Improvements in Automatic Machines for Delivering Articles in Exchange for Coin.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 14th Nov., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 14th Aug., 1889-Accepted, 14th Dec., 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Automatic Machines for Delivering Articles in
Exchange for Coin.
1, SAMUEL SEALY ALLIN, of 52 Woodstock: Road, Bedford Park, W. in the County
of Middlesex, Gentleman do hereby declare the nature, of this Invention to be as
follows:-
My invention consists mainly in improvements on the machine described in my
application for Letters Patent, No. 983, bearing date January 21st 1888.
The said improvements refer chiefly to the construction of the following internal
parts of the apparatus viz. the collar or locking piece on the main spindle which
passes through the centre of the dial; the fingers on the collar which actuate the
delivering levers; the detent; the coin lever; shutters for closing the coin slits; the
coin box; the arrangement for returning the main spindle after withdrawal; a device
to be employed in place of the guardring; an arrangement for a sliding instead of a
revolving motion for the locking piece the cases for containing various solid goods and
paper cups and the use of a filter in the cold water cistern and of an agitator to stir
the contents of certain of the cisterns.
The general arrangements of the external case, with dial, handle and pointer, and
of the cisterns with the valves, floats and other attachments, are similar to those
described in my prior specification No. 983 of 1888.
The collar on the main spindle is formed with three surfaces, namely a flat disc, a
cylinder, and a truncated cone, as before, but the normal surface of this cone is cut
into steps, or provided at certain parts with projections and recesses for a purpose to
be presently described. No rim to support the detent when depressed, is provided
on the flat disc of the collar, but a spring support is substituted.
In order to obtain two articles by one insertion of a coin and one withdrawal of the
main spindle, for instance a supply of iced filtered water with a sherbet, ginger beer
essence, or fruit syrup, the lever of the iced filtered water cistern is caused to project
further within the guardring than the other levers, and short fingers are provided on
the cone which will actuate such lever but will not reach any of the other levers.
These short fingers are so placed on the cone that when the long finger is over the
sherbet or other arranged lever, one of the short fingers will be opposite the iced
filtered water lever.
The coin lever is split into two or more parts, each appropriated to a different value
of coin, and so arranged that each part has a different travel. When depressed by a
coin, or coins, it rests on a spring which supports it at such a level that the detent can
be withdrawn the necessary distance, and is so held till delivery of the goods is
effected and the coin discharged from the lever; each coin lever is separately counter-
balanced. The detent is connected to the lever for the coin of highest value which is
also the heaviest coin, or coins, and this lever is weighted so that it supports the
detent as well. The series of levers is connected together in a manner which allows
a certain definite amount of free motion to each, with the result that when a coin or
coins of the greatest weight falls on the lever attached to the detent, it at once
actuates the detent and withdraws it until it is stopped by the spring aforesaid.
When a coin of the next lower value and weight falls on the second lever, it moves
such lever a short distance before it begins to operate the lever connected to the
detent, and thus the detent is withdrawn a less distance than in the first instance.
the same manner a third lever acting through the second on the first lever will
withdraw the detent a still less distance, and so on for a series of levers of any
desired number.
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page_text: The head of the detent is cut into steps corresponding with the number of coin
levers, and the normal surface of the cone, and the projections or recesses thereon. By
the combination of these steps on the detent head and on the cone, and the varying
travel of the detent, it is rendered impossible for an article to be obtained by the
insertion of a coin of less than the proper value, while at the same time the idle stroke of
the main spindle is reduced. In the dial are slits for the insertion of the different
values of coin required by the different prices of the goods sold, and from each slit a
coin shoot descends to its lever. These coin slits are closed by shutters, immediately
on the handle being drawn forward, by means of a lever, with which the flat disc on
the collar comes in contact. The slits remain closed until the handle goes back, when
the lever is returned by a spring, and the shutters withdrawn. This spring also
serves the purpose of drawing back the main spindle after it has been pulled out, but
to ensure its complete return, a weight is hung to its inner end by a cord passing over
a pulley and attached to a swivel fixed on the end of the spindle.
The coin box is provided with an internal tube or sleeve of linen, or other like
fabric, to prevent fraudulent abstraction of money.
