Improvements in Apparatus for Receiving Payment for and for Delivering Prepaid Goods.
Year: 1886

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Receiving Payment for and for
Delivering Prepaid Goods.
I PERCIVAL EVERITT of 47, Cannon Street, in the city of London, Engineer, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows :-
This invention relates to the construction of a very simple apparatus for receiving
payment for goods and for delivering such goods the present apparatus embodying the
principle of the apparatuses forming the subject matter of former Letters Patent
No. 2033 dated the 21st April 1883 and of a former application No. 10,406 dated
2nd September 1885 in so far as regards the use of a delivery drawer or slide and the
arrangement for preventing more than one article being obtained for one payment;
the present improvements having mainly for object to provide a simple and cheap
apparatus which can in some cases be advantageously used where the more expensive
apparatus would not be so applicable.
For this purpose the delivery slide or drawer or the box is provided with a weighted,
balanced or spring rocking table or flap or its equivalent which on a coin or coins of
the proper value being deposited in the apparatus will allow the drawer or slide to be
opened and the action of opening the drawer or slide will as described in the said
former specifications discharge the coin or coins and deliver the article. It will be
obvious that in place of pulling out a slide or drawer, the article can be delivered by
a pushing operation.
G. F. REDFERN,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London,
Agent for the Applicant.

page_text: Delivering Prepaid Goods.
1, PERCIVAL EVERITT, of 47, Cannon Street, in the City of London, Engineer, 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:
This invention relates to the construction of a very simple apparatus for receiving
payment for goods and for delivering such goods, the present apparatus embodying
the principle of the apparatus forming the subject matter of former Letters Patent
No. 2033 dated the 21st day of April 1883 and No. 10406 dated the 2nd day of
September 1885 in so far as regards the use of a delivery drawer or slide and the
arrangement for preventing more than one article being obtained for one payment;
the present improvements having mainly for object to provide a simple and cheap
apparatus which can in some cases be advantageously used where the more expensive
apparatus would not be so applicable.
For this purpose the delivery slide or drawer or the box is provided with a weighted,
balanced, or spring rocking table or flap or its equivalent which on a coin or coins of
the proper value being deposited in the apparatus will allow the drawer or slide to be
opened and the action of opening the drawer or slide will, as described in the specifi-
cations of the said former Letters Patent discharge the coin or coins and deliver tho
article. It will be obvious that in place of pulling out a slide or drawer, the article
can be delivered by a pushing operation.
In order to enable my invention to be fully understood I will proceed to describe
the same by reference to the accompanying drawings in which figure 1 represents a
front elevation and figure 2 a vertical section partly in elevation of an apparatus for
receiving payment for and for delivering prepaid goods constructed according to my
invention, the said apparatus being suitable for containing and delivering Cigarettes,
Cigars, or the like, the rocking table or flap being carried by the delivery slide or
drawer.
Figures 3 and 4 represent horizontal sections on the lines A B and C D respectively
of figure 2. Figure 5 represents a vertical section of the lower part of the improved
apparatus in a modified form, in which the rocking table or flap is arranged on the
box or case of the same. Similar letters in all the figures indicate similar or
corresponding parts.
A is the box or case of the apparatus and a, is the delivery slide or drawer provided
with a depression 6', one side of which forms a projecting angle b, of the same thickness
as the article to he delivered, the said projection being provided for the purpose of
delivering an article when the delivery drawer or slide is pulled out; c,
is the money
slit, and c¹, is the receptacle for containing the cigarettes, cigars or
be delivered, the said cigarettes or the like being placed above one
tho like to
another, as

