Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 7th Oct., 1886.
Complete Left, 11th Dec., 1886.
Complete Accepted, 18th Mar., 1887.
I, HORATIO KELSON BROMHEAD of 245 Vincent Street, Glasgow, Scotland,
Architect do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention is designed to supply an improved form of automatic delivery box,
of simple internal construction.
It consists of a box or case, in which is an opening for the insertion of a penny
piece.
This coin is caught by a receiver, placed on the end of a lever, which is so arranged,
as to be set in motion, by the weight of the coin.
The other end of the lever carries a pawl, which engages in a ratchet attached
to a grooved drum, and moves it to the extent of one division of its revolution.
The coin is then released, and falls into a cash receptacle, and as it falls, the lever
freed from the weight of the coin resumes its normal position.
The grooved drum, revolves below a chamber having its lower side partly open.
and partly sloped and curved.
The cigarettes, or other articles, are placed in this chamber, and fall from it into
the grooves in the drum.
As the drum turns at every step of its revolution, a cigarette (or article) falls upon
a balanced hinged flap, and presses it open, and retains it open until the cigarette is
removed, when the hinged flap closes.
.
On the axle of the groove I drum is the first of a series of multiplying cog wheels,
with dial and index, so arranged as to record the number of pence received and
articles delivered.
A stop is so attached to the ratchet or other part of the drum, as to prevent the
drum from turning backwards with the return movement of the lever.
S. S. BROMHEAD,
97. Newgate Street, E.(.,
Patent Agent.

page_text: I, HORATIO KELSON BROMHEAD, of 245 St. Vincent Street, Glasgow, Scotland,
Architect, 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 is designed to supply an improved form of self-recording automatic
delivery box of simple internal construction.
It consists of a box or case, in which is an opening for the insertion of a penny
piece.
The coin is caught by a receiver placed at the end of a lever, which is so balanced
and pivotted, as to be set in motion by the weight of the coin.
The further end of this lever carries a pawl, which engages in the grooves of a
revolving grooved drum, or in a ratchet attached to such a drum, and moves the drum
to the extent of one division of its revolution, each time a coin is inserted in the box,
and also prevents its return.
Another pawl placed near the centre of the receiving lever, disengages a balanced
detent lever, one end of which, engages with the grooves of the drum in such a way,
as to prevent the drum from moving until the detent lever is lifted.
The receiving lever having moved, the drum releases the coin, by bringing it in
contact with a shunting point which disengages it from the receiver, whereupon it
falls into the cash drawer below.
As the coin falls, the lever freed from its weight, resumes its normal position, while
the detent lever again falls on, and holds, the drum.
The grooved drum of my automatic box revolves below a chamber having its lower
side partly open, and partly sloped and curved.
The cigarettes or other articles are placed in this chamber, and fall from it into the
grooves of the drum.
As the drum turns, at every step of its revolution, a cigarette or other article falls
into a sloping tube or passage, the incline of which causes the cigarette to roll out to
the front opening, within reach of the purchaser.
On the axle of the grooved drum, is the first of a series of multiplying cog wheels,
with dial and index, so arranged as to record the number of pence received, and
articles delivered.
In the accompanying drawings:
Fig. 1. Shows a section of the interior mechanism of the hov

page_text: O. is the passage. for, the cigarettes or other articles to F.
R. is the receiver for the coin.
R is the pawl, which presses forward the drum D.
R2 is the stop or detent lever, which locks the drum.
R is the pawl which disengages the detent lever R², and allows the drum to
revolve.
S S. are openings shewing figures, which remain exposed to view, when the dial
plates are enclosed.
T. is an arm or bracket supporting the lever L, and the pawl R¹, and is also the
balance weight, and forms part of the lever 1.
Z. is the opening from the hopper to the drum D.
The method of working is as follows:-A penny piece is placed through the open-
ing A, and falls into R. the receiver, on the end of the lever L, which moves by the
weight of the penny piece, and in moving turns the grooved drum D to the extent of
one division of its revolution, by means of the pawl R, acting on the grooves of the
wheel, or on a ratchet wheel placed thereon, and the penny piece is delivered into
the cash receptacle below it. The receiver R which catches the coin is below and
partly open behind, but closed in front and on each side the penny being held by
sides strips or ledges sloping downwards in such a way as to be narrower below than
above, thus forming a V shaped space with front support in which the penny rests
until in the decent of the lever L, the coin strikes against the shunting point F, which
throws it off the ledges, backwards into the cash drawer.
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The lever L is so balanced that when relieved of the penny piece, it returns to its
normal position ready for another movement.
The grooved drum D, revolves below B, a box, having its lower or underside partly
open and partly sloped and curved and hinged.
The cigarette or other article falls from the box into the grooves of the
drum D. Upon each movement one cigarette or other article is delivered. As the
drum D revolves, the cigarette falls from it into O. the outlet channel, and runs
forward to the mouth of the outlet O.
D, the grooved drum is connected with I the index, which is a succession of cog
wheels with numbers thereon revolving each ten times to one revolution of the
adjoining wheel.
This index records the number of articles delivered and of coins received for
them.
The number being indicated by the numbers on the revolving number faces, which
shew through circular openings in the index case.
The number indicated by the drawing being 3478.
Risa detent lever stop engaging with the grooved drum which prevents its
turning excepting when it. (the stop R2) is unlocked by R³ a small governing lever
or pawl.
The whole motion is worked entirely and only by the penny piece.
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 :—
1. The application of the special parts before mentioned, viz. ; the grooved drum D.

page_text: the balanced lever L, the special index I, the detent lever R2, and the general
configuration of the box, in the construction of an automatic delivery box for
cigarettes and other small articles, as herein explained and set forth.
2. The combination of all, or any of the before mentioned parts for the purposes
of an automatic delivery box, whether recording or not, and for kindred purposes, as
herein described and set forth.
3. The special form of automatic registering or recording apparatus by means of
cog wheels, arranged so as to form an index or indicator, with perforated face,
shewing only the numbers to be read, or in action, as herein explained and set forth.
S. S. BROMHEAD,
Patent Agent,
97, Newgate Street, London.