Retailing Cigars and other Small Articles.
Year: 1885

page_text: Retailing Cigars and other Small Articles.
I, WILLIAM PHILLIPS THOMPSON, Fel. Inst. P.A. of the Agency for Foreign
Patent Solicitors, 6 Lord Street, Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster, and
323 High Holborn, in the County of Middlesex, Civil Engineer, do hereby declare
the nature of the said invention for "A NEW OR IMPROVED APPARATUS ADAPTED
FOR AUTOMATICALLY RETAILING CIGARS AND OTHER SMALL ARTICLES (a com
munication from abroad by Conrad Österberg of Oerebro in the Kingdom of
Sweden, Landlord) and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be
particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
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This invention has for its object an apparatus, adapted for delivering to the buyer
in exchange for coin small objects such as cigars automatically at different prices,
and if required also returning change.
The exterior case A of the apparatus, represented in section in Figures 1, 2
and 3, is made of sheet or cast iron and encloses the mechanism. B, C and D are
the cigar receptacles, provided with revolving bottoms E, F and G. H is a bar
provided with a button and secured to the cross bar T. To the same cross-bar are
also fixed the link bars K L and M. which conducted by the guides T₁ T* and T³
are leading to mechanisms of about the same construction and corresponding with
the respective cigar receptacles. N, N¹ and N' are levers, at the top provided with
a bent cross-bar and at the lower end connected with the bottoms of the cigar
receptacles by means of the link-bars and levers 0 0¹ OʻP P¹ and P². x is a lever
provided at the lower edge with teeth designed to keep the lever N in a certain
position. and 23 are springs tending to draw in opposite directions, the former
acting upon the lever x, the latter upon the top of the lever N (see Figure 1).
In Figure 3 those parts (x x¹ and x²) are shown only at one place farthest to the
right.
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Q, R, T, T, S and S¹ are money channels. Of these channels the two latter are
destined to be filled with money for change, the other for receiving the buyer's
money, which pages down through them into the money receptacles U, U¹ and U*
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No is a bent lever, which conjointly with the link-bar O¹ and the lever P¹ transfers
the motion from the lever N¹ to the bottom F. O is a shaft provided with a fork a
in which is suspended the lever b, one end of which is provided with a shoulder
and the other one bent upwards. The spring & serves to keep the said lever pressed
against the cross-bar T. On the same shaft 0°° is fixed an arm e which by means
of the wire f is connected with the fork-shaped wire k held and guided by the
parts g and h. Another arm is by means of a wire m connected with the afore-
said lever x. On the bent lever N³ is secured the arm v¹ acting upon the bottom y
common to both money channels S and S¹ (see Figure 7) which bottom is connected
with the spring A° by means of the lever z. The counting apparatus consists of a
numbered wheel q and a toothed wheel p, both secured on a common shaft r.
bars n and o have for purpose to import a rotary motion to these wheels.
The
The apparatus represented on the drawing is designed for the sale of cigars
at 5, 6 and 8 ore, for which the apparatus returns 2 ore change out of 10 ore, when
an 8 ore cigar is wanted.
If a 5 ore cigar is wanted, a 5 ore is put into the channel Q down which the
coin passes and stops between the bar K (pushed out by the spring t.) and the
piece N, Figures 1 and 3. Then the bar H is pushed in, whereby the 5 ore,
the piece N and the top of the lever N, firmly connected therewith, is pushed to
the right, until the 5 ore falls down into the receptacle U placed below. The
lever N is then prevented from being drawn back by means of the spring by a
tooth of the lever x encountering the upper edge of the cross-bar N' Figure 1.
The lower end of the lever N acts simultaneously upon the link bar O and upon
the lever P, whereby the semi-circular bottom E turns, thus causing the cigar
resting thereon to fall down and to be supported by the wires k. By pushing in
the bar H, and the cross bar T the upper edge of the said cross bar was engaged
within the shoulder of the bar b, which is held depressed by the spring d. Then
the bar H is drawn out whereby the cross bar T and the bar K are brought with
it and owing to the shoulder likewise the bar b. By means of the fork a wherein
the bar bis suspended, the shaft 0°° will then rotate so that the arm e secured
therein moves upwards, whereby the link bar f and the top of the wire k follow,
thus causing the cigar to fall down on the bottom of the closet, whence it may be
taken by the buyer. On the rotation of the shaft 0° the lever N is disengaged
from the tooth in the lever x when the bottom E resumes its former position,
because the arm 7 secured on the shaft draws the lever x upwards by means of the
wire m.
