12-05-1904 дата публикации
Номер: GB190314601A
14,601. Du Bois, E. June 30. Actuating-mechanism ; coin action.-According to the arrangement shown in Fig. 1, the coin, dropped down a shoot 1, momentarily overbalances a lever 2, which, by means of a hook 5, brings down a second lever 7, and, by means of an arm 13, advances a pair of star-wheels 15, 21, so that an arm 17 on their shaft leaves a detent 11 free to hold the second lever by engaging a lug 12. The second lever constitutes a starting and stopping lever for a meter or motor, which runs till a cam 23 allows a lever 18<a> to reverse the star-wheel, so making the arm 17 detach the detent 11, whereupon the starting-lever rises again. The starwheel 15, on which the coin-lever 2 acts, has one tooth suppressed in order to limit the advance by a number of coins to one revolution. In the arrangement shown in Fig. 4, the coin disengages a detent 30 from a cam 33, which is turned by a handle in order to operate the first lever 2. In both arrangements, the detent 11 may be disengaged by an electromagnet, the circuit of which is completed by the arm 17. Coin-discharging mechanism.-Either the lever 2, Fig. 1, sinks till the coin rolls off, or the detent 30, Fig. 4, being under the control of the cam 33, tips the coin under a bridge 37. Electricity, supplying; gas meters; liquid meters. -For the supply of electricity, the starting-lever 7 either dips into two mercury wells 9, Fig. 1, or bridges two terminals 41, Fig. 4, and, for the supply of fluids, it opens a valve. Fraud, preventing.-In the arrangement shown in Fig. 4, the circuit must be also closed by a switch 42, 43, which ensures the cam being turned back to its initial position.
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