US1649658A - Vending machine - Google Patents

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Nov. 15, 1927. 1,649,653

P. BOALS VENDING MACHINE Filed DECv 18,. 1925 INVENTOR WITNESSES J I 2 [l B l gf fi W ATTORNEYS Patented Nov. 15, 1927.

UNITED STATES .PATE.

POLK BOALS, on NEW Yonn, n. Y.; nicnnnn mar nas SAID BOALFS, DECEASED, ASEEIGNOR .YonK, n. Y. I

vnnnine I Application filed December This invention relates to vending machines.

The principal object of the present inven tion is to provide a machine'tor vending 'goods'or merchandise, which is characterized by means which will indicate to an attendant that a patron contemplates making a purchase, and to indicate that the patron has deposited "a coin; themachine being; or". a "seltservice type and to be known as a ,casheteria.

Another object of the present invention is to provide machine torvending goods or merchandise expeditiously and conveniently; a patron being able to make a purchase without the assistance of anattendant.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a self-servlce vending machine which will be comparatively'simpleof con- I struction, which will be reliable in opera tion, and which will be comparatively inexpensive. i i

The nature of the invention and its distinguishing features and advantages will ap pear when the following specification is read in conpinction with the accompanying draw ing. in which: I

Figure 1 is a perspective viewot the machine of the present invention. r i

Fig. 2 is a sectional view taken'substantially on the line 22 of Fig. 1, and showing the condition of the working parts when the cover of the casing of the machine is in a closed position.

Fig. 3 is a view illustrating the working parts just prior to therelease of the striker or clapper whichsounds one of the bellsto indicate that the cover of the casing of the machine is being opened.

Fig. tie a detail view on an 'enlargedscale illustrating some of the working parts of the machine.

Fig. 5 is a perspective view of the element which actuates the striker or clapper and the coin holding and releasingelement.

Fig.6 is a perspective view of the coin holding and releasing element.

The present invention in actual practice contemplates the use of a casing 10 which may be of any preferred design and construction. and in the present instance constitutes a walled enclosure having" a cover 11 hingedly connected as at 12 to thetront edge of the top wall 13. The cover in the present instance is supported in a closed p0:

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sition at an angle and has a transparent panel 14 through which the goods or merchandise may be viewed. The. goods or merchandise is arranged in one end of the casmg 10 which will be in the nature of a magazine for accommodating the. goods or merchandise which may be held in individual packages or which may be held in quantlties in a single receptacle or container, such as a box of cigars for instance, indicated at 15. In the present instance the box ofcigars is supported beneath the cover 11 on suitable supports 16 which are held in place in anysuitable manner fromthe side walls of the casing 10. ity is to be noted thatthe box of cigars is supported at an angle to correspond substantially to the angle of incl nation ot the cover 11. At the top'and rear of the casing'lO there is provided a holder 17 which serves for holding asuitable placard or advertiser, which will advertise the goods within the machine. It is known that cigarboxes usually carry onthe inside of the coverthereot alabel and such cover when removed from the box may be readily placed in the holder 17, as indicated in Figs; 1, 2, and 3 ofthe drawing the cover being shown at 18.

"Inorder that it may be indicated to an attendant that a patron who contemplates making a purchase has raised thecover 11 there is provided a means which operates in response to the movement of the door presv cntly tobe described, On the cover 11 is arranged an arm 19. The arm 19 at the free end thereof is provided with a cam 20. Arranged for oscillation 'on a stud 21 carried by one of the side walls of the casing 10 is an element 22. The element 22 is provided with a member 23 whose edge 24 is disposed at an angle with respect toa vertical plane side edges thereof. A striker or clapper 27 is provided which is suspended from the stud 21 for oscillation. the said strikerbeing arranged between a collar or nut 28 on the stud 21 and the element 22 so thatthe member 25 will be engageable with a portion of "the striker 27 upon the movement of the element 122. The element 22 is moved in one direction hy -virtue of the coaction of the cam 20 on the arm 19 and the member 23 when the cover 11 is raised; asshown most clearly in Fig. 3. After the cam rides oif the member 23, the element 22 and the striker 27, which latter has been raised with the element 22, under their own weight oscillate which results in the striker 27 striking a bell 29. The bell 29 may be supported in any suitable manner, and in the present instance is carried on a stud 30 carriedby a bracket 31 attached to a sidewall of the casing 10. p v

