US676145A

US676145A - Vending-machine.

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Publication number: US676145A
Application number: US3089900A
Authority: US
Inventors: Herbert S Mills
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1900-09-24
Filing date: 1900-09-24
Publication date: 1901-06-11
Anticipated expiration: 1918-06-11

Description

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HERBERT S. MILLS, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

VENDING-MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 676,145, dated June 11, 1901.

Application filed September 24, 1900. Serial No. 30,899. (No model.)

To all whont it may concern.-

Beit known that I, HERBERT S. MILLS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a new and usefullmprovement in Vending-Machines, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates particularly to a boguscoin detector for coin-controlled or coin-operated mechanism.

My primary object is to provide improved means for removing metallic disks, pasteboard disks, or the like which may be fed into the machine in lieu of coins by unscrupulous or mischievous persons.

My invention is illustrated in its preferred form in connection with a peanut-vending machine in the accompanying drawings. The Vending-machine is fully illustrated for the sake of clearness; but the novel features re lating thereto are claimed in a divisional app laication, Serial No. 52,369, filed March 22, 1 01.

In the drawings, Figure l is a broken view taken-as indicated at line 1, Fig. 6, and showing certain of the operative parts in one position; Fig. 2, a view similar to Fig. 1,,but showing said parts in a different position;

Fig. 3, a view similar to Fig. 2, but'showing.

a still different position of the parts; Fig. 4:, a broken sectional view taken as indicated at line 4 of Fig. 6; Fig. 5, a view similar to Fig. 4, but showing the parts locatedatdifferent relative positions; Fig. 6, a broken central, vertical section, and Fig. 7 a broken vertical section takenas indicated at line 7 of Fig. 5

and showing one position of the parts of the;

. rear face-plate D; E, a stud upon which the measuring device 0 is supported; F, a support for the stud E, which is itself rigidly attached to'lugs G on the inner face of the door A by screws 0t; H, a coin-operated disk rigidly secured to the front of the stud E on the front side of the support F; I, an operating shaft or stud journ'aled in the casing-front A and provided at its outer end with an operating-knob I and at its inner end with a rigid transverse arm l bearing a coin-actuating curved arm 1 J, a spring connected with a rearwardly-extending lug or arm b at the outer end of the arm I and connected also to screw or stud b, rigid with the casefront; K, a pawl pivoted on a stud 0, projecting from the inner face of the casing-frontand connected to the frame-front by a spring K; L, amagnet-actuatingdevice pivotallyconnected with the stud c and connected with the framefront by a spring L, said device being pro vided with an upwardly-extending magnetactuating arm L M, Fig. l, a portion of the bogus-coin-detector chamber seen-red to the front frame by screws (1; M, a supplemental portion of said chamber, secured to the part M by screws (1; N, a device which serves to prevent disks of cardboard or the like from passing to. the coin-operated wheel H; P, a magnet pivotally supported in slotted lugs f, with which the part M is provided; P P,

stationary prongs which serve to remove 130- r gus coins from the magnet P; Q, an upper I.

rearwardly-projecting flange connected with the casing-front and serving as a portion of the supporting means for the casing D; Q, a

delivered thereto by the measuring device; S, a discharge-tube to which the material gravitates from the inclined part S j T, a glass plate forming a front for the chamber B and itself supported in an annular rim 9, and V a sight-glass located in front of the coin-actuated wheel H and serving to expose to view coins which are in eontact'with the front face of the wheel or disk H.

As appears particularly from a view of Figs. 2 and 6, the lower portion of the casingfront is bowed or bulged outwardly to afford a housing for the coin-actuated wheel and theattendant parts. As shown in Fig. 6, the casing D affords virtually a removable cover for the depression wherein are'housed the parts H and the attendant parts. The casing D has rearwardly projecting curved flanges h, to which is secured a removable rear face-plate D of "said casing. The upper" portion of the casing D is in commhnicat-ion i the pockets can be readily regulated by adjustment of the screws 1. Asshown in Fig. 6, the entrance to that pocket of the measurdv' ice which chances to be uppermost 1s and A e measuring device. The lower end of messag ng D iso'pen and in communication withthe inclined surface S, as shown in Fig. 6.

As town in Fig. 6, the disk or Wheel H is V ed centrally of its front face to receive a'ce'ntral boss or stiid n in the rear of the it, with which the stiid or shaft I is pi'bvid d; The wheel or disk H is provided on frb'nt snrface with lugs 19 and on its rear with lugs 19. A passage g for coins is prov ded through the bogus-coin detector, ann fiafi eq' is provided on the inner surfz'tc of the casing-front for the coin to drop npe'ti after-it passes through said coin-detecrapp ng- 4 shows the flange q as formed in teg a witha removable piece (1 recessed to as ha eiiamiel g3, the front wall of which is prev edhy the casing-front when the piece seem-sq in place, as by screws q. The eigd o'f the curved arm I is concaved at r, and the said arm is of a thickness corresponding to the width of the channel g so that when the hi 1 is at rest a coin passing through the an'nelq will be supported by the end oftheartn Band that lug p of the coin-actu ated wheel H which happens to be adjacent t8 end (if the arm 1 It will n'ow be understood that when the passes through the channel g to the front face tif the wheelH and rests in contact with he tres end of the arm I movement of the m; I? against the force exerted by its spring will serve, through the medium of the coin and one of the lugs 19, to impart movement to thefctjinfwheel, The measuring device 0 rotapes the right and downward, and as each ptcretp 'sses beneath the lower portion of the chamber B it is charged with a quantity of the cpininodity or material from said chamtar; With the construction sho'wn aplurality 6f pockets are kept charged at one time, and a rotation of the device 0 throngli a given fraction are revolution is su'flicient to cause the contents of the lowermost charged pocket to be discharged, As explained, the device 0 is rigid with the shaft E, and as the shaft E rotates with the disk or wheel H the effect of moving the disk H through the medium of the coin is to cause the material held in one of the pockets of the'measuring device to be. delivered to the purchaser.

