US2873045A

US2873045A - Coin-operated bottle dispenser apparatus

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Publication number: US2873045A
Application number: US511019A
Authority: US
Inventors: William P Rosa
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1955-05-25
Filing date: 1955-05-25
Publication date: 1959-02-10
Anticipated expiration: 1976-02-10

Description

Feb. 10, 1959 w. P. RosA COIN-OPERATED BOTTLE DISPENSER APPARATUS Filed May 25, 1955 4 Sheets-Sheet 1 l, l z fr /l/ f INVENTOR. W/LL/AM R ROSA ATTORNEY Feb. 10, 1959 w. P. ROSA COIN-OPERATED BOTTLE DISPENSER APPARATUS Filed May 25, 1'955 4 Sheets-Sheet 2 m. T m m W/LL/AM F. ROSA ATTORNEY Feb. 10, 1959 w. P. ROSA oom-OPERATED BOTTLE DISPENSER APPARATUS Filed May 25, 1955 4 Sheets-Sheet 3 R. nu m0 VR mp. M m L m ATTORNEY Feb. 10, 1959 w. P. RosA 2,873,045

COIN-OPRATED BOTTLE DISPENSER APPARATUS Filed May 25, 1955 4 Sheets-Sheet 4 l INVENToR. WILL/AM R ROSA ATTORNEY United States 'CIN-OPERATED BOTTLE DSPENSER i APPARATUS Wiliiam P. Rosa, San Francisco, Calif.

Application May 25, 1955, Serial No. 511,019

11 Claims. (Cl. 221133) This invention relates to coin-operated bottle dispensing devices and more particularly to such bottle dispensing devices which may be supported upon a frame rim which may be placed as a unit upon the upper edge of a storage cabinet or box in which a supply of bottles are stored for dispensing, such as a refrigerated cabinet.

It is well known to dispense bottled beverages from refrigerated cabinets by means of a coin-operated mechanism which, upon deposit of a suitable coin, releases a locking device whereby a selected bottle of beverage may be manually drawn from the cabinet. Heretofore such dispensing mechanisms have been constructed or built as an integral part of the refrigerating cabinet whereby the type of dispensing mechansm could not be changed or replaced without replacing an entire cabinet, or, if repairs were necesasry, it frequently became necessary to remove the entire cabinet to a repair shop, or, if repairable at the place of installation, it required a fully equipped repair truck and servicing personnel to make the repair or replacement at such place of installation.

The object of the present invention is to provide a coin-operated bottle dispensing apparatus having all of the i dispensing apparatus mounted as a unit on a frame rim mountable and demountable on such refrigerated dispensing cabinet, whereby it is necessary to change only the rim and the mechanism mounted thereon in order to effect a complete change or renewal of such dispensing apparatus.

Briefly described, the invention comprises a rim or frame demountable for changing and conforming in vshape so as to removably lit over the upper edge of the open top of a cabinet for the dispensing of suitable bottles, such as bottled beverages, such bottles usually having an elongated tapered neck. Depressed below the upper edge of the rim are longitudinal storage tracks or bars which are relatively spaced transversely sufficiently to provide slotted storage racks for receiving therebetween the neck portion of a supply of bottles to be dispensed, such supply being introduced through a lockable gate which opens sufliciently wide to permit the bodies of the bottles to be inserted therethrough and slid along a transverse distributing end slot for distribution to the several slotted storage racks, the racks and distributing slot being sufficiently narrow to pass the neck of a bottle therealong and confine the body of the bottle thereunder. These storage racks may be a permanent part of the cabinet, or if not, they may be supported from the frame of the prim. Of themselves,they are well known. At one end of the rim or frame adjacent to said distributing slot, there is a dispensing apparatus which depends from the inner wall of the removable rim and comprises a dispensing compartment underlying a top plate which is preferably co-planar with the storage racks and has an angularly turned slot therein through which the neck portion only of a bottle may slide from the distributing slot to a larger dispensing opening through which the entire body of a dispensed bottle may pass.