Finally also the cross bar T is disengaged from the shoulder on the bar b,
thereby, that its other end bent upwards encounters the shoulder b'.
If an 8 ore cigar is wanted, a 10 ore is put into the tube R. From the above
description it will be easily understood, how the motion is transferred to the
bottom F of the cigar receptacle by means of the parts N', N³, O' and P'. On the
bent lever N³ is secured an arm v, which, on turning the bent lever N³ presses in
the bottom of the money channels S S¹, where the change is placed (see Figures 2
and 7). Then the small cross-bars at the top of the lever z pull the springs A°A°
out of the money channels, whereby two coins fall down upon the bottom pushed
in. The springs retaking thus their former position both coins fall down upon the
bottom of the case, but the springs A° A° having returned into the money channels
prevent the coins remaining there from falling down. If a 6 ore cigar is bought a
bore is put into the channel T¹ and a 1 ore into the channel T. The operation is
similar to that described for the channel Q, only with the difference that on the
end of the bar M is fixed a pivoted double armed shoulder simultaneously pressing
on both coins (see Figure 3). Should one coin be wanting, the said shoulder will
only turn without affecting the other mechanism.
The counting apparatus consists of the toothed wheel p. By means of the
lever o, and the link bar n fixed at the pivoted bottom of the cigar receptacle, the
wheel is turned a little each time a cigar is bought. On the same shaft as
the wheel p is another numbered wheel q. These numbers are visible one at a time
through a little opening in the front of the case (see Figure 5). Instead of the

page_text: highest number there is the word "End," which, the last cigar having been sold,
appears at the opening. At the same time there enters into a hole in the wheel p
a point al projecting from the wires and likewise through a hole in the top of the
money channel Q the end of the wire 8, which is bent towards the said channel so
that the channel is closed. A similar counting apparatus is attached to each cigar
receptacle, although only one is represented in the drawing.
Should it be desired to adapt the apparatus to retail other sorts of cigars, it is
only necessary to add more cigar receptacles, provided with their respective
mechanisms, connected by means of a link bar with the cross bar T and the bar H
and likewise provided with their respective counting apparatuses as described
above.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention, 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
1st. The combination of parts forming the new or improved apparatus for the
sale and delivery of small objects, cigars and the like automatically.
2nd. In apparatuses for automatically retailing cigars and the like, the combina-
tion of parts consisting of the bars K, L, and M working in guides, and connected
by means of a cross-bar and having tubes Q, R, T and T¹ for conducting the coins
in front of the ends of the bars so that when the bars are pushed in, the coins serve
as a prolongation of the bars, so that the latter in their turn push in the top of the
levers N, N' and N³.
3rd. In apparatuses for automatically retailing cigars and the like, the combina-
tion of parts forming a stopping mechanism for causing the coins to fall down in
the coin receptacle before any cigar is disengaged, consisting essentially of a
stopping piece connected with the shaft 0°° and which stops the lever N, so that
the coin falls down.
4th. In apparatuses for automatically retailing cigars and the like, the combina-
tion of parts consisting of the cigar receptacles B, C and D with pivoted bottoms
which are turned so that a cigar falls down, when the bars K, L and M have been
pushed in so far, that they push away any of the levers N, N¹ and N' actuated by
a spring and which in their turn effect the turning of the bottoms.
5th. In apparatuses for automatically retailing cigars and the like, the combina-
tion of parts consisting of the lever k connected with the shaft 0° and the lever b
designed when the bar H is pulled out, to cause the lower ends of the lever k¹ to
descend for letting the cigar, disengaged from the cigar receptacle fall down.
6th. In apparatuses for automatically retailing cigars and the like, the combina-
tion of parts consisting of an apparatus for giving change consisting essentially of
money channels S and S¹ wherein the undermost coins are retained by the lower
bent ends of the springs A°, which can be raised by the lever connected with the
bottom y, which in its turn is actuated by the arm v¹ fixed on the lever N³.
The whole substantially as described and shewn in the accompanying drawings,
DL: 011 1.
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