US2082708A

US2082708A - Check or coin selector

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Publication number: US2082708A
Application number: US102690A
Authority: US
Inventors: Frank K Maitland
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1936-09-26
Filing date: 1936-09-26
Publication date: 1937-06-01
Anticipated expiration: 1954-06-01

Description

` June 1, 1937.

F. K. MAITLAND CHECK 0R G01N SELECTOR Filed sept. 26,4 1956 INVENTOR.

H15 ATTORNEY.

Patented June 1, 1937 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE CHECK OR COIN SELECTOR Frank K. Maitland, Chicago, Ill. Application September 26, 1936, Serial No. 102,690

3 Claims.

This invention relates to coin control devices and has for one of its important objects the provision of novel selector mechanism for use with coin controlled vending or amusement devices.

The selector mechanism of the present invention is especially suited for use with devices including some form of cyclically operable mechanism, the selector mechanism being periodically operable to separate one or more coins from the bulk of those deposited in the coin control slide, and direct such separated coins into a special container.

Other principal objects and novel features of construction and invention will appear as the l5 following description proceeds in View of the drawing, in which:

Fig. 1 is a vertical sectional View of an amusement device, including the selector mechanism, viewed from the side;

Fig. 2 is a rear vertical section, taken along lines 2--2 of Fig. 1; while Fig. 3 is an enlarged operating detail of part of the selector control mechanism, the View being taken in the direction of the arrows 3 3 of Fig. 2.

The novel selector apparatus is illustrated in Fig. 1 as installed in the cabinet of an amusement device which includes a front wall ID, and a coin slide mechanism including a reciprocable slide member I2 mounted thereon.

Interiorly of the cabinet is a substantially vertical coin chute I4 having its lowermost open end overlying an aperture IS in a horizontally extended shelf-board I8, and having its uppermost open extremity 20 underlying the rearward portion of the coin slide I2, in such manner as to receive coins deposited from the latter and direct them for gravitational movement downwardly through the aperture I 6.

The shelf-board I8 has a member 22 on the underside thereof, in which are grooves for the reception of runners 24 on the sides of a pair of

coin receiving drawers

26 and 28, respectively, the drawer 25 being positioned with its open upper end immediately underlying the lowermost open end I6 of the coin chute I4.

The coin receptacle or drawer 23 underlies an aperture Il in the shelf member I8, which aperture communicates with the lowermost open extremity 30 of an inclined coin chute which communicates at its upper extremity 32 with the vertical coin chute I4, the inclined chute being a branch of the vertical chute. y

The mechanism to be operated in the amusement or vending machine by deposit of a coin in the slide I2 and manipulation of the latter, may be any one of several well known types, it being deemed suiicient for purposes of present description simply to show an operating member of an amusement apparatus, such member being in the form of a shullle panel 35, which is supported for horizontal sliding movement beneath a horizontal partition II of the game cabinet. The shule panel 38 has a depending bracket 38 which is engageable by the rearmost end I3 of the coin slide I 2 when the latter is urged inwardly after deposit of a proper coin so as to set the game apparatus into operation.

The selector mechanism includes a movable baille or gate 40 pivoted in the side walls of the chute structure as at 42 on the shaft 4I, to block the opening juncture of the inclined chute with the vertical chute I4, a suitable spring member 44 being provided on the pivotal mounting 42 to normally urge the gate 48 upwardly and close the upper end 32 of the inclined chute.

The uppermost extremity 20 of the vertical coin chute is provided with an inclined apron having its lowermost extremity 2l positioned above the uppermost extremity of the gate 40 so as to deect descending coins away from the latter when the gate is in raised or open position.

Driving mechanism for periodically closing the gate 40 includes a bracket member 50 suspended from the upper horizontal partition II of the cabinet, and having at its lowermost extremity a yoke-shaped portion including a pair of oppositely disposed side Walls 52. Journaled in, and extended through the side walls 52 of the yokeshaped portion, is a driven shaft 54 having affixed to its right-hand extremity a trip wheel 56, having a flange 58 with one or more tripping pins 60 extended laterally away from the surface of the flange part. At the opposite end of the shaft 54 is a ratchet wheel 62 adapted to be driven by a pawl 64, which in turn is driven by an eccentric 66 on a driven shaft 68 (Fig. 2), which shaft is adapted to be rotated periodically by any suitable game or vending mechanism included in the particular apparatus controlled by the operation of the coin slide mechanism I2. Shaft 68, for example, could be driven from a rotatable` merchandise display turntable, or by a ball elevating mechanism in a game of the pin and ball type, at the termination of the elevation of a predetermined number of balls. In short, any cyclically or periodically operating means may be used to rotate the shaft 68. The ratchet 62 is prevented from retrograde movement by means of a spring urged dog 10, which is mount- Vto be deposited in the latter from ed on the bracket 'member 5I] immediately adjacent the ratchet.

