metal H in consequence of the end of
the lever B. having struck against the horizontal rod F projecting from the side of
the spring barrel as the piston rod with the perpendicular rod R S (figure 1) was
forced out by the spring in the spring barrel, and so turned the head of the lever B
upwards. The piston rod can of course be pushed in when the money has been
dropped in the bucket of the lever A. B. figure 3 and when the rod R. S. gets near
the end of the spring barrel the end of the lever B. figure 6 strikes against the
horizontal rod G projecting from the side of the spring barrel and the head of the
lever B is consequently lowered and allows the ratchet to fall down into the teeth of
the strip of metal, H. as shown by the dotted lines-at, M. figure 6.

page_text: The ratchet can of course travel backwards over the teeth as the piston is forced
out again because of the angle at which they are cut, but in the event of an attempt
being made to push in the piston rod again before it has gone right back so as to
allow the lever A. B. figure 3 to lock the pump the ratchet would at once fall into
one of the teeth H figure 6 and stop it, but of course when the piston rod, R. S. has
got nearly back to the position shown at figure 1 the end of the lever B. figure 6
striking against the horizontal rod F at the side of the spring barrel raises the head
of the lever B. and the ratchet is consequently lifted above the teeth H figure 6 as
shown in the figure, the lever A. B. figure 3 having at that moment fallen in front of
the perpendicular rod, R S figure 1 and so locked the pump.
The bottles of perfume or other solid articles are sold and delivered by my inven-
tion in the following manner :-
A. B. C figure 7 is a case in which the bottles of perfume are placed. D. E. is a
drawer into which the bottles in the case drop one by one, E F is a thin piece of
wood or other material fixed to the drawer and the same width as the drawer is.
G and H are two perpendicular rods fixed on to the drawer at right angles with the
same. I. K is a lever with a bucket I at one end into which the money drops from a
slot cut in the box in which the apparatus is contained. The lever I. K. has a small
rod or bar projecting at right angles from it as shown at L. R. and immediately in
front of the perpendicular rods H and G fixed on to the drawer.
It will be seen from figure 7 that while the lever I. K is in the position shown in
that figure that the drawer D. E. could not be drawn out because the horizontal bar
or rod L. R. which projects from the lever I. K. is in front of the perpendicular
rods Hand G. The end of the lever to which the bucket is attached has a chain or
pulley attached to it. which passes through a stable fixed into the front of the
case A. B. C to act as a purchase for the chain or pulley which is then fixed on to
the side of the drawer as shown in figure 7. A strip of wood O. W. is fixed on to
the bottom of the drawer and hollowed out so that a bottle dropping from the
case A. B. C into it could not roll forward but would remain stationary and so support
the bottles above it.
This arrangement works in the following manner :-
When the proper number of coins have been dropped into the bucket of the
lever I. K. the end of the lever to which the bucket is attached falls to the position
shown at S. K figure 8 and the horizontal bar C. D. being consequently raised above
the perpendicular rods G. H. figure 7, the drawer can be drawn out and as the drawer
is pulled out the thin strip of wood E. F. slips underneath the bottles next above the
bottle already in the drawer, the bottle revolving as the strip of wood comes under
it and thus supports the bottles in the case A B. C. and prevents them from falling
down, but when the bottle in the drawer has been taken out and the drawer again
pushed in the piece of wood E F is again pushed from underneath the bottles in
the case A B. C as shown in figure 7 and thus permits another bottle to drop into
the drawer in the groove O. W. cut to receive it, which retains the bottle exactly
underneath the other bottles above it in the case A B. C and thus prevents any more
from falling down.
As the drawer is drawn out the chain or pulley S. T figure 8 draws the bucket on
the lever S. K. (which has been retained in the position S. K. shown in the figure
by a small spring placed at its centre,) down to the position shown at A. B. figure 8
and the money then drops out into the drawer placed to receive it and on the drawer
being again closed it at once falls back to the position shown at I. K figure 7.
D: Lih dow of Amount 1007
EDWIN APPLEBY.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Apparatus for the Automatic Sale and Delivery of Perfumes
and other Articles, either Liquid or Solid, both on Draught and
in Bottles.
