Battery selection device

A device for identifying a particular type of a coin-like object such as a specialty battery by progressively measuring first the diameter of said object and second the thickness of such object, said device comprising a frame in turn comprised of a front panel and a rear panel, said rear panel including a generally planar wall having a front surface in turn having upstanding transversely spaced vertically disposed sidewalls which define at least one generally vertically oriented channel having a front surface, an open slot at the top thereof and a closed bottom at varying vertical positions, said front panel including a generally planar wall having a front surface and a rear surface in turn provided with at least one pair of laterally spaced rearwardly extending vertically oriented ridges in turn adapted to extend into said rear panel channel when said panels are oriented in nested operational relationship with each other, said ridges including a plurality of vertically spaced ledges which extend into said channel to which the ridges are associated with and having a greater extent at the bottom of the channel than at the top thereof so as to create zones of progressively diminished thickness as said object travels down the channel from the top to the bottom thereof until said object is held from further travel by a channel bottom formed by the interaction between said channel front surface and the rear surface of said ridges associated with said channel, including a plurality of said vertically oriented channels transversely spaced from each other, each of said channels of a differing width so as to accommodate said objects of varying diameter, said rear panel including a top surface which in turn defines a runway interrupted by said vertically oriented channels so as to define a plurality of said open slots of increasingly larger lateral extent to accommodate said objects of varying diameter from small to large, said front and rear panels operatively positioned together such that the rear panel may be temporarily moved rearwardly so as to materially increase the spacing between said panels so as to in turn allow said objects which have been processed to separate from said channel, including spring means for operatively positioning the panels together, said front panel having a lower opening, said rear panel having forwardly projecting means which extends through said front panel lower opening such that pushing said forwardly projecting means rearwardly pivots the rear panel bottom away from the front panel.