Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 28th Sept., 1886
Complete Left, 28th July, 1887
Complete Accepted, 28th Oct.. 1887
I, PERCIVAL EVERITT, of No. 47 Cannon Street, in the city of London, Engineer
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention consists in apparatus for receiving and displaying prepaid messages
and the like whereby such messages written on paper, card, or other suitable material
5 cannot be received or displayed until a proper coin, token, or its equivalent has been
inserted in a receptacle provided for that purpose.
G. F. REDFERN,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London,
Agent for the Applicant.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Apparatus for Receiving and Displaying Prepaid Messages and
the like.
I, PERCIVAL EVERITT, of 47, Cannon Street, in the city of London, Engineer, 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 improvements in apparatus for receiving and displaying
prepaid messages of the kind described in the Specification of Thomas James Hewson's
Patent No. 12017 of 1886, the present invention having for object to improve the
construction of such apparatus.
In order to enable my invention to be fully understood I will describe how it can
be carried into practice by reference to the accompanying drawing, in which,
Figure 1 is a plan partly in section of an apparatus constructed according to my
invention for receiving and displaying prepaid messages and the like.
Figure 2 is a front elevation of the lower part of the apparatus a portion of the front
being removed so as to shew the internal mechanism.
Figure 3 is a side sectional elevation of the apparatus.
Figures 4 and 5 are respectively a front elevation and a vertical section of part of
the apparatus constructed to admit of any one of the cards bearing a message being
obtained by the insertion of a coin.
Figure 6 is a horizontal section taken on the line Y, Z, of figure 5.
Similar reference letters indicate similar parts throughout the drawing.
This
In carrying out my invention I construct an upright case or frame A having
rollers a and b at the top and at the bottom respectively thereof over which rollers
passes an endless band c provided with grooves or small ledges d d adapted to receive
cards on which a message has been written. The upper part of the front of this case
is of glass e through which the messages can be seen. I provide a suitable receptacle f
as shewn in figures 1 and 2 from which cards ff can be taken one at a time.
receptacle can be advantageously arranged (although not so shewn in the drawing) so
that it can be unlocked by a coin for the purpose of delivering one card at a time in a
manner similar to that described in the specification of Sandeman and Everitt's
Patent, No. 2033 of 1883 or 1 may dispense with the use of a coin and provide a
drawer as described in the said last mentioned specification whereby one card or ticket.
at a time can be obtained free of charge.
The message to be displayed is then written on the card f, and a suitable coin B, is
placed in the apparatus through a slot g, the said coin passing into a money bucket h,
of similar construction to that described in former letters patent granted to Robert
William Page dated October 20th 1885, No. 12576.
The money bucket is attached to one end of a lever i, pivotted at j, the said lever
being provided with a vertical arm k, which is normally situated beneath the free end
of an arm l, attached to the pivot of a door m, the said "door being thereby locked in
the position shewn in the drawing. The weight of the coin causes the money bucket to
descend thereby removing the arm k, from under the arm 1, and allowing the operator to

page_text: turn back or open the door m, by means of a button m³, which will enable the card or
ticket f, to be put in one of the grooves d, d, before referred to, one of the cards f¹,
so placed is shewn in figure 3. The arm, is provided with a pin n,
which engages
with a slot o, in one arm p, of a bell crank lever p, p', the other arm p', of the said
lever being connected by a rod q, to a lever r, pivotted to the axis 6', of the lower
roller b, and provided with a spring pawls, which engages with a ratchet wheel t,
attached to the lower roller b. By this arrangement on closing the door m, the roller b,
is rotated by the ratchet wheel t, and pawl s, a certain distance in the direction of the
arrow figure 3, and the band and with it the message is raised that distance and
becomes visible behind the glass referred to and another groove d, is brought into
position to receive the next card and so on.
The money bucket, is provided with a cam block h¹, having the fixed arm h², and
loose arm h³, as in the said former Patent and in order to release the coin from the
said bucket after having descended I provide a lever u, pivotted at u, and attached
through one end by a link u², to the arm 1, the other end of thelover u, being
provided with a pin u³. By this arrangement, when the bucket h, has descended
and the door m, is opened as hereinbefore described the lever u, is caused by the
arm 1, to move its pin u³, past and above the loose arm 3, and when the door m,
is closed the pin u³, of the lever u, as the latter returns to its former position
presses on the loose arm h³, which by means of the fixed arm h³, moves the cam
block h', and allows the coin B to drop into the apparatus; the bucket h, then
moves up into its normal position ready for another operation. v, v, are stop pins
which limit the movement of the bucket h.
