Improvements in and relating to Coin Receiving Game and Coin-freed Delivery Apparatus
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd Dec., 1898
Complete Specification Left, 23rd Oot., 1899-Accepted, 2nd Dec., 1899
Improvements in and relating to Coin Receiving Game and Coin-freed
Delivery Apparatus.
I, DONALD ROBERTSON, of 8, Templeton Place, Earl's Court, in the County
of London, Watchmaker, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:-
This invention relates to coin game apparatus of the kind in which a coin
inserted into the apparatus can be projected into suitable receptacles by mechanism
operated from outside the case enclosing the apparatus
In such apparatus as heretofore constructed the coin has been projected either
by the recoil of a spring acting on a lever one end of which is outside the case,
or by means of a shaft 1otatable by a handle outside the case, and one object
of my invention is to provide projecting mechanism which, while being thoroughly
efficient for its purpose, 18 cheaper to construct, and simple in form and therefore
less liable to get out of order, than similar mechanism as hitherto made
further object of my invention is to combine with the coin game apparatus coin-
feed delivery mechanism so aanged that an article is always delivered in
exchange for a coin there being no coins lost to the operator as is the case with
existing apparatus of this character
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The apparatus comprises an outer case having a coin slit and shoot of the
ordinary kind down which latter the coin drops into a cylinder having a piston
therein to which is attached a rod whose other end protiudes outside the case
A blow on the protruding end of the piston 1od projects the com and causes it to
pass through an aperture or oufice to release com-treed mechanism and deliver
an article or a token exchangeable for an article of given value, or if it musses
the aperture aforesaid it falls into a shoot which conducts to a second com-feed
delivery mechanism which the com releases and delivers an article or token
exchangeable for an article of less value than in the fist case.
Dated this 23rd day of December 1898
36, Chancery Lane, London, WC, Patent Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION
0 Improvements in and relating to Coin Receiving Game and Coin-freed
Delivery Apparatus.
I, DONALD ROBERTSON, of 8, Templeton Place, Earl's Count, in the County
of London, Watchmaker, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in
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page_text: what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement.—
This invention relates to coin game apparatus of the kind in which an inserted
coin can be projected into suitable receptacles by mechanism operated from
outside the case enclosing the apparatus.
In such apparatus as heretofore constructed the coin has been projected either
by the recoil of a spring acting on a lever one end of which 18 outside the case,
or by means of a shaft rotatable by a handle outside the case, and one object of
my invention is to provide projecting mechanism which, while being thoroughly
efficient for its purpose, is cheaper to construct, and simpler in form and therefore
less liable to get out of oidei, than similar mechanism as hitherto made A
further object of my invention is to combine, with the coin game apparatus, coin-
freed delivery mechanism so aanged that an article is always delivered in
exchange for a coin there being no coins lost to the operator as is the case with
existing apparatus of this character
In the accompanying drawings, Fig 1 is a partly sectional front elevation
of apparatus constructed according to my invention with the front of the case
partly broken away, and Fig 2 is a sectional elevation of the apparatus the
section being taken on the line 2-2 of Fig 1 The same parts are lettered
to correspond in both figures.
The apparatus comprises an outer case A having a coin slit B and a coin
shoot C of the ordinair kind, down which latter the coin slides and drops into
the interior of a cylinder 1 through the slit or aperture therein. In this
cylinder is fitted a plunger or piston E to which is attached a rod whose other
end protrudes outside the case A and is fitted with an operative handle or knob f
In the lawings the cylinder D 18 shown in the form of a cannon pivotted to a
link G whose other end is pivotted to a fixed block H in the interior of the case A
so that the angle of the cylinder or cannon is capable of slight adjustment
vertically or horizontally at the will of the operator The cylinder or cannon D
is weighted so that when released it takes the position shown in the diawings
ready to receive a coin falling down the shoot C The adjustment is effected by
the movement of the rod F, the aperture a in the side of the case, through which
said rod passes, being made sufficiently large to allow of the requisite adjustment.
J, J, aie blocks, fixed transversely in the interior of the case, and acting as
baffles to prevent the projected coin from passing them if it should stike against
any one of them in its flight K is a vertical partition and any coins projected
so as to fall short or to strike this partition will fall on to an inclined way L, L'
whence they will be discharged into a tray K' situated outside the front A¹ of the
case They can then be again used by the operator or not at his option M is
a shoot in which 18 a disc N on the end of a lever N¹ whose other end acts as a
gravity catch to a slide O having a handle O outside the case, and as will be
understood, the weight of a coin falling into the shoot M will raise the gravity
catch on the lever and thus release the delivery mechanism. In the drawings
the apparatus is shown fitted for allowing the low ermost of a number of tokens of
fixed value to be withdrawn from the tube P by the slide by a pull on the
handle when the catch lever N 16 ieleased from the slide But any other
suitable arrangement of coin-fieed delivery mechanism may be employed which
18 operated by the weight of the coin, and goods may be delivered instead of
tokens af so desired Nis a second shoot leading a coin falling thereinto to a
second aangement of con-feed delivery mechanism of the same character
as that already described for delivery tokens or goods of less value than in the
first case A multiplicity of such shoots and coin-freed delivery mechanism
may be fitted in the apparatus if so desued and each adapted to deliver tokens or
articles of a different value to the others
A simple blow on the end of the 1od F is sufficient to project the coin and
cause it to fall into one or other of the shoots M M efe, or on to the inclined
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page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manne: the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is -
(1) A com receiving game and coin-fieed delivery apparatus comprising an
outei case having a coin slit and coin shoot, a cylinder situated beneath the coin
shoot and having an aperture therein to admit the coin, a plunger or piston
in said evlinder, a rod connected to said plunger or piston, said rod passing through
an aperture in the outer case and fitted with an operative handle or knob whereby
the coin may be projected from the cylinder, and means for leading the projected
coin to coin-fieed deliver mechanism or for discharging it outside the case,
substantially as and for the purpose herein before described
(2). In coin-freed game apparatus projecting mechanism consisting of a
cylinder having an aperture therein to admit the com and a piston inside said
cylinder and reciprocated therein by a rod whose operative end is situated outside
the case containing the apparatus, substantially as and for the purpose herein-
before described
(3) Coin receiving game and coin-fieed delivery apparatus arranged to operate
substantially in the manner and for the purpose herembefore described and
illustrated in the accompanying drawings
BROT 1000 10 AND DIC un ban
FW GOLBY,
Patent Agent,
36, Chancery Lane, London, WC, Agent for the Applicant