Map vending machine

Details Map vending machine Map vending machine

1976-09-22

1978-04-18

Tollberg, Stanley H.

Article dispensing

With empty supply source responsive means

Having motion inhibitor for discharge means

221213, 221251, B65H 704

Patent

active

040847241

ABSTRACT:
A vending machine for flat, folded paper maps comprising, a box-like housing with a horizontal interior plate, elongate vertical open-ended chutes with front, side and rear walls, slidably receiving vertical stacks of flat multi-panel folded paper maps and arranged in the housing above the plate, structure yieldingly connecting the rear walls to the plate, members yieldingly urging the upper ends of the chutes rearwardly to incline the chutes rearwardly to vary the vertical space between the plate and lower edge of the front walls of the chutes, discharge slots in the housing spaced forward of the lower ends of the chutes, U-shaped ejector slides with flat bases slidably engaged on the plate beneath the bottoms of the chutes and vertical side flanges slidably engaging the exterior of the side walls of the chutes, gripping elements on the slides to grip arched portions of the lowermost maps upon forward shifting of the slides to urge the maps forwardly beneath the lower edges of the front walls of the chutes and thence through the slots, said lower edges of the front walls having straight, horizontal center portions cooperating with the plate to accommodate the flat, central portions of the folded maps and having laterally outwardly and upwardly inclined end portions cooperating with the plate to accommodae thicker, resilient side portions of the folded maps.

REFERENCES:
patent: 520769 (1894-06-01), Cochran
patent: 3412895 (1968-11-01), Hilton
patent: 3872997 (1975-03-01), Armstrong et al.

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