Improvements in or relating to Coin-freed Apparatus.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Aug., 1896-Accepted, 28th Sept., 1896
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Coin-freed Apparatus.
I, JOHANNES MARTIN BACHMANN of 17 I Pyillingplatz, Dresden-Löbtau,
Saxony Merchant do hereby declare the nature of my said invention and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement :-
My invention relates to that class of apparatus for which Letters Patent
No. 16099 dated 27th August 1895 were granted to me, and consiste in improve-
ments in the method of and means nud appliances for ejecting the articles from the
chain of receptacles forming part of the apparatus.
According to my present invention I fix the receptacles to the chain and cause
the articles in such recoptacles to be ejected therefrom by mechanism herein after
described whereas in the Specifications of my said former Letters Patent No. 16099
of 1895 the receptacles were described as being hinged to the chain so that they
were capable of being tilted thereby allowing the article to slide out.
And in order that my said invention may be particularly described and
ascertained, reference is hereby made to the accompanying drawings in which similar
letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.
Fig. 1 is a sectional side view,
Fig. 2 is a front elevation, and
Figs. 3 and 4 are plan views of so much of the mechanism as is necessary to
enable the same to be properly understood.
a is the upper chain wheel of the mechanism described in No. 16099 of 1895.
6 is the chain carrying receptacle c fixed thereto. d is a friction roller for
supporting the receptacles whilst being omptied. The ejecting mechanism is
operated from a shaft e carrying a bevel wheel gearing with other bevel wheels as
described in No. 16099 of 1895. The shaft carries a crank provided with a
connecting rod g and slide sliding upon a guide i fixed to the frame, to which,
also, a rest or guide is attached. I is a wire or the like secured to the alido h and
bent to a shape so that the end of the wire acts as an ejector and pushes the
article m out of the receptacle c as shown in Figs. 3 and 4 which figures also show
the notione of the ojcotor mechanism, the arrows indicating the directions of the
movement.
The pivot or pinn of the connecting rod and slide is also utilised to communicate
motion to the moving figure in the stage case above.
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 :-
1. The improved mechanism for coin-freed apparatus, substantially as described.
2. In coin-freed apparatus of the description aforesaid, the combination there-
with of a crank, connecting rod g, slide h, ejector 1, and chain of receptacles o
operating substantially as herein before described and illustrated by the drawings.
3. In coin-freed apparatus of the description aforesaid, the application and use
of the ejecting or discharging mechanism acting upon articles contained in

page_text: receptacles fixed to the links of a chain, the receptacles being supported by a
friction roller, operating in the manner substantially as and for the purposes
described and illustrated by the drawings.
Dated 20th August. 1896.
GEO.
DOWNING,
8 Quality Court, London, W.C., Agent.