One at a Time from Receptacles Containing them.
Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 24th July, 1886.
Complete Left, 7th Apr., 1887.
Complete Accepted, 17th May, 1887.
One at a Time from Receptacles Containing them.
I, JOSEPH BREEDEN, of New Mill Works, Fazely Street, Birmingham, in the
County of Warwick, Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:-
In the said machines as is well understood the dropping of a suitable coin into the
machine causes the delivery of a single cigar or cigarette.
The said machines as ordinarily constructed are in many respects defective. Coins
may be dropped into the machine, when it contains no cigar or cigaretic to be
delivered; a coin tied to a string may be let down into the machine so as to effect the
delivery of a cigar or cigarette, and the coin may be drawn back again by the string ;
the machine may be tampered with at the part where the cigars or cigarettes are
delivered and a cigar or cigarette extracted without a coin having been introduced
into the machine.
The object of my invention is to remedy these defects that is, to secure the closing
of the opening at which the coin is dropped into the machine when the last cigar or
cigarette has been delivered so that a coin cannot be dropped into the machine when
there are no cigars or cigarettes in the machine; to prevent the delivery of a cigar or
cigarette until the coin has reached such a part of the machine that it cannot be with-
drawn and to render the passage out of the machine of a cigar or cigarette
impossible until the parts shall have been operated, which are only operated by the
action of a coin dropped into the machine.
My invention further includes a device for permitting small articles introduced into
the machine to fall through without causing the delivery of a cigar or cigarette.
I will describe my improvements in connection with a machine constructed to deliver
cigarettes by the action of a penny or two half pennies.
According to one method of closing the coin aperture when the last cigarette has
been delivered I employ a vertical lever between the lower end of which and a fixed
part of the machine the cigarette passes immediately before it is delivered. When
this lever is pressed back during the operation of the machine the cigarette it bore
upon falls, but another cigarette replacing the fallen one the lower end of the lever is
kept pressed outwards so long as there are any cigarettes in the machine, but when
the last cigarette has fallen from the machine the lower end of the lever no longer

page_text: being supported in its outward position is pressed inwards by a light spring. The
upper end of the lever is in the normal state of the machine engaged with a spring
slide at the back of the coin opening and holds back the said slide, but when the last
cigarette has fallen from the machine the lever moves as described, the upper end by
the motion becomes disengaged from the slide which is urged forward by its spring
and closes the coin aperture.
According to another of my improvements I effect the required closing of the coin
aperture in the following manner. A light spring arm bears against the slide by the
action of which the cigarette is delivered. A projection on this arm enters a slot in a
pendent weight when the slide is pressed backwards and its slot receives a cigarette.
The said weight is suspended by a lever and is supported by the projection described
when the slide is pushed inwards and by the cigarette in the slide when the projection
is withdrawn. But when the last cigarette has been delivered there is no longer any
support to the said weight when the projection has been drawn from its slot and the
weight descending the lever by which it is suspended acts upon the slide and closes
the coin aperture.
The restoration of the parts to their normal position can only be effected from the
interior of the case of the machine and this is done when the case is unlocked for
recharging it with cigarettes.
In order to prevent a coin attached to a string operating the machine I make the
incline down which the coin descends of a zig-zag figure. A coin having a string
attached to it will not descend the zig-zag incline.
In order to prevent the machine being operated by thin discs or pieces of metal
dropped into the coin aperture the scale on which the coin falls is slit so that thin
pieces of metal fall through it without acting on it.
In machines for delivering cigarettes singly as ordinarily constructed it is possible
by the introduction of a bent wire into the opening at which the cigarettes are
delivered to press back the slide which delivers the cigarette and by withdrawing
the wire to allow the said slide to return by the action of its spring and deliver
a cigarette, no coin having been dropped into the machine. To prevent this fraud
I modify the lever carried by the slide in the following manner. The said lever
as ordinarily made falls when the slide has been pushed home and a shoulder on
its lower edge comes in front of a projection on the rear part of the slide. When
the pressure on the slide is relaxed its front part advances by the action of its
spring, a pin carried by the front part of the slide acting on an incline on the under-
side of the said lever and raising it. The shoulder described being lifted no longer
bears against the pin on the rear part of the slide and the said part springs
forward. The parts are now ready to be again operated upon. By this arrangement
there is nothing to prevent the pushing back of the delivering slide by an instrument
introduced at the delivery opening. My improvement in this part of the machine
consists in making on the underside of the lever carried by the slide a projecting arm
instead of the shoulder commonly employed. When the slide is pressed inwards after
the introduction of a coin into the machine the lever falls and the rear side of the
projecting arm retains the rear part of the slide in the same manner as the shoulder
in the ordinary lever; but on removing pressure from the slide the lever is raised by
the pin on the front part of the slide acting on the incline on its underside. When
the lever has been raised nearly to the full extent the pin on the rear part of the
slide acts on the inclined lower end of the projecting arm and the said arm and the
lever carrying it are suddenly jerked upwards. The rear part of the slide advances
and the lever falling the projecting arm now descends in front of the pin on the rear
part of the slide and prevents it being pushed back from the delivery opening, and
the said slide is not liberated until another coin has been introduced.
