Improvements in Coin Operated Delivery Apparatus..
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 8th Aug., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 13th Nov., 1891-Accepted, 19th Mar., 1992
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
[Communicated from abroad by GEBRÜDER STOLLWERCK, of Cologne on the
Rhine, in the Empire of Germany, Manufacturers.]
Improvements in Coin Operated Delivery Apparatus..
I, HENRY HARRIS LAKE, of the firm of Haseltine, Lake & Co., Patent
Agents, 45 Southampton Buildings, in the County of Middlesex, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention refers more particularly to automatic delivery apparatus of that
kind in which the package, when the delivery carriage is drawn out, is caught by
the projecting part of the coin, so that, when the carriage is drawn out by the
handle, the package will be drawn out as well, until it reaches the forward end of
the guide on which it slides and ultimately drops down over the said forward end
into the delivery box outside the apparatus, whilst the coin thrown into the
apparatus drops into a slot formed in the rear part of the carriage and is supported
therein and prevented from falling out of the said slot by a guide bar projecting
horizontally underneath the said slot, the coin, while the carriage is being drawn
out, sliding on the said guide bar with its lower end and ultimately dropping into
the cash box below when the carriage, while being drawn forward, has passed the
forward end of the said guide bar and the coin is no longer supported in the slot.
One of the objects of the invention is to provide a coin sorter in connection with
such delivery apparatus for sorting out, and thus preventing the fraudulent use of
low weight coins, metal discs, washers and other articles resembling coins in
outward shape, when inserted into the delivery apparatus. Another object of the
invention is to provide means for preventing the coin or coins inserted into the
apparatus from being retained therein when either the stock of packages is
exhausted or when two coins have been inserted into the apparatus one after the
other in close succession.
The coin sorter consists essentially in a small bar or shaft arranged on one side
of and somewhat above the slightly inclined part of the guide groove nearest the
hole for inserting the coin, the said bar or shaft being arranged parallel or
approximately parallel to that part of the guide groove and having suspended
from it two swinging arms, both of which are rigidly connected with each other,
the foremost of these arms, that is to say, the one nearest to the opening for the
coin carrying a bevelled or partly conical shaped block which in its working
position projects into the guide groove from one side thereof, with its bevelled part
directed towards the opening for inserting the coin, whilst the other suspended arm
carries a hook or pointer projection the point of which also projects into the
middle of the guide groove.
When the coin or a similar shaped article is inserted into the opening of the
delivery apparatus it will, in rolling down the inclined guide groove, first strike
against the bevelled edge of the block above referred to and will, if heavy enough,
push the bevelled block aside and pass the same the said block swinging to one
side on its arm. If however, the coin or other article should not have the proper
weight of a good coin it will by reason of the adjustment of the respective parts with
regard to each other, not be heavy enough to move the block aside and will be
caught by the same and prevented from further following the guide groove and
ultimately actuating the delivery mechanism. After having passed the bevelled
block the coin, having sufficiently smooth sides, will not present any point of
engagement for the projecting hook when the latter has again swung into the line
of movement of the coin within the guide groove and the coin will freely pass the

page_text: said hook or projection. A washer, however, or a ring or other object resembling
a coin in outward shape but having a hole or opening in its side will, even after
successfully passing the bevelled block, be caught by the said hook or projection
and thus prevented from further following the guide groove.
For the purpose of subsequently removing from the guide groove any articles
which may have been caught either by the bevelled block or by the hook and held
in the guide groove, the latter is constructed with a movable side and bottom part
which is usually held against the other side under the action of a spring but which,
when a coin is being inserted into the opening, is thereby pressed aside and, in thus
being moved away from the other side, opens the bottom of the guide groove and
allows the said articles to drop down into another guide groove below which will
convey the said objects to the outside of the apparatus.
The device for preventing the second of two thin coins dropped into the
apparatus in close succession from entering the slot in the carriage consists of a
lever suspended vertically or approximately vertically on one side of the guide
groove into the upper opening of which the coins are inserted in order to be
carried into the slot in the rear part of the carriage. The said lever having its
fulcrum at a point between its ends is so arranged that the coin, in order to pass
through the said guide groove on its way to the slot in the rear part of the carriage
will first strike the upper end of the said lever, the said upper end projecting
partly into the guide groove and being bevelled in such a manner as to cause the
coin, when striking against the bevelled part, to move the said upper end of the
lever aside outwardly, thereby slightly swinging the lever on its fulcrum and
giving room for the coin to drop further on its way to the slot. The lower end of
the said lever hangs directly over the opening of the said slot and partly projects
over the opening of the same so that the coin, in order to enter the slot, will under
the action of its own weight move the said lower bevelled end of the lever aside
outwardly thereby again slightly swinging the lever on its fulcrum in a direction
opposite to the one in which it was swung previously when the coin acted upon the
upper end of the lever; at the same time the said upper end of the lever will be
thereby again swung inwardly and the coin, after having entered the slot locking
the lower end of the lever in its outward position will thereby also hold the upper
lever end in its inward position, that is to say, in such a position as to entirely
obstruct the passage in the guide groove and to prevent any coin which may be
subsequently inserted' from above from dropping down further in the said groove,
such coin being held by the upper end of the lever, on striking the same, so long
as the coin in the slot of the carriage remains in the same.
