US1448536A - Carrier-distributing device for pneumatic-dispatch tubes - Google Patents

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Mar. 13, 1923. 1,448,536

W. J. HEPPERLE CARRIER DISTRIBUTING DEVICE FOR PNEUMATIC DISPATCH TUBES Filed May 21, 1921 wveyztoz WILL/HM i HEPPEHLE 3& Gum,

Patented Mar. 13, 1923.

l tttfiw i FF i Q E earner WILLIAM J. I'IEPPERLE, OF BLOOMFIELD, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO THE STANDARD CARRIER COMPANY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF CONNECTICUT.

CARRIER-DISTRIBUTING DEVICE FOR PNEUMATIC-DISPATCH TUBES.

Application filed May 21, 1921.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, l/VILLIAM J. HEP- PERLE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Bloomfield, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Carrier-Distributing Devices for Pneumatic- Dispatch Tubes, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to carrier distributing devices for pneumatic dispatch systems.

The principal object of the invention is to provide carrier distributing means at the central station terminal of a pneumatic dispatch tube which will prevent an excessive accumulation of carriers at an operators station by automatically diverting more than a predetermined accumulation to a reserve opcrators station.

The invention takes the form of a movably mounted receiving receptacle normally arranged so that arriving carriers are re ceived in a compartment convenient to an adjacent operators station, but subject to such conditions of balance that the weight of a predetermined maximum number of carriers in the compartment will cause the receptacle to move into a position that will deflect arriving carriers for delivery at a different station. On the other hand the removal of carriers from the receiving c0m partment again imbalances the device and causes it to move into normal position to again receive carriers in the receiving com partment.

In the drawing.

Figure 1 is a view in side elevation of a device embodying apreferred form of the invention and showing the device in its normal operating position.

Figure 2 is a view similar to Figure 1 showing the device in another operating position.

Referring to the drawing the delivery end 1 of a pneumatic dispatch tube is arranged to discharge carriers 2 descending therethrough into a receptacle or compartment 3 formed on one side of a pivotally mounted carrier distributing device 4. The distributing device 4 presents a triangular formation in side elevation with the apex thereof located a short distance below the exit end of the pneumatic tube 1. The point 5 about which the distributing device 4 is capable of rocking is in vertical. alinement with the Serial No. 471,312.

' will be clear.

The normal position of the distributing device 4 is that shown in Figure l of the drawing in which the apex 6' of the dis trib-uting member is positioned to the right of the path of travel of the carriers 2 as they emerge from the exit end' of the tube 1. The left-hand face of the distributing device 4 takes the form of a chute which acts to direct the descending carriers into the compartment 3 at the base of the chute which has already been referred to. In order to hold the distributing device 4 in a position to receive carriers in the compartment 3 a weight member 7 is provided and ator can remove and take care of them then increasing weight provided by the accumulating carriers 1n the compartment 3 Wlll overbalance the distributing device 4 and raise the weighted end thereof so that the apex 6 of the. device is swung to the left in the position indicated in Figure 2 of the drawing. In this position of the distributing member it will be seen that the carriers 2 as they emerge from the dispatch tube 1 engage a chute formed on the right-hand sloping surface of the distributing member 4 which directs them outwardly to the right onto a traveling belt or other receiving means 8 which operates to convey the carriers so diverted to another or reserve operator, thereby relieving the operator incharge of carriers in the compartment 3 and permitting the number of carriers in that compartment to be again reduced to a normal number which can be handled by the operator at that station. It will be clear that instead of variable weight members adjustable springs could be used for normally holding the distributing device 4 in its upright position.

It will be seen that by the use of the device thus described means are provided for :that the number of carriers in .tacle 3 which may be necessa.

automatically reventing the accumulation of an undesirable n imber of carriers. at a given station and giving the operator in charge of the station an opportunity to perform her duties without ried in'the performance of her work. This relief is given bydiverting carriers beyond a given predetermined number from the receptacle 3 in which they are nor nally; received to suitable conveying means which acts to remove and deliver the carriers so received at another station. Itwvill be clear the recepto tilt the distributing memberttodiverting position may be varied by. means ofthe use of weight members 7 of different masses or weights.

Preferably the distributing ,member 4 is mounted on a suitable base 9 which may conveniently-form part of thedesk ortable at which the operators Work.

What I claim is:

1. In a carrier distributing device for pneumatic dispatch tubes, amember .having a compartment for receiving carriers-deliveredby' axdispatch tube, andmeans responsive to a predetermined weight in said compartment to deflect arriving. carriers away from said compartment.

2. In. a carrier distributing device for pneumatic dispatch .tubes,-'a movable receiving. member having a compartmentfor receiving carriers delivered by the dispatch "time, said member, being movable under a predetermined weight in said compartment toldeflect arriving carriers away from said compartment.

- 3. :Acarrier distributing device :torpneumatic dispatch tubes comprising a carrier receiving receptacle having a vertically extending directing member mountedbeneath the" delivery end of the tube, said directing member being .pivotally mounted so asato .ube tilted from one side to'the other ot the exit-end of the tube,means for normally holding the directing member inpositionito direct carriers into the receptacle, and said receptacle and directing memberbeing so related that a predetermined carrierweight in' said receptaclewill tilt -the' directing being unduly hurmember to a position to divertarriving carriersfrom the receptacle.

4:. A carrier distributing device matic dispatch tubes comprising a pivotally mounted carrier receiving receptacle, an upwardly extending directing member carried by said receptacle and having. its opposite sides forming carrier'directing' chutes, one of which leads into said receptacle, and means for normally holding said receptacle in position for the directing member to direct arriving carriers into said receptacle. a predetermined Weight of carriers in said receptacle acting to overcome said holding means and directing member receives carriers in tilt the receptacle so that the the chute formed on its other face and diverts thecarriers away from said receptacle.

5. A carrier distributing devicefor pneu- .matic dispatch tubes comprising a pivotally mounted'carrier receiving receptacle, an up- .matically 'divertingarriving carriers to an other station when a predetermined number oitcarriers has accumulated at a given station.

7.1,In a carrier distributing device for pneumatic dispatch tubes. a carrier-receiving receptacle, a carr er-directing device normally pos tioned to direct carriersmto said receptacle, said carrier-directing device being constructed and arranged to have its position changed by a predetermined weight of carr ers n said recept a'cle'whereby no fur- .ther carrier will be received" insaid receptacle until. the-weight therein has been reduced.

WVILLIAM j J. HEPPTERLE.

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