US929448A

US929448A - Vending-machine.

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Publication number: US929448A
Application number: US39928107A
Authority: US
Inventors: Alvin S Killinger
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1907-10-26
Filing date: 1907-10-26
Publication date: 1909-07-27
Anticipated expiration: 1926-07-27

Description

. A. s. KILLINGER. i VENDING MACHINE.

. APPLIOATION FILED 00T. 26, 1907.

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VE NDING-vMACI-IINE Specification of Letters Patent.

Patenfdauly 27, 1909.

Applcationled October 26, 1907. Serial No. 399,281.

To @ZZ whom tt may concern:

B e it known that 1, ALVIN SfKILLINGER, a citizen of the United States ofAmerica, residing at Thomas, in the county of Custer, Oklahoma, have invented, new and useful Improvements in Vending-Machines, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to vending machines, the` object of the invention being to provide a simple, cheaply constructed and reliable machine for vending articles of merchandise, such as cigars, tobacco and packages of merchandise in general.

The machine embodies a magazine and den livering mechanism in combination there with to insure delivery of one article or package at a time, and a coin controlled ele-y ment associated with suitable tripping means whereby the delivery mechanism may be put in operative condition upon depositing in the machine a coin of the proper denomination.

Vith the above and otherl objects in view, the nature of which will more readily appear as the description proceeds, the invention consists in the improved construction, combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter fully described, y illustrated and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a vertical sectional view of a vendingmachine embodying the present invention, illustrating the parts thereof in their normal or inoperative positions. n Fig. 2 is a similar view of the lower portion of the machine showing the position the parts assume after a coin has been deposited in the machineV and the operating lever depressed. Fig. 3 is a vertical section taken at right angles to Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a detail perspective view of the coin-operated lever and the coin pocket carried thereby. Fig. 5 is a detail perspective view of the operating lever and its attachments. Fig. 6 is a detail perspective view of the trip and link.

The machine comprises a simple case or cabinet, the upper portion of which is designed to contain the magazine of the apparatus, whilel the lower and larger portion of the case is designed for the reception of the operative parts of the mechanism hereinafter fully described. Said case comprises a back 1 and glass panel front12 for the magazine section of the case and a top cover 3 which is preferably hinged as shown at 4 so that it may be raised and swung back to allow the magazine to be applied, any* suitable lock being employed to fasten the lid or cover 3 vin place. The case also comprises a bottom 5 to which are secured the rear supporting legs 6 which may be of any suitable length and which are preferably constructed out of sheet metal, as indicated in the drawings. A portion of the bottom of the case is formed by the inclined bottom 7 of a gravity chute Sjthe top of which is defined by a drawer 9 forming the coin receptacleinto which the coins fall after they have performed their work, the drawer 9 being Vshown as provided with a suitable handle or knob 10 and in practice said drawer will be held closed by meansof a suitable lock not shown.

The magazine embodies and contains oppositely arranged flanged'guides 11 and 12, each of'said guides being three sided or in other words, containing an outer side and parallel inwardly extending flanges 13 arranged at a suitable distance apart to embrace the opposite endsvof articles as merchandise indicated at 14. The articles referred'to are shownV in the form of cigars and while vvarious articles' may be sold in the machine herein described for the sake of convenience they machine will be described with special reference to the handling of cigars.

The guides 11 and 12 are open at their lower ends where they are secured to the opposite side walls 15 of the case by flanged extensions 16, the latter being fastened permanently within the case in. the manner illustrated in Figs. 1 and 3. Beneath the open discharge ends of the guides or in other words, beneath the discharge end of the magazine, are arrangedone or more rests 17, two of such rests being preferably employed as indicated in Fig. 3 and each consisting of a slotted plate 18 vertically adjustable on a binding screw 19 and having a forwardly projecting upper portion which underlies the open discharge end of the magazine and is arranged at a suitable distance therefrom to receive one of the cigars or other articles and hold the same just clear of the magazine in position to be acted upon by the separator of the machine. Therests 17 are made'adjustable'in height so as to adapt the machine as a whole to articles of different sizes.

The delii'fery mechanism comprises an operating lever 20 which works through a slot 21 in the curved front 22 of the casing,

3U` when the separator ,27 moves forward to what'A @meer frentis preferably Composed l has fast thereon a lever arm 25 the outerV endfof whichlis bent to form` a* trip Yrest 'or stop 26 preferably curved `in the are. ofv` ai circle of whichthe-rock shaft is the center. The rock shaft 23 is also provided withalr other lever arm-27 which constitutes whatI call the separator or in other words, the ele-, ment which separates the lowermost article 14 from those lying above it, by pushing-said article off of the rests 17. Normally-the separator 27 extends upward andliesbehind the lowermost article 14 and is of sufficientlength only to affect thesaid u single article.' Furthermore", the separator 27 is preferably three sided or U-shaped, or in otherrwords, it comprises a pair ofv arms 27 which at the top` are bent back to form cut od portions 28 the same being connected at theiry rear ends by a cross bar y29, the

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27,28 and 29 being Vpreferably formed integrally with' the rockshaft23 as shown in Fig. 3.v The cutoffuportions 28'of vthe separator are preferably described-on the arc of a circle of which the shaft 23 is the` center, and therefore' push an' article offA therests 17, the c ut- 0El 28 nieves beneath the Voverlying articles and upholds` the same until the separator Vreturns from the position illustrated in Fig. 2 to the position illustrated inFig. 1, whereupon lanother article'is allowed to fall infront of the separator downward upon the rest 17. The operating lever 20 andthe arms 25'and 27 are restored to their normal positions in-l dicated in Fig. 1 by a return spring` 30 which is shownas engaging the lever 20.

At the'front of the machine is a coin slot 31? adapted to permit a-coin of the properdenomination to be inserted into a runway 32 extending downward into the front portion of the casing, the said coin being adapted to impart movement` to a coin-operated lever 33 which is fulcrumed intermediate its ends atthe'point 34 onA a partition wallv 35. AtE one end-the lever 33 is provided with a-coin pocket 3G of a size commensurate with the cointojbe used and said pocket is provided Ain its lower side with a slot 37 to permit asmaller coin to pass on through the bottom of thepocket' without affecting the lever 33. At its inner end the lever has pivotallyconnectedthereto alink 3S, the opposite end of? which is pivotallyconnected' to a trip 39; I

This Atrip is pivotally mounted at one end 40 within the casing and is provided at its opposite `end with a laterally bent portion or trip finger 41 which when` the parts are in their initialor normal positions lies inl front of the lever arm-25 as shownin-Fig. 1, andprevents the oper-ating lever from'being.

'depressa' raf other words, uit trip 39 forms a lock for the lever by standing in the way of-thearm25: The weight of the trip 39 and link 38 is also used to balance the 'lever3'3 and in addition thereto an adjustable weight 42 is mounted on said lever and adaptedte'be shifted lengthwisethereof so astofbalaneef theV` lever in a manner which will prevent a coin of lighter weight from rocking said levery when deposited in the coin pocket carried by said lever.A Thel operating lever 20 also-carries anV arcuate coin guard 43 which normally occupies the relation to the' coin pocket shown in Fig; 1. The outer end of the coin-pocket is open so that normal position as indicated in Fig. 1, the object being to prevent'th'e escape offthe coin ,from the pocket before the operating lever 20 is depressed for the purposeY setI forth.`

By reference toFig. 1, it willbe seen-that when a coin is deposited inthe machine, it fallsl into the pocket 36 and if it is the proper coin`,it carries said pocket downward igure,2the coin being prevented from' rollingout of the pocket by the guard 43 carried by the operating lever. In this downward movement of the coin pocket the lever 33 is docked, therebyraising the trip 39 out of .the path of the trip 25. This unlocks or frees the operatinglever and the separator 27 whereupon the operator depresses the op- `erating lever' 2O which rocks the separator arm forwardand moves the lowermost cigarV or other article eff the rest 17 whereupon Esaidy article' falls by gravity into the chute i23 and passes to thev outeror lower end thereof, where the' front edge ofthe chute ,is upturned in the form of a gutter as shown` jat 44, and provided with a finger notch 45 `to facilitate the removal of the article therefrom.

It will be noted that the coin guard 43 is oEset at a'l distance from-the lever 2O by means of a' laterally projecting armA 4G in order to bring said guard in front ofl the openend-of thecoin' pocket 36; also that the coin operating lever 33 is offset intermediate its ends as shown at 47 in order to bring the coin pocket 37 under the runway 33 and position the inner end of' said lever to receive the linlr38 which extends to the trip 39.

Having thus'fully described' the invention, what is claimed as new is In vending apparatus, a magazine, a rest for supporting a' stack ofarticles of merchandise sol that' the bottom article will be an oscillatory bail-sh'aped'separator and cutoffmovable across the disehargeend of the l.to the dotted line positionshown in the same magazine and composed of a metal strip forming an integral continuation of said round 1n cross section and bent to comprise supports, and an operating lever arm forma shaft and parallel ejeoting arms' for the ing an angular extension of one end of thev articles spaced at a distance apart less than shaft of the separator and cut-01T. the length of the articles and having their In testimony whereof I afIiX my signature outer ends bent back to form curved supin presence of tWo Witnesses.

ports that underlie the opposite ends of the ALVIN S. KILLINGER. articles, the extremities of said supports be- IVitnesses: ing connected together for simultaneous RALPH B. DAVIS,

1o movement by a combined brace and cross bar VSAM CLOUGH.