Year: 1885

page_text: I CHARLES HENRY RUSSELL of 43 Bedford Row, London in the county of
Middlesex, Gentleman do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention relates to certain improvements in apparatus for the reception of
coin, and the automatic delivery of goods in exchange therefor, and for displaying
advertisements, and has for its object to provide an apparatus, in which the goods
for sale may be stored, and for the delivery of the same automatically, upon the
introduction into a slot provided for that purpose of a coin of the realm of such
value only as may be determined beforehand. The whole mechanism is enclosed in
a casing or box provided with suitable apertures for the introduction of the coin
and the discharge or egress of the goods.
In carrying my invention into effect I provide a drum within which the articles
are stored next each other in a spiral shaped chamber, the full width of the
drum, formed or coiled within the said drum after the manner of a clock spring,
that is to say constantly decreasing in diameter as it approaches the centre of
the drum.
A revolving plate is arranged in suitable position at one side of the drum, upon
the axis of which plate a ratchet wheel is fixed actuated by a pawl or equivaleut
device, fixed upon an arm, engaging with the shank of an external handle which
actuates the whole mechanism. Upon and at right angles to the said revolving
plate an arm is fitted in a slot. This arm projects through the spiral compartment
of the drum and is able by means of the slot to adjust its position on the plate
according to the position of the articles in the chamber. The handle passes from
the outside of the casing through the apparatus and is connected by a lever to a
slotted quadrant, which engages with a rack carrying an arm for the purpose of
ejecting the goods at the exit aperture. The handle cannot actuate the mechanism
of the apparatus, without the introduction of the coin intended to be used. The
[Price 8d1

page_text: coin when placed in a slot provided in the frame, passes down a shoot suitably
formed to prevent the passage of any other coin or substance than that intended,
and is deposited on a balanced platform, having an arm provided with a travelling
weight and engaging with a locking bar. The weight of the coin causes the
balanced platform to descend and release the locking bar, and the foot of the
handle, thus allowing the handle to be depressed, and thereby operate the whole
mechanism. The handle may be returned to its normal position by a suitable
spiral spring or otherwise. After the operation of the apparatus the platform is
returned to position ready for the next operation by the action of the said travelling
weight.
I may also display advertisements printed on bands at openings formed in the
casing of the apparatus which may advantageously be protected by glass or suitable
material. The bands may be placed upon rollers caused to rotate by gearing
connected to and actuated by the handle, so that at each operation of the handle
the advertisements in each opening are changed.
WAUGH & CHAPMAN,
Agents for Applicant.

page_text: Automatic Delivery of Goods in Exchange therefor, and for
Displaying Advertisements.
I CHARLES HENRY RUSSELL of 80 Grays Inn Road London in county of
Middlesex, 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 :-
This invention relates to certain improvements in apparatus for the reception of
coin, and the automatic delivery of goods in exchange therefor, and for displaying
advertisements and has for its object to provide an apparatus, in which the goods
for sale may be stored, and for the delivery of the same automatically, upon the
introduction into a slot provided for that purpose of a coin of the realm of such
value only as may be determined beforehand. The whole mechanism is enclosed in
a casing or box provided with suitable apertures for the introduction of the coin
and the discharge or egress of the goods.
I may also display advertisements printed on bands at openings formed in the
casing of the apparatus which may advantageously be protected by glass or suitable
material. The bands may be placed upon rollers caused to rotate by gearing
connected to and actuated by the handle, so that at each operation of the handle
the advertisements in each opening are changed.
I will now describe my invention more particularly by aid of the accompanying
drawings, in which, Figure 1 is a plan, and Figures 2 and 4 sectional elevations of
the back and front sides of my apparatus respectively and partly in section,
Figure 3 is a transverse section on line a. b. figure 1, and Figures 5, 6, details of
arrangements for displaying advertisements applicable to any of the above figures,
and Fig. 7 is a detail of self adjusting radial arm.
I fix inside upon the casing containing the apparatus a drum a of a width
adapted to the articles to be stored for sale; within the drum a spiral chamber is
coiled after the manner of a clock spring, that is to say constantly decreasing in
diameter as it approaches the centre of the drum as represented by b, b: A plate o
of about the same diameter as, and capable of rotation about the centre of the
drum a is fixed at the open side of the said drum to a rotary spindle o' carried on
suitable bearings, and upon the said plate and spindle is fixed a fusee wheel d
hereinafter described.
Upon and at right angles to the plate can arm is fitted on a radial plate et,
This arm
figure 7, adapted to slide in a slot formed in or on the plate c.
projects through the spiral compartment b and is adapted by means of the said
sliding plate and slot to automatically adjust its position on the plate to correspond
with the position of the last article in the spiral chamber.
In order to compensate for the increasing forward travel of the arm e as it
approaches the greater diameter of the compartment b, and in order that the same
degree of forward motion may at all times be imparted to the articles stored therein,
a device is employed consisting of a fusee wheel d connected by a band of catgut
or other suitable material d to a pulley. f centred on suitable bearings.
The whole mechanism is operated by a push bar g which extends to the outside
of the casing and terminates in a knob or handle g¹: Upon the push bar inside the
box a stud g³ is fixed over which a slot h cut in a plate h¹ works, the other end of

