US2952348A - Coin delivery chute - Google Patents

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Sept. 3, 1960 A. R. BUCHHOLZ ETAL 2,952,348

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United States Patent COIN DELIVERY CHUTE Original application Nov. 14, 1955, Ser. No. 546,679,

now Patent No. 2,922,427, dated Jan. 26, 1960. Divided and this application Mar. 27, 1957, Ser. No.

Claims. (Cl. 193-31) The invention relates to coin dispensing machines and more particularly to a coin discharge chute structure that may be used in said machines.

One object of the invention is to provide a discharge chute structure having an electrically operated actuating mechanism that may be under remote control by the operator for shifting the movable chute to its different dispensing positions.

A further object of the invention is to provide a movable discharge chute which can be alternately tipped for discharging coins through one or the other of oppositely disposed dispensing openings and bodily displaced laterally to project through one of said openings to dispense coins therethrough.

This application is a divisional of our copending application Serial No. 546,679, filed November 14, 1955, now Patent No. 2,922,427, for Coin Dispensing Machine.

The invention further consists in the several features hereinafter described and more particularly defined by the appended claims.

In the drawings:

Fig. 1 is a vertical sectional View through a coin dis pensing machine embodying the invention, looking into the front side of the chute structure;

Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view through a coin dispensing machine showing the operating mechanism for the movable chute disposed in front of the chute structure itself;

Fig. 3 is an elevation view of the operating keyboard for the machine, parts being broken away;

Fig. 4 is a circuit diagram for the chute operating mechanism;

Fig. 5 is a detailed vertical sectional view taken at right angles to the view of Fig. l to show a portion of the fixed chute in which the movable chute operates.

In the aforementioned application Serial No. 546,679 the structure for controlling the selective dispensing of coins from the coin tray into the chute CC has been shown and described in detail, and since the present application deals only with the discharge chute structure, only this part of the above mentioned application has been shown.

In the dispensing of coins from the machine it may be desirable to direct the coins from the fixed discharge chute CC to either one of the openings BB in opposite sides of the machine. For this purpose a multipositional chute DD is mounted in the machine in the fixed chute CC so that under the control of the operator it may be inclined in one direction to deliver coins through one of the side openings and in the opposite direction to deliver coins to the other of the side openings. As shown in Fig. 1, the chute is hung by pivots EE and FF to one of the ends of levers EL and FL whose other ends are respectively mounted on pivots ELL and FLL. The levers EL and FL are respectively pivotally connected intermediate their ends by pins EP and PP to links GG and HH, The links GG and HH are pivotally connected ice together by a pin II which is mounted on an operating lever 0L carried by a shaft IS, journalled in the housing, and which also as shown in Fig. 2 carries a crank or lever SX that forms one arm of a toggle linkage, whose other arm TL is a rod slidably mounted in a pivot pin TP. A spring SP is interposed between said pin TP and the connection between the parts SX and TL so that when the crank SX is moved beyond vertical dead center, the spring SP will tend to break the toggle linkage. The levers EL and FL are so disposed relative to the chute DD as to have one of their sides SK form a support for the chute DD when in either of its inclined dispensing positions, one of these being shown in operative position in Fig. 1. For controlling the positioning of the chute DD from the operators station at the keyboard, a pair of solenoids SSC are mounted in alined position with their plungers SSP operatively connected by links SL to the pin SLL that connects with the lever SX and the rod TL. Referring to Fig. 4, the coils for the solenoids SSC have one of their terminals connected to a supply conductor 135. The other side of one of the coils is connected by a conductor 136 with a manually operated control'switch 137 that connects with the other supply conductor 138. The other side of the other solenoid is connected by the conductor 138 including manually controlled switch 139. Closing of switch 137 energizes the right hand solenoid shown in Fig. 2, and closing of the switch 139 energizes the left hand coil of the solenoid SSC, and as shown in Fig. 2 this left hand coil has been energized to move the lever 51. toward the left, and in doing so it acts through the lever OL, links GG, HH, levers EL and FL to swing the chute DD to the position shown in Fig. 1. Closure of the switch 137 acts on the right hand solenoid to shift plunger SSP of the solenoid SSC toward the right and swing the lever SX over to the right hand side of the vertical, thus shifting the chute DD to the tilted dotted line position shown in Fig. 1.

