Improvements in Fittings and Mechanism for Coin Freed Slot Payment Machines.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 17th Jan., 7030
Complete Specification Left, 16th Oct., 1895-Accepted, 16th Nov., 1895
Date of Application, fra vall., 1990
Complete Specification Left, 16th Oct., 1895-Accepted, 16th Nov., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Fittings and Mechanism for Coin Freed Slot
Payment Machines.
We, JAMES IRONSIDE of Datchelon Place, Church Street, Camberwell, in the
County of Surrey, Mechanical Engineer, and GEORGE CROYDON MARKS, of
18 Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, Consulting Engineer. do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention has reference to the manner in which we construct and arrange
fittings and apparatus for attachment to and working upon coiu freed automatic
delivery machines in which a coin is introduced into a slot to effect a delivery of
some article when a drawer or slide is manipulated or when some other device is
withdrawn; the object of the present improvements being to prevent robbing from
the machines by preventing discs of metal from effecting a delivery of articles
from the machine, and for making the action of the delivery slide or drawer
more positive in its result than is possible with the existing system of construction.
In carrying our invention into effect when attaching our improvements to machines
having sliding drawers for delivering the articles from the machine, we utilize the
ordinary slot tube and the ordinary slot money receiving devices together with
the ordinary carriage for delivering the goods to which we add our devices and
connecting parts for preventing the carriage being imperfectly withdrawn or
improperly pushed back after the forward movement has once been started by the
purchaser. We employ a trigger which we mount upon a pivot or axis and we
carry upon this trigger axis at one side of the carriage frame a pall which has its
tooth made of a form that will work over a bottom rack backwards in one direction
sas to clear the projecting teeth, but which will not work past the teeth when
being drawn out in a forward direction. This action prevents the sliding carriage
being drawn forward when once the backward travelling motion has been
commenced by the carriage.
Upon the pall we place a projecting pin or supplementary guide tooth to prevent
any backward movement after the forward motion of the slide has been started, and
this pin or projecting side tooth we cause to pass over an upper rack, the teeth of which
we shape so that while the side tooth or pall projection may pass freely forward
it cannot pass backwards over the teeth; but when the end of the forward stroke
has been completed we allow or cause the pall to fall down from off the upper rack
on to the teeth or surface of the lower rack when the backward motion is then
made possible. Thus when the coin is placed in the ordinary manner into the slot
of the machine it falls on to the trigger lever or arm and the forward motion of
the drawer or slide causes the coin to press the lever or trigger down so that the
axis of the trigger is turned and with it the connected outer pall which is thereby
raised so as to permit the side lug or supplementary pall to pass over the upper
rack for controlling the forward motion; and the continued movement forward of
the carriage or drawer is made practicable by the shape of the teeth upon the
upper rack.
We provide a spring or springs to act upon the trigger lever so that the pall is
always kept normally at its lowest position. We make the slide or carriage guides
and frame in any well known manner now employed in such machines modifying
our fittings consisting of a duplex rack with a single motion pall controlled or

page_text: started in action by means of the coin from the slot, to suit any special type of
machine or to suit any particular shape of carriage or slide which may be employed
in any ordinary or special machine. We prefer to make the bottom rack adjustable
so that the distance between the end of the last tooth and the front of the pall
tooth may be varied to permit of only any determined thickness of coin being
capable of properly raising the pall on to the top rack ready for the full forward
movement. We may attach our racks independently on to the side frames of the
machine cases or slide boxes or holders or we may form them from one piece of
metal or casing, and we may make the bottom rack sometimes circular so as to
permit of a screw and end adjustment being easily affected without disturbing any
other part of the apparatus. We make our flat racks also adjustable when so
desired by means of a screwed end and lock nut.
We do not limit the application of our invention to any particular form of
machine or to any special arrangement of carriage or guides but we modify the
essential features hereinbefore described to suit any particular requirement.
Dated this 17th day of January 1895.
MARKS & CLERK,
18 Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents.
Improvements in Fittings and Mechanism for Coin Freed Slot
Payment Machines.
We, JAMES IRONSIDE, of Dachelon Place, Church Street, Camberwell in the
County of Surrey, Mechanical Engineer, and GEORGE CROYDON MARKS, of
18 Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, London, Consulting 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 has reference to the manner in which we construct and arrange
fittings and apparatus for attachment to and working upon coin freed automatic
delivery machines in which a coin is introduced into a slot to effect a delivery of
some article when a drawer or slide is manipulated or when some other device is
withdrawn, the object of the present improvements being to obviate robbery from
the machines by preventing discs of metal from effecting a delivery of articles
from the machine, and for making the action of the delivery slide or drawer more
positive in its result than is possible with the existing system of construction.
Figure 1 is an outline front elevation of a coin freed slot payment machine with
which our improvements are applied.
Figure 2 is a part sectional front elevation of our carriage or drawer while
Figure 3 is a part sectional side elevation thereof.
Figure 4 is a side elevation of our duplex rack and pawl while
Figure 6 shews a similar view of a modified design and
Figure 7 a sectional end view thereof.
In carrying our invention into effect when attaching our improvements to
machines having sliding drawers A A' for delivering the articles from the
machine, we utilize the ordinary slot tube and the ordinary slot money receiving
devices together with the ordinary carriage C for delivering the goods, to which
we add our devices and connecting parts for preventing the carriage being
imperfectly withdrawn or improperly pushed back after the forward movement has
once been started by the purchaser. We employ a trigger D which we mount
upon a pivot or axis d and we carry upon this trigger axis at one side of the

