Apparatus for Controlling and Registering the Delivery of Bottles and other Articles from Bins, Shelves, Racks, and similar Receptacles.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 15th Aug., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 12th May, 1890-Accepted, 21st June, 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Apparatus for Controlling and Registering the Delivery of Bottles
and other Articles from Bins, Shelves, Racks, and similar
Receptacles.
I, ROBERT JEWELL, of 9 Victoria Road, Battersea Park, Surrey, Gentleman, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention has for its object to control and register the delivery or removal of
bottles containing liquids and other articles of a compact nature from bins, shelves,
racks, and other receptacles.
For this purpose I construct the bin, rack, shelf or other receptacle so that when
charged with bottles or other articles, these can only be removed from one end
thereof, the bin &c being constructed with an opening of sufficient size either to allow
the protrusion through it of the necks of the bottles, or to allow of the passage of the
hand for shifting the bottles or other articles along it. At the discharge end I provide
a moveable double flap consisting of two plates fixed at right angles to each other and
capable of turning upon pivots situated at the angle of the two plates, so that in
turning the flap on its pivots in one direction, the one plate assumes a horizontal
position while the other assumes a vertical position closing the exit of the bin, the
space between the two being turned away from the latter, while in turning the flap
in the contrary direction the first named plate assumes the vertical and the second
the horizontal position, with the space between the two presented towards the bin.
For removing a bottle, this is first moved into the said space between the plates,
when the flap is in the last named position, and the flap is then turned over so as to
bring the bottle to the outside, thus enabling it to be removed.
In order now to remove a second bottle, it is necessary first to turn the flap back
again and then to repeat the above operation. With the flap are combined electric
contacts so arranged that at each movement thereof for removing a bottle an electrical
circuit is closed actuating an electrical registering or counter mechanism of any
suitable kind, such for example as that described in my Provisional Specification of
even date herewith, whereby the number of bottles &c. removed or the value
thereof is registered, such mechanism being if necessary made also to actuate an
audible signal.
The electrical contacts for the above purpose may conveniently consist of two fixed
metallic surfaces to which the terminals of the electric circuit are connected and
a sliding contact on the flap, so that the latter closes the circuit during a portion
of its motion and then breaks it again. Instead of effecting the registration by
means of an electric current, the axis or pivot of the flap can be mechanically
connected to a counter, so as to actuate this at each moveinent for removal of a
bottle.
Instead of employing a double flap as described, a wheel having four compartments
or pockets can be used, which is turned in one and the same direction through a quarter
of a revolution for each removal of a bottle &c.
When the above described apparatus is applied to a number of bins or shelves
situated one above the other, there is a vertical discharging passage common to all of
them, access to which is gained by vertically sliding doors arranged in a well known
manner, so that only one door can be open at a time, thereby preventing the fraudulent
simultaneous removal of a bottle &c. from two or more shelves while effecting only a
single registration by the electrical current.
Dated this 15th day of August 1889.
KAY
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ADEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicant.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Apparatus for Controlling and Registering the Delivery of Bottles
and other Articles from Bins, Shelves, Racks, and similar
Receptacles.
I, ROBERT JEWELL, of 9 Victoria Road, Battersea Park, Surrey, 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:-
My invention has for its object to control and register the delivery or removal of
bottles containing liquids and other articles of a compact nature from bins, shelves,
racks and other receptacles.
For this purpose I construct the bin, rack, shelf or other receptacle so that when
charged with bottles or other articles, these can only be removed from one end
thereof, the bin &c. being constructed with an opening of sufficient size either to
allow the protrusion through it of the necks of the bottles, or to allow of the passage
of the hand for shifting the bottles or other articles along it. At the discharge end
I provide a moveable double flap consisting of two plates fixed at right angles to each
other and capable of turning upon pivots situated at the angle of the two plates so
that in turning the flap on its pivots in one direction, the one plate assumes a
horizontal position while the other assumes a vertical position closing the exit of the
bin, the space between the two being turned away from the latter, while in turning
the flap in the contrary direction the first named plate assumes the vertical and the
second the horizontal position, with the space between the two presented towards the bin.
For removing a bottle, this is first moved into the said space between the plates,
when the flap is in the last named position, and the flap is then turned over so as to
bring the bottle to the outside, thus enabling it to be removed.
In order now to remove a second bottle, it is necessary first to turn the flap back
again and then to repeat the above operation. With the flap are combined electric
contacts so arranged that at each movement thereof for removing a bottle, an
electrical circuit is closed actuating an electrical registering or counter mechanism
of any suitable kind, such for example as that described in my Provisional Specification
of even date herewith, whereby the number of bottles &c. removed or the value
thereof is registered, such mechanism being if necessary made also to actuate an
audible signal.
The electrical contacts for the above purpose may conveniently consist of two fixed
metallic surfaces to which the terminals of the electric circuit are connected and a
sliding contact on the flap, so that the latter closes the circuit during a portion of its
motion and then breaks it again.
Instead of effecting the registration by means of an electric current, the axis or
pivot of the flap can be mechanically connected to a counter, so as to actuate this at
each movement for removal of a bottle.
Instead of employing a double flap as described, a wheel having four compartments
or pockets can be used, which is turned in one and the same direction, through a
quarter of a revolution for each removal of a bottle &c.
I arrange any desired number of such above described bins or shelves one above
the other, with their delivery ends all opening into a vertical discharging passage, in
which all the discharging openings except one are closed by vertically sliding doors
of known construction, whereby, when the one bin or shelf is free to have a bottle
removed therefrom all the others must be closed so as to render it impossible to
remove simultaneously two or more bottles from two or more bins while effecting only
a single registration on the counter.
Fig. 1 of the accompanying drawing shews a part elevation of a set of bins with
controlling apparatus constructed according to my above described invention.
Figs. 2 and 3 shew details of the registering flap.
The bins or shelves A A A are closed in front with the exception of a slot B

page_text: through which the necks of the bottles protrude, and which terminate in an enlarge-
ment B through which the bottles can be withdrawn. Between the narrow part of
the slot and the enlargement is situated an angular flap C pivotted to the bin at C¹ so
as to be capable of turning from the position shewn at Fig. 1 to the position shewn at
Fig. 2, so that in order to remove a bottle from the bin, it has first to be brought on
to the flap when this is in the position shewn at Fig. 1, whereupon the flap is turned
into the position at Fig. 2 so as to bring the bottle opposite the enlargement B¹. The
one pivot of the flap C is in conducting connection firstly with a contact at C2 on the
end face of one of its wings, and secondly with the one terminal of a battery circuit D
in which is included the electrical counter or registering mechanism E which may be
of any suitable known construction, or of the constructions described in my
Specifications No. 12,90389 and 1874589 the other terminal of the circuit being con-
nected to a contact piece F attached to the back of the bin A, in such a position that
the contact C2 on the flap C will pass over it when turned as above described, so that
every time a bottle is removed from the bin by bringing it on to the flap and then
turning this over as described, the said contact is made, thereby effecting the required
registration on the counter E. The counter may either be so arranged that the
registration is only completed on making a second contact when the flap is turned back
into its original position, or the one contact may be made to effect a complete registra-
tion, and the contact on the return motion of the flap be prevented by a suitable
cam arrangement acting upon the contact C². The backward movement of the flap may
be effected either by hand or by a spring. Branch wires extend from the one
circuit D to the contacts of all the flaps C, so that the removal of a bottle from any
bin is registered on the one counter E.
In front of the discharge openings B' are arranged a series of vertically sliding
doors G, these being one less in number than the number of bins, so that the discharge
opening of one or other of these is always uncovered, while all the rest are closed, the
doors being slid up or down, according to the particular bin from which it is desired
to remove a bottle.
By this means it is impossible to commit a frand by simultaneously removing
bottles from two or more of the bins, which would be possible without this arrange-
ment.
Instead of a reciprocating flap a revolving one may be employed as at H. Fig. 4,
this being turned through a quarter of a revolution for each removal of a bottle, and
held in position by a suitable spring catch.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, 1. declare that what I
claim is
In apparatus for controlling and registering the delivery of bottles and such like
articles from bins or shelves, the use of a series of moveable flaps or equivalent
devices C or H turning on pivots and corresponding in number to the number of
shelves or bins and so arranged as by their movement on the removal of a bottle from
a bin to effect the registration of such removal on a counter or registering mechanism,
in combination with a series of sliding doors or shutters such as G closing the
discharge openings of the several bins in such manner that only one such discharge
opening can be open at one time, substantially as herein described.
Doted this 12th day of May 1890
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicant.