US1850464A - Slug ejector - Google Patents

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March 22, 1932- c. w. KLOSTERMANN SLUG EJECTOR Filed March 2, 1929 His Attorney Patented Mar. 22, 1932 UNETED STATES PATENT OFFIQE :GURT W. KLOSTERMANN, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO SMOKETERIA INCOR- PORATED, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION OF ILLINOIS SLUG EJECTOB Application filed March 2, 1929. Serial No. 343,900. I

This invention relates to a slug ejector. It is designed for use in connection with a coin or token operated or controlled device. It has for its general object to eject coins or tokens which are not of the proper size, shape or weight or are otherwise of an unsuitable ters throughout the specification and drawit is a plate provided on one side with an inclined flange A wh ch may be notched as at A A The plate has preferably formed integrally with it a generally curved enlargement or thickened part A In the form here shown this part conforms generally to the outline of a coin vending machine with which the slug ejector is associated. That portion of the slug ejector lying generally below the flange A is within the body of the machine and that portion of the slug ejector lying generally above the flange A is outside of the machine or normally projects upwardly from it. The plate A is provided with a laterally extending overhanging flange A A is an opening formed in the plate A. A is a. magnet removably held in position by means of the screw A and the washer A A is a boss formed on the plate A and adapted to have positioned upon it a bearing supporting plate A which is pivotally mounted as at A and is provided with a slot A in its larger end. A is a screw extending through the slot A and positioned in the plate A, by means of which the bearing supporting plate A may be moved and supported in adjusted position. A is a curved slot in the plate A through which a hearing or pin A projects into the interior of the slug ejector.

An irregularly shaped passage is formed within the plate A. It consists of the portion B which in one form of the invention is directed generally down so that it adjoins an inclined strai ht portion B which joins it at an angle. t its lower end the portion B which communicates with a curved port-ion B which finally communicates with an enlarged space or passage 13 which is open at its bottom as at B. Formed in the sides of the passage are a plurality of grooves or eX- tended depresSionsB B They are separated by a land or raised portion B which extends with them throughout the length of the passages B and B C is a coin controlling lever balanced on the bearing A and lying within the enlarged space 13 It is provided at its lowerend with a weighted portion G and at its upper end with a curved coin contacting arm 0 D is a plate somewhat similar to the plate A. It is provided with a flange D and has in its inner face grooves D corresponding to the grooves B, B in the plate A and positioned oppositely to them when the parts are assembled as shown in Figure 2. The grooves D are separated by a raised portion or land D which corresponds to the similarly raised portion or land B formed in the inner face of the plate A. At its bottom adj a cent the opening 13*, the plate l) is provided with a laterally inclined flange D and it has secured to it a slug guiding member D which is provided with an inclined portion D and guiding and limiting wings D It is fastened to the plate D by means of screws D E is a plate positioned upward of the plates B and D where they oin and it overlies both of them. It is provided with a slot E to permit the introduction of a coin or token anu is removably held in position by screws, E

It will be obvious that while I have shown and described an operative device, many changes may be made in the size, shape, number, relation and distribution of parts without departing from the spirit of my invention, and I wish therefore, that my descrip tion and showing be considered as in a large measure diagrammatic.

The use and operation of this invention are as follows:

When a coin or token of the proper size, shape and weight is inserted in the slot IE it 5 moves more or less vertically downwardly through the short, generally vertical disposed passage B. It then strikes the flat inclined bottom of the passage B and rolls along this:

reversel y curved passage 13 Normally it flies; clear across this passage and strikes. the righthand orouter wall of the passage B Its rotation is then reversed and it rolls down the curved bottom of the passage B past the slot A and the magnet A. It umps off the end ofthe curved bottom part of the passage B emerges into the enlarged chamber B and strikes the upper portion C or the lever 5 G. Since its weight, size and shape are proper, it will strike with suflicient force to overbalance the lever. It will raise the weighted end C of the lever sufliciently to permit it to fall off the left of the upper end C It then passes outward through the opening B and into the coin controlled or coin operated mechanism with which the slug-ejector is associated. These parts are not here shown as they form no particular part of the present invention since the slug ejector may be as sociated with a variety of other mechanisms. If the coin is not of the right size or shape orweight, if for example, it is of a metal responsive to the magnet or if it is too light, it will notmove with suiiicient force to clear the space between the end of the bottom of the curved passage B and the lever C It will not pass on into the mechanism but will be ejected through the slug ejector.v Even if it does reach this part of the machine with such force to clear the space and to strike the member C if it does not strike this member with a force sufficient to rotate it so as to permit the coin to be discharged to the left over the end C of the lever, it Will nevertheless fall backward into the passage X and be discharged out of the machine through the slug ejecting passage X and the chute D VVhere' in the specification and claims I have used the word coin or token, I do not wish to be limited to either of these. It is therefore understood that where the device is applied to a coin operated or coin controlled mechanism, normally the coin or some special form of slug or token will be used. It is the purpose of the method and apparatus of this machine to eject coins and tokens or slugs which are not of the proper size, shape and weight. The mechanism is adjustable and when adjusted normally, it is arranged to operate with a particular size and shape of coin, slug or token. It is therefore arranged to reject others which do not come up to the standards set up at the time the machine is adjusted. I The invention, however, is not particularly limited to this feature and may be used for the classification of other objects whether or not it is associated with a coin operated mechanism.

I claim:

1. In a token classifienan inclosure defining a tortuous passage terminating in substantially a horizontal position and a chamber to which said passage leads, a movably mounted element within said chamber, said passage so shaped that a token deposited within it moves through it under the infinence of gravity alone, is projected generally laterally across the chamber under the influence of its momentum solely and against the movable element, said movable element so mounted and; being of such weight that a coin striking it with more than a given force I will move it sufliciently to pass beyond it and a coin striking it with less than a given force will fail to pass beyond it.

2. In a token classifier, means for classitying the tokens according toweight, including an inclosure defining a tortuous passage into which the. token may be introduced and along which it is adapted to move, the passage so shaped as to compel the token as it rolls to move through it under the force of gravity alone and to cause the token to rotate first in one, direction and then in another duringits passage, means for subjecting the token to a magnetic influence as, it moves through the passage, and means for projectwith the passage a chamber within which is located a movable element against which the token is projected, said element adapted to be moved more or less by the token as it is contacted,'the degree of, such movement depending upon the force with which it is struck and affecting the classification of the token. I I

3. In a token classifier, an enclosure defining reversely directed substantially horizontal passages, a chamber to which one of said passages leads, a movable member mounted in said chamber and spaced from the one end of one of the substantially horizontal passages, said passages and movable member being so positioned that a coin traversing said chutes will contact said movable member under the influence of its momentum with such forceas to pass over said member or fail to pass the same. I

Signed at Chicago, county of Cook and State of Illinois, this 28th day of February,

CUR-T W. KLOSTERMANN.

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