US681731A - Coin-controlled vending apparatus. - Google Patents

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No. 68|,73L Patented Sept. 3, |90I. M. F. PRICE.

CDIN CUNTBOLLED VENDING APPARATUS.

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COIN CUNTRDLLED VENDING APPARATUS.

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MILBERT FRANKLIN PRICE, OF IOWA CITY, IOVA.

COIN-CONTROLLED VENDING APPARATUS.

PECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 681,731, dated September 3, 1901.

Application lerl May 16, 1900I T0 all whom. it may concern:

13e it known that I, MILBERT FRANKLIN PRICE, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Iowa City, in the county of Johnson and State of Iowa, have invented a new and Improved Coin-Controlled Apparatus, of

' which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to a coin-controlled apparatus involving a hand-lever with a coinpocket receiving the coin and also with a dog for imparting movement from the hand-lever, such dog being engaged by the side of the coin to throw the dog into active position, the coinpocket having a movable wall which releases the coin as the hand -lever moves. This mechanism is particularly adaptable to vending-machines. I have shown it applied to a collar-button-Vendingapparatus,whichforms the subject-matter of my copending application, Serial No. 39,626, led December 13, 1900, such copending application having been divided from the present case.

This specification is a specific description of one form of my invention, While the claims are definitions of the actual scope thereof.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, formingapart of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a sectional view of the invention on the line 1 1 of Fig. 2. Fig. 2 is a par tial front elevation. Fig. 3 is a vertical section on the line 3 3 of Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a fragmentary view somewhat similar to Fig. 1, but showing the parts in a different position. Fig. 5 is a vertical section on the line 5 5 in Fig. 4. Fig. 6 is a horizontal section on the line 6 6 in Fig. 4. Fig. 7 is a horizontal section on the line 7 7 in Fig. 4, and Fig. 8 is a horizontal section on the line 8 8 in Fig. 4.

In applying the improved coin-controlled apparatus to a vending-machine the working parts are mounted in a suitable casing 14, and this casing is fitted with aframe-plate 15, secured to the inner side of its back Wall and provided with arms 16 and 17, which carry a merchandise-chute. The drawings show collar-buttons 19 carried in the chute. The lower end of the merchandise-chute passes through an opening 20 in the front Wall of the casing, so that the collar-buttons may be de- Serial No. 16,867. (No model.)

livered upon a ledge 2l, forming part of the casing 14. An arm 33 is pivotally mounted alongside of the chute 18, and the lower end of the arm carries a stop-pin 37 and a releasea pin 38, the stop-pin being situated above the release-pin. The stop-pin is mounted to slide in one side edge of the merchandise-chute and has its front end bent sidewise or backward, so as to project into the merchandise` chute when the arm 33 is in the position shown in Fig. 1, and thereby hold the pile of collarbuttons in the merchandise-chute and prevent any of them which are located above the pin 37 from passing onto the ledge 21. When the arm 33 moves forward to the position shown in Fig. 4, the bent end of the stoppin 37 moves out of the merchandisechute and the collarbuttons are allowed to fall upon the release-pins 38 and are arrested thereby. (See Figs. 4, 7, and 8.) When, therefore, the arm 33 moves forward, (see Fig. 4,) the stoppin becomes inactive and the release-pin momentarily holds the collar-buttons within the chute. normal position (see Fig. l) the stop pin moves backward (see dotted lines in Fig. 7) and then it serves to support all of the collarbuttons excepting the lowermost one, which latter will have passed below the stoppin. Simultaneously with this operation of the stop-pin 37 the release-pin 38 will have moved out of the merchandise-chute, and the collar-button which previously laid between the pins 37 and 38 will be released and permitted to fall upon the ledge 21, where it may be taken by the purchaser.

My improved coin controlled apparatus comprises a coin-chute 22, which delivers the coin into a pocket 23, formed in the hand-lever 24, the front end of which projects through the front wall of the casing and the rear end of which is fulcrumed upon the lower extremity of the frame-plate 15. A retractile spring 25 is connected with the lever 24 and arm 16 to hold the lever in normal position. (See Fig. 1.) The inner wall of the coin-pocket 23 is formed by the vertical member of an elbow-lever 26, which is fulcrumed on Athe lever 24 and connected with a link 27, which is also connected with the arm or bracket 16. A spring 28 presses the elbow-lever 26 to its normal or inactive position, as indicated in Then as the arm 33 is returned to its.

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Fig. l. This elbow-lever 26, forming the movable wall of the coin-pocket, is engaged by the edge of the coin. One of the side walls of the coin-pocket carries two lugs 29, projecting upwardly and having a dog 3() pivot'- ally mounted between them, such dog being hung to lie normally in the position shown in Fig. 3, in which position it projects into the pocket 23 in the path of the coin as it enters the same. As the coin drops into the pocket 23 it engages its Aside wall against the dog 30 and throws the dog to the position shown in Fig. 5. The coin is indicated by the letter a in Figs. 4 and 5. As the dog 30 is thrown to the position shown in Fig. 5 it is then in position to impart the movement of the lever 24 to the devices to be operated bythe coin-controlled apparatus. Vhen operating with the vending apparatus here shown, the transversely-turned lower extremity of the arm 3l of the dog is thrown into engagement with an inclined lug 32 on the arm 33. When the end 3l of the dog is engaged with the projection 32 of the arm 33 and when the hand-lever 24 is thrown downward, the end 3l of the dog rides on the projection 32 and causes the arm 33 to move forward from the position shown in Fig. l to that shown in Fig. 4. The arm 33 is thrown back to the position shown in Fig. l upon the return or upward movement of the lever 24, which return of the arm 33 is etfected by a pin 34, carried onthe hand-lever 24 and working against an inclined projection 35 on the front edge of the hand-lever. The backward movement of the arm 33 is checked by a pin 36, carried on the arm 16.

In the operation of the coin-controlled apparatus the operator inserts a coin in the coin-chute, and this falls into the coin-pocket, where it lodges against the elbow-lever 26, the coin engaging its edge with the elbowlever. Simultaneously the coin engages one of its side faces with the dog 30 and throws the dog from the position shown in Fig. 3 to that shown in Fig. 5, engaging the end 3l of the dog with the projection 32 on the arm The parts will now be in position to permit the movement of the hand-lever to be imparted to the machine or device with which my invention is used, and this is effected by manually or otherwise moving the lever 24. Upon moving the hand-lever downward the bell-crank lever 26 is moved relav tively to the hand-lever and the part of the bell-crank lever which forms the movable wall of the coin-pocket is moved outward from the coin, thus releasing the coin and permitting it to drop from the coin-pocket. Then as the hand-lever is returned the elbow-lever 26 regains its normal position, when it is ready for engagement by another coin, and as soon as the dog 30 is disengaged from the mechanism which is operated by the coin-controlled apparatus the dog also resumes its normal position, which is effected by force of gravity, as will be apparent from an inspection of Fig. 3. lt.,will be observed that by causing the movable wall of the coin-pocket to be engaged bythe edge of the coin and the dog to be engaged by the side face ofthe coin 'I provide a coin-controlled apparatus which is most certain in its operation and not susceptible to fraud, for the coin which is inserted must be true both in respect to its width and its thickness before it will be capable ot' throwing the parts into position for operation.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. A coin-controlled apparatus having a hand-lever with a coin-pocket therein adapted to receive a coin, one wall of the coinpocket being movable relatively to the handlever for the purpose specified and adapted to be engaged by the edge of the coin, and a dog mounted at the side of the coin-pocket and adapted to be engaged bythe side of the coin to throw the dog into operative position.

2. A. coin-controlled apparatus having a hand-lever with a coin-pocket therein, and a dog mounted on the hand-lever at one side of the coin-pocket in position to be engaged by the side of the coin, to throw t-he dog into 0perative position.

3. A coin-controlled apparatus having a hand-lever with a coin-pocket therein, a bellcrank lever fulcrumed on the hand-lever and forming one end wall of the coin-pocket, the bell-crank lever being in connection at one end with a part stationary relatively to the hand-lever, and a dog mounted at the side of the coin-pocket and adapted to be engaged by the side face of the coin to throw the dog into operative position.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

MILBERT FRANKLIN PRICE.

Witnesses:

HATTIE M. SHoALs, T. O. LOVELAND.

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