Improvements in Automatic Coin-freed Machines.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 24th Nov., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 24th Aug., 1891-Accepted, 24th Nov., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Automatic Coin-freed Machines.
I JOSEPH MASON, of 23 Commercial Road, London, E. Electrician, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to improvements in automatic coin freed apparatus and has
for its object to combine in one apparatus mechanism for the delivery of electric
shocks with another mechanism for the supply of any suitable article which is to
be received at the same time as the shock. In carrying my invention into practice
I connect the movable handle of a machine for imparting electric shocks on pre-
payment of a coin such as ordinarily constructed by means of suitable leverage or
gearing with a drum or equivalent device furnished with a recess of suitable
dimensions to receive an article a cigarette for instance from a feeding hopper
arranged above end of the said machine, so that cach time the handle is turned for
the purpose of receiving an electric shock the drum which is always furnished with
a cigarette from the hopper is rotated by the intermediate leverage or gearing
aforesaid and drops the cigarette located in its recess into a slide or shoot which
delivers the same outside into a small tablet, the said drum being brought back to
its normal position by an antagonistic spring or other suitable device.
mechanism may be so arranged that the goods or articles of supply may not be
delivered until the indicator has arrived at a certain power.
Dated this 94th day of November 1890.
The
HUGHES, ELI & HUGHES,
76, Chancery Lane, W.C., Agents for Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Automatic Coin-freed Machines.
I, JOSEPH MASON of 23, Commercial Road, London E., Electrician 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 thereof, that is to say :-
:-
My invention relates to improvements in automatic coin freed apparatus and has
for its object to combine in one machine mechanism for supplying electric shocks
with other mechanism for the supply of any suitable article which is delivered when
shocks of a given intensity have been received by the user of the machine.
In the accompanying drawings
Fig. 1 is a front elevation and Fig. 3 a sectional plan ou linera of Fig. 2 of my
improved machine.
Fig. 2 is an inside elevation partly in section of the mechanism.
Figs. 4. 5 and 6 are modifications.
The mechanism for imparting electric shocks is similar to that described in the
me on the 30th of
Specifications of Letters Patent No. 1757 granted to
January 1889, and No. 16472 granted to Benjamin John Stacey on the 16th of
October 1890, and this mechanism will only be referred to as far as it is connected
to the mechanism delivering prepaid articles as above set forth.
On one side of the box a containing the whole mechanism together with the
battery which is placed on an upper shelf of the same is fixed a vertical plate the
two lateral edges of which are bent over at right angles as shown in Fig. 3.
Against the inner surface of these bent over edges are fixed two vertical strips e
acting as guides and forming with the plate b a storage receptacle wherein is held

page_text: a row of superposed articles (cigarettes for instance) placed horizontally against
the inner surface of the plate b, the lower end of which does not quite extend to
the bottom of the box a. Under this lower end is arranged a drawer d provided
with a transverse slot e and capable of being moved forward and backward between
guides fixed to the plate 6 and upon an under plate w by means of two spring
blades 9 secured to the plate band the lower ends of which take into two slots ff
formed in the front part of the said drawer.
To the horizontal sliding bar ½ to which is secured a projecting angle iron h¹
connected to the connecting rod and crank j is fixed the foot of a bark bent
twice at right angles. When the machine is ready for use the lower end of this
bar bears against the front end of the drawer which is thus held against the
tension of the springs g under the plate b in such a position that a cigarette or
other article may drop into the slot e. When a penny or other suitable coin is
inserted in the shoot and depresses the lever m as described in the second of the
said former Patents the bar is made to slide to the left hand side (Fig. 2) by
turning the handle n which is connected to the axis of the lever j, and as the coin
forms a contact with the piece o while the spring blade p' forms another contact
with the metal strip p, the battery causes an induced current to be produced
alternately in one sense and in the other in the Ruhmkorff coil q and a succession
of shocks to be delivered to the user who turns with his right hand the handle n to
the right hand side while his left hand grasps the fixed handle n¹. As the handle n
is being turned the bent bar k moves gradually to the left hand side and releases
the drawer d carrying a cigarette or other article in the slot e.
The horizontal sliding bar is connected to a vertical T piece r the top of which
has the form of a rack and actuates by means of pinions s the index t (Fig. 1)
moving on the dial u which is graduated in such a manner that when the said index
reaches a certain pre-determined division on the dial, the bent bark has advanced
far enough to allow the spring blades g to move the drawer d forward so that the
slot e may come clear above the inclined plate v dropping thereon the cigarette or
other article hitherto held in its slot by the under plate we which cigarette is now
delivered outside on the tray. To prevent the fraudulent use of the machine I
provide a rack 1 and a pivoted lever 2 which operate in a similar manner to that
described in the second of the said former Patents.
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Fig. 4 illustrates a modification of the delivering mechanism.
In this case I use
a drum a furnished with a semi-circular transverse groove designed to receive the
cigarette or other article from the storage receptacle b (Figs. 2 & 4) and mounted
on a shaft a¹ to which it is connected by means of a coiled spring c. The drum is
furnished with a circular rim over which passes the cord or band d attached to the
horizontal sliding bar h (Figs. 2 & 4). As the latter bar is moved in the manner
above described the drum is partly rotated by the cord or band d so as to deliver
a cigarette or other article on the inclined plane v, Fig. 2, the coiled spring c
bringing the drum back into its normal position ready to receive another cigarette
'as soon as the handles of the machine are released. The rotation of the drum a is
regulated to deliver a cigarette or other article when as above stated the index has
reached a predetermined division on the dial shown in Fig. 1.
Fig. 5 is another modification in which a similar drum to a, Fig. 4 is firmly keyed
upon the shaft a' actuated by the levers and the lower extremity of the latter
being pivotted to the horizontally sliding bar h (Figs. 2 & 4). This drum operates
in a similar manner to that shown in Fig. 4.
Fig. 6 shows another arrangement for operating the drawer d of Figs. 2 and 3.
The lever a passes through a staple b fixed at the front end of the drawer d, and is
fulcrumed at c upon a suitable support e, its upper end bearing upon a pin fixed to
one end of another lever g which is pivotted at i to the sliding bar h. This lever
is held in position against a stop secured to the said sliding bar h by means of a
spiral spring attached at one end to the lever g and at the other to the sliding bar h,
When the latter is moved in the manner above described the drawer is moved.
forward by the levers a and y and returns to its original position with the bar h.
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page_text: 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
1st. In automatic coin freed apparatus for supplying electricity the combination
of the mechanism for producing electric shocks on the insertion of a predetermined
coin with mechanism for automatically delivering an article as soon as shocks of a
given intensity duly registered upon a dial have been received by the user of the
apparatus substantially as described and for the purpose set forth."
2nd. In automatic coin freed apparatus such as above claimed the various
modifications of the mechanism for delivering prepaid articles substantially as
described and shown in Figs. 4, 5 and 6, of the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 24th day of November 1890.
HUGHES, ELI & HUGHES,
76, Chancery Lane, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.