page_text: this plate is centred loosely on the spindle of the aforesaid pulley f upon which
spindle is fixed a ratchet wheel i. The plate h¹ carries a spring pawl ha constantly
engaging with the teeth of ratchet i. The ejecting apparatus consists of a toothed
quadrant centred on suitable bearings in a position adjacent to the push bar g.
A curved slot is cut in ; with which a projecting arm g³ fixed on the push
bar g engages. The slot is curved in such a manner as will allow a certain
amount of downward vertical motion to be given to g³ on its depression without
moving the quadrant, but when the required vertical movement is effected the
arm g taking against the curved part of the slot 1 operates the quadrant whose
teeth engage with a rack adapted to slide horizontally: The rack carries an
arm k provided with a suitable head for the purpose of ejecting one article at a
time at an exit aperture & formed in the casing of the apparatus.
A money admission alot is provided in the upper part of the casing and a shoot
or shoots is or are arranged, beneath, or upon the foot of which a balanced
platform m is suitably centred in the same manner and on the same principle as
set forth in the specification accompanying my application for Letters Patent
numbered 12086 a.d. 1885, and provided with an arm m¹ and travelling weight m².
The arm m normally engages with one arm n of an oscillating locking piece of
a form such as is shown in the figures centred at and capable of oscillation about
the point n and having its. second arm n³ provided with an adjustable counter-
balance weight m. The third and locking arm n' is normally in a vertical position,
its upper extremity impinging against the lower extremity of push bar g as shown
in figures 3 and 4 thus preventing operation of the push bar until released by the
introduction of a coin..
The action of the apparatus is then as follows:
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The weight of a coin deposited on m overbalances it raising its arm m¹ whose
weight together with that of m² being thus removed from n the counter balance
weight n causes the locking piece to oscillate on its centre n¹³ to such a position
as is shown in figure 2, carrying its arm n' from under the push bar g which can
then be depressed. By such depression the downward travel of stud g' imparts
motion to plate -h whose, pawl h³ pushing over the ratchet wheel i gives a part
rotation to pulley f and consequently to the fusee wheel d and plate c whose arm ė
.travels along the spiral compartment b pushing forward the articles stored therein
for the required distance. During the first part of the depression of g the arm g³
passes down the upper and vertical, part of the curved slot without moving the
quadrant j but during the latter part of the stroke g³ taking against the lower
part of the curved slot operates the quadrant j imparting a-forward motion to the
rack kwhose arm k¹ being always opposite to the exit aperture & presses the article
(moved into its line of travel during the first part of the stroke as above described)
partly through the exit aperture z. from whence it can be withdrawn by the
operator; on pressure being removed from the knob or handle g¹ the bar g is
instantly returned to normal position by spring g* and the rack is withdrawn by
the contrary action of curved slot ¹ on arm g³. The coin having overbalanced the
tray m falls off into a suitable money receptacle and the action of the travelling
weight me again raises the tray m whose arm m¹ taking against the arm n of the
locking piece then in the position shown in figure 2 restores the whole of the parts
to normal locked position-ready for the next operation.
To prevent two actions of the apparatus on one payment only, a projecting
piece no may be fixed about the upper end of arm n', having a plain curved surface
on one side and ratchet teeth o on the other: on depression of pushbar ga
projecting toe or pin of formed thereon passes down the plain curved side of n³, but
by the time o has arrived at the lowest point of its travel the arm n' has returned
to normal position, and o¹ passes over the ratchet teeth o; but if a second depression
be given at an improper time to g, the toe o! would at once engage with the said
teeth o. The mechanism I employ for the display and change of advertisements 5
at each action of the apparatus is shown in figures 5 and 6, and may be fitted into
the casing containing the above described delivering mechanism when desired;

