US553204A

US553204A - edwin

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Publication number: US553204A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1896-01-14
Anticipated expiration: 1913-01-14

Description

(No Model.) I A. R. BROWN 8: E. C. J. DEVIS.

COIN CONTROLLED APPARATUS No. 553,204. Patented Jan. 14, 1-896.

M. g/ENTORS WITNESSES V $7 M. PHOTOUMQWASM UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ARTHUR R. BROWVN, OF LONDON, AND E'DVVIN O. J. D E VIS, OF SCHOOL ROAD, NEAR BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND, ASSIGNORS TO CLARENCE IV. DE KNIGHT, OF \VASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

COIN-CONTROLLED APPARATUS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 553,204, dated January 14, 1896.

Application filed November 25, 1895. Serial No. 570,098. (No model.) Patented in England March 28, 1890, No. 4,87%

T aZZ whom it may concern: which is either pressed toward the front of 45 Be it known that we, ARTHUR RICHARD the machine by a spring or weight or is a BROWN, residing at The Park, Harrow, Lonspring itself. The coin being pressed through don, in the county of Middlesex, and EDWIN the coin-orifice 0 in the front wall 0 of the O. J. DEVIs, re'sidingatLaurel Cottage, School casing presses the bar 6 backward till the Road,nearBirmingham,in the county of lVarnotched end of the rack g catches over a fixed 5o wick, England, subjects of the Queen of Great stop it and retains it in the position shown, g Britain, have invented new and useful Imbeing the heavier end of the lever. The coin provements in Coin- Controlled Apparatus, then falls down and is guided by the plate 0 10 (shown in our British Letters Patent No.4,874, onto the tray f, which it bears down,releasing dated March 28, 1890;) and we do hereby dethe rack from the stop it and lifting it into clare the following to be a full, clear, and exgear with the pinion a of the rotatable eleact description of said invention, reference ment. The weight or spring brings the bar 6 being had to the accompanying drawing, and and rack g forward again, rotating the pinion I 5 to the letters of reference marked thereon, a and the exhibiting element F), and when the which forms a part of this specification. rack is clear of the pinion,the lever tilts under This invention relates to coin-controlled apthe weight of the coin and the latter slips ofi paratus, and has particular reference to that into the hopper d. type of such machines which exhibit games The rack and pinion may be of the fric- 20 or amusements of chance or depend in some tional type.

measure upon chance. In such machines The stop a may be yielding-1y supported in it is common to employ rotatable exhibiting order to more readily permit the rack g to pass elements which are operated or started to backward between it and the pinion a, and rotate or spin by various means. the teeth of the rack are so inclined as to per- 25 The object of this present invention is the mit them to slip over the teeth of the pinion production of improved means for starting when passing rearwardly and engage said and rotating the exhibiting element by the teeth whenreturning. power stored in a spring during the act of in- Having now described our invention, what sorting a coin; and to this end the invention we claim is- 5 36 consists in the construction and combination 1. In a coin-controlled apparatus, a rotatof parts substantially as hereinafter described able exhibiting element, a spring having con- 7 5 and claimed. nections so as to rotate said element in one In the drawing, the figure represents a side direction, and mechanism operated by the inelevation of the mechanism constituting our sertion of a coin in a suitable slot to store 3 5 invention, and so much of the casing, in secpower in said spring, one of the elements of tion, as is necessary to illustrate the location said mechanism consisting of a movable bar of said mechanism. 5 or arm extending across the pathway of the A pinion a'is fixed to the rotatable spindle coin at a distance from the mouth of the slot or shaft of the drum or disk Z), which may have less than the diameter of the coin, whereby 40 pictures, figures or other characters thereon, the coin itself, in the act of insertion through and constitutes the exhibiting element of a the slot, may act as the prime mover for so-called fortune-telling machine. storing power in the spring.

f is a tray and g a rack, the two forming a 2. In a coin-controlled apparatus, a rotatlever supported atthe lower end of a bar e, able exhibiting element, a spring having connections so as to rotate said element in one direction, and mechanism operated by the insertion of a coin in a suitable slot to store power in said spring.

3. In a coin-controlled apparatus, the combination With the casing having a coin slot, of the bar 6 extending across the path of the slot and having the lever composed of the tray f and rack g pivoted to its lower end, and the rotatable element 1) having the pinion a, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof We affix our signatures in presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

ARTHUR RICHARD BROWN. EDXVIN O. J. DEVIS. Witnesses as to signature of Arthur Richard Brown:

W. BIBBY, E. COURTNEY WALKER. Vitnesses as to signature of Edwin C. J. Devis:

L. A. STRATroN, S. L. KENNEDY.