Improved Combined Coin-freed Apparatus and Musical Box.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 29th Oct., 1889
Complete Specification Left. 28th June, 1890-Accepted, 9th Aug., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Combined Coin-freed Apparatus and Musical Box.
I, JOHN HESS, Germany, of No. 96, Raboisen, Hamburg, Merchant, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows
My invention relates to an improved combined coin-freed apparatus and musical
box, by means of which the customer's coin, in addition to effecting the delivery of.
the desiderated article, causes the box to play.
The delivery device consists of a cylinder having a peripheral recess adapted to
receive the articles, one by one, from the magazine, and to duly deliver them. This
cylinder receives its motion of rotation from the barrel of the musical box through
any suitable mechanism.
The detent by which the barrel is locked is a pin at the end of a lever having its
fulcrum at a convenient point. This pin is adapted to engage with a corresponding
hole either in the barrel, or a member of the mechanism rotating with it; and a
suitable spring-device is provided for maintaining the pin in contact with the barrel-
end, or equivalent part, and to lock it at the right moment.
The barrel is unlocked by the weight of the customer's coin in the following way.
The coin, in its descent through the coin-shoot, engages one arm of a bell-crank
A suitable notch is made in the
having its fulcrum preferably outside the shoot.
shoot to allow of the play of the said arm which is held in the way of the coin by an
The end of the coin-arm is
adjustable weight upon the other arm of the bell-crank.
connected to the locking lever so as to act against its spring. The said weight is so
adjusted that the weight of the coin alone suffices to push the arm barring its way to
one side, thereby unlocking the barrel. A flap is adapted by suitable means to auto-
matically cover the hole in the barrel-end as soon as the pin is out of it, and to.be
turned to one side by the pin as the moment for relocking arrives.
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PHILLIPS & LEIGH,
Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Combined Coin-freed Apparatus and Musical Box.
I, JOHN HESS, of 44, Neuerwall Hamburg, Germany, Merchant, 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 an improved combined coin-freed apparatus and musical
box, or similar musical instrument, by means of which the customer's coin, in addition
to effecting the delivery of the desiderated article, causes the instrument to play. As
soon as the last article in the magazine has been sold, the instrument stops playing,
and the coin is diverted into an outlet shoot, whence it falls into the delivery tray, and
may be regained by the customer.
In order to make this description more clear, reference is to be made to the accom-
panying drawings, in which similar letters denote similar parts throughout the several
views.
Fig. 1 is a vertical section through the middle of the apparatus seen from the right
hand side of Fig. 2.
Fig. 2 is a rear elevation with, the magazine partially, and the back wholly,
removed.
left hand side of Fig 2.

page_text: Figs. 4-7 are detail views of the apparatus.
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The coin is introduced into the mouth of the apparatus, and, passing down the
coin-shoot, meets the hooked end of the bell crank lever bh, having its fulcrum at h..
The lower end of this lever is drawn out fine and bent round at h, being adapted to
pass with its point into holes or orifices in a cogwheel i revolving with the barrel d.
The descending coin on meeting the hooked end of the lever bh swings it round,
thereby removing the point or pin at the end from the orifice in the wheel, and
unlocking the cog wheel. In order to prevent the pin from immediately re-entering
the said hole 1, as soon as the coin has released the lever end, the holes in the
wheel are provided with small flaps or covers m, m, pivotted to the wheel at ml, m
and provided with spiral springs round their pivots (not shown in the drawings)
which small spiral springs tend to hold the covers continually over the holes 1, 1,
(Fig. 7). As soon, therefore, as the coin has depressed the end of lever bh, and
thereby removed its pin or point from a hole 4, the cover, which had been held aside
(Fig. 5) as long as the lever end remained in the orifice, will pass under the lever
pin (Fig. 6) preventing it from reentering the hole 7. The musical box will now play,
revolving the wheel, against the surface of which the pin of lever is held by
spring as soon as the lever end 61 is released by the coin (Fig. 7) until its second
hole with its cover m comes into contact with the end of the lever which pushes
the cover aside and falls into the hole, so locking the barrel.
The delivery of the articles is effected in the following manner by means of the
disc and arms, and the wings 7 mounted on the spindle.
