Improved Apparatus for the Delivery of Goods in Exchange for Coin or the like.
Year: 1888

page_text: Improved Apparatus for the Delivery of Goods in Exchange for
Coin or the like.
I. JOHN WATTS JOHNSON, of 1 West Hill Road, Brighton, in the county
of Sussex, Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
My invention relates to improved apparatus for delivering cigars, cigarettes and
other articles or materials in exchange for coins, tokens or the like.
My improved apparatus comprises two slides, one of which I term the delivery
slide, and the other, the operating slide. The delivery slide and the operating slide
are normally disconnected so that the movement of the latter will not affect the
former. Each slide is however provided with a slot through which a coin can pass
so that when a coin is in the two slots simultaneously the delivery slide will be
moved by the motion of the operating slide.
A coin is prevented from dropping through the slots in the two slides before the
latter have been operated to deliver goods by means of a ledge which supports the
coin until it is gripped by the motion of the operating slide.
In order to cause the release of the coin the two slides are preferably arranged at
an angle to each other so that when the slides have been drawn forward to a certain -
point the distance between them will be too great to allow a coin to form a
connection. The slides are returned to their normal positions by springs.
If desired one operating slide having several slots may be arranged in connection
with several slides having single slots so that when the operating slido is moved it
will actuate one or more delivery slides simultaneously according to the number of
coins introduced.
Dated the 16th day of March 1888.
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London,,
Agents for the Applicant.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Apparatus for the Delivery of Goods in Exchange for
Coin or the like. .
I, JOHN WATTS JOHNSON of No. 1, West Hill road, Brighton in the county of
Sussex, Gentleman, 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 apparatus for the delivery of goods in
exchange for coin or the like, for which application was made on my behalf by
Messrs. Redfern and Coy. dated 16th March 1888, and consists of an operative, and
delivery slides arranged as follows,
The goods are stacked one above the other and rest on the delivery slide which
is placed on a fixed shelf. Below this is the operative slide supported by a shelf
which is fixed in a slanting position, giving an angle between the delivery and the
operative slides; both of which are made with slots for à coin to pass through.―
The delivery slide is made with a projecting rod which passes through a spiral
spring into a socket; and the operative slide also has a projecting rod passing
through a spiral spring and is fitted with a handle. When a coin is inserted in
the apparatus, it passes through the slots in the delivery and operative slides and
falls perpendicularly on a rabbet of the shelf that the operative slide rests upon,
and immediately in front of this is a set of teeth attached with small spiral spring
in such a way as to cause the teeth to be lowered and rise as the coin passes over
them. Upon the insertion of a coin, a connection is formed between the aforesaid
slides, and the motion caused by the handle of the operative slide being pulled,
grips the coin and brings the delivery slide with it from under the stack of goods
which fall on the shelf underneath, and as the slides are brought forward at an angle
the delivery slide is released by losing connection with the coin and is forced
back by the spring on the projecting rod, and pushes off the bottom article which
runs down a guide into a tray at the side of the apparatus. When the handle is
released; the spring on the projecting rod forces home the operative slide.
The set of teeth which vary in number according to the size of the article to be
delivered, is the only addition I have made since filing my provisional specification,
and the object of this is to prevent the delivery slide being pushed back before it
loses connection with the coin.
One or several different articles can be delivered with one operative slide,
providing the necessary number of delivery slides are arranged as heretofore
described, and corresponding slots added to the operative slide.
By this arrangement, an apparatus for the delivery of several different articles can
be produced at a small cost owing to its very simple construction and requiring only
one operative slide.
One or several different articles can be delivered by one pull of the handle, after
the necessary coins have been placed in the slots opposite the articles required.

page_text: The accompaning drawing shows a side elevation of the apparatus in a case
marked A. B is the stack of goods resting on the delivery slide marked C.-D is
the fixed shelf upon which the goods fall when C is withdrawn.-E is the operative
slide, F the shelf fixed at an angle the front of which is rabbeted to allow the coin
to drop lower than the part that E rests upon, thereby giving a firmer grip to the
coin, and also admits of the teeth G checking its return indicates the direction
in which the coin falls.
I do not bind myself to bring the goods out at the side, as in a large apparatus
for the delivery of several different articles, it is more convenient to have the articles
guided into a tray in the front of the apparatus.
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 the hereinbefore mentioned apparatus, the arrangement of one or more delivery
slides being placed at an angle with an operative slide, causing the coin or coins to
lose connection with, and release the delivery slide, or slides, substantially as I have
herein described..