US1122094A - ferris - Google Patents

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F. H. FERRIS. VENDING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED JAN 7. 1914.

1,122,094. Patented Dec.22,1914.

- under sides of the FRED H. FERIRIS, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

VENDING-MACHTNE.

Application filed January '2,

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRED H. FERRIs, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York city, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Vending-Machines, of which the following is a specification.

The general object of this invention is to refine the construction of coin-controlled vending machines in point of simplicity and cheapness in manufacture, and in eiliciency of operation.

.A further object of the inventionis to pro vide an attractive machine of this character especially adapted for the vending of penny goods previously packed in rolls. And to these ends the invention consists of a casing having transversely mounted in its lower end, a controller having coin and stock receiving pockets and a spring keeper for normally retaining the controller in a locked osition until released by a coin.

Other objects will appear and be better understood from that embodimentof my invention of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings forming part hereof, in which 1- Figure 1 is a perspective view of the device. Fig. 2 is a rear elevational view of the front casing. Fig. 3 is a side elevational view of the device having a portion broken away for the sake of clearness. Fig. t is a detail perspective view of the keeper.

5 is adetail perspective view of the controller. I

By referring to the drawings 1 indicates the casing having a stock receiving compartment 2, a .coin receiving compartment 3, a coin chute 4 and a controller 5 normally retained in its locked position by means of the spring keeper 6. H

The casing is preferably formed of metal and consists of the back plate 7 and the front member 8 which are secured together at one end by the key-actuated lock 9. The front member 8 is provided at its lower end with an opening 10, which admits of the projecting therethrough of the tray 11 carried by the plate 7 "for the purpose of delivering the goods to an operator. The

' front member are pro- 12-42 which are adapted the eyelets provided in the plate 7 videdwith lugs to engage with forwardl -bent end 13 of the rear as shown in Fig. 3. It is to Specification of Letters Patent.

troller being rotated by the Fig.

the trough or be understood Patented Dec, 22, 1914..

1814. Serial No. 810,870.

that the back plate is to be secured to a suitable base such as the back of a theater-seat or the like, thus when refilling the stockcompartment 5, the front casing is removed from the plate 7. The stock of goods is then renewed, and the lugs of the member 8 are placed in engagement with eyelets of the back plate as shown, and the two members are locked together. The front member is swelled outwardly as shown at 14, in order to accommodate thecontroller 5 and is provided with an extending portion 14' in which is located the coin-compartment 3, for receiving the coins.

Located within the swelled portion 14: and yournaled in opposite sides of the casing is the controller,5, which has one end 16 extending through the upon which is secured a handle 17 for operating the same. The end 16 is substantially of less diameter than the controller and so provides a shoulder 18, which cotiperates with a flange 19 located on the end to provide a pocket 19 for the coil spring 20. This spring is positioned within the pocket as shown, and has one end secured to the cont-roller as at 21, while its other end is engaged by the lug 22 mounted on the inner side of the casing; obviously, upon the conhandle 17 this spring is tensioned, and upon the operating force being removed from the handle, the spring will tend to return the controller to its initial or normal position.

The body-portion of the controller is formed so as to provide a trough or pocket 23 for carrying the individual units of stock and delivering thesame onto the serving tray 11, when the handle is rotated as above described, and it will be seen that when the controller is returned to its normal position, pocket 28 will be adapted to receive the next succeeding package or roll of goods.

It will be noted by referring to Figs. 2 and 5 that the controller 5 is provided with a radially extending lug 24: which is so positioned that when the controller is rotated, it

will be engaged by the offset finger 25 of the spring keeper 6 which is secured to the easing by the screws 27 as shown, adjacent to this lug, and also provided on the controller is a. coin-receiving pocket 28 which is adapted to retain a coin when the same drops down the chute 4 from the slot at the head of the casing. The diameter of this coinside of the casing and pocket is to be appreciably less than the coin it is adapted to receive, and therefore shown, the back of the lug 24 is rounded, so i the coin will be eccentrically positioned within the pocket; and obviously, when the controller is rotated, the coin will tend to cam the keeper backwardly and thus remove the offset finger 25 out of engagementwith the lug 24, thus allowing the controller to have a free movement for the purpose of delivering its package onto the tray; and as the coin passesuth'e end of the keeper 6 it will drop into the coin-compartment 3. As

as to admit the return thereof under the end of the keeper 6 when the spring 20 returns the controller to its normal position as previously described.

It will be seen that the mechanism is carried by the front member 8, and that the compartment 2 is provided above the pocket 23;'thus the front part may be readily removed and filled with a new stock. In order to limit the forward movement of the handle 17 a lug 29 is positioned on the outer side of the casing in the path of the handle, and oppositely adjacent to the lug 29 is a second lug 30 which serves to limit the rearward movement of the handle.

7 hat is claimed as new is: In a vending machine a casing having a coin chute, an article controller journ'aled in the casing and disposed transversely of the coin chute, said controller having a coin pocket disposed in alinement with the coin chute the said pocket being less in diameter than the controller, said controller having an outstanding lug located at theside of said pocket, and a resilient keeper located in the casing at one side of the coin chute and having a free end portion disposed opposite the said pocket and located beyond the periphery of the controller, said keeper also having at its free end portion a finger normally disposed in the path of movement of the lug.

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

FRED H. FERRIS. l Vitnesses:

W. E. PALMER, Geo. A. BYRNE.

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