Check-actuated control mechanisms – Including noncontacting – relatively movable parts connected...
Patent
1976-09-24
1977-10-18
Tollberg, Stanley H.
Check-actuated control mechanisms
Including noncontacting, relatively movable parts connected...
221202, G07F 1100
Patent
active
040541975
ABSTRACT:
A coin-controlled, manually operable machine for vending several dozen golf balls at a time. The vending machine has a ball hopper and a ramp below the hopper defining a ball dispensing opening between them. A gate rotatably mounted at the opening, extends partially there across in its closed position to cause the balls to bridge the opening. When the double-stroke actuating lever is pulled forward and returned, the gate is swung or kicked into the mass of balls twice to break up the bridging of balls to release a sufficient excess of balls down the ramp to assure filling of a rotatable ball receiver-dumper cylinder extending across the bottom of the ramp. The actuating lever is maintained inoperative by a coin-releasable locking mechanism. The receiver-dumper cylinder has a keeper slot receiving a limiting lug.
REFERENCES:
patent: 3175669 (1965-03-01), Garvin
patent: 3946847 (1976-03-01), Bock
Engstrom Harry C.
Long Theodore J.
Tollberg Stanley H.
Winter John M.
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