Dated this 8th day of August 1891.
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Coin Operated Delivery Apparatus.
I, HENRY HARRIS LAKE, of the firm of Haseltine Lake & Co. Patent Agents
45 Southampton Buildings in the County of Middlesex, 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 refers more particularly to the devices for guiding the coins
inserted into a coin actuated delivery apparatus, of the well known kind, the
object being to so arrange the said devices, that the delivery apparatus provided
its stock of packages be not exhausted will be actuated to deliver a package only
in such cases where a full weight and full size coin has been inserted into the coin
guiding device of the said apparatus, whilst in every other case, that is to say,
when the coin inserted is too small too thin, or too light, or when instead of a coin
an article resembling a coin in outward shape has been inserted, or when two coins

page_text: have been inserted in close succession these coins or articles, or one of the two
coins inserted in close succession will not be retained within the delivery apparatus
but will be discharged therefrom without actuating the apparatus to deliver a
package.
In the accompanying drawings
Figure 1 shows a coin actuated delivery apparatus provided with one part of the
invention and shown partly in vertical lateral section, a part of the top of the said
apparatus being broken away and shown in side view.
Figures 2 to 8 are different views and sections drawn to a larger scale showing
that part of my invention which will hereinafter he referred to as the "coin
sorter,"
Figure 2 being a side view of the same seen from the right,
Figure 3 being a similar side view seen from the left,
Figure 4 being a plan,
Figure 5 being a section on the line m n Figure 2 seen in the direction of the
arrow 2,
Figure 6 being a similar section seen in the direction of arrow 1,
Figure 7 being a section on the line h g Figure 2, and
Figure 8 being a section on a similar line not here shown of Figure 3.
In order to render my improved device better understood I have in Figure 1 of
the drawings, shown part of the same as applied to a delivery apparatus of that
kind in which the package A, when the delivery carriage D is drawn out, is
caught by the projecting part of the coin F¹ so that when the said carriage is drawn
out by the handle E the package will be drawn forward with it until it reaches the
forward end of a guide, bot here shown, on which it slides and ultimately drops
down over the said forward end into the delivery box outside the apparatus whilst
the coin thrown into the apparatus through the opening G drops into a slot F
formed in the rear part of the carriage and is supported therein and prevented froin
falling out of the said slot by a guide bar, not here shown, the said guide bar
projecting horizontally underneath the said slot, the coin, while the carriage is
being drawn out, sliding on the said guide bar with its lower edge and ultimately
dropping into the cash box below when the carriage, while being drawn forward,
has passed the forward end of the said guide bar and the coin is no longer
supported in the slot.
I will now describe that part of my invention the object of which is to
prevent one of two coins inserted into the apparatus one after the other in.
close succession from being retained therein.
His a lever suspended vertically or approximately vertically on one side of the
guide groove G¹ into the upper opening G of which the coins are inserted in
order to be carried into the slot in the rear part of the carriage. D of the
delivery apparatus. The said lever, H having its fulcrum at a point between its
ends is so arranged that the coin in order to pass through the said guide groove
on its way to the slot in the rear part of the carriage will first strike the
upper end of the said lever, the said upper end projecting partly into the guide
groove G and being bevelled in such a manner as to cause the coin, when
striking against the bevelled part, to move the said upper end of the lever
aside outwardly, thereby slightly swinging the lever on its fulcrum and giving room.
for the coin to drop further on its way to the slot.
The lower end of the said lever as here shown hangs directly over the opening
of the said slot F, and partly projects over the opening of the same so that
the coin, in order to enter the slot, will under the action of its own weight move
the said lower bevelled end of the lever aside outwardly thereby again slightly
swinging the lever on its fulcrum in a direction opposite to the one in which it was
swung previously when the coin acted upon the upper end of the lever, at the
same time the upper end of the lever will be thereby swung inwardly and the
coin F after having entered the slot locking the lower end of the lever in its
outward position will thereby also hold the upper lever end in its inward position

page_text: that is to say in such a position as to entirely obstruct the passage in the
guide groove G¹ and to prevent any coin F which may be subsequently inserted
from above, from dropping down further in the said groove, such coin being held
by the upper end of the lever on striking the same, so long as the coin in the slot
of the carriage remains in the same. When the first coin is subsequently drawn
forward with the carriage D the lever H will again be free to swing on its fulcrum
and the second coin will thus be free to pass the lever and to drop from the
unobstructed bottom part of the guide groove, G' into any other suitable guide
groove below, which will carry the coin out of the apparatus and thus redeliver it
to its owner.
The other part of my invention that is to say the coin sorter particularly shown
in Figures 2 to 8 of the drawings apart from the delivery apparatus is preferably
mounted in the latter directly in the rear of the opening G for inserting the coin
so as to form part of the guide groove G.
