US986490A - Coin vending-machine. - Google Patents

Description

J. v. MORRIS & H. E. OLIVER.

COIN VENDING MACHINE.

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JOHN V. MORRIS AND -HENR'Y E. OLIVER, OF BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA, ASSIGNORS, BY

DIRECT AND MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, TO STANDING VENDING COMPANY, OF BIR- MINGHAM, ALABAMA, A CORPORATION OF ALABAMA.

COIN VENDING-MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed October 21, 1909. Serial no. 523,931.

.To all'whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, J OHN V. Monms and HENRY E. OLIVER, citizens of the United States, residing at Birmingham, in the countyof Jefferson and State of Alabama, have invented new and useful Improvements-in Coin Vending-Machines, of which the following is a specification.

I Our invention relates to'an improvement.

in coin vending machines particularly designed for 'the handling of pencils and like articles, though many features of its construction arebroadlyapplicableto all,characters of coin vendiin machines.-

One object-of our invention'is to rovide a swinging multiple compartment holder or the articles to' be handled by the machine, a feed roller being used andso disposed as to be effective in the successive compartments as those preceding them are emptied. Bythis means we greatly increase the capacity of the machine at a nominal cost.

A further object of our invention consists claimed, reference beinghad to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a front elevation of our improved apparatus with the front of the easing rem' ved and the ejector and its operating n-echanism shown in vertical cross section along the line w'w of Fig. 2. Fig.

2 is a vertical sectional view taken along the line y-y of Fig. 1, the receptacle for the a"rticles being shown in partial section. Fig.

3 is a vertical sectional elevation of Fig. 1 taken along the line 2-2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 4

is a transverse crosssectional view taken along the line 4E4 of Fig. 2. Fig. 5 is a detail perspective view of the disks which cooperate with an interposed coin to effect the transmission of motion to the ejector. Fig.1 shows the positions assumed by the ejector and the feed roller as the former movesto eject a pencil or other article.

Patented Mar. 14-, 1911.

Similar reference numerals refer to similar parts throughout the drawings.

. As illustrated, we show our improved apparatus mounted in a casing having a back 1 a hinged'downwa-rdly opening bot-tom 2. side walls 3 and a front comprising a lower stationary part 4, at the upper end of which a door 5 is hinged so as to open outwardly. An upwardly opening top 6 is hinged to the back 1, thus forming a casing which gives ready access-to the front, top and bottom for the purposes hereinafter described.

In the upperportion of the casing is disposed the receptacle for the articles to he sold, which, in the construction illustiated, comprises" a holder 7 subdivided by transverse partitions 8 to form a series of vertical compartments 9 which are open at the bottom and top. This. holder is provided at each upper rear corner with apivot:- plate 10-which engages a similar plate 11 fixed to j the side wall of the casing, andhaving a boss carrying a pivot pin (not shown) which works in anopening in the boss of plate 10. The bosses on the pivot plates are made longer at the right hand side in order to leave sufficient space to receive both the coin slot 12 and the swinging magnetic detector 13. This coin slot starts opposite an aperture 14 in the door 5 and continues first at a slight incline toward the rear of the easing and then straight down so as to disch arge the coins between the disks 15 and 16. The

coin slot is held in rosition by angle irons 17 attached at suitable points to the side wall of the casing.

' We mount the rotatable ejector/'18 in the lower portion 01 below the swinginghol'der 7, it being noted that the bottom of the holder is cut away on an arc struck from its pivotal points so that its bottom edge is'always the same distance from the ejector in whatever position it may stand. The ejector comprises an elongated hollow metal form provided with a series of equi-distantly spaced shoulders 19 formed at the front with an abrupt radial face; 20, which, from its lower point, continues in a gradual convex curve 21 to the apex of the next shoulder, thus forming a series of pockets or longitiidinal grooves, the bottoms ofwhich gradually merge on convex' curves the casing and immediately to apexcs of a series of shoulders which are equi-distant from the center. This hollow form is supported at each end upon plates 22 which are rotatably mounted upon a cen- 5 tral stationary shaft. 23.