page_text: carriage frame a pall E which has its tooth made of a form that will work over
a bottom rack F backwards in one direction so as to clear the projecting teeth ƒ but
which will not work past the teeth when being drawn out in a forward direction.
This action prevents the sliding carriage C being drawn forward when once the
backward travelling motion has been commenced by the carriage.
Upon the pall E we place a projecting pin or supplementary guide tooth G to
prevent any backward movement after the forward motion of the slide has been
started, and this pin or projecting side tooth we cause to pass over an upper
rack H, the teeth of which we shape so that while the side tooth or pall
projection G may pass freely forward it cannot pass backwards over the teeth; but
when the end of the forward stroke has been completed we allow or cause the pall
to fall down from off the upper rack H at the point K on to the teeth or surface of
the lower rack F when the backward motion is then made possible. Thus when
the coin L is placed in the ordinary manner into the slot B of the machine it falls
on to and in front of the trigger lever or arm D and the forward motion of the
drawer or slide causes the coin thus held as a fixture to press the lever or trigger D
down or over so that the axis d of the trigger is turned and with it the connected
outer pall E which is thereby raised so as to permit the side lug or supplementary
pall G to pass over the upper rack H for controlling the forward motion; and the
continued movement forward of the carriage or drawer C is made practicable by
the shape of the teeth upon the upper rack.
We provide a spring or springs M to act upon the trigger lever so that the
pall E is always kept normally at its lowest position. We make the slide or
carriage C and guides C2 and frame C¹ in any well known manner now employed
in such machines modifying our fittings consisting of a duplex rack F H with a
single motion pall E G controlled or started in action by means of the coin L from
the slot, to suit any special type of machine or to suit any particular shape of
carriage or slide which may be employed in any ordinary or special machine. We
prefer to make the bottom rack adjustable by end nuts as at N so that the
distance between the end of the last tooth f' and the front of the pall tooth E
may be varied to permit of only any determined thickness of coin being capabie
of properly raising the pall on to the top rack H ready for enabling the full
forward movement to be effected. We may attach our racks H F¹ independently
on to the side frames of the machine cases or slide boxes or holders or we may
form them from one piece of metal or casing, and we may make the bottom
rack F sometimes circular as at Figures 6 and 7 so as to permit of a screw P and
end adjustment being easily effected without disturbing any other part of the
apparatus. We make our flat racks also adjustable when so desired by means of a
screwed end and lock nut N N.
We do not limit the application of our invention to any particular form of
machine or to any special arrangement of carriage or guides but we modify the
essential features hereinbefore described to suit any particular requirement.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is ;-
1. The improvements in the mechanism for effecting a delivery of articles in
coin freed slot prepayment machines, substantially as and for the purposes herein-
before described and as illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
2. In coin freed slot prepayment machines the combination of a double rack and
pall with a sliding drawer or sliding lever for causing a forward and non-return
movement to be made in one direction, and for causing a backward and non-
return movement to be made after the forward stroke has been completed
substantially as and for the purposes hereinbefore described and as illustrated in
the accompanying drawings.
3. In coin freed slot prepayment machines the arrangement of an adjustable

page_text: rack in combination with a pall and trigger against which trigger the coin presses,
substantially as and for the purposes herein before described and as illustrated in
the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 15th day of Dotahan 100%
MARKS & CLERK,
18, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., and
13, Temple Street, Birmingham, Agents.
MARKS & CLERK,
18, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., and
13, Temple Street, Birmingham, Agents.