If desired in place of employing a guardring with slots, to prevent the handle being
drawn forward, except when the finger is over a lever, I may fix a stud in the plate
behind the dial, in such a position that it encounters the flat disc on the collar and so
prevents the handle being drawn forward. Holes or slots are cut in the disc, so that
when the pointer on the dial is over the line belonging to any article, one of the said
holes or slots is opposite the stud and the handle can then be drawn forward if the
detent has been withdrawn by the insertion of the proper coin.
Again in place of the arrangement of a circular collar or locking piece, with
fingers, pointer and handle, all revolving on a central spindle, and delivering levers
grouped around the same, I may arrange the delivering levers in a row, or rows,
either vertically, horizontally or at an angle; the locking piece then becomes a bar, of
the same cross-section as the working face of the revolving piece, and arranged to
slide on suitable guides, or rock on pivotted arms, to and from the levers. It is in
addition provided with a sliding motion in the direction of its length.
One or more fingers are attached to the back of the bar to operate the levers and a
handle and pointer are fixed on the front. The names of the goods are necessarily
arranged in a line, or lines, to agree with the levers, and to obtain any particular
article the pointer with the bar is slid along, until the former is opposite the required
name, when the handle is pulled out, moving the bar forward and operating the proper
lever by means of the finger on the back.
In a machine where the goods are all the same price, the locking-bar may have the
back and forward movement only. The sliding movement of the finger, to reach the
various delivering levers, being obtained by attaching it, not to the said bar, but to the
spindle of the handle. This spindle would pass through a long slot cut lengthways
in the locking bar, so that it could slide freely therein and carry with it the pointer
and fingers, and the whole would be able to move forward when the bar was released
by the withdrawal of the detent. The detent would act upon the locking bars in the
same manner as in the revolving arrangement; and with reference to the revolving
arrangement it may he remarked that revolution round a complete circle, need not
always ho provided for, as the locking piece may be formed as a segment of a circle,
and stops be provided to limit the extent of the motion.
At each side of the lower compartment of the machine, are the cases for holding
solids. They stand on the floor and are placed in an ascending series, one behind
the other, so that each series delivers into the slide at its side of the tap basin. These
cases are each provided with a sliding bottom, carried by tapes or bands, attached
to a balance weight. The goods are stored on the said bottom, in a single row. They
fit the internal cross-section of the case, and are kept fed up by the balance weight
against stops at the top, so that as the topmost article is delivered, another takes its
place. Delivery is effected by a pawl or pusher, drawn forward by a cord, wire, or
link, connected to one of the levers aforesaid, and drawn back by a spring or weight;
which, through the link, draws back the lever also to its place.

page_text: When required I supply paper cups, stored in and delivered from one of the cases
aforesaid.
The mechanism employed consists of stops at the top of the case to prevent the
cups rising too far, a brake to interrupt the ascent of the sliding bottom, a pair of
spring hooks to withdraw the cups, and a hood or guide to direct them into the
delivery shoot.
Dated this 14th day of November 1888.
AMBROSE MYALL,
21, Cockspur Street, S.W., Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Automatic Machines for Delivering Articles in
Exchange for Coin.
I. SAMUEL SEALY ALLIN, of 52 Woodstock Road, Bedford Park, W. in the County
of Middlesex, Gentleman, 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 :-
My invention consists mainly in improvements on the machine, for which Letters
Patent were granted to me, No. 983, bearing date January 21st 1888.
The said improvements refer chiefly to the construction of the following internal
parts of the apparatus, viz. the collar or locking piece on the main spindle, which
passes through the centre of the dial; the fingers on the collar which actuate the
delivering levers; the detent; the coin lever; shutters for closing the coin slits; the
coin box; the arrangement for returning the main spindle after withdrawal; a device
to be employed in place of the guard ring; an arrangement for a sliding, instead of a
revolving motion for the locking piece; the cases for containing various solid goods
and paper cups; and the use of a filter in the cold water cistern; and of an agitator
to stir the contents of certain of the cisterns.
The general arrangements of the external case, with dial, handle, and pointer, and
of the cisterns with the valves, floats and other attachments, are similar to those
described in my aforesaid Letters Patent No. 983 of 1888.