W. T. WHITEMAN,
Agent for the Applicant.

page_text: One at a Time from Receptacles Containing them.
I JOSEPH BREEDEN of New Mill Works, Fazeley Street, Birmingham in the
County of Warwick, Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of my invention and
in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement :-
In the said machines as is well understood the dropping of a suitable coin into
the machine causes the delivery of a single cigar or cigarette.
The said machines as ordinarily constructed are in many respects defective. Coins
may be dropped into the machine when it contains no cigar or cigarette to be
delivered; a coin tied to a string may be let down into the machine so as to effect
the delivery of a cigar or cigarette and the coin may be drawn back again by the
string; the machine may be tampered with at the part where the cigars or cigarettes
are delivered and a cigar or cigarette extracted without a coin having been introduced
into the machine.
The object of my invention is to remedy these defects, that is, to secure the closing
of the opening at which the coin is dropped into the machine when the last cigar
or cigarette has been delivered so that a coin cannot be dropped into the machine
when there are no cigars or cigarettes in the machine; to prevent the delivery of
a cigar or cigarette until the coin has reached such a part of the machine that
it cannot be withdrawn and to render the passage out of the machine of a cigar
or cigarette impossible until the parts shall have been operated which are only
operated by the action of a coin dropped into the inachine.
My invention further includes a device for permitting small articles introduced
into the machine to fall through without causing the delivery of a cigar or cigarette.
I will describe my improvements in connection with a machine constructed to
deliver cigarettes by the action of a penny or two half pennies.
According to one method of closing the coin aperture when the last cigarette has
been delivered I employ a vertical lever between the lower end of which and a fixed
part of the machine the cigarette passes immediately before it is delivered. When
this lever is pressed back during the operation of the machine the cigarette it bore
upon falls but another cigarette replacing the fallen one the lower end of the lever
is kept pressed outwards so long as there are any cigarettes in the machine but when
the last cigarette has fallen from the machine the lower end of the lever no longer
being supported in its outward position is pressed inwards by a light spring. The
upper end of the lever is in the normal state of the machine engaged with a spring
slide at the back of the coin opening and holds back the said slide but when the last
cigarette has fallen from the machine the lever moves as described, the upper end
by the motion becomes disengaged from the slide which is urged forward by its
spring and closes the coin aperture.
This part of my invention is represented in Figures 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 of the
accompanying Drawings.

page_text: Figures 1 and 2 represent elevations taken at right angles to one another of
a portion of a cigarette delivering machine containing this part of my invention,
the parts of the coin aperture closing mechanism being represented in their normal
positions, that is, in the positions which they occupy until the last cigarette has
been delivered from the machine; Figure 3 represents the same view as Figure 1
after the last cigarette has been delivered and the coin aperture has been automatically
closed Figures 4 and 5 represent parts of the coin aperture closing mechanism
detached.
The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in Figures 1. 2. 3. 4 and 5.
a is the passage into which the cigarettes from the hopper fall to be delivered
one at a time into the delivery passage c; d is the slide connected with the external
pusher e by the pushing in of which a cigarette is delivered. The bottom cigarette
of the column of cigarettes in the passage a is supported on the slide d when the said
slide and pusher are in their back or normal positions but on pressing in the
pusher e a slot or opening d in the slide d is brought under the bottom cigarette
of the column and the said bottom cigarette falls through the said slot or opening
into the delivery passage c, the descent of the cigarette above the bottom one being
arrested by the coin aperture closing mechanism as hereinafter described. On
the slide returning to its back position the arrested cigarette is released and falls
onto the said slide ready to be delivered on the next inward motion of the said slide.
