A Combined Automatic Food and Liquid Delivering Apparatus.
Year: 1887

page_text: --Date of Application, 1st Oct., 1887
Complete Specification Left, 31st July, 1888
Complete Specification Accepted, 7th Sept., 1888
PROVISIONAL DI ECIFICATION.
A Combined Automatic Food and Liquid Delivering Apparatus.
I, PERCIVAL EVERITT, of 47, Cannon Street, in the City of London, Engineor, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to the combination in one frame or stand of apparatus for
delivering articles of food, such as biscuits, and of liquids for drinking purposes, such
as filtered water, in exchange for an equivalent in coin or the like the object of the
invention being to provide means whereby the public can conveniently and quickly
obtain light refreshments in places where it has hitherto been impossible or inconvenient
so to do.
In carrying out my invention in a suitable stand or frame I mount an apparatus
adapted for delivering the required articles of food.
This apparatus may with advantage be constructed according to the inventions
described in former Letters Patent, videlicet, No. 2033 of 1883, No. 10406 of 1.885
and No. 9517 of 1886. In the said frame or stand, or connected therewith, I also
mount a liquid delivering apparatus, which is advantageously constructed according to
the invention described in former Letters Patent No. 8403 of 1886, or according to
the inventions described in my Provisional Specifications No. 9422 of 1887 and
No. 10232 of 1887.
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London,
Agents for the Applicant.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A Combined Automatic Food and Liquid Delivering Apparatus.
I, PERCIVAL EVERITT, of 47, Cannon Street, in the City of London, 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 relates to the combination in one frame or stand of apparatus for
delivering articles of food, such as biscuits, and of liquids for drinking purposes, such
as filtered water, in exchange for an equivalent in coin or the like, the object of the
invention being to provide means whereby the public can conveniently and quickly
obtain light refreshments in places where it has hitherto been impossible or inconvenient
so to do.
In carrying out my invention, in a suitable stand or frame I mount an apparatus
adapted for delivering the required articles of food.
This apparatus may with advantage be constructed according to the inventions
described in former Letters Patent, videlicet, No. 2033 of 1883, No. 10406 of 1885
and No. 9517 of 1886. In the said frame or stand, or connected therewith, I also
mount a liquid delivering apparatus which is advantageously constructed according to
the invention described in former Letters Patent No. 8403 of 1886, or according to
the inventions described in my Specifications No. 9422 of 1887 and No. 10232 of
1887.
In order to enable my invention to be fully understood I will describe how it may
be carried out by reference to the accompanying drawing, in which,
Figure 1 is a front elevation; and,
Figure 2 a side elevation of a combined apparatus for delivering food and beverages
in exchange for an equivalent in coin or the like.
Figure 3 is a front elevation of the apparatus with the doors removed.
In the drawing, A, A, A represent a stand or frame adapted to contain suitable
automatic apparatus B, B, B for delivering articles of food in exchange for coin; in
practice I have found it advantageous to construct the apparatus for delivering articles
of food according to the arrangements described in the Specifications of my former
Patents above named. In the said frame A I'also mount an automatic liquid delivery
apparatus C, which is also preferably constructed according to the Specifications
of the Patents above named.

page_text: 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 :-
The combination in one frame or stand, of coin freed apparatus for delivering
articles of food, and of coin freed apparatus for delivering liquids for drinking purposes,
substantially as, and for the purposes hereinbefore described and illustrated in the
accompanying drawing.