by Automatic Selling Machines.
Year: 1887

page_text: by Automatic Selling Machines.
I FREDERICK CHARLES LYNDE of 48 King Street Manchester in the County
of Lancaster Civil 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:-
This invention relates to improvements in or applicable to cylindrical articles or
packets such as cigarettes as referred to in the specification of previous Letters Patent
dated October 7th 1885, No. 11911, which articles or packets when placed in bulk in
the compartment of the machine were found to become deformed by reason of the
pressure upon the lower articles or packets, and when this occurs the articles or
packets are liable to become jammed.
This applies more especially to packets of tea, coffee, sugar and disintegrated
substances.
In my Patent automatic machines it is not necessary, in order to insure a certain
delivery of the articles or packets, to slightly agitate them to prevent bridging or
jamming as is the case in other similar machines wherein this operation is per-
formed by sundry mechanical means at each operation of the apparatus, but as
above described they were liable to become deformed by the pressure of the other
articles or packets above them and were then liable to become jammed.
My present invention also enables me to deliver articles or packets of a rectangular,
hexagonal, octagonal, or other regular or irregular section with flat sides by
means of a machine with a revolving wheel feed which could not be acccomplished
hitherto.
The nature of my said invention and the manner in which the same is to be per-
formed or carried into practical effect will be readily understood on reference to the
drawings hereunto annexed and the following explanation thereof.
In preparing or adapting a cylindrical article or packet for delivery by such
machines I insert into each end of the article or packet a cylindrical plug
having flanges or wheels slightly larger in diameter than the body of the packet or
article as shown in elevation at Fig. 1. and in longitudinal section at Fig. 2. and

page_text: cross section at Fig. 3. on the drawings; a, a being the cylindrical article or
packet, b, b the plug, and c, c its flanges or wheels.
These flanged ends or wheels c, c prevent the bodies of the articles or packets from
coming into contact with each other, and consequently there is no pressure exerted upon
them as they are kept from touching each other by reason of the projecting ends or
wheels of the plugs being slightly larger in diameter and thus receiving all the
pressure and enabling each article or packet to roll upon or against the adjacent
ones without crushing or damage to their form, and are delivered with greater
certainty and facility by the machine.
Instead of attaching the flanged ends or wheels c, c to the articles or packets by
plugs as above described I may make them in the form of a cap as shown in section
at Fig. 4. or in that of a simple ring as shown at Fig. 5. into which the ends of the
articles or packets are inserted, or plain discs or wheels may be attached to the ends
of the article or package as shown at Fig. 6 and it will also be evident that the
articles or packets need not necessarily be made in a cylindrical form, as they may
be square in section or hexagonal or octagonal as shown at Figs. 7. 8. and 9. or of
any other convenient or desirable sectional form, either regular or irregular. If
rings are used they may be placed on any convenient part of the article or packet.
By the use of this invention the employment of hard or smooth materials for
covering the articles or packets is rendered unnecessary.
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 :—
The novel means of preparing or adapting cylindrical or other articles or packets
for delivery by automatic selling machines by attaching thereto or thereon, Hanges,
caps, rings or discs of a circular form and of larger diameter than the article or
packet itself substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated by the drawings
annexed whereby the bodies of such articles or packets are prevented from rolling
upon or against each other damaging their form, and their delivery by the automatic
machines, is greatly facilitated.
Dated this 19th day of October 1887