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The disc d, which revolves with the barrel d, has peripheral recesses d³ and d
operating the arms of the spindle »¹. When the barrel is locked, one of the arms?²
rests on the periphery of the disc d², owing to the weight of the articles in the magazine
pressing on one of the wings of the spindle (Fig. 1). As soon, however, as the
barrel is unlocked by the introduction of a coin in the manner described, the disc d²
revolves with the music barrel in the direction of the arrow, Fig. 1, engaging with
one of its recesses over an arm, and thereby dropping the bottom article into the
delivery tray n by lowering the respective wing
vention of the next wing prevents two articles from falling out at one and the same
on the spindle, whilst the inter-
time. The disc d has now revolved so far that the arm 72 is freed from its recess,
whereupon the weight of the articles pressing on the succeeding wing which previously
intervened between the article discharged and the next above it, drives the spindle
round, until its next arm comes to lie on the periphery of the disc d². But the
barrel d'having completed half a turn, the pin on the end of the lever will pass
into the orifice of the wheel and stop it, and also the disc mounted on the same
shaft with the barrel. In the drawing, the disc is shown provided with two
recesses. It is, however, obvious that the operation of the apparatus will be the same
if this disc should have three or more such recesses, but the number of the same must
correspond with the number of holes and covers in the wheel i. The delivery spindle
may also be operated from the barrel by any suitable gearing without departing from
the nature of the present invention.
The mechanism for stopping the barrel, and returning the coin to the buyer, i.e.,
passing the same direct through the apparatus into the delivery tray n, consists of the
following parts. Above the articles in the magazine t a weight o. is arranged having
a projecting arm guided vertically in a slit g of the magazine. As soon as the last
article has been delivered, the projecting arm p, as it drops to the bottom of the
magazine, engages with the hook which is suspended on a bell crank s pivotted on
the frame of the apparatus. Pivotted to the coin shoot a at w' is a butterfly valvey y',
which, when the apparatus is full, covers with its one wing, under the action of a
weighted arm 2, a side outlet in the coin-shoot, whilst its other wing lies along the
bottom of the shoot and forms no obstruction to a passing coin (Fig. 2). A
lever is rigidly fixed to the point of this valve, and is connected by
a rod to the upper arm of the bellcranks. Attached to the lower arm
of the bell crank is a bent arm t, which is adapted to advance, when the
bell crank is depressed, and to stop the fan- of the musical box. The
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page_text: mechanism operates in the following manner. As soon as the last article falls
into the delivery tray n, the weight o depresses the bell cranks by means of its pro-
jection p and hook 0. This movement of the lever s brings one wing y¹ of the
butterfly valve directly across the coin-shoot, (Fig. 4), whilst its other wing y forms
a bridge from the aperture y in the shoot a to a by-shoot j, so that a coin now placed
into the apparatus will run down the by-shoot into the delivery-tray, whilst the barrel
is stopped by the arm t' engaging the fan n. On refilling the apparatus, the projection p
of the weight o will be removed from the hook », when the butterfly valve y y¹ will
fall back into its former position under the influence of the weight mounted on the
rod attached to the pivot w. In returning to its original position, the valve y y'
retracts the levers, whereby the bent arm t¹ releases the fan u.
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Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and the manner in which the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:
1. As an improvement in a coin-freed apparatus, the combination of a musical box,
or other similar musical instrument, with the locking and unlocking mechanism, con-
sisting of a lever bh having a pin at its one end adapted to engage under the
influence of a spring or weight with a recess in the music barrel or a member of the
mechanism rotating with it, said recess being provided with a flap to automatically
cover the same while the pin of the lever is disengaged from the said recess, all
substantially as set forth.
2. As an improvement in a combined coin-freed apparatus and musical box or other
similar musical instrument, the combination of the lever bh, the barrel d or intermediate
member i rotating with the same, having one or more recesses with a flap or flaps to
automatically cover the same with a mechanism for actuating the delivery device,
substantially as specified.
3. In combination with the locking and unlocking mechanism, substantially as
specified, a disc d² attached to the barrel spindle and revolving with it, having
peripheral recesses and operating the spindle having arms and wings r, in the
manner and for the purpose substantially as described.
4. In combination with the locking and unlocking mechanism and delivery device
operated from the music barrel, a weight o arranged in the magazine and having a
projecting arm p running in a vertical slit in the said magazine, and adapted under
the conditions specified to engage in a hook, thereby operating the bell crank s
and butterfly valve y y' which obstructs the main coin shoot a and opens up
connection with a by-shoot, in the manner and for the purpose substantially as
described.
5. In combination with the lever s operated by the weight o in the manner specified,
the bent arm t rigidly attached to the bell crank s and operated by it so as to arrest
the fan of the musical box, in the manner substantially as described.
6. A coin freed apparatus containing the mechanisms substantially as herein
described said illustrated, and mechanisms adapted to operate in combination with
cach other in the manner substantially as specified.
Dated this 28th day of June 1890
PHILLIPS & LEIGH,
Agents for the Applicant.