Improvements in Automatic Coin Freed Machines.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 24th Nov., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 24th Aug., 1891-Accepted, 21st Nov., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Automatic Coin Freed Machines.
I, JOSEPH MASON, of 23 Commercial Road, London, E., Electrician, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:
This invention relates to improvements in automatic coin freed machines and has
for its object the construction of an apparatus which on prepayment of a coin will
deliver a ticket to the applicant.
My improved apparatus consists of a box provided with an upper and a lower
front extension supported by two pillars one of which is capable of being used for
the tickets the other for the reception of the coin one at each side or in any other
suitable manner. Between the two pillars is displayed a figure capable of moving, or
in some cases stationary, when the apparatus is in operation. In front of the lower
extension is arranged a handle on turning which the spring of a clockwork which
actuates the figure is wound up causing the latter to move as if writing the ticket.
The motion of this figure has no action whatever upon the mechanism.
When the handle is released the said spring becomes unwound and trips a pivoted
plate upon which a ticket has been dropped by the mechanism actuated by the coin
hereinafter fully described, this coin being inserted in a slot formed in one of the
pillars of the box and the ticket is thus caused to drop through a slot formed in the
box onto a small tablet or ledge arranged below the same.
The coin dropped
through the slot aforesaid falls through a shoot into the bottom of the box and in
the opening formed by two adjoining arms of a double armed lever so as to fill
such opening and thereby cause the rear arm of the said lever to be raised and pull
aslide or drawer passing below one of the pillars aforesaid. This slide is formed
of a frame filled midway by a plate the front edge of which knocks off one of the
tickets by its rear edge from the pillar, this ticket falling through the hollow
portion of the said frame upon the pivoted plate aforesaid.
The figure is caused to move by the turning of a handle which same operation
causes the card to be released from the column or other suitable position, the figure
whilst in motion oscillating a platform which causes the card to be delivered to the
person operating the machine."
The machine cannot be set in action without a suitable coin, which coin passes
through a slot and from thence falls into a suitable receptacle, said receptacle being
attached to a movable slide fastened to a frame. Attached to this slide is a fixed
piece forming a bottom to the receptacle and on the edges of the receptacle are
two notches into which falls a catch or lever fastened to the stationary frame
carrying the slide.
Upon the insertion of the coin through the slot into the receiver, the edge of the
coin causes the catch to ride off the notches and the coin is displaced and falls away.
Dated this 24th day of November 1890.
HUGHES, ELI & HUGHES,
76, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.

page_text: Improvements in Automatic Coin Freed Machines.
1 JOSEPH MASON of 23 Commercial Road London E. Electrician 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 thereof
that is to say :-
My invention relates to improvements in automatic coin freed machines and has
for its object mechanism whereby on prepayment of a suitable coin the applicant
will receive a ticket upon which is printed a sentence intended to foretell some future
event while at the same time a figure will be set in motion. This improved machine
consists of a box furnished at the top with a central glazed opening disclosing a
figure apparently seated at a table placed on a shelf and upon which table is fixed
a card. The figure holds a pencil in one hand which is placed over the card and
which when the machine is operated moves to and fro along the same, the head of
the figure moving at the same time.
This figure consists of a head mounted upon a frame over which the dress is
arranged and in which operate two sets of levers, one set actuating the head and the
other the hand of the figure. Two of these levers are fulcrumed at the bottom
upon a rod the lower end of one lever being connected by a rod to a crank mounted
on an axis projecting from the back of a clockwork which actuates the whole
mechanism and the main spring of which is wound up by turning a handle fixed in
front of the machine whereat are also arranged two pillars, one on each side of the
window one pillar serving as a receptacle for the tickets above mentioned while
the other is furnished with a slot serving as a shoot to guide the coin inserted
therein into the machine, this coin raising as the handle is turned, a locking bar,
which prevents the machine from being used without prepayment.
Underneath the pillar and inside the box slides a forked and recessed plate con-
nected by a vertical projection to a horizontal sliding bar actuated by the handle
of the machine and controlled by a spiral spring which brings the bar back into its
normal position after the said handle is released; this forked plate moves upon
another plate fixed to the box and supported by a flanged plate screwed to the
bottom thereof and pushes the lowermost ticket away from the pillar, so that it may
fall upon an inclined plate pivotted to the inner side of the box and to the flanged
plate aforesaid. Upon the latter plate is further pivoted a bent finger bearing
against the back of the inclined plate and gradually depressed by means of a lever
operated by the handle of the machine so as to allow the ticket to slide upon a tray
leading out of the machine.
In the accompanying drawings
Fig. 1 is a front elevation of the machine and
Fig. 2 a rear elevation partly in section of the same;
Fig. 3 is a horizontal section on line of Fig. 2.
Fig. 4 is a rear view of the mechanism the clock work being removed.
B is the box the shape of which is clearly shown in Fig. 1. W is the glazed
opening disclosing the figure F apparently seated at the table a but merely
composed of a head & pivotted between the two curved in vertical bars c. Through
the lower end d of the head is fixed an eye to which is attached one extremity of a
spiral spring the other extremity of which is fixed by another eye to the cross bar f
secured to the bars c. The handy is loosely mounted within the arme upon a pin h
and is furnished with an inner extension carrying a pin to which is attached a
aj
rod connected to one arm of the bell crank lever m. The lower end d of the
head is also furnished with a lever l. The levers and m are respectively connected
by the rods and m² to the levers l' and m' fulcrumed upon the pin or rod n, the
other arm of the lever m² being furthermore connected by the rod o to the crank p.