1 EDWIN APPLEBY of 29 Marney Road Clapham Common in the county of Surrey
Solicitors Clerk 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 :-
Figure 1 is a small self charging force pump designed to give out the perfume or
other liquid on draught. B. C. being the cylinder of the pump and A. B. a barrel or
tube with a spiral spring inside through which passes the plunger D. E. the cylinder
being screwed or otherwise fixed into the spring barrel at B. where it forms a stuffing
box e through which the plunger passes thus preventing the fluid running back into
the spring barrel. H is a push piece with a stud G fixed on to it, the push piece
being bored out at the end meeting the plunger so as to allow the same to pass a short
distance into it, but it is prevented from passing right to the end of the hollow in the
push piece by the back action of the spring by reason of its want of length. It will
be thus seen that the plunger cannot be moved or forced into the cylinder until the
push piece H has been pushed sufficiently_far into the spring barrel to enable the
plunger to meet the end of the hollow F in the push piece when they will both
then travel forward together to the end of the stroke. The perfume or other liquid
is discharge by this arrangement in the following manner:-The lever A. B. fig. 2 is
fixed horizontally across the spring barrel with the end A of the lever in front of the
stud G, the bucket B on the lever being placed close to the side of the case containing
the mechanism which forms the fourth side of the bucket B which it will be seen is
wanting in the drawing-As soon as the proper coin or coins is or are dropped into
the bucket B of the lever the end A (which is placed opposite the stud G is at once
raised) thus leaving the push piece with the stud fixed to it at liberty to move
forward upon due pressure being exerted upon it. The lever is prevented from falling
too far down and so discharging the money prematurely by a suitable spring placed
on the spindle on which the lever rocks. As soon as the push piece is pushed forward
the stud G fig. 1 comes in contact with the plate A. C of the lever A. B. fig. 2, the
plate of course having been raised to the top of the stud by the action of the coin;
and as the push piece and plunger reach the end of the stroke the coin is by this
means thrown out of the bucket, thus leaving the lever A. B. fig. 2 at liberty to fall
back to its horizontal position again and so lock the pump as soon as the push piece
is released from pressure-As soon as the plunger moves forward in the cylinder the
valve P fig. 1 is immediately closed thus cutting off the connection with the reservoir
containing the fluid and preventing the contents of the cylinder being returned to the
reservoir consequently the fluid is forced up and out of the delivery pipe K. The
recoil of the spring in the barrel forces the push piece and plunger out again as soon
as the pressure is taken off the same. As the fluid would begin to be discharged on
the slightest pressure being placed on the plunger and as it is extremely difficult to

page_text: keep the lever close up in front of the stud G to prevent any forward movement of
the plunger without the proper coins being placed in the bucket, the push piece H
is made to travel forward a short distance into the barrel before the end of the
hollow F fig. 1 in the same, comes in contact with the end D of the plunger and as
soon as the both points fand D meet and the push piece and plunger begin to travel
forward together the click on the stud G at onces engages in one of the teeth F of
fig. 3 which are cut at the side of the slot which is cut in the top of the spring barrel
for the purpose of allowing the stud G to travel up and down in the same, thus pre-
venting the push piece or plunger coming back until it has been pushed the full length
of the stroke, when the click (which is free to turn upon the pin which fixes it to the
stud G fig. 1) becomes immediately perpendicular in the hollow R fig. 3 and as
the stud and push picce are forced out by the spring if any attempt is made to force
the same in again the click will again engage in the teeth F fig. 3 and prevent this
until the push piece and stud have got right back again to the position shown in
fig. 1 when the click again drops to the perpendicular as shown in fig. 3 the lever at
that moment falling in front of the stud G fig. 1 and so locking the arrangement.
The bottles or other solid articles are delivered in the following manner.
A B fig. 4 is a column containing the articles to bé delivered. C. D is a drawer
into which the bottles or other articles drop one by one as they are delivered. E is
a plate which is fixed to the back of the drawer and forms a support to the articles in
the column when the drawer is pulled out and prevents them falling to the back of
the sanie.
When any article contained in the column is required if the proper coins or coin is
placed in the case containing the mechanism it will fall into the bucket A. of the
lever A B fig. 6; the money being prevented from falling out of the bucket by the
side of the case which forms the fourth side of the bucket A fig. 6, a small spring
placed at the center of the lever holding it up. A short bar C fig. 6 projects at a
right angle from the side of the lever, (which is raised up above the point H of the
bent rod F. H. G fig. 5 by the weight of the coin in the bucket) and as the drawer is
pulled out the bent rod F. H. G. turns the bucket and lever over sufficiently far to
discharge the money and as the drawer is closed the lever immediately falls back and
the bar fig. 6 falls in front of the bent rod F. H. G at the point K and so locks the
drawer, another bottle or other article having at that moment fallen into the drawer
from the column A. B. fig. 4.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed I desire it to be understood that I do
not bind myself to any precise arrangement of parts but by the means I have described
say that I can deliver given quantaties of fluids or solid articles for money or its
equivalent, I declare that what I claim is :-
I
The combination of a push piece with a plunger which shall travel a distance to be
regulated before moving the plunger.
The combination of a stud with the push piece such as described provided with a
click acting and engaging with teeth such as described.
The combination of a stud and push piece with a balanced lever which shall
discharge the contents of the bucket attached in the manner described.
The form of money bucket and lever described.
The combination of parts forming the self charging force pump as described.
The combination of a bent rod fixed to a delivery drawer or slide with a balanced
lever and bar as described.
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