US1036258A - Repeating mechanism for check-controlled apparatus. - Google Patents

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F.- G. KAINER. REPEATING MECHANISM FOR. CHECK CONTROLLED APPARATUS. APPLICATION FILED JULY 14, 1909.

1,036,258, Patented Aug.20,1912.

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APPLICATION FILED JULY 14, 1909.

Patented Aug. 20, 1912.

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REPEATING MECHANISM FOR CHECK CONTROLLED APPARATUS.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 14, 1909.

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F. C. KAINER. REPEATING MECHANISM FOR CHECK CONTROLLED APPARATUS.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 14, 1909. 4 I 1,03 ,25 Patented Aug. 20, 1912.

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FREDERICK C. KAINER,

OF SOUTH HAVEN, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNOB TO POPE AUTOMATIC MERCHANDISING COMPANY, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

REPEATING MECHANISM FOR CHECK-CONTROLLED APPARATUS.

Application filed July 14, 1909.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FREDERICK C. KAINER, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of South Haven, county of Van Buren, State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Repeating Mechanism for Check-Controlled Apparatus, of which the following is a specification.

The main objects of this invention are to provide improved mechanism for causing a check controlled machine to repeat a certain operation and adapted to automatically stop the machine after it has performed a predetermined number-of said operations; to provide a mechanism of this class which may be readily altered so as to cause the machine to automatically stop after any desired predetermined number of repeated operations and to provide certain improvements in vending machines of the type shown in my copending applications, Serial No. 483,901, dated March 17, 1909, and Serial No. 483,900, dated March 17, 1909.

A specific embodiment of this invention is shown in the accompanying drawings in which:

Figure 1 is a side elevation, partly in section, of the check controlled apparatus and motor of a cigar vending machine, the section being taken on the line A-A of Fig. a, and the parts being shown in their initial position as when the motor is stopped. Fig. 2 is a vertical section taken on the line BB of Fig. f, some of the parts of the supporting frame of the motor being partly broken away and the parts being shown in one of the positions which they occupy during the delivery of a cigar. Fig. 3 is a View similar to Fig. 2 and showing a diflerent position of the parts. Fig. 4 is a fragmentary top plan showing the repeating mechanism and a portion of the delivery mechanism, some of the parts of the coin chute being in section on the line C-G of Fig. 3. Fig. 5 is a detail of a repeating wheel designed to cause the machine to deliver two cigars for each coin which operates it. Fig. 6 is a similar wheel modified so as to cause the machine to deliver six cigars for each coin. Fig. 7 is a fragmentary side elevation viewed from the rear of Fig. 1. Fig. 8 is a fragmentary detail, in perspective, of the controlling element, the catch which holds it in operating position and the part which Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 20, 1912.

Serial No. 507,537.

releases the catch to stop the machine. Fig. 9 is an enlarged detail of the repeating mechanism, the parts being shown in their initial position, as when the machine is stopped. Fig. 10 is a view of the same parts showing their relation while the vending machine is in the act of delivering a cigar and when the repeating mechanism is in position for causing the machine to continue to run after the delivery of a cigar from the machine. Fig. 11 is a view corresponding to Figs. 9 and 10 but showing the relation of the parts when the notched wheel is in posi tion to allow the machine to be stopped after delivering a cigar.

The device shown in the drawings in-.

cludes a machine for vending cigars, a mo tor for operating said machine, check controlled mechanism comprising a controlling element normally urged into position for stopping the motor and adapted through the presence of a coin or check in a certain position to start the motor, means actuated by a cigar during its delivery from the machine to cause the motor to stop, and repeating mechanism adapted to operate so as to count the number of cigars delivered for each coin and prevent stopping of the machine until a predetermined number of cigars have been delivered. In the drawings the vending machine is represented by the fragmentary portions thereof which appear in the various views, the part 1 shown in Figs. 3 and 5 being a drum which delivers cigars singly and in succession from the magazine which is not shown. The cigars are fed from the magazine by feeding mechanism (not shown) actuated by the threaded shaft 2 of Fig. 7.

The motor comprises a spring 3 and a suitable train of gears indicated in some of the views but omitted from Fig. i for the sake of clearness of the illustration.

One of the shafts a of the motor has mounted upon it a fan 5 which through its friction with the air oifers sufficient resistance to govern the speed of the motor. The

stopping and starting of the motor is controlled by means of a controller element in the form of a lever 6, pivotally mounted at 7 in the supporting frame and provided with a pin or shoulder 8 which is movable into and out of the path of the fan 5 through the movement of the lever 6 on its pivot. The lever 6 is counterweighted so that it normally swings to position for stopping the motor. The lever 6 has an arm 9 which is bent at right angles near its end as illustrated in Fig. 4 and which carries at its end a horizontally disposed plate or pin 10 which extends into position for receiving a coin from the coin chute 11.

Although the casing of the machine is not shown in the drawing it will be understood that the upper end 12 of the coin chute is adjacent and in line with a slot in the casing so that coins inserted into the slot will be conducted along the chute. Coins or checks which are of suitable form and material to pass the coin-detecting device will be delivered to the pan 10 and supported on edge upon said pan by the adjacent side walls of the coin chute. The counterpoise of the controlling element 6 is such that the weight of a coin or check causes the pan 10 to descend, lifting the detent 8 from engagement with the fan 5 and causing the starting of the motor.

In order to permit the coin to be discharged from the pan 10 and be forced into a display rack 13 where it can be seen by an attendant during the operation of the machine, there is provided a catch 14 which engages the arm 9 and retains it in its clepressed position. This catch 14 is best seen in Fig. 6 and the manner in which it engages the arm 9 will be understood from Figs. 10 and 11. The catch 14 is carried by a horizontal pivot 15, and is so disposed that it falls by gravity to the limit of its movement to the left of Figs. 9, 10 and 11 when it is not in engagement with the arm 9. The mechanism for shifting the catch 14 into and out of engagement with the arm 9 comprises a slotted arm*16 pivotally mounted ona stud 17 on a lever 18 which in turn is pivotally mounted at 19 on the supporting frame. The lever 18 has a forked arm which engages an eccentric 20 on one ef the shafts of the motor so that the lever is caused to oscillate while the motor is in operation. The catch 14 has an upwardly extending arm 21 which extends through the slot in the arm 16 and is bent at right angles at its upper end to prevent it from accidentally slipping out of the slot.

The mechanism which causes the discharge of a check or coin from the pan 10 comprises a link or slide 22 which is pivotally connected at one end to the upper end of the lever 18 and has at its other end a transversely extending shoulder 23 (Fig. 4) which extends into a horizontal slot 24 in one side of the coin chute 11. As the pivot 25 is fart-her from the pivot 19 than is the pivot 17, the travel of the shoulder 23 is considerably greater than that of the arm 16, and during each oscillation of the lever 18 i the shoulder 23 sweeps across the pan 10 so as to push off any coin which may be resting thereon. A coin is shown at 26 in Fig. 4 in position on the pan. In order to keep the pan 10 in its depressed position until the catch 14 has engaged the arm 9, there is a dog 27 on the link 22 which prevents the lifting of the pan untilthe lever 18 has returned to the opposite limit of its movement. During the travel of the coin ejecting link 22 toward the right of Fig. 4 the shoulder 27 at one end of the slot in the arm 16 engages the arm 21 of the catch 14 and pushes said catch into engagement with the arm 9 of the controlling element.

The cigar delivering mechanism is represented in the drawing by the pocketed drum 1, indicated in Figs. 2 and 4. An arm 28, rigid on a shaft 29, extends into engagement with the arm 16 and controls the elevation of said arm 16. This arm 28 is counterweighted so that it normally holds the arm 16 in the position in which it is shown in Fig. 9. When in this position the arm 16 may push the catch 14 into engagement with the arm 9 but it cannot release said catch as the slot in the arm 16 is of such length as to allow the arm 16 to travel back without releasing the catch.

The shaft 29 carries a pair of fingers 30 which extend into the path of cigars carried in the pockets of the delivery drum 1. When these fingers 30 are engaged by a cigar 31 or other article which is being delivered by the machine as represented in Fig. 2 they are swung to one side so as to depress the arm 28 and allow the arm 16 to fall to a suitable position for engaging the shoulder 32 on the arm 21 of the catch 14, as illustrated in Fig. 11. When arm 16 is in this position it trips the catch and causes the instant stopping of the machine, since it releases the controlling element and allows the pin 8 to block the rotation of the fan 5.

In order to cause the machine to deliver a plurality of cigars for each suitable coin or check, there is provided a movable controlling member preferably in the form of a wheel 33, which is so located as to engage a shoulder 34 on the arm 16 and which is so shaped as to determine whether or not the arm 16 shall engage the shoulder 32 and trip the catch 14. In the form shown the wheel 33 is a ratchet wheel having shallow and deep notches arranged in a predeter mined order on its periphery. The shallow notches are of such depth that they support the arm 16 above the level of the shoulder 32 while the deep notches are of suflicient depth to allow the arm 16 to engage said shoulder '32. When the arm 28 is in its initial or normal position it supports the arm 16 clear of the wheel 33 so that the reciprocating movement of the arm 16 has no effect upon the wheel. Whenever a cigar is being delivered the contact of the cigar with the fingers 30 will depress the arm 28, and allow the shoulder 34 to engage the wheel 33. When in such position, each oscillation of the lever 18 causes the wheel 33 to be rotated through an angular interval corresponding to one tooth space of the wheel 33, there being a pawl 35, Fig. 1, which prevents reverse rotation of the wheel 33. The gearing of the motor should be such that the wheel 33 will be advanced through one such angular interval during the delivery of each cigar. If the wheel 33 is of the form shown in Fig. 5, that is with alternately shallow and deep notches, then the machine will deliver two cigars for each coin delivered to the pan 10. If the wheel is of the form shown in Fig. 6 there will be siX cigars delivered for each proper coin. Bychanging the arrangement of shallow and deep notches in the periphery of the wheel 33 any number of repetitions of the operation of the machine may be had.

The operation of the device shown is as follows: The normal or initial position of all of the parts is shown in Fig. 1. When a coin is inserted into the coin chute 11 if it passes the coin detecting devices it will rest upon the pan 10 as indicated at 26 in Fig. 4 and through its weight will lift the detent 8 clear of the fan 5 and start the motor. The motor causes rotation of the delivery drum 1 and operates the other feeding mechanism to cause cigars to be discharged one at a time as indicated in Fig. 3. The rotation of the motor also causes the lever 18 to oscillate, causing shoulder 23 on the link 22 to travel back and forth above the pan 10. During its movement to the right of the 4: the lug 23 discharges the coin 26 and pushes it into the display rack where it may be seen by an attendant. During the same movement of the lug 23 the arm 16, through its engagement of the arm 21 of the catch 14, pushes said catch into engagement with the arm 9 of the controlling element 6 and prevents said element from returning to its normal position after the discharge of the coin. If no cigar is in position to be delivered the motor will continue to run, causing the drum 1 to rotate and causing the link 22 and the arm 16 to travel back and forth in the manner described. During this operation the arm 28 supports the arm 16 in such position that it cannot release the catch 14:. As soon as a cigar, through contact with the fingers 30, withdraws the arm 28 from engagement with the arm 16, said arm-16 falls until its shoulder 3a engages the wheel 33. As the oscillation of the lever 18 is timed so as to make one complete forward and backward movement during the interval of time normally required to deliver one cigar, the wheel 33 will be rotated one tooth space for each cigar delivered. As the first cigar is delivered while the shoulder 34 is in engagement with a shallow notch in the wheel 33,

the wheel will prevent the arm 16 from tripping the catch. This movement will advance the wheel so that during the delivery of the next cigar the shoulder 34 will engage a deep notch in the wheel 33'and the arm 16 will accordingly be allowed to engage the shoulder 32 on the arm 21 and will therefore release the catch 14, causing the machine to come to a stop as soon as the link 22 has moved far enough to the left of Fig. 10 to draw the dog 27 clear of the plate 10. It will thus be seen that the machine always stops with the mechanism in the normal ini tial position indicated in Figs. 1 and 9.

The copending applications hereinbefore referred to, describe and claim the features of the check controlled mechanism and feeding mechanism which are indicated in the drawings, but not described in detail nor claimed in this application.

Although but one specific embodiment of this invention is herein shown and described it will be understood that numerous details of the construction shown may be altered or omitted, within the scope of the following claims, without departing from the spirit of this invention.

I claim:

1. In a check controlled apparatus, the combination of a machine, a motor for operating said machine, a controlling element normally urged into position for stopping said motor, a coin chute, a part extending into the path of a coin delivered by said chute and adapted when engaged by such coin to shift said controlling element into position for permitting the operation of said motor, means operated by said motor for discharging a coin from engagement with said part, a catch movable through the op eration of said coin discharging means into position for holding said element in its operating position, an arm movably mounted on said coin discharging means and movable therewith adjacent to said catch, said arm being normally urged into position for releasing said catch, and means adapted to engage said arm and prevent it from releasing said catch.

2. In a check controlled apparatus, the combination of a machine, a motor for operating said machine, a controlling element normally urged into position for stopping said motor, a coin chute, a part extending into the path of a coin delivered by said chute and adapted when engaged by such coin to shift said controlling element into posit-ion for permitting the operation of said motor, a catch movable through the operation of said motor into position for holding said element in its operating position, mechanism actuated by said motor for releasing said catch, and means adapted to prevent said mechanism from releasing said catch during the operation of said motor.

3. In a check controlled apparatus, the combination of a machine, a motor for operating said machine, a pivot-ed controlling element normally urged into position for stopping said motor, a coin chute, a part of said controlling element extending into the path of a coin delivered by said chute and adapted when engaged by such coin to shift said controlling element into position for permitting the operation of said motor, means operated by said motor for discharging a coin from engagement with said part, a catch movable through the operation of said coin discharging means into position for holding said element in its operating position, an arm pivotally mounted on said coin discharging means and movable therewith adjacent to said catch, said arm being normally urged into position for releasing said catch and means adapted to engage said arm and prevent it from releasing said catch.

4. In a check controlled apparatus, the combination of a machine, a motor for operating said machine, a pivoted controlling element normally urged into position for stopping said motor, a coin chute, a part of said controlling element extending into the path of a coin delivered by said chute and adapted when engaged by such coin to shift said controlling element into position for permitting the operation of said motor,

means operated by said motor for dischargv lug a coin from engagement with said part, a catch movable through the operation of said coin discharging means into position for holding said element in its operating position, an arm pivotally mounted on said coin discharging means and movable therewith adjacent to said catch, said arm being normally urged into position for releasing said catch, means adapted to engage said arm and prevent it from releasing said catch, a ratchet wheel located in position to be engaged by said arm when said arm is released by said preventing means, a shoulder on said arm adapted to engage said ratchet wheel and advance it, said ratchet wheel being adapted to prevent said arm from releasing said catch when said ratchet wheel is in a certain angular position and to permit such release when said ratchet wheel is in another certain angular position.

5. In a check controlled apparatus, the combination of a machine, a motor for operating said machine, a pivoted controlling element normally urged into position for stopping said motor, a coin chute, a part of said controlling element extending into the path of a coin delivered by said chute and adapted when engaged by such coin to shift said controlling element into position for permit ting the operation of said motor, means operated by said motor for discharging a coin from engagement with said part, a catch movable through the operation of said coin discharging means into position for holding said element in its operating position, an arm pivotally mounted on said coin discharging means and movable therewith adjacent to said catch, said arm being normally urged into position for releasing said catch, means adapted to engage said arm and pre vent it from releasing said catch, a ratchet wheel adjacent to said arm, a shoulder on said arm adapted to rest on the periphery of said wheel to support said arm, said wheel having notches of different depths in its periphery, there being shallow notches adapted when engaged by said shoulder to cause said wheel to turn while preventing said arm from releasing said catch, and there being deep notches adapted when engaged by said arm to cause said wheel to turn while permitting said arm to release said catch.

Signed at Chicago this 2nd day of July 1909.

FREDERICK C. KAINER.

lVitnesses EUGENE A. RUMMLER, MARY M. DILLMAN.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C.

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