In order that apatron may deposit a coin and-that an attendant may be assured that a coin has been deposited in the machine there is provided a means which consists of arts and operates in a manner presently to be described. Supported by the top wall 13 and extending into the interior of the casing 10 near the back thereof is a coin chute 32 which is arranged directly over a bell 33 carried by an arm 3a which in turn iscarri ed by a bracket 31. An element 35 Gin is employed, and the said element 35 is su pended for oscillation on the stud2l. The element 35 is provided with a weight 36 and a coin' holding and releasin' member 37. The element 35 is arranged at Jacent the element 22 so that a portion thereof will be capable of engagement by the member 26 when the element 22 is moved clockwise. The clockwise movement of the element 22 is effected when the cover 11 is lowered, due

to the fact that the cam 20 will ride on the angular edge 24. The element 35v will, therefore, be caused to move with the element 22 in a clockwise direction and as a result themember 37 will be moved from its normal coin holding position beneath the outlet end of the coin chute-32 to a position to one side of the outlet end of the coin chute so that a coin desposited in the coin chute will be allowed to dro on a: bell 33 to cause the same to'ring. t is to he understood thatthe hells 29 and 33 constitute sound producers, and each of the bells is of a distinctive tone. The idea whichwill ring when the cover 11 is 'aised to indicate to an attendant that a patron is about to select some of the-goods or mer chandise in the machine and to have a second soundproducer, such as a bell, which will ring': and be of a different tone or quality distinguishable from the tone of the other bell to indicate to anattendant that a coin has been deposited in the machine.

From the foregoing it will be apparent that there has been described a machine which is of the self-service type and some of its advantages may .be enumerated as follows: It saves time forthe patron or customer; obviates the ringin up of sales; obviates the issuance of sales tickets and, therefore, reduces the cashiers work; permits attendants or clerks to serve more quickly other patrons or customers; and

segregates the receipts in connection with the particular product of" merchandise thus permitting a merchant to positively lruow each day the extent of its denumd.

It is to be understood that the ii'lvmitiou is not restricted to the precise arrangeuurnl, of parts shown and described as details cl. construction may be modified and i-mlistitiitions may be made and the nirts rearranged having a cover capable of being raised and lowered for the removal of an article of rn'er chandise in said receptacle, a coin depository, a signal rendered active by a cover operated means upon the raising of the cover, and a second signal rendered active by a coin which is released from said dcpository by acover operated means upon the lowering of the cover.

2. In a vending machine, a receptacle having a cover capalile of being raised and lowered for the removal of an article of merchandise in said receptacle, a coin depository, an audible signal rendered active by a coveroperatedmeans uponthe raising of the cover, and a second audible signal rendered active by a coin which is released from said depository by a cover operated means upon the lowering of thecover.

3. In a vending machine, a receptacle having a cover capable of being raised and lowered for the removal of an article of merchandise in said receptacle, a coin deposi .tory, an audible signalrendered active by a cover operated means uponthe raising oi the cover, and a second audible signal of a tone'distinguishable from the tone of the first mentioned signal, said second audible signal rendered active by a coin which is released from said depository by a cover oppp p erated means upon the lowering of the cover. 15 to have a sound producer, such as a bell,

4. A vending machine comprising a mer chandise receiving receptacle having a hingedly connected lid with a transparent panel, means in the receptacle for support ing the merchandise beneath the lid, :1 hell, means operable in response to the raising of the lid for ringing said hell, a coin chute, asecond bell in line with said coin chute below the same. a coin holding and releasing member normally disposed at the lower end of the coin chute, and means operable in re sponse to the loweringof the lid for moving said member to release a coin in said coin chute to permit the coin to drop on. said second bell.

5. A vending machine comprising a melt chandise receiving receptacle having a hingedly connected lid with a transparent panel, means in the receptacle for supporting the merchandise beneath the lid, a hell,

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1 ill means operable in response to the raising of the lid for ringing said bell, a coin chute, a second bell in line with said coin chute below the same, a coin holding and releasing member normally disposed at the lower end of the coin chute, means operable in response to the lowering of the lid for moving said member to release a coin in said coin chute to permit the coin to drop on said second bell, and means "for returning the said memher to and for releasably maintaining the said member in a coin holding position beneath said coin chute.

6. In a vending machine, a receptacle hav ing a cover capable of being raised and lowered for the removal of an article of merchandise in said receptacle, a coin chute extending into the interior of said receptacle a bell in line with said coin chute below the same, a coin holding and releasing member having a normal disposition to hold a coin in said chute, said memberbeing actuated by cover operated means to permit the coin to drop out of said coin chute, the coin dropping on said bell to cause the same to ring, and means for returning said memher to its normal position.

7. A vending machine comprising a casing having a connected cover capable of being raised and lowered, a magazine in said casing for the reception of merchandise, a coin chute extending into the interior of said casing, bells or" different tonal qualities, one of said bells being arranged below said coin chute in line therewith, a striker mounted for swinging movement, means operable in response to the raising of the cover for moving and releasing the striker so that the striker will swing under its own weight to strike and ring one of said bells to indicate that the cover has been raised, a coin holdin and releasing member normally disposed at the'lower end of said coin chute to prevent a coin placed in said chute from passing out of the same, means operable in response to the lowering of said cover to permit said coin to drop out of said coin chute which will drop on the other of said bells to ring the same to indicate that a coin has been deposited, and means for returning said member to and for releasably maintaining said member in a coin holding position.

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