The dispensing compartment is an elongated rectangular chamber in plan and has a depth sufcient to receive the height of bottles being dispensed, being provided with end walls, a bottom upon which the base of a bottle may rest While in course of dispensing, and an inner side Wall facing the distributing slot and which has a receiving opening below the open end of the angular slot in the top plate. The entire body of a bottle may be passed into the dispensing compartment through this receiving opening. Within the dispensing compartment there is movably mounted a bottle cage or trap and which is open at top and bottom and at the side adjacent said receiving opening in the inner wall of the compartment, the trap being movable from a position registering with the said receiving opening and with the open end of the angular slot, to a position underlying the larger dispensing opening in the top plate. In course of dispensing a bottle the trap and a bottle therein are moved between said positions in unison with a sliding plunger of an associated coin-operated mechanism with which the trap is connected, the coin-operated mechanism locking the trap at a position at which a bottle may not be moved into the trap through said receiving opening, but upon release of a coin which has been deposited in the coinoperated mechanism, the trap may be moved suticiently so that its open side corresponds simultaneously with the receiving opening in the dispensing compartment Wall and with the end of the open end of the angular slot, so that a bottle may be moved into the trap, and the trap manually moved forward to underlie the larger dispensing opening in the cover plate, whereupon the bottle may be removed by the purchaser, such manual forward move ment of the trap and bottle having returned the coin plunger to its initial locked position wherein the operation may be repeated.

One form in which the invention may be embodied is described herein and illustrated in the accompanying drawings in which:

Fig. 1 is a plan view of one form of the invention, a conventional coin-operated mechanism being shown in diagrammatic skeleton.

Fig. 2 is a fragmentary vertical transverse section on line 2 2 of Fig. 1.

, Fig. 3 is a fragmentary section view on line 3--3 of Fig. 2, partly in section, and showing in broken lines an overlying cover plate and alternated position of a bottle trap.

Fig. 4 is a transverse vertical section on line 4 4 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 5 is a perspective view of a bottle trap and connections.

Fig. 6 is a fragmentary end View of rack apparatus.

Fig. 7 is a perspective view of a modied form of the invention.

Fig. 8 is a fragmentary plan view, partly in section of apparatus of the modied form of Fig. 7.

Fig. 9 is a fragmentary transverse vertical section on line 9--9 of Fig. 8.

Fig. 10 is a fragmentary transverse vertical section on line 10-10 of Fig. 8.

Fig. 11 is a perspective view of mechanism for moving a bottle trap, as shown in Fig. 8.

Fig. 12 is an elevational view lof a coin release cam mechanism, shown also in Fig. 11.

Referring to the drawing in which like reference characters indicate corresponding parts in the several views of the illustrated forms of the invention, and referring firstly to Figs. l to 6, the referencecharacter 1l) indicates generally a refrigerating cabinet, the upper edge face of its side wall at its open top being indicated 11. `A frame rim generally indicated 12 is provided conforming Y 3 t to the shape of the periphery of the said open top and having a vertical cross section which is generally an inverted U-shape whereby the upper edge face 11 of the side walls of the cabinet may underlie the opening in the U-shaped rim, suitable rubber bumper sealing members 13 being employed between the cabinet and the outer wall 12a of the rim for protection and to make a tight seat lit for the rim and dispensing assembly unit to rest thereon. The opposite or inner wall 12b of the U- shaped rim extends downwardly beyond the terminal edge of the outer wall 12a to provide side and end walls for the frame rim within the cabinet extending substantially below the upper edge face 11 of the cabinet wall, for supporting dispensing mechanism within the cabinet, and preferably also supporting slotted storage racks for bottles, at a position depressed substantially below the upper face of the rim, though, as previously stated, the storage racks are well known and may be an integral part of the cabinet.