The said "coin sorter" consists essentially of two parts or frames a and c formning
the sides of the respective part of the guide groove whilst the lower edge of the
part a is bent toward the part c so as to form the bottom of the guide groove. The
part a is rigidly attached to the rear of the plate having the opening G, for insert-
ing the coin, whilst the other part c is fulcrummed on a shaft 20, and pressed against
the rigid part a by means of a spring r, engaged by a buckle u through which the
spring is passed. The said spring being attached to the movable parte at
also presses against the part c with its other end at w' holding it in engagement
with the rigid part a. As shown in Figure 1 an edge of the movable parte
extends obliquely across the opening G so as to partly close the upper portion of the
same. When a full size coin is inserted into the said opening G the said edge k,
will be pressed aside whereby the movable part c will become separated from the
· rigid part a. It will thus be seen that any articles which may have been caught
and retained between the parts a and c so as to obstruct the passage for the coin
will thereby be caused to drop out between the same into some suitable guide
groove below which will convey them to the outside of the apparatus.
When a coin of proper size and weight after having been inserted into the
opening G and pressing the edge h, aside passes the latter the part c will under the
action of the spring close against the rigid part a and the coin on entering will
find the bottom closed again and will pass through the coin sorter on its way to the
continuation of the groove G¹.
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If the coin were too small it would drop out laterally through the opening d
provided in the inclined side of the movable part e the said opening being slightly
smaller than the diameter of a full size coin. If the coin were too thin it would
drop down through a slot e, formed between the engaging edges or faces of the
parts and the said slot e being likewise of smaller diameter than the thickness
of.a full size coin, or the coin will be caught between the sides of the said slot
to be subsequently dropped when, upon the next coin being inserted the parts a and e
become separated from each other. The rigid part a is provided with a small sheet
metal frame p movably suspended therefrom ato and having a wedge shaped part
and a pointed hook y both projecting into the intermediate space between the parts a
and c in such a manner as to cause the coin in passing through the coin sorter to
first strike the part and then the hook y. The weight of the said sheet metal
frame and the bevel of the wedge shaped part a as well as the angle of inclination
of the bottom of the coin sorter are so arranged with regard to each other that,
supposing the coin inserted were too light it would not be capable of pressing
the wedge shaped part aside, and would, therefore, be held by the same and
prevented from passing, on the other. hand supposing that the article inserted were
heavy enough to press the wedge shaped part aside and to pass the same it would
if it had a hole or an opening in its face, such as a flat ring or a washer, be caught
by the pointed hook y and likewise be prevented from passing. Upon subse-
quently inserting a coin into the opening G, and thereby again separating the
parte a and c any objects which may have been caught and held by the wedge

page_text: shaped part or the pointed hooky would be caused to drop down into some
suitable guide groove below which would convey the said objects to the outside of
the apparatus.
The distance of the inner edges of the part and the pointed hook y is a
trifle smaller than the diameter of a proper size coin so that the forward face of
the latter will have passed the hook before the rear edge will have fully left the
wedge shaped part a.
On the movable part can arm is so arranged that it will when c is removed
from a project through an opening of the rigid part a as indicated in dotted lines
in Figure 6. Thus when both parts are properly closed by the spring the
said arm will coincide exactly with the inner face of the part a and will not in
this position present any obstacle to the rolling coin.
On the other hand when both parts are separated the said arm z will project
into the intermediate space and will prevent the passage of a coin for such a time
until the two parts are again closed upon each other. It will thus be impossible
to quickly throw a coin through the opened out coin sorter directly into the
groove G even in case the two parts should not close the one upon the other
quickly enough.
It will thus be seen that the coin sorter will effectually sort out all coins which
are not of full size or weight or any other articles resembling a proper coin in
outward shape such coins or articles being thrown out of the coin sorter into some
suitable guide groove below, which will convey them to the outside of the apparatus,
whilst all coins of proper size and weight will be allowed to pass through the
coin sorter without meeting any obstruction and will thus ultimately reach the
bottom of the guide groove G₁ so as to actuate the delivery mechanism of the
apparatus.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed as communicated to me
by my foreign correspondent, I declare that what I claim is :—
First. In a delivery apparatus the combination with a guide groove for the coiu
of a lever suspended near the lower end of the said guide groove on the outside
thereof and provided at or near its upper and lower ends with lateral elongations
bevelled at the top and partly projecting into the guide groove in such a manner as
to be, the one after the other, struck and pressed aside by the coin inserted into the
delivery apparatus on its way to the bottom of the guide groove and thus allowing
but one coin at a time to pass, substantially as and for the purpose specified.
Second. In a delivery apparatus the combination with the guide groove for the
coin, of a rigid part or frame a arranged in the rear of the opening for inserting
the coin, an inclined movable part e provided with a lateral opening d and with a
lower opening e, both of smaller diameter than the diameter and thickness respec-
tively of a full size coin a spring pressing the movable part c against the rigid
part a, a sheet metal frame p suspended from the rigid part a and having a wedge
shaped part and a pointed hook y both projecting laterally into the intermediate
space between the parts a and c substantially as and for the purpose specified.
Dated this 13th day of November 1801
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.