Pilferage protection for satellite vending machine having dual pricing capability

US4201283A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• E. B. Metal Rubber Industries, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Philip F. Jacobs · Hague, US
• Evelyn Friedman · Hague, US
• Peter Southall · Hague, US
• William R. Carswell · Hague, US

Key dates

• Filing date: May 31, 1978
• Grant date: May 6, 1980
• Expiry date: May 31, 1998

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G07F11/20
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A satellite vending machine having a tier of manually operated ejectors for dispensing a selection of packaged articles from storage magazines therein to expand the capacity of a parent vending machine is installed on top of the parent and utilizes the coin-actuated totalizer unit and associated mechanism of the parent and provides a linkage to its own heavy duty mechanism responsive to the latch positions in the parent as pilferage protection. The dual pricing capability of the parent is extended to the satellite by a linkage from the ejectors of the magazines having the higher priced articles in the satellite to the latch mechanism of the parent to lock both parent and satellite latch mechanisms when a higher priced ejector in the satellite is pulled with the deposit of coins sufficient only for the lower priced articles. When a proper amount of coins is deposited, a mutual lockout function between satellite and parent locks the ejectors in the parent when an ejector in the satellite is operated and vice versa.