A Combined Coin-freed Musical Box and Oigarette Delivery Machine, with or without Means for Displaying Advertisements.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 15th Oct., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 21st May, 1896-Accepted, 27th June, 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION
A Combined Coin-freed Musical Box and Oigarette Delivery Machine,
with or without Means for Displaying Advertisements.
I, GEORGE SALTER of the Firm of George Salter and Company, of High
Street, West Bromwich, in the County of Stafford, Manufacturer, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows
This invention relates to a combined coin-ficed machine embodying in one
insti ument, a musical box, a cigarette machine, and an advertisement displaycı, all
operated by one and the same coin.
Leretofore such instruments have only been used separately and a separate coin
has been employed in each machine.
By my combined machine, the public have in return for a coin deposited in the
coin slot, a musical piece performed, and a cigarette to smoke whilst listening
thereto, and are also at the same time supplied with information as to various
requiements by advertisement.
Fitted within an upright casing is an ordinary musical box, having a winding-up
handle, running down spring,,reduction gear, and like paits commonly employed in
such machines, and crossing the end of the barrel is a counterpoised coin lever or
beam, fulcrummed about its middle, with one end fitted with an adjustable counter-
poised weight and the other end with a flap-sided con box, encircled by a loop
which normally keeps the sides closed and the coin in the box. Linked to the loop
is a 1od, hanging vertically downwards, suitably supported alike unto the coin box
and its lower end coming upon one side or the shoulder of a swinging lever
or jointed or double aimed pawl, fulciumed to the com box end of the level and
pressed home by a spring and with the tail end, which may be inclined, dropping
upon the top of an outstanding pin of a bracket carried by an upright part of the
framing of the machine
The com beam has upon its counterpoised end, an outstanding stud or peg, whose
end travels within a lot formed an end of the barrel of the musical box.
This end of the barrel carries a cam or wiper, adapted to come, for a time, within
the path of the stud or pin, so that as the cam is brought round by the rotation of
the banel on the musical box playing, it impinges upon the stud or pin and for a
time carries it forward and 1ocks the beam to a given distance and the peg then
slips the cam, when the com lever- or beam returns to its former position aiter
having released the coin.
This on the coin box end of the lever being depressed it carries down with it, the
Jointed double pawl or aim and bungs its tail end upon the stud of the bracket
lying on its path, thereby tuning the said pawl on its axis and causing the other
arin to give movement to the hanging tan connected to it and take the enen cling
loop to which it is Jointed away from the flap side of the coin box, which thereupon
opens and releases the penny This coin, when released, drops into the mouth of a
con shoot leading to a cigarette machine, which may consist of a bell cranked lever,
with one end forked and coming under the outlet of the com shout and the other
The
end adapted to forwardly operate a kicker or slide, diawn back by a spung
front edge of this slide tiaveises to and fio under a pile of cigarettes aanged in a
fat tubular column terminating at the bottom in an outlet covered by a swinging
flap coming above the inclined or troughed delivery shelt.
The weight of the coin falling ou the forked end of the lever pushes forward the

page_text: kicker, when the lowest cigarette of the pile is pushed bodily through the aperture,
past the flap and outo the shelf
As an additional attraction, the combined machine may be provided with means
for displaying advertisements or public announcements a series of which are printed
or mounted on a drum, preferably situated above the musical box and adapted to
come consecutively in front of a glazed or other opening in the front of the casing
of the machine. The motion for rotating this dium may be taken from off the
1ocking beam of the musical box part of my combined machine through the medium
of a rod, which actuates a lever carrying a wiping pawl whose end engages with the
teeth of a ratchet wheel on the end of the drum.
When the 1od is pushed up by the return of the coin lever, the drum is 1otated
and an announcement presented to an opening, but when the coin box descends,
then the pawl wipes over the teeth of the ratchet wheel without effect.
Dated this 17th day of October 1805
GEORGE SALTER,
By Henry Skenett,
Agent for Applicant
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A Combined Coin-freed Musical Box and Cigarette Delivery Machine,
with or without Means for Displaying Advertisements.
1, GEORGE SALTER, of the Firm of George Salter and Company, of High
Street, West Bromwich, in the County of Stafford, Manufacturer, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention and in what manuer the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement --
This invention relates to a combined coin-ficed machine embodying in one
instrument, a musical box, a cigarette-delivery machine, and an advertisement
displayer, all operated by one and the same coin.
Heretofore such instruments have only been used separately and a separate coin
has been employed in each machine.
By my combined machine. the public have in return for a coin deposited in the
coin slot, a musical piece performed, and a cigarette to smoke whilst listening
thereto, and are also at the same time supplied with information as to various
requirements by displayed advertisements
Figure 1 of the accompanying diawings represents a combined musical box and
cigarette machine, actuated by a single coin, constructed and arranged in accordance
with my invention.
The said combined apparatus consists of an upright casing a, within the interior
of which is located ordinary spring-driven musical box mechanism (not shown in the
drawing) having a uning down spring, reduction gear, winding-up handle and
other paits common to such appliances. Pivoted at a, to an upright part a', of the
fiaming of the apparatus, and duected across the back of the musical box'
mechanism, is a counter poised com lever on beam b, provided at one end b, with an
adjustable counter poise weight, sliding in the slotted part 63, and at the other
end, with a coin box c, having a swinging flap side e, suspended from an axis c²,
crossing one side of the upper part of the said box, and having cranked end e³, to
which is attached one end of a downnaidly directed coupling wie d, connected
at d', to the end of the member c', of the swinging double aimed lever or pawle,
pivoted at e², to the com lever and with the grooved edge of its longer aime³, acted
upon by the end of a spring e, also carried by the coin lever and whose normal
tendency is to turn the level e, in the dnection of the arrow, and move the coupling
wire upwards and so keep the flap of the box closed
The tail ende, of the lever e, is inclined, and is adapted, when the coi lever is

