Coin Receiver and Deliverer for Exhibition of Photographic or Stereoscopic Views in Fixed Quantities.
Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 18th Nov., 1886
Complete Left, 18th Aug., 1887.
.Complete Accepted, 20th Sept., 1887.
Coin Receiver and Deliverer for Exhibition of Photographic or
Stereoscopic Views in Fixed Quantities.
I WILLIAM SPEIRS SIMPSON of Battersea Park Road, Surrey, Engineer do hereby
declare the nature of my said invention to be as follows:-
The object of my invention is, to fit within a case, containing Photographic or
Stereoscopic views principally Transparencies, which are slipped into an endless
or travelling rack-ratchet wheels, a stop paul, and a releasing paul or lever, which
releasing paul or lever is balanced to that of a coin, say a penny, the weight of which
depresses said lever and releases its tooth.
The coin is inserted into a slit formed in the casing itself and the coin slides down a
hopper, one face of the lower part of which is hinged or otherwise arranged so that
when a fixed number of photographs, has been brought in succession behind the eye
glasses, a portion of the rack frame or a stud thereon acts upon the hinged side of
the hopper and pushes the coin into another slit for its passage into a till or receptacle.
I prefer to fit the stop paul on one end of the axle which carries the endless chain
of racks, the tooth being arranged to prevent a back motion being given to the chain
and to fit the tooth of a releasing lever on the opposite end of the spindle but within
the casing.
That part of the hopper which retains the coin upon the releasing lever may have
a motion given to it by the stud or other appliance of the chain rack, which stud or
its equivalent is fixed on say the twelfth or the twenty fifth or any other number or
any of the intermediate rack frames to suit the number of views to be exhibited for the
value of that coin.
Rods can be fitted to be acted upon by the travelling chain of racks so that when
the last of the fixed number or series of pictures has been exhibited, a shutter can be
moved to close the sight holes or eye glasses, the insertion of a fresh coin unlocking
the balance lever and removing the shutter.
1
1
1000
H. GARDNER,
166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said W. S. Simpson.

page_text: Coin Receiver and Deliverer for Exhibition of Photographic or
Stereoscopic Views in Fixed Quantities.
I, WILLIAM SPEIRS SIMPSON, of Battersea Park Road, Surrey, Engineer 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 which I term a coin receiver and deliverer for
exhibition of Photographic or Stereoscopic views in fixed quantities.
For the purpose of my invention, I fit within a case A Photographic or Stereoscopic
views B, B, principally transparencies, which are slipped into an endless or travelling
rack C. The upper spindle D) of this rack carries on one end a ratchet wheel E, into
which a stop paul F engages to prevent the spindle D and views B, B, being turned
the wrong way. The opposite end of the spindle D has also a ratchet wheel G, into
which a releasing paul or lever H, which releasing paul or lever is balanced to that of
a coin, say, a penny, the weight of which depresses said lever and releases its tooth I
from the ratchet wheel G on a coin being inserted into a slit J formed in the casing A,
said coin slides down into a suspended hopper K, the whole of which, or one face
only being moveable, so that when a fixed number of photographs has been brought in
succession behind the eye glasses La portion of the rack frame or a stud M thereon
acts upon the hinged hopper K and pushes the coin into another slit N for its passage
into a till or receptacle.
That part of the hopper K which retains the coin upon the releasing lever H may
have a motion given to it by the stud or other appliance of the chain rack on, say, the
fourth, the sixth, or any other, to suit the number of views to be exhibited for the value
of the inserted coin.
Rods can be fitted to be acted upon by the travelling chain of racks, so that when
the last of the fixed number or series of pictures has been exhibited, a shutter can be
moved to close the sight holes or eye glasses, the insertion of a fresh coin unlocking
the balance lever and removing the shutter, or instead of a shutter, one of the rack
frames may have an advertisement card immediately following the coin knocker out
frame.
The endless travelling rack of views may be on a chain P, or on cords such as
catgut with pins to engage into holes of the spindle, or the links of the chain may
conform to the square or other shape of the spindle, for temporarilly fixing the views
opposite the eye glasses.
Figure 1 shows a transverse section of an apparatus as above described. Figure 2
represents one of the rack frames and its connection to the link bars, and Figure 3
indicates one of the transparencies in position.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this invention and
in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I claim is :-
Affixing in or to a Photograph or stereoscopic view casing, a coin receiver and coin
delivering appliance composed of a suspended hopper K a counterbalance or rack
releasing lever H and stud M arranged substantially as shown at Figure 1 of the
annexed drawings for the purpose set forth.