When a number of message cards f', f, sufficient to
occupy the space behind
the glass e, have been passed into the apparatus during a day or other determined
period of time I cause the money slit g, to be closed and a tablet w, on which
are written the words "Full for to-day" or other suitable words to be exhibited
beneath a glazed aperture w¹, so as to intimate that the apparatus cannot receive
any more messages. For this purpose I employ the following arrangement but
to which no claim is made: the tablet w, is mounted on two counterweighted
levers x, x, attached to a rocking shaft, the lever x¹, being extended and provided
with a plate 2, which is arranged to shut off the money slit 9, when the tablet w,
is exhibited. In order to effect the movement of the levers for exhibiting the
tablet w, and closing the money slit g, I provide on the axis b', a toothed pinion y,
gearing with a wheel y', attached to a ratchet wheel y², the said wheels y
and y, running loose on an arbor y³. A disc z, is fixed to the arbor y³, and
carries a spring pawl z¹, which engages with the ratchet wheel y³, by
means the disc is revolved. The disc, is provided on one side
with a peripheral flange having a notch, of the shape shewn in figure 3.
A lever a, is fixed to the rocking shaft, and is provided with a pin c',
which projects within and rests on the inner face of the peripheral flange, as
shown. By this arrangement when sufficient message cards to fill the space behind
the glass e, have been passed into the apparatus the notch, will have come into
such a position as to allow the pin c¹, to fall therein thereby moving the tablet w,
and plate ³, into the position hereinbefore described.
which
In order to allow the apparatus to be again made use of I provide mechanism (to
which no claim is made) for moving the levers x and x¹, back into their normal
positions so as to remove the tablet w, from the aperture w¹, and open the money slitg.
This mechanism consists of a bevel wheel d¹, fixed on the arbor y³, and gearing with
a bevel wheel d³, fixed on one end of an arbor d', which is provided at the other end
with a pointer or index finger d. By this arrangement if, when the pin c¹, on the
lever a, is in engagement with the notch, the pointer d' be turned by hand in the
direction of the arrow into its normal or starting position as shewn in figure 2,
the inclined part of the said notch will force the pin out and thereby move the
levers and x, into the required position. When the apparatus is again used the
message cards of the previous day or period of time are carried over the top roller a
and fall to the bottom of the case.

page_text: The pointer d (to which no claim is made) must be turned to its normal position
every day or other determined period of time so as to allow space for sufficient message
cards to be received by the apparatus behind the glass e at the next operation before
the tablet w is exhibited and the money slit g closed.
I sometimes use an arrangement whereby on the insertion of a coin in another part
of the apparatus any one of the cards that have been placed in the receptacles attached
to the chain or band can be procured by the person wishing to do so.
For this last mentioned purpose as shewn at figures 4, 5 and 6 I construct the
case or frame A with a number of doors a' a hinged at 6 6 so as to open outwards.
To the back of each of these doors is pivotted a lever latch c', provided with a weight d*
which tends to move the latch into its horizontal or locked position and with an arm e
which extends downwards and rearwards through a slot in the lock casing f which is
secured to the back of the door a for the purpose of preventing the latch being
tampered with after the door has been opened. The end of each of the latches
normally engages with a catch or plate and the inner or rear end of the arm et
passes through a slot formed in the plate * which constitutes one side of the money
shoot the inlet or money slit of which is shewn at g.
When it is desired to procure one of the cards bearing a message, a coin is dropped
into the proper money slit and as shewn at the upper part of figures 4 and 5 the
weight of such coin B upon the arm e causes the latch et to be depressed and
disengaged from the catch or plate g* so that the door a* can then be opened. The desired
card is then obtained by opening the door and reaching round the hand or fingers and
withdrawing it from its groove or ledge d on the band e figures 2 and 3. When the
door is opened and the support of the coin B is thereby withdrawn, the said coin falls
from the money shoot into the lower part of the apparatus from which the money can
be collected from time to time. When the door is being closed the latch is
depressed in the ordinary manner so that it may upon rising re-engage with the catch
or plate g*.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is
1. In apparatus for receiving and displaying or exhibiting written messages and the
like the combination of a door or slide constructed to be unlocked by the action of
a coin, with a chain, band or the like, having ledges or small receptacles into which
cards can be placed and held and exhibited substantially as and for the purpose
described.
2. The combination with an arrangement for delivering one ticket at a time in
return for a coin or the like, of a door or slide constructed to be unlocked by the
action of the said coin or of another coin and a chain, band, or the like having
ledges or receptacles into which cards can be placed and held substantially as
described.
3. In apparatus for receiving and exhibiting messages and the like, the combination
with a door or slide constructed to be unlocked by the action of a coin, of a chain,
band or the like having ledges or small receptacles into which cards can be placed
and held substantially as described, and coin mechanism whereby only one ticket can
be taken from the exhibiting apparatus substantially as described.
Dated the 28th day of July 1887