Article dispensing – Captive article type – With means to remove articles from point of use
Patent
1992-12-16
1994-04-12
Olszewski, Robert P.
Article dispensing
Captive article type
With means to remove articles from point of use
221 1, 221 29, 221152, 221155, 221196, 221224, 221241, 221259, 221268, 49142, G07F 1124
Patent
active
053018311
ABSTRACT:
The present invention comprises a one-at-a-time dispensing assembly for newspaper racks of tetrahedral shape in which the assembly is positioned within and spans the walls of the rack. The dispensing assembly of the invention includes a fixed support base subassembly fixedly positioned--in a vertical sense--adjacent to the lower edge of the rack opening, and a shaker subassembly. The base subassembly supports both a stack of newspapers and a planar member of the shaker subassembly. The shaker subassembly also includes a lever extending exterior of the rack below the lower edge of the rack opening actionably connected to the planar member. Purpose: to permit to-and-fro movement of the planar member supporting the stack of newspaper via corresponding movement of the lever. In accordance with method aspects, the buyer causes such movement via an exterior lever extending from the rack and as a result of such action, exposes to his view a portion of a single newspaper which occurs before he activates the coin operated latching mechanism. After coins have been inserted and the rack door has been opened, the newspaper previously exposed, can be pulled from the stack. But when the buyer opens the rack door to obtain his newspaper, the lever and hence the shaker subassembly to which it is attached, becomes inoperative. Result: only one newspaper per door opening can be dispensed. But the dispensing assembly of the invention can also be disengaged quickly to permit a distributor to easily reload the rack on a daily basis.
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Messner Harold D.
Messner Harold D.
Olszewski Robert P.
Reichard Dean A.
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