Improvements in Coin-receivers for Coin-freed Machines.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 17th July, 1894
Complete Specification Left, 17th Apr., 1895-Accepted, 17th July, 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Coin-receivers for Coin-freed Machines.
We, GUSTAV ADOLF BRACHHAUSEN and PAUL RIESSNER, Manufacturers, of
Wahren, in the Kingdom of Saxony, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
This invention relates to automatic weighing or delivery machines and other
machines which are released or set in motion by the insertion of a coin.
The receiving slots arranged in the usual manner, have the drawback, that they
are easily stopped or damaged from outside by the insertion of wires or other
articles.
To avoid this defect, we secure to the machine a plate which passes through the
wall, so that a part of the plate is situated in the interior of the machine, while
another part is outside. The inner part has a circular opening large enough to
allow a coin to drop through the same. The said plate carries a slide provided
with a circular opening, into which a coin may be laid, and which opening may be
placed alternately inside and outside the walls of the machine by the motion of the
slide, which is preferably guided in a longitudinal direction by the said plate, and
slightly thicker than the coin.
For inserting a coin, the slide is drawn out, until its opening rests on the outer
part of the plate, a coin is then placed flat into the said opening so as to rest on
the plate, the slide is pushed inward, until its opening covers that formed in the
inner part of the plate and the coin, which has thereby been placed above the
opening of the plate, is allowed to fall through the latter into the machine, so as to
act on the releasing mechanism.
Dated this 17th day of July 1894
FAIRFAX & WETTER,
Agents for the Applicants.
We, GUSTAV ADOLF BRACHHAUSEN and PAUL RIESSNER, Manufacturers, of
Wahren, in the Kingdom of Saxony, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
and in what manner the same is to be perforined, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement :-
This invention relates to automatic weighing or delivery machines and other
machines which are released or set in motion by the insertion of a coin.
The receiving slots arranged in the usual manner, have the drawback, that they
are easily stopped or damaged from outside by the insertion of wires or other
articles.
To avoid this defect, we secure to the machine a plate which passes through the
wall, so that a part of the plate is situated in the interior of the machine, while
another part is outside. The inner part has a circular opening large enough to
allow a coin to drop through the same. The said plate carries a slide provided
with a circular opening into which a coin may be laid, and which opening may be
placed alternately inside and outside the walls of the machine by the motion of the
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page_text: slide, which is preferably guided in a longitudinal direction by the said plate and
slightly thicker than the coin.
For inserting a coin, the slide is drawn-out until its opening rests on the outer
part of the plate, a coin is then placed flat into the said opening, so as to rest on
the plate, the slide is pushed inward, until its opening covers that formed in the
inner part of the plate, and the coin, which has thereby been placed above the
opening of the plate, is allowed to fall through the latter into the machine, so as to
act on the releasing mechanism.
In the accompanying drawings;
Fig. 1 is a vertical section of a coin receiver. embodying our invention, the coin
slide being drawn out and a coin placed in its circular opening.
Fig. 2 is a plan of the same,
Fig. 3 is a vertical section of the same receiver, after the coin slide has been
pushed in, and the coin has dropped through the circular opening of the slide-
currying plate.
Fig. 4 is a detail view of the coin slide.
The apparatus comprises a coin-inserting slide B movable on a base plate A
provided with a discharge slot a. The said slide B may have, in addition to the
round aperture 6 for the reception of the coin, a narrow slot c and wide slot d
communicating with the said aperture, but these slots do not form part of the
present invention.
In using the machine, the coin slide B is first drawn out into the position
represented by Fig. 1, then a coin placed into the opening which is only slightly
larger than a standard coin, after which the slide B is pushed in until a pin & comes
in contact with the wall of the box (Fig. 3). When this occurs, the opening
coincides with the opening a, and the coin will therefore drop through the plate A
to release the mechanism in the usual manner.
If the slot c is made sufficiently narrow, or entirely omitted, no wire or other
piece of metal can be introduced into the machine, so as to injure the same or
prevent its proper working.
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 :-
:-
A coin-receiver for automatic delivery and other coin-freed machines, comprising
in its construction a plate A extending through the wall of the machine and
provided with an opening a, and a coin slide B provided with an aperture b
corresponding to the whole being constructed and adapted to operate substantially
as described.
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Dated this 17th day of Amil 100E