Improvements in Coin-freed Machines.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 29th June, 1896-Accepted, 27th Feb.. 1897
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Coin-freed Machines.
1, HERMANN PERL, of 54/55 Sebastianstrasse.. Berlin, in the Empire of Germany,
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:-
This invention relates to a machine for automatically delivering articles the outer
casing of the said machine being constructed to represent a complete human figure
or a part thereof, from the interior of which the articles of sale are discharged
after a coin or token has been inserted into a suitable opening or slot; the
inechanism for discharging the articles being actuated by pressure exerted upon
a push or pull device, by the rotation of a crank or sometimes automatically.
To increase the effect a device producing a noise is provided in the interior of
the apparatus, which device emits sounds imitating laughter or whistling. Or
appropriate words or whole sentences may be automatically spoken from the interior of
the apparatus when suitable phonographic mechanism is fitted thereto go that the
purchaser, may receive the impression that figure is capable of speaking means.
also are provided to cause the eyes of said figure or part thereof to roll.
This invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which
Figure 1 represents the apparatus formed to resemble the shape and appearance of
a negro.
Figure 2 shows the apparatus formed to resemble a postman.
Figure 3 is a side elevation of the mechanism complete, the outer casing being:
indicated in dotted lines.
Figure 4 a front elevation of said mechanism and
Figure 5 a plan view thereof.
Upon a suitable frame and sliding in guides is a drawer a provided with a knob.
or handle, through the medium of which the distribution of the goods is effected.
The coin after being inserted passes down the channel c and arrives at the hook d
which latter is fixed to the drawer a locking the same by means of the hook d'.
The hook d is provided with another hook d² which not only grips the coin but is.
forced back by the said coin when the knob is pulled, during which operation the
hook d' is released from its engagement with the drawer.
The eyes of the figure are fixed to a lever e, to which a rod f is attached,.
which latter extends downward to the drawer.
The end of the said rod engages with a small roller g arranged upon the
drawer a and projecting slightly over the bottom extremity of the rod f. If now
the drawer is pulled, the rod is forced upward by the roller g and thus transmits
the movement to the eyes. When the drawer is released it recedes under the
action of a spring and the same effect is repeated.
For the purpose of causing sound to be emitted a pair of bellows h are arranged
upon the other side of the apparatus, these bellows being provided with a sound
emitting device, the movable part of which is furnished with a hook engaging
with a projection k arranged on the drawer a.
If now the knob or handle b is pulled, the projection will simultaneously
move the hook and the bellows are thus opened. On releasing the knob or

page_text: handle, the drawer recedes, but the bellows and the hook i are kept back, and as
the former are filled with air, the sounding device is operated by the pressure of
the same therein.
The article to be sold, drops through an opening or slot in the figure's chest
or through the movable or stationary arm into one of the hands held in front of
the figure's body. To increase the comical effect, the lips of the figure may be
likewise arranged to move. This is effected by a device similar to that which
causes the eyes to move. At the same time the article sold falls out of the
figure into the figure's hand held in front of its body, or into a suitably arranged
pocket or bag.
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 is :-
A coin freed machine for the sale and delivery of articles; its outer shape being
that of a human body or part thereof; the articles for sale passing when discharged
from the receptacle containing them, through the chest or through the movable or
stationary arm into one of the hands, held in an appropriate position, or into a bag
shaped receptacle or box; the eyes and the mouth being made movable, and sounds
resembling laughter or the like being emitted from the apparatus by means of an
appropriate device, substantially as described.
Dated this 29th day of June 1896.
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45 Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.