In the accompanying twelve sheets of drawings, which illustrate the improvements
constituting my present invention, Fig. 1 is a sectional front elevation of the machine
through the line Z Z, in Fig. 2; Fig. 2 is a sectional side elevation through the
line Y Y in Fig. 1; Fig. 3 is an elevation, to an enlarged scale, of the delivering
mechanism behind the dial, the coin shoots, coin levers, and coin box; Fig. 4 repre-
sents in part sectional side elevation, to an enlarged scale, the mechanism behind
the dial, as shewn in Fig. 2; Fig. 5 is a plan of the coin levers; Fig. 6 is a per-
spective elevation shewing a modification of part of the delivering mechanism,
shewn in Figs. 1, 3, and 4; Fig. 7 is a sectional side elevation and Fig. 8 a back
elevation, shewing further modifications in the same mechanism; Fig. is a full-
sized sectional elevation of a delivering apparatus for solid articles; Fig. 10 is a
similar view of the delivering apparatus for post cards; Figs. 11 and 12 are, respec-
tively, full-sized side and front sectional elevations, and Fig. 13 is a plan through
the line 57, 57, of a delivering apparatus for paper cups.
Similar letters of reference denote similar parts throughout the drawings.
The collar p on the main spindle E is formed with three surfaces, as before, viz. :-
a flat disc q, a cylinder and a truncated cone s, but the normal surfaces of the cone
is cut into steps, or provided at certain parts with recesses 17 and projections 18 for
a purpose to be presently described. No rim q', as shewn in my aforesaid patent, to
support the detent t, when depressed, is provided on the flat disc g, but a spring
support is substituted.
In order to obtain two articles by one insertion of a coin and one withdrawal of the
spindle E, for instance a supply of iced filtered water with sherbet, ginger beer
essence, or fruit syrup, the lever z 56 of the iced water cistern is made longer than
the rest of the levers z, so that it projects further within the guard-ring y, and

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fingers 55 are fixed on the collar p similar to, but shorter than the finger v, so that
Luese fingers 55 will actuate the lever z 56, but will not reach any of the other levers,
and these fingers are so situated on the collar that when the long finger is over the
sherbet, or other arranged lever, one of these short fingers will be over the lever 56,
and a measured quantity of iced filtered water is thus drawn at the same time. The
number of these short fingers necessarily corresponds with the number of articles
sold, which require to be mixed with water.
The coin lever is split into two or more parts, each appropriated to a different
value of coin, and so arranged that each part has a different travel. In the example
shewn in the drawings the lever is arranged for three different prices or values of
coin. The coin lever, consists of three levers 4, 5, and 6, for the three different values,
all working on the same fulcrum 8, and connected together, as presently to be
described. The short lever 4 is for the highest value, or heaviest coin; the longer
lever 5, for the intermediate value, and the longest lever 6, for the lowest value, or
lightest coin. The coins, as described in my aforesaid patent, are not delivered
directly on to the levers themselves, but on pius 9, fixed on them, and standing out
horizontally at right angles from them, and projecting through slots 10 in the coin
shoots, 11, 12, and 13. The pin 9, on the lever 1, passes across, and rests upon the
lever 5, and the pin 9 on the lever 5, passes across, and rests upon the lever 6. When
the proper value of coin, say twopence, drops on the pin in the lever 4, the said lever
descends, carrying with it the detent t, and the levers 5, and 6, until stopped by a
light spring 14, with which the lever 6 comes in contact, and on which it rests,
the coin being still retained. The detent by this action has descended sufficiently to
just clear the step u, between the cylinder r, and cone s, so that the handle C can be
pulled out. In pulling it out the cone s passes over the detent, and depresses further
both it and the levers 4, 5, and 6, sufficiontly to allow the coin to fall out of the shoot 11,
and drop into the coin box 15, the spring 14, on which the levers rest, yielding
enough to permit this. The levers being thus released from the weight of the coin,
as soon as the handle goes back, raise the detent to its former position, and lock the
apparatus as before.