page_text: At each depression of the push bar ga stud go thereupon working in a slot p cut
in a lever pl extending behind the axis of a toothed quadrant p' imparts motion
to the said quadrant; this motion gives a part rotation to a pinion q gearing
with p and provided with the usual ratchet and pawl q¹ to ensure its rotation in
one direction only. The spindle q' of the pinion extends conveniently near to the
opening formed in one side of the casing of the apparatus and is provided at its
other end with bevil wheel r gearing with a second bevil wheel r¹ fixed on the end
of a friction roller of suitable material centred in bearings fixed to the casing.
An endless band 8 upon which are printed advertisements or the like passes over
the roller down to the base of the apparatus where it is guided by rollers &¹ 8'
across the floor, and passes beneath another roller up the other side in front of the
openings in the casing over a roller near the top; this last roller is adjustable as
regards its vertical travel so as to obtain the required tension of the band 8 8. At
each action of the mechanism intermittent motion is thus imparted to the endless
band ss and the advertisements thereon are changed. The openings in front of
them may be protected with glass or suitable material.
An indicator for recording the number of sales, by which also the money slot
may be permanently closed when no more articles are contained in the apparatus
and if desired during each action of the mechanism by a cover plate such as is
described in my specification N° 12086 a.d. 1885 may be employed, and worked
substantially in the same manner and for the same purposes as described and
illustrated in the said specification.
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 combination of parts forming the hereinbefore described goods selling
apparatus constructed and arranged to contain goods and. deliver one article after
the introduction of a suitable coin on operation of a push bar substantially in the
manner described and illustrated by the accompanying drawings.
2. The combination of parts forming the herein before described goods selling
and advertising apparatus constructed and arranged to contain goods and deliver
one article after the introduction of suitable coin on operation of a push bar and
by the same operation to impart intermittent motion to advertisements displayed
thereupon substantially in the manner and for the purposes described and illustrated
by the accompanying drawings.
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3. In a goods selling apparatus the combination with a spring push bar such
as g of a balance device adapted when overbalanced by the weight of the coin to
release a locking piece such as is specified as and for the purpose set forth.
4. In a goods selling apparatus such as is herein described the combination with
a spiral chamber for the storage of goods of the means of moving them forward
to the delivery aperture and the device for ejecting one article therefrom at each
action of the apparatus all arranged constructed and operated substantially in the
manner and for the purposes set forth. .
5. In a goods selling apparatus operated by a push bar such as is herein
described, the combination with the push bar of the method of displaying
advertisements and the means of imparting to such advertisements an intermittent
motion at each operation of the push bar substantially as described and illustrated
in figures 5 and 6 of the accompanying drawings.
J. C. CHAPMAN,
Agent for Applicant.