Improvements in Coin-controlled Apparatus for the Delivery of Cards, Tickets, and the like.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 20th Sept., 1895-Accepted, 7th Mar.,
1896
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Coin-controlled Apparatus for the Delivery of
Cards, Tickets, and the like.
I, CARL BERZDORF, Merchant, of 24 Burgerstrasse Coln-am-Rhein, in the
Empire of Germany, 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 subject of this invention is an apparatus which by the insertion of a specific
coin without any further manipulation is caused automatically to provide and
deliver a railway travelling ticket marked with the date or other mode of
authentication.
The construction and operation of the apparatus are clearly indicated in the
following Specification and drawings:-
The cards or tickets are arranged to lie one over the other in the box a Figure 1
while the lowest rests on the line or track b (Figure 2) of the slide c and the
antecedent card is already located above the type-stamp w.
If now a specific coin be put in the slot d of the apparatus it will fall through
the funnel e Figure 1 into the shovel or scoopf which rests on one of the arms of
the two-armed lever g which in the normal state carries on its other arm the
adjustable counterpoise which balances the scoop f. As soon therefore as the
coin falls into the scoop the latter over balances the counterpoise h and sinks
whereupon the coin drops into the funnel N (shown in dotted lines in the drawings
Figures 1 and 2) and passes thence into a collecting box.
By the movement of the loaded scoopf the spur-pinicu mounted on the pivot-
pin of the lever g, causes the depression of the toothed sector i with which it is
engaged whereby the vertical rod k secured to the above-named sector (Figure 1)
presses upon one arm of the stop-lever m pivoting on the pin so that the other
arm thereof is raised whereby the ratchet wheel n is released by the stop o
(Figure 1) and the flyer or vane p by the stop p¹ whereby the stop-movement of
the clockwork I is set free.
Consequently the motor-spring g of the latter is set in action and the cam-discr
secured to the spindle n' of the ratchet-wheel n is caused to rotate.
As soon as one of the steps or notches of the cam-disc comes into coincidence
with a projection on the levert the latter actuated by the spring u or by a
weight drops downwards presses upon the lever Figure 2 which presses the
type-stamp w against the card lying over it and makes the desired impression
upon the latter.
After this impression is completed the other cam-disc a likewise mounted on the
same spindle n' (of the ratchet-wheel) presses upon the lever a pivotted on the
pin y and by the aid of the rod A and lever B lifts the rod C and therewith
the stop-lever D secured thereto so as to release the ratchet wheel E from
the projecting stop F (Figure 1) on the lever D so that the stop-motion
consisting of the worm G and pin disc H is released by the raising of the cross-
piece J of the rod C so as to clear the pin on the disc H.
Thereupon, the motor-spring K i.e. the clockwork II is set in action the cam or
wiper wheel L is caused to rotate and pushes the slide c forwards by the aid of
the slide-bar M laterally projecting from the slide c to which it is secured.
The slide c pushes out the undermost card of the card-column a lying in front
of it, and over the type-stamp w while the card just stamped is simultaneously

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pushed off the slide-track and drops into the delivery receptacle Q which projects
outside the box or case of the apparatus and can be removed therefrom.
Falling weights can be substituted as motors for the winding springs 7 and K.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. A coin-controlled automatic distribution of cards tickets and the like
characterised by each individual card being provided with a stamped or other
impression and automatically thrust out of the apparatus while a clock-move-
ment (I) whereof the stop motion is released by the introduction of a specific
coin sets free a weighted lever combination (tv) from its support (r) and then
presses a type-stamp (w) against the next card to be delivered and the clock-
movement (I) further operates another lever combination (A B C) by means of a
cam-disc (a) or the like in such manner that the same releases the stop-motion of
a second clock-movement (11) which then by rotating a cam or wiper disc L
acting on a slide c pushes the card already printed out of the apparatus and places
the next succeeding card over the type-stamp.
2. The combination and arrangement of parts constituting the complete
apparatus substantially as and for the purpose described and illustrated in the
accompanying drawings.
Dated this 20th day of September 1895.
BOULT & WADE,
Agents for the Applicant.