Improvements in Coin-freed Apparatus.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 26th Nov., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 26th Aug., 1893-Accepted, 28th Oct., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Coin-freed Apparatus.
I, EDWARD THOMSON, of 16, Torbay Road, Kilburn, in the County of
Middlesex, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
•
The object of my invention is to provide an apparatus adapted to contain and
deliver on receipt of a coin and operation of an external part an article or articles
of any suitable kind, and my improvements are designed more particularly for the
purpose of supplying small or mixed change equivalent to the coin received as and
where required in retail houses and such like places.
I may construct my apparatus single, dual, or multiple, but for the sake of
clearness I will describe a dual apparatus such as I prefer to use.
According 10 my invention I store the articles or the change (which is contained
in suitable receptacles) in a pair of columns mounted on a fixed bed plate having
apertures beneath said columns adapted to allow the contents to pass through at the
proper times.
At a suitable distance below said plate is fixed a second plate which is
also provided with two apertures corresponding to those above described, but arranged
out of line with those beneath the columns and also having two drop-money slots in
suitable positions. Between these two fixed plates I arrange a slide of suitable
depth and stroke also having two apertures corresponding with those of the columns
and plates, one only of which simultaneously coincides with one column and receives
the lowest of the contents. To the slide an operating handle is pivotted, the front
end of which extends conveniently to the outer front side of the apparatus; its
back end is T-shaped and each end of the head of the T carries one or inore
projections on its rear side adapted to pass into slots for the received coin
formed in the slide. A shoot is provided to direct the received coin to stand on
edge in one of these slots which is normally in front of one set of T head pro-
jections, and on the rear side of the slide is centred a pair of spring-pressed-detents
one of which normally engages one of a set of notches cut in one of the fixed
bed plates, but is adapted to be released therefrom by the coin as hereinafter
described.
When the coin is inserted and the handle moved to one side or the other, it
serves to force back the coin and release one of the detents when the slide may be
travelled so as to bring its contained article above an aperture in the lower fixed
plate through which it falls to a receiving and delivery shoot or incline com-
municating with the exterior of the apparatus, and the coin being simultaneously
travelled along falls through the drop-slot in the lower fixed plate to a glass-fronted
receiver below. Back or double action is prevented by the twin detents engaging
the rack teeth. The whole is mounted in a suitable casing with drawers, doors,
locks and other furniture.
If only one column is used the slide may be returned by spring action, but I
prefer to arrange the columns in pairs as described so that one of the money slots
in the slide always coincides with the coin shoot while the other is out of line
therewith and thus the columns of the apparatus can be alternately used.
Dated this 26th day of November 1892.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Coin-freed Apparatus.
I, EDWARD THOMSON, of 16, Torbay Road, Kilburn, in the County of
Middlesex, 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 :—
The object of my invention is to provide an apparatus adapted to contain and
deliver on receipt of a coin and operation of an external part an article or articles
of any suitable kind, and my improvements are designed more particularly for the
purpose of supplying small or mixed change equivalent to the coin received, as and
where required in retail houses and such like places.
I may construct my apparatus single, dual, or multiple, but for the sake of
clearness I will describe a dual apparatus such as I prefer to use.
This is illustrated in the accompanying drawings in which
Fig. 1 is a general front elevation,
Fig. 2 is a back internal elevation,
Fig. 3 plan of top plate,
Fig. 4 plan of bottom plate,
Fig. 5 plan of slide,
Fig. 6 inverted plan of slide showing T-headed handle lever and details,
Fig. 7 side elevation goods check, and
Fig. 8 side elevation spring drop plate.
According to my invention I store the articles or the change (which is contained
in suitable receptacles such as little cups cc,) in a pair of columns A A¹ mounted
on a fixed bed plate B having apertures a a' respectively beneath said columns
adapted to allow the contents or the cups c c to pass through at the proper times.
At a suitable distance below said plate B is fixed a second plate B' which is also
provided with two apertures bb' corresponding to those a a¹ above described but
arranged out of line therewith, and the plate B has also two drop-money slots 62 63
in suitable positions.
