US699821A

US699821A - Match-vending machine.

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Publication number: US699821A
Application number: US6271501A
Authority: US
Inventors: George G Schroeder
Original assignee: FED AUTOMATIC MACHINE Co
Current assignee: FEDERAL AUTOMATIC MACHINE Co; FED AUTOMATIC MACHINE Co
Priority date: 1901-06-01
Filing date: 1901-06-01
Publication date: 1902-05-13
Anticipated expiration: 1919-05-13

Description

Patented May I3, I902.

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GEORGE G. SCI-IROEDER, OF WVASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, TO THE FEDERAL AUTOMATIC MACHINE COMPANY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

MATCH-VENDING MACHINE.

$PEGIFIGATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 699,821, dated May 13, 1902.

Application filed June 1, 1901.

to the accompanying drawings, and to the ures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to coin-controlled machines, and has special reference to a ma chine of this type designed for the vending of matches in small packages or boxes.

In most forms of coin-controlled vending apparatus or machines the coin-controlled mechanism is usually complicated and made up of parts which frequently get out of order, and thus destroy the utility of the machines; but the present invention comprises a mechanism involving a minimum number of parts and so related as to insure an accurate and positive operation at all times, thus well adapting the machine for the vending of small packages containing matches or the like.

A further object of the invention is to associate with the mechanism for releasing the ejector for the article improved means for temporarily retaining or holding the coin in an operative position and also insuring the release thereof before the article is discharged, whereby the coin is entrapped before the article is delivered.

With these and many other objects in view, which will readily appear as the nature of the invention is better understood, the same consists in the novel construction, combination, and arrangement of parts hereinafter more fully described, illustrated, and claimed.

The fundamental features of the invention involved in the novel construction and arrangement of parts specially adapting the machine for match-vending purposes are necessarily susceptible to a wide range of modification without departing from the spirit or scope of the invention; but a preferred emgerial No. 62,715. (No model.)

bodiment of the improvements is shown in the accompanying drawings, in which-- Figure 1 is a perspective view of a matchvending machine embodying the construction contemplated by the present invention. Fig.

2 is a vertical longitudinal sectional View of the machine, the line of section being taken through one of the vertical compartments thereof. Fig. 8 is an enlarged sectional View of the coin-controlled lock and release mechanism for each ejector. Fig. 4 is a plan View ofthe preferred form of ejector for the pack ages and'the device or mechanism directly associated therewith. Fig. 5 is a sectional View on the line 5 5 of Fig. 4. Fig. 6 is a detail in perspective of the ejector. Fig. 7 is an enlarged perspective View of the ejector and the coin-controlled lock and release mechanism'associated therewith. Fig. 8 is a detail perspective View of a short section of one of the magazine-forming plates. Fig. 9 is a 7n cross-sectional view of the same. Fig. 10 is a detail sectional view on the .line 10 10 of Fig. 2, showing the arrangement of the magazine-plates to provide the several articlemagazines of the vertical compartments of the cabinet.

Like numerals of reference designate correspondingparts in the several figures of the drawings.

In carrying out the invention the essential parts of the mechanism adapting the machine particularly for handling small packages of matches may be arranged in any convenient form of cabinet, and although specially de-' signed for match-vending purposes it may be utilized in the vending of other articles should it be desired to adapt the improvements for such other uses. However, the preferred em-' bodiment of the invention is shown in the drawings, in which the working parts of the machine are illustrated as being within an upright cabinet 1. This cabinetmay necessarily be of any desired configuration, although as shown it is of a right-angled triangular shape which insures an economy of space, besides anfeffective working of the different parts of themechanism. The said cabinet 1 is preferably arranged in an upright position'and is provided with a plurality of upright interior partition-walls 2, dividing the cabinet into a plurality of vertical compartments 3, each of which is equipped with a complete mechanism providing for the vending of articles, so a description of the elements and mechanism arranged for use in connection with each compartment 3 will necessarily suffice for all of said compartments. The front wall of each compartment is shown asbeing inclined and provided contiguous to the lower end thereof with a transparent panel 5, through which are exposed the articles or packages contained within the magazine 6,

thereby permitting a person to readily determine whether or not that particular magazine is filled with the articles or packages to be vended. The magazine 6 may obviously be formed in a variety of ways so long as it pro- Vides for holding a number of small'packages or boxes containing the matches; but in the preferred construction the magazine is in the form of an elongated chute extending longitudinally of the inclined front wall, substantially the full length thereof, and opening at the top, so as to be conveniently filled through the door 7 or in any other convenient manner. The said elongated chute-like magazine is preferably formed by magazine-forming plates 7, consisting of suitable lengths of sheet metalbentinto an approximate U shape in cross-section and arranged in matching relation within the cabinet at the inner side of the front walls 4, thus producing cross-sectionally rectangular chutes which serve to hold the similarly-shaped packages of matches and also permitting thelatter to readily gravitate downwardly as the individual packages are delivered or discharged through the medium of the reciprocatory ejector 8.

