Check-actuated control mechanisms – Including noncontacting – relatively movable parts connected...
Patent
1980-10-27
1983-07-19
Bartuska, F. J.
Check-actuated control mechanisms
Including noncontacting, relatively movable parts connected...
221 24, 221265, 222 1, G07F 1144, G07F 1302
Patent
active
043939716
ABSTRACT:
A vending apparatus for dispensing a controlled amount of material upon deposit of a prescribed coin. A high reservoir contains material such as candy or the like in suitable holders such as size-V plastic capsules. A coin-operated device, preferably including a coin slide mechanism, is manually operated by a customer. When the slide is pushed in and pulled out by the customer, he contributes energy to the apparatus which is utilized in dispensing the material in an amusing way. In one embodiment, the act of moving the coin slide causes a relatively heavy steel ball to be elevated to a position where it engages a transportation device such as a simulated coal car or bulldozer. The transportation device carries the plastic capsule from a loading station (immediately below the reservoir) to an unloading station some distance away--where the capsule is dumped into a dispensing chute to be received by the customer. The steel ball is disengaged from the transportation device at the unloading station, and a counter-weight causes the transportation device to return to its loading station where it rests until a new coin is deposited, etc. Because the transportation device is designed to respond to the presence of the heavy steel ball instead of the presence of the vended material, the apparatus is relatively immune to any variation in weight between capsules.
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Bartuska F. J.
McHugh Charles W.
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