When a coin, say a penny piece, drops down the shoot 12, on to the lever 5, it would
have no power to draw down the detent, but that this lever is provided with a short
metal loop 16, extending from it over the pin on the lever 4; this loop allows the lever
5, to move a short distance before it begins to move the lever 4, and with it the detent,
so that the detent is not depressed so far as when the coin acts directly on lever 1.
Lever is connected to lever 5 in a similar manner, and the proper coin, say a half-
penny, on lever 6, therefore moves the detent a still less distance, than when operated
by lever 5. This arrangement enables me to provide for the delivery of articles of
varying value, by the same central mechanism, and I effect this in the following
manner the step u, which separates the conical portions of the collar p from the
cylindrical part, is the impediment which prevents the collar being drawn forward,
when the handle C is pulled out, before the detent is withdrawn, as when drawn
forward a little way it comes against the detent, and is effectually stopped. As above
explained, coins acting directly on lever 4, draw the detent down farthest, those acting
directly on lever 5, draw it down a less distance, and those acting on lever 6, a still
less distance. As each of these levers, has, at the proper time, to withdraw the detent
sufficiently to permit the cone being drawn forward, it is obvious that the height of
the step u must be varied, and as previously explained, I do this by cutting it down,
as at 17, to the requisite depth at those points in the cone which are opposite the
detent when the pointer on the dial is turned to an article whose price is one half- 5
penny, or whatever the lowest price may be. When the pointer is opposite the name
of one of the lowest priced articles, the cone can then be drawn forward and delivery
effected by the deposit of its price, or of a higher price, acting on lever 6, or by the
deposit of a higher price on either of the shorter levers, but if it has been turned to
the name of an article of a higher price, a higher portion of the cone will be opposite 5
the detent and no delivery can be obtained until it is moved to an article of the lowest
price. Just the same occurs in the case of articles of intermediate value, say one

page_text: penny. When the coin or coins are dropped through the penny slit on to lover 5, the
detent being withdrawn further, a higher step can be used, and for convenience of
construction, I make this step the normal surfaces of the cone, adding a piece 18 to
increase the height of the step at those points which are brought opposite the detent,
when the pointer is turned to the name of any article of the highest price say two-
pence. It will thus be seen that while a lower priced article can be obtained by the
deposit of its price on the proper lever, or of a higher price on any lever, a higher
priced one can never be obtained by the deposit on any lever of anything less than
than the arranged price.
The levers 4, 5 and 6 are necessarily so balanced separately by the weights 7, 7, 7,
that if coins of too low a value are dropped in any of the shoots, they will not be
heavy enough to move the detent. The detent is connected to the lever 4, and this
lever is so weighted that it supports the detent as well.
1.
The head of the detent is cut into steps, corresponding with the number of coin
levers, and the normal surface of the cone and the recesses 17 and projections 18
thereon. The object of this peculiar conformation of the head of the detent, is the
diminution of the idle stroke, or movement of the handle C and delivering finger
If the detent were a plain bar, the handle could at any time be drawn forward the
distance between the front u of the cone and the back of the detent, before they came
in contact, and further motion was checked; this would be inconvenient, as it would
permit an appreciable movement in the delivering mechanism of the various com-
partments, and would besides subject the detent to increased shocks in pulling the
handle forward. The three steps to tb te on the detent head, correspond with the three
steps on the cone for the three values of coin. When the pointer on the dial is turned
to a twopenny article, and the handle pulled forward before the detent has been with-
drawn by the deposit of twopence, the cone strikes the lowest step to, and the idle
movement is very small. When the pointer is turned to a penny article, and the
handle pulled the cone strikes the middle step to and the idle stroke is a little longer,
and when the pointer is turned to a halfpenny article on pulling the handle the cone
strikes the top step te, and the idle stroke is still longer, but in every case much less
than if there had been no steps on the detent. In forming these steps it is necessary
to insure that the angle from the top edge of the detent to the lowest step to, and from
step to step, with the vertical, shall be less than any of the angles formed by the slope
of any of the acting surfaces of the cone s.
Three slits are provided in the dial for the insertion of the three different values
of coin, and from each slit a coin shoot descends to its lever.
