Improvements relating to the Storing and Delivery of Articles in Automatic Sale Machines.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 10th Jan., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 10th Nov., 1890-Accepted, 10th Jan., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements relating to the Storing and Delivery of Articles in
Automatic Sale Machines.
I GEORGE LAWRENCE of 130 Latimer Road, Notting Hill in the County of
Middlesex, Engineer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention relates to the storing and delivery of articles in automatic sale
machines and consists in an improved method of and means for holding said articles
and releasing them one by one so that they may be delivered to the purchaser.
The holder for the articles consists essentially of a combination of parts of which
one is a grid, chain, ladder or series of bars perforated band or the like adapted to
receive in each of its interstices one of the articles to be sold or a portion of one
of said articles such as the corner or edge of an envelope or folded newspaper
or packet or a projecting tap or loop made or connected to the article to be
delivered.
A second essential part of the combination is a wire, bar or rod adapted to pass
through the series of articles or the loops or tabs on them in such a manner that
such bar, wire or rod prevents them from being withdrawn from or falling out of the
grid or device aforesaid.
A third essential part of the combination is any desired mechanism to be operated
by the purchaser by hand or by the coin, by means of which the aforesaid grid or
equivalent and the bar or equivalent, may be moved or displaced the one with respect
to the other for such a distance that the articles held in the interstices of the grid may
be one by one released from the upholding bar or equivalent aforesaid and so drop out
of said grid or equivalent.
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COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements relating to the Storing and Delivery of Articles in
Automatic Sale Machines.
I GEORGE LAWRENCE of 130 Latimer Road Notting Hill in the County of
Middlesex 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 :-
1
This invention relates to the storing and delivery of articles in automatic sale
machines and consists in an improved method of and means for holding said.
articles and releasing them one by one so that they may be delivered to the
purchaser.
The holder. of the articles consists essentially of a combination of parts of which
one is a grid chain, ladder, or series of bars, perforated band spiral wire or the like
adapted to receive in each of its interstices one of the articles to be sold or a
portion of one of said articles such as the corner or edge of an envelope or folded
newspaper, or packet, or a projecting tab or loop made or connected to the article to
be delivered.
A second essential part of the combination is a wire, bar or rod adapted to pass
through the series of articles or the loops or tabs on them in such a manner that such
bar wire or rod prevents them from being withdrawn from or falling out of the grid
or device aforesaid.

page_text: may be one by one released from the upholding bar or equivalent aforesaid and so drop
out of said grid or equivalent.
The accompanying drawing illustrates machinery in which this invention is
applied
Fig. 1 being a side elevation in section.
Fig. 2 a plan of the upper part thereof.
Fig. 3 a plan of the lower part thereof on line A B of Fig. 1.
Fig. 4 a modified form of the invention in side elevation.
Fig. 5 an end view thereof.
Fig. 6 a second modified form in side elevation,.and
Fig. 7 a plan view thereof.
C is the holder proper in Fig. 1 a metal bar fixed at a and terminating at b, in
Fig. 4 a similar bar loosely fixed at a and terminating at b, these two forms of holder
being stationary. In Figs. 6 and 7 the holder is a movable wire coiled upon a drum c
and terminating with a free end at b. D is the spacer in Figs. 6 and a grid with
equally spaced divisions in Figs. 1 and 2 a movable endless band. perforated at
equal intervals, in Fig. 4 a spiral wire of equal convolutions and of even pitch
throughout.
In Figs. 1 and 4 where the holder is stationary the spacer is movable in Fig. 6
where the holder is movable the spacer is stationary the object being that the
articles E suspended upon the holder are either moved along the latter or the latter
is moved within the loops or hooks of the articles so that the latter fall off one by one
as they successively pass off the end b of the holder.
It is preferred that the holder should be stationary so that each article is delivered
at the same place.
The mechanism for operating the movable part of this combination will depend upon
the nature of the movement to be given.
In Figs. 1 and 2, the toothed rack d revolves the toothed wheel e on the shaft f
carrying the disc g or an arm, to which the pawl h is pivoted. j is a ratchet wheel
on the shaft of the drum k over which the endless band D passes, the downward
movement of the rack dis without effect on the drum k the upward movement of the
rack revolves the drum by the pawl engaging in the ratchet wheel.
The coin F having been placed in the slot falls into a slot in the bar m and
projects so that its edge lifts the retaining pin n which otherwise would prevent the
drawer G from being opened by lying in the path of the nose o on the bar m which is
a part of said drawer.
The double ratchet p q is part of the drawer G the nose thereon moves the lever s
which lifts the pawl t and allows the pawl u to fall, the latter engaging in the
rack p prevents the drawer from being pushed back until it has been fully opened,
and after it has been fully opened the lever s will have fallen off the nose allowing
the pawl t to fall and lifting the pawl u so that when the drawer is pushed in it
cannot be withdrawn again,
อ
The nose is made with a spring to pass the lever s on its return. The angle
lever lifts the rack d when the end of the double ratchet p q arrives thereunder and
the spring w presses down the rack d when the ratchet p q is withdrawn so that the
mechanism operates in the manner aforesaid to deliver one of the articles at 6 to fall
into the drawer G.
In Figs. 4 and 5 the device for operating the spacer is somewhat similar except
that the axis of the ratchet wheel j is in continuation of the axis of the spiral wire
the latter being firmly fixed to the ratchet wheel to revolve therewith, the rack d
is here of sufficient length to give the pinion e a whole revolution so that the spiral
wire is moved sufficiently to bring each article into the place just previously occupied
by the next before it.

page_text: The mechanism for operating the wire in Figs. 6 and 7 is the same as that described
in regard to Fig. 1 except that the wire C is here fixed to the drum k instead of the
latter carrying the band.
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
In automatic sale machines for the purpose set forth.
1. The combination of a holder for supporting articles suspended thereon with
a spacer adapted to retain said articles at definite distances upon said holder and
mechanism for moving said spacer or holder the one with regard to the other whereby
the articles are successively delivered from the end of the holder.
2. The combination of the stationary bar C the endless perforated band D and
mechanism for intermittently moving said band in a longitudinal direction.
3. The combination of the stationary bar C the rotary spiral D and mechanism for
intermittently revolving said spiral.
4. The combination of the stationary grid D the movable wire Cand the mechanism
for intermittently withdrawing said wire in a longitudinal direction.
Dated this 10th day of November 1890.
HERBERT & Co.,
18, Buckingham Street, Strand, London, W.C., Agents to Applicant.