Improvements in what are known as Automatic or Coin-freed Machines.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 25th Apr., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 25th Jan., 1892-Accepted, 27th Feb., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in what are known as Automatic or Coin-freed
Machines.
I, PERCIVAL EVERITT, of 47, Cannon Street, in the City of London, Engineer,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to what are known as automatic or coin-freed machines,
the object being to provide improved means for operating the indicating mechanism
by the weight of the coin.
In carrying my invention into practice I provide two drums or pulleys, the upper.
of which is advantageously connected to the hand or pointer moving over the dial,
or to the shaft upon which the said hand or pointer is secured, whilst the lower
pulley is provided with a tappet adapted to come into contact with an arm or
stop in the machine, the position of which is varied when the machine is
operated.
Around the said drums or pulleys and secured to each of them is passed a metal
or other band in such a manner that movement will be. imparted to these pulleys
simultaneously. Upon the said band is the coin-bucket which is preferably
constructed in the manner described in the Specification of former Letters Patent
granted to me dated July 21 1887 No. 10231, but which may be of any other
suitable construction.
By this arrangement, when the coin drops into the bucket, the weight of such
coin causes the two drums or pulleys to turn until the tappet upon one of the said
drums or pulleys comes into contact with the stop hereinbefore referred to.
A. series of pins or projections is provided so that, as the bucket commences, to
move upwards, the coin will be discharged.
My invention is especially applicable for use in connection with weighing
machines having transparent dials of the kind described in the Specification of
my application No. 9996 of 1890, but it will be obvious that it is also applicable to
other automatic or coin-freed machines having dials.
Dated the 5th 1
L A 1001
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in what are known as Automatic or Coin-freed
Machines.
I, PERCIVAL EVERITT, of 47, Cannon Street,. in the City of London, 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:-
My invention relates to what are known as automatic or coin-freed machines, the
object being to provide improved means for operating the indicating mechanism by
the weight of the coin.
In carrying my invention into practice I provide two drums or pulleys, the
upper of which is advantageously connected to the hand or pointer moving over
the dial, or to the shaft upon which the said hand or pointer is secured, whilst
the lower pulley is provided with a tappet adapted to come into contact with an
arm or stop in the machine, the position of which is varied when the machine is
operated.

page_text: Around the said drums or pulleys and secured to each of them passed a metal
or other band in such a manner that movement will be imparted to these pulleys
simultaneously, and upon the said band a coin-bucket is secured.
A series of pins or projections is provided for operating the bucket to discharge
the coin.
To enable my invention to be fully understood I will describe the same as applied
to a weighing machine having a transparent dial as described in the Specification
of former Letters Patent granted to me, No. 9996 of 1890, and in the accompanying
drawings,
Figure 1 is a front elevation of such a machine having my present improvements
applied thereto.
Figure 2 is a vertical transverse section; and,
Figure 3 is a section on the line x, a Figure 2:
Figures 4 and 5 are sections on the lines y, y and z = respectively of Figure 2.
a indicates the casing of the machine, the weighing platform, c the weighing
lever, and d the counterpoise spring. e is a rod connected to the weighing-lever e
at its lower end and at its upper end provided with rack-teeth f engaging with a
pinion 9 rotating on a fixed arbor g¹ to which pinion is connected a stop operated
in a manner well known in my weighing machines. i is the transparent dial of the
machine.
h
j, k are my drums or pulleys, the former of which is secured to the periphery of
the transparent dial i so as to move therewith, whilst the latter is provided with
trunnions which is in axial alignment with the arbor g'.
is the band which is passed around the said drum or pulleys and m is the coin-
bucket which, as shewn in the drawings, is constructed in the manner described in
the Specification of former Letters Patent granted to me No. 10231 of 1887, but
which may be of any other suitable construction. n is the shoot for directing the
coins, introduced through the slot o in the casing, into the bucket, and p, p are
the pins arranged adjacent to the path of the bucket so that, after the bucket
has moved downwards and commences to move upwards, the lever of the bucket
will be tripped to discharge the coin which will fall into the hopper q and thence
into a money bag r.
s is the tappet arranged upon the back of the drum k and designed to impinge
against the stop h in order to arrest the movement of the indicating mechanism.
In using a weighing machine of the kind hereinbefore described it will be obvious
that, when any weight is placed upon the platform b, the stop h will be moved
correspondingly, but that no indication of the weight will take place until a coin
is introduced into the bucket m: when this is done, the weight of the said coin
causes the drums or pulleys to turn until the tappet s comes into contact with the
stop h upon the drum k. The hand or pointer t (which in the drawing is repre-
sented as attached to the dial) is, at the same time, moved over the scale u adjacent
to the dial in a well known manner.
Although I have shewn my present invention as applied to a weighing machine
of the kind described in the Specification of my Letters Patent No. 9996 of 1890,
it is to be understood that my invention is also applicable for use upon other
weighing machines, or upon other machines in which any result is to be indicated
upon the introduction of a coin.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. In an automatic or coin-freed machine the combination with the indicator of
two drums or pulleys connected by a band, and a coin-bucket attached to the
said band in such a manner that when the coin is introduced into it, the pulleys.
will be caused to operate, substantially in the manner and for the purpose
described.
2. In an automatic or coin-freed weighing or other machine the arrangement of

page_text: the indicating mechanism substantially in the manner hereinbefore described and
illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
3. The manufacture and use of the improved automatic or coin-freed weighing
machine herein before described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
Dated the 25th day of January 1892.
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicant.