Improved Coin Freed Apparatus for Railway Vehicles, Steamboats, and other Conveyances, Specially for the Issue of Books.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 2nd Jan., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 6th June, 1891-Accepted, 8th Aug., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Coin Freed Apparatus for Railway Vehicles, Steamboats,
and other Conveyances, Specially for the Issue of Books.
I WILLIAM SPEIRS SIMPSON of 49 Battersea Park Road, Surrey, Civil
Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of my said invention to be as follows:-
This invention has for object arranging books of fairy tales, novels, instructive
games, educational and others in a frame of pockets in single order, each of said
pockets having a fall-to flap under the action of a spring on the insertion of a coin
and the turning or other motion of a handle or button, the movement of which frees
a catch or other fastener and simultaneously discharges the coin into a receptacle,
the fall-to flap being released and made ready for the book to be taken from the
pocket. A toothed rack prevents the return of the handle with the coin in the
receiver into which it is first dropped.
H.
GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said W. S. Simpson.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Coin Freed Apparatus for Railway Vehicles, Steamboats,
and other Conveyances, Specially for the Issue of Books.
I, WILLIAM SPEIRS SIMPSON, of 49 Battersea Park Road, Surrey, Civil
Engineer, 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 has for object, arranging books of fairy tales, novels, instructive
games, educational, and others in a frame of pockets in single order, so that on the
insertion of a coin and the movement of a thumb lever, a catch is released to enable
a book to be taken from the pocket containing the selected book.
My invention will be understood by the annexed drawings.
Figure 1 is a back inside elevation of my apparatus for the above mentioned
object.
Figure 2, a transverse elevation of the same with a book in the pocket thereof,
the apparatus being in a closed condition.
Figure 3, a corresponding transverse elevation of the apparatus with the lid open,
the book having been removed from the pocket.
Figure 4 illustrates the position and use of my apparatus in the compartment of
a railway carriage (first class), the apparatus or a series of boxes being affixed to
and under the small lug age racks to enable the occupants to readily drop the
required coin through the slot, and remove the required book, the title of which
has been exposed through the glass front of the apparatus.
Figure 5 illustrates a series of my apparatus or boxes affixed to the back partition
of a third class compartment of a railway carriage for travellers use after the
insertion of a coin.
Figure 6 shows the position at which my apparatus or boxes can be arranged on a
steamboat.
Figure 7 is an elevation of a structure, as an article of furniture in a hall, or
other part of an hotel, a club room, a reading room, or other part of a building, or
the left hand
even in the bedroom of an hotel, or a boarding house, the box ?

page_text: corner répresenting the hand of a person inserting a coin into the slot, in order tha
he may remove a book on geography, the hand represented on the right side
showing that the lever has been pulled sideways, and the lid or door flown open
ready for a book on science to be removed.
Figure 8 shows a single apparatus with the lid open, and represents a book
being removed.
Figures 1, 2, and 3 indicate the construction of the apparatus or box, and the
arrangement of the appliance which can be operated after a coin is inserted.
The apparatus or casing is composed of four side walls a, b, c, d, and a partition e
to form two compartments. f is a back hinged at g to the top or upper wall c to
open outwards from the bottom, if the apparatus be on a table, as at Figure 7, or
at Figure 8, but which forms a fixed back if fastened to a partition of a railway
carriage, as at Figures 4 and 5, or on a portion of a deck-house of a steamboat, as
at Figure 6.
h is a lever pivotted at i to the partition e, this lever has a thickened part at j
and a cheek k, against which the coin when inserted through a slot in the upper
wall c can be held in an upright position, the coin resting upon a shelf projecting
from the partition e. The upper end of the lever h works within the coin slot and
terminates above in a button or thumb piece m, which enables the lever h to be
operated in one direction the spring n reversing the lever when released.
P is an axle pin carrying a pivotted frame p this having a lip q which is within
range of the coin while on the shelf and being moved by the lever h the action
causing the coin to slide upwardly on the shelf to lift the lip and then to fall over
the edge.
The lip q is in a piece with a catch claw r and both lip and clawr are kept
downwards by the spring s. The claw projects through the partition e for its nose
to be within the travel of the lid t to engage over a plate u to lock it. This lid is
hinged at the lower wall d of the casing, so that its upper part may fall forward,
as shown at Figure 3.
In Figures 2 and 3, a device of a novel character which enables my apparatus to
be used with special advantage is shown out of and in action respectively.
vis a blade which springs up towards the front flap t and forms a stop against
the flap t being closed, except after the insertion of a book, the blade v then being
pressed downwards by the book as it is forced into the casing.
w is a shoot, down which the coin falls when pushed over the edge of the shelf
by the lever and a is a box fitting a recess of the back f as a receptacle for
the coin.
The box is removable when the case is unlocked.
y is a plate attached to the lever / to prevent the casing being opened except
after the insertion of a coin, this being arranged between the top of the box and the
pivotted frame p₁ so that the lip q is held rigidly until the lever his moved along
for the plate y to drop into a depressed portion of the frame p¹.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. The construction of a book container casing, in which after the insertion of a
predetermined coin, and the movement of the lever, the front flap can be released
and have a fall-to action to enable a book to be removed upwardly, the several
mechanical parts being arranged and acting in the manner hereinbefore described
and substantially as shown at Figures 1, 2 and 3 of the annexed drawings.
2. The manufacture and employment of a casing having two compartments, one
compartment to contain a book and having a front which can be released by the
movement of a lever and by a predetermined coin previously inserted into the other
compartment to enable the book to be removed from said front, this being locked
in an open state until the book be returned, and the front closed, as and for the 5
purposes described with reference to the annexed drawings.

page_text: 3. The employment in apparatus such as is herein described of a locking device
constructed as herein described and shown at v being out of action in Figure 2 and
in action in Figure 3.
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H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said William Speirs Simpson.
H.
GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said William Speirs Simpson.