An Improved Coin Freed Automatio
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 9th Oct., 1895-Accepted, 14th Dec., 1895
An Improved Coin Freed Automatio Delivery Machine
IGFORGE BARRON of Tower House, St. John's Road, Upper Holloway in tho
County 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 :-
The object of this invention is to provide improved mechanism for the release of the
drawer or slide.
According to this invention I provide slots or holes in the drawer or shde for the
arm of the locking lever to tike into, such lever being placed horizontally between
two plates
And m order that my said invention may be understood I will refer to the drawing
accompanying this Specification in which
Fig. 1 is an end view of the case, with the mechanism fitted therein, and showing
the door partly open,
Fig 2 is an elevation of a portion of the back of the case, shewing the mechanisin,
but having the back plate removed.
Fig 3 is a plan of the drawer or slide, detached
Figs 2 and 3 are drawn to a larger scale than Fig 1.
The same letters denote the same parts in all the views
a shows a compartment, for holding cards or other goods for delivery, near the
bottom of which is fitted an adjustable piece 6, so as to regulate the amount of opening,
in order that only one card or tablet may be drawn ont at a time, as in ordinary com
feed apparatus
c is the drawer or slide, at the back of which I fit pins d, which take
against the bottom card or packet, e, e shew slots in the slude c
The width towards
the back of the slide or drawer c valios, as shown at f, g Fig. 3. h is a projection
fastened to the underside of the slide c Fig. 2 is an opening for the piece / to
slide in,
is a pivoited arm or lever, the tail end of which takes into one or other of
the slots
I shews the shoot, m is an indicating tablet secured to the door of the
machine, by means of buttons / The locking (or tail) end of the lever is bevelled
on one side, and the slots e are also bevelled on one side, as shewn by the double lines
in Fig. 3, so as to allow of the slide being pushed back as hereafter described
In order to prevent half-pennies from acting upon the locking lever 1, I provide a
slot o, sufficiently long for a half-penny to drop through into the com receptacle.
Pp are plates for holding the pivot of the arm k.
The action 18 as follows
The penny being insorted in the shoot /, falls on the end of the locking lever A, and
cants this lever into the position shewn dotted at Fig. 2, the dotted circle in this
figure representing the penny. The drawer or slide c is then drawn out, and when
the stop or reduction passes the penny, the latter drops slightly, thus preventing
the operator from pushing the drawer in again until the latter has been fully pulled
out. Without this step 9 so long as the penny depressed the lever, the drawer c
could be worked backwards and forwards through the distance r and the contents of
the machine extracted. When the back of the drawer c comes under the penny
at Fig 3, the latter will fall between the plates p p into the coin receptacle fitted
below, provided to receive it. (This receptacle is not shewn on the drawing.) As
the slide is pulled out. it will bring with it the bottom card or packet, resting
thereon, on account of the pins ad coming against the back of the said card or packet.

page_text: It will be seen that the slide c has a projection r, aoross the same, in order to prevent
anything being inserted between the front of the case and the slide c
The piece will prevent more than one card or packet being drawn out at one time,
as it can be adjusted low enough to come against the next card or packet
The card or pachet having been withdrawn, the slide e can again be pushed back, owing
to the front edges of the slots e being bevelled, likewise the front edge of the lever k.
The projection piece will prevent the slide c from being drawn out too far, as it will
come into contact with the back of the opening i
I prefer to have the shde working on a piece of metals turned up at the sides, so as
to form lateral guides, as shown at it
The tablet m is for indicating the class of goods contained in the machine, and by
means of the buttons n, thus can be readily changed. so that different goods may be
supplied from the same machine at different times
After the slide 13 fully pushed back it is locked by the locking end of the lever k
entering the front slot e The slide e cannot be again pulled out after it has been
partially pushed in, on account of the lever & falling into the back slots e, e
Having now particularly described and ascertamed the nature of my said
ravention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
1 claim is
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1 The improved con feed apparatus, constructed and operated, substantially as
hereinbefore described with reference to the accompanying sheet of drawings
2 In machines for the automatic delivery of prepaid goods a slide or drawer
provided with slots, for the end of a horizontal locking lever to take into, such lever
being released by a penny falling on the tail end thereof.
3 In machines for the automatic delivery of prepaid goods, a slot in the slide
or drawer, for allowing a half-penny to pass through without actuating the locking
lever
4. In machines for the automatic delivery of prepaid goods, the employment of an
interchangeable indicating tablet for the purpose set forth.
Dated this Ninth day of October 1895.
BROWNE & Co.,
9 Warwick Court, Gray's Inn, London, WC, Agents for the Applicant.