The. coin aperture closing mechanism consists of the vertical lever f, turning
on the pivots f³, ƒ³. The lower arm f of the vertical lever is pressed inwards when
at liberty to move by the spring (see Figure 3). The upper arm of the lever
carries a stud with which the hooked end of the jointed part of the spring
closing slide may be engaged. The closing slide works in the guides i, i
and when in its back position as indicated in dotted lines it closes the coin aperture k
in the case of the machine. When the closing slide is in its normal position
it uncovers the coin aperture and permits the coins to be passed into the
machine. The slide is represented separately in Figure 4 and its jointed
and hooked part is represented separately in Figure 5. By means of a
handle on the slide the hooked end of the jointed part 2 may be engaged
with the stud on the upper arm of the vertical lever f, f². The bottom
arm of the said lever carries a cross piece f³ which bears against the
last but one of the cigarettes in the channel a and grips it gently between itself
and the side of the said channel a, as represented in Figure 1, and so long as
cigarettes are delivered to the passage a the lever ff occupies the position represented
in Figure 1 and the coin aperture remains open. The ends of the cross piece f³
of the lover bear against the slide d and the said. slide when in its back or normal
position tends to maintain the lever ff in the position represented in Figure 1.
When the slide d is pushed inwards by acting on the pusher é to deliver a cigarette,
the bottom cigarette falls through the slot in the slide d but the cigarette above
that just delivered is gripped between the cross piece f and the side of the channel a.
On pressure being removed from the pusher e the slide is restored to its normal
position and the arm of the lever ff is slightly pressed back by the said slide.
The pressure of the lever being thus removed from the cigarette which was held
by the lever the said cigarette falls onto the slide d but as another cigarette replaces
the fallen one the cross piece of the lever is kept pressed outwards so long
as there are cigarettes in the machine. When the last cigarette has been received
on the slide the lever, is held back by the said slide but on pressing in the
slide to deliver the last cigarette the lower end of the lever being no longer supported
in its position is pressed inwards by the spring and takes the position represented
in Figure 3. The stud on the upper arm of the lever is thereby withdrawn
from the hooked end of the part 2 of the spring closing slide and the said slide
being thus released is urged forward by its spring and closes the coin aperture k
as indicated in dotted lines in Figure 2. After the hopper of the machine has been
recharged with cigarettes the slide is drawn back by its handle ³ so as to open
the coin aperture and the hooked end of the jointed part 2 is reëngaged with the
I

page_text: stud of the vertical lever. The machine 15 agam ready for the delivery of the
cigarettes as before described.
According to another of my improvements I effect the required closing of the
coin aperture in the following manner. A light spring arm bears against the slide
by the action of which the cigarette is delivered. A projection on this arm enters
a slot in a pendent weight when the slide is pressed backwards and its slot receives
a cigarette.
The said weight is suspended by a lever and is supported by the projection described
when the slide is pushed inwards and by the cigarette in the slide when the projection
is withdrawn. But when the last cigarette has been delivered there is no longer any
support to the said weight when the projection has been drawn from its slot and the
weight descending the lever by which it is suspended acts upon the slide and closes
the coin aperture. The restoration of the parts to their normal position can only be
effected from the interior of the case of the machine and this is done when the case is
unlocked for recharging it with cigarettes.
This part of my invention is illustrated in Figures 6. 7. 8 and 9 of the drawings.
Figure 6 represents in vertical section and Figure 7 in elevation the parts of the
coin aperture closing mechanism in their normal positions when the machine contains
cigarettes to be delivered and Figure 8 represents in vertical section and Figure 9 in
elevation the respective positions the parts of the mechanism take after the last
cigarette has been delivered and the coin aperture has been automatically closed.
In this machine the slide d receives a cigarette from the column in the passage a on
its back or return motion and the cigarette in the slide falls into the delivery passage c
on pushing in the said slide by operating on the pusher e; is the light spring arm
pressing against the slide d the said arm being provided with a projection ; m is the
pendent weight having a slot m² in it. The said weight m is situated immediately
above the opening in the slide d when the latter is in its back position as represented
in the drawing and the said weight is suspended by the rod or wire p to the short
army of the cranked lever g, the long arm q2 of which is connected by its slotted
end to a pin on the slide by which the coin aperture is opened and closed. When
the cigarette slide d is in its back or normal position as represented in the drawing tho
pendent weight m is supported by the cigarette in the slide d as seen in Figure Gand
when the said slide d is pushed inwards to deliver a cigarette the spring arm follows
the said slide and the projection entering the slot m² in the weight m supports the
said weight. Thus, so long as there are cigarettes to be delivered the weight m is
supported both in the back position and in the advanced or pushed in position of the
slide d. When however the last cigarette has been delivered and the slide d has
reached its back position there is no longer any support to the weight m as the pro-
jection on the arm has been withdrawn from it and the opening in the cigarette slide
is empty and the weight descends into the opening in the cigarette slide as represented
in Figure 8. By the descent of the weight m its connecting wire or rod p acts upon
the lever, and the latter takes the position represented in Figure 9 thereby
operating the slide h and automatically closing the coin aperture as represented in
the said Figure 9.
