The Combination of a Phonograph with Coin-freed Apparatus for Indicating the Results of Operation and for other Purposes.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 10th Aug., 1887
Complete Specification Left, 10th May, 1888
Complete Specification Accepted, 10th Aug., 1888
The Combination of a Phonograph with Coin-freed Apparatus for
Indicating the Results of Operation and for other Purposes.
We, WILLIAM SPEIRS SIMPSON, of 49 Battersea Park Road, Surrey, and WILLIAM
SAMUEL OLIVER, of Albert House, Canonbury, Middlesex, Engineers do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of this invention is to arrange in connection with a coin receiving
apparatus, whether for weighing, delivering articles, giving shocks, or other uses for
which coin receivers are adapted, a sound reproducer from which Phonograms, or
Phonographic sounds either continuous, intermittent, or otherwise, and of any degree
or volume may or can be produced after the insertion of a coin of say, a predetermined
size, the phonographic sounds serving in lieu of dials or indicators to give the result
of the operation of the machine or apparatus, or to give out audible advertisements
and for similar purposes.
The invention may be carried into practice by turning a handle, by drawing out a
bolt, by the pushing in of bolt, or by the addition of a bodily weight, or the release
of a lever, or a paul, whereby the drum or drums on which is the Phonogram is made
to revolve, the Phonet or funnel mouth being thereby opened, the Phonograms
coming into proper position to diaphragm, thereby causing the sounds to proceed
from Phonet or funnel in the same manner as is generally the case with the
reproduction of sound from the Phonograph.
The same application may be facilitated by the use of an electrical battery whereby
the insertion of a coin or its equivalent may make or break contact; the whole
mechanism thereby may be brought into play so that by the addition of a weight,
same, the aforesaid
or the turning of a handle, or drawing of a bolt, or pushing in of
sounds as arranged will be reproduced.
The same arrangement of mechanism may be actuated by a series of springs or
clockwork.

page_text: We may use the compression of air into chamber to give intensity to sounds,
proceeding through the Phonet or Funnel mouth, and at the same time, if desired,
set into action the aforesaid mechanical arrangements for the working thereof upon
the insertion of a coin or its equivalent.
The device to gain such ends are preferably of the reproducing instrument known
as the Phonograph and the sounds may be either continuous or intermittent and may
be produced by either the insertion or release of a coin or its equivalent or produced
by the turning of a. handle, or the addition of a weight, acted upon and so arranged
that by the drum revolving, or disc so arranged in connection with mechanical
arrangement of slits, tubes or other openings and closing of same as desired, sound or
sounds may be automatically produced and repeated time after time, either intermittent
or continuous or a continuous series of different sounds may be produced and
continued.
The sheets or rolls of Phonographic sounds are preferably electroed or hardened
in such a manner as may be, deemed best to render them capable of continued use
without imparing their quality.
The release of the bodily weight or the springing back into original position of
handle or bolt also thereby causing the drum or drums to revolve back into the same
position and place; as before the insertion of the coin or its equivalent.
Dated this 10th day of Anomat 1887
H. GARDNER,
166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said W. S. Simpson
and W. S. Oliver.

page_text: Indicating the Results of Operation and for other Purposes.
We,
WILLIAM SPEIRS SIMPSON, of 49 Battersea Park Road, Surrey, and WILLIAM
SAMUEL OLIVER, of Albert House, Canonbury, Middlesex, Engineers, 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 this invention is to arrange in connection with a coin receiving
apparatus, whether for weighing, giving shocks, or other uses for which coin receivers
are adapted, a sound reproducer, from which Phonograms, or Phonographic sounds
either continuous, intermittent, or otherwise, and of any degree or volume may or can
be produced after the insertion of a coin of say, a predetermined size, the phono-
graphic sounds serving in lieu of dials or indicators to give the result of the operation
of the machine or apparatus, or to give out audible advertisements, and for similar
purposes.
The invention may be carried into practice by turning a handle, by drawing out a
bolt, by the pushing in of bolt, or by the addition of a bodily weight, or the release of.
a lever, or a paul, whereby the drum or drums on which is the Phonogram, is made
to revolve, the Phonet or funnel mouth being thereby opened, the Phonograms
coming into proper position to diaphragm, thereby causing the sounds to proceed
from Phonet or funnel in the same manner as is generally the case with the repro-
duction of sound from the Phonograph.
The same application may be facilitated by the use of an electrical battery whereby
the insertion of a coin or its equivalent may make or break contact; the whole
mechanism thereby may be brought into play, so that by the addition of a weight, or
the turning of a handle, or drawing of a bolt, or pushing in of same, the aforesaid
sounds as arranged will be reproduced. The same arrangement of mechanism may
be actuated by a series of springs or clockwork.
We may use the compression of air into a chamber to give intensity to sounds,
produced through the Phonet or funnel mouth, and at the same time, if desired, set
into action the aforesaid mechanical arrangements for the working thereof upon the
insertion of a coin or its equivalent.
The device to gain such ends are preferably of the reproducing instrument known
as the Phonograph and the sounds may be either continuous or intermittent and may
be produced by either the insertion or release of a coin or its equivalent or produced

