US683702A - Slot-machine. - Google Patents

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No; 683,702. Patented on. I, l90I; .1. o. NIGHTINGALE.

SLOT MACHINE.- (Application filed m a, 1901.}

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SLOT MACHINE. (Application file d Kay 6, 1901.)

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ATTORNEYS UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH O. NIGHTINGALE, OF PATERSON, NEWV JERSEY, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO MORTIMER INGLIS, OF SAME PLACE.

SLOT-MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 683,702, dated October 1,1901.

Application filed May a, 1901.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH O. NIGHTIN- GALE, a citizen of the United States, residing in Paterson, in the county of Passaic and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Slot-Machines; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to characters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to coin-controlled mechanism; and it consists in an improved construction of that class of mechanisms of this nature which are particularly adapted for the automatic dispensing of liquids.

The invention will be found fully illustrated in the accompanying drawings, where- Figure 1 is a view of my improved mechanism seen from one side thereof. Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view on the line 00 :r in Fig. 1 and looking to the left in said figure. Fig. 3 is a view of the mechanism seen from the other side thereof, and Fig. 4 is a top plan View.

In said drawings, a designates a substantially rectangular frame. In this frame is suspended another frame I), in which is journaled a shaft 0. The ends of this shaft protrude through the frame, and one of them carries a disk cl, having a notch or notches e, and the other of them carries a cam or cams f, said disk and the cam or cams being rigidly mounted on the shaft. The shaft 0 is adapted to be driven from some suitable motor. As shown in the drawings, this may be an ordinary clock-motion, consisting of a main gear g, journaled on an arbor h and normally actuated through the usual ratchet-and-pawl connection (not shown) by a spring t' and transmitting the power of said spring to the shaft 0 through a pinion j and a gear 70, which are mounted on an arbor Z, said last-named gear meshing with a pinion m on said shaft 0.

'n designates a fan serving as a governor for the motor. This fan is mounted on an arbor o,which is connected with the gear Serial No. 58,890. (No model.)

through the medium of a pinion p on arbor 0, agear g on an arbor r and meshing with the pinion p, a pinion s on said arbor 1', a gear 25 on another arbor u, and a pinion c on said arbor u and meshing with the gear 70.

w designates a rock-shaft which is journaled at some suitable point on the frame a. At one end this shaft carries a crank 09, and at the other end it carries a lever y, which projects into the path of movement of and is adapted to be engaged by the cam or camsf on the shaft 0.

2 denotes another rock-shaft, which is journaled in brackets Z on the frame a. On this shaft and suspended therefrom is a detent device 2, whose lower end 3 is turned off at right angles toward the disk, its point being adapted to engage the notch or notches e in said disk to hold the shaft 0 against rotation. The detent device carries an arm 4:, extending at right angles and horizontally therefrom, which when the point of said detent device is in one of the notches 71 projects into the path of the fan a. Said detent device also carries another horizontal and longer arm 5 at its upper end, said arm having its free end 6 turned off at right angles. (See Fig. 4.)

In brackets 7 on the frame a is journaled still another rock-shaft 8. This rock-shaft carries a support 9, one end of which sustains atrough or runway 10, having at one end a discharge-opening 11. The other end of the support carries a spindle 12, on which is arranged a weight 13, which has a threaded engagement with the spindle, being thus adjustably mounted thereon.

14 is a set-screw carried by the Weight for fixing it at the point to which it is adjusted. The Weight-carrying end of the support 9 extends under and is adapted to engage the extremity 6 of the arm 5.

In the frame a is arranged an inclined chute 15, whose upper end extends under the discharge-opening 11 of the trough 10 and Whose lower end discharges into a suitable till 16 or other coin-receiving receptacle.

The lever w being connected up with the valve or other controller of the container for the liquid or other material to be dispensed, upon dropping a coin 17 into the trough or runway 10, the weight 13 being properly adjusted, said trough will, under the weight of the coin assumethe inclined position shown in dotted lines in Fig. 1, whereupon the coin will roll out of the trough into the chute 15, to be discharged therefrom into the till 16. When the trough is thus lowered, the weight-carryin g end of the support 9 is elevated, engaging the arm 5 of the detent device 2, the consequence being to rock the shaft .2 and move the detent out of engagement with the disk d. Thereupon the shaft 0 being thus released the motor rotates it, causing one of the camsf to engage the levery and efiect, through the shaft u), the crank 00, and the connections between said crank and the valve or other part to be operated, the actuation of said part. Meantime the coin having been discharged from the trough 10 the latter is elevated, thus permitting the point of the detent device to wipe on the periphery of the disk ready to reengage the notch in said disk. When the point of the detent device falls into the notch, the arm 4: is projected into the path of the fan, to thus bring said fan to an abrupt stop simultaneously with the stopping of the rest of the mechanism. Since the detent device is'quite elongated, and thus depends considerably below its fu1crum,and also since the arm 5 projects quitea distance as Well from the said fulcrum, the action of gravity is well utilized to normally maintain the point of the turned-01f end 3 of the detent device in contact with the disk, so that proper engagement of said point with either of the notches in the disk is always insured whenever they coincide.

It will be understood that the number of camsfand notches e in the disk cl may be increased or decreased, as desired; also, that any other motor thanthat shown may be employed.

Ido not wish to be limited to the exact construction herein shown and described; but

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is w 1. In a coin-controlled apparatus, the combination, With the frame, of a rotary part journaled in said frame, a motor operatively connected to said rotary part, a cam carried by said rotary part, a notched disk also carried by said rotary part, a lever structure fulcrumed in said frame, projecting into the path of movement of said cam ,-and adapted to be connected to the valve or other part to be operated, a rock-shaft journaled in said frame, an elongated detent device fixed to and suspended from said rock-shaft and having its lower end adapted to engage said notched disk to hold said rotary part against movement by the motor, an elongated arm projecting substantially horizontally from the upper or pivotal end of said detent device, a fulcrumed coin-actuated part movable into engagement with said arm to actuate the detent device, a governor, gearing connecting said governor and the motor, and another arm projecting substantially horizontally from said detent device and adapted to engage said governor to stop the same, substantially as described.

2. In a coin-controlled apparatus, the combination, with the substantially rectangular main frame, of another frame suspended in said main frame, a rotary part journaled in said last-named frame, a motor operatively connected to said rotary part and also arranged in said last-named frame, a cam carried by said rotary part, a notched disk also carried by said rotary part, a lever structure fulcrumed in said main frame, projecting into the path of movement of said cam, and adapted to be connected to the valve or other part to be operated, a detent device fulcrumed in said main frame and adapted to engage said notched disk to hold said rotary part against movement by the motor, a coinactuated part also fulcrumed in said main frame and movable into engagement with said detent device to actuate the same, a weight carried by said coin-actuated part, a governor also journaled in said last-named frame, gearing connecting said governor and the motor, and a stop carried by said detent device and adapted to engage said governor to stop the same, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand this 30th day of April, 1901.

JOSEPH O. NIGHTINGALE.

Witnesses:

JOHN W. STEWARD, ROBERT J. PoLLrrT.

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