Driving motion is transmitted from the stepping wheel 5S to the gate 40 by means of a second pawl 'I2 which is connected by the cotter pin means shown in Fig. 2 to an oifset extremity 43 of the gate shaft 4|, and at its other extremity this pawl has a notched portion 'M into which the pins 6E? of the stepping wheel 56 are moved as the wheel rotates. The forward (right-hand)` marginal extremities of the pin slot 'M are suitably disposed (for example normally) so that the Y pawl 12 will be urged forwardly, from left to right, as a pin 60 is rotated through a portion of its arc of travel, the pin thereafter passing outof the slot 14.

The pawl 'l2 preferably has a flat surface adapted to bear against the surface of the flange 58 of stepping wheel 5S, and the outermost or right-hand wall portion 52 of the yoke part of the bracket 5E has an offset, slotted portion 53, the slotted part of which embraces the pawl 12 so as to prevent the latter from moving out of operative engagement with the wheel '55.

Operation The foregoing selector mechanism operates in the following manner. Assuming that a proper coin is deposited in the urged inwardly so as to cause its rearward end I3 to bear against the bracket 38 of the assumed shuffle panel so as to release a game apparatus, for example, for operation, the coin deposited will descend into the vertical chute Mat its uppermost end 2Q apron 2l further descend into the chute through the lowerxnost opening I8 and into the drawer 26 therebelow, which may be the proprietors coin receptacle. Y

Thereafter it maybe assumed that the game or vending mechanism operates through one cycle, rotating the shaft 5,5, (Fig. 2), and upon one complete revolution of the latter driving the pawl @it to rotate the ratchet wheel 62 a short distance and correspondingly rotating the stepping wheel` 5B, so that after a predeterminedy number of revolutions` of the latterone of the pins iii) will be positioned in the slot M in pawl 12, and. thereafter the next succeeding step will cause the pawl 'l2 to be urged forwardly toward the right, thus pivoting the crank arm i3 and the shaft 6|, to move the gate di) against the tension of-spring @i4 into the dotted line position of Fig. 1

With the gate d thus effectually blocking the passage in the vertical chute iQthe next coin. the coin slide l2 will be deiiected by the gateinto the descending chute through the lower opening il, and into a coin receiving drawer or receptacle 28 which may be the operatcrsreceptacle.

In the example shownrin Fig. l, the stepping wheel 56 is provided with two pins Si] so that the gate 4l) will be opened twice during each revolution, and it will be apparent that any number of such pins 66 may be provided to operate the gate 40 a corresponding number of times for each cycle of operation of the wheel 5S. In each instance, the gate 49 will remain in blocking position until a pin 6@ moves out of the slot 'I4 in arm '12, the spring ed being effective thereafter to return the gate to normal position, closing the, inclined chute.

slide i2 and the latter isY and possibly striking the While the embodiment just described in detail represents a preferred form of the invention, I do not desire to be restricted to any precise details of structure or operation other than may be provided for in the following claims which I desire to protect by Letters Patent of the United States.

I claim:

1. Coin selecting means for use with apparatus having a coin deposit device adapted to free a driven mechanism for operation, said means including coin guiding means positioned to receive coins from said deposit device, coin deflecting means movable from a normal position to deflect the direction of movement of coins in said guiding means, together with driving mechanism for periodically moving said deflecting means from said normal position into deecting position, said driving mechanism comprising a driving arm operatively connected with said deflecting means at one end, and having a notch near an opposite end, a. driven wheel having pin means engageable in said notch periodically upon rotation of said driven wheel to move said arm and the deflecting means connected therewith, a ratchet member operatively connected with said driven wheel, an eccentric operable in cycles by a driving connection with the aforesaid driven mechanism, a pawl driven by said eccentric and arranged to drive said ratchet, substantially as described.

2. Operating mechanism for coin operated devices having a driving mechanism and a movable coin selector, said mechanism comprising a substantially U-shaped bracket, a shaft extended through the opposite sides of the bracket, a trip wheel mounted near one end of the shaft and provided with a tripping pin, a ratchet Wheel near the opposite end of said shaft, means mounted on said bracket and preventing retrograde movement of said ratchet,A a pawl for said ratchet, an eccentric drivingly connected with said pawl and operable by the aforesaid driving mechanism, a second pawl and operatively connected at one end to said coin selector, and having a formation near its opposite end engageable periodically by said tripping pin as saidr trip wheel is revolved by said ratchet.

3. Operating mechanism for coin operateddevices having a driving mechanism and a reciprocably operable coin selector, said mechanism comprising a substantially U-shaped bracket, a shaft extended through. opposite sides of the bracket, al trip wheel having an annular flange adjacent its periphery and a laterally extending trip pin extended from said fiange, a ratchet Wheel. at one end of said: shaft, a dog on saidV bracket and preventing retrograde movement of said ratchet wheel, an elongated pawl drivingly engageable near one end with said ratchet. wheel, anl eccentric driven by the aforesaid driving mechanism and drivingly connected with said pawl, and a second elongated-selector pawl operatively connected with said selector near one end and having a notch formation near its opposite end, means on saidy bracket holding said end of the second pawl with the notch formation close against said flange on the trip wheel, said trippin periodically and transiently engaging the notched part of said pawl and moving the latter to. operate said selector.

lFRANK K. MA'ITLAND.r