Improvements in the Construction of Apparatus for the Sale and Delivery of Articles on the Insertion of Coins.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd Oct., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 3rd July, 1889-Accepted, 3rd Oct., 1889
Improvements in the Construction of Apparatus for the Sale and
Delivery of Articles on the Insertion of Coins.
HERBERT DAVID KEY of 19 Lesly Street Barnsbury in the County of Middlesex,
Tin plate worker, do hereby declare the nature of my said invention to be as
follows:-
My invention relates to that class of apparatus, commonly called "automatic," in
which articles are stored for sale; one of such articles being released from the
reservoir on the insertion of the proper coin into the apparatus; and the object of
my invention is to construct such apparatus in an improved manner:
Inside the apparatus I form the roservoir in a vertical or nearly vertical position,
and of such a form as the articles on sale may require; the articles resting one upon
another.
In order to prevent too great a propulsive force being brought to bear upon the
lowest article, I place the bottom of the reservoir at a suitable angle, or form the same
curvilinear, in order that the lowest article may be pressed forward with uniform force,
and rest against a front plate, between which plate and the bottom a slot or opening
is provided, large enough to allow one article to pass.
Under the last mentioned opening, and in such a position as to retain the article in
the apparatus; I fit a movable plate having a double curvature, the convex portion
of such plate being in contact with and partly sustaining the article, while in a state
of rest, and the concave portion of the plate being formed so as to allow the article to
pass outwards, when the plate is tilted by the coin falling on a lever or pallet.
The plate is suitably mounted on centres and fitted with a pallet or analogous
contrivance, whereby the weight of the coin is enabled to tilt the plate and thereby
shift the contact surfaces; the plate being returned io its normal position by its own
weight, or by a spring.
The external case of the apparatus is provided with the usual slots or openings and
doors, for the reception of the coins, the delivery of the goods and the refilling of the
reservoir.
GEO.
DOWNING,
Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Construction of Apparatus for the Sale and
Delivery of Articles on the Insertion of Coins.
I HERBERT DAVID KEY of 19 Lesly Street Barnsbury in the County of Middlesex
Tin Plate Worker 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 relates to that class of apparatus commonly called "automatic" in
which articles are stored for sale; one of such articles heing released from the reservoir
on the insertion of the proper coin into the apparatus, and the object of my invention
is to construct such apparatus in an improved manner.
Inside the apparatus I form the reservoir in a vertical or nearly vertical position,
and of such a form as the articles on sale may require; the articles resting upon one
another.
In order to prevent too great a propulsive force being brought to bear upon the
lowest article, I place the bottom of the reservoir at a suitable angle, or form the same

page_text: curvilinear, in order that the lowest article may be pressed forward with uniform force
and rest against a front plate, between which plate and the bottom a slot or opening
is provided, large enough to allow one article to pass.
Under the last mentioned opening and in such a position as to retain the article in
the apparatus I fit a movable plate having two projecting pallets, one being in contact
with and partly sustaining the article while in a state of rest, and the other being
formed so as to allow the article to pass outwards when the plate is tilted by the coin
falling on a lever or pallet.
The plate is suitably mounted on centres and fitted with a pallet or analogous
contrivance whereby the weight of the coin is enabled to tilt the plate and thereby
shift the contact surfaces; the plate being returned to its normal position by its own
weight or by a spring.
The external case of the apparatus is provided with slots or openings, and doors for
the reception of the coins the delivery of the goods, and the refilling of the
reservoir.
The accompanying drawings in all the figures of which the same reference letters
indicate the same parts will serve to illustrate the apparatus as constructed in
accordance with this invention.
Fig. 1 is a perspective view shewing the front and one side of the apparatus in
elevation. Fig. 2 is a perspective view showing the same side and the back of the
apparatus in elevation. Fig. 3 is the money drawer removed from the apparatus.
Fig. 4 is a sectional side elevation of the apparatus and Figs 5. 6 and 7 are details of
the releasing and detaining mechanism.
The vertical reservoir A contains the articles on sale resting one upon the other; the
lowest packet B being urged against one side of the vertical reservoir by the flat
spring C in order to obviate the necessity of inclining the bottom of the reservoir in
the manner hereinbefore described. The lowest packet B is supported by the
projection D and thus are the whole of the articles supported in the reservoir A one
upon another.
Upon inserting the required coin at the money slot E it passes by the shoots H
and M and strikes upon the lever G causing it to rock upon the pin K and withdraw
the projecting piece D from under the lowest packet B.
The lowest packet B being thus released falls and in its descent it strikes upon the
projecting piece L (as shewn in Fig. 5.) and so causes the lever G to return to its
normal position and the projecting piece D to receive and support the next succeeding
packet which then becomes the lowest packet B next to be delivered.
For delivery the articles fall through the curved passage P and pass out by the
opening on the shelf R outside the apparatus being directed in its course by contact
with the projecting piece L.
When employing the releasing and detaining mechanism above described it is
necessary to charge the apparatus with articles sufficiently heavy to return the lever G
to its normal position by striking on the projecting piece L.
The arrangement shewn by Figs. 6 and 7 provides for the return of the lever G to
its normal position by means of the spring S or the balance weight T without any
performance by the article released for delivery; by this arrangement the projecting
piece L is consequently dispensed with.
In order to close the whole apparatus securely under the control of a single lock, I
provide the sliding shutter U with an L shaped foot W over which the money
drawer X passes.
The money drawer X is secured by the pin a passing through a ferrule b attached
to the interior of the casing in a position to meet the ferrule c attached to the money
drawer X.
The front flap Y is hinged at the lower part of the casing and has a lip piece d
which is closed by the door Z, so that when the door Z is locked, the whole of the
opening portions are securely fastened.
The sliding shutter U is intended to make the money shoots H and M accessible
for removing any obstruction that may be found therein.

page_text: The money shoots H and M are constructed in the manner described in a former
specification of Letters Patent No. 3176 of the year 1888; the plate M therein
referred to being replaced by the pointed rod which accomplishes the same object
and at the same time is capable of arresting washers that may fraudulently be
introduced at the money slot E instead of the required coin.
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 1
claim is
1. In apparatus for the sale and delivery of articles on the insertion of coins, the
releasing and detaining mechanism substantially as described and illustrated in detail
by Figs. 5. 6 and 7 of the accompanying drawings.
2. The combination of the parts forming the improved apparatus for the sale and
delivery of articles on the insertion of coins having all the openings securely fastened
by one lock substantially as described and shown by the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 3rd day of July 1889
AYRTON & THOMAS,
Agents for the Applicant.