In order to prevent a coin attached to a string operating the machine I make the
incline down which the coin descends of a zig-zag figure. A coin having a string
attached to it will not descend the zig-zag incline.
This part of my invention is represented in Figure 10 and a modification in
Figures 11 and 12.
In the said Figure 10, the zig-zag incline down which the coin travels on its way to
the beam or coin lever e is marked a, b and c. The coin being dropped through the
coin opening y in the case of the machine it first travels down the part a of the incline
and is received on the part beneath it down which it travels, the said part of the
incline being turned in an opposite direction to that of the part a. The coin is then
received in the part c which is turned in the same direction as the top part a of the
incline. From the bottom inclined part e the coin is received partly in the fixed
pocket and partly in the coin lever.e. By the weight of the coin, the coin lever e is

page_text: tilted into such a position that a stopping shoulder on it is removed from opposite a
shoulder on the slido f. By the pushing in of the slide the coin lever e is fully tilted
and the coin falls from it as is well understood.
By arranging the incline down which the coin travels in the way represented a coin
having a string attached to it will not descend the said incline.
In order to prevent the coin attached to a string from being withdrawn after it has
partially travelled down the incline a lever may be combined with the top portion of
the zig-zag incline. This modification is represented in section in Figure 11 and
plan in Figure 12. In this case the second incline bis situated at right angles to the
first or top incline a and the second incline opens into a tubular passage e carrying
the fixed pocket d. The top part a of the zig-zag incline has on either side, ledges or
guides i, i on which the coin travels on its way to the second incline b, the bottom
of the said incline being open for the lever to pass through the normal position of
the said lever being that indicated in dotted lines. A coin being passed through the
coin opening y travels on the ledges i, i by the incline and passage c to the coin
lever a without obstruction, the weight of the coin tilting the lever k into the position
shown in continuous lines. When a coin attached to a.string is passed into the
machine through the coin opening the weight of the suspended coin causes the lever k
to take the position represented in continuous lines and thereby to raise the cutter
end against the underside of the incline a and grip the string so that on attempting
to raise the coin from the machine the said string is cut by the cutter end of the
lever. Should the coin attached to a string be partly passed down the zig-zag path
the end of the lever grips the string and prevents the further descent of the
coin.
In order to prevent the machine being operated by small discs or pieces of metal
dropped into the coin aperture, the scale or coin lever on which the coin falls is slit so
that half pennies or small pieces of metal fall through it without acting on it. This
part of my invention is illustrated in section partly in elevation in Figure 13 and plan
in Figure 14, where the slit part of the scale or coin lever e is marked e². It will be
seen that that part of the scale or coin lever which receives the coin is slit or open
from front to back so that in case a halfpenny or a small disc or piece of metal is
received in the scale or coin lever, it falls through without acting upon it. Should a
penny or a coin of the proper size be introduced into the machine it does not fall
through the scale or coin lever but tilts the said scale or coin lover as herein before
described.
In machines for delivering cigarettes singly as ordinarily constructed it is possible
by the introduction of a bent wire into the opening at which the cigarettes aro
delivered to press back the slide which delivers the cigarette and by withdrawing the
wire to allow the said slide to return by the action of its spring and deliver a
cigarette, no coin having been dropped into the machine. To prevent this fraud I
modify the lever carried by the slide in the following manner. The said lever as
ordinarily made falls when the slide has been pushed home and a shoulder on its lower
edge comes in front of a projection on the rear part of the slide. When the pressure
on the slide is relaxed its front part advances by the action of its spring, a pin carried
by the front part of the slide acting on an incline on the underside of the said lever
and raising it. The shoulder described being lifted no longer bears against the pin on
the rear part of the slide and the said part springs forward. The parts are now ready
to be again operated upon. By this arrangement there is nothing to prevent the
pushing back of the delivering slide by an instrument introduced at the delivery
opening.
My improvement in this part of the machine consists in making on the underside of
the lever carried by the slide a projecting arm instead of the shoulder commonly
employed. When the slide is pressed inwards after the introduction of a coin into
the machine the lever falls and the rear side of the projecting arm retains the rear
part of the slide in the same manner as the shoulder in the ordinary lever but on
removing pressure from the slide the lever is raised by the pin on the front part of
the slide acting on the incline on its underside. When the lever has been raised

page_text: nearly to the full extent, the pin on the rear part of the slide acts on the inclined
lower end of the projecting arm and the lever carrying it is suddenly jerked upwards.
