Article dispensing – With discharge assistant – Plural or combined with manipulating means
Patent
1985-10-04
1987-10-20
Spar, Robert J.
Article dispensing
With discharge assistant
Plural or combined with manipulating means
221241, 221249, G07F 1116
Patent
active
047008695
ABSTRACT:
A single item vending machine, particularly for vending only a single newspaper for each vend operation, is disclosed. The machine has a slot, which is adjustable in height, in the front of the frame of the machine through which the newspaper is vended. A door on the front of the machine prevents access to the slot unless the door is opened. The door cannot be opened unless the required coins are placed in a coin mechanism, thus releasing a door lock. Mounted inside the machine is a base plate. Mounted on top of the base plate are ball bearings. Resting on the ball bearings is a transfer plate which has a raised rear portion which is approximately 1/2 inch higher than a lower front portion of the transfer plate. When the machine is in the closed and locked position, the newspapers are stacked on the lower front portion of the transfer plate. The transfer plate, which is connected to the door by at least one hinge and lever arm, slides forward when the door is opened by the purchaser. As the transfer plate slides forward, the raised rear portion of the transfer plate pushes the bottom newspaper in the stack out of the slot in the front of the machine. The purchaser may then remove that newspaper, but cannot without a great deal of difficulty remove any of the other newspapers from inside the machine. When the purchaser lets go of the door, the door closes and the machine is ready for the next vend operation.
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Alexander Jay I.
Spar Robert J.
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