On the back of the plate a lever 43 is pivotted having arms 44, 45 projecting
forward through the plate. The arm 44 is long enough to support two shutters 46, 47,
the other arm 45 supports one shutter 48. These shutters work vertically in slides on
the back of the dial and open or close the coin slits. The lever 43 is kept away from
the plate by its own weight and in this position the arms 44, 45 hold the shutters up
so that the coin slits are open, but when the collar p is drawn forward by the handle C,
after the deposit of a coin, the lever 43 is pressed up to the plate by the disc surface q,
and the shutters are lowered to close the slits, thus preventing any two or more actions
of the machine from interfering with each other. A spring 49 serves the purpose of
drawing the shaft E in again, when the handle C is released, but as its force
diminishes towards the end of its range, a weight 50 is hung by a cord 51, passing
over a pulley 52 and attached to a swivel joint 53 at the end of the shaft, to complete
the return movement. The inner end of the shaft E is steadied by passing through
a bearing on a cross-bar 54, and when the return movement is completed, the detent
rises and locks the apparatus as before described.
The coin box 15 is provided with a sleeve 19, of textile material, through which the
coins drop, to prevent fraudulent abstractions from the box.
Instead of a guard ring y, the arrangement shewn in Figure 6, may be employed.
In this case a stud y', projects inwards from the plate a, and by abutting against the
disc 9, prevents the handle being drawn out, except when the said stud is opposite any

page_text: one of a series of holes or notches y³, in the disc g, cut to correspond with the levers.
In practice, I prefer the guard ring, as it furnishes a guide and support to the end of
each lever. Again in place of the arrangement of a circular collar, or
with fingers pointer and handle all revolving on a central spindle, and delivering
locking piece,
levers grouped around the same, I may employ the modified arrangement shewn in
Figures 7, and 8. In this case, instead of a circular piece p, a block 69 is employed,
sliding upon a bar 70; this bar is carried by arms 71, 71, pivotted on brackets 72, 72,
affixed to the case of the machine. The spindle E, passes through the block 69, and
is secured therein by a pin or other device, so that when pulled out the block moves
with it. In place of the circular guard ring y two guard plates 75, 76, are provided,
having slots to receive the ends of the levers 2.
A delivering finger is fixed to the collar 73, for the row of levers in the plate 75,
and a similar finger v¹, for the levers in the plate 76, and the spindle E, slides in a slot
in the plate 54, and in a slot w in the plate. The levers are placed, as shewn, not
directly opposite each other, and each plate 75, 76, contains a double set of slots.
One in which its own levers work, and the other to permit of the entrance of its
finger, when the finger on the opposite side is depressing a lever. The names on the
dial are in two rows, one above and one below the shaft E, to agree with the levers.
The shaft being slid along until the pointer Dis opposite a name on the top row, it is
pulled out, and the lower edge of the block 69, being inclined and provided with
recesses and projections in the same manner as the coned surface of the circular
pieco p, the detent t, acts on it in exactly the same manner. If an article is required
from the bottom row, the shaft is slid along until the lower pointer D¹ is opposite the
desired name, when it is similarly drawn out and delivery effected. In arranging the
various goods stored in the machine it is necessary to avoid placing them so that the
delivering levers for articles of the same price, shall be opposite to each other, as if
they are so placed, and one of the fingers be by mistake, brought opposite an empty
slot, in the row from which it is desired to obtain any article, a wrong article would
instead be delivered from the opposite row, provided the detent had been withdrawn
to the proper distance, as it would be if the prices were the same, but if the prices are
different, the detent itself prevents the wrong article being so delivered. Although
I have shewn this apparatus as arranged to slide horizontally, it may be arranged to
operate vertically, or at an angle, if desired.
In a machine where the goods are all the same price, the delivering levers and
names, would be all in one row, and the locking block 69 may then have the back and
forward movement only. The sliding movement of the finger v to reach the various
delivering levers, being obtained by attaching it, not to the said block 69 but to.the
spindle E of the handle. The spindle would pass through a long slot cut lengthwise in
the locking block so that it could slide freely therein, and carry with it the pointer
and finger and the whole could be moved forward when the block was released by
the withdrawal of the detent. The detent would act upon the locking block in the
same manner as in the revolving arrangement.