Between these two fixed plates B B' I arrange a slide $ of suitable depth and
stroke to slide freely, also having two apertures s s' corresponding with those a a'
of the plate B and 66 of the plate B' one only of which simultaneously. coincides
with one column and receives the lowest of the contents. In the position shown
in Fig. 2 the right hand apertures a s¹ coincide whilst the left hand ones a s are out
of line.
The slide also has two money receiving slots m m and to it an operating 3
handle T is pivotted at to the front end of which extends conveniently to the outer
front side of the apparatus. Its back end is T-shaped and each end of the head of
the T carries one or more projections t t on its rear side adapted to pass into
slots m m' for the received coin formed in the slide S. A shoot E with slot e is
provided to direct the received coin to stand on edge in one of these slots m m²
which is normally in front of one set of T-head projections:t t' and on the rear
side of the slide is centred a pair of spring-pressed detents P P one of
which normally engages one of a set of notches N N' cut in one of the fixed
bed plates B, but is adapted to be released therefrom by the coin as hereinafter
described.
Assuming the parts to be in the positions of Figs. 1 and 2, when the coin & is
inserted into the external slot e it falls down shoot E and is received as described
in slot m', Fig. 2; then when the handle T is moved to the left it serves to force
back the coin and release one of the detents P' and then the slide S may be
travelled by further operation of the handle in direction of arrows, Figs. 1 and 2,
so as to bring its contained article C above an aperture 6¹ in the lower fixed
plate B¹ through which it falls to a receiving and delivering shoot, box, or incline R

page_text: communicating with the front exterior of the apparatus and may be removed. The
coin being simultaneously travelled along falls through the drop-slot 62 in the lower
fixed plate B to a glass fronted receiver R¹ below. Back or double action is
prevented by the twin detents P P engaging the rack teeth N N¹. The whole is
mounted in a suitable casing such as W with a cash drawer W', door Y, locks and
other furniture.
I have found that in an apparatus such as is above described any considerable
amount of change (such as one pound's worth of silver) is apt to fall too heavily
into the delivering compartiment R and tend to be scattered; to obviate this I have
designed the spring goods check illustrated in Fig. 7. It consists of a tray G fixed
to a lever g pivotted at g', and normally held up beneath each aperture a a' by a
spring such as g². This checks the speed and breaks the fall of any weighty article
in course of its delivery.
A convenient device is also illustrated in Fig. 8 for quickly liberating the
received coins from the glass fronted receiver R' each time the cash drawer Wis
opened. This consists in hinging the base or drop plate r of the receiver R' at the
back and arranging beneath it a lever L pivotted at 1 and held up by a light
spring c so as to retain the drop plate r in normal position. Acting upon the
lever L is a finger f fixed to one arm f¹ a tumbling lever F centred on the casing and
having its other arm arm 2 projecting downwards into the cash drawer W₁; in the
drawer is fixed a rod wadapted to inoperatively pass back on shutting the drawer
behind the depending arm 2, but on opening the drawer the rod w operatively
engages the arm f2 depressing the finger lever L and drop plater and the
received coin falls into the cash drawer W¹. I lay no specific claim to the two last
above described arrangements illustrated in Figs. 7 and 8, but they may be
conveniently adopted in practice.
If only one column A is used the slide S may be returned by spring action, but I
prefer to arrange the columns in pairs such as A A' as described so that one of the
money slots m or m' in the slide S always coincides with the foot of the coin
shoot E while the other is out of line therewith and thus the columns of the
apparatus can be alternately used.
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. A coin-freed apparatus constructed and arranged substantially as hereinabove
set forth.
2. In an apparatus such as above referred to the arrangement of the columns A A¹,
plates B B and slide S with goods delivering apertures and drop-slots respectively
arranged as specified, the locking arrangement, and the mechanisms for releasing the
said slide after receipt of a coin and operating the apparatus substantially in the
manner described and illustrated.
3. In a coin freed apparatus such as is above referred to arranging the receiving
apertures a a' and the delivery apertures bbl out of line vertically with each other
and the means of transferring the goods from one to the other consisting of the
slide S with receiving apertures s s¹ and locking, releasing and operating mechanism
and coin gear substantially as above described and illustrated.
Dated this 26th day of August 1893.
For the Applicant,
J. C. CHAPMAN,
70, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Chartered Patent Agent.