Multiple choice vending machine for newspapers and the like

Vending machine (1) for individual, multiple or bound sheets that are stacked, hereafter called newspapers, in the general form of a cabinet capable of automatically delivering into a receptacle one copy of a newspaper which a purchaser has selected from a plurality of other newspapers and paid for with a payment device incorporated in the vending machine, characterized in that the cabinet comprises fixed and movable horizontal shelves on which the newspapers are stored in various stacks each of a same newspaper and in that on each of the stacks is provided an individual discharge assembly for the upper newspaper of the stack of newspapers, there being

• two columns of said fixed horizontal shelves (56) secured at each side to two vertical supports (61, 62) welded at their ends to upper and lower parts of the cabinet and at least one movable shelf for each column;
• means for supporting each stack of newspapers on its shelf;
• means for relative displacement and guidance of each said discharge assembly for the upper newspaper from a stack of newspapers relative to the shelf supporting said stack;
• means for guiding the newspaper forming a guide path from the edge of the stack from which it is removed, to the receptacle of the cabinet,
• each column of shelves comprising at least one said fixed shelf (56) adjustable in height by a plurality of securement holes provided on the fixed vertical supports (61, 62), and a said movable shelf (88) disposed at the base of the column, displaceable from a lower loading position, to an upper position in which the stack of newspapers is exhausted.