At each side of the lower compartment of the machine are the cases R, for holding
solids. They stand vertically on the floor, and are placed in an ascending series, one
behind the other, the highest being at the back of the case and the lowest in front,
close to the external delivering shoot L. The goods from each case are delivered
from the top of the case, on to a shoot or series of inclined planes S, arranged in steps
running down to the shoot L, so that when any article is drawn from a case by the
delivering mechanism, it rolls on slides down these inclined, planes to the shoot -L.
The cases extend down to the floor of the machine, on which they rest, and are filled 5
with goods from the side, either through the doors in the sides of the case, or from the
centre of the machine. The contents of each case rest on a sliding bottom T, fastened
to broad tapes or bands U, which pass up inside the case at back and front and over
rollers V at top to balance weights outside, which keep the contents pressed
upwards against stops X, so that an article is always at the top ready for delivery. A 5
pawl lever 39, is pivotted on the top of each case, and connected by a cord or

page_text: wire 40, with one of the aforesaid levers, so that when the lever is depressed, the
pawl is drawn forward and pushes off the top article, on to the inclined slide S, down
which it rolls or slides and appears at L. The pawl lever is returned to its normal
position by a balance weight 41, or a spring, which also through the connecting wire
raises again the lever The pawl in returning to its place slips back over the
next article, which has taken the place of that just delivered, being pushed up by the
sliding bottom T, and is ready for the next delivery. In the case of post cards and
similar thin articles, I prefer to employ a lever 39, fitted with a piece of rubber 42,
which pushes forward the top card by frictional contact with its upper surface.
al
One of the cases R may contain a supply of paper cups for those persons who do not
care to use the cups provided on the front of the machine, and these paper cups are
delivered, after the deposit of small coin, by the mechanism shewn in Figs. 11, 12,
and 13. The cups 58 fit over one another in an inverted position and stand on the
sliding bottom T, which is suspended by tapes U U passing over rollers and carrying
balance weight as before. The cups are prevented from sticking together by the discs
or distance pieces 59. They are pushed up against a pair of spring clips 60, 60, which
embrace the top cup and form an elastic stop. A pair of arms 61, 61 with
weights 62, 62, are pivotted each side of the case and provided with hooks 63, 63,
and connected to a delivering lever by means of the stirrup 64, and cord 40. When
the lever is moved the arms 61, 61, are pulled up, the hooks 63, 63, engage with the
edge of the top cup and pull it through the clips G, 60; the cup as it rises comes in
contact with the curved guide plate 65, which turns it over till it falls down the
shoot 66, and is delivered at a suitable opening in the front of the case. When the
arms 61, 61. are raised, they permit the brake 67, to drop, and grip the tape U, and
prevent upward movement of the cups, but when a cup has been delivered, and the
arms fall, they press on the levers 68, 68, and raise the brake 67, permitting the cups
to move upward again, until stopped by the clips 60, 60.
The filter which is used in the cold water cistern consists of a frame, having
stretched on it two layers of suitable textile material sewn together and having
between them suitable filtering material, such as charcoal. This frame extends com-
pletely across the cistern, and from top to bottom, the water being admitted behind
and drawn off from the front.
When the contents of a cistern require stirring, I affix to the inner end of the
spindle of the measuring vessel a vertical screen loosely fitting the cross-section of
the well and cistern for about one third of its height. This screen would be made of
strips of copper tinned, and would move back and forward and thus agitate the
contents of the cistern whenever the measuring vessel was emptied.
It will be obvious that many other modifications may be made of the various
portions of the apparatus described, without departing from the essential principles of
the invention. As for instance, the cases for containing solids, which I have shewn
placed vertically may be placed horizontally, or at an angle, a similar construction
and mode of feeding the goods to the delivering arrangement being retained. Again
sliding pushers might be used to deliver solids instead of hinged pawls, and similar
modifications of other parts might be made, but I have described in each case the
arrangement I prefer to employ in practice.
