Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 18th Jan., 1889
Specification Accepted, 23rd Feb., 1889
I, CHRISTIAN HEINRICH LOUIS GARTMANN, Manufacturer, of Königstrasse No. 120
Altona in the Empire of Germany 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 invention consists principally in utilizing the coin, which is inserted into
the machine, as a direct operating means for engaging with or forming an abutment
for the object to be sold so that the latter may be drawn out with the slide or drawer
to be taken by the buyer.
The improved mechanism by which this is effected is shown in the drawings hereunto
annexed, in which Fig. 1 is a sectional view of the box containing a column of articles,
the coin receiver the drawer or slide and the coin entrance channel. Fig. 2 being a
plan view and Fig. 3 a rear elevation. Fig. 4 shows the machine with slide drawn
ont and the object thereon ready to be taken by the purchaser. Fig. 5 illustrates
a guard for preventing the return of the slide should the coin remain unreleased. The
slide S may be shifted back and forth under the column of objects to be sold, it should
be of smooth surface so as not to move the lowermost object by friction of service.
In or near the back of the slide S is a perpendicular slot a of sufficient size to receive
the coin. A spring f is arranged at one end of the slot so as to retain the coin m
dropped into the slot in such a manner that part of the coin stands up above the slot
and forms an abutment to strike against and move the lowermost object of the column
in the manner shown in Fig. 4. After said object is removed from under the column
the latter falls upon the coin and by its weight pushes the coin downward through the
slot a deflecting the spring so that the coin is left free to fall into the coin tray v.
The coin channel i is so placed as to drop the coin into the slot a when the
slide S is pushed back to its backward limit. Small sized. coins- will drop through
the slot-a.
To prevent more than one object from being drawn from the machine, should the coin
remain in the slot a and not be released as aforesaid, the mechanism shewn in Fig. 5
may be employed. To a suitable part of the frame of the machine is pivoted a pawl
or lever e having a counter weight g to hold it in a raised position as shown in ful
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page_text: lines. The coin m in moving outward depresses and passes over said lever e but if the coin
be not released as aforesaid the backward movement of the slide S will be prevented by
the end of the lever striking against the side of the coin.
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. In automatic sale machines, the combination with a sliding plate or the like on
which the article to be sold is adapted to rest, of a slot in said plate adapted to receive
and hold the requisite coin so that the latter forms an abutment for the movement of
the article with said sliding plate for the delivery of said article.
2. In an automatic sale machine, the combination of a receptacle adapted to hold
the articles for sale in columns, a smooth sliding plate below said column a siot a
in said plate and a spring f therein, a coin introducing tube-i, and a coin m, so that
said coin forms an operating part of the mechanism being a direct abutment for the
object to be sold, and held and relensed substantially as and for the purpose set
forth.
732 1
LOR
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