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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 05, 1985
Filed:
Oct. 24, 1983
Robert A Holliday, Phoenix, AZ (US);
Other;
Abstract
A coin handling apparatus for use with a vending machine with the coin handling apparatus including an especially configured escrow box which is capable of handling relatively large quantities of coins without the coin jamming and incomplete emptying problems of the prior art. The special escrow box includes a coin return gate and a vend gate which cooperatively form a V-shaped escrow box when the gates are closed. The coin return gate is pivotably movable about a pivot point located at the vertex of the V-shaped escrow box and the vend gate is pivotably movable about a pivot point on its uppermost end so as to completely and rapidly open one entire side of the escrow box when the downwardly extending end of the vend gate is swung away from the vertex of the V-shaped escrow box upon opening of the vend gate.