Year: 1887

page_text: My invention has for its object an automatic coin-freed dynamometric machine, for
testing physical power, and provided with a tube or slide for delivering pre-paid goods,
on a certain amount of power being applied.
This machine consists of an arrangement of parts, as hereinafter described, concealed
in a stand or in the body of a dummy human figure which, for example, may
assume the appearance of a negro. This figure exhibits outwardly only a dial,
provided with an index, and a pad or buffer designed to receive the blows. In the
upper part of the figure, and on the left hand side of the dial, is, formed a slit, in
which the person wishing to try his strength places one penny, or two half pennies, as
desired, and in the lower right hand side of the same figure and at about the same
height as that of the pad or buffer is arranged an opening through which, when a
sufficiently high number has been reached on the dial, drops any suitable article, such
as a cigarette, a tablet of chocolate, a box of matches, or the like.
In carrying out my invention I provide a dial furnished with an index or pointer
mounted upon one extremity of a shaft fixed to the frame of the machine by means
of two bearings, and carrying upon its other extremity a ratchet wheel and a small
toothed wheel. The latter gears with a rack-rod resting upon a hammer whose
articulated handle carries an appendage or tail piece. This tail piece bears upon a
roller carried by the square spindle of the pad or buffer, upon which the blows are
struck. This square spindle is notched to allow for the insertion of a beam of a pair
of scales which prevents the machine.from entering into operation so long as a penny
piece has not been dropped on to one of the scales; the other scale is so counterpoised
that the weight of a penny, or of two half-pennies, falling upon the former scale alone
produces the disconnection, by counterbalancing the weight of the other scale and

page_text: bringing the beam into a horizontal position. Hence it is a matter of indifference
whether one penny, or two half pennies, be placed in the slit, as a single half-penny
will not be sufficient to set the machine in motion. The coin being introduced through
the slit or opening of the coin receiving tube falls upon the first mentioned scale, and
if it be the weight of a penny it raises the beam while releasing the square spindle of
the pad or buffer.
The machine is now ready to operate.
If now the pad or buffer be struck with sufficient force the same recoils in the
machine, and the square spindle terminating in a roller causes the above mentioned
appendage or tail piece, and hence the hammer, to be raised, the latter forcing the
rack-rod upwardly. This ascensional notion of the rack-rod causes the small toothed
wheel to rotate, and with it the ratchet wheel, and the index of the dial, all of which
are keyed upon the same shaft.
The handle of the hammer raises with it a cam, upon whose shaft is fixed a spring
bearing upon the edge of the first mentioned scale and causes the penny, which it
contains, to drop into the cash box. At the same time the said handle strikes a block
held by a bar which increases the power of the blow struck by the hammer upon
the rack-rod and causes the latter to ascend still more rapidly and higher.
According as the blow is delivered upon the pad or buffer has more or less power,
the index stops at a further or nearer point on the graduated dial, and registers the
number reached. It is maintained in this position by a pawl connected to a shaft
which is articulated at the extremity of a rod whose other extremity is fixed upon
another rod furnished with two pins, forming a fork, which enters the coin receiving
tube and is held therein by a spring.
In order to cause the index to move back to zero, it is sufficient to insert a coin
in the opening of the receiving tube, and as this coin drops it pushes the teeth of
the last named rod back; at the same time a cam is caused to bear upon a hook of
this rod and counteracts the action of its spring while keeping the teeth out of the
coin-receiving tube. The rod, to which the shaft is articulated, now ascends, and by
causing this shaft to rotate releases the pawl from the teeth of the ratchet wheel.
The cam is fixed to an axis whose extremity is provided with a tail which is
hooked by the rack when falling by gravity, as soon as the pawl releases the ratchet
wheel, which has for result to engage the cam with the rod. When the rack ascends
the cam shaft rotates a little under the action of a spring fixed to the frame of the
machine and releases the latter rod. The index may be also immediately brought
back to zero by any other suitable means.
When the blow struck upon the pad or buffer is powerful enough to cause the
rack-rod to reach and raise the projection of a piece fixed laterally to the frame and
sliding in a vertical groove, this piece, which is connected by a very thin rod to an
eccentric, causes a platform to move forward, which platform is provided with two
push pieces which open a door closing the orifice of the delivery tube filled, say with
cigarettes, and causes one of the said cigarettes to drop, two being dropped when the
above mentioned piece has reached the upper extremity of its groove which brings
the index to the number 200 upon the graduated dial.
The door is closed automatically by the action of a spring.
ERNEST DE PASS, Fel. Inst. P.A.,
68, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the Applicant.

