Improvements relating to Pre-payment or Coin-in-the-slot Machines.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Aug., 1899
Complete Specification Left, 20th June, 1900 -Accepted, 4th Aug.,
1900
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements relating to Pre-payment or Coin-in-the-slot Machines.
I, JOSEPH GRICE, of 38, Parade, Sutton Coldfield, in the County of Warwick,
Commercial Traveller, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention consists of improvements relating to pre-payment or coin-in-the-
slot machines for the automatic delivery of various articles and for other purposes,
my object being to prevent the freeing of the delivery or operating mechanism
and the blocking of the same by iron discs or blanks.
For this purpose I employ a magnet in combination with the machine in such
a manner that on the insertion of an iron or steel disc or blank in the slot or
admission aperture, the said dise or blank will be attracted and deflected by the
magnet, or will itself attract and deflect the magnet, and thus be arrested before
passing on to the balanced lever or other part of the coin-freed mechanism or
apparatus.
In one arrangement I suspend the magnet adjacent to the coin guide or shoot
within the machine casing, so that when an iron or steel blank or disc enters the
said guide or casing the magnet will be deflected, and a projection from a part of
it will be caused to engage with the balanced lever and thus prevent movement of
the same when the blank passes into the coin pan or receptacle.
I employ a magnet for the purpose herein before described in combination with
variously arranged coin-freed mechanisms for prepayment or automatic delivery
machines and apparatus as constructed to meet different services or requirements.
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MARKS & CLERK,
18, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C.,
13, Temple Street, Birmingham, &,
25, Cross Street, Manchester,
Agents for the Applicant.
Improvements rela
I, JOSEPH GRICE, of 38, Parade, Sutton Coldfield, in the County of Warwick,
Commercial Traveller, 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 incontion consists of improvements relating to pre-payment or coin-in-the-

page_text: slot machines for the automatic delivery of various articles and for other purposes,
my object being to prevent the freeing of the delivery or operating mechanism
by iron discs or blanks.
For this purpose I employ a magnet in combination with the machine in such
a manner that on the insertion of an iron or steel disc or blank in the slot or
admission aperture, the said disc or blank will be attracted and deflected by the
magnet, and thus arrested before passing on to the balanced lever or other part
of the coin-freed mechanism or apparatus.
The accompanying sheets of explanatory drawings (two in number to be herein-
after referred to, illustrate the application of my invention to a vending machine
of the sliding drawer type, and having a balance lever fitted thereto in the manner
described in my Specification No. 15806 of 1899.
. Figure 1 is a sectional side elevation, Figure 2 a sectional front elevation, and
Figure 3 a sectional plan, showing portions of a machine, such as described, with
my invention applied thereto.
The same reference letters in the different views indicate the same parts.
Above the balance lever A I fix one or more magnets as B, the poles of which
are placed adjacent to the vertical coin guide or drop shoot formed by the slotted
bars C, so that if an iron or magnetic blank or disc be inserted through the
ordinary admission slot at D), such blank or disc will be held or retained by the
magnet and prevented from depressing the balance lever A, and hence from freeing
the mechanism beneath it. To prevent the blanks or discs from being pushed
away from the poles of the magnet or magnets by the insertion of a piece of wire
or the like, I preferably provide a side groove or aperture in the slotted bars C
into which the blank or disc will be drawn by the attraction of the magnet.
The discharge of an arrested blank or disc through the admission slot or aperture
at D, can be readily effected by means of a returning device such as described in
my Specification No. 15806 of 1899 hereinbefore referred to.
I sometimes employ a lever as E arranged above the magnet and having one
end projecting across the coin guide or drop shoot for the purpose of retarding the
motion of the coin and for directing it towards the magnet.
I employ a magnet for the purpose hereinbefore described in combination with
variously arranged coin-freed mechanisms for prepayment or automatic delivery
machines and apparatus as constructed to meet different services or requirements.
. 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 prepayment or coin in the slot machines for the automatic delivery of
various articles and for other purposes the use of a magnet substantially as and
for the purpose described.
2. The combination of a magnet with the coin guide or drop shoot and other
parts of an automatic vending machine, substantially as described and .as
illustrated.
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MARKS & CLERK,
18, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C.,
13, Temple Street, Birmingham, &,
25, Cross Street, Manchester,
Agents for the Applicant.