Improvements in Coin Operating or Automatic Machines.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 17th Oct., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 16th Aug., 1892-Accepted, 1st Oct., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Coin Operating or Automatic Machines.
I, CORNELIS FREDERIK ALEXANDER ROELL of The Lyric Club Leicester
Square in the County of Middlesex a Jonkheer of the Kingdom of Holland do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The invention relates to improvements in coin operating or automatic machines
and has for its object to provide an efficient means of constantly raising a column of
goods into a convenient position for delivery as the column is diminished by the
delivery of the articles.
In automatic machines in which the goods are stored in a column below a
delivery table and raised by means of a lift, various devices for raising the lift have
been proposed, but they are all more or less defective and throw too much work
upon the operator or are liable to become disarranged, and furthermore most of
them are so arranged that the lifting force is equal throughout the traverse of the
lift, and when the goods are nearly exhausted an extreme pressure is thus put.
upon the packet immediately beneath the delivery table but according to my
invention to a great,extent obviate this difficulty.
For this purpose I employ a lift upon which the goods are piled in a column as
heretofore proposed, and I suspend this lift by means of chains passing over guide
pulleys at the upper part of the goods reservoir and descending to and passing
around a spring drum the spring of which is adapted to be wound up or compressed
by drawing down the lift in readiness to charge the reservoir with packages.
By this arrangement I am enabled to raise the column of packages without
throwing any work upon the operator or purchaser of a package, whilst at the same
time the lifting force exerted by the spring is greatest when the reservoir is fully
charged and gradually lessens as the goods are delivered.
Dated this 17th day of October 1891.
WHITE & WOODINGTON,
27, Southampton Buildings, London, Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Coin Operating or Automatic Machines.
I, CORNELIS FREDERIK ALEXANDER RÖELL of The Lyric Club, Leicester
Square in the County of Middlesex, a Jonkheer of the Kingdom of Holland, 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 invention relates to improvements in coin operating or automatic machines
and has for its object to provide an efficient means of constantly raising a column
of goods into a convenient position for delivery as the column is diminished by the
delivery of the articles.
In automatic machines in which the goods are stored in a column below a
delivery table, and raised by means of a lift, various devices for raising the lift, have
been proposed, but they are all more or less defective, and throw too much work upon
the operator or are liable to become disarranged, and furthermore most of them are so
arranged that the lifting force is equal throughout the traverse of the lift and
when the goods are nearly exhausted an extreme pressure is thus put upon the
packet immediately beneath the delivery table, but according to my present
invention, I to a great extent obviate this difficulty.
For this purpose I employ a lift upon which the goods are piled in a column as
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page_text: heretofore proposed, and I suspend this lift by means of chains passing over guide
pulleys at the upper part of the goods reservoir and descending to and passing
around a spring drum, the spring of which is adapted to be wound up or compressed
by drawing down the lift in readiness to change the reservoir with packages as will
be readily understood.
By this arrangement I am enabled to raise the column of packages without
throwing any work upon the operator or purchaser of a package whilst at the same
time the lifting force exerted by the spring is greatest when the reservoir is fully
charged, and gradually lessens as the goods are delivered.
And in order that the said inventions may be more clearly understood and readily
carried into effect, I will proceed aided by the accompanying drawings more fully
to describe the same.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 is a vertical longitudinal section of a portion of a coin operating or
automatic delivery machine constructed according to my invention and
Figure 2 is a vertical transverse section thereof.
a represents the case of the machine a represents the delivery orifice, and
represents the delivery platform against the under side of which the goods are
raised as hereinafter described and e represents a lift upon which the packages of
goods are piled in a coluinn within a reservoir e, and by the aid of which they
are raised as heretofore proposed.
The lift c is provided with lateral projections c¹ which pass through long vertical
slots or openings formed in the sides of the reservoir e and have connected thereto
the upper ends of chains d' which pass over guide pulleys d* carried by brackets b*
from the under side of the delivery platform b.
The chains thence descend and are attached by their lower ends to a drum d
furnished with spirally arranged flanges to guide and separate the several
convolutions of the chains d' when they are taken up by the spring drum d as will
be readily understood.
The drum d is mounted with capability of revolution upon a fixed shaft d* and it
is furnished with an ordinary clock spring done end of which is attached to the
drum d and the other end to an enlargement of the fixed shaft d by means of
screws (2*
In order to charge the reservoir e with packages the lift c must be drawn down
or lowered to the bottom thereof by hand thereby drawing off the chains d¹ from
the drum d and compressing the spring d³.
By this arrangement of parts the column of packages is raised without throwing
any work upon the operator or purchaser of a package whilst at the same time the
lifting force exerted by the spring is greatest when the reservoir is fully charged
and gradually lessens as the goods are delivered.
I have not shown or described the delivery mechanism for ejecting the packages
of goods through the delivery orifice a' as that forms no part of my present
invention and any well known means will answer the purpose.
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 :-
In a coin operating or automatic delivery machine the combination of a lift for
the column of packages, a spring drum, and chains or the like passing over guide
pulleys and at one end attached to the lift and at the other end attached to the
drum substantially as herein shown and described and for the purpose stated.
Deted this 16th dex of August 1800
WHITE & WOODINGTON,
27, Southampton Buildings, London, Agents.