page_text: by the turning of a handle, or the addition of a weight acted upon and so arranged
that by the drum revolving, or disc so arranged in connection with mechanical
arrangement of slits, tubes, or other openings and closing of same as desired, sound or
sounds may be automatically produced and repeated time after time, either inter-
mittent or continuous, or a continuous series of different sounds may be produced and
continued.
The sheets or rolls of Phonographic sounds are preferably electroed or hardened in
such a manner as may be deemed best to render them capable of continued use without
impairing their quality.
The release of the bodily weight or the springing back into original position of
handle or bolt also thereby causing the drum or drums to revolve back into the same
position and place, as before the insertion of the coin or its equivalent.
In the annexed drawings we show two examples of apparatus by which our inven-
tion can be carried into practice.
According to Figure 1 (part sectional elevation) A is the Phonograph drum and
B the Phonet or funnel, the inner face of which has the diaphragm and needle point
for reproducing the sound from the rotation of the drum A when the handle Cand
rod D are pulled out, or when they are pushed in, the rod I) being otherwise held
rigid by the catch E when the coin receiver F has no coin in it, but so soon as a coin,
say a penny, is inserted into the slit G the coin falls to the bottom of the receiver
and rests upon the plate H and also lodges in contact with both the front and back
edge plates 1. J. (both of which are conductors) electric circuit is completed and by.
the electro magnet K the armature E (catch) is withdrawn from the rod D.
As the rod D is pulled outwards its lug Ĺ strikes against and tilts the plate H to
allow the coin to fall into a receptacle and as the rod Ď moves its rack M causes the
pinion N and drum A to revolve and thus produce the sound through the phonet or
funnel, B.
We prefer to actuate the drum A while the rod is moving in one direction only,
this being determined by the arrangement of the paul a.
bis a stop to regulate the outpull of the rod D.
Figures 2 and 3 are views of an arrangement in which the drum A is made to move
in a lateral direction upon depressing the scale plate Q by a person standing thereon,
the distance the drum A will travel being determined by the weight of such person.
Upon the person moving off the platform Q, the drum A moves back to its normal
position, but in doing so the drum A is caused to revolve and thus produces the sound
in the phonet or funnel B which has been electroed upon the drum A at the particular
part over which the needle of the reproducer travels. We accomplish this in the
following manner. The platform Q is connected to a steelyard balanced spring or
other weighing device in the usual manner and also to the rack M to which is attached
the small supplementary rack M¹ by the spindle m the rack M gears with a pinion P
upon the spindle P¹ imparting motion to the pinion P2 gearing into the rack which
forms part of the bracket P³ carrying the drum A. From the foregoing, it will be
evident that upon a person weighing say 10 stone standing upon the platform Q the
rack M and pinions P P will cause the drum A to move in a lateral direction only,
until the needle point b, which travels in a slot, is opposite the part of drum, on which
is electroed the sound "Ten stone," upon the person stepping off the platform the
rack M and pinion P, P will cause the drum A to move back into its normal position
at the same time the rack M¹ wheel N and ratchet and paul a will cause the drum A
to revolve and reproduce the sound "Ten stone" in the phonet or funnel B as being
the weight of the person.
The drum A is rotated in one direction only and is so arranged that it moves through
one revolution only whatever the weight applied, but longitudinally it moves a distance
proportionate to the weight applied.
The coin receiving and freeing appliances shown at Figure 1 may be adapted to
the machine shown at Figures 2 and 3 or any known or other arrangement of ooin
receiver-mechanism can be fitted.

page_text: 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. The employment of a Phonograph in combination with a coin receiver apparatus
for the object described.
2. The particular arrangements of mechanism shown at Figures 1, 2 and 3, of the
annexed drawings in or by which sounds can be reproduced and the results of
the operation of the apparatus be indicated, as set forth.