Year: 1895

page_text: I, JONATHAN HURN FAULKNER, of 50 Newgate Street, in the City of
London, Hotel Proprietor, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
My invention has reference to coin-freed locks such as are described in my
Specification No. 23736 of 1892 and is designed to prevent the lock being operated by
means of a wire or knife or the like inserted into the slot instead of a coin and so
as to operate the coin lever.
It is well known most if not all of the coin freed locks hitherto in use are
insecure and can in fact be picked with the greatest facility in the manner above
indicated.
Now the object of my invention is to render such locks as those described in
my said former specification practically secure against being thus tampered with.
According to my present invention 80 arrange the coin shoot that is to say
the passage leading from the slot to the coin lever-that when a coin is inserted
instead of falling directly on to the coin lever, it rolls or slides down an incline
from the lower end of which it passes on to and down another incline in the
opposite direction and immediately under the first incline, and so arranged that
when the coin has reached a point under or nearly under the coin slot or other
convenient point it will fall on or into the coin lever and operate the releasing
mechanism.
It will be readily understood that the use of a compound coin shoot such as
described prevents direct access to the coin lever through the slot and that it is
impracticable if not impossible to cause a wire or other like object to follow the
course taken by the coin through such apparatus.
Dated the 17th day of September 1895.
NEWNHAM BROWNE,
Agent for the Applicant.
I, JONATHAN HURN FAULKNER, of 50 Newgate Street, in the City of
London, Hotel Proprietor, 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 has reference to coin freed locks such as are described in my
Specification No. 23736 of. 1892 and is designed to prevent the lock being
operated upon by means of a wire or knife or any other picking instrument
inserted into the slot instead of a coin and so as to operate the coiu lever.

page_text: It is well known that most if not all of the coin freed locks hitherto in use are
insecure and can in fact be picked with the greatest facility in the manner above
indicated.
Now the object of my invention is to render such locks as those described in my
said former specification practically secure against being thus tampered with.
According to my present invention I so arrange the coin shoot that is to say
the passage leading from the slot to the coin lever, that when a coin is inserted,
instead of falling directly on to the coin lever, it rolls or slides down an incline
from the lower end of which it passes on to and down another incline in the
opposite direction and immediately under the first incline, and so arranged that
when the coin has reached a point under or nearly under the coin slot or other
convenient point it will fall on or into the coin lever and operate the releasing
mechanism.
In the accompanying sheet of drawings,
Fig. 1 is a front elevation of the lock shewing the front plates removed except
round the coin slot but showing only so much of the mechanism of the lock as is
necessary for the illustration of the improvements which form the subject of this
application the remainder of the mechanism of the lock being fully illustrated in
the Specification of my said Patent dated December 23rd 1892 No. 23736.
Fig. 2 is a transverse vertical section.
D is the coin slot.
e is a plate with its upper edge placed just under the coin slot D so as to guide
the coin when it is dropped in and confine it to its proper course.
fis a baffle plate forming an incline on to which the coin falls when inserted
through the slot D and down which incline it rolls till it falls over the end of it
at f1.
is a small auxilliary plate serving to secure the starting of the coin down the
incline.
:
From the point f¹ the coin falls on to another baffle plate a forming an incline
in the opposite direction, beyond the lower end of which there is an opening h
through which the coin falls on to the coin lever after which it operates the lock
in the manner described in my said previous specification.
The lever J is pivotted at to a vertical slide K the upper end of which serves
to close the slot D and may exhibit therethrough the word "engaged " when and
for the purpose described in my said previous specification.
m is a slot in the plate K working over a guide stud m' whereby the movement
of the plate K is guided.
It will be readily understood that the use of a compound coin shoot such as
described prevents direct access to the coin lever through the slot and that it is
impracticable if not impossible to cause a wire or other like object to follow the
course taken by the coin through such apparatus.
Having now fully described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed declare that what I
claim is.
1. The improvements in coin freed locks herein before described and for the
purpose set forth.
2. In coin freed locks of the kind described in my Specification No. 23736
of 1892 the improvements herein before described consisting of baffle plates
arranged and fixed as described for the purpose of rendering the lock more
difficult or impossible to pick by way of the coin slot.
3. In a coin freed lock such as is described in Specification 23736 of 1892
an upward prolongation of the lock containing two or more baffle plates such as f
and g forming inclines in opposite directions so that when a coin is inserted it
will pass down the first and on to the second along which it will pass in the
opposite direction to an opening over the coin lever, said baffle plates being

page_text: arranged substantially as shown in the drawings and so that the coin lever cannot
be operated and the lock opened by a wire or the like inserted through the coin
Blot.
Dated the 15th day of June 1896.
JONATHAN HURN FAULKNER.