US597486A

US597486A - Automatic vending device

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Publication number: US597486A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1898-01-18
Anticipated expiration: 1915-01-18

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N M 11.) k 0 0 e D. BROWNE AUTOMATIC VENDING DEVICE. No. 597,486. Patented Jan. 18, 1898.

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DAVIS BROWN, OF DECATUR, ILLINOIS.

'AUTOMATIC VENDiNG DEVICE.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Fatent No. 597,486, dated January 18, 1898.

A lication flied February 15, 1897. Serial No. 623,458. (lilo model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, DAVIS BROWN, of Decatur, in the county of Macon and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in. Automatic Vending Devices, of which the following is a specification.

This invention", relates to coin-controlled vending-machines. ,It is more particularly designed to vend cigars. Its leading object is to enable cigars to be sold directly from the box. It is exemplified in the structure hereinafter describedfand it is defined in the appended claims. 7

In the drawings forming part of this specification, Figure 1 is a front elevation of a vending device embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a rear elevation of the same with the rear wall or door removed.

vertical section on line it} in Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a vertical section on line y in Fig. 1. Fig. 5

is an end view of the cigar-deliverer on an enlarged scale. Fig. (i is a detail of the coinreleased locking mechanism, also enlarged.

In constructing a vender in accordance with my invention a casing, as 1, is made with a forwardly-extendin g lower portion that forms an oblique and preferably rounded ledge or shelf The ledge has a longitudinal slot 3 near one of its ends, and such slot is enlarged at its center, as shown at 4. The upper portion of the front of the casing is cut away, as shown at 5, to expose the cigar-box and cigars in the case, and such cutaway portion is closed with a glass that makes the cigars inaccessible. A partition 23 divides the lower part of the casing into two compartments, a removable door 6 forms the rear wall, and a slot 26 at one side of the casing provides for the insertion of coins. A shaft 14 is journaled in bearings fastened to the side walls of the casing. It occupies a position in the rear of and somewhat below the ledge 2 and immediately above the partition 23, and it is provided with a cigar-deliverer 15 and a lock member 11. A spring 24 encircles the shaft, with one end bearing against the partition and the other against the deliverer 15, and its tendency is to hold the deliverer in the position indicated in the drawings. The deliverer consists of a seinicylindrical body having a radial slot 16 at about the center of its convex surface. In the slot is placed a con- Fig.'3 is av cave plate 17, which is adjustable in the slot by means of screws, as 19, and springs, as 18, the springs acting to force the plate outward and the screws being employed to force it inward. The slot of the deliverer is enlarged at its center to correspond with the enlargement 4 of the slot of the casing. The convex surface of the deliverer is circular, excepting the portions immediately adjoining the slot, and these are chords, as shown at 20 in Fig. 5. The lock member on shaft 14 comprises a wing 11, which has a pawl-rest surfaceon its outer edge concentric with the shaft, a detent-shoulder 12, extending above the pawlrest surface, and a recess 11, which is adapted to receive a coin, as 27 in Fig. 6. The recess is deep enough to receive a nickel five-cent piece, for instance, and hold its upper edge in line with the upper surface of the detentshoulder. Its back wall I is approximately radial with relation to the shaft, and its front Wall is cut away to permit the coin to escape after the wing is unlocked. A pawl 10 is pivoted in the casing, with its end 1O normally resting on the rest-surface of the wing some distance behind the detent-shoulder, and such end 10 is broad enough to extend from side to side of the wing, including the recess for the coin. A tortuous chute Sis fastened to a side wall of the casing in such position that one end communicates with the slot 26 and the other with the recess of wing 11, and it is preferably proi' ided with a lug 9, that forms a bearing for pawl 10. A rod 13, connecting with the win g and extending through a slot in the casing, provides for rocking the deliverer whenever the wing is unlocked.

In preparing for operating the vender'an end is removed from a box of cigars and the box is placed, removed end down ward, on the upper surface of the deliverer and with its open face presented to the glass of the cutaway portion of the casing. A cross-bar 21, which fits inside the inclined end blocks 7, may be used for holding the box in proper position, and it maybe assisted by suitable catches adapted to engage the lid and hold it parallel with the glass. Ordinarily the deliverer is locked by the pawl and the detent-shoulder of the wing, which prevent the shaft from rockin g backward far enough to permit a cigar to fall into the slot of the deliverer, and

when it is desired to obtain a cigar acoin, in this case a nickel, is dropped into the slot and utilized to unlock the wing. The coin is conducted by the chute 8 to recess 11, in which is temporarily held the end of the pawl. Its upper surface rises as high as the upper surface of the detent-shoulder, and when the rod 13 is pushed inward, after the coin is deposited, the pawl will ride up the incline formed by the edge of the coin and rise clear of the detent-shoulder. The deliverer may then be rocked backward until its cigar-receiving slot is far enough back to receive a cigar, or as far as the length of the rod will permit, and then returned to its shown position, carrying a cigar to the discharge-slot 3. The motion of the shaft in act of receiving a cigar dumps the coin from the recess of the wing, and as soon as the cigar is picked out of the slot the vender is ready for a repetition of the operation. If a penny-2'. 6., a United States one cent pieceshould be dropped into the slot, its diameter would not be great enough to enable it to act as an incline for the pawl, and it would simply pass under the pawl and into the coin-receptacle in the bottom of the casing without affecting any result whatever.

The device is adapted for cigars of different diameters by adjusting plate 17 in or out of the slot, which is accomplished by driving the screws into the deliverer in the one i11- stance and loosening them in the other instance. The screws extend loosely through holes in the plate, and when they are driven into the deliverer they force the plate toward the bottom of the slot. WVhen the screws are drawn outward, the spring moves the plate in the same direction.

The chord-surfaces 20, adjacent to the slot of the deliverer, enable the somewhat yielding and rounded surface of the cigar in the slot to project beyond its inclosing walls and to act against the other cigars as it moves under them. This protects the cigars from the rubbing action of the hard unyielding edges of the slot and tends also to agitate the cigars in a manner to prevent packing thereof.

Having thus described my invention, 1

claim as new and desire to secure by Letters 5 Patent 1. In a vending device the combination of a receptacle for cigars, or the like, an oscillatory deliverer adapted to form a closure for the lower end of the receptacle, such deliverer having a slot to receive a single article and carry it outside the receptacle, a plate in the slot, springs tending to press the plate outward, screws adapted to force the plate inward against the action of the springs, a casing for the deliverer in front ofthe receptacle, such casing having a slot through which the article delivered may be taken from the slot of the deliverer, and a coin-releasable lock for the deliverer, substantially as set forth.

2. In a vending device, a delivery member having a slot, a plate in the slot, springs tending to press the plate outward and screws adapted to force the plate inward against the action of the springs.

3. In a vending device, an oscillatory deliverer having a convex surface, a slot in the convex surface and chord-formed surfaces adjacent to the edges of the slot, whereby an article in the slot may project beyond the edges of the slot without protruding beyond the line, of convexity, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I sign my name in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

DAVIS BROWN.

Attest:

SAMUEL DILLER, HENRY J. VorAw.