The checkcontrolled apparatus, .which will now be described, is not claimed as a part of our present invention which is limited to the construction of the pencil handling apparatus. At the left hand end a second plate 24 is bolted to the plate 22 and engages the end of the form and holds it in position between that plate and the disk 15,

which is likewise rotatably mounted upon 16 the shaft 23. This shaft 23 at its left hand end is mounted in the bearing 24 having a spacing washer 25 interposed between the bearing and the plate 24. At its right hand end the shaft carries integral therewith or fixed thereon, a disk 26, which, as seen in Fig. 3, is cut away at 27 to, provide for the escape of the coin between said disk and the studs 28 which are mounted on the plate and spaced 120 apart. The disk 16 is likewise rotatahly mounted on the shaft on the outside of the disk 26 and is connected by screws or bolts to the end bearing 29 for the shaft. This bearing 29 is in the form of a cap having an annular flange 30 to receive the screws which fasten it to the plate 16 and having its body portion cylindrical so as to turn freely in the side wall 3 of the casing upon washers 31 seated-therein. A

. hand wheel 32 is fastened to the outer end of 29. The flange 30 is toothed to form a ratchet wheel, and a dog 56 pivoted to the wall 3 of the casing engages these teeth to prevent the disk 16 being turned by means of the hand wheel 32 and boxing 29 in more than one direction.

As seen in Fig. 5, the disk 16 carries at opposite points two-elongated arcuate ribs or projections 33. These are so positioned that they will not engage the studs 28 when the two disks are in assembled position. The

space between the adjacent ends of the ribs is in excess of the width of the coin to con trol the apparatus 'but is not sufiicient to permit two coins to drop in between them at the same time. I

At the front of the casingwe attach a pair of plates 34, the upper edges of which have the same arcuate curve as the lower edge of the holder and which extend under the open compartments in the holder to prevent the pencils or other articles therein from dropping out from any but the compartment which stands in position .to deliver onto the ejector. The forward end of this plate is curved so as to extend around and over the ejector to a point substantially in line withthe shoulder 19 of the pocket then in position to receive and eject a pencil. I

To the real wall of the casing we attach a pair of plates 35,.the front edges of which are struck on a curve from'thc center of the shaft 23 and on a radius suiiicient to let the shoulders 19 clear of the front edge of the plates. The rear curved edge of the plates 34 are struck on a similar arc. The plates 7 35 have connected to them a discharge chute 36 which passes through an aperture 37 in the front wall 4 and is turned up at 38 to form a stop for the pencil.

As a means for insuring the feed of the penc ls or other articles to the ejector, we provlde a narrow roller 39 mounted on an axis 40 between the arms of a yoke 41, the shank of which is provided with oppositely disposed -lugs42, which are pivotally sup g0 ported between a bearing plate43 and the rear wall 1 of the casing. A spring 44 also fastened to the rear wall 1 exerts a downward pressure upon the yoke 41, tending to hold the roller 39 in engagement with the g5 ejector 19.

It will be noted by reference to Figs. 1 and 2, that the lower ends of the division walls 8, forming the compartments 9, are cut away to leave a'passage way 45 for the roller and its yoke so that the lower end of the holder when emptied, will swing -rear wardly over the roller which will-therefore successively project into the several compartments 90f the holder. By this means the roller, as the compartments beginning at. the rear are successively emptied, will engage and act upon the pencils in each'of the compartments in turn.

