Improvements in or relating to Coin-freed Mechanism and Machines for giving Electric Shocks.
Year: 1897

page_text: Improvements in or relating to Coin-freed Mechanism and Machines
for giving Electric Shocks.
I, FREDERICK ASHBURNER, 20, Church Street, Barrow-in-Furness, Gentleman, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
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This invention consists of improvements in or relating to coin-freed mechanism
and machines for giving electric shocks.
The first part of my invention relates to the coin-freed mechanism in which a
tilting or pivotted lever is employed which carries a catch or pawl so arranged
that upon the lever being depressed at one end through the weight of a coin fall-
ing upon the end of same the pawl prevents the lever returning to its initial position
until the pawl has operated a ratchet wheel, the rate of movement of which is
controlled by means of a palate escapement. The other end of the tilting or
pivotted lever carries a spring contact piece, the circuit being so arranged that for
a certain period of time the same is completed owing to the flexibility or spring
of the palate escapement, the lever being so weighted as to cause it to tend to return
to its initial position. When the lever is in its depressed position the end which
receives the coin is so arranged as to allow same to fall into a suitable receptacle.
The second part of my invention relates to the handles for receiving the shock
and which are grasped by the recipient and are so arranged as to slide in the
casing by which means the strength of the current received may be regulated
through the medium of a movable core or shield covering the core of an induction
coil, said core or shield being connected to the handles. A suitable casing is pro-
vided from which the handles protrude the required distance.
Dated this 10th day of June 1897.
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COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Coin-freed Mechanism and Machines
for giving Electric Shocks.
I, FREDERICK ASUBURNER, 20, Church Street, Barrow-in-Furness. Gentleman, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to
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page_text: be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the follow-
ing statement:-
This invention consists of improvements in or relating to coin-freed mechanismr
and machines for giving electric shucks.
The first part of my invention relates to the coin-freed mechanism in which a
tilting or pivoted lever is employed which carries a catch or pawl so arranged
that upon the lever being depressed at one end through the weight of a coin fall-
ing upon the end of saime the pawl prevents the lever returning to its initial
position until the pawl has operated a ratchet wheel, the rate of movement of
which is controlled by means of a palate escapement. The other end of the till-
ing or pivoted lever carries n spring contact piece, the circuit being so arranged
that for a certain period of time the same is completed owing to the flexibility of
the spring and the operation of the palate escapement, the lever being so weighted
as to cause it to tend to return to its initial position. When the lever is in its
depressed position the end which receives the coin is so arranged as to allow same
to fall into a suitable receptacle.
The second part of my invention relates to the handles for receiving the shock
and which are grasped by the recipient and are so arranged as to slide in the
casing by which means the strength of the current received may be regulated
through the medium of a movable core or shield covering the core of an induction
coil, said core or shield being connected to the handles. A suitable casing is pro-
vided from which the handles protrude the required distance.
Referring to the annexed drawings,
Figure 1, is a side elevation showing my invention.
Figure 2, front elevation of same.
a is a lever pivoted at and having a receiver c for the reception of a coin
which passes through a shoot d. is a counterpoise upon the end of the lever a.
being a flexible contact piece for the purpose of engaging upon the flexible con-
tact piece n carried at '. m is a pawl or spring catch piece attached to the lever a
which engages upon the lever in the lower position in the tooth of the wheel &
and after the coin has passed from the receiver the counterpoise tends to bring
the lever into its initial position and this causes the pallate wheel to rotate through
the medium of the gear wheels i and j. the movement of this pallate wheel being
regulated by the pallate escapement piece f. When the lever is in its dotted
position as shown in Figure 1, the electric circuit from the battery is closed
through the wires r. lever a, wire s. through the primary wire of the induction
coil and thence through the wire te to the battery . This of course induces a
secondary current in the wires which is conveyed to the two metallic handles u.
These handles are attached to a movable core 2 or a brass cover or shield and by
operating the handle the core may be inserted into the coil or the cover with-
drawn from the core for the purpose of varying the strength of the current or
shock. It will be seen that when the lever a is moved to the position shewn by
the dotted lines in Figures 1 and 2 by the insertion of a coin, a shock of certain
duration will be obtainable owing to the period of time which the lever takes in
returning to its initial position, such time being regulated by the pallet escape-
ment.
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. In coin-freed mechanism of the class herein described: the combined con-
struction and arrangement of the various parts.
2. In coin-freed mechanism of the class herein described: a pivoted lever so
arranged as to close an electric circuit for a certain period of time by the action
or weight of a coin, upon same said period of time being regulated by means of a
pallate escapement operated by said lever when returning to its initial position;

page_text: the lever being so weighted as to tend to return to its initial position after the
action of the operating coin has ceased; said electric circuit being employed for
the purpose of giving shocks through the medium of an induction coil; said electric
shocks being conveyed to the subject by means of handles which may be movable
for the purpose of adjusting or regulating the strength of the current.
Dated this 10th day of March 1898.