Improvements in Apparatus for Automatically Delivering Goods in Exchange for Coin.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 7th May, 1888
Complete Specification Left, 7th Mar.. 1889
Complete Specification Accepted, 13th Apr., 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Automatically Delivering Goods in
Exchange for Coin.
I, GEORGE ANDREW MACBETH of 8 College Land St. Mary's Street Manchester
Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to apparatus for the delivery of goods in exchange for coin ;
and it consists broadly in the combination of coin-actuated delivery apparatus with
travelling wheels or a wheeled carriage whereby the transport of the apparatus from
place to place is facilitated without interfering with the operation of vending the
goods contained therein as the apparatus can be used by the public for the purchase
of the goods when travelling or the wheels or carriage can be detached therefrom and
the apparatus left stationary in any desired position for working.
Dated this 7th day of May 1888.
G. A. MACBETH.
By A. M. & Wm. Clark,
53, Chancery Lane, London,
Patent Agents.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Automatically Delivering Goods in
Exchange for Coin.
I, GEORGE ANDREW MACBETH, of 8, College Land, St. Mary's Street, Manchester,
Manufacturer, 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 apparatus for the delivery of goods in exchange for coin;
and it consists broadly in the combination of coin-actuated delivery apparatus with
travelling wheels or a wheeled carriage whereby the transport of the apparatus from
place to place is facilitated without interfering with the operation of vending the
goods contained therein as the apparatus can be used by the public for the purchase
of the goods when travelling or can be temporarily deposited on the ground or the
wheels may be entirely detached and the apparatus left stationary in any desired
position for working.
Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawing forming part of this specifi-
cation, which illustrates the apparatus as mounted on wheels and in position for
transport. The automatic vending apparatus shewn is that kind of variety apparatus
for which have obtained former Letters Patent dated the 22nd day of September
1886, No. 12079, whereby any one of the large variety of goods at the selection of
the purchaser can be delivered in exchange for coin, the vending operation of the
machine being independent of the wheels and being performed with equal facility
whether the machine be supported by the wheels or standing directly on the ground.
The internal construction of the machine being precisely similar to that described in
my former patent it is unnecessary to repeat it here.
The vending apparatus is supported by side gudgeons at a carried by a pair of
upright rods bb fixed one to each side of the apparatus hung by the gudgeons at their
upper ends at a suitable distance above the centre of gravity of the apparatus from
suitably braced side frames c. These frames c carry the axles of the wheels and are
connected to a horizontal forked frame d uniting the side frames at the back and
terminating in a handle e by which the apparatus may be pushed or drawn along,
the vending apparatus being so balanced as to hang in an upright position when
supported by its wheels. The frame d is provided with one or more struts or legs at f
adapted to rest on the ground and keep the handle horizontal. By supporting the
apparatus from pendent pivoted side rods in the manner described, it may be lowered
until its base rests directly upon the ground by merely raising the handle e, the
connections at points a or c being such that the carriage may be wholly detached
from the machine when it is desired to leave it standing in one position for any
considerable length of time. It is obvious that other designs of carriage may be used
to attain this end.

page_text: 1 would observe that I do not limit myself to the construction of automatic vending
machine described in my former patent, but that any multiple or variety machine may
be similarly mounted and transported from place to place.
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:
An automatic vending machine mounted on travelling wheels for transport from
place to place, as described.