Vending machine with coin sorter and totalizer
US4592461A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Apr 29, 1983 |
| Grant date | Jun 3, 1986 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Apr 29, 2003 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG07F11/045
- WIPO fieldControl
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
A vending machine for newspapers and the like having a coin operated mechanism with: PA0 (a) a coin sorter; PA0 (b) a coin chute assembly having a plurality of vertical chutes through which coins of different denominations, from the coin sorter, fall; PA0 (c) a trip wire, one end of which extends through the coin chutes and can move downwardly in the chutes with downward movement of coins; PA0 (d) a totalizer, connected to the other end of the trip wire, for counting the value of coins which fall through the coin chutes; and PA0 (e) a vending controller connected to the totalizer. The coin operated mechanism has an improved totalizer with: PA0 a lever, connected at one end to the other end of the trip wire and rotatably connected between its ends to the mechanism; PA0 a dog, rotatably connected to the lever between the other end of the lever and the rotatable connection of the lever to the mechanism; the dog being adapted to revolve with the other end of the lever about the rotatable connection of the lever to the mechanism; one end of the dog extending toward the rotatable connection of the lever to the mechanism and being adapted to revolve about the rotatable connection of the d…
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