page_text: An Automatic Coin-freed Dynamometric Machine for Testing
Physical Power and for Delivering Prepaid Goods on a Certain
Amount of Power being Applied.
I, JEAN CONTE, of 1 Boulevard Saint Denis, Paris, France, Manufacturer, 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 (reference being had to the accompanying drawings and to the letters and
figures marked thereon) that is to say :-
My invention has for its object an automatic coinfreed dynamometric machine for
testing physical power, and provided with a tube or slide for delivering prepaid goods,
on a certain amount of power being applied.
This machine consists of an arrangement of parts, hereinafter described, concealed
in a stand or in the body of a dummy human figure, which for example, may assume
the appearance of a negro. This figure exhibits outwardly only a dial provided with
an index, and a pad or buffer designed to receive the blows. In the upper part of
the figure, and on the left hand side of the dial is formed a slit, in which the person
wishing to try his strength places one penny, or two half-pennies, as desired, and in
the lower right hand side of the same figure, and at about the same height as that of
the pad or buffer, is arranged an opening through which falls, when a sufficiently
high number has been reached on the dial, any suitable article, such as a cigarette, a
tablet of chocolate, a box of matches, or the like.
The accompanying drawings illustrate the combination and the mode of working
my dynamometric machine for testing physical power.
Fig. 1 shews the machine fitted up and carried by a negro in a boxing attitude,
whose left hand index finger points to the slit designed to receive the coin or coins..
Fig. 2 is a front view of the machine, and Fig. 3 a side view thereof.
In carrying out my invention I provide a dial a, furnished with an index or
pointer, mounted upon one extremity of a shaft c, fixed to the frame d of the
machine by means of two bearings ƒ ƒ, and carrying upon its other extremity a
ratchet wheel I and a small toothed wheel h. The toothed wheel gears with a rack
rod i, resting upon a hammer j, whose handle k, articulated at 1, carries an appendage
or tail piece m. This tail piece bears upon a roller n, carried by the square spindle o
of the pad or buffer p, upon which the blows are struck. The square spindle o is
notched at to allow for the insertion of the beam r, of a pair of scales s, s¹, which
prevents the machine from entering into operation so long as a penny piece has not
been dropped on to the scale s; the other scale is so counterpoised that the weight of
a penny, or of two half-pennies, falling upon s, alone produces the disconnection by
counter-balancing the weight of scales and bringing the beam into a horizontal
position. Hence it is a matter of indifference whether one penny, or two half pennies,
be placed in the slit, as a single half-penny will not be sufficient to set the machine in

