Improvements in Cash or Parcel Carrying Apparatus.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 29th Nov., 1892-Accepted, 11th Mar., 1893
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Cash or Parcel Carrying Apparatus.
We NOAH DILLENBECK and NORMAN ELFORD DILLENBECK both of
Syracuse Savings Bank Building Syracuse in the County of Onondaga New York
Inventors do hereby declare the nature of our said invention and in what manner the
same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement :-
Our invention relates to cash or parcel carriers, and particularly to the
mechanisms for propelling the carrier from one station to another, along a stationary
wire.
Our object is to provide a carrier propelling mechanism, embodying no springs
whatever, or not dependent upon them, and in which a weighted and eccentrically
pivoted wheel is the actual propelling force, and this force is exerted through arms
connected to the rim of the wheel and to a slide upon the wire, wherever said wheel
is released to rotate upon its pivotal arbor.
Our invention consists in the several novel features of construction and operation
hereinafter described and which are specifically set forth in the claims hereto
annexed.
It is constructed as follows, reference being had to the accompanying drawings,
in which
Fig. 1, is a front elevation of one propelling mechanism.
Fig. 2, is a top plan of the carrier, the slide, and its support, part of the pro-
pelling arm and the wire.
Fig. 3, is a side elevation of the carriage and slide, and the catch detachably
connecting them, and part of the propelling arm connected to the slide, all upon an
enlarged scale, and dotted lines showing the positions of the arm and catch when
the arm is extended and the catch unhooked.
A, is the carrier wire, properly suspended, and a is the carrier mounted upon the
wire, and comprising a wheeled carriage, and a change receiver connected thereto,
all of ordinary construction. A parcel carrier can also be connected to a suitable
carriage mounted upon said wire."
A. spring lever b is secured to the ceiling b¹, and braced so that it serves as a
hanger, in which the arbor of the wheel c¹ is journaled, said wheel being eccentric
to its arbor, and being also weighted on one side, as at d, in any ordinary manner;
it being shown as weighted by a filling between part of its spokes.
A stud e is secured to the rim of the wheel, to which one end of the section of
the propelling arm h is pivotally connected, said sections being also hinged or
flexibly connected together, and the lower end of said arm is pivotally connected
to a slide k which is mounted upon the parallel wire sides of a frame m, suspended
by hangers n from the ceiling, the front end of said slide being adapted to engage
with the carrier.
A catch is secured to the lower end of the arm and is adapted to hook over
the end of the carrier frame, and hold the carrier in position for use.
A pins through the lever b, engages with a spoke of the wheel to hold it in its
normal position, as shown; and by springing the lever outward, the wheel is
released, and rotates upon its arbor, and this forces the arm forward, which propels
the slide and carrier until the wheel, arm and slide assume the position shown by
the dotted lines.
As the lower section moves, changing the angle of its bearing upon the slide,
the catch is raised by the stud on the lever h, out of engagement with the carrier
until when the slide strikes the hanger, it is released and is propelled with great
velocity over the wire to the central, or cashier's station.

page_text: A like mechanism enables the cashier to return the carrier to the station from
which it was sent.
A cord t connected to said arm and passing over a pulley, enables the operator
to draw the arm and wheel back to their normal position.
We are aware that cash carrier mechanisms have heretofore been patented, in
which the propelling arm was secured directly to the driving shaft which was
rotated by the rotation of a pulley secured to said shaft, and said arm was actuated
or swung forward thereby to give the impulse to the carrier; but we are not aware
that an eccentrically pivoted weight, to the periphery of which the propelling arm
is connected, has heretofore been used to propel the carrier.
It will be seen that the eccentrically pivoted weight exerts a leverage force upon
the propelling arm, which increases geometrically in proportion to the eccentricity
of the weight, and the distance the arm is connected thereto from the pivot, thereby
enabling us to propel the carrier to much greater distances than can be done by
the construction above referred to; and even up long grades; that no force is
exerted when operating, except sufficient to release the weight; & return it to its
normal position and that the eccentricity of the swing of the weight starts the
carrier slowly and easily, and gradually increases its force and the speed of the
carrier, and exerts its greater force just before the weight reaches the limit of its
swing, and then automatically stops the movement of the arm.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is: :-
1. A carrier mechanism, consisting in the combination of an oscillatory and
eccentrically pivoted weight, a carrier and means to transmit the force, exerted
by the oscillation of the weight, to the carrier to give it the impulse along the wire
trackway.
2. An oscillating and eccentrically pivoted weight, a propelling arm connected
thereto; a slide connected to said propelling arm, and means to detachably connect
the carrier to said arm.
3. The combination with the oscillatory eccentrically pivoted weight, and the
propelling arm pivotally connected to the rim of said weight, and also connected
to a slide, of the slide, a carrier detachably connected to said slide, and means to
set the weight and arm in their normal positions, and to release them to give the
carrier its impulse along its trackway.
Dated 28th November 1892.
GEORGE BARKER,
77, Colmore Row, Birmingham, Agent.