Improvements in Coin-freed Apparatus having Refrigerating Arrangements.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 1st Feb., 1899
Complete Specification Left, 1st Nov., 1899-Accepted, 16th Dec., 1899
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Coin-freed Apparatus having Refrigerating
Arrangements.
JOHN CHARLES RUSSELL, 95, Abbey Road, St. John's Wood, London, N.W.,
Engineer, GEORGE EDWARD ANDERSON, 9, Roseberry Square, Roseberry Avenue,
London, E.C., Pattern Maker, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to
be as follows:-
Our invention has relation to automatic coin freed machines and the principle
of same is to render imperative the making of two movements push and pull or
pull and push before the article can be obtained an improvement upon coin freed
machines in as much the second movement has hitherto not been imperative the
article being obtainable by the first movement. It has more especial reference to
coin freed refrigerating machines in which the closing of the opening from whence
the article is delivered is necessary to ensure that part of the machine in which
storage made being impermeable to influencing air and has particular reference
to Patent 47797 in which a spring has to be employed to ensure the return of the
push. By the method following we dispense with the tension of the spring
effecting the same result.
The door a is pushed forward by a connection at a¹ bringing opening 6 over
frame c.
The article being delivered through opening in door it falling upon
plate d and remaining thereon until the door is pulled forward when the article
which has been resting thereon is pulled off by inside of frame work being
delivered through opening in floor of machine lettered e.
1000
JOHN CHARLES RUSSELL,
GEORGE EDWARD ANDERSON.
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COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Coin-freed Apparatus having Refrigerating
Arrangements.
We, JOHN CHARLES RUSSELL, of 95, Abbey Road, St. John's Wood, London,
N.W., Engineer, and GEORGE EDWARD ANDERSON, of 9, Rosebery Square, Rosebery
Avenue. London, E.C., Pattern Maker, do hereby declare the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following statement ;-
Our invention has reference to improvements in connection with automatic coin
freed delivery machines and apparatus, the object being to provide a double

page_text: delivery action and to give a complete in and out movement to the delivery
drawer in order that the drawer shall be always in its closed or unexposed posi-
tion when not in actual operation in delivering goods to the person inserting
the coin.
Our invention is particularly applicable to coin freed refrigerating machines in
which the closing of the opening from whence the article is delivered is necessary
to ensure that the part of the machine in which storage is made shall be imper-
meable to air, and is advantageously employed in connection with machines con-
structed in accordance with Patent No. 477, 1897, wherein a spring is required
to be employed for ensuring the return of the push. By the present invention we
dispense with the spring by the positive movement of the operator's hand.
in the accompanying sheet of explanatory drawings
Figure 1 is a sectional elevation of our improved arrangement of delivery
mechanism, showing the drawer in its inner position and,
Figure 2 is a similar view showing the drawer in its outer position.
We provide upon the drawer A projecting pusher bar or ejecting plate B
which removes one of the articles or packages from the column or storage
chamber and causes it to be brought immediately above the opening D in the
casing of the machine. The opening D in the casing is exposed by the travelling
forward of the drawer plate A which is provided with a similar open space E,
so that when the drawer is in the outer position as shown in Figure 2 the packet
removed by the pusher is tans through the coincident openings D, E, on to the
delivery suelt which is secured to the moving drawer.
Upon the return or backward movement of the drawer the package on the
sher as shown in Figure 2 is dislodged from the shelf by the stationary bar G
and then falls down the delivery trougn or chute i for withdrawal therefrom by
the person operating the coin actuated drawer.
We modity the form of delivery plate and the arrangement of the ejecting bar
and its disposition in the trame to suit the type of machine to which it is to be
applied, and the size and character of article or packages to be obtained from the
machine.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is-
1. In coin freed delivery machines, a travelling drawer or the like which with-
draws the article from the storage column and transfers it on to a shelf or plate
during one portion of its stroke, for delivery from such shelf or plate during the
return or backward portion of the stroke or the drawer, substantially as herein-
before described.
2. In coin freed delivery machines the combination and arrangement of a slid-
ing drawer provided with a pushing bar for removing an article from a storage
column within the machine, with a lower shelf or plate for receiving such with-
drawn article through openings formed in the upper member of the drawer slide
and in the frame of the machine, and an ejecting bar for removing the deposited
article from the shelf to the outer delivery trough or chute upon the machine,
substantially as and for the purposes hereinbefore described and as illustrated in
the accompanying drawings."
MARKS & CLERK,
18, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C.,
13, Temple Street, Birmingham, and 25, Cross Street, Manchester,
Agents.