US1677939A - Eugene vinogradov - Google Patents

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July 24, 1928.

E. VINOGRADOV AUTOMATIC NEWSPAPER VENDING MACHINE Filed March 24; 1927 INVENTOR El/GL-"NE' ZVVOGRADOV yalw 12% ATTORNEY Patented July 24, 1928.

UNITED STATES EUGENE VINOGBADOV, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

AUTOMATIC NEWSPAPER-VENDING MACHINE.

Application filed March 24, 1927. Serial No. 177,944.

My invention relates to automatic newspaper vending machines and has a particular reference to machines in which one newspaper at a time is released for delivery, this release being controlled by a coin.

The object of my invention is to provide a machine adapted to contain a number of newspapers which can be automatically released, one at a time, when a suitable coin or a number of coins of a predetermined aggregate weight are dropped in a slot.

With this arrangement my machine can be adjusted for coins of different denomination or number according to market prices of the newspapers.

My invention is more fully described in the accompanying specification and drawing in which- Fig. 1 is a sectional elevation of my machine, Fig. 2 is a detailed view of a delivering mechanism, Fig. 3 is a partial view of same, Fig. 4 is a partial plan view of same, Fig. 5 is an elevation of a coin operating mechanism, and Fig. 6 is a partial view of the mechanism for closing coin slot when the machine is empty.

My machine comprises a housing 1 with a chamber 2 for newspapers 3. The housing and the chamber are open from the side and the housing is provided with a side covor (which is shown removed in Fig. 1). The newspapers are pressed towards the rear of the housing by means of a compression plate 4 attached to lazy tongues 5 with springs 6. The papers rest against a short plate 7 at the top of the housing. The lower edges of the papers slide over the bottom plate of the chamber 2. At the rear end they are separated by blocks or ribs 8 on an endless belt 9, preferably made of an elastic material such as rubber. The belt 9 is placed on pulleys 10 rotating on shafts 11. The ribs 8 are spaced in accordance with the thickness of the newspapers, so that only one newspaper fits in the space between two consecu tive ribs.

The last newspaper rests in a space between a retaining arm 12 and a clamping lug 13. These members are rotatively mounted on a shaft 14. The arm 12 is kept in the operating position by means of a spring 15 attached with one end to a bar 16 and with the other end to ahub 18 of the arm 12 by means of a flexible wire or chain 17. The hub 1.8 is provided with a lug 19 resting against the bar 16 and retaining the arm 12 in its operating position.

The lug 13 rotates independently on the shaft 14 and is connected with the hub 18 by means of a spring 20. A pin 21 retains the lug 13 in an operating position.

The hub 18 has an extension 22 on which a pinion 23 is rotatively mounted. The ex tension wheel 22 has slots 24 for rollers 25 forming a one way clutch. When the hub and the arm 12 rotate to the right (Fig. then the rollers become wedged in the slots 24 causing rotation of the pinion. With the return movement of the arm the rollers are pushed in the enlarged ends of the slots 24 thereby releasing the wheel. 22 from the engagement with the pinion 23.

The pinion 23 is in mesh with a gear 26 attached to the pulley 10. The lug 13 has a hook 26 for a flexible cable 27 the other end of which is attached to an operating bar 28 which slides in a bearing 29. A spring 30 is placed on the bar 28 between the hearing 29 and a collar 31 and tends to push the bar to the right. A collar 32 retains the bar 28 in the extreme right or inoperating position.

An inclined chute 33 is provided for the newspapers with rollers 34. Rollers 35 and 36 are connected together with an endless belt 37. The roller 35 is also connected by an endless belt 38 with a pulley 39 connected with a pinion 40 which is in mesh with a rack 41 on the operating bar 28.

The chute 33 extends outside of the housin 1 through a window 42 and has an upturned edge 43 to retain the delivered newspapers.

The bar 28 is provided with a handle 44 which may be made in the form of an eye or hook for the operators fiinger.

A slot 45 for the coins is provided in the front wall of the housing 1. This slot may be covered from inside with a swinging plate 46 mounted on a pin 47 and connected with a wire 48. A pulley 49 supports this wire at the corner. The other end of the wire is connected with a sliding block 50 adapted to be operated by the upper edge of the pressing plate 4, when the last newspaper has been delivered.

The coin from the slot 45 drops on a plate or cup 51 which is rotatively mounted an a pin 52 supported on end of a rocker arm. 53. A spring fiat tends ta heap the cup in an opemtin e position, in which it it; retained by a lag 55 on the arm 53. The

arm is rotativel mounted on a shaft r56.

ll other end is pivotally connected with a lag); This; lug can :lreely swing to the right hut is; prevented from H'lOVlllgtO the left by a projection 58 resting against the arm The lug 55 hangs: rerticallyongragiru: with ita lower end a notch 59 in the har 528. it hoary sliding: bushing is placed on the rocker arm fiil in order to proride the necessary weight to keep the cup will. up. 3y zuljuatinp; the weight and the @(Kviliifitt at the hnehiuir the whole device may he made to tilt to the left when the required. weight in coins; rap 5i.

ln itsoperatinsr position the lugli'l' prevents; the hill 95:? from hiring pulled to the let'tl the log; 5? ltlSilll'lQ against a stationary liar til. i i

The ha r t'urther provided with a rack 2 engaging a pinion ($53. This pinion is: rotativcly mounted on a aha-it [l t and has a rain or iugr (35. gage ahloclt (l6 fivotally attached to the cup with a pivot (37. 'llhie block has an eXten-T nioatiti resting against the hinge portion of the cup, to that when the lJlOCh'. presaedto the right ittilte the cup to the left and when it in pressed to the left it mtatea itreely without engaging the cap. it. sliding box is placed under the cup 51 for coins, This hm: iden-toil on rails ill alutcz m-he removed iron; the side of the lmuaing when the eide cover it; removed.

'lhe opt-nation o'l' my machine is an follows:

The coin from the elot 4L dro f on the cup til, calming the arm {33 to swing; to thelett releasing the her The latter is then pulled. out inserting linger in the eye at. 'ljhe racl: ($52 will turn the pinion (it calming the lug (35 to strike the block till, "l hitshloclt through its lug- (58 will press on the cup 51 tilting it to the left and spilling the coin into the box 69. Upon reinoral o'tthe linger from the eye 4:41: the bar under action oil the spring :30 returns; to its; inoperating position, until the lug 57 drops in the slot 59 looking the bar 28.

The pinion {33 will rotate during return nun'enlent of the bar and the cam will atrilo. the other eideot the hloclc (it), swinging same away ilTUlll the ruphl. Upon connpl lion o i" this movement the ram and the block will return to their original positions at shown in Fig. ft

H henthe liar ittl is pulled out ita rear end pulls the wire 2? causing rotation oil? the tug;

until it clamps the lower edge of one newspaper against the arm 12. FY0111 this moment the arm 1? will also rotate pulling the paper away from under the plate 6. Thin rotation continues;tor about 150 or 189 degrees: when the arm 32 talcca position in-- deposited on the This lug is adapted to 011- dicatcd with dotted line in Fig. 12. Due to the sharp trendingaction the paper will es- 4!. i .li 9 A tape LIOIII under the c anip 1o, tailing on t io rollers in the trough 32h as shown with dotted lines in Fig. 1.

These rollereltlfi and 36) are rotatedv hy the belts 37 and 38 from the pinion -10 which rotates while the har 28 is being pulled out. The rotating rollers will cause further movement Oil the paper until it reaches the end of thechute 33 against the stop 43.

The aiun 1.21 turningtothe right, will also rotate the pinion 23 and the gear 26. The gear ratio is ouch that when; the arm 12 makes toll swing, the gear 26 turns the Wheel 10 for an angle sutlicient to more the belt 10 tor a distance equal to the spacing be tween the ribs 8. This action will cause the whole pile of papers to advance for a .distance equal to the space between the ribs or a thickness of one paper. A retaining segment 7]., l3 1g. (alsoshown with dotted lines in lligz. prevents the laat paper from sliding; oil the belt 9, until. the arm andthe lug 13 return in their original position, when the last paper will slide in the space between the arm 12 and the log 13.

Every time when the coin (or several coine according to the adjustment of the weight of the arm is dropped in theslot, one paper is released and .may he removed by pulling the arm 28' No paper'can he reziuoved when there is; no coin in the cup 51.

llith the removalfloi: the last paper the plate 4: will press on tlnueliding loloclt 50, pulling the string 48 and turning the swinging plate to until it covers the slot, preventlog the posssihility of depositing any more coins. The plate {l6 has a suitable sign, such as the word lllinpty which shows through the elot when the latter is closed.

I]T\1')OLi'&l]ii advantage Oil myanachine is that it; entirelyautoniatic and positive in its action, can he adjueted to operate with any denomination or amount of coins, and can't he left withoutany attention until the steel; of papers in it is exhausted.

I claim as my intention:

11.. In an automatic newspaper vending machine, tllC COHIlJlUHtlQIl with a housing of a n'leans to hold a cflurality ot folded papers in said housing, means ton'ianually clamp the lower edge of the last paper and to manually rotate eairl clamping meansthereby releasing said lastpaper from eaid holding means, means to more the reetojl the papers for a distance of one paper during said rotative movement,means to prevent the release of the next to the lastpzitpcr, a plurality of rollers adapted to conduct the released paper to theoutside or said housing, and means to rotale aaid rollers, i c

said housing, an endless belt, pulleys supoperating connection between said manual porting said belt, ribs on the outside of said rotating means and said belt, and means to 10 belt, said belt being mounted in said housing deliver said paper to the outside of said under said papers, said ribs being spaced so housing.

; as to separate individual papers, means to Signed at New York in the county of New clamp the last paper, means to manually ro- York and State of New York this 21st day tate said clamping means thereby removing of March A. D. 1927. a the last paper from said holding means, an EUGENE VINOGRADOV.

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