page_text: shewn in figure 2. B is the lid of the apparatus for obtaining access to the receptacle c²,
and C is a door at the lower part of the apparatus for obtaining access thereto. All
the foregoing parts are similar to those described in the said former Specifications.
Referring to figures 1 to 4, d, is my rocking table or flap which is hinged or
pivotted at d¹, d', to the delivery slide or drawer a. The rocking table or flap d, is
weighted at one end e, or otherwise made heavier at that end so as to overbalance the
other end f, when there is no coin thereon, and is provided with hooks or projections e³,
for the purpose of engaging with rack teeth 9, 9, (fixed to the box or case A of the
apparatus) when the delivery slide a, after having been drawn out is pushed back into
the box or case A (or the end e, of the rocking table or flap instead of being weighted
can be provided with a spring or it can be formed so that its ends balance one another
for the same purpose, as will be obvious). The end f, of the rocking table c, is forked
as clearly shewn in figure 4, the space h, between the sides of the fork (near the
pivots d¹, d¹) for about half their length being greater than the diameter of the coin
used to operate the apparatus, while the remaining half is less than the diameter of
the said coin as shewn at i, i, for the purpose hereinafter described; j, is the shoot for
conducting the coin when inserted in the money slit c, to the parts i, i, of the rocking
table. At the lower end of the shoot j, is arranged a plate k, pivotted at about its centre
to the sides of the shoot j, the pivot pin 1, being provided on one end with a weight 1,
which maintains the plate k, in the inclined position shewn in figure 2. The plato k
at its lower end is cut so as to form-a-tongue m, which is bent so as to project through
the back of the shoot j, as shown in figure 2.
By this arrangement if a coin of the required size be dropped through the money
slit C, it will pass down the shoot j, and in its passage will strike the tongue m, and
force the plate k, into the position shewn in dotted lines in figure 2, and the coin will
then rest at i, i, on the sides of the forked end f, of the rocking table d, depressing by
its weight the said end f, and disengaging the other end e, from the teeth 9, 9, and the
plate k, will be maintained in the said position by reason of the coin being supported
by the end f, of the rocking table-Should another coin now be inserted in the
apparatus by mistake or otherwise, instead of passing onto the forked end f, of the
rocking table d, it will be caused by reason of the altered position of the plate k, to
pass into a shoot n, (figure 2), and thence through a slit o, in the side of the box or
case A into a receptacle o¹, outside the apparatus. If the delivery slide or drawer a,
be now pulled out a cigarette or the like will be delivered and at the same time the
parts i, i, of the forked end f, of the rocking table or flap d, on which the coin rests
will move forward with the drawer until the space h, between the sides of the forked
end f, comes underneath the coin thereby allowing the said coin to drop through into
the bottom of the apparatus. If a coin of less than the required size be passed into
the apparatus it will pass between the sides of the forked end f, of the rocking table
or flap d, into the lower part of the apparatus; p, is a receptacle on the outside of
the apparatus for containing matches for the use of persons using the apparatus.
In figure 5 I have shewn the rocking table or flap d, pivotted to the box or case A
and provided with teeth e', e, adapted to engage with the teeth g, g, which in this case
are formed on the delivery drawer or slide. The coin falls through an aperture
provided in the slide and rests as before upon the parts i, i, of the fork. When the
slide is pulled out the edge of the aperture in the slide sweeps the coin off the fork,
and it falls into the receptacle beneath as before. The aperture in the slide must be
of such a size that the coin does not fall until the projection 9, on the slide has cleared
both the projections upon the rocking table.
It will be obvious that the projection b, of the delivery slide may be made to withdraw
more than one article at a time.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I claim is :-
1. In apparatus for receiving payment for and for delivering prepaid goods the use
of a weighted, balanced, or spring rocking table or flap or its equivalent pivotted to
the delivery slide or drawer or the box and operating in such a manner as to allow

page_text: the slide or drawer to be opened on a coin or coins being deposited in the apparatus,
substantially as hereinbefore described.
2. The combination of the rocking table d, and catches with the shoot j, and plate k,
operating substantially as described.
3. The peculiar form of rocking table hereinbefore described and illustrated in the
drawings.
4. The combination of delivery slide rocking table and catches hereinbefore described
and illustrated in figures 1, 2, 3 and 4.
5. The modification of this combination hereinbefore described and illustrated more
particularly in figure 5.
6. The improved apparatus hereinbefore described and illustrated in figures 1, 2, 3
and 4.
7. The modification of this improved apparatus hereinbefore described and illustrated
more particularly in figure 5."
G. F. REDFERN,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London,
Agent for the Applicant.