US1213849A - Slot-machine. - Google Patents

Description

J. H. EGAN.

SLOT MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED JULY18, I916.

Patented J an. 30, 1917.

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APPLICATION FILED JULY I8. 1916.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

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Application filed July 18, 1916. Serial N 0. 109,940.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, JAMES H. EGAN, citizen of the United States, residing at Ocean City, in the county of Cape May and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Slot-Machines, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to so-called slot machines of that type employed to deliver an article or articles upon the deposit of one or more coins of proper value, and it is particularly intended for delivering tokens or checks which may be used for the purchase of sodawater or other goods, the 'object being to provide an improved device of the kind which may be operated by a purchaser to obtain soda checks or .the like which can afterward be exchanged for the goods.

in the present machine the proper coin acts to form a connection between a pusher which is operated by hand and a delivery plate or plates which work under the bottom of a magazine containing the tokens to be delivered. There are two of the delivery plates and magazines, and the arrangement is such that one or both can be operated.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings in which Figure 1 is a vertical section on the line ll1 of Fig. 2. Fig. 2- is a central vertical section across the machine. Fig. 3 is a top plan view of the base of the machine with the magazines and upper part removed. Fig. 1- is a top plan of the machine. Fig. 5 is a plan view of the base with the delivery plates and pushers shown in Fig. 3 removed. Fig. 6 is an inverted plan view of the bottom of the upper part of the machine which was removed in Fig. 3. Fig. 7 is a detail of the operating lever.

Referring specifically to the drawings, 6

' is a hollow base of inverted cup-shape having openings 7 to permit the fall of a token int a delivery chute 8, and also having slots 9 to permit the passage of coins into the runways 10 leading to exposure runways 11 which extend outside of the base and which deliver into a cash box 12 in the bottom thereof. Upon this base is mounted a glass container 13 in which are cylindrical magazines 14: which may be filled with tokens or checks through slots 15 in the top thereof. Behind the magazines the container has a compartment 16 closed by a bottom 17 for holding straws 18 or the like. The container top 19 also has openings 20 0011111111111 eating with coin chutes 21 which correspond with the magazines. The bottom plate 17 of the container has on the under side thereof depending frames 23 which support horizontal plates each of which has an opening 25 through the same. The front end of each of thes openings is reduced as indicated at 26, to a width slightly less than that of a proper coin delivered thereto from the chute 21, while the wider part of the opening is suiiiciently large to allow the coin to drop when it is moved to the rear.

The container is connected to the base by a pair of rods 28 extending through lugs 29 on the inside of the base.

The top plate 30 of the base has a central rib 31 at each side of which is a groove 32, and mounted to slide upon this plate, at each side of the rib, is a delivery plate 33 which has a flange 34: that travels in the groove 32, which serves to guide and retain the plate. Each plate also has an opening 35 which normally registers with the bottom of the corresponding magazine 14:, so that the lowest token rests in the opening in the delivery plate, where it is normally supported by the adiacent part of the top plate 30 and by a small tongue 36 on the underside of the plate. Each delivery plate also has a coin slot 37 located behind the opening 30; also a v uide slot 38 in which works a pin 39 projecting from the plate 30.

Mounted upon or above the delivery plates is a sliding cross-shaped plate dOgvhichIwill term the pusher plate. This is guided by a pindl which projects through a slot42therein and another pin 43 which projects through a slot 44: therein, these pins or screws being set into holes 15 in the rib 31. The rear end of the plateeiO is turned up as indicated at as and a spring 47 is connected thereto, and to the pin a1, and tends to hold the pusher plate in forward position. This plate has two arms 48, and mounted upon each arm is a short chute section, comprising pposite front and rear plates 19, and this section is in line with a slot 50 in the plate. Pins 51 act to stop the forward movement of the pusher plate, due to the spring, and this chute section 15) projects upwardly through the space 25 between its edges 26 and 27 and between the side pieces 23 of the frame above described, when the parts are assembled.

is a chute for undersized coins, adapted to return the same to the outside of the machine.