page_text: The coin having been introduced through the slit or opening of the coin receiving
tube t, which is bent as shewn in fig. 3, falls upon the scale s, and if it be exactly tho
weight of a penny it raises the beam while releasing the spindle o of the pad or
buffer p.
The machine is now ready to operate.
If now the pad or buffer p be struck with sufficient force, the same recoils into the
machine, and the spindle o terminating in a roller n, causes the appendage or tail
piece m, and hence the hammer ), to be raised, the latter forcing the rack rod i
upwardly. This ascensional motion of the rack rod i causes the toothed wheel / to
rotate, and with it the ratchet wheel 9, and the index b of the dial a, all of which are
keyed upon the same shaft c.
The handle k of the hammer j raises with it the cam upon whose shaft is fixed
a springbearing upon the edge of the scales of peculiar form, and causes the
penny, which it contains, to drop into the cash box. At the same time the handle k
strikes a block ¹ held by a bark which increases the power of the blow struck by
the hammer upon the rack rod and causes the latter to ascend still more rapidly and
higher.
According as the blow delivered upon the pad or buffer has more or less power, the
index stops at a further or nearer point on the graduated dial a, and registers
the number reached. It is maintained in this position by a pawl u, connected to
the shaft v, which is articulated at the extremity of a rod a, whose other extremity
is fixed upon a rod y furnished with two pins forming a fork which enters the coin
receiving tube t, and is held therein by a spring y'.
In order to cause the index to move back to zero, it is sufficient to insert a coin
into the opening of the tube t, and as this coin drops, it pushes the teeth of the rod
back at the same time a cam z is caused to hear upon a hook ¹ of this rod and
counteracts the action of the spring y while keeping the teeth out of the tube t. The
rod a now ascends, and by causing the shaft to rotate, releases the pawl u from the
teeth of the ratchet wheel g.
The cam is fixed to an axis p¹ whose extremity is provided with a tail piece p"
which is caught by the rack when falling by gravity as soon as the pawl u releases
the ratchet wheel g, which has for result to engage the cam with the rod y.
When
the rack ascends the cam shaft rotates a little under the action of a spring 7', fixed
to the frame of the machine, and releases the rod y.
Figs. 1, 2 and 3*, sheet II, shew more particularly this arrangement.
After a person has worked the machine the index or pointer remains at the numeral
marking the degree attained; this is effected by the pawl u engaging with the ratchet
wheel mounted upon the same axis as the index or pointer, the different parts
conducing to the return to zero occupying then the position shewn. If another
person inserts a coin into the tube t this coin falls upon the teeth of the lever y
which lever, by its movement, causes the rod to ascend; the axis & turns slightly
and effects the disengagement of the click or pawl u from the teeth of the ratchet
wheel g. The rack rod i being no longer retained falls, and restores the index or
pointer to zero. In falling, this rack rod strikes against the small bent lever pl and,
by the rotary movement thus imparted to the axis p, the cam z pushes the tail piece
of the lever y this latter is pivotted at 22 and disengages its teeth from the tube t,
thus allowing the coin to fall into the scale s. The beam then quitting the notch
(figs. 1 and 2, sheet I) releases the spindle o, and the machine is again ready
to work.
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The index or pointer may also be immediately brought back to zero by any other
suitable means.
When the blow struck upon the pad or buffer is powerful enough to cause the rack
rod to reach and raise the heel or projection A of the piece B, fixed laterally to the
frame, and sliding in the vertical groove C, this piece B which is connected by a very
thin rod D to an eccentric F (fig. 3) causes a platform G to move forward which
platform is provided with two push pieces H which open the door I closing the orifice
of the tube filled with, say cigarettes, and causes one of the said cigarette to fall

page_text: out, two being caused to fall out when the piece B has reached the upper extremity of
its groove.
At the same time the index or pointer has arrived at numeral 200 on the
graduated dial.
The door I closes automatically by the action of a spiral spring L.
This delivery arrangement is clearly shewn in figs. 4 and 5, sheet LI. It consists
of the platform or carriage G, terminating in two push pieces H, receiving and
ejecting the cigarettes from the tube J, said push-pieces being cut to form points b
and c, the points being in advance of the points c. If, the blow struck be sufficient,
the points come up as far as the outer edge of the tube J and cause one cigaretto to
fall out; if the blow struck be still stronger, the points c also come up to the outer
edge of the tube J, and two cigarettes fall out, the first by the points b, the second by
the points c.
The remaining cigarettes are kept up by the push-pieces, and cannot
fall out. During the distribution the door I is held open by two arms d, fixed to the
platform or carriage G.
This platform or carriage is actuated by an arrangement of levers F, worked by
the rack rod, by means of the very thin rod D, hereinbefore referred to; a spiral
spring restores the platform or carriage to its starting point.
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 :-
1. The automatic coin-freed dynamometric machine for testing physical power, and
delivering prepaid goods, on a sufficiently hard blow being applied to a pad or buffer
arranged on the outside of the machine, said pad or buffer after the insertion of a
suitable coin or coins, being free to actuate delivery mechanism and to indicate and
register on an exterior dial the force of the blow applied, substantially as herein
described and as illustrated.
2. The means or mechanism for actuating automatic coin-freed dynamometric
machines, and causing the delivery of prepaid articles therefrom, on a sufficiently hard
blow being applied to a pad or buffer arranged on the outside of the machine,
substantially as herein described and as illustrated.
3. The means or mechanism for causing the index or pointer to return to zero, on
the insertion of a coin into the coin-receiving tube, substantially as herein described
and as illustrated.
4. The means or mechanism for opening the door closing the orifice of the tubo
containing the articles to be delivered, and from which tube two such articles are
delivered when the force of the blow causes the piece B to reach its bighest travel and
to bring the index or pointer to the highest number (say 200) on the graduated dial
substantially as herein described and as illustrated.
Dotal : aon
1 J1000
ERNEST DE PASS, Fel. Inst. P.A.,
68, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the Applicant.