When the chute DD is shifted to either of its dispensing positions, the toggle linkage formed by parts SX and TL is broken and held in this condition by the spring SP which as previously noted also acts to move this linkage after the same has been carried over its. alined toggle position.

We desire it to be understood that this invention is not to be limited to any particular form or arrangement of parts except insofar as such limitations are included in the claims.

What we claim as our invention is:

1. In a coin dispensing machine, the combination of a housing having opposed side openings, a fixed delivery chute in said housing for receiving dispensed coins, a tiltable and laterally shiftable delivery chute member pivotal- 1y mounted in said fixed chute for delivering coins to either of said opposed side openings, a pair of solenoids, a source of current and electrical circuits for energizing said solenoids, operator controlled switches in said circuits and mounted on said housing, and means connecting said shiftable delivery chute member to said solenoids so that when one of said solenoids is energized by the operation of one of said switches said chute member will be concurrently tilted and shifted laterally relative to its pivot to deliver coins to one of said side openings, and when the other of said solenoids is energized by the operation of the other of said switches said chute member will be concurrently tilted and shifted laterally relative to its pivot to deliver coins to the other of said side openings.

2. In a coin dispensing machine, the combination of a housing having opposed side openings, a fixed delivery chute in said housing for receiving dispensed coins, a tiltable and laterally shiftable delivery chute member pivotally mounted in said fixed chute for deliverying coins to either of said opposed side openings, an oscillatory shaft, means operatively connecting said shaft with said tiltable and shiftable chute member to concurrently tilt the chute member and shiftthe same laterally relative to its pivot, a pair of oppositely disposed solenoids, plungers for said solenoids, linkage operatively connecting said plungers together, a toggle linkage operatively connecting said first named linkage to said shaft to oscillate said shaft and hold it in one of its positions in which said chute member is positioned to dispense coins through one of said openings, and means for selectively energizing said solenoids including a pair of switches mounted on said housing, one switch controlling the operation of one of said solenoids and'the other switch controlling the operation of'the other solenoid.

3. In a coin dispensing machine, the combination of a housing having side openings, a fixed delivery chute in said housing for receiving dispensed coins, a shiftable delivery chute member, a pair of spaced levers mounted in said fixed chute for suspending said chute member and for moving the same to an inclined position relative to either of said openings with its delivery end projecting through the selected opening, an oscillatory lever disposed between said spaced levers, and links operatively connecting said oscillatory lever to said spaced levers to shift the sameto positions in which said delivery chute member is in one of its inclined coin dispensing positions relative to one of said openings.

4. In a coin dispensing machine, the combination of a housing having side openings, a fixed delivery chute in said housing for receiving dispensed coins, a shiftable delivery chute member, a pair of spaced levers mounted in said fixed chute for suspending said chute member and for moving the same to an inclined position relative to either of said openings with its delivery end projecting through the selected opening, each of said levers having a pad portion to selectively form a rest for said chute member when in an inclined coin dispensing position, an oscillatory lever disposed between said spaced levers, and links operatively connecting'said oscillatory lever with intermediate portions of said spaced levers to shift the same to positions in which saiddelivery chute member is in one of its inclined coin dispensing positions relative to one of said openings.

5. In a coin dispensing machine, the combination of a housing having side openings, a fixed delivery chute in said housing for receiving dispensed coins, a shiftable delivery chute member, a pair of spaced levers mounted in said fixed chute for suspending said chute member and for moving the same to an inclined position relative to either of said openings with its delivery end projecting through the selected opening, an oscillatory shaft, a lever mounted on said shaft and disposed between said spaced levers, links operatively connecting said last named lever with said spaced levers to shift the same to either of their positions in which said delivery chute member is in operative inclined position relative to the selected opening, a toggle linkage connected to said shaft to turn the same and hold it and consequently said chute member in one of its coin dispensing positions, and means for operating said toggle linkage.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS 1,391,195 Ladd Sept. 20, 1921 1,998,602 Anderson Apr. 23, 1935 2,037,931 Schmidt Apr. 21, 1936 2,075,247 Wheeler Mar. 30, 1937 2,190,094 Brenchley Feb. 13, 1940 2,607,460 Russell Aug. 19, 1952 2,848,005 Buchholz Aug. 19, 1958 FOREIGN PATENTS 83,662 Germany Apr. 11, 1895

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