The storage racks comprise a plurality of elongated longitudinal bars 15 which extend from the inner wall at one end of the rim and terminate short of the opposite end, said bars being relatively spaced transversely of the frame with sufficient relative spacing to provide the storage slots 15a which are of suitable width to permit the top and upper neck portion of a bottle to protrude therethrough and be manually manipulated above the racks, while the bulbous portion of the bottle body is held thereunder. The outer storage bars 15b abut the inner wall of the frame, and therefore need to be only about one-half the width of the other bars. The form of storage racks, of themselves, are not broadly new and may be a fixed element of a cabinet, in which event they need not be included as a part of the rim assembly. However, for convenience and lateral reinforcement it is preferred that the storage racks be a fixed part of the rim and dispensing assembly. The bars 15 of the storage rack-s are supported by a truss 16 extending transversely across the upper face thereof, thus serving as a brace for the longitudinal inner side wall 12b of the rim, the lower edge of the truss being secured to each of the rack bars 15 in any suitable manner such as by welding 18, the lower portion of the web of the truss being cut-away as at 19 overlying the slots 15a, so that the neck end and closure cap of a bottle may readily pass thereunder. The bars 15 of the storage racks may be of any suitable shape and strip material, but are preferably reinforced by underlying angle iron support members 20 which terminate short of the end of the bars 15 so as not to interfere with the manipulation of a bottle in the slots of the storage racks.

The storage racks and the bars 15 thereof are of lesser length than the innerlength of the rim member, terminating suiiiciently short of a transverse dispensing assembly generally indicated 22 to provide a transverse distributing slot 23 between the terminal ends of the rack bars 15 and the dispensing assembly 22. Manifestly, in such a cabinet, a hinged cover is desirable and is indicated 21.

The dispensing assembly generally indicated 22 depends from and is supported'upon the rim member 12 abutting the inner wall 12b at one end of the rim, and is spaced from the adjacent terminal end of the storage racks by the distributing slot 23. The dispensing assembly 22 comprises an elongated dispensing compartment 24 and a loading chamber 2S at its respective opposite end portions, said compartment and chamber being thus adapted to enter the refrigerating cabinet as a xed part of the rim assembly. The dispensing compartment is of lesser length than the transverse inner dimension of the rim, providing for the loading chamber in the space beyond the end of the compartment 24. The compartment 24 has closed opposite end walls 26 and 26a, an inner side wall 27, a bottom wall 28, and a horizontally planar top cover plate 29, one end portion of which over- Cit lies the dispensing chamber and which may be termed a dispensing plate as its principal function, and the opposite end portion of which overlies the loading chamber and has a loading gate hereinafter designated 37. The outer side wall of the compartment 24 is open as at 30, except for a reinforcing strip 31 at its lower end portion. The top cover or dispensing plate 29 is depressed below the plane of the upper face of the rim and preferably is coplanar with the upper face of the storage racks 15. The inner sidewall 27 preferably extends below the bottom wall of the dispensing compartment as a plate having a cross strip 32 which is rectangularly flanged as at 33, the extension and ange serving the purposes of a support upon which the heavy end of the whole apparatus may rest as a footing to protect the dispensing assembly from damage, and also as a shelf underlying the distributing slot to catch the base of a bottle in case it should be dropped from the hand in either filling the cabinet or in the dispensing of the bottle. The inner side wall 27 which extends across both the dispensing compartment and loading chamber has two

openings

35 and 36 therein, each of which is of sufcient size to readily pass the entire body of a bottle therethrough, said openings being a loading opening 35 through which the cabinet may be loaded and a receiving opening 36 through which a bottle may be received into the dispensing compartment. The loading opening 35 is beyond the adjacent end wall 26 of the dispensing compartment and opens into the loading chamber space 25, and the receiving opening 36 is adjacent the opposite end of the dispensing compartment and opens thereinto.

The top cover plate 29 extends transversely across the rim or frame from one inner wall to the opposite wall. At one end portion which overlies the loading chamber space 25 it has a loading gate 37 inset into its inner edge and which is hinged at 38 and lockable through a suitable hasp 39, the gate opening communicating with the loading chamber and distributing slot 23 through opening 35 in wall 27. Adjacently spaced from its opposite end, the cover plate has a dispensing slot 40 angularly turned normally as at 41, one end of said slot being open at the inner edge of the cover plate so as to communicate with the distributing slot 23 at a position overlying the receiving opening 36 of the inner side wall 27 of the dispensing compartment 24, the angular turn 41 in the slot 40 leading the slot to a dispensing opening 42 which is preferably substantially circular and of greater diameter than the width of the dispensing slot 40, and being positioned substantially centrally of the cover plate 29. The angular slot 40 and dispensing opening 42 overlie the dispensing compartment 24 between the end walls 26 and 26a.

