US1674251A - Dispensing machine - Google Patents

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June 19, 1928. 1,674,251

v. H. KELLEY DISPENSING MACHINE Filed May 2, 1927 14' 3 Patented June 19, 1928.

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VICTOR H. KELLEY, F MADISON, WISCONSIN.

DISPENSING MACHlENE.

Application filed May 2, 1927. Serial No. 188,065.

This invention relates to dispensing masuperposed on each other. When such a chines, having reference more particularly pair of books reaches the bottom of the to machines adapted to 'dispense matches magazine, the two wide ends of the books 55 whether packaged in rectangular boxes or are too high to go through the delivery in the well-known books. opening, and the machine jams.

One known type of dispensing machines The object of my present invention is to for match boxes consists of an upright casprovide a simple, practical and inexpensive ing containing a vertical compartment with construction of delivery opening and ejector, 60 the articles piled up therein, a side delivery whereby a pair of books will be expelled opening at the bottom of the compartment, from the bottom of the magazine through and a laterally movable ejector which serves the deliveryopening, and without any jamto push the lowermost article out of the ining of the machine, entirely irrespective of delivery opening, at the same time supportthe manner in which the books may be ar- 65 ing the superposed pile of articles in the ranged in the pile. v

compartment, and whenretracted permitting 7 Since my present invention'deals simply the pile to drop onto the bottom or floor of with the novel forms of the delivery openthe magazine preliminary to the next packing and the ejector whereby the above-stated age-expelling movement of the ejector. object is accomplished, I have not, in the 70 Some forms of these machines employ drawings accompanying this application, at-

twin magazines located side by side with tempted. to show other details of the madelivery openings in the opposite sides of chine, such as the ejector locking and actuatthe casing, and an ejector which alternately ing-mechanism, and the opening guards, for expels the lowermost article from the b'otwhich any desired or approved devices may 75 toms of the two magazines. Furthermore, he used. v

machines of this type, when employed as Referring to. the drawings, I

vending machines, are usually further F ig. 1 is a side elevation of the lower equipped with a coin-released locking mechportion of a dispensing machine showing anism controlling the movement of the the delivery opening and the ejector, and 80 ejector, and with a guard or guards for the the superposed match books, the lowermost delivery opening or openings serving to two of which are disposed with their wide close the latter and prevent theft of the ends rearward and superposed; v articles when the ejector is retracted. Fig. 2 is a similar view, wherein the Heretofore the side delivery opening at lowermost two books are disposed with their 85 the bottom of the magazine has usually been wide ends forward and superposed;

' rectangular in form, and of a size to permit Fig. 3 is a similar view, wherein the lowerthe passage of either a single box of matches most two books are shown with their wide or of a pair of books of matches where the and narrow ends relatively superposed, so latter are stacked up in the magazine with that the combined structure is substantially 90 the wide end of each book above the narrow rectangular;

end of the next underlying book, the books, Fig.4 is aperspective detail of the ejector.

as is well known, being of a general wedge Referring to the drawing, the housing of r I shape longitudinally. So long as the books the machine comprises in general a castare piled in the magazin in the manner metal base 10 mounted on feet 11, and a 95 stated, a machine having a rectangular opensuperposed rectangular sheet-metal casing ing adapted to deliver a single box of 12. In practice this latter is commonly matches. will serve equally well to deliver divided by a transverse partition 13 into a pair of books of matches. But it frefront and rear compartments, and the front quently happens tha th p l l d g he compartment is divided by a partition 14 magazine fails to observe the alternating into twin vertical magazines. In each-side 50. order of piling up the books. That is to say, of the housing at the bottom of each comtwo or more adjacent books are frequently partment is formed a delivery opening dos placed in the magazine with their wide ends. ignated as an entirety by 15. its herein shown the bottom and side edges of the opening are formed in the base 10, while the upper edge of the opening is constituted by a portion of the lower edgefof the side wall of the casing 12; but so far as the present invention is concerned it is imn'laterial in what part of the structure the opening is formed. In the base is a bottom plate 16 for the magazines, on which the lowermost article of the stack comes to rest when the ejector, hereinafter described, is withdrawn laterally from beneath the magazine. The lower edge of the opening issubstantially' flush with the bottom plate 16.

