Map vending machine

Details Map vending machine Map vending machine

1976-03-15

1977-08-16

Tollberg, Stanley H.

Article dispensing

With means for blocking or disabling ejector or releaser

By engagement with slot, notch or protuberance

221271, 221303, B65G 5906

Patent

active

040421465

ABSTRACT:
A machine for vending folded paper items, such as maps, including a housing having forward amd rear walls, at least one channel-shaped chute supported within said housing, the chute being adapted to contain the folded paper items to be vended, a sliding ejector at the bottom of the chute supporting the items and having teeth to engage one of the items for sliding forward movement therewith, an exit slot in the forward wall of the housing for discharging the said one item as a result of the forward sliding movement of the ejector, a drive device in the housing to slide the ejector rearwardly from a forward position to a rearward position, and a tension spring connected to the chute and the ejector to return the ejector from the rearward position to the forward position, the one item being engaged for said forward movement when the ejector is adjacent the rearward position and being positioned for removal from the housing when the ejector has returned to the forward position. The invention also includes an antitheft device, a novel weight for depressing the folded items, a device to prevent exit jamming, and ejector teeth in tapering rows.

REFERENCES:
patent: 2620250 (1952-12-01), Pierson
patent: 2681842 (1954-06-01), Rabkin et al.
patent: 3228554 (1966-01-01), Huffman
patent: 3872997 (1975-03-01), Armstrong et al.

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