Each delivery plate has at its outer edge a depending arm 61, with a rearwardly projecting finger 62 which, when the delivery plate is pushed back, passes through an opening 63 in the chute 10 and acts to stop a coin in said chute. Each plate also has a depending arm 64: with a forwardly projecting finger 65 which, when the delivery plate is advanced, acts to stop a coin in the exposure chute 11 and expose the same at the opening 66 therein.

For operating the pusher plate I provide a finger lever 7 O which is pivoted at 71 to a bracket 72' in the container, and this lever has a projection 73 which extends into an openingi'e in the front end of the pusher plate.

The operation is as follows: The magazines being loaded with tokens or checks, the lowermost rest in the openings 35 of the respective delivery plates 38, where they are supported by the adjacent parts of the top plate 30 and the tongues 36. hen the proper coin is deposited in one of the coin chutes 21 it falls through the same and between the two plates 49, where it is stopped by the edges 26 of the plate 24, in such po sition that the lower or ge of the coin will extend or project into the slot 37 in the delivery plate 33. This connects the delivery plate with the pusher plate, at that side of the machine. Then by pressing on the lever the pusher plate 40 is pushed back and carries with it the delivery plate 30 on that side, and this delivery plate carries backward the token in the opening 35 until it registers with the opening 7, when the token will fall through the opening and out the delivery chute 8. At the same time, at the limit of -the backward movement, the coin reaches the wide part 27 of the stop plate 24, and registers with the slot 9, and

will then be released and will drop through said slot into the chute 10 where it is temporarily held by the finger 62. When the finger lever 70 is released the pusher and delivery plates are returned by the spring 47 to original position and the finger 62 is then retracted and the coin in the chute 10 rolls out into the chute 11 where it is stopped and held and can be seen through the opening 66. At the next operation, the coin in the chute 11 is released by the backward movement of the finger 65 and drops from said chute into the cash box 12.

If two coins are deposited in the chutes 21, both of the delivery plates 33 will be connected to the pusher plate 40, and when the latter is pushed back both of the delivery plates will also be pushed back, and will deliver two tokens, one from the five cent magazine and one from the ten cent magazine, for example.

If an undersized coin is deposited in the chute 21 it will pass between the edges 26 of the stop plate 24: and fall down through the opening 37 into the chute 60 by which it will be returned outside of the machine.

It will be seen that by means of the double arrangement either one or two tokens may be delivered at a single operation. Thus it a five cent drink is wanted a five cent token may be obtained. It a ten cent, or two five cent drinks are wanted, the ten cent side is operated; or both a ten cent and five cent token may be obtained simultaneously by operating both sides. The exposure chutes 11 enable the deposited coins to be seen after they pass through the operating mechanism, and before they are dropped into the cash box.

I claim:

1. The combination of a magazine for articles, a sliding delivery plate thereunder having an opening for the bottom article, and a coin slot, a coin chute, a frame at the lower end of the coin chute having a narrow part adapted to engage and stop a coin with its edge in said slot and a wider part a da pted to release said coin, a pusher plate -slidable upon the delivery plate and having a short chute section projecting into z-aid frame and adapted to engage a coin stopped therein and shift the same to the wider part of the frame.

2. The combination with a sliding delivery plate, of an operating coin mechanism associated therewith, an exposure chute leading vfrom said mechanism, having an opening through which a coin may be seen, and an arm carried by said plate and projecting across said chute in position to stop a coin opposite said opening at each operation of the plate.

3. The combination of a coin chute having a frame at the lower end thereof provided with an opening having a narrow end adapted to stop a coin, and :1 wide end adapted to release the same. a. sliding article delivery plate having a slot into which the edge of a coin projects when it is so stopped, and a. sliding pusher plate having a short chute section lo ated between said chute and slot and projecting into said frame and adapted to engage a coin therein and shift the same to the wide end thcreot to release the same, said coin acting to slide the delivery plate when so shifted, and means to restore the plates to original position.

In testimony whereof I atlix my signature.

JAMES H. EGAN.

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