A Coin-freed Apparatus for Supplying Requisites for Cyclists and others.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 18th Jan., 1899
Complete Specification Left, 18th Oct., 1899-Accepted, 2nd Dec., 1899
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A Coin-freed Apparatus for Supplying Requisites for Cyclists
and others.
I, WILLIAM KENT, of 35, High Street, Staines, in the County of Middlesex,
Cycle Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of my said invention to be
as follows:-
The object of my invention is to provide an apparatus or means for supplying
cyclists drivers, and others with materials and articles for their use or consump
tion in a more ready manner than is at present the case.
According to my invention, I mount a suitable number of receptacles, columns
or drums upon a hollow box base, such receptacles, columns or drums to be pro-
vided with suitable means whereby the insertion of a coin liberates the article
or material or a drawer containing same. The receptacles are arranged to contain
patching rubber for tyres, lamp oil, rubber solution, lubricating oil, lamp wick,
valve tubes for pneumatic tyres, and chalk, calcium carbide, or similar or other
desirable articles or materials, each receptacle containing one or more articles
or materials and provided with means whereby any one or more of the said
articles may be obtained as desired.
The hollow base contains a pump or means for inflating tyres, which can not
be removed from the base, to be operated externally; the pump can not be used
unless freed by the insertion of a coin.
A door or flap is hinged to the base and is so arranged that when the coin is
inserted in prepayment for the use of the pump the door or flap is pulled down
and exposes the connectors for connecting the pump with the tyre, simultaneously
freeing the pump handle which can now be operated. The door or flap is provided
with a suitable groove or ribs or projections in or between which the tyre is
placed, the connectors being made preferably of metal tube suitably jointed in
connection with the pump and adapted to extend outward as far as the groove
or ribs; each connector is provided with a nipple of a kind to connect with the
particular valve in use in the tyre.
By means of my invention cyclists and others are enabled to obtain articles and
materials for repairing tyres and to recharge oil lamps and oil cans at any time,
the vending machines being placed at intervals in villages, towns and other
places as found necessary.
Dated 17th January 1899.
A Coin-freed Apparatus for Supplying Requisites for Cyclists
and others.
I, WILLIAM KENT, of 35, High Street, Staines, in the County of Middlesex,
Cycle Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of my said invention and in
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page_text: what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascer
tained in and by the following statement:-
The object of my invention is to provide an apparatus or means for supplying
cyclists drivers and others with materials and articles for their use or consump
tion in a more ready manner than is at present the case.
According to my invention I mount a suitable number of receptacles columns
or drums upon a hollow-box base, such receptacles columns or drums to be
provided with suitable.means. whereby the insertion of a coin liberates the article
or material or a drawer containing the same. The receptacles are arranged
to contain patching rubber for tyres, lamp oil, rubber solution, lubricating oil,
lamp wick, valve tubes for pneumatic tyres, chalk, calcium carbide or similar
or other desirable articles or materials, each receptacle containing one or more
article or articles or materials, and provided with means whereby any one or
more of the said articles may be obtained as desired.
The hollow base contains a pump or means for inflating tyres, which can not be
removed from the base, to be operated externally; the pump can not be used
unless freed by the insertion of a coin. A door or flap is hinged to the base and is
so arranged that when the coin is inserted in prepayment for the use of the
pump the door or flap is pulled down and exposes the connectors for connecting
the pump with the tyre, simultaneously freeing the pump handle which can now
be operated. The door or flap is provided with a suitable groove or ribs or
projections in or between which the tyre is placed the connectors being made
preferably of metal tube suitably jointed in connection with the pump and
adapted to extend outward as far as the groove or ribs; each connector is provided
with a nipple of a kind to connect with the particular valve in use in the tyre.
By means of my invention cyclists and others are enabled to obtain articles
and materials for repairing tyres and to recharge oil lamps and oil cans at any
time, the vending machines being placed at intervals in villages, towns and other
places as found necessary.
And in order that my said invention may be particularly described and ascer-
tained reference is hereby made to the accompanying drawings, in which similar
letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.
Fig. 1 is a front elevation of the apparatus, and Fig. 2 is a side elevation with
a portion of the case removed to show one method of fitting and working the pumps.
a a are the receptacles, columns, or drums for containing patching for rubber
for tyres, lamp oil, rubber solution, lubricating oil, lamp wick, valve tubes for
pneumatic tyres, chalk, calcium carbide, or similar or other desirable articles
or materials.
bb are the drawers by which the aforesaid articles or materials are received
on the insertion of a coin, and withdrawn from the case.
c is the lower part of the apparatus, in which a pump, or a set of pumps is
or are fitted.
d is a door pivoted or hinged at e for gaining access to the pump or pumps,
on the insertion of a coin in the slot f. The pump or pumps may be variously
arranged in number and method of working; three-throw pumps being shewn
in the drawings.
Any suitable coin-freed apparatus may be used with my invention for prevent-
ing access to the same without the insertion of the necessary coin.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is
A coin-freed apparatus for supplying requisites for cyclists and others, the
combination of a number of receptacles, columns or drums and drawers, mounted
upon or affixed to a hollow box base and provided with coin-freed appliances
for liberating the articles therein contained; the hollow base being fitted with 5

page_text: one or more pump or pumps for inflating tyres, inaccessible except by means
of the insertion of a coin therein and means for connecting the same with cycle
tyres, substantially as described.
Dated 18th October 1899.
WILLIAM KENT.
By George Downing & Sons,
Chartered Patent Agents, 8, Quality Court, London, W.C.