page_text: Assuming the whole of the parts of the combined apparatus to be in the several
noimal positions as represented in the diawing, and assuming the spring diven
musical-box mechanism to be wonnd up; ou a com being inserted through the com
slot a³, it passes down the coin shoot at, and falls into the com box c, and is there
retained This 1ocks the cou-lever b, in a downward ducction until arrested by
the tail end e, of the level e, coming against the top f, and also takes the stop
arm gl, clear of the wings g, of the fly, and thereby leaves fice the unming down
mechanism of the musical box, which commence to play and continues to do so until
the grooved-faced wheel h, has brought the cam disc round to the underside of the
stud g, on the coin level. Then on the continued rotation of the said wheel,
the cam, in wiping past the said study, further 1ocks the coin lever upon its pivot
and forces the coin box end fun ther downward and the level e, is tuned by its tail
ende, being pressed against the stop, and diaws with it the coupling wued,
which opens the flap side e', of the coin box and releases the com When the
cam, has passed the stud g, the coin levet is taken back to its normal position by
the counterpoise weight 63, and the stop aim g, 1 taken into the path of the
wings g, the musical box mechanista is mirested and the tune ceases.
After leaving the coin box, the com falls into and down the coin shoot comes
momentarily upon the forked end 3, of the lever g, and 1ocks the same on its axis,
whereupon the slide g, makes a forward traverse, loi ces the lowest cigarette of the
pile outwards through the outlet a³, and past the covei flap a, onto the delivery
shelf a. After ejecting the cigarette, the slide is returned to its normal position
by the spring m2, and is prevented from being drawn too far back by the rear end
ol its guide rod m³, coming against the fixed bracket m', to which one end of the
said spring is made fast.

page_text: As an additional attraction, a combined musical box and cigarette delivery
machine such as described may be provided with mechanism for displaying
advertisements, or public announcements, the said mechanism being operated by the
same coin as the musical box and cigarette machine.
Figure 2 represents a form of mechanism that may be employed for this purpose,
the same being operated from off a locking coin level.
Figure 3 shows the connection of the lower end of the connecting rod to the
coin lever.
p is a skeleton drum or framework, tuning in suitable bearings and having
pivoted to it, a number (say Six) of flaps or plates p', on which advertise-
ments or announcements are printed and which are adapted to be brought
successively in front of a glazed opening o, in the side of the casing of the apparatus.
One end of the said drum carries a ratchet toothed wheel p², whilst tm ning loosely
on the end of the axis p³, is a lever p¹, cari ying a pawl p, engaging the teeth of said
ratchet wheel, and having jointed to its outer end p, a downwardly directed
coupling 1ody, with a loop q', at its lower part, wherethrough a part of the coin
lever, passes.
On the coin lever being given its initial movement by the coin falling into the
com box, no motion is imparted to the rod 7, and parts connected to it, the said com
lever being fiee to move within the loop q¹, and come against the bottom of the
same, but ou the can ³, (see Figure 1) acting on the stud g, and further rocking
the coin lever, the said connecting rod is pulled down and the dium p, given a sixth
of a revolution, the teeth on the ratchet wheel being so aanged that every
movement of the lever p, shall remove one advertisement from before the glazed
opening o, and present the next successive one in its place.
On the return movement of the 1od g, which may be effected either by the coin
lever or a suitably arranged spring or other means, the pawl wipes back over the
teeth of the ratchet wheel without moving the dium.
I wish it to be understood that I do not confine myself to the particular forms of
com-operated mechanism herein described for operating a musical box, delivering
cigarettes or like goods and displaying advertisements or announcements, as any
other well known mechanism or apparatus for the same purposes may be employed
in lieu thereof without departing from the nature of my invention, but
Having now particularly described and ascertamed the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is
First A combined musical box and machine delivering cigarettes or like articles
or goods, worked by a single com.
Secondly. The combined com-freed apparatus for operating a musical box and
delivering cigarettes or like small articles or goods, worked or actuated by a single
coin substantially as herein described and set forth in Figure 1.
Thudly. A combined coin-freed musical box, and machine for delivering
cigarettes or like articles or goods and displaying advertisements or public
announcements worked by a single coin.
Fourthly. A combined com-fieed musical box, and machine for delivering
cigarettes or like articles or goods and displaying advertisements or public
announcements, worked by a single coin, substantially as herem described and set
forth in Figures 1, 2 and 3.
Dated the 10th day of Mo 1906
GEORGE SALTER,
By Hemy Sherictt,
24 Temple Row, Buumingham, Agent for Applicant.