With the coin in the position just described, the operation of the apparatus is as follows :-The top of the casing is first lifted and the several compartments 9' filled with pencils. The bottom pencil of the rear compartment will rest in the upper pocket of the ejector bet-ween a shoulder 20 and the roller 39, which rests upon the curved sur face 21 of the pocket. If now the 'hand wheel 32 be turned in a forward direction, the disk 16 will-rotate until a rib 33 strikes the coin 55 (Fig. 3'). When this rib strikes the coin it transmits motionth'rough the coin to the stud 28 and to the disk 15,. which in turn moves the ejector 18. Referring to Fig. 6, it will be seen that as'the disk 15 116 and ejector moves in the manner just described, the roller 39 will ride up over the pencil and over the shoulder 19, ni"ovii1, from a position tangent to the two lower pencils in the compartment (see Fig. 2), to 120 a position tangent to next to the bottom pencil in that compartment (see I*ig '.'6).- As the ejector continues in rotation, the roller moves forcing the bottom pencil down the inclined curve 21 leading to the succeeding pencil pocket in the ejector and drawing down with it the next to the bottom encil. and finallyassuming a tangent positlon to the two pencils next to the one in the pencil pocket, as seen in Fig. 2. Meanwhile the continued movement ofthe ejector brings the pencil thatis being ejected, and which has been held in its pocket by the curved front Wall of the plates 85, in the position to finally drop into the discharge chute 36.

Should a second coin be interposed before 27, which is designed to permit the coin to escape between the disk 26 and'the stud 28 and drop into the coin till at the bottom of the casing. As each successive compartment, beginning at the rear, is emptied, the feed roller projects through the slot or passage 45 and engages the pencils in the last loaded compartment until the entire holder has been emptied. It will be noted that feed roller 39 always leaves the bottom pencil free, as seen in Figs. 2 and 6. 1

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent,-is:-

1. In a vending machine, a movable multiple compartment holder for the articles to be vended, ejector mechanism to receive the articles from said holder and discharge themfrom the machine, and means to adjust the position of said holder so that its filled compartments are successively brought into position above said ejector mechanism as the compartments preceding them are emptied, said means comprising a device which successively engages the lower articles in each compartment and holds the holder against.

movement until said compartment is empty.

2. In a vending machine, a multiple com partment swinging holder for the articles to be vended, ejector means to receive the artieles from said holder and discharge them from the machine, and automatic means to position said holder and bring the loadedone resting on said body.

4. In a vending machine, a chute for the articles to be vended having a slot, a roller mounted in a swinging support and arranged to project through said slot and engage the articles within said chute, a rotary ejector drum having pockets to receive said articles, said roller resting upon said drum. and a dischar e chute for the articles received from said ejector.

5. In a vending machine, a chute for the articles to be vended having a slot in its side, a pivoted feed device projecting through said slot and engaging the articles in said chute, an ejecting apparatus formed with a plurality of circumferentially taper-,

ing pockets and upon which said feed device rests, guard means to retain the articles in said pockets as the ejector turns, and a discharge chute into which the articles fall from said pockets, substantially as described.

6. In a vending machine, a chute for the articles to be vended, a roller mounted upon a swinging support and adapted to project through an opening into said chute, an ejector for the articles upon which said roller rests, said roller in all positions standing clear of the bottom-most article Whether it be in the pocket or on the point of falling therein and being adapted to engage and exert a downward pressure upon an article above the bottom-most articles, as and for the purposes described.

7 In a vending machine, a multiple compartment holder pivoted so as to swing by gravity and bring its compartments successively in discharging position, ejector 'means to successively receive and discharge the articles from a given compartment. and means to control the positioning of the holder so that one compartment. empties be fore the next filled compartment is brought into discharging position, said means comprising a device which engages the lower articles in each compartment and thereby arrests the holder against swinging downwardly to present a new compartment into the discharging position until the compartment from which articles are being discharged has been emptied, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof we have hereunto set our hands 1n presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOHN V. MORRIS. HENRY E. OLIVER. Witnesses:

HINDS 'PEEVEY, FROMIE WELSH.

It is hereby certified that the assignee in Letters Patent No. 986,490, granted March 14, 1911, upon the application of John V. Morris and Henry E. Oliver, of Birmingham, Alabama, for an improvement in Coin Vending-Machines, sho uld have been described and specified as Standard Vending Omnprmy instead of Standing Vending Company; and that the said Letters Patent shouid be read with this correction therein that the same may eonforrn to the record of the casein the Patent Oflice. I

Signed and sealed this 11th day of April, A. D., 1911.

O. C. BILLINGS, Acting Commissioner of Patents.

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