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. In the central revolving, or sliding delivery mechanism of an automatic machine
for delivering articles in exchange for coin, the construction of the cone or inclined
surfaces of the piece p, or block 69 in steps of different heights, consisting of the
normal surfaces recesses 17 and projections 18, so that the said piece p or block 69
is released by variations in the descent of the detent t, corrresponding to the
varying value of the coins inserted into the machine, substantially as herein set
forth.

page_text: 2. In the central revolving, or sliding delivery mechanism of an automatic machine
for delivering articles in exchange for coin, the short fingers 55 attached to the
piece or block 69 in such positions relative to the pointer D, that the delivery of a
second article, such as water, is obtained simultaneously with, or as a supplement
to the article indicated by the pointer and paid for, substantially as herein set
forth..
3. In an automatic machine for delivering articles in exchange for coin, the steps
or projections to tbt on the detent t, to lessen the idle movement or stroke of the
shaft E, substantially as herein set forth.
4. In an automatic machine for delivering articles in exchange for coin, the
arrangement of two, three, or more coin levers, 4, 5, 6, so combined that they withdraw
the detent t to varying distances.
5. In an automatic machine for delivering articles in exchange for coin, provided
with coin levers, as set forth in the previous claim, the combination with the said
levers of a support 14, to maintain them when depressed by a coin or coins, in such
a position that the detent t remains withdrawn, and delivery can be commenced of the
desired articles, and which said support yields to the continuance of the action and
permits the escape of the coin when delivery has been effected.
6. In an automatic machine for delivering articles in exchange for coin, the
lever 43, with arms 44, 45, for operating the shutters 46, 47, 48, in combination with
the spring 49, and weight 50 for returning the shaft E, substantially as herein set
forth.
7. In an automatic machine for delivering articles in exchange for coin, the com-
bination with the coin box 15, of a sleeve 19, to prevent theft, substantially as herein
set forth, with reference to Fig. 3 of the accompanying drawings.
S. In the central revolving delivery mechanism of an automatic machine for
delivering articles in exchange for coin, the alternative arrangement of a stud y'
projecting from the plate, which prevents the handle being drawn out, by
abutting against the disc 7 except when opposite openings y therein, substantially as
herein set forth with reference to Fig. 6 of the accompanying drawings.
9. In the central sliding delivery mechanism of an automatic machine for deliver-
ing articles in exchange for coin, the block 69 capable of sliding on a bar 70 in
connection with the pointer D and having a horizontal surface and an inclined
surface s so arranged that the locking and releasing mechanism will act on the said
surfaces in all positions of the block upon the bar, substantially as and for the pur-
poses herein set forth.
10. In the central sliding delivery mechanism, of an automatic machine for
delivering articles in exchange for coin, the guard plate 75, or guard plates 75
and 76, to prevent the fingere being drawn forward except when over the end of any
one of a series of levers, and to furnish guides for the said levers, substantially as
herein set forth.
11. In an automatic machine for delivering articles in exchange for coin, having a
central sliding delivering mechanism, the arrangement of levers z all grouped round, and
actuated by the said mechanism, and each delivering goods from a different receptacle,
substantially as herein set forth.
12. In an automatic machine for delivering articles in exchange for coin, the con-
struction of cases R for holding dry or solid goods, consisting of a case delivering
from the top, its internal cross-section fitting freely one of the contained articles and
having a sliding bottom T raised by balance weights W through tapes U U to feed
the contents to the delivering pawl lever 39, and a stop or stops to prevent the
contents being pushed too high, the pawl lever 39 and a suitable opening in one side
for refilling, substantially as herein set forth.
13. In an automatic machine for delivering articles in exchange for coin, the com-
bination of a number of cases R, for solids, in ascending series, all discharging from 5
the top into the same inclined shoot S and delivering through the same external*
aperture L, substantially as herein set forth.

page_text: 14. In an automatic machine for delivering articles in exchange for coin, the
arrangement of mechanism for delivering paper cups, substantially as herein set
forth with reference to Figs. 11, 12, and 13 of the accompanying drawings.
15. An automatic machine for delivering liquid and solid goods in exchange for
coins, constructed substantially as herein shown and described, with reference to the
accompanying drawings.
Dated this Lith dox of Aust 1880
AMBROSE MYALL,
21, Cockspur Street, S.W., Agent for the Applicant.