Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 18th Aug., 1887
Complete Specification Left, 18th May, 1888
Complete Specification Accepted, 3rd Aug., 1888
I WILLIAM SPEIRS SIMPSON of 49 Battersea Park Road, Surrey, Engineer do
hereby declare the nature of my said invention to be as follows:-
:-
The object of this invention is, to fit or arrange in or to a casing containing
Stereoscopic or Photographic views, transparent and other, Kaleidoscopic designs, or
Kaleidoscopic effects and the like, which are intended for exhibition after the insertion
of a coin into said casing an automatic system of producing a light such as in an
electric lamp, or of a gas or other light lit electrically or otherwise, the reflective
power
of which light be given directly upon or through the pictures or by transfer,
by reflector for concentration or for gradation as desired, said casing having a drawer
or slider which can be electrically released for withdrawal and with it a card, a.
photograph or the like for distribution after inspection of the views.
For the purpose of my invention I arrange a tip lever-on to which the coin falls
when inserted into a slit of the casing-with two contact plates which rise under the
weight of the coin and come into contact with other plates having conducting wires
affixed for making circuit. These wires lead to a lantern or lamp which lights up the
interior of the casing or a portion only, or the light particularly if the lamp be
suitably arranged, may be reflected by mirror or other reflectors and capable of adjust-
ment if desired, according to the direction or intensity of the rays. The two plates
are in connection by other wires with a pull out drawer which is fitted under a pile of
photographs or other pictures so that at each opening of the drawer one of the photo's
or pictures may be removed from the pile and exposed for the operator to take. The
last named wires may be in connection with a coil and armature which when not

page_text: attracted by the coil serves as a locking device to the drawer. The wires lead from a
battery contained in the casing.
I prefer to arrange the photograph or Stereoscopic views or the Kaleidoscopic
apparatus in what might be termed the coin receiver in one casing and the photo
deliverer and battery in another casing serving as a pedestal for the support of the
first named casing or coin receiver and views exhibitor but all the appliances may be
contained within one casing if desired.
Dated thin 10th
A 1007'

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Automatically Lighted Apparatus for the Reception of Coin and the
Exhibition and Delivery of Photographs or the like in Exchange
therefor.
I WILLIAM SPIERS SIMPSON of 49 Battersea Park Road, Surrey Engineer, do
hereby declare the nature of my said 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 fit or arrange in or to a casing-containing
stereoscopic or photographic views (transparent and other) kaleidoscopic designs, or
kaleidoscopic effects and the like which are intended for exhibition after the insertion
of a coin into said casing-an automatic system of producing a light such as an
Electric Lamp or of a gas or other light lit electrically or otherwise the reflective
power of which light shall give directly upon or through the pictures or by transfer
by reflectors for concentration or for gradation as desired, said casing having a drawer
or slider which can be electrically released for withdrawal and with it a card, a
photograph or the like for distribution after inspection of the views.
If gas be employed for lighting the interior of the box the spindle of an upper
roller, carrying an endless chain having the views attached, may be in connection
with an arm of a gas tap or valve so as to turn the gas on the moment the spindle is
turned the light being established by the electric spark produced by the completion
of circuit on the tilt of the trip lever, the gas being turned off at the termination of
the complete exposition of the views within the casing; the light required for
illumining the views being about equal to what is known as a pilot light or from
a No. 1 Bray Burner.
For the purpose of my invention which I show in the annexed drawings I arrange
a trip lever A, on to which the coin falls when inserted into a slit B of the casing,
with two spring plates C. D. Figure 1 which come into contact with other
plates C¹, D¹, having conducting wires E, F affixed for making circuit as at
Figure 2.
These wires, E, F, lead to a lantern or lamp G which lights up the interior of the
casing or a portion only, or the light, particularly if the lamp be suitably arranged,
may be reflected by mirror or other reflectors and capable of adjustment if desired
according to the direction or intensity of the rays.
These circuit wires are also in connection with a coil H and armature I which when
not attracted by the coil H serves as a locking device to the drawer J.
The wires lead from a battery K contained in the casing.
I prefer to arrange the photograph or stereoscopic views or the kaleidoscopic
apparatus in what might be termed the coin receiver in one casing L and the photo
deliverer and battery K in another casing M, serving as a pedestal for the support of
the first named casing or coin receiver and views exhibitor, but all the appliances may
be contained within one casing if desired.

page_text: The transparent photographic views to be exhibited are upon an endless band as in
my previous patent No. 15,000 of 1886 to be turned by hand or it may be by
clockwork, but preferably by hand and on the insertion of a coin the long end of the
trip lever A is depressed by its weight which forces the nose of the trip lever under
the catch of a spring plate R whereby the trip lever is temporarilly locked the coin
simultaneously falling from the trip lever, leaving the trip lever in a locked position.
The spindle N is then free to be turned by hand and with it a wiper cam P which as
it moves round, pushes a bolt Q towards the spring plate R, so that at each complete
rotation of the upper spindle all the prearranged number of views have been exposed
and the bolt Q forced against the spring plate R in order that it may lose its grip of
the lever A, the lever thon recovering itself under the action of its spring plates C, D,
and so lock the roller by its opposite end falling in a notch of the roller. This
separates the spring plates C, D, from the contact pieces C¹, D¹ and breaks electrical
contact and the light is switched off.
It is only on the introduction of a fresh coin of a predetermined size or weight
that the lever A can be again depressed for re-establishing electrical connection.
When the lever A is depressed, the coin slides from it into the lower part of the
box L.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is
1. The employment of an electric lamp in a coin receiver apparatus in which
transparent photographs mounted on an endless frame are exhibited in fixed number
and the means by which the exhibit is closed up and the coin receiving lever released
all as hereinbefore described and shown in the annexed drawings.
2. The particular combination of appliances constituting an apparatus shown on
the annexed drawing, within which, after the insertion of a coin, an electric lamp can
be lighted up transparent photograph views be moved for exhibition, a drawer
released and a photograph removed from a pile, as set forth.
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1011 1
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1000
18th day
of May 1888.
H. GARDNER,
166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said W. S. Simpson.