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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 10, 1983
Filed:
Jan. 19, 1981
Applicant:
Inventor:
Donald K Christian, Spartanburg, SC (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G07F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
194 / ; 194 92 ;
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.