Improvements in Apparatus for the Reception of Coin or Equivalent and the Delivery of Articles or Imparting of. Information and other Purposes in Exchange therefor.
Year: 1886

page_text: Improvements in Apparatus for the Reception of Coin or Equivalent
and the Delivery of Articles or Imparting of. Information and
other Purposes in Exchange therefor.
I JOHN STEWART WALLACE of Cliftonville Avenue Belfast in the County of Antrim
Timber Merchant 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 is an improvement on the Specification 1963 of the year 1886 and
refers to the improvements in the arrangement of the Pistons to the construction of
the hopper or receptacle and to the applying of the apparatus to making communication
with a telephone transmitter and for the purpose of giving an electric shock.
Figure 1 shews an arrangement of the Pistons in plan. The push piston H and the
delivery piston J being arranged side by side and not longitudinally. The two pistons
have a slot cut in each so as to form one continuous aperture. The space 1' for
the coin is therefore transverse to the longitudinal direction of the pistons.
Figure 2 shows a telescopic arrangement of pistons. The piston H is of smaller
diameter than the piston J. and can work inside it.The coin drops into its
position and rests on the cylinder below. The pressure of the piston H now moves
the piston J by the intervention of the coin which must be of larger diameter than the
inside of J. When J is pushed back a suitable distance it is detained by a pawl O
and retaining ratchet N which ratchet is attached to the piston J and moves along
a slit in the cylinder. When the pressure of the piston His withdrawn the coin drops
through the slit in the cylinder into the pawl pan P. This fall forces down the pawl
which is pivotted at Qut and releases the ratchet, the piston J flies back in the way
before described and the machine is ready for a new operation. A spring S forces
the pawl back into position ready for detaining J. A spring M terminating in a
plate may be attached to a fixed portion of the machine so that when J is pushed back
by H by the intervention of the coin the spring M may be compressed and on the
return of H will force the coin away from the end of J. This method of releasing the
coin is also applicable to the arrangement of pistons in Fig. 1. The ratchet N™ is
attached to the underside of J so that when a coin is inserted and J pushed so far as
to be locked by O and pressure being removed from H the coin is free to drop on P

page_text: and release J. The coin space I' is in this case made sufficiently large to allow time
for the coin to drop.
The
Fig. 4 is a view of the apparatus employed between the delivery piston J and electric
apparatus for the purpose of giving an electric shock. The positive primary wire M"
of a battery is put in connection with the wheel T. The negative primary wire Ni
is attached to the contact piece Y". The positive wire of a secondary coil is carried to
a galvanometer if desired and continued to a handle not shown on the drawings. The
negative secondary wire is continued to another handle and when the operator takes
hold of both handles if contact is made he receives a shock the strength of which may
be recorded on a galvanometer. The piston J operates upon a train of wheels.
end of J operates against a toothed wheel J. The movements of J winds up a
spring K When the pressure from the piston J is removed the unwinding of the
spring K operates through a train of wheels I to revolve the wheel T which is
made at circumference of some conducting material except the insulated piece A¹¹.
The train of wheels is so constructed that the movement through one cog space of J
causes a complete revolution of T and brings the insulating piece A back to the
position shewn in the drawing. Contact can be made by means of a contact spring V
pressing against the circumference of the wheel T¹¹.
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Figure 3 represents an arrangement of the apparatus adapted for putting a telephone
in circuit. The method throughout is the same as that employed for giving an electric
shock.
Figure 5. is an improved form of hopper in which instead of having one side of the
receptacle moveable I insert a moveable piece A attached to a rod supported by the
front of the.receptacle. A cord or wire C is carried from the top of the moving piece
to any part of the moving mechanism. The movement of the piece A in the hopper
will thus prevent the bridging or jaming of the articles contained therein.
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 I claim is :-
1. In apparatus for the purposes herein specified the method of forming the connec-
tion between the two parts of the apparatus substantially as described and shewn in
Figure 1.
2. In apparatus for the purposes herein specified the method of forming the connec-
tion between the two parts of the apparatus substantially as described and shewn in
Figure 2.
3. The combination of the apparatus above mentioned with the method of retaining
one part of the apparatus till the operation is completed by the falling of the coin
substantially as described in Figure 2.
4. In combination with apparatus for the automatic delivery of goods and information,
the method employed for giving and measuring the strength of an electric shock
substantially as described and set forth in Figure 4.
5. In combination with apparatus for the automatic delivery of goods and information,
the method for putting a telephone in circuit substantially as described and set forth
in Figure 3.
6. In apparatus for the purposes herein specified the method of securing a regular
supply by preventing the bridging or jamming of articles in the receptacle substantially
as shewn and described in Figure 5.
J. W. ROBBS,
Agent for the Applicant.