Improvements in Coin Freed Delivery Apparatus.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 17th Oct., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 17th July, 1895-Accepted, 24th Aug., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Coin Freed Delivery Apparatus.
We STUART DIXON STUBBS Ross, Gentleman, of Rostrevor, Sydenham Park,
in the County of Kent, and JOSEPH CHAVE Cox, Gentleman, of The Cedars,
Bruce Grove, Tottenham, in the County of Middlesex, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:-
1
This invention for improvements in coin freed delivery apparatus relates to
apparatus in which the goods to be delivered are arranged in a vertical pile and in
which a delivery slide draws or pushes the bottom goods through a slot in the front
of the case of the apparatus from which it can then be taken by the operator, and
consists essentially in locking a sliding bar to which the slide is attached by a
counterweighted lever which is pivoted in a recess in the bar and normally projects
so as to engage with the back of the case containing the pile of goods and is
forced into the recess by the weight of a coin inserted into the apparatus and
suitably guided so as to rest on a projecting part of the lever and in which the said
sliding bar is surrounded by a helical spring that returns it and the slide to its
normal position after it has been drawn out to deliver the goods. The sliding bar
is so arranged that the coin drops past it into a coin receptacle when the goods
project sufficiently through the slot to be taken bold of.
Dated this 17th day of October 1894.
WHEATLEY & MACKENZIE,
40 Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Coin Freed Delivery Apparatus.
We, STUART DIXON STUBBS Ross, Gentleman, of Rostrevor, Sydenham Park,
in the County of Kent, and JOSEPH CHAVE. Cox, Gentleman, of The Cedars,
Bruce Grove, Tottenham, in the County of Middlesex, 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 for improvements in coin freed delivery apparatus relates to
apparatus in which the goods to be delivered are arranged in a vertical pile and in
which a delivery slide draws or pushes the bottom goods through a slot in the
front of the case of the apparatus from which it can then be taken by the operator,
and consists essentially in locking a sliding bar to which the slide is attached, by a
counterweighted lever which is pivoted in a recess in the bar and normally projects
so as to engage with the back of the case containing the pile of goods and is
forced into the recess by the weight of a coin inserted into the apparatus and
suitably guided so as to rest on a projecting part of the lever and in which the
said sliding bar is surrounded by a helical spring that returns it and the slide to
its normal position after it has been drawn out to deliver the goods. The sliding
bar is so arranged that the coin drops past it into a coin receptacle when the goods
project sufficiently through the slot to be taken hold of.

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In the accompanying sheet of illustrative drawings:
Fig. is a sectional side elevation of a coin freed delivery apparatus constructed
according to this invention and Fig. 2 is a plan partly in section of the same.
The apparatus shewn is designed to enable a person to obtain a card on which is
printed a character corresponding to light or dark eyes, light or dark hair, or taper
or stumpy thumbs, on the insertion of a coin in a slot which is marked to indicate
the above characteristics. The apparatus is provided with six compartments a
corresponding to the above characteristics and each containing a number of card
on each of which is printed a character corresponding to the characteristic.
The bottom of each compartment in which the cards rest is provided at its
rear end with a central slot 6 in which works a tongue c projecting slightly above
the bottom. The tongue is connected to the sliding bar d sliding in guides and
adapted to be pulled forwards with the tongue against the resistance of a helical
springe that tends to return it to its normal position when the tongue will be
behind the rear edge of the cards. The front of each compartiment is provided at
its lower end with a slot for opening large enough to allow of the passage of a
single card. On pulling the slide forwards the tongue c comes against the rear
edge of the lowest card and forces it forwards through the front opening f
sufficiently to enable it to be seized and on releasing the handle the slide d and
tongue c are returned by the helical spring e to their normal positions and the pile
of cards drops down the thickness of the removed card.
The slide d is locked in its normal position by a counterweighted lever g
pivotted in a bifurcation in the end of the slide bar d and so that its front end h
is normally raised by the counterweight. On attempting to pull out the slide bar
the raised end cones against the fixed stop i and prevents any further motion.
The front end of the lever projects into a shoot / connected to the slot opening m
so that on inserting a coin through the slot m, it falls down the shoot onto the
raised end of the lever and causes it to be depressed within the bifurcated end
of the slide bar d. The slide bar can then be pulled forwards to deliver a card and
as the end of the slide passes beyond the shoot the coin falls into a coin receptacle
and the front end of the lever rises again. The slide d returns to its normal
position and the front end of the lever is again depressed as it passes the
projection and again rises after passing.
The apparatus can be designed to deliver articles or packets without departing
from the nature of this invention.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is :-
1. A coin freed delivery apparatus consisting of a compartment containing the
articles to be delivered, a sliding delivery bar surrounded by a helical spring
tending to force it backwards and provided with a tongue working in a slot in the
bottom of the compartment and a counterweighted locking lever pivotted in a
recess in the sliding delivery bar and a coin shoot leading from a coin slot to the
raised end of the lever substantially as described.
2. A coin freed delivery apparatus substantially as described with reference to
the drawings.
Dated this 17th day of July 1895.
WHEATLEY & MACKENZIE,
40 Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents.