US638967A - Ejector for coin-detectors for money-controlled machines. - Google Patents

Description

No. 638,967. Patented Dec. l2, I899; O. & A.. JAEGEB. EJEOTOR FOR COIN DETECTORS MONEY CONTROLLED MAOHIN ES.

(Application filed May 3, 1698.)

(No Model.)

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- o'rro JAnenR AND ALEXANfiER JAEGER, or PHILADELPHIA,-

PENNSYLVANIA.

EJECTOR FOR COIN-DETECTORS FOR MONEY-CONTROLLED MACHINES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 638,967, dated December 12, 1899.

, Application filed May 3, 1898. Serial No. 679,597. (No model.)

To all whom it maycortccrn:

Be it known that we, OTTO JAEGER and ALEXANDER JAEGER, citizens of the United States, residing atPhiladelphia, county of Philad elphia,and State of Pennsylvania,have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Ejectors for Coin Detectors for Money-Controlled Machines,.of which the fol lowing is a specification.

Our invention relates to a new and useful improvement in ejectorsfor coin-detectors for automatic vending-machines, and has for its object to simplify and improve upon the construction shown in United States patent application, Serial No. 668,951, filed by us on the 3d day of February, 1898, and a further object of this invention is to prevent the clogging of the guideway for the coins by inserting paper or like substances within said guideway.

WVith these endsin View this invention consists in the details of construction and combination of elements hereinafter set forth and then specifically designated by the claims.

In order that those skilled in the art to which this invention appertains may understand how to make and use the same, the construction and operation will now be described in detail,referrin g to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which Figure 1 is a side View of a coin-detecting mechanism having our improved ejector combined therewith; Fig. 2, a section at the line a: so looking in'the direction of the arrows; Fig. 3, a similar view, but showing the ejector mechanism in the position it assumes upon the insertion of a coin; Fig. l, a section at the line 0a 09 looking in the reversed direction of the arrows, and Fig. 5 a similar view showpermitting it to pass to the chute, and ejects those coins and imitations of coins or other articles which are not up to standard. The h0rseshoe-n1agnet C, which is pivoted within this bracket so as to swing sidewise, has se cured thereto the rod D by means of the screw E; and the ends of this rod serve as arms D and D the former projecting forward into guideway leading from the slot to the chute.

The swinging bar J, which carries the ma net, has attached to or formed with its lower end a push-on": strip K, which lies just above the incline bar L, on which the coin rolls from the slot to the chute, so that when the magnet is swung sidewise, as just set forth, this push-off strip will pass across the surface of the incline bar L and force therefrom any obstruction which may have previously rested thereon.

Zis a cut-off consisting of a pivoted strip over which the magnet passes when it returns to its normal position from its position shown in Fig. 3, and should a spurious coin be attached by attraction of the magnet and the latter be moved vertically from the position shown in Fig. 2 to the position shown in Fig. 3 the coin which lies between the pushout strip and the swinging plate m will be detached from the magnet by the cut-off Z, while at the same time this coin will be pushed off of the incline L by the push-out K and the spurious coin will fall and clear the incline. This push-ofi strip is also of sufficient width to form one of the side walls of the guideway through which the coin passes in rolling down the incline bar, and the opposite wall is formed by the swinging plate M, which is pivoted at N and connected with the arm D by the latter projecting through a slot formed in the oiT-set O, the plate M and striplK being normally parallel, as shown in Fig. 2 This arrangement permits the perfect guidance of a coin from the slot to the chute so long as the mechanism is in its normal position, but at the insertion of each coin the lever F, as

before set forth, is forced sidewise, which causes the magnet and bar J to also swing sidewise, as well as the plate M, and in this sidewise movement of the push-off strip K and plate M any obstruction which may lie upon the incline bar will be readily ejected therefrom, and this is facilitated by the fact that the plate M is so pivoted as to describe a smaller circle than the push-off strip, and thus the distance between the two is increased duringthis swinging movement until they reach the relative position shown in Figs. 3 and 5, and this, as is obvious, would free any obstruction which may have remained therebetween, causing it to fall to one side of the incline bar and prevent the possibility of it entering the chute or becoming an obstruction in the way of the next succeeding coin.

In practice it has been found that this arran gement of ejector is most effective in its operations and at the same time is very simple and cheap of construction and is not liable to be disarranged by use.

Having thus fully described our invention, what We claim as new and useful is 1. In combination with a swinging magnet, a rod bent to produce two arms of unequal length, said rod being secured to swing with the magnet, an incline bar, a swinging plate forming one wall of a guideway, a slotted off-- set on the swinging plate in which one arm operates, a push-off plate forming the opposite wall of the guideway, a bar to be carried by the magnet on which the push-01f plate is secured, and alever pivoted to the escutcheon for operating the arm, as and for the purpose described.

2. In combination, a swinging magnet, a swinging bar secured to the magnet,,a pushoff plate attached to the bar, an inclined bar forming a support for the coin, the push-off.

OTTO JAEGER. ALEXANDER JAEGER.

Witnesses:

AUGUST JAEGER, ADOLPH LOMPE.-

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