Year: 1889

page_text: Figure 3 a front face view; and
Figures 4 to 6 views illustrating certain details.
A, indicates the supporting frame as a whole, comprising a flat plate B, depending
parallel guides C C, and block or support D upon which the articles to be sold are
piled & may be protected by an outer casing (not shown).
E indicates the operating slide, F the delivery slide, G and H the retracting springs
therefor, and I, the pivoted pawl adapted to lock the delivery slide in position until
released by the operating slide.
Inasmuch as the machine is chiefly designed for selling or vending books or
pamphlets, the plate B and block or support D will be made much wider than usual,
the upper plate of the delivery slide being advisably, but not necessarily, made as wide
as the support over which it moves, so as to bear against the book throughout its
entire length.
This delivery slide F has lug a, against which the coin carried by the operating
slide strikes when the latter is pulled outward; the said operating slide being provided
with arms bb for supporting the coin. The plate B and slide E are each provided,
respectively, with a coin slot c and d.
Pivoted or otherwise secured to the inner face of one of the guides C, and extending
forwardly toward the front of the machine, is a spring arm J, which, at its free end,
sets away a distance from the guide to which it is secured.
When a coin of the proper size is placed on the arms bb of the operating slide and
the latter remains in the position shown in Figure 2, it will not touch the spring arm;
but after the said slide is carried forward, the coin strikes against the face of the arm,
and, as the coin is held at its upper and lower ends and at its sides, it will force the
As soon as
free end of the arm backward foward the guide to which it is attached.
the coin is carried past the free end of the arm, the latter springs back behind the coin
in such position that when the coin slide is retracted the coin will be disengaged from
or thrown off its supporting arms bb, by reason of the arm striking the coin from
behind, as shown in Figure 6.
In the drawings, but one of these spring arms is shown, but it is obvious that the
number may be increased.
The operating slide E, in the present instance, is U-shaped, and at its forward end
embraces both faces of plate B, as shown in Figure 2, the rear part of the plate, for
the width of the slide E, being cut away to receive not only the slide E, but also the
upright portion of the delivery slide.

page_text: Support D is likewise cut away on its rear to provide for the forward movement of
the delivery slide.
Operating slide E is provided with a thumb piece or handle e on the end of that arm
of the slide which works over the upper face of the plate B, and it will be noted upon
reference to Figure 2 that when the slide is pulled outward it covers the coin slot c in
the plate, thereby rendering it necessary to release or retract the slide before access
may be had to the said slot. By this construction, tampering with the machine by
the insertion of wire strings, etcetera, is prevented.
Secured to the front edge of the support D is a guard K, which, as shown in
Figures 1 and 2, curves outward away from and upward above the support; the said
guard K joining the support a little below the upper edge of the latter so as to form a
shoulder, against which wires, etcetera, will strike if it be attempted to withdraw
articles by means of wires or sticks.
Now when a coin of the proper size is passed through the slots c d it falls upon the
arms bb, and as the slide B is pulled outward, the lower edge of the coin strikes the
lng a on the delivery slide, thereby locking the two slides together.
As the slides thus move outward, the coin is caused to depress or push back the
spring arm J, the coin slot in the plate B is covered, and the article shoved forward by
that part of the delivery slide working over the top of the support D.
As the operating slide E is pulled outward, its spring rocks the pawl so that the latter
shall engage and hold the slide F; the slide F being held in this position until the
spring G retracts the slide far enough to strike and release the pawl, thereby allowing
the slide F to be retracted by its spring H.
As the slide E moves inward it carries the coin back with it until the latter, striking
against the spring, is thrown down into the box or casing of the machine (not
shown).
When the delivery slide pushes the book outward its edge which is forced
through a delivery slot in the outer casing strikes the curved guard and is carried
sufficiently upwards in a curved line to enable the operator to take hold of and
remove the book.
The slide E, instead of being made of a piece of metal doubled upon itself, may
be made of two separate pieces united at their inner ends.
The construction of the spring arm is also a matter capable of considerable
variation and the invention is not to be understood as limited to the precise con-
struction shown.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, as communicated to me
by my foreign correspondent, I declare that what I claim is
:-
1. In a book-vending machine, a support D upon which the books rest, provided
with an outwardly-curved guard K secured to its front face, in combination with
means for ejecting a book from the support, substantially as shown.
2. In a book-vending machine, a support D upon which the books rest, in com-
bination with a curved guard K secured thereto a little below the top of the
support to form a shoulder f.
3. In a machine for vending books, pamphlets, etcetera, the combination with a
frame A, having plate B and guides CC, of the actuating slide embracing the
plate upon its opposite faces, and a delivery slide.
4. In a vending machine, the combination with the plate B having a coin slot,
of an actuating slide E, embracing the plate on opposite faces and provided with
a coin slot in its lower arm to register with that in the plate, and a delivery
slide, the said parts being so arranged that, when the operating slide is pulled
outward, it will cover the slot in the plate.
5. In a vending machine, the combination with the plate B, cut away as shown,
of the U-shaped operating slide embracing opposite faces of the plate, and a
delivery slide.
6. In a vending machine, the combination with the plate B, having a coin slot,

page_text: of an actuating slide E, having two arms, one of said arms rosting upon the
upper face of the plate and serving as a handle, and serving also to cover the
slot in the plate B when the machine is operated, and the other having a coin
slot to normally register with that of the plate, and a delivery slide.
7. In a vending machine, the combination with a delivery slide, of an actuating
slide adapted to hold a coin in position to engage the delivery slide, and an arm
against which the coin is adapted to strike as the actuating slide is returned to
position.
8. In a vending machine, the combination with the guides CC of the slides E
and F, and a spring arm projecting outwardly from the inner face of one of the
guides.
9. In a vending machine, the combination with a frame or support, of an
actuating slide adapted to hold a coin, a delivery slide arranged in position to be
engaged by the coin of the requisite size carried by the actuating slide, a yielding
arm mounted in the frame or support, substantially as shown, whereby as the
actuating slide is drawn outward, the arm will be retracted or pushed aside, but
when the slide is returned to position, the arm will strike the coin and
dislodge it.
10. In an automatic vending machine in which the actuating and delivery slides
are designed to be connected by a coin (or similar device) the combination with
such slides and a coin holder, of a fixed arm independent of the slides for dis-
lodging the coin from its holder.
11. In a vending machine, the combination with the plate B, of a support D on
the upper face thereof, a delivery slide adapted to eject the books (or other
articles) from the upper face of the support, and a guard K projecting outward
and upward from the front face of the support D, all substantially as shown.
12. In a vending machine, the combination of a plate B, a support D on the
plate, for the articles to be sold, cut away on its rear edge as shown, and a
delivery slide F, adapted to enter the cut-away portion of the support and eject
the articles from the upper face of the latter.
Dated this 11th day of November 1889.
WM. P. THOMPSON & CO.,
Agents for the Applicant.