Improvements in Coin-freed Games or Toys.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 5th Jan., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 5th Oct.. 1892-Accepted, 19th Nov., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Coin-freed Games or Toys.
I, EDMUND EDWARDS of 35 Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, in the
County of Middlesex, Consulting Engineer and Patent Agent, do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates more especially to an improved game or toy, which can
only be made use of after a certain determined coin such as a penny, has been first
inserted in a suitable opening provided for it in a convenient part of the apparatus.
It consists chiefly of arrangements whereby when such coin is inserted into the
apparatus as described it takes up a position at the back of a more or less vertical
guide consisting of two side strips, and a back from which they are separated by a
space somewhat greater than the thickness of the coin, which I will suppose to be a
penny, the space between the front strips and the back forming a guide in which
the penny can rise and fall freely, but the inner edges of the front strips being
separated from each other sufficiently to allow the principal part of the penny to be
seen as it rises and falls, its edges only being concealed behind the strips. When
the penny has been inserted into the opening and has taken its place at the bottom
of the vertical guide described, its lower edge rests upon, or is supported above
one end of a lever, the other end of which is arranged so that it can be struck or
forced sharply down by pulling, or pushing as may be found preferable, a handle or
knob arranged upon and projecting from a convenient part of the external case in
which the apparatus is contained, the handle being brought back to its original
position after the blow or push, by a spring or weight.
It will be seen that if the penny be inserted and is resting visible at the bottom
of the guide, it can be driven up the latter to a height dependent upon the force
with which the handle or knob is pulled or pushed, and is visible whilst it so rises.
I make the lever which strikes up the penny, preferably in the form of the
extended arm of a visible figure such as an acrobat, so that when the lever is raised
to throw up the penny as described the figure appears to throw it up. Indications,
divisions, colours, numbers, or other devices, may be marked upon the vertical strips
or upon the back of the guide, or both.
In order that the penny may not, after having been thrown up, fall to the bottom
of the guide and be again used I make through the back of the guide any desired
number of openings at different heights and I provide each opening with an
inclined back and guide leading the penny, if it passes back out through the opening,
along a suitably directed guide or channel into a drawer or receptacle into which it
falls. Opposite each opening in the back of the guide I arrange upon each side
behind the two vertical strips described, a flexible plate or spring the upper front
end of which rests lightly against the back of the strip, whilst its lower back end is
fixed to the lower edge of the opening of the back. If therefore the penny be
thrown up above the upper ends of these springs which bend to allow it to pass, it
is directed by them through the corresponding opening at the back, and passes
down through the channel connected with it into the drawer. The guiding springs
may be hinged instead of fixed at their lower ends, and may extend completely
across the openings in front, and the openings at the back may be closed by a light
door suspended from its upper edge so that it closes the opening at the back, but is
opened by the penny as it falls, and allows it to pass through, the door then falling
forward and re-closing the aperture, the penny therefore disappearing from sight
through the back after having commenced to fall. The light doors which close the
openings at the back of the guide, through which the penny falls when it has
attained a sufficient height, may be kept closed by detents upon a bar which is

page_text: released by the weight of the next coin inserted in the apparatus. In this way the
coin remains visible at the height to which it has risen until another coin has been
inserted and has released the detent, and it then forces open the door against which
it is resting and passes down the channel at the back as already described.