The recipro'catory ejector 8 may be of any suitable construction, but is necessarily arranged at the lower end of the magazine 6. This ejector is preferably of a rectangular form and is provided therein with a longitudinal article-receiver 9 in the form of a rectangular opening extending vertically through the body of the ejector and of a size to loosely receive therein one of the packages containing the matches. The said ejector 8 is arranged to work within and upon a fixed guiding-support 10, arranged beneath the lower end of the chute 6 and provided at the inner end of its bottom with a shouldered guard-ledge 11, the function of which will presently appear. From the outer side of the ejector 8 is projected a sliding push-rod 12, working through a guide-opening 13 in the front of the support and exposed at the front of the cabinet to be manipulated by the person desiring to purchase a package from the machine. From the inner side of the ejector 8 there is extended a guide-stem 14, working through an opening 15 in a supporting-standard 16, arising from the base of the cabinet, and interposed between the standard 16 and the inner side of the ejector 8 is a resetting-spring 17 for throwing the ejector back to its natural position after an article or package has been delivered.

The ejector 8 has rigidly attached thereto and extended rearwardly therefrom a catchbar 18, provided with a series of ratchet-teeth 19, engaged by one arm of a lock device 20. This lock device 20 is preferably in the form of a pivotal latch-lever, having intermediate its ends a U -shaped bearingstirrup 21, ofiset laterally from the lever and engaging the pivot 22, secured to a supporting-bracket 23, mounted in a fixed position within the cabinet. This mannerof pivotally supporting the latch lever provides for a direct hanging thereof with a minimum amount of friction.

The latch-lever 20 carries at one side of its pivot a coin-cage 24, having a vertical opening therethrough and normally lying beneath and in alinenient with the coin-chute 25, suitably arranged within the cabinet and in communication with the coin-slot 26 at the front thereof. The said coin-cage 24 is also provided with transverse slots 27, through which loosely extends the movable end of a coinretaining spring 28, made fast at its other end, as at 29, to the latch-lever 20, said coinretaining spring normally lying in such position as to hold a coin within the cage 24 until the said spring is pushed back to widen up the passage-way through the cage. This action is accomplished through the medium of an angled trip-arm 30, carried by and projected from the rear side of the ejector.

The parts are normally arranged, as shown in Fig. 2 of the drawings, with a package of matches lying in the opening 9 of the ejector. When a coin is introduced through the coinslot, the same passes by way of the chute 25 into the coin-cage 24 and is arrested and held in the said cage by the retainer 28. The weight of the coin in the cage 24 tilts the lever 20 and releases it from the catch or ratchet bar 18, thus permitting the person to press inward upon the push-rod 12, and thereby carrying the package beyond the bottom portion of the guiding-support 10, where it will drop into the open or exposed delivery-pocket 31, provided'in the front of the cabinet at the lower end of each of its compartments. Should the person not push the ejector far enough inward, the package will drop into and become caught within the shouldered guardledge 11, thus preventing the complete retraction of the ejector until the operator has pushed the same a sufficient distance to cause the article to be dropped into the deliverypocket. The complete inward movement of the ejector carries the trip-arm against the coin-retaining spring 28, thus releasing the coin from the cage and permitting the latchlever to again drop back into engagement with the catch-bar of the ejector.

From the foregoing it is thought that the construction ,operation,and many advantages ICO of the herein-described machine will be readily apparent without further description, and it will be understood that various changes in the form, proportion,and construction of parts may be resorted to without departing from the spirit or sacrificing any of the advantages of the invention.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a vending-machine, a magazine, an ejector carrying a ratchet-bar, a latch-lever having a laterally-offset bearing-stirrup engaging a pivot, said latch-lever carrying a. coin-cage, a coin-retaining spring extending through said cage and carried by the latchlever, and a trip-arm carried by the ejector and engaging with said sprin 2. Inavending-machine, amagazine-chute, a stationary guiding-support, an ejector Working on the said support, lock and release mechanism, cooperating with the ejector, and a guard-ledge on the guiding-support against which the package in the ejector lodges to prevent the return of the said ejector to a having a laterally-ofiset bearing-stirrup engaging a pivot, said latch-lever carrying a coin-cage, a. coin-retainer extending through said cage and carried by the latch-lever, and means on the ejector to engage said coin-re tainer to free the coin from the coin-cage.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two Witnesses. I v

GEORGE G. SOHROEDER; Witnesses:

WM. D. EASTERDAY, CLAUGHTON WEST.