Improved Apparatus for Use to Obtain Delivery of Fluid in Exchange for Coin.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 18th Aug., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 29th Oct., 1896-Accepted, 23rd Jan., 1897
Improved Apparatus for Use to Obtain Delivery of Fluid in
Exchange for Coin.
I, HARRY CAMPBELL Woodbridge Houso New Swindon, Wiltshire Engineer do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
By, placing a penny in the slot and lowering a lover on the top, it forces a
hinge on to the lever of the syphon or tap thereby opening the valve and allowing
the liquids or gases to syphon or flow.
The holder that fixes and holds in placo the penny is composed of a screw with
slot at the end which turns about one third round, the penny opening the hinge
which closes again when the penny is square. Then when the receptacle is
sufficiently full release the lever on the top and the penny will then fall in a
drawer.
To prevent drawing more than one glass or cup full there is a rod connecting a
shaft at the bottom, which in turn is connected to a sliding arrangement which
prevents another glass or cup being put under the tap until the penny is released.
This invention can be applied to barrels in fact to all kinds of receptacles where
it is intended to distribute liquids or gases by the aid of a penny in the slot.
Ananet 18th 1896
HARRY CAMPBELL.
Improved Apparatus for Use to Obtain Delivery of Fluids in
Exchange for Coin.
I, HARRY CAMPBELL, of Woodbridge House, New Swindon, in the County of
Wilts, 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 improved apparatus for obtaining the delivery of fluids,
in comparatively small quantities, from siphon-bottles or other receptacles in
exchange for coin..
In order that my invention may be properly understood, I will describe an
apparatus constructed in accordance thorowith and represented in the accompanying
drawings, for obtaining the delivery of liquid from a siphon bottle into a glass
or cup.
Figs. 1 and 2 are respectively a front elevation and a vertical section of the
apparatus with a siphon-bottle in position therein, and. Fig. 8 is a plan of the same
with the bottle removed;
Figs. 4 and 5 are elevations, taken at right angles to each other and drawn to

page_text: a larger scale, of the upper part of the apparatus, in its unoperated or norinal state,
and Fig. 6 is a vertical section of the same part in its operated state.
The coin slot or guide 1 of the apparatus, which is mounted on a suitable
support 2, leads to a hinge in the form of a bent arm 3 pivoted at 4 and normally
resting on the lever 5 of the tap of the siphon-bottle 6, the top of which is kept
in position by a spring 7. 8 is a tubular guide containing a fixed nut 9 the thread
of which has a quick pitch. Within the guide 8 there is adapted to work up and
down, as well as to rotate, a spindle 10 (hereinafter referred to as the coin-holder)
provided with a screw thread 11 fitting in the nut 9, with a slotted lower end 12, and
with a cupped head 13. Bearing at one end against the nut 9 and at the other end
against the head 13 is a coiled spring 14, which always tends to keep the coin-
holder 10 in, or to restore it to, the position shown in Figs. 4 and 5. Hinged at 15
and 16 and arranged on opposite sides of the arm 3 are two plates or flaps 17
and 18 respectively provided with checks or thickened parts 17" 18" and which by
means of two pairs of springs 19 and 20 respectively always tend to keep in, or to
return to, the positions shown in Fig. 4. On the head 13 of the coin-holder 10 bears
a projection 21 of a lever 22, which is pivoted at 23 to a projection 24 of the guide 8.
The arrangement is such that when a suitable coin is dropped into the slot or guide 1
it will pass down onto the arm 3 and engage in the slot 12 in the lower end 12 of the
coin-holder 10 and will then rest on the arm and within the holder and between the
two pivoted plates 17 and 18. If now the lever 22 be lowered, it will, acting through.
the coin, force the arm 3 down on the lever 5 of the siphon tap and thereby open the
latter; at the same time, in consequenco of the action of the nut 9 and screw 11, the
end 12 will be rotated through about one third of a revolution and will thereby turn
the coin, as it is being lowered, and consequently turn the plates 17 and 18 on their
hinges 15 and 16 in opposition to the springs 19 and 20 until the coin reaches a
slot 18 in the plate 18, when the plate 18 will close, that is to say will be moved
back to its initial position (see Fig. 4) by its springs 20, the wall 17 being retained in
the position shown in Fig. 6 by the coin, which will still be kept in the position
shown in the last mentioned figure by the friction between it, the arm 3, and the
plate 17 caused by the continued downward pressure on the lover 22. When sufficient
liquid has been delivered, the lever 22 is released, whereupon the holder 10 is restored
to its initial position by the spring 14 and the coin, being now freed, is forced by the
plate 17, operated by its spring 19, off the arm 3 and through the slot 18 in the
plate 18 and drops into a drawer or other receptacle (not shown) suitably placed for
its reception.
To prevent more than one glass or cup-full of liquid from being drawn from the
bottle for a single insertion of a coin, the lever 22 is connected by a rod 25 and
suitable connections such as a lever 2ti pivoted on a pin or shaft 27, and pin and slot
connection 26 to a sliding arrangement comprising a guard 28 arranged to work
vertically in a fixed shell or support 29 and lower guide or cross piece 30 the
arrangeinent being such that when the lover 22 is depressed, the guard 28 is raised by
the free end of the lever 26 in front of the glass or vessel resting on the shelf or
support 29 and below the spout of the bottle so that such glass or vessel cannot be
removed and replaced by a fresh one until the handle 22 has been returned to its
raised and normal position and the coin already inserted in the apparatus has been
discharged from its operative position.
In order to enable the apparatus to. be easily and quickly adjusted to syphon bottles
of different heights, the tray 31 on which the bottle rosts, may, as shown, be supported
by a lever 32 which is pivoted at 32" and is adapted to be raised and lowered as
required by means of a thumb nut 33 on a rod 34 that passes through the cross
piece 30, and on which the nut 38 rests.
It will be obvious that apparatus according to this invention can be applied to
barrels and receptacles of various kinds provided with suitable taps the hinge or bent
arm 3 being arranged to operate such taps for the purpose of obtaining the delivery
from the barrels or receptacles of comparatively small quantities of liquid in exchange
for coin.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said.
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. Apparatus for use to obtain delivery of fluids in exchange for coin, wherein
a coin slot or guide, a hinge or pivoted part, a coin holder that is capable of
simultaneous vertical and rotary movement, and an operating lever are so arranged
in relation to each other and to the lover of a tap for controlling the delivery of
fluid that upon inserting a coin in the slot or guide it will be led over the hinge
or pivotted part and into the coin holder, and upon depressing the lattor by means
of the operating lover, the coin will be forced down so as to depress the hinge or
pivoted part and open the tap, and will be partly rotated into a position from which
it will be caused to fall into a receptacle when the said lever is released, substantially
as described.
2. Apparatus for use to obtain delivery of fluids in exchange for coin constructed,
arranged and operating substantially as hereinbefore described with reference to and
shown in Figs. 4, 5 and 6 of the accompanying drawings.
3. In apparatus of the kind referred to in Claims 1 and 2, means constructed,
arranged, and operating substantially as hereinbefore described with reference to
and shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 3 of the accompanying drawings, for preventing more
than a single glass, cup, or the like from being put into position to receive
fluid from the tap in exchange for a single coin.
1900
W. LLOYD WISE,
Per F. J. Brougham,
46 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C., Agent for the Applicant..