US1381135A - Vending-machine - Google Patents

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V. E. RANDALL.

VENDING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 5. 1919.

1,381,135, Patnted June 14,1921.

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VICTOR E. RANDALL, OF BATTLE GREEK, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNOR TO SILAS A. MILLER, OF BATTLE CREEK, MICHIGAN.

VENDING-MACHINE.

Application filed June 5, 1919. Serial No. 302,051.

'To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Vroron E. RANDALL, a

citizen of the United States, residing at 7 Battle Creek, in the county ofCalhoun and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Vending-Machines, of which the following description and appended claims, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, form the specification. r

The present invention relates to vending machines more particularly adapted for vending globular materials as, for instance, gum or candy.

Characteristic features of the present invention are double oppositely rotatable vending plates, a positive and simple coin-- actuating device, an inexpensive and readily procured receptacle chamber, a removable bottom without hinges and with adequate room for an attaching padlock. Other features of novelty and objects of said invention are to provide an efficient, economical and tasty appearing vending machine and will be more fully set forth in the following specification and shown in the accom' panying drawings, in which: Figure 1 is an elevation of the machine from the operating side.

Fig. 2' is an elevation in cross section on a line through the operating mechanism.

Fig. 3 is a broken plan of the machine on the line a-a2 of Fig. 2, showing the coinactuatingmechanism, the oppositely-revoluble vending plates, the guard below the plates and the exit chute from said guard.

Fig. 4 is a broken plan view of the base. Fig. 5 is a detail broken side view of the coin-actuating mechanism.

Fig. 6 is a reverse view of the coin-actuat- Like marks of reference refer to corresponding or equivalent parts throughout the views, in which A represents the base section within which a portable bottom B is fitted, the same being held therein by introducing one edge above an inturned rim 1 of said base and securing its opposite edge by means of a padlock 2 engaging a staple 3 fitted in or forming a part with said base and extend ing through a hole in an offset edge 1 of an upturned portion of said bottom.

Fitted to or forming a part of the base in its upper portion is a cross-girt 5 to which the oppositely-revoluble vending plates G and are journaled to a central bolt 6 ex tendlng through the parts, a guard or table over which the vending plates operate, and an exit chute 8,1eading from a depres sion in said plate to a pocket 9 on the exterior of the base, and a rim 10 upon which the detachable upper section E of the base is seated.

The upper base section Eat intervals on its lower inner edge is formed with depending bayonet hooks 11 which when the base sections are intact extend through apertures 12 in the rim 10, and locked in the usual manner by the turning of the one section upon the other a pin, as 13, afterward being introduced into a hole in the lower base section and to the back of a hook for preventing the unlocking of the sections. The section E is indrawn at its upper end and formed with an opening into which the neck of a glass container F is cemented or otherwise fixed. In the drawings a common glass fruit jar isshown as a receptacle or container.

Preferably the upper vending plate D is higher in its center and slopes toward its rim and so formed that but a single tier of balls of gum or the like will occupy the space within the indrawn or overhanging top of the upper base section,- as shown. This plate has a row of open-ended cups 14 near its outer edge and they are arranged to coincide with a corresponding row .of elongated arc-shaped cups 15 formed in the lower vending plate C.

Formed on the under rim of the plate-D and the upper rim of the plate 0 are cog .races 16 which intermesh with the coin-actuated vending gear 17 journaled on a side stud 18 in an offset portion of the base.

