US1093409A - Stamp-vending machine. - Google Patents

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M. HELD/IAN. sum VENDING MACHINE. APPLIOATIQN FILED MAY 6, 1913. 1,093,409, 1 Patented Apr. 14,1914.

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M. HELMAN. STAMP VENDING MACHINE. APPLICATION FILED MAY e, 1913.

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Application filed May 6,1913. Serial No. 765,914.

Toall whom, itmag concern." slot 3, in the front wall thereof. Mounted Be it known that I, MAURICE HELMAN, :1 within the casing or housing 1 and suitably 55 citizen of the United States,residing at Sldfastened to the lower wall thereof are up- ,ney, in the county of Shelby and State of rights or standards 5, 5 and spaced apart in 5 Ohio, have invented new and useful 1111- parallelism at opposite sides of the stamp provenients in Stamp-Vending'Machines, of discharge slot 4 in the-front wall of the caswhich the following is a specification. ing'and carrying horizontally aliningbear- 60 This invention relates to improvements in ngs 6 in which isjournaled a shaft 7 carrycoin controlled vending machines and has mg a delivery roller 8. Surmounting theparticular application to a stamp vending delivery roller 8 is a second delivery roller 9V machine. mounted upon a shaft 10 rotatably mounted In carrying out the present invention, it in horizontally aliningbearingsll carried by 65 is my 'purpose,-to' provide a stamp vending the standards 5, 5 above-the first-mentioned machine which willembody in its construe bearings. The peripheries of the delivery tion among other features a stationary mechrollers -8 and 9 are preferably covered With anism, an operating rod for such mecharubber or other suitable material and'are 'nisrq, and a stamp" receiving receptacle, held in contact with each other through the 70 means' being. provided for locking said remedium of springs 12 normally urging the ceptacle against access during the operation bearings of the rollers toward ,one another of the stationary mechanism sothat the so as to produce a good frictional contact mechanismcan not be tampered with by unbetween the rollers. Rotatably mounted authorized persons, or more than the vended Within suitable alining bearings also carried 75 Sta-mp Withdrawn. I by the standards 5, 5 is a drum or reel 13 It isalso my purpose to provide a yendabout which is wrapped a strip or. tape of ing machine of the class described which stamps s, such strip of stamps being carried will embrace the desired features of simfrom the drum onto the lower feed roller 8 plicity, efiiciency; durability and convenbetween the latter and the top feed roller 9 .80 ienoe; one which may be installed and mainand is thence projected through a guide 14 i tained ata minimum expenseland one having one end communicating with the wherein the component parts will be so feed rollers and theopposite end with the 45 of the casing being removed.

correlated and arranged as to minimize the slot 4 in the front wall of the casing, such possibility of derangement. H

WVith the above and other objects in Vl6W, struction. In the present instance, a ratchet the invention con'sistsin the construction, Wheel 15 is suitably fastened to one side of combination and arrangement of parts herethe upper feed roller 9, While an operating inafter set forth in. and falling Within the lever or rod 16 has one endfulcrumed as at scope of the claims. r I 17 to an appropriate part of the casing and 90 In the accompanying drawingsz Fig-ure 1 the opposite end projected outwardly of the is a view in front elevation of a vending ma-' casing by, way of the elongated slot 3 and 40 chine constructed in accordance with the termina'tingin a button or knohlf.

present invention. Fig. 2 is a vertical sec- Pivotally secured to the lever 16- is-a dog guide being of any suitable-ordesired coir tional view on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1. Fig. or pawl 1 engaging the teeth of the ratchet 3 is a view in front elevation showing the wheel 15,:and normally held in engagement interior mechanism of the machine, the front with such teeth bymeans of an expansion spring or other suitable form of tension de- Referring now to the accompanying draw vice 20 carried byi the lever 16 and bearing mgsin detail, thenumeral l designates a .u'pon the dog. In the present. instance, a

casing or housing constructed of any suitcontractile sprihg i l has one end thereof able material and preferably, although not connected to the rear wall of the casing and 50 necessarily, of rectangular contour and hav the opposite endto the lever 16 and acts ing a 0in slot 2, an elongated slot 3 adja normally to hold the lever in elevated or cent to and parallel with the coin slot, and active position. By means of thisconstruca stamp outlet slot 4 below the elongated tion, it will be seen that whenthe lever 16 is depressed, the dog 19 will engage the adjacent tooth cf the ratchetwheel 15 and so rotate the feed rollers 9 and 8 with the effect to feed the strip of stamps toward the opening 4 in the front wall of the casing a distance equal to the length of a stamp, the lever in nmving through a path equal to the length of the stamp so as to impart to the feed rollers the desired movement.

Iivotally connected to the lever 10 adjacent to the front wall of the casing and depending therefrom and inclined relatively to the vertical is a locking rod 22 slidably disposed within a keeper and provided with. a shoulder 24 normally engaged by one extremity of a trip 25 pivoted between its ends as at 26 to the frontwall of the casing and having the free extremity thereof disposed within a slot 27 formed in the lower extremity of a coin chute 28 communicating with the coin slot 2 in. the front Wall 1 of the casing.

Extending outwardly from the locking rod 22 adjacent to the lower end thereof and disposed immediately oelow the chutecnd of the trip 25 is a stop lug 29, suitable stops 30, 30 being secured to the front Walls of the casing at opposite sides of the path of movement of the trip 25 to liill; the movement of said trip to lotking and unlocking positions. Normally, the trip 25 is in the position shown in Fig. 3, that is in the path of movement of the shoulder 24 on the locking rod 22 so that downward movement of the operating lever 16 to operate the delivery rollers as aforesaid is prevented. When, however, the proper coin is deposited within the slot 2 and chute .28 communicating with such slot, such coin gravitates to the lower end of the chute and impacts against the respective end of the trip thereby swinging the latter about its pivot 26 so that the opposite end of such trip removed from the path of the shoulder 24:. This time the chute .end of the trip ei'igages the stop 99 on the locking rod 22 and so prevents displacement of the coin from the chute thereby enabling the purchaser to manipulate the machine at his convenience. By pressing upon the button or knob t8, the lever 16 may be moved downwardly about its pivotal connection 17 thereby-operating the feed rollers to deliver a stamp. A controller 31 is preferably disposed below the coin chute 28 so as to catch the coins after the same have been released by the stop lug and trip lever.

Also pivotally connected to the operat ing lever 10 adjacent to the-locking rod 22 and depending. froirv such lever ina vertical plane. is a cutter bar 32 slidably disposed within a keeper 33 secured to the front wall of the casing and provided with an outwardly projecting cutting blade 34 which blade, in the normal condition of the machine, is interposed between the slot 4 and the adjacent end 'of the guide 14- so that when the shoulder 2t on the locking rod 22 is relieved of the influence of the trip 25 and the operating lever 10 swung in a downward direction to operate the delivery mechanism, the movable blade B l: is moved in a downward directioi'i so as to permit the stamp to be fed from the guide 1-l through the cpening 4L. \Vhen the stamp has been moved outwardly of the casing by way of the opening 4 therein the proper distance, the lower end of the cutter bar 32 engages the hammer 36 and so causes the bell 37 to sound thereby advising the purchaser to release the lever 16 at which time the spring 21 reacts to swing the lever back to normal or-inactive position, the blade 34 cooperating with the blade 35, in the return movenent of the lever 16 to shear the stamp from the strip. I

In order to prevent tampering with the machine by way of the slot 4, "I secure to the front wall of the casing a receptacle 38 inclosing the slot 4 and provided with a ing segment 40'having a notch 41 therein and working through a slot in the casing and a notch 42 in the cutter bar .32, the notches 41 and 42 normally" intersecting each other. From this,,it will be seen that as the cutter bar 32moves downwardly un-. (lGl the action of the operating lever 16, the

bar will ride within the notch l1 in the seg ment 4.0 and so hold the cover 39 of the receptacle 38 against opening movement, while when the lever 16 has been returned to normal osition the notches 41 and .42. v 7

will intersect ea h other so that the seg-- ment 40 may be moved into the casingyand throughthe notch 42 in the cutterbar.

Fromthe foregoing description taken inconnection with the accompanying ;dlLW- lugs, the construction, mode of operation and manner of employing my invention. Wlll be readily apparent.

WVhile I have herein shown and described one preferred form of my invention by way of illustration, stood that I do not limitor confine myself to the precise details of in described and delineated, as modification. and Variation may he made Within the I desire to have it tmderconstruct-ion; here- 100 hinged cover 3.) etp1ipped with an upstandscope cf the claims Without departing; from the spirit of the invention. clainz: 4

1. In a Stitll'lI) Vending maehine, a (lelivery nnehanism, an operating lever for said meolanism, a stalnp'reoeiving receptael'e means for locking said receptacle against access in the operation of delivery mechani: in.

In ,t stamp vending machine a clelivery mechanism, an operating lever for said mechanism, a stamp receiving receptacle, and means controlled by said lever for locking said rec ptacle against access in the operation of said delivery mechanism.

3. In a stamp vending machine, a de- .ivery mechanism, an operating lever for &

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