Dividing lines, or different colours, may be used which more or less conceal the
junction of the doors with the back. As any desired number of the openings and
springs may be used, it is evident that the vertical guide is divided into a corre-
sponding number of sections at equal or different distances apart, and the penny
falls back out of sight through the opening in whichever of these divisions it has
risen to, and each division may have a special colour or number. I make, preferably,
the upper opening and springs at the highest point of the guide, communicate
with a channel or guide leading to an opening in the front of the apparatus through
which the penny is returned to the player instead of falling into the drawer or
receptacle. It will be seen that no apparatus is required for ensuring that the
handle or knob shall act only when a penny has been inserted, the handle operating
in the same way whether a coin is inserted or not, but the latter when present being
itself thrown up to a height dependent upon the force of the blow or movement of the
lever. Instead of being struck directly however by the lever the latter may strike and
throw up a frame or support upon which the coin rests, the former being guided in
the vertical guides without touching the springs and falling down again to its lowest
position without the penny. In order to indicate more clearly and permanently the
height to which the penny has been thrown, I prefer to arrange in each of the
separate guides or channels down which it can pass as described, a projecting lever,
the end of which is struck by the penny as it passes down. Each of these levers is
connected to a shutter or plate, shewing through an aperture, and having a
colour, number, or device, corresponding with that of the division of the vertical
guide to which the penny has risen, so that as the penny falls it turns the lever and
exposes the corresponding shutter or plate, which can fall back by its own weight
when the penny has passed the lever. The shutters or levers are connected with a
swinging catch common to all of them, each lever or a projecting piece connected
with it having a bevilled catch upon it which when the shutter is moved by the
falling coin raises the swinging catch with its bevilled edge and is held by the catch
which falls behind it. In raising the catch, any of the levers and shutters which
have been moved and exposed are released from the catch and fall back, whilst the
freshly exposed one remains visible until another shutter has been raised and
exposed. This method of arrangement may be varied more or less, and is applicable
to other forms of apparatus in which variable positions of apparatus have to be
registered or shewn in succession. The shutters may carry advertisements, which
are therefore constantly changing, or such advertisements may be shewn through a
separate opening, and changed by the action of the handle every time it is moved.
As a further attraction for the game or toy, I sometimes propose to use an arrange-
ment by which if the coin does not rise to its highest point, but to a determined
point short of such highest one, a coin of smaller value such as a halfpenny is
returned to the player. For this purpose I arrange a column of a sufficient number
of halfpence in a guide, a slit being provided opposite to the lowest coin in the
column through which it can be forced out by a pusher into a shoot down which it
passes to an opening in the front or other convenient part of the apparatus. I
arrange a lever in connection with the pusher, having a spring acting upon it of
sufficient strength to force forward the pusher and deliver a halfpenny when
released.
I connect the lever to the handle or knob in such manner that when the latter is
pulled or pushed, (as the case may be) the lever is forced back against the pressure
of the spring and is held back by a light detent at its end. An arm upon or
connected with the detent also projects into the channel connected with the
particular opening in the shoot determined upon, so that when the penny rises high
enough to pass down through that opening it strikes the arm and releases the
detent, and a halfpenny is instantly delivered from the machine. In the same. way

page_text: penny may be delivered when the greatest height is reached, in addition to the
Or instead of a halfpenny being
eturn of the penny to the player and so on.
elivered as described, any other determined article may be delivered by the same
neans. Or, as an obvious modification the penny may be made to deliver articles
f varying value according to the height to which it is raised and from which it
alls. A figure may be arranged at the top or other convenient part of the
pparatus which when the extreme height has been reached by the penny, is set
automatically in motion, or made to give out sounds. For instance, the figure of a
cock may be made to crow, or a trumpeter to sound a trumpet, or a phonograph to
speak suitable words. These different devices may be actuated by clockwork,
wound up when required and set free for the short time required by the release of
detent, freed by a lever struck by the penny as it descends the channel or passage
from the highest part of the vertical guide, the clockwork actuating in the well
known way devices by which notes of music are played, or other sounds produced,
or models set in motion, or a phonograph operated.
I
I prefer, however, to operate the different devices described, by means of the
force used in pulling the handle or knob of the machine as already described,
either by compressing a spring, or an elastic air-ball, such force being sufficient to
operate the device which is used, but being prevented from coming into operation
by a detent, which is released by the penny as already described. The arrange-
ments are applicable to other forms of game or toy in which more or less success is
attained in moving a weight or spring for a greater or less height or distance.
prefer to make the handle or knob described operate the lever which strikes the
coin, by means of a curved cam or slot, so that the force of the blow is variable
according to the distance through which the handle or knob is pulled or pushed.
Instead of the lever or the coin being struck as described it may be actuated by a
In cases where
sharp push effected by the movement of the handle as described.
there is not sufficient height for the coin to be driven up to the required height and
the vertical guide has to be of less height, the movement of the coin may be
retarded by lining the edges or front strips of the guide with felt or other soft
material, or the guiding springs described may be of such strength as to cause
sufficient retardation and they may be made separately adjustable. A. few inches
at the bottom of the vertical guide are left without a back opening and guiding
springs, so that in the case of an accidental slight blow, the coin does not rise high
In a
enough to disappear but falls back into its place and can be again struck.
modified form of apparatus, I do not use a blow for the purpose of raising the coin,
but I support it upon an arm projecting from a rising and falling frame or carriage
provided with a vertical spindle having inclined vanes, which when made to revolve
sufficiently fast rise and carry the coin with them. The lower end of the spindle
drops in its lowest position into a socket turning in bearings.
