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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 01, 1983
Filed:
Mar. 18, 1982
Applicant:
Inventors:
Robert J Collins, Culver, OR (US);
Erich F Feigl, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G07F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
194 / ; 194 / ; 221 21 ;
Abstract
A vending machine including a plurality of receptacles in which articles to be vended are stored and releasing mechanisms that selectively release the articles from the receptacles. An enabler counts money or other tender deposition in the machine and enables the releasing mechanisms associated with those receptacles containing appropriately priced articles as successive predetermined totals are reached. The money is temporarily deposited in an escrow chamber from which it is released into a bank only after a sensing device determines that an article has in fact been released.