Improvements in Coin-freed Apparatus.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd Mar., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 3rd Dec., 1892-Accepted, 3rd Mar., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Coin-freed Apparatus.
I, GEORGE WILLIAM LOWCOCK of Riversdale," Seymour Grove Manchester
in the County of Lancaster, Assistant Manager of Works, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to coin-freed apparatus for the sale and delivery of articles
in which the aperture through which the articles are delivered is closed by a slide
except during the act of delivery, and its object is to prevent the insertion of a
second coin or token until the article paid for by the insertion of the first has been
actually delivered.
According to these improvements I form one of the narrow sides of the coin
shoot from a pivoted bar having a projection formed upon its upper end and a catch
attached to or connected with its lower end. Normally, that is to say when the
apparatus is not in use, the catch is free and the pivoted side bar can be moved to
one side or the other, and the projection on the upper part of the bar is in the
path of the coin or token. In inserting the coin or token, the side bar is inoved
on its pivot, outwards at the top end and inwards at the lower end, and the coin
falls through the shoot until it is arrested by the trip lever or other mechanism at
the bottom of the shoot. By the action of the delivery motion of the apparatus
the slide covering the delivery apparatus is then lifted, and directly or indirectly
engages with and holds the catch at the bottom of the side bar which is thereby
locked. It will now be impossible to insert another coin or token because of the
projection on the top of the temporarily fixed side bar. So soon however as the
delivery is completed and the slide has been lowered, the catch will be disengaged,
and another coin may be inserted.
From the construction of the apparatus it follows also that so long as there is a coin
or token in the coin shoot, another cannot be inserted, because the presence of the
coin prevents the motion of the side bar which is necessary for the coin or token
to be inserted. If the apparatus should be required to prevent the insertion of
another coin or token when there is one already in the shoot, and without reference
to the act of delivery the catch may be omitted.
nd thin and do of March A D 1892
WILLIAM E. HEYS,
Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Coin-freed Apparatus.
I, GEORGE WILLIAM LOWCOCK, of "Riversdale," Seymour Grove, Manchester
in the County of Lancaster, Assistant Manager of Works, 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 coin-freed apparatus for the sale and delivery of
articles in which the aperture through which the articles are delivered is closed by
a slide except during the act of delivery, and its object is to prevent the insertion
of a second coin or token until the article paid for by the first has been actually
delivered.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Coin-freed Apparatus.
I, GEORGE WILLIAM LOWCOCK, of "Riversdale," Seymour Grove, Manchester
in the County of Lancaster, Assistant Manager of Works, 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 coin-freed apparatus for the sale and delivery of
articles in which the aperture through which the articles are delivered is closed by
a slide except during the act of delivery, and its object is to prevent the insertion
of a second coin or token until the article paid for by the first has been actually
delivered.
I will describe my improvements with reference to the accompanying drawings in
which
Figure 1 is a vertical section in dotted and full lines respectively of the position
of the apparatus before and after the insertion of a coin or token.
Figure 2 is
similar view shewing a coin in the coin shoot.

page_text: According to these improvements I form one of the narrow sides of the coin
shoot A from a bar B pivoted at C. This bar has at its upper end a returned part
or projection D pointing over the slot. At its lower end the bar may also have
formed upon or connected with it a catch E. When the apparatus is not in use,
as shewn by Figure 1 this catch is free, and the pivoted bar B can move into the
position shewn by the full lines or into that shewn by the dotted lines. The pro-
jection D is of such dimensions that when the lever is in the position shewn by the
full lines, a coin or token cannot be inserted into the slot if a coin is already in the
shoot, but when the bar is in the position indicated by the dotted lines, the coin or
token may be inserted freely.
By the act of inserting the coin or token, the upper end of the bar is moved
into the dotted position and the coin falls through the shoot until it is arrested by
suitable means at the bottom end of the pivoted bar. So long as the coin is in this
position it is obvious that the bar is locked by it with the projection D above the
slot, so that another coin cannot then be inserted. (See Figure 2.)
F, is the vertical slide by means of which the aperture for the delivery of the
articles is closed except during the act of delivery. In its lowest position,
(Figure 2), it is capable of being engaged by the catch E. This position of the
slide is that occupied by it when the apparatus is in use and the aperture is open.
Hence, whilst the apparatus is in use, the bar B is locked in the position shewn
by the full lines Figures 1 and 2, independently of the presence of a coin. It will
therefore be impossible to insert another coin or token into the slot so long as a
coin is in the shoot or whilst an article is being delivered from the apparatus. So
soon however as the delivery has been completed, or, in the absence of the catch E,
so soon as the coin has fallen from the lower end of the shoot, the pivoted bar B
will be disengaged and another coin may be inserted.
Any suitable means may be employed for raising and lowering the vertical
slide F, that indicated by the drawings being similar to the means at present in
use. A rocking lever R, shewn by the dotted lines, has its point under the vertical
slide and its tail resting upon an arm attached to the under side of the horizontal
delivery slide N. The upper side of this arm is slightly inclined, so that when the
delivery slide is pushed forward, the tail of the lever R is tilted and its point
depressed, whereupon the slide F falls by its own weight. The restoration of the
slide F may be accomplished by counterweighting the lever R, or by means of a
spring under the point of the lever.
Should the apparatus be required merely to prevent the insertion of a second
coin or token into the slot before the previously inserted coin has fallen from the
shoot, and without reference to the delivery slide, the catch E may be omitted.
In the drawings, I have illustrated my improvements as applied to a coin-freed
apparatus of the type described in the Specification of Letters Patent granted to
me No. 9992 dated the 12th day of June A.D. 1891, but I desire it to be under-
stood that I do not limit myself to the precise apparatus therein described.
The accessory details shewn in the drawings appended hereto and which corre-
spond with the details of my former invention are:-The release lever K; its
fulcrum L; the stop M; the slide N; the press button O; and the coin receptacle P.
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 :-
In coin-freed apparatus, a pivoted bar in the coin shoot having its upper end
furnished with a projection and being constructed arranged and operated substan-
tially as and for the purpose hereiubefore described and illustrated by the accom-
panying drawings.
Dated this 1st day of December A D 1802
WILLIAM E. HEYS,
Agent for the Applicant.