This socket is made to revolve by means of a rack and pinion, or a cord and
pulley, connected with the knob or handle, so that when the latter is pulled or
pushed as already described, the socket is made to revolve, and the inclined vanes
with the coin rise to a height dependent upon the force with which the handle is
moved. The spindle carrying the vanes does not enter the socket until the penny
has reached its position upon the supporting arm, and its weight then brings the
spindle down into position to be rotated by the socket. This method of raising the
coin may be applied to other forms of apparatus in which a weight of any kind is
raised or moved by actuating a knob or handle, after the insertion of a coin into an
opening.
Or, the frame carrying the coin may be raised by blowing into a tube or
mouthpiece, a piston fitting freely into a cylinder being connected with it, and
being operated by the pressure of air blown into the cylinder. Instead of a handle
or knob, a lever may be used struck directly by the hand. Or it may be operated
5 by the foot.
In the case of larger apparatus, instead of the coin being thrown up as first
described, I may cause the lever to throw up a larger and preferably heavier weight

page_text: such as a disc or ball. In such case I arrange a catch which prevents the weight
from falling back upon the lever until a fresh coin has been inserted, the weight
of which disengages the catch and allows the weight to descend into its position
upon or above the lever.
The details of the apparatus may be varied more or less.
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1001
EDWARDS & Co.,
35, Southampton Buildings, London, Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Coin-freed Games or Toys.
I, EDMUND EDWARDS, of 35, Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, in the
County of Middlesex, Consulting Engineer and Patent Agent 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 and
accompanying drawings, that is to say :--
This invention relates more especially to an improved game or toy, which can
only be made use of after a certain determined coin such as a penny, has been
first inserted in a suitable opening provided for it in a convenient part of the
apparatus.
The accompanying drawings are in illustration of the invention :—
Figure 1 is a front view of one form of the apparatus,
Figures 2 and 3 are side views partly in section,
Figure 4 is a horizontal section on a larger scale, through the coin guide.
Figure 5 is a vertical section of the same.
Figure 6 is a front view of the coin guide,
Figure 7 is a back view, and
Figure 8 a horizontal section shewing the shutters and their connections.
Figure 9 is a view upon a larger scale of the passages for the coin, shewing the
mode of operating the shutters.
Figure 10 is a plan of the same.
Figure 11 is a front view illustrating a method of throwing up the coin.
Figure 12 is a side view illustrating the method of throwing up the coin, and of
delivering a separate coin.
Figure 13 is a side view, and Figure 14 a plan illustrating a method of producing
a sound when the coin has reached a certain height.
Figure 15 is a side view, and Figure 16 a plau, of a modified method of operating
the several shutters.
The apparatus consists chiefly of arrangements whereby when a coin is inserted
as described, it takes up a position at the back of a more or less vertical guide
consisting of two side strips a, a, and a back b, from which they are separated by
a space somewhat greater than the thickness of the coin, which I will suppose to
be a penny, the space between the front strips and the back forming a guide in
which the penny can rise and fall freely, but the inner edges of the front strips
being separated from each other sufficiently to allow the principal part of the penny
to be seen as it rises and falls, its edges only being concealed behind the strips, or
the front strip may be of glass without any opening through it.
When the penny
has been inserted into the opening c and has taken its place at the bottom of the
vertical guide described, its lower edge rests upon, or is supported above, one end
of a lever d, the other end of which t is arranged so that it can be struck or forced
sharply down by pulling (or pushing as may be found preferable), a handle or
knob o arranged upon and projecting from a convenient part of the external case
in which the apparatus is contained the handle being brought back to its original
position after the blow or push, by a spring or weight z.

page_text: The handle w is connected with a projecting piece a, which when the handle is
pulled comes in contact with the arm of a bell crank lever the other arm of which u
strikes the lever t. The lever t can be adjusted upon its axis nearer to or further
from the centre of the bell crank, so as to regulate the force of the blow. A
spring returns the bell crank to its normal position.
It will be seen that if the penny be inserted and is resting visible at the bottom
of the guide, it can be driven up the latter to a height dependent upon the force
with which the handle or knob is pulled or pushed, and is visible whilst it rises.