, The lower edge 17 of that portion of the casing side wall 12 which forms the upper edge of the delivery opening 15 is given the shape of a widened V, the purpose of which will hereinafter appear. Reciprocable sidewise over the bottom plate 16 is the ejector 18 shown in isolated perspective view in 4. This comprises preferably a channel- V shaped member having parallel vertical side walls and a top wall 19 that takes theshape of a widened inverted V. The inclined sides of the top edge 17 of the delivery opening preferably form substantially the same angle to the horizontal as do the inclined sides of the top wall 19 of the ejector. In the structure herein shown the rear end of the ejector is mounted on the lower end of a pendulum bar which extends rearwardly beneath the partition wall 13 and at its upper end is pivotal ly suspended from a point near the top of the wall 13 as fully shown in a prior application filed by me April 2, 1927-, Serial No. 180,408. In practice, also, the openings are equipped with suitable guards and guard-actuating devices, the structural details of which have no reference to the present invention, but preferably those shown and claimed in my aforesaid application are employed.

To illustrate the manner in which the described construction serves to always deliver the lowermost pair of match books without any clogging or jamming of the machine, in Fig. 1 I have shown the lowermost pair of match books B and B at rest on the bottom plate 16 opposite the delivery opening 15 with their wide ends rearward and superposed, the two books thus producing a sub stantially triangular or wedge-shaped object. When the ejector is swung to expel the books, it acts upon; the inner or rear edges of both books, and the rear or inner edge of the openingis high enough to permit the books to pass. Atthe same time the lower central portion at the \/-shaped u per edge of the opening holds back the next superpod wa Fig. 2 how's the tasks B and 13' arranged relatively the s as in Fig. 1 but with their superposed wide ends foreindst. Since the sparing 15 is symmetries at its two ends the apexes of the opening edge and the ejector being mid-width of the opening, the two lowermost books can pass freely through the opening under the thrust of the ejector, the same as described in connection with Fig- 1, the V-shaped lower portion 17 of the side wall acting to hold back the next superposed book.

In 3 the lowermost pair of books B and B are disposed relatively as they should be normally, that is with the wide end of one book registering vertically with the narrow end of the other, the two books thus producing a substantially rectangular object. The height of this object is slightly less than the height of the apex of the V-shaped upper edge 17 of the opening 7 above the floor 16. Hence, when the ejector is shifted sid'ewise to expel the lowermost two books, the latter will pass freely through the opening. 7

The purpose of giving the described double slope to the top edge of the ejector 18 will be apparent from an inspection of Figs. 1 and 2. In the arrangement shown in Fig. 1. the forward slope of the top edge of the ejector 18 prevents the latter from striking the wide end of the third book from the 'botton whicli is held back by the top edge portion of the opening. In the arrangement shown in Fig. 2 the rearward slope of the top edge of the ejector'manifestly performs the same function.

From the forgoing it will be seen that the described construction of ejector and de- A livery opening enables the machine to invariably deliver a pair of books, and no more without any amming of the machine, irrespective of how the booksare piled'up in the magazine.

I claim I 1. In a dispensing machine, the combination of a hOuSlIIg having a bottom plate and a magazine for articles to be dispensed and formed witha delivery opening opposite the lower end of said magazine,theupperedge of said opening being of a wide V-shap'e,

and anejector movable over said bottom plate to push articles through said opening, the upper edge of the working face of'said ejector being of a wide inverted V-shapef 2. In a dispensing machine. the c'ombination of a housing having a bottom plate and a magazine for articles to be dispensed and formed with, a delivery opening opposite the lower end of said magazinatlie lower edge of said opening being substantially flush with said bottom plate and its upper edge being of a wide inverted V-shape, and an ejector movable over said bottom plate to push articles through said openin an lower edge of the workingface of said ejector being substantially parallel with the lower; ed e of saidepemng awaits upper edge being of a wide invertedv-shape.

3. In a dispensing machine, the combinabottom plate to push articles through said tion of a housing having a bottom plate and opening, the upper edge of the Working face a magazine for articles to be dispensed and of said ejector being of a Wide inverted 1 formed With a delivery opening opposite V-shape: the apexes of said opening edge 5 the lower end of said magazine, the upper and said ejectorface lying midway of the edge of said opening being of a Wide V- Width of said opening.

shape, and an ejector movable over, said VICTOR H. KELLEY.

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