Check-actuated control mechanisms – Including noncontacting – relatively movable parts connected...
Patent
1974-11-04
1976-03-30
Reeves, Robert B.
Check-actuated control mechanisms
Including noncontacting, relatively movable parts connected...
221 93, 221200, 221251, 221266, G07F 1100
Patent
active
039468470
ABSTRACT:
A coin-controlled, manually operable golf ball vending machine. 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 thereacross in its closed position to cause the balls to bridge the opening and is swung into the mass of balls to break up the bridging of balls for releasing them down the ramp when the actuating lever is pulled. The balls on the ramp are received in descending ballways for introduction into ball tubes formed in a rotatable cylinder extending across the bottom of the ballways. The actuating lever is operatively linked to both the gate and the cylindrical ball receiver for simultaneously rotating the gate to release balls down the ramp and the ball receiver for dumping balls therefrom. The actuating lever is maintained inoperative by a coin-releasable locking mechanism.
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Bock Corporation
Engstrom Harry C.
Long Theodore J.
Reeves Robert B.
Skaggs H. Grant
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