The gear 17 has a rim somewhat larger than the circumference of its teeth line and on its reverse side is formed with an outer broken rim 19 and a loop-shaped brokensided coin receptacle 20, and the hand operatingmechanism 21 journaled on the stud 18 portions in the loop-shaped coin receptacle. Vhen the parts are in a normal position or a position for receiving ajcoin, as shown in the views, the sides of the coin receptacle 20, the

ends of the flange 24 and the rib 25 are coin cident and permit of a coin being inserted in a slot, as Z, (Fig. 3), between the rim of the gear 17 and the hand-operatingmechanism. If a coin is in the pocket thus formed, by turning the crank 22 toward the right the rib 25 will press said coin against the opposite broken side of the coin receptacle 20 and turn the gear 17, which in turn will cause the vending plates C and D to rotate in opposite directions. To yieldingly hold the plates and cooperating parts in predetermined position, a flat spring 26 fixed to the base engages at its free end within notches in the rim of the plate C the same results would be effected, however, if a similar spring engaged notches in the rim of the gear 17. By the arrangement of the coincidentally-passing cups in the vending plates, the upper plate will deposit a ball of gum or the like within a semi-circular pocket or cup in the lower plate, and the lower plate in turn, when such pocket coincides with the depression formed by the upper end of the exit chute 8 will permit said ball to enter the exterior cup 9 at the lower end of said chuteon the exterior of the lower base sec tion A.

An object in providing double vending plates is to insure an almost infallible fillingof the cups in the lower vending plate (as must be obvious) as, for instance, if a ball of gum or the like enters a cup of the upper plate it necessarilywill drop into a cup of the lower platewhen the cups pass fill in the next instance, and as the lower row of cups when filled will only fill once during a revolution of their plate, the lower cups would not take a second ball even though the cup above was in position to deposit a ball therein when moved to so do or,

in other words, should the lower cups be filled or partially so, the occasional jam I ming of balls over an upper cup in all prob ability. would be removed and insure the being secured tothe base casting andits op-' posite end 28 into a small depression in said mechanism, its ob ect being to return the hand crank 22 to a starting position and the operative parts so that a coin may be placed in the vending chamber of the machine. As.

will be obvious, if a coin is not in the coin chute .2, or a coin is inserted in its mouth when the crank has been turned toward the said coin into said pocket until a normal position has been restored.

From the foregoing explanation of the construction and operation of the machine, a more elaborated explanation is believed not to be necessary.

Having, therefore, set forth myinvention,

open space between the base and the upwardly-curving portion of said bottom.

,2. In a vending machine, the combination of abase comprising an upper and a lower section, the lower section having a removable bottom and anindrawn neck rim with arc-shaped openings, the upper section having bayonet lugs engaging through the holes in the rim of the lower section, and an inverted glass container cemented within an upper indrawn neck portion of said upper base section, substantially asset forth.

3. Ina vending machine, the combination of oppositely-revoluble vending plates operative from a common axis, said plates having vending cups therethro'ugh in equal spaced relation with one another, the cups of the lower plate being elongated in the direction of rotation, the cups of the plates being coincident intermittently and arranged topermit the contents of cups from the upper plate'to pass into the cups of the lower plate, and means to simultaneously actuate said plates' at. Ina vending machine,'the combination of oppositely-revoluble vending plates operative from a common-axis, rlm gears 7 formed on the inner "faces of said plates, a gearinterposed between the rim gears of said plates whereby said plates will revolve in opposite directions, said plates having corres )ondingly-spaced cup openings formed theret rough whereby. the cups of one plate will be coincident with the 'cupsof the other at regular intervals, the cups of the lower plate being elongated in the direction of their movement, and a stationary table forming a race-way below saidlo-wer plate,

a depression in said race-way, and a chute 'leading'from said race-way, substantially as set forth.

5. In a vending machine, the combination of a base having anindrawn neck top and a glass receptacle fitted therein, a vending plate rotably mounted in said base and extending beyond the neck portion of said receptacle, the indrawn portion of said base being spaced above said plate sufiicient only to permit a single layer of articles to be vended therebetween, and the vending apertures in said plate being near the inner Wall of said neck, means to intermittently revolve said plate, a table below said apertures havmg a depression and a chute leading from 10 said depresslon.

VICTOR E. RANDALL.

Witnesses:

R. A. DONOVAN, TI-IEO LEMLIsT.

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