The

slots

23 and 40 are of substantially the same width as slots 15a for the purpose of permitting the neck portion of a bottle to slide readily therein and maintain the bulbous portion of the bottle thereunder.

Means are provided for moving a bottle in the dispensing compartment from the receiving opening 36 to the dispensing opening 42.

Referring to the outer side wall of the compartment 24 which, as stated, is preferably open as at 30, there is a shaft 43 transverse of the opening 30 extending between and suitably mounted securely in the end walls 26, 26a of the dispensing compartment, the shaft being spaced intermediate the top and bottom of the com- A partment but preferably more nearly adjacent to the top. Mounted in the dispensing compartment for slidable reciprocation uponthis shaft is a rectangular bottle cage or trap 44 which may be of lesser vertical height than the compartment, the trap being open at its top and bottom and having three sidewalls, the fourth sidewall being open, facing theinncr wall 27 and the receiving opening 36 of the dispensing compartment, the trap

walls having flanges

45, 46 oppositely turned at the open side wall, such flanges serving as stop members at the opposite ends of the path of travel of the trap, and the ange 46 also having a top flange 46a in theplane of the upper end of the trap, the lianges 46, 46a having lateral widths substantially similar to the spacing of the receiving opening 36 from the rear compartment wall 26a. The trap is slidably mounted on the shaft 43 by a yoke bracket 47 having two relatively spaced arms 47a, 47h, each having a bearing opening 48 mounted on the shaft to insure against wobbling of the trap.

The rear edge of the yoke bracket 47 has a connect-V ing arm means 49 extending upwardly beyond the conlines of the dispensing compartment to a position within the opening between the inner and outer walls of the U-shaped rim and slightly above the lower edge of the outer wall 12a of rim 12 which rests upon the upper edge face of the adjacent side wall of the cabinet, the arm means 49 being then anged outwardly as at 50 t0 pass through a slot 51 in the outer wall 12a of the U- shaped rim, and through a registering slot 52 in the outer cover wall S3 of a coin-operated locking mechanism generally indicated 5d, the outer end portion of the flanged arm 50 assuming any suitable shape beyond the contines of the rim 12 and slot 51 to meet particular operating structure of the coin-operated locking and release mechanism. The terminal end of the arm 50 is in the present example, fixedly connected within a locked box 55 to the inner end of a plunger plate 56, the opposite outer end of which is exterior of the opposite end of the box as at 57, the plunger plate being provided with a socket 58 into which a coin is deposited.

When there is no coin deposited in the coin socket, the plunger plate 56 locks the bottle trap against rearward movement at a position where a vertical wall of the trap, and the anges 46, 46a, intersect and partially close the bottle receiving opening 36 sufficiently so that a bottle cannot be moved into the trap, as shown in broken lines at A of Fig. 3. But when a coin is in the coin slot, the presence of the coin releases the lock when the plunger plate is moved inwardly, and this inward movement drops the coin free of the plunger plate and Vinto a collecting box, and thereby releases the locking means, which permits the bottle trap 44 to be moved rearwardly to a position indicated B in broken lines in Fig. 3, where the full opening of its open side registers with the bottle receiving opening 36 as indicated in Figs. l and 4, whereupon a bottle may be selected from any of the sto-rage racks, moved manually into the distributing slot 23 and then through bottle-receiving opening 36 and into the bottle trap, whereupon the bottle and trap may be manually moved forwardly in unison until the trap and bottle are at position C in Fig. 3 underlying the dispensing opening 42 in the cover plate, at which position its forward movement is stopped by any suitable stop means such as flange 45 contacting end wall 26. At this position the bottle may be manually removed through dispensing opening 42, and, since the plunger plate 56 moves in unison with the trap, this forward movement of the trap to dispensing position, also returns the forward end of the plunger to its initial position for reception of another coin and a repeat of operation, the releasing of the previous coin having reset or relocked the locking means so that the trap may not be moved rearwardly of position A for receiving 'a bottle until another coin is inserted.

