Telephonic communications – With check operated control – Fraud or interference prevention
Patent
1986-07-21
1988-03-15
Lev, Robert
Telephonic communications
With check operated control
Fraud or interference prevention
109 52, 312245, 379143, H01M 1700
Patent
active
047318198
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
CROSS REFERENCES TO RELATED APPLICATIONS
Applicant thereby makes cross references to his patent application PCT/FR 85/00 333, filed Nov. 25, 1985 and claims priority thereunder following the provisions of 35 U.S.C. 119.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a prepayment product or service dispensing apparatus comprising a post anchored to the ground and including a closable compartment containing a removable coin box, and a container attachable to the post.
2. Description of the Prior Art
The dispensing apparatuses concerned by the invention are, for example: confectionary, newspapers, books, cigarettes or coins, and will be made in a preferred embodiment described subsequently, or parking authorization times, or games.
All these apparatuses comprise mechanical and electromechanical devices, part of which are contained in the post and part of which are contained in the container, and have at least two entrances locked by key which serve as access to internal devices of the apparatus. One of these entrances is a pivoting door closing the coin box compartment which is often partitioned off from the other devices contained in the post. Another entrance is a container door or a locking device allowing a part of the container to be removed.
In addition, the majority of these apparatuses have a large number of projections or salient surfaces making it easier to break into the apparatus using a tool as a lever arm. In particular, a tool may be used in this way to force the door of the locked compartment, since the door is pivotable.
Furthermore, a person in charge of removing the coin box and maintaining the apparatus must performs several distinct and often complex operations in order to open the compartment, remove the coin box and gain access to the interior of the post and the container. These operations are often long and painstaking because of the measures taken to improve the security and the robustness of the apparatus.
OBJECTS OF THE INVENTION
The main object of the invention is to provide a dispensing apparatus doing away with the above mentioned disadvantages, in particular, offering but a single entrance for access to the coin box compartment and the internal devices of the apparatus, and only requiring a single continuous operation to extract the coin box and release the container from the post. The fact that there is only one entrance, such as the compartment door, provides effective protection of the inside of the apparatus at a lower cost. When the container and the post are robust and free of projecting points, the apparatus is practically vandal-proof.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
Accordingly, a dispensing apparatus such as defined under the "field of the invention" is characterized in that it comprises means for concomitantly opening the compartment, extracting the coin box from the compartment and releasing the container from the post for access to internal means included in the post and the container.
According to features of the invention, the apparatus comprises a means for simultaneously translating the coin box and a door closing the compartment towards the outside of the post, and means controllable from the open compartment for releasing the container from the post. The translating means is pivotable when the coin box and the door are outside the post and is connected to the releasing means. Pivoting of the translating means causes release of the container in relation to the post via the releasing means. A collecter may thus in a single and continuous operation translate the coin box outwards by opening the door of the compartment and pivot the translating means to release the container from the post and, in particular, to raise the container above the post in order to remove the full coin box and repair internal devices in the post and/or container.
According to other features of the invention, the apparatus comprises contact means operating working mechanically in conjunction with a surface of the coin box and/or a portion of the
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