provements in and connected with Coin-freed Apparatus.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 9th June, 1898-Accepted, 3rd Sept. 1898
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION
Improvements in and connected with Coin-freed Apparatus.
I, ADOLF GUTENSOHN, of 90, Park Street, Limehouse, E., London, in the County of
London, Manufacturer, do bereby 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 a prepayment system of that class in which any person
may obtain cigars or similar articles by inserting one, two or more coins of equal
value, size and weight into an improved coin-freed apparatus this latter being secured
against fraud by specially unproved means
Coin operated vending devices are well known, and a similar principle is carried
out in this invention, except however that instead of one coin only being used to
actuate the mechanism, any apparatus may be constructed for insertion of two or
more coins-further that the delivry and resetting mechanisms are much more simple,
than hitherto usual, and that dishonest persons are more efficaciously prevented from
tampering with the apparatus than was formerly the case.
By my invention, a person desiring to obtain a cigar or the like article approaches
the apparatus, inserts into it as many coins of equal value, size and weight as the
construction of the apparatus demands, and by pushing down a hand lever arranged
for the purpose, effects the delivery of the article to be obtained, and by releasing the
said lever renders the mechanism ready again for another operation.
The mechanism for carrying out this invention 16 of simple character and 18 adapted
to be applied directly to the casing or apparatus now in use.
The construction of its parts and the combination of means for actuating them,
here-in-after described and claimed, constitute this invention.
Referring to the accompanying drawings:
Figure 1 represents a side view of the improvements, the wall of the casing being
removed to show the internal mechanism
Figure 2 18 the front view of the delivery-roller.
According to the construction of the mechanism, a certain number of coms-as for
instance in that represented in the drawings-two coins are successively inserted into
the usual slot or month a at the top of the channel b, through which the coins pass
before they drop into the cash box. The lowermost coin al is stopped by the top h
of a movably arranged rod g slightly projecting into the said channel b. After having
inserted the coins, the operator pushes down the hand-lever c. thus causing its boss
or projecting piece to bear upon the uppermost coin x and consequently by means
of connecting rod g, to press down the horizontally arranged lever m of the delivry-
inechanism. The hand-lever c arranged to turn round pivots is caused by the springf
upon the supporting piece e, to return into its original position, when released by the
operator The obstacle for the run of the coins being removed, they pass over into
the prolongation of channel b until they strike arm p projecting partially into the
latter. This arm p 18 firmly connected with a guiding-piece q turnably arranged on
the plate of the casing.
As soon as lever p is pushed down by the weight of the coins, the guiding-piece q
is caused to turn through a small angle, round its pivot, thus causing a turnable hook

page_text: loosely guided in q, to follow the movement of lever p. This movement may be
limited by an additional cross-bar q ananged on the above mentioned plate of the
casing. Hook capable of turning round its pivot 8, gives way to a pint of arm m,
the said pin being thus caught by the hook for a little time until released by the
movement of the lever p.
After the coins have dropped into the cashbox, not shown in the drawings,
guide piece g and with it arm p are caused to return to their original position
by the action of spring v.
At, the free end of the turnable lever m an arm n is provided extending down-
wards at right angles and bearing upon one of the pins u, which connect the two
discs outside the delivery-roller o dium u¹, thus causing the latter to rotate
through a certain angle, so that a cigar or a like article y¹ placed in grooves of the
delivery roller u¹ may automatically drop into the outlet-basın or plate z. The
cigars on the like articles are stored in an obliquely arranged channel y feeding
the delivery roll.
As soon as the cigar or the like article is delivered, lever m automatically returns
by pressure of spring w into its original position shewn in Figure 1,-whilst the down-
wardly projecting arm a 18 assisted in its movement by the action of spring w¹. By
means of a spring working like a detent or by other means not shewn in the
drawings, the delivery roller is allowed to rotate only through a certain angle at a
time, thus delivering one article with each operation.
By the simple mechanism herein before described especially by the improved
arrangement of hand-lever, the operation is rendered quite certain and dishonest
per-ous, who would like to stir into the apparatus with a needle or knife, are more
efficaciously prevented, from tampering with the mechanism, than was hitherto the
0880.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim 19
1) In con-freed apparatus, the combination with the band-lever for pushing
down the inserted coins of a lever- and disc-arrangement adapted to automatically
deliver cigars and the like articles, substantially as described and represented in
the drawings
2). In coin-fieed apparatus, by which on the usertion of two or more coins of
equal value size and weight, cigars and similar articles are automatically delivered
according to the first claim, the means of rotating through a certam angle the
delivery roller, comprising a connecting rod, one end of which projects into the
channel through which the coms are to pass, and the other end causing the opera-
tion of the lever and disc arrangement, substantially as set forth and represented in
the drawings.
3) In coin-freed apparatus, by which on the insertion of two or more coins of equal
value, size and weight, cigars and similar articles are automatically delivered accord-
ing to the first claim, the means for disengaging the lever and disc arrangement by
the weight of the inserted coins, comprising an arm, partially projecting into the
channel through which the coins are to pass, a turnable guiding piece and a hook
which engages a pin of the lever of the delivery mechanism, cansing the same to be
arrested for a little time, substantially as set forth and represented in the drawings
4) In com-freed apparatus, by which on the insertion of two or more coins of
equal value, size and weight, cigars and sunılar articles are automatically delivered
according to the first claim, the combination with the delivery-roller of the obliquely
arranged feeding channel and means for resetting the apparatus for further operation
Dated this 9th day of June 1898.
ADOLF GUTENSOHN.