The specific structure of the coin-operated locking and release mechanism is not described in detail because such mechanism may be of any suitable type to operate with the dispenser apparatus herein, by making suitable connections of the operating parts. The said coinoperated locking mechanism 54 herein illustrated is a standard commercial article purchasable in the open market, preferably being of the type illustrated in Patent No. 2,053,503, dated September 8, 1936, to Tratsch et al.

The essence of the invention herein is a structure mountable as a unit on a rim which may be placed demountably or changeably upon the upper edge of the open top of a cabinet for storage of bottles to be dispensed, preferably a refrigerated cabinet, and having dispensing mechanism depending from the rim whereby it may extend into the cabinet, the dispensing mechanism having means extending over the upper edge of the cabinet wall and adapted for operative connection through the rim to a locking and releasing mechanism which is coin-operated.

In Figs. 7 to 12, a modied form of connecting arm means is shown and generally indicated 113, comprising a train of relatively pivoted arms operatively between the dispensing bottle trap and a coin operated locking and release mechanism, housed in a suitable box 99. The coin-operated mechanism is not shown in detail, but may be similar to such mechanism 54 in Fig. l, being indicated generally by its locking and coin release mechanisrnltltl. In this modification the bottle trap 191 is mounted on a horizontal hinge 162 at the lower rear corner of the dispensing compartment, and when the trap is vertical in position as shown in Figs. 9 and l() (and in the plan view of Fig. 8), the open side 1113 of the trap being gauged or positioned by tlange 10M, corresponds with the receiving opening 1M in the inner wall 105 of the dispensinfy compartment 196, at which position the trap is locked. At that locked position the open side 11B of the trap underlies the open end 1&7 of the angular dispensing slot 108 which leads into the dispensing opening 109 whereby a bottle may be passed from the distributing slot 11@ into the trap but cannot be removed because of the narrow Width of angular slot 163. However, upon release of a deposited coin by the coin operated mechanism and manipulation of the plunger rod thereof, the locking and release mechanism (and more particularly by the release of locking tooth 111 of the cam 112), the bottle trap 191 may be tilted forward on the horizontal hinge 162 by manually gripping the bottle neck which extends through slot 1138 and tilting the upper end of the bottle and trap into angular alignment with the dispensing opening 109, at which position the bottle may be removed, as shown in broken lines in Fig. 10. When the bottle has been removed through the dispensing opening 109, the tension of spring 114 actuates the pivotally connected arm train 113 and cam reversely and returns the trap to its original locked position at the receiving opening 104, thus again locking the cam by tooth 111, for repeat operation by deposit of another coin to again release the lock. In this modification it will be observed that, as in Figs. l to 6, the dispensing compartment 166 and the dispensing mechanism depend as a unit from the rim 12 which sets upon the upper edge face 11 of the open top of cabinet 1d, and that the links of the pivotally connected arm train 113 which operates from the base of the trap, extend upwardly to a pivot pin 115 which extends through the rim and thus over the upper edge 11 of the cabinet, and thereby operates a connecting linkage of arms to the coin-operated mechanism 100 exterior of the cabinet.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new and patentable is:

l. A bottle dispensing apparatus including a dispensing compartment having a bottle trap therein for receiving a bottle, a slotted dispensing plate overlying the said compartment, said compartment and plate being adapted for mounting within a suitable cabinet which has side walls providing an open top, a rim unit adapted for demountable seating on the upper edge face at the top of the said side walls of the cabinet and supporting the dispensing compartment within the cabinet, and a connecting arm means passing through the demountable rim, one end portion of said connecting arm means having connection with said bottle trap for moving the bottle trap into dispensing relationship relative to the slot of the dispensing plate, and the other end portion of said connecting arm means being connectible to coin-operated 7 mechanism mounted on the rim exterior of the cabinet whereby the movement of the connecting arm means may be locked and unlocked.