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mounted at the end of the axis q of the clockwork C. The box B is provided with
two front pillars P and P, the former of which is furnished with a slot leading to
the shoot (Fig. 2) and a handle H, whose spindles is connected at its inner end
to a lever t, articulated to one end of a rod w, the latter being secured at its other
extremity to the sliding bar R. A fork upon which the coin drops from the
shoot is interposed between the rod a and the slide bar R, for the purpose of
enabling the said coin to rise before finally falling into the box under the pin w
fixed to the extremity of the locking bar which is pivoted to the guide Y the
latter being screwed upon the rear or inner surface of the front of the box B.
bent up end of the bar R bears against a roller 1 carried by one end of a curved
bar 2 fixed to the axis 7 upon which is coiled the main spring 8, one end of this
spring being attached thereto while the other is fastened to the post 9.
Upon this
axis is likewise mounted the curved piece 3 bearing against the curved block 4*
secured to one end of the lever or finger 4, which is pivotted to a lateral projection
of the flanged plate 6. This finger bears against the back of the inclined plate 4
which is hinged to the rod 4 carried at one end by the side of the box and at the
other by the said plate 6. The latter supports moreover a plate 10 which is
secured at one end to the box and upon which slides another plate 11 bolted by a
rod 11 to the bent up end of the sliding bar R, and having a rectangular recess 12
and a circular notch in front. This plate 11 is guided between the two projecting
lateral edges of the inner rectangular base 13 of the pillar P1, the outer base 14 of
which can be raised in order to disclose the opening 15 (Fig. 4) through which the
circular tickets are inserted being pressed down after a number of thein is piled up
by the weight 16; the said base 14 is held in its normal position by a spring 151
fixed to the inner side of the box and whose front edge 17 enters a notch formed in
the downward projection 18 of the said outer base. S. is the ticket or delivery
tray. The sliding bar R. is brought back into its normal position by the spiral
spring 19. The clock work C is of ordinary construction.
My improved automatic coin freed machine operates as follows. The coin having
been inserted through the slot in the pillar P falls through the shoot upon the
fork and on the handle H being turned in the direction of the arrow (Fig. 1) the
sliding bar R is moved in the same direction when the coin raises the pin wo and
with it the locking bar which bore previously against a projection 20 (Fig. 3)
forming part of the slide bar R. The turning of the handle next causes the bent
up end of the latter bar R to hear against the roller 1 and bring the curved piece 2
from the position shown in full lines in Fig. 4 to that shown in dotted lines in the
same figure thus turning the axis 7 and winding the main spring 8 coiled thereon.
At the same time the plate 11 bears by means of its front notched edge against the
edge of the lowermost ticket and pushes the latter away from the inner base 13 of
the pillar so as to cause it to drop in front of the inclined plate 4" which is held
tightly against the back of the box front against the upper edge of the outlet slot.
As the bent up end of the plate 11 strikes against the edge of the rectangular
base 13, the bar R has reached the end of its stroke and the handle H is released
thus setting in motion the clockwork previously wound up whereupon the axes 7
and 7 are rotated, the levers and m m' are operated causing the head and the
hand e to move up and down and to and fro respectively, and the lever or finger 4
is finally lowered at the last impulse of the cam 3 thus allowing the inclined plate 4"
to move back and the ticket to drop outside on the tray S. ready to be picked up,
the said finger again holding the plate under the action of the spring 5 in its
normal or closed position. The bar R is brought back into its normal position by
the spiral spring 19 when the bar z falls again into its locking position."
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. The improved automatic coin freed delivery machine for delivering a ticket

page_text: on prepayment of the requisite coin and for actuating a figure arranged constructed
and operating substantially as described and shown and for the purpose set forth.
2. In automatic coin freed delivery machines, the mechanism whereby the main
spring of the clock work is wound up by turning a handle outside the machine
after a coin has been inserted substantially as described and shown and for the
purpose set forth.
Dated this 24th day of November 1890.
HUGHES, ELI & HUGHES,
76, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents for Applicant.