Novel totalizer application for newspaper vending machine
OwnerDonald K. Christianinventor
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Abstract
A novel arrangement for using a standard totalizing coin mechanism in a newspaper vendor is disclosed. Instead of using a coin or stack of coins to depress a door latch as is now customary to permit access to a stack of papers, the present invention uses a pivotally mounted finger for this purpose. Whereas heretofore ratchet-like pawls have been used to restrict the upward motion of coins resulting in the depression of a door latch, the present invention uses a price cam affixed to a totalizer that in turn restricts the upward motion of the pivotally mounted finger to accomplish this function. Also disclosed are ways of resetting a totalizer and a dual price cam.
Claims6
A novel door release means for a newspaper vendor of the type which includes a door which must be opened to gain access to the newspapers comprising:
- (a) a spring biased latch including a catch engaging member;
- (b) a catch which when engaged by said latch prevents opening of said door;
- (c) a moveable element so positioned as to selectively permit or prevent said latch from following a path of engagement with said catch;
- (d) a latch depressing means to restrain said catch engaging member in a plane of non-engagement with said catch as said door starts to open;
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- (e) a coin mechanism including a price cam, said price cam being moveable from a position of nonrestraint to a position of restraint relative to said moveable element responsive to the insertion of money into said coin mechanism;
- said moveable element being so positioned in relation to said latch that said catch engaging member is permitted to move from said plane of non-engagement with said catch to engage said catch as said door starts to open when a predetermined amount of money has not been inserted or, restrain said catch engaging member in said plane of non-engagement with said catch as said door starts to open when a predetermined amount of money has been inserted in said coin mechanism.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.