The rear part of the slide advances and the lever falling the projecting arin now
descends or is in a position to descend, in front of the rear part of the slide and
prevents it being pushed back from the delivery opening and the said slide is not
liberated until another coin has been introduced.
This part of my invention is illustrated in Figures 15, 16, 17 and 18 of the
drawings.
Figure 15 represents in front elevation and Figure 16 in plan (partly in horizontal
section) the coin delivery passage slide and fever in the positions which they
respectively occupy before the slide is pushed in to deliver a cigarette and Figures 17
and 18 represent the same views as Figures 15 and 16 after the slide has been pushed
home to deliver a cigarette.
The slide is made of two detached parts marked respectively a and b, the front
part a carrying the pusher e and the rear part being connected with the platform on
which the cigarettes from the hopper are received. The rear part of the slide is
slotted for receiving the coin delivered into it from the coin delivery passage d the
rear end of the front part a of the slide engaging in the slotted rear part 6 as seen in
Figures 16 and 18; e is the lever turning on the centre on the fixed part of the
apparatus and is the projecting arm on the underside and near the free end of the
said lever the said arm being capable of engaging with one or other side of the pin
or stud on the rear part of the slide. On the front part a of the slide is a pin or
stud which works under the incline of the lever for lifting the said lever and
permitting it to fall. When the slide is in its back or normal position as represented
in Figures 15 and 16, the projecting arm of the lever is not engaged with the stud g
on the back part of the slide the said lever being lifted into the position represented
by the stud acting on the incline but the said stud is in such a position with
respect to the arm of the lever that the said arm can descend behind the stud and
prevent the pushing in of the rear part of the slide.
Before a coin is introduced into the machine the advance of the front part a of the
slide gives no motion to the rear part but when a coin has been introduced into the
rear part it acts as a connecting bar between the two parts of the slide and the
motion of the front part is now transmitted to the rear part (sec Figure 18).
C
When a coin has not been introduced into the machine and the pusher c is acted
upon for fraudulently obtaining a cigarette the front part a of the slide advances
without operating the rear part b. As the front part a advances its stud is removed
from under the incline k on the lever and the lever falls into the position indicated in
dotted lines in Figure 15 and its projecting arm f falls behind the study on the rear
part of the slide and prevents it being pushed back by an instrument introduced at
the cigarette delivery opening. When a coin has been introduced into the machine
and has been received in the slotted rear part of the slide the action of the lever e is
the same as in the ordinary machine that is, when the slide has been pushed
completely home to deliver a cigarette the coin falls from the rear part of the slide
and the arm drops in front of the stud g as represented in Figure 17 and acts like
the ordinary shoulder on the lever. When pressure is removed from the pusher c the
front slide a first retires, the lever e is lifted and its arm withdrawn from the pin or
stud when the rear slide now retires and the parts take the positions represented in
Figures 15 and 16, and the stud g on the back slide bis in a position for the arm f to
descend behind the said stud for locking the said back slide as before described.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my invention and
the manner in which the same is to be performed I declare that I claim as my
invention of "New or improved mechanism for delivering cigarettes or cigars one at
a time from receptacles containing them."
First The construction and combination or arrangement of the parts of the
mechanism herein before described and illustrated in Figures 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 of the
accompanying Drawings for automatically closing the coin aperture of the cigarette

page_text: or cigar delivering machine after the last cigarette or cigar has been delivered from
the machine.
Secondly The construction and combination or arrangement of the parts of the
mechanism hereinbefore described and illustrated in Figures 6, 7, 8 and 9 of the
accompanying Drawings for automatically closing. the coin aperture of the cigarette
or cigar delivering machine after the last cigarette or cigar has been delivered from
the machine.
Thirdly Giving the incline down which the coin descends a zig-zag figure for the
purpose and substantially as herein before described and illustrated in Figures 10, 11
and 12 of the accompanying Drawings and the combination with the zig-zag incline
of a lever arranged and working as described and illustrated in Figure 11 for
preventing the withdrawal of the coin attached to a string.
Fourthly Preventing the machine being operated by small discs or pieces of
metal dropped into the coin aperture by constructing the scale or coin lover on which
the coin falls substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated in Figures 13
and 14 of the accompanying Drawings.
Lastly-The combination with the coin receiving slides of cigarette and cigar
delivering machines of a lever having a projecting arm on its underside which arm is
made to engage in front of the stud or pin on the rear part of the coin slide and
prevent the pushing in of the said rear part of the slide and the delivery of a cigarette
or cigar until a coin has been received in the said coin slide substantially as herein-
before described and illustrated in Figures 15, 16, 17 and 18 of the accompanying
Drawings.