US846356A - Vending-machine. - Google Patents

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No. 846,856. I PATENTED MAR. 5, 1907 A. SMITH.

VENDING MACHINE. APPLIUATION FILED APB;.26,1904.

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ADELBERT SMITH, OF SEWARD, NEW YORK.

VENDING-MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented March 5, 1907.

Application filed April 26,1904. Serial No. 205,007.

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Be it known that I, ADELBERT SMITH, a citizen of the United States, residing at Seward, in the county of Schoharie and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in a Vending-Machine, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to that class of coincontrolled apparatus designed and adapted for the sale of cigars, chewing-gum, and simi lar light articles.

The object of the inventionis a device of this character containing but little mechanism, and that of the simplest character, thereby providing a vending-machine which can be built at a small cost and which is not liable to get out of order and which if broken may be easily and cheaply repaired.

The invention also consists in the novel construction and combination of parts hereinafter described, particularly pointed out in the claims, and shown in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of my vending-machine. Fig. 2 is a vertical section through the machine. Fig. 3 is a section on an irregular line taken horizontally through the lower portion of Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a detail view showing the side guide arranged in the inclined portion of the goods-chute. Fig. 5 is a detail perspective view showing the adjustable guide arranged in the vertical portion of the goods-chute. Fig. 6 is a detail plan view of the bar supporting the guide, parts being broken off and the guide being shown in cross-section. Fig. 7 is a detail perspective view of the lower end of the coinchute and the tripper-bar pivoted below the chute, the whole being shown removed from the machine.

In the drawings, A represents a casing of any desired size, shape, and material. I have shown such a casing divided by a vertical partition B into two separate vending-machines, cigars being vended from one of the compartments or sides and chewing-gum from the other, and the operating mechanism is practically duplicated on each side of the partition B. The casing A is further subdivided by a vertical partition C, extending from side to side of the machine and at right angles to the partitionB. The partition C divides the machines or casing A into front comone on each side of the partition B. The partition B extends vertically from top to bottom of the casing A; but the partition C is arranged vertically in the middle body portion of the casing and is thence angled outwardly or forwardly, as shown at C in Fig. 2, and at its lower end it is also brought forwardly and downwardly, as shown at C and at its lower forward end it connects with the curved metal plate G which extends to the bottom and front of the machine and forms an upwardly open trough G, into which the goods vended are delivered.

A front E is secured to the casing A in advance of and practically parallel with the various portions O, C, and C of the partition above described, and portions of this front may be formed of glass panels E, as shown in the drawings. The space inclosed between the front E and the partition-walls C, C, and C will he termed the goods-chute.

Referring to details of construction, in the upper forward portion of the casing A an in clined base F is supported above the partition-wall C and is adapted to support a cigar-box F, cut out in the bottom adjacent one end to aline with the upper end of the goods-chute. To properly guide the cigars down this chute and also to accommodate the chute to cigars of various lengths, I provide transverse metal bars G, extending crosswise of the chute and slotted, as shown at G, a slot being formed adjacent each end of the bar, and I provide guide-bars H, adapted to rest vertically in the sides of the goodschute and having inwardly-projecting arms H, connected rigidly to the guide-bars H and adapted to slide on the bars G, to which they are connected by screws, the shanks of which work in the slots G, allowing a limited movement of the guide-bars H and arms H. The uppermost arm H has a wire J connected thereto, a wire and arm being arranged on each side of the goods-chute, and the wire J passes downward in advance of the partition-wall C, and under the lower arm H, above the Wall O and in advance of the arm H, last mentioned, the wire is bent back upon itself and curved upwardly and forwardly, as shown at J.

To the upper ends of the vertical guidebars H are hinged the guide-arms H which project into that portion of the goods-chute partments, in which the goods to be vended l formed by the wall C and the front of the are contained, and the rear compartments, in which I have shown vertical coin-chutes D,

casing parallel to said wall, and it is understood that the guides H and arms H lie adjacent the sides of the casing A and are movable toward each other. It is evident, there fore, that by adjusting the guide-bars H toward or away from each other the width of the goods-chute is decreased or increased, and goods, such as cigars, of various lengths are accommodated with a passage-way of the proper width. The cigars or other articles fill the goods-chute, being arranged in vertical alinement between the walls C and the front E, and after passing into the portion of the chute between the glass panel E and the wall C they travel between the said wall and the wires J, the latter pressing sufficiently upon the goods to prevent their displacement. The delivery mechanism is as fol lows: A shaft K is arranged in the casing A parallel to the rear wall of the casing and slightly in advance of the coin-chute D. A lever L is pivoted intermediate its ends on the shaft K, the lever being duplicated for each coin-chute, and the rear end of the lever lies immediately below and in alinement with the lower end of the coin-chute. The forward end of the lever supports a wire frame M, originally rectangular in shape and hav ing one-half of the frame bent longitudinally at right angles to the other half. The free ends of the wire forming the frame are twisted to form a supporting-leg M, which leg is pivoted to the front end of the lever L, and the frame M tends by gravity to tilt forwardly. This frame is projected upwardly through a slot N, formed in the wall C the upper bent portion lying norm ally flush with the upper surface of the wall C A fender O is arranged on the wall C immediately in advance of the slot N. The upper portion of the chute D is curved, and when the chute is designed for the reception of five-cent pieces O, and the article will roll into the trough C from which it is removed by the purchaser. The coin will fall from the end of the lever L into a coin-box P, and the parts will assume their original position by action of gravity. No springs, gears, pawls, or ratchets are employed, and there is but little mechanism to get out of order, and the arrangement of the parts are so simple that they can be easily repaired or replaced. It will be obvious that as many goods-chutes may bearranged in a casing as in ay be desired.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. A vending-machine comprising a goodschute, inwardly-movable guide-b ars arranged .within the chute, inwardly-extending arms carried by the guidebars, guide-rods carried by the arms and parallel to the front of the chute, and means for delivering goods from the said chute.

2. A vending-m achine comprising a goodschute angled at its lower end, a trough upwardly open in advance of the lower end of the chute, the rear wall of the chute being slotted in the angled portion, adjustable guide-bars arranged in the chute and adapted to vary the width of same, wires carried by the said bars and running lengthwise of the chute, a fender arranged in the chute in advance of the slot, and means working through the slot adapted to lift articles to be vended to a plane above the upper edge of the fender, as and for the purpose set forth.

ADELBERT SMITH.

Witnesses:

IIWIN F. WINNIE, DAVID WINNE.

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