1 make the lever d which strikes up the penny, preferably in the form of the
extended arm of a visible figure such as an acrobat, so that when the lever is raised
to throw up the penny as described the figure appears to throw it up. Indications,
divisions, colours, numbers, or other devices may be marked upon the vertical
strips a, a, or upon the back b of the guide, or both.
In order that the penny may not, after having been thrown up, full to the bottom
of the guide and be again used, I make through the back of the guide any desired
number of openings fat different heights and I provide each opening with an
inclined back and guide g leading the penny, if it passes back out through the
opening, along a suitably directed guide or channel into a drawer or receptacle into
which it falls. Opposite each opening in the back of the guide I arrange upon
each side behind the two vertical strips a, a, described, a flexible plate or spring i
the upper front end of which rests lightly against the back of the strip, whilst its
lower back end is fixed to the lower edge of the opening in the back. If therefore
the penny be thrown up above the upper ends of these springs i, which bend to
allow it to pass, it is directed by them through the corresponding opening at the
back, and passes down through the channels g connected with it into the drawer.
The guiding springs i may be hinged instead of fixed at their lower ends, and may
extend completely across the openings in front, and the openings at the back may
be closed by a light door b', Figure 5, suspended from its upper edge at 6 so that
it closes the opening at the back, but is opened by the penny as it falls, and allows
it to pass through, the door then falling forward by means of the weight l³ and
re-closing the aperture, the penny therefore disappearing from sight through the
back after having commenced to fall. The light doors 61 which close the openings
at the back of the guide, through which the penny falls when it has attained a
sufficient height, may be kept closed by detents upon a bar which is released by the
weight of the next coin inserted in the apparatus. In this way the coin remains
visible at the height to which it has risen, until another coin has been inserted and
has released the detent, and it then forces open the door against which it is resting
and passes down the channel at the back as already described. Dividing lines, or
different colours may be used which more or less conceal the junction of the doors
with the back. As any desired number of the openings and springs may be used,
it is evident that the vertical guide is divided into a corresponding number of
sections at equal or different distances apart, and the penny falls back out of sight
through the opening in whichever of these divisions it has risen to, and each
division may have a special colour or number. I make preferably the upper opening
and springs at the highest point of the guide (or the highest but one, so that skill
instead of mere strength is necessary, as shewn in Figures 2 and 3), communicate
with a channel or guide g¹ leading to au opening in the front of the apparatus,
through which the penny is returned to the player instead of falling into the
drawer or receptacle. It will be seen that no apparatus is required for ensuring
that the handle or knob shall act only when a penny has been inserted, the
handle operating in the same way whether a coin is inserted or not, the latter
when present being itself thrown up to a height dependent upon the force of the.
blow or movement of the lever. Instead of being struck directly however by the
lever the latter may strike and throw up a frame or support upon which the coin
rests, the former being guided in the vertical guides without touching the springs
and falling down again to its lowest position without the penny. In order to

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indicate more clearly and permanently the height to which the penny has been
thrown, I prefer to arrange in each of the separate guides or channels g down
which it can pass as described, a projecting lever the end of which is struck
by the penny as it passes down. Each of these levers is connected by a wire s
to a shutter or plate m, shewing through an aperture n in the front of the
apparatus, and having a colour, number, or device, corresponding with that of
the division of the vertical guide to which the penny has risen, so that as the
penny falls it turns the lever and exposes the corresponding shutter or plate m
which can reclose by its own or a separate weight when the penny has passed
the lever. The shutters or levers are connected with a swinging catch o
(Figures 3, 8, 9, and 10), common to all of them, each lever or a projecting bar r,
connected with it having a bevilled catch p upon it which when the shutter
is moved by the falling coin raises the swinging catch o with its bevilled edge
and is held by the catch which falls behind it. In raising the catch, any of the
levers and shutters which have been moved and exposed are released from the
catch and fall back, whilst the freshly exposed one remains visible until another
shutter has been raised and exposed in turn.
This method of arrangement may be varied more or less and is applicable to other
forms of coin freed apparatus in which variable positions of coins or weights have
to be registered or shewn in succession. The shutters may carry advertisements,
which are therefore constantly changing, or such advertisements may be shewn
through a separate opening and changed by the action of the handle every time it
is moved, as shewn in Figures 1 and 2, in which 18 is a lever operated by the pin
or stud y moved by the handle w, the lever actuating a ratchet wheel 19 which
.drives a roller 20 round which passes an endless band 22, carrying the advertise-
ments and passing round a second roller 21 at the top of the apparatus. 19* is a
spring which brings back the lever 18.
