US1919667A - Merchandise dispensing apparatus - Google Patents

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July 25, 1933. E, J RAYMOND 1,919,667

MERCHANDI SE DI SPENSING APPARATUS Filed Feb. 24, 1931 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 IN VEN TO)? dOR/Vk K [dwardJ/Pa mapd A r y 1933- E. J. RAYMOND 1,919,667

MERCHANDISE DISPENSING APPARATUS Filed Feb. 24, 1931 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 INVENTOR fa ward J. Ra mono b Y A TTORNE V Patented .luly.25, 1933 QNIT D STATESVVK PATENT oFr -csff EDWARD J. RAYMOND, or sEA'rT nwAsH Ne'roN 1 MEncHAnnIsE nrsrnnsma Armanros Applieation filed February 24, 1931. Serial No. 511,729.

This invention relates to merchandise dispensing apparatus, and has for its object'the provision of inexpensively constructed de vices including a cabinet adapted to retain merchandise, one at'a time, from'said magazines. 1

A further and particular .ob ect, the prefo: ferred embodiment herein illustrated being peculiarly designed to handle. unwrapped.

candy merchandise of relatively rapid turnover quality, more especially of that, character purchased and consumed by'children, m is the provision of highly attractive dispensing-apparatus wherein the ultimate consumer is'assured of a sa'nitarycondition in that the individual products are afforded a dispensa-' tion direct from the; factory packedinaga-' zines, rendering the same free from handling, both with respect to the children themselves and the store-keeper.

Further and more particularly objects and advantages, together with the foregoing, will becomeapparent in the course of'thefollowing detailed description and claims. The invention consists in the novel" construction ofthe dispensing devices, the magazine co-operating .thereWith, the method and arrangement in packing the same, and in the novel adaptation and combination of theseveral parts, as hereinafter described and claimed. 1

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Figure 1 is a front elevation of a cabinet constructed in accord with the present-invention and illustrating in dotted-linethe disposition of the assembled magazines there- 4 I the same, taken on the broken line section 2--2 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 8 is arear elevationioit said assembled cabinet.

v Fig. 4 is a detail horizontal section on the line 4:L of Fig. 2, particularly illustrating. the dispensing control shown in the preceding views. 1 50 Figs. 5 and 6 are detail horizontal sections article-holding magazines with simple mechanism most advantageous for d-eliveringthe Fig. 2. is a transversevertical section t0 resenting modified forms of the control lever.

Fig. 7 illustrates in end elevation, the meth 0d of packing the aforementioned magazines in a conventional type papenboxcarton, a re taining strip therefor being broken'away and the carton properrepresented in transverse vertical section. i I

Fig. 8 is a horizontal section taken on line s s ofFigJ'Y. j J I j Fig. 91s a view of the blank from which rep the cabinet is formed; and

Fig. 10 is a detailperspective representing the manner of assemblingfsaid blankto produce said cabinet. Y 1 I,

In carrying out the invention, I preferably stamp fro m o ardboard, metal, wood veneer or the like, a blank 11 of the general configuration represented in Fig.9, said blank pro-j viding parallel longitudinal scorings 12, 13 separating said blank into a back board 14: and. aliform sides 15, 16 Stamped from the upper portion of said back-board, more- 0ver,'and pivotally retained thereto on the line of scorings 17 at its lower edge, is a flap 18 roviding laterally spaced apertures 19,

sa1 apertures being disposed in'alignment with apertures 20 of a complementaryjflap 21, the latter however, having wings 22 cut from the aforesaid sides 15,16 and serving to afford, through straddlingslits23 co-o-perating with a progressive reduction of radius in the arcs 24, a frictionalengagement with respect to the sides 15 16, with a resultantretention of the flap and the sides in approximate right angular dispositions to the back boardg I Pivoted oppositionally of saidfiaps 18',21,. below and relatively'adj acent thelatter, what is hereinafter termed a base board 25 is fur! ther stamped from said backboard and pro vides side-supporting wings26' slit similar to the flap 21, as at 27 for straddling engage ment to respective arcs. Pivot scorings 28 of said base boardare disposed in alignment with the lower edge ofa feed slot 29.

ber 30, the latter having a slotted throat 31 disposed conjunctively with aperture 29 for feeding engagement of the discharged merchandise. 33 represents a receiving platform therebelow.

In such assembly, the base-board 25 is preferably reinforced by a strip 34 juxtaposed therebelotv'a'nd serving to pifvot'ally "support a lever,having anoperating'handle 36 projecting through the aforesaid feed slots, said handle controlling the merchandise dispensation through pivotal motivity of a peleco-idal configured. body 37, the inner inverted quadrants of Which respectively dislodge the lowermost of a plurality of superposed articles contained in'magazines 38.

To such end, said magazines, of an elongated co-nfiguration, are conformed to have their lower ends open, being passed through the"alignedapertures 19, 20 of the flaps '18, 21 and supported in spaced dispositions above the base board 25through angular corner feet 4E0 projecting downwardly at respective outer sides of the same. 7

41repres'ents sight openings in rear faces of the, respective magazines, advantageous in affording a gauge of thecontents therein and for re-aligning the merchandise into horizontal dispositions should (meet the same become accidently upturned in successive dispens'ati'ons.

