Improvements in Coin Freed Apparatus for Delivering Wares with Musical Accompaniment.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 9th Dec., 1898-Accepted, 21st Jan.,
1899
COMPLETE -SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Coin Freed Apparatus for Delivering Wares with
Musical Accompaniment.
I, ERNST PAUL RIESSNER, of Wahren, near Leipzic, in the Kingdom of
Saxony, Empire of Germany, Factory Director, 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:-
The present invention consists of a coin freed apparatus according to which
the delivery of the ware in question is accompanied by the playing of a piece of
music.
In order to render the present specification more easily intelligible reference
is had to the accompanying drawing in which similar letters of reference denote
similar parts throughout the several views:
Fig. I is a sectional side elevation of the parts of a coin freed apparatus neces-
sary for the intelligible description of the present invention,
Fig. 2 is a sectional plan of Figure 1,
Fig. 3 is a sectional elevation of the receptacle for holding the goods supplied,
Fig. 4 a similar section taken along a line at right angles to that of Figure
and
Fig. 5 a plan of the rotary bottom of the said receptacle.
A large gear driven from a coin freed musical works is indicated at G and
meshes with a series of gears a a² a² a³ a³, mounted on a frame a pivotally
supported at a and retained in engagement with the rim of teeth of the bottom
of the ware receptacle on the one hand and the gear G on the other hand by
means of a spring F¹ having one end attached to the end of the frame a and
the other to a hook or the like on the wall of the receptacle A.
to
fall
into
the
be
The bottom of the receptacle A is rotary being supported in grooved rolls B
mounted at the lower part of the said receptacle said rolls engaging a grooved
The bottom C is
rime of the said bottom and supporting the same to rotate.
provided with an outlet opening for the stack of wares placed therein said
opening being designated by D and being advantageously of the oblong
which shape corresponds to
shape indicated at Figures 3 and 5
after the other through the
form of the wares, adapted to drop one
which
the shoot
they may
H from
opening and
taken by the buyer. The articles or packets to be delivered are oblong in shape
and are stacked one above the other cross-wise as indicated at Figures 3 and 4,
whilst the upper surface of the bottom plate C is provided with the raised seg-
If the bottom
mental parts E E upon which the bottom packet of the stack rests.
is rotated it will be obvious that as soon as the oblong packet is released it will
fall through the corresponding opening into the delivery tray. The object of
the raised segmental ledges is to prevent the packet from getting jambed
between the lower edges of the receptacle A and the rotary bottom C.
In order to retain the stack of packets in its proper position the corners of the
receptacle A are filled out by the blocks F F having rectangular sections.

page_text: The device operates in the following manner:-
When the apparatus is not working, the lowest packet rests on the raised seg-
mental parts E E of the bottom and is prevented by these parts from falling
into the delivery shoot H. As soon as the musical works has been set going by
the introduction of a coin into the apparatus in the well known manner, the
gear G drives the intermediate gears a a¹ a² a³ a', and the latter, which meshes
with the rim of teeth b of the bottom C turns the latter. The rotation of the
botton gradually turns the segmental ledges from under the undermost packet
so that after the said bottom has turned a quarter of a turn the lowest packet
will be free to fall through the opening D into the shoot H and the buyer may
receive it. When the bottom has completed a quarter of a turn the apparatus
stops, and at the same time as the lowest packet falls out the next packet above
the same will drop down on to the ledges E E which have now been turned a
quarter of a turn and lie under the said packet ready to receive and support it in
position to deliver the same as soon as the apparatus is again set in motion.
It is needless to mention that two or more packets may be supplied at each
operation of the musical works without departing from the spirit of the inven-
tion, by simply correspondingly altering the proportions of the gearing between
the wheel G and the rotary bottom.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said in-
vention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:-
Coin freed apparatus in which the delivery of goods is accompanied by music
and in which a gear driven by the musical works is connected by intermediate
gearing to a rotary bottom of the stack of goods-receptacle, said bottom having
an opening corresponding to the shape of the packets or articles, arranged cross-
wise as specified, the said bottom, on being rotated, allowing the articles to fall
through its orifice at a certain point or points during its rotation substantially as
described.
Dated this 9th day of December 1898.
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicant.