US1278349A - Coin-guard for vending-machines. - Google Patents

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R. T. HOSKING. COIN GUARD FOR VENDING MACHINES. APPLICATION mgn JUNE I6. 1911.

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RICHARD T. HOSKING, 0F SAG-INAW, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNOR TO AMERICAN BANKING MACHINE CORPORATION, OF SAGIN AW, IEICHIGAN, A CORPORATION OF DELAWARE.

COI N- GUARD FOR VENDING-MACHINES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 10, 1918.

Application filed June 16, 1917. Serial No. 175,117.

To all'whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, RICHARD T. HosKINe, a citizen of the United States, residing at Saginaw, in the county of aginaw and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Coin- Guards for Vending-Machines; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to machines adapted to receive and stack coins and pertains more particularly to means adapted to insure the correct and positive functioning of the coin-stacking device and the proper feeding of the coins thereinto.

M improvement is adapted to be used in conjunction with coin-actuated vending machines such as that described in my Patent No, 1,163,012, issued December 7, 1915, or it may be used in connection with any other type of machine in which it is desired to consecutively stack coins in a tube or equivalent receptacle.

My present improvement pertains more particularly to means for preventing the displacement of the coins in the tube and the consequent clogging of the coin-receiving slot, which sometimes formerly resulted in rendering coin-stacking machines inoperative.

In practice if a coin is fed into a stacking tube or receptacle by means of a feeding-in slide or otherwise, and the machine is suddenly jarred, as by a blow, it sometimes occurs that the coin last inserted may be jarred forward so as to project outside of the tube. Undersuch circumstances the next succeeding coin which is fed into the tube is apt to jam under the projecting coin and block the feeding-in slide, consequentlv rendering the machine inoperative.

Similarly, dislodgment of the coin may be caused by the sudden release of the feeding-in slide, allowing it to fly back quickly and impinge against the frame of the machine, under the action of the slide-operating spring, thereby suddenly jarring the coin-stacking tube.

To avoid such occurrences and to render the machine operative, regardless of such jolts or jars, I have provided the device which will be described herein and pointed out in the claims.

\Vith the foregoing and certain other objects in View which will be described in the specification, my invention consists in the devices described and claimed and the equivalents thereof.

My invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a vertical section through a machine containing my improvement, the section being taken on the line 1-1 of Fig. 2.

Fig. 2 is a top plan view.

Fig. 3 is a similar vertical section, broken away in part, showing the base plate and tube without my improvement attached.

Fig. 4 is a part sectional side elevation of the lower end of the tube with m improvement attached.

Fig. 5 is a central vertical section of the parts shown in Fig. 1.

Fig. 6 is a front View of the tube and guard.

Fig. 7 is a side elevation showing a modified form of lifting device for the movable guard or latch.

As is clearly shown in the drawings, the device consists in a coin receptacle, as a tube 1, into which coins are fed by means of a spring-retracted feeding-in slide 2, which moves back and forth on the base plate 3.

A yieldingly mounted movable latch 4, which comprises the subject-matter of my present invention, is located in front of the entrance opening or slot of the tube 1. This yieldingly mounted latch 4 may be supported in any suitable manner, but I have shown as a convenient means of mounting thelatch, a sleeve 5 slidingly received on the tube 1 and carrying the projecting latch 4 which is positioned normally in front of the coinreceiving opening of the tube, but is automatically removed therefrom when a coin is inserted in the tube. One end of aspring 6 may be fastened to a lug 7 carried by the sleeve 5 and its other end may be fixed to any stationary part of the tube 1, as lug 8, to yieldingly hold the sleeve and the latch in their normal position.

Referring to Fig. 5, the lower coin 9, having been properly inserted into the tube 1, will be in the position shown. The lower coin may become displaced, as previously described, by a sudden jolt or jar on the tube 1 and may then be in the position shown at 10, in Fig. 3, projecting beyond the edge of the tube 1. Hence the next succeeding coin (indicated by dotted lines at 11 in Fig. 3) can not be properly fed into the tube, being blocked by the projecting coin 10.

In a machine equipped with a feeding-in slide 2, as shown in Figs. 1, 2 and 3, a too sudden retracting of the slide, as by letting it slip and fly back, may so jar the machine that the lower coin 10 will be displaced and caused to project as shown in Fig. 3, resulting in blocking the machine.

It is, therefore, necessary that the lower coin 9 (see Fig. 5) shall be kept from proj ecting beyond the edge of the tube. I, therefore, prefer to bevel the inner edge of the tube, as at 13, to permit the coins in the tube to rise, and I provide the longitudinally movable latch 1, as previously described, to retain the last coin in position.

An inclined guide 12 is commonly used to deflect the entering edge of the incoming coin upward, so as to lift the stack of coins in the tube.

It will be noted that in the foregoing description the entering coin 11 is described as being the means by which the latch is raised, and that the latch l is the means employed to prevent the lower coin from projecting beyond the tube.

It is not essential for the purpose of my present invention that the latch 4 be actuated by contact of the entering coin, as the other equivalent means may be provided for lifting the latch when the coin enters the tube. I have shown in Fig. 7 a modified construction, in which the latch 4: is automatically raised, without being touched by the coin when the slide 2 is advanced to feed a coin into the tube 1.

In Fig. 7, 14 represents a pin or suitable projection carried by the sleeve 5, and 15 is a cam or wiper carried by the slide 2 and having its advancing end beveled to engage the under side of the projection 14, to raise the sleeve 5 and its latch 4t.

In both the preferred and the alternate constructions, however, it will be noted that the latch 4 is automatically raised to permit the advancing coin to enter, when the feeding-in slide 2 is'advanced, and when the slide 2 is retracted the latch 4: again drops into position in front of the receiving opening of tube 1 to prevent displacement of the coin which was last received, thereby effectually preventing blocking the machine.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. In combination, a coin-stacking receptacle formed with a coin-receiving slot at its lower end, a coin-propelling device adapted to impel coins consecutively through said slot and into said receptacle underneath the coin last inserted, a coin-retaining guard for said slot, said guard comprising a yield ingly mounted vertically movable latch, normally located in front of and adjacent to said slot and adapted to prevent the displacement of the bottom coin in said receptacle, said latch adapted to be raised by engagement with a coin when said coin, carried by said coin-propelling device, is advanced to enter said slot.

2. In combination, a coin-stacking receptacle formed with a coin-receiving slot at its lower end, a coin-propelling device adapted to impel coins consecutively through said slot and into said receptacle underneath the coin last inserted, a base plate, an inclined guide carried by said base plate and adapted to deflect the edge of an entering coin upward, a coin-retaining guard for said slot, said guard comprising a sleeve slidingly mounted on and capable of vertical movement with respect to said receptacle and carrying a projecting latch normally located in front of and adjacent said slot and adapted to prevent the displacement of the bottom coin in said receptacle, said latch adapted to be raised by engagement with a coin. when said coin, carried by said coin-propelling device, is advanced to enter said slot.

3. In combination, a coin-stacking receptacle formed with a coin-receiving slot at its lower end, a coin-propelling device adapted to impel coins consecutively through said slot and into said receptacle underneath the coin last inserted, a coin-retaining guard for said slot, said guard comprising a yieldingly mounted vertically movable latch normally located in front of and adjacent said slot, and adapted to prevent the displacement of the bottom coin in said receptacle, and means adapted to actuate said latch and raise it when said coin-propelling device is advanced to insert a coin in said slot.

In testimony whereof, I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

RICHARD T. HOSKING.

Witnesses:

NELLIE M. ANGUS, Roy WALLIS.

Copies of this patent may be obtained. for five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G."

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