Improvements in Apparatus for the Automatic Delivery of Prepaid Goods.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 19th Dec., 1887
Complete Specification Left, 19th Sept., 1888
Complete Specification Accepted, 16th Nov., 1888
Improvements in Apparatus for the Automatic Delivery of Prepaid
Goods.
1, CAROLUS WALLING, of No. 44, Rutlidge Avenue, Willesden, in the County of
Middlesex, Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
My invention relates to improvements in apparatus for the automatic delivery of
prepaid goods.
In carrying it into effect I provide a suitable case in which is formed a column for
the reception of the articles to be sold as well as a proper working space for the
operative parts of the automatic mechanism.
The purchaser's coin is dropped through a slit in the outer case and falls through
a transverse notch in a drum adapted to be rotated from the outside. In its rotation,
the projecting segment of it engages with a lever, the opposite end of which is
pivotted to a sliding tray into which an article drops from the column. The tray
has a flap bottom which is closed by the traverse of the tray over a shelf by the lever
aforesaid.
The further rotation of the drum causes a cam on the shaft to engage with an
extension of, or projection from, the said tray, thereby moving it back again to its
original position after the article purchased has dropped by gravity into the
delivery-shoot.
The above, described apparatus is preferably duplicated in one case, and more than
two sets may be, if required, enclosed in one case.
Dated thin 10th dow of Dasamber 1887
PHILLIPS & LEIGH,
Agents for the Applicant.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for the Automatic Delivery of Prepaid
Goods.
I, CAROLUS WALLING, late of No. 44 Rutlidge Avenue, Willesden, in the County of
Middlesex, now of High Street, South Norwood, in the County of Surrey, Fruiterer,
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 relates to improvements in apparatus for the automatic delivery of
prepaid goods, and consists in the combination of a coin-shoot adapted to deliver the
intending purchaser's coin into a slot in a drum fast upon an axis the handle of which
is exposed, and which is rotated once, thereby bringing the projecting segment of
the coin to bear upon the article to be delivered, either directly or through intermediate
mechanism of the nature of a slide and trap door.
I am aware that it has heretofore been proposed to effect the delivery of the bottom
article from a column by pushing a slide containing a coin projecting from the top
thereof against the said article.
But according to this present invention I discard the use of slides altogether, and
give the coin a rotary, as distinguished from a linear, motion.
In order that my invention, and the means by which the same is to be carried
into practical effect, may be thoroughly understood, I will now describe them in detail,
referring in so doing to the accompanying drawings which are to be taken as part of
this specification, and read therewith.
Figure 1 is a sectional side elevation.
Figure 2 is a sectional front elevation.
Figure 3 is a sectional side elevation illustrating a modification of my invention.
A is the coin-shoot; and B, the drum fast upon the axis, b, having its bearings in the
sides of the case C. D is an external handle for the purpose of turning the drum B.
I provide a ratchet wheel d and pawl d¹ for the purpose of preventing the handle and
drum from being turned in the wrong direction.
E is the delivery arm having its axis at e. F is a finger fast upon the axis b,
adapted to engage with a second finger f, projecting from the delivery arm, for the
purpose of returning the said arm to its position of rest against the stop f
Gis a tray fixed to the back of the delivery arm E. Its bottom gis hinged to it
at gl, and adapted to rest upon the skeleton shelf, or ledge, H immediately under the
next article to be sold.
I is the goods column, and is suitably shaped for delivering its contents seriatim
upon the delivery arm when the latter is pushed backwards by the coin j.
The operation of my invention constructed as above described is as follows:-
A coin of the proper diameter is dropped into the coin-shoot, and slides down the
same into the slot & formed in the drum B, which slot will be aligned with the

page_text: coin-shoot A when the apparatus is at rest. The slot is only deep enough to hold
the coin firmly during its engagement with the delivery arm about two thirds
of the coin projects from the drum.
The handle D is next turned backwards with the result of bringing the coin j, if
the latter be of the proper diameter, in contact with the arm E.
The latter. with the tray G, is pushed backwards until the tray is past the ledge H,
when the hinged bottom, or trap door, g drops, and lets the bottom article i,
previously supported by the said trap door, fall down the delivery shoot K, the
drum B, likewise, dropping its coin into the till at the bottom of the case.
of
As the rotation of the drum B is completed, the finger F engages with the finger f
and returns the delivery arm and tray to their first position, closing the bottom
the latter up upon the ledge H, and bringing it under the next article i¹.
In the inodification illustrated in Figure 3, the delivery arm, tray, and flap bottom
illustrated in Figures 1 and 2, are dispensed with, and the coin j engages directly with
the bottom article i resting upon a supporting ledge.
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 slotted drum adapted to receive a coin from the coin-shoot
into the slot of the said drum and to hold the same with a segment projecting therefrom,
a pivotted delivery arm with tray and flap connected thereto and adapted to be
engaged by the coin as the drum is rotated, a skeleton shelf or ledge, and fingers, as
the same is hereinbefore described with reference to Figures 1 and 2.
2. The combination of drum, coin-shoot, coin-slot, and supporting ledge, as herein-
before described with reference to Figure 3.
Dated this 19th day of Santamber 1888.
PHILLIPS & LEIGH,
22, Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, W.,
Agents for the Applicant.