In Figs. Sand 6, I represent modified forms of operating levers accommodating control by the store operator alone,as 37 or'as might be desired, selectively either by the operator or the purchaser,37

With attention toFigs. 7 and'8, I represent thefpacking of the factory filled. magazines illustrated'in the preceding views, inv'vhijc'h a plurality of said magazines are laid inside by side 'relatio-n,'as many as maybe desired, one layer above another, Within a carton 1 3,

stripsjo'fcardboard 45 or other like agency beinginser'ted between oppositionally disposed ffee'tf40 to retain a tight pack of the product Within'the-magazines, V

In the use of the invention, as herein, embodied, the assembled cabinet is inverted and the magazines,1with the open end at the top, insertedupwardly to have respective feet 40 abut the baseboard 25,, the arrangement of the flaps 18 and 21 allowing of a ready insertion of the same but frictionally resisting dislodgl'nlent due to the resulting crimping of the same over the magazine vvall responsive to dis al'i-gninentffrom horizontal. 'The invention is especially adapted to the dispensation of chocolate covered wafers of the character generally referred to'as penny chews- Wher'einthepurchaser obtains a free candy bar should theinner materialof the Waferbe other than'of a pre-determined specified color.

' In the normal sale of this merchandise, the purchaser has generally heretofore been given accessl ito a box containing the same,

scratched or rubbed off.

The invention and use of the same is believed'c'le'ar from "the foregoing. VVhlle I have herein illustrated and described a pre ferred embodiment of"the'same, it is not my desire to confine myself except as by the limitations of the hereto annexed claims,

hat I claim, is?

1. 'lirmerchandise dispensing apparatus having a cabinet formed from an ap-proxi mate quadrilaterally configured material blanlvtrisecte'd by longitudinal scorings to separate the same into a central body por tion and Wings bordering the "same, said blank having longitudinally-sipaced aperturedflaps stamped through the body-portion'and interconnected to said body portion along the lower transverse edge of each, and abase board stalnpedhthrough the body portion below said flaps and interconnected to said body portion along the upper transverse edgeof the same, said naps being bent down Wardly' into i right angular relations to the body to dispose respective apertures in longitudinal alignment, said base board being bent upwardly into right angular relation to the body toserve as a platform below said apertures, said Win-gs being bent atright angles to the body-portion to a'ot as legs'for supporting the body portion in upright disposition, opeinbottom mercl'iandise-coir tain ing magazine arranged for slide reception through saidalign'ed flap apertures, said magazine having means for supporting the ope1r-'bottom thereof in spaced disposition above the platform,- and a lever pivoted to said platform and -'arranged for movement therebetween and the magazine bottom for successively ejectingthe lowermost article in saidmaga'zi'ne.

ZQIn apparatus as defined in claim 1, \vherein said flap apertures accommodate the reception -05 a' pair of tnnsverselv spaced magazines, and wherein the ejection lever therefor is pivoted medially between the tWo andof an approximate pe'l'ecoidal configuration, the inverted quadrants the'reof being adapted for selective activity to a respective magazine.

3. The apparatus as defined in claim 1, wherein lateral edges 'of'said base board are stamped from the Wings in arcuate configurations, said arcuate edges having re en'trant slots cut into the same in the plane of the blank scorings, the sector formed in said 1 quadrant slots to yieldably retain said body portion, the lateral wings and the base board inv their right angular relations, one to another.

4. In merchandlse dispensing apparatus having a cabinet formed from'a polygonal material blank trisected by longitudinal scorings to separate the same into a central body portion and wings bordering sides of the same, said blank having longitudinallyspaced apertured flaps and a base board stamped through the body portion and interconnected therewith along one transverse edge of each, said flaps being bent outwardly into right angular relation to the body to dispose the aperturesin longitudinal alignment, one flap aperture with another flap aperture, said base board being bent outwardly into right angular relation to the body to serve as a platform below said apertures, said wings serving as legs to support said body portion in upright disposition responsive, to bending of the Wings at an angle to said body portion, an open-bottom merchandise-con taming magazine arranged for slide recep- H tion through said aligned flap apertures, said magazine having means for supporting the open-bottom thereof in spaced disposition above the platform, and a lever pivoted to said platform and arranged for movement therebetween and the magazine bottom for successively ejecting the lowermost article in said magazine.

5. A supporting cabinet formed from a polygonal material blank trisected by longitudinal scorings to separate the same into a central body portion and wings bordering sides of the same, said blank having longitudinally-spaced apertured flaps connected with the body portion along the lower transverse edges of each and a base-boardstamped through the body portion and connected therewith along the upper transverse edge of the same, said flaps being bent outwardly into right angular relation to the body to dispose the apertures in longitudinal alignment,one flap aperture with another flap aperture, said base board beingbent outwardly into right angular relation to the body to serve as a platformlbelow said apertures, said wings serving as legs to support said body portion in uprlght disposition responsive to a folding of the same outwardly at an angle to said body portion, the object supported being adapted for slide reception through aligned apertures into seating engagement to said platform, said connection of the flaps along lower transverse edges expediting admission of the object through the apertures thereof, while resisting retraction from the same.

6, A cabinet formed from a material blank trisected by parallel scorings to separate the same into a central body portion and wings bordering the same, said blank having a flap stamped through the body portion and a portion of the wings and connected to the body portion along one transverse edge',the lateral edges of said flaps projecting into the wings being arcuate and having re-entrant slots cut into the same in the plane of the blank scorings, the radii ofsaid arc progressivelydecreasing from the point of theflap to'accom, modate a wedge action between said slot and the sector formed in the wings