In a slightly modified form, especially where the weight of the coin may not be
sufficient to operate with certainty the devices described, the arrangement shewn in
Figures 15 and 16 may be used. In this the shutters or plates m are returned to
their places when the handle or knob w is pulled, by the action of a pin or pro-
jection y upon a series of levers 1, turning on centres and forced down by
springs 3 and connected with the shutters m by wires 8. The levers 1 are provided
with detents 4, held by catches 5 when the levers are raised by the projection y
and each of the catches 5 is connected with one of the levers which is struck by
the coin. The lever so struck releases the corresponding detent 4 and the shutter
yis exposed by the action of the spring 3.
As a further attraction for the game or toy I sometimes propose to use an
arrangement by which if the coin does not rise to its highest point, but to a deter-
mined point short of such highest one, a coin of smaller value such as a halfpenny
is returned to the player. For this purpose I arrange as illustrated in Figures 1, 12,
and 14, a column of a sufficient number of halfpence in a guide 15, a slit being
provided opposite to the lowest coin in the column through which it can be forced
out by a pusher 14 into a shoot 16 down which passes to an opening in the front
or other convenient part of the apparatus. I arrange a lever 9 'in connection with
the pusher, having a spring 17 acting upon it, of sufficient strength to force forward
the pusher and deliver a halfpenny when released.
I connect the lever to the handle or knob in such manner that when the latter is
pulled or pushed, as the case may be, the lever is pushed back against the pressure
of the spring and is held back by a light detent 10 at its end. An arm upon or
connected with the detent 10 also projects into, or close to, the channel g connected
with the particular opening in the shoot determined upon, so that when the penny
rises high enough to pass down through that opening it strikes the arm and releases
the detent 10, and a halfpenny is instantly delivered from the machine. The lever
is forced back the next time the handle is pulled, and remains until another penny
passes down the shoot. In the same way a penny may be delivered when the

page_text: greatest or other determined height is reached, in addition to the return of the
penny to the player and so on. Or instead of a halfpenny being delivered_as
described, any other determined article may be delivered by the same means.
as an obvious modification, the penny may be made to deliver articles of varying
Or,
5 value according to the height to which it is raised and from which it falls. A
figure may be arranged at the top or other convenient part of the apparatus which
when the extreme height has been reached by the penny, is set automatically in
motion, or made to give out sounds. For instance, the figure of a cock may be
made to crow, or a trumpeter to sound a trumpet, or a phonograph to speak suitable
O words. These different devices may be actuated by clockwork, wound up when
required and set free for the short time required, by the release of a detent, freed
by a lever struck by a penny as it descends the channel or passage from the highest
or other determined part of the vertical guide, the clockwork actuating in the well
known way devices by which notes of music are played, or other sounds produced,
or models set in motion, or a phonograph operated.
I prefer however, to operate the different devices described, by means of the
force used in pulling the handle or knob of the machine as already described, either
by compressing or extending a spring 11, as illustrated in Figure 13, and freeing an
elastic air ball 12, the force of the spring being sufficient to compress the air
ball 12 and to operate the device which is used, by the air which is forced through
the pipe 13, but being prevented from coming into operation by a detent, which is
released by the penny in the same manner as has been already described. These
arrangements are applicable to other forms of coin freed game or toy in which more
or less success is attained in moving a weight or spring for a greater or less
height or distance, the detent being released by such weight or spring when the
determined height or distance has been reached. I sometimes make the handle or
knob we described operate the lever which strikes the coin, by means of a curved
cam or slot, so that the force of the blow is variable according to the distance
through which the handle or knob is pulled or pushed. Instead of the lever or the
coin being struck in the manner described it may be actuated by a sharp push
effected by the movement of the handle as described. In cases where there is not
sufficicut height for the coin to be driven up to the required height and the vertical
guide has to be of less height, the movement of the coin may be retarded by lining
the edges or front strips of the guide with felt or other soft material, or the guiding
strips described may be of such strength as to cause sufficient retardation, and
they may be made separately adjustable. A few inches at the bottom of the
vertical guide are left without a back opening and guiding springs, so that in the
case of an accidental slight blow, the coin docs not rise high enough to disappear
but falls back into its place and can be again struck.
apparatus, illustrated in Figure 17, I do not use a blow for the purpose of raising.