2. A bottle dispensing apparatus as set forth in claim l, the said compartment and dispensing plate being supported by the rim and ydepressed below the upper face of the rim, the end portion of the said connecting arm means which is connected to the bottle trap extending upwardly therefrom and through that portion of the rim which is seatable upon the upper edge face of the side walls of a cabinet upon which the rim is mounted.

3. In apparatus for dispensing bottles which includes coin-controlled lock mechanism, a bottle dispensing unitary assembly comprising a frame rim for demountable mounting on the wall of the upper edge face of the open top of a storage cabinet, said rim having an inner and outer wall, a dispensing assembly mounted to and supported by the inner wall of the rim, including a dispensing cover plate transversely across one end portion of the rim and depressed from the upper face of the rim, said dispensing plate having a dispensing opening and having an angled dispensing slot a first end of which opens at a side edge of the dispensing plate for receiving the neck portion of bottles therethrough and the second end of which opens into the dispensing opening in said dispensing plate, the width of the dispensing slot being narrower than the diameter of the dispensing opening, the large diameter of the dispensing opening providing space for removal of a bottle body therethrough, a dispensing compartment underlying the portion of the dispensing cover plate which has the angled dispensing slot and the dispensing opening therein, said compartment being provided with a vertical side wall having therein a vertical bottle-receiving opening which is of greater width than and communicates with said rst end of the dispensing slot, said receiving opening and said rst end opening being adapted for receiving therethrough a bottle from the storage cabinet, a bottle trap in said dispensing compartment movable therein between the bottle-receiving position and a bottle dispensing position, said trap having vertical walls and being open at its top for communication with said angled dispensing slot and dispensing opening and being open at its side which faces the receiving opening of the dispensing compartment, a connecting arm means having its opposite ends connected respectively to the trap and the coin operated mechanism in such relation that said coin-operated mechanism is adapted to operate through said connecting arm means for respectively locking and releasing the movement of said trap, said connecting arm means extending upwardly between the inner and outer walls of the rim and through the outer wall of the rim for connection to the coin-operated mechanism.

4. A coin-operated bottle dispensing device, as set forth in claim 3, the dispensing compartment terminating intermediate the ends of the dispensing cover plate, and said cover plate having a closable loading opening at an end portion of the cover plate adjacent to one end thereof beyond the bottle dispensing opening, said loading opening communicating with the storage portionv Vof the cabinet separately from the dispensing compartment. i

5. A bottle dispensing device of the character described as set forth in claim 3, the bottle trap having a lateral flange at its open side extending towards a rear wall of the dispensing compartment, and the coinopcrated mechanism locking said trap at aposition in the dispensing compartment whereat said flange intersects the receiving opening of the dispensing compartment.

6. A coin-operated bottle dispensing device as set forth in claim 3 and in which the vertical wall ofthe dispensing compartment opposite the receiving opening has an opening therethrough, a shaft extending across said opening between the opposite ends of the dispensing compartment, the bottle trap being slidably mounted on said :8 shaft, and the connecting arm means having connection to the trap at said shaft whereby the said connecting arm means slides on said shaft in unison with the trap.

7. In a coin-operated bottle dispensing apparatus having a storage cabinet for receiving a supply of bottles and being open at its upper edge face, a frame rim having an arm-receiving opening through a Wall thereof, said rim being adapted for changeable mounting on the wall of the open upper edge face of the cabinet, said rim having mounted thereon and depressed from the upper face thereof a bottle dispensing means comprising elongated slotted storage racks for supporting bottles in the cabinet adjacently spaced below said upper edge face of the cabinet, said racks being open at an end for receiving and supporting bottl'es in the slots therebetween, said racks being sufliciently shorter than the cabinet to provide at one end thereof a distributing slot transversely of the open end of said racks, a horizontally planar dispensing cover plate transversely across one end portion of the rim perpendicular to the storage racks and spaced therefrom by the distributing slot, said dispensing plate having a dispensing opening and having an angled dispensing slot a first end of which opens into the distributing slot at a side edge of the dispensing cover plate and the other end of which opens into the dispensing opening, a dispensing compartment underlying the portion of the dispensing cover plate which has the angled dispensing slot and dispensing opening therein, said compartment having a vertical inner wall adjacent to the distributing slot, the inner wall having a receiving opening underlying and of greater width than the opening of the said rst end of the angled slot, said receiving opening of the compartment communicating with the storage cabinet Vand said first end of the dispensing slot and with the distuributing slot, a bottle trap movably mounted in said dispensing compartment and having communication with said respective receiving and dispensing opening and with the angled slot, the trap being open at the top and provided with walls having an open side which faces the receiving opening of the dispensing compartment, a coinoperated mechanism, and a connecting arm means connected between the trap and the coin-operated mechanism, said coin-operated mechanism being operative through said connecting arm means for respectively l'ocking and unlocking said trap, and said connecting arm means being connected to the trap below the plane of the rim and extending upwardly between the dispensing compartment and the cabinet wall and thence extendingoutwardly above the cabinet wall through said arm-rece1v1 ng opening of the rim and being connected to the coinoperated mechanism exterior of the cabinet.