The arm 1 moves in a curved recess cl and is limited in its movement by stops 8' The device L is provided with an arm which bears upon the branch arm or lug b of the arm 1 and the device L is actuated by said lug b.

In Fig. 1 the pawl K is shown in its normal position, with its end bearing against one of the lugs 19' of the wheel H and the upper concave edge of the pawl bearing against an: other of the lugs p on said wheel. As the Wheel 1-1 rotates in the direction indicated by the arrow in Fig. 2 the lug which is in conta'c't with the upper edge of the pawl rndves toward the end of the pawl, and by thetime' the arm I is moved the length of its" stroke said pawl slips past said lug and the end of the pawl engages the lug, thereby preventing retraction of the Wheel during the reverse movement of the actuating-arm; V it The magnet P is provided with anarni VV', which is engaged by a cam on the upper end of the arm L during the moveiiieiit or the device L, thereby swinging the magnet rearwardly. Should a coin be employedwhi'ch contains iron, the same is attracted by the magnet, and as the iiia'gnet swings wardly it carries the bogus coin-with it tintil the coin is engaged by the stationary prongs P P where it is disengaged free-1 the magnet and caused to fall within the casing and clear from the channel g leading to the coin-actuated wheel. The device N is piv otally supported, as shown, and is provided with an adjustable weight o its frent side; so as to be' caused to project normallyinto the path of a coin introduced from the channel q. Should a pasteboard disk for a disk ofother light material he einployedin lieu of a coin, the Weight thereof would he insnffi-' cien't to vmove the device N and the disk would be thrown from the channel leading to the coin-actuated wheel; I

In operation, assuming the receptacle B to have been charged and the measuring device 0 to have been rotated in any suitable inan-- ner to have three of its pockets charged, a

coin may be dropped into the slot g, from whence it will drop upon the flange q and be directed to the channel Q3. Rotation of the handle I in the proper direction will cause the arm I to move the coin which has passed into contact therewith against the lii'g 19, "which is close above the coin, and through the medium of said lag the wheelH will be turned and therewith the shaftE will be rotated, causing a movement of the evice O and the emptying of one 'of the pockets thereof in the manner alreadydeserihed; At each movement of the actuating-arm I the arm 1) causes a movement of the magnetactuating device L. A coin of the proper nature acquires sufficient momentum to move the device N, but any disk which is too light will be thrown out of the coin-chute by said device. Should the coin contain iron, it would be attracted by the magnet and removed in the manner already described.

Changes in details of construction within the spirit of my invention may be made.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The combination with coin-controlled or coin-operated mechanism, of a manually-actuated magnet located adjacent to the path of the coin, and a stationary point against which the attracted disk is carried during the movement of the magnet, and by which the magnet is relieved of its load, substantially as described.

2. The combination with coin-controlled mechanism having a rock-shaft,of a movablysupported magnet located adjacent to the coin-passage, and magnet-actuating means actuated from said rock-shaft, substantially as described.

3. The combination with coin-controlled mechanism having a rook-shaft, of a pivot ally-supported magnet located adjacent to and parallel with the coin-passage, a pivoted magnet-actuating device having its pivotsubstantially perpendicular to the plane of said magnet, and means connected with said rockshaft for moving said magnet-actuating device at each operation of the machine, sub- 5 stantially as and for the purpose set forth.

4. The combination with coin-controlled mechanism, including a rock-shaft and a coin-wheel, of an arm carried by said rockshaft, a movable magnet supported adjacent to the coin-passage on the rear side of the wheel, a magnet-actuating device mounted to swing in a plane substantially perpendicular to said rock-shaft, and means through the medium of which said device is operated from said arm, substantially as described.

5. The combination with coin-controlled mechanism having a rock-shaft and a coinpassage above said rock-shaft, of a magnet pivoted to lie adjacent to said coin-passage, aspring-held magnet-actuating device mounted to swing in a plane perpendicular to said shaft and provided with an arm for moving the magnet, and means carried by said rockshaft for moving said magnet-actuating device, substantially as described.

6. The combination with coin-controlled mechanism having a rock-shaft, and a coinactuated wheel at the rear end of and perpendicular to said rock-shaft, of an arm on said rock-shaft on the front side of said coinactuated wheel, a rearwardly-projecting lug adjacent to the periphery of the wheel, a rearwardly-swinging magnet suspended adjacent to the rear side of said coin-passage, and a magnet-actuating device at the rear side of said Wheel and engaged by said lug, said device being mounted to swing in a plane parallel to said wheel, substantially as described.

HERBERT S. MILLS.

\Vitnesses:

D. W. LEE, ALBERT D. BAOCI.