In a modified form of
the coin, but I support it upon an arm projecting from a rising and falling frame
or carriage a provided with a vertical spindle having inclined vanes c which when
nade to revolve sufficiently fast rise and carry the coin with them. The lower
quare end of the spindle b drops in its lowest position into a socket d turning in
bearings. This socket is made to revolve by means of a rack and pinion e, or a
ord and pulley, connected with the knob or handle w, so that when the latter is
ulled or pushed as already described, the socket is made to revolve, and the
nclined vanes c with the coin rise to a height dependent upon the force with which
he handle is moved. The spindle b carrying the vanes does not enter the socket d,
ut is supported by a spring, until the penny has reached its position upon the
apporting arm, and its weight then brings the spindle down into position to be
otated by the socket as shewn.
This method of raising the coin may be applied to other forms of apparatus in
hich a weight of any kind is raised or moved by actuating a knob or handle, after
e insertion of a coin into an opening.
Or the frame carrying the coin may be raised by blowing into a tube or mouth..

page_text: piece, a piston fitting freely into a cylinder being connected with it, and being
operated by the pressure of air blown into the cylinder. Instead of a handle or
knob, a lever may be used struck directly by the hand. Or it may be operated by
the foot.
In the case of a larger apparatus, instead of the coin being thrown up as first
described, I may cause the lever to throw up a larger and preferably heavier weight
such as a disc or ball. In such case I arrange a catch which prevents the weight
from falling back upon the lever until a fresh coin has been inserted, the weight of
which disengages the catch and allows the weight to descend into its position upon
or above the lever.
The details of the apparatus and the shape, size, and proportion, of the several
parts may be varied more or less.
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 :-
1. The combination of the guide a, openings f, springs i and device for throwing
up a coin or weight, substantially as described and shewn.
2. The combination with the guide a, spring i, and openings f, described in
Claim 1, of the hinged doors 6', substantially as and for the purpose described and
illustrated.
3. The combination with the guides a, springs i, and openings f described in
Claim 1, of the passages g, and receptacle h, substantially as described and
illustrated.
4. The combination with the guides a, springs i, openings f, and passages 7, of
the passage gl communicating with one of the openings and returning the coin to
the player substantially as described and illustrated.
5. The combination with the guides a, springs i, openings f, and passages 9, of
the moveable shutters m, connected with levers 7, arranged and operating substan-
tially as and for the purpose described and illustrated.
6. In coin-freed games or toys in which variable positions of coins, or weights,
have to be registered or shewn in succession, the combination with the moveable
shutters m, connected with levers 1, of bars r, wedges p, and catch o, arranged and
operating substantially as and for the purpose described and illustrated in
Figures 3, 7, 8, 9, and 10, of the accompanying drawings.
7. For the purpose of throwing up the coin or weight, the handle w, pro-
jection, levers u, r, d, and t, and springs t¹, v', and z, substantially as described
and illustrated.
8. The modified method of actuating the moveable shutters m, consisting of the
combination of the projecting pin y, levers 1, springs 3, detents 4, catches 5, levers 7,
passages g, all arranged and operating substantially as described and illustrated
in Figures 15 and 16.
and
9. The combination with the guides a, springs i, openings f, passages g, and
levers 1, of the projecting pin y, guide 15, pusher 14, lever 8, 9, spring 17, and
detent 10, arranged and operating substantially as and for the purpose described
and illustrated in Figures 1, 12, and 14.
10. The combination with the guide a, springs i, openings f, passages g, levers 7,
projecting pin y, levers 8, 9, and detents 10, spring 11, and the flexible elastic
ball 12, and pipe 13, actuating a sounding or moving device, substantially in the
manner and for the purposes described.
11. In combination with the guide a, springs i, openings f, handle w, levers u, v, d, t,
and pin y, the lever 18, ratchet wheel 19, drum 20, and 21, and endless band 22,
substantially as and for the purpose described and illustrated in Figures 1 and 2.
12. The method of raising the coin or other weight by means of a rotating
spindle provided with inclined vanes, arranged and operated substantially as
described, and illustrated in Figure 17.

page_text: 13. The method of raising the coin or weight by means of a piston, fitting in a
cylinder provided with a mouthpiece by which air can be blown in, substantially
as described.
14. The general arrangement of apparatus substantially as described and
illustrated.
EDWARDS & Co.,
35, Southampton Buildings, London, Agents for the Applicant.