8. A bottle dispensing device of the character described as set forth in claim 7, said cover plate having at an end portion thereof beyond the dispensing opening a closable loading opening which communicates with the d1stributing slot separately from the dispensing compartment.

9. In a coin-operated bottle dispensing device having coin-operated mechanism adapted for respectlvely loching and releasing a bottle trap, a bottle dispenslng unltary assembly including a frame rim for mountlng on the upper face of the wall of a storage cabinet for bottles, and having depending therefrom a dispensing cover plate transversely across one end portion of the frame rim, said dispensing cover plate having a dispensing opening and an angled dispensing slot a rst end of which opens at a side edge of the dispensing plate, the dispensing. slot being narrower than the dispensing opening, a dispensing compartment underlying the portion of the dispensing plate which has the dispensing slot and dispensing opening therein, said compartment having a receiving opening in its inner Wall underlying the side edge opening at said rst end of the angled slot, a bottle trap in said compartment, the trap being open at its top and at its side which lfaces the receiving opening of said 9 compartment, and a connecting arm means supported by and extending through the rim, whereby, upon release of a coin by the coin-operated mechanism, the bottle trap may be manually moved from a non-receiving position to a receiving position communicating with the receiving opening and with the said first open end of the angular dispensing slot to a dispensing position under lying the dispensing opening in the dispensing cover plate, said coin-operated mechanism being adapted for locking said trap at a position partly overlying and blocking the receiving opening.

10. A coin operated bottle dispensing apparatus as set forth in claim 9, and in which the coin-operated mechanism is mounted at the exterior of the side wall of the rim, and there is a shaft transversely of the outer side wall of the dispensing compartment, the bottle trap being slidably mounted on said shaft, and said connecting arm means extending upwardly from the trap and through a side wall of the rim for connection to the coin-operated mechanism.

l1. In a coin-operated bottle dispensing device hav ing coin-operated mechanism adapted for respectively locking and releasing a bottle trap, a bottle dispensing unitary assembly including a frame rim for mounting on the `wall of the open upper edge face of the wall of a storage cabinet for bottles, said rim having depend ing therefrom a dispensing cover plate which extends transversely across one end portion of the frame rim, said cover plate having a dispensing opening and an angled dispensing slot, a r'st end of which opens into the side edge of the cover plate and the other end of which opens into the dispensing opening, the dispens- Cil ing slot being narrower than the dispensing opening, a dispensing compartment underlying a portion of the cover plate which has the dispensing slot and dispensing opening therein, said compartment having a receiving opening in its inner wall underlying said rst end opening of the angled slot, a bottle trap in said compartment open at its top and at its side which faces the receiving opening of said compartment, the bottle trap being mounted tiltably on a horizontal pivot member at the lower rear portion of the compartment whereby, when it is vertical, it registers with the receiving opening of the compartment, and pivotally connected arm means supported by and extending through the rim whereby, upon release of a coin by said eoin-operated mechanism, the open top of the bottle trap may be manually moved on said horizontal pivot member from a. receiving position to a dispensing position angularly underlying the dispensing opening in the dispensing cover plate, said coinoperated mechanism being adapted for locking and releasing said trap at the receiving opening.

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