US439406A

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Publication number: US439406A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1890-10-28
Anticipated expiration: 1907-10-28

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2 SheetsSheet 1.

G. M. KEMP & A. BIXBY. VOTING MAGHINE AND TOY BANK.

(No Model.)

310.439.4063. Patented Oct. 28, 1890. PM fir-J :L J

WITNESSES:

(No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 2. C. M. KEMP & A. BIXBY VOTING MACHINE AND TOY BANK. No. 439,406. Patented Oct. 28, 1890.

FJELZJ FJELEJ WITNESSES: INVENTOHJ' UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CLARENCE M. KEMP AND ARTHUR BIXBY, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND; SAID BIXBY ASSIGNOR TO SAID KEMP.

VOTING-MACHINE AND TOY BANK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 489,406, dated October 28, 1890.

Application filed November 7, 1889. Serial No. 329,710. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that we, CLARENCE M. KEMP and ARTHUR BIXBY, citizens of the United States, residing at Baltimore, in the State of Maryland, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in a Combined Voting- Machine and Toy Bank, of which the following is a specification, reference being bad therein to the accompanying drawings.

Our invention relates to the improvements in a combined voting-machine and toy bank, wherein the money put into the bankis made to operate mechanism for recording the number of deposits and also to bring into viewer prominence certain figures and to depress or remove from view other figures at the same time. The mechanism 011 which the coin drops will give the coin no inclination to operate in favor of one figure or the other, but leave it to chance which figure shall appear prominent.

The invention also gives means of making a decided vote for any of the figures by shifting the deposit-opening to one side or the other or placing other deposit-openings on each side of the main deposit-opening.

Figure 1 is a view of the apparatus with a large portion of the front of the outside casing removed. Fig. 2 is a side view of cylinder B and the deposit-openingA, showing the coin dropping from the latter to the former. Figs. 3 and 4 are side and front views of one of the recording-wheels and the lever carrying the pawl to move same. Figs. 5 and 6 are perspective and side views of the trough through which the coin passes into the partitioned box or safe. Fig. 7 is a view from the front, showing the manner in which the figures are disclosed and secreted.

A is the slot or hole into which the coin is placed. On the inside of this slot is a tube at, having a bend extending over and a short distance removed from a flanged cylinder B, operating on a pivot b, and made very ment to the right or left. Upon striking the surface Z) it rebounds, then passes downward either to the right or left, and strikes one of the wings or projections 11 or b upon which it will press by means of its fall and weight, and thus give the cylinder movement on its axis in the direction of the coins fall. A pin b in the cutaway portion 7) of one of the cylinder-heads limits the movement of the cylinder after moving the cylinder B. The coin drops from the wing 11 or b For easier description we will say the coin drops from wing b against the lever O, pivoted at c and having at its opposite end a pawl c, engaging teeth of ratchet-wheel E.

Ratchet-wheel E has upon its front face numbered divisions, which divisions passing when wheel E is revolved before an opening in the outer case exhibits the record of the number of times pawl c on the lever C has been actuated by coins dropping against the latter, and consequently is a record of the number of times lever Chas been actuated in this one direction. g is a step-pin to prevent lever O going farther than enough to actuate the ratchet-wheel to the extent of one tooth through pawl c. G is a trough into which the coin next passes. This narrows and provides another vertical opening for the coin to drop through onto the cylinder H beneath it. lylinder II-likewise cylinder L is similar to cylinder B in construction and performance. Troughs K K and O O are similar in construction and performance to trough G. Ratchet-wheels F, J I, N, and M are also similar in construction and performance to ratchetwheel E. Likewise the levers and pawls D and cl, hand It, eand e, n and n, and m and m are in character and performance the same as O and c, and the pins 9 71. e n m are for similar purposes as the pin g. P and P is the bottom, where the coin finally settles. The bottom of the last trough terminates over the partitioned box. or safe, and some of the coins by chance will drop to one side into P and some of the coins into P. One of these boxes, as P, is left open, so that whatever coins may drop into it can be withdrawn. Thus any one putting a coin in has a chance to see the working of the apparatus free of cost by the coin returning to said box P, and all coins ICO . several be used.

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dropping into P remain in the same, which will be considered the bank.

On the front heads of each of the cylinders B, H, and L are supposed to be shown four.

faces, two representing the countenances of one candidate, one of the countenances R expressing agony and the other R expressing bliss, the other figures representing agonized and blissful countenances S S of the other candidate. There are three holes T t t in the front casing of the apparatus, opposite each cylinder, arranged so that when the coin has moved the cylinderto the righttheblissful face S of one candidate presents itself at one opening T and the agonized countenance R of the opposing candidate shows at another opening t, while the third opening t shows blank orsome different figure,if desired; but if the coin has moved. the cylinder to the left the blissful faceR appears at t and the agonized face S of the other candidate appears at t, and the other faces S and R are concealed. Each cylinder B, H, and L can be arranged with the faces of the same or other candidates or figures of any kind to please the fancy. By heightening the apparatus more cylinders can be placed in the apparatus and more ratchetwheels, whereby an extensive combination of faces or characters can be brought into play and recorded by meansof the fall andweight of one coin. Only one cylinder and two ratchetwheels need be used, if desired, or any other proportionate number of cylinders and ratchets can be used in which the trough O 0 will re-' ceive thecoin from the only cylinderor from the last cylinder, according to whether one or If the person dropping the coin in wants it to record fora specific candidate, the extra openings or and a are so placed that the coins leaving a drop to the left-hand side (of the vertical line passing through the center of the cylinder) onto the cylinder 13. Likewise coins passed through a drop to the right-hand side of the vertical line onto the cylinder B, thus makingapositive record for the selected candidate. The cylinders need not have the curved surface 1) extended farther than the wings I) and b and the mech anism for recording can be diiferently operated by the coin instead of the specific mechanism shown, and instead of faces showing on the front heads of the cylinders other devices can show or be operated by the cylinders. The apparatus can be used without therecording devices, if desired.

The apparatus can be operated by other bodies, as marbles, by making the slotted opening to suit same; but it is preferably made The coin will produce the same result if a wire or narrow plate be set beneath it, ofi which it can fall to one side or the other, which will answer the same purpose as the curved portion of the cylinder, in which case a lever f ulcrumed in the middle would answer the purpose of wings I) and 19 The coins will operate the mechanism or cylinders B, H, and L without the use of the recording-wheels and their actuating-levers and pawls.

What we claim as our invention is 1. In a coin-operated mechanism, an oscillatory cylinder for receiving actuation from the fall and Weight of a coin, in combination with a coin-chute placed above the cylinder, through which chute the coin is dropped upon said cylinder, and according to the direction the coin may perchance fall the cylinder is oscillated in the direction as chance may determine.

2. In a coin-operated mechanism, an oscillatory cylinder,in combination with two coinchutes placed above on opposite sides of the center of the cylinder, whereby the cylinder may be operated in either one of its two directions at the will of the operator by dropping a coin in the selected chute.

3. In a coin-operated mechanism, an oscillatory cylinder provided with figures or characters, whereby when motion is given by the fall and weight of a coin upon said cylinder the figures are likewise moved.

4. In a coin-operated mechanism, an oscillatory cylinder and a coin-chute above it, in combination with recording devices for recording the direction of the movement of said cylinder. 7

5. In a coin-operated mechanism wherein the movements are made by the fall and weight of a coin, two or more oscillatory cyl inders, in combination with a chute and one or more troughs, each of which is placed above one of the cylinders and each trough adapted to catch the coin dropping from the cylinder above it and to give the coin such direction as to fall upon and actuate the cylinder beneath said trough, whereby the cylinders are given actuation consecutively by the fall and weight of one coin.

6. In a coin-operated mechanism, two or more oscillatory cylinders, in combination with a coin-chute and one or moretroughs, the mouths of which are placed above said cylinders, respectively, by means of which a coin dropped is left unrestricted inits lateral movements when dropping from each of said chutes, and troughs upon the cylinder beneath and each trough adapted to catch the coin dropping from the cylinder above it and convey it to its mouth, whereby the directions of the movements given the cylinders are unpredetermined and by chance.

7. In a coin-operated mechanism, the combination of a coin-chute and a series of oscillatory cylinders with recording devices for each movement of each cylinder, whereby the movements of allthe cylinders can berecorded.

8. In a coin-operated mechanism, a series of oscillatory cylinders carrying figures, in combination with a coin-chute and one or more troughs the mouths of which are placed above said cylinders, respectively, by means of which the coin is left unrestricted in its lateral movements when dropping from each of said chutes, and troughs upon the cylinder beneath and each trough adapted to catch the coin dropping from the cylinder above it and convey it to its mouth, whereby the movementsgiven by the coin to each of the cylinders are unpredetermined and by chance and the several figures revealed by said cylinders when considered collectively will form chance combinations.

9. In a coin-operated mechanism, an oscillatory cylinder free to turn in either direction, adapted to receive actuation from the fall and weight of a coin, in combination with a coin-chute placed above and a receiving box located beneath said cylinder.

10. In a coin-operated mechanism, an oscillatory cylinder free to turn in either direction, adapted to be operated by the fall and weight of a coin and a coin-chute placed above,

CLARENCE M. KEMP. ARTHUR BIXBY.

Witnesses:

J NO. T. MADDOX, Trros. W. MORSE.