Cigarette dispensing apparatus

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1978-09-22

1980-02-26

Tollberg, Stanley H.

Check-actuated control mechanisms

Including noncontacting, relatively movable parts connected...

G07F 1104

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041901452

ABSTRACT:
A coin operated dispensing apparatus for vending cylindrical items such as individually packaged cigarettes. Generally stated the dispensing apparatus comprises a vertically mounted storage magazine for storing a plurality of cylindrical items to be dispensed, a dispensing gate rotatably mounted across an outlet opening of the magazine for retaining or discharging the cylindrical items from the magazine, and a weighted balance beam coupled through a linkage to the dispensing gate for operating the gate. The balance beam is normally positioned by a counterweight to hold the dispensing gate in an outlet blocking position in which all the cylindrical items are retained in the magazine. In operation the balance beam can be shifted by the weight of a coin for rotating the dispensing gate from the outlet blocking position to a discharge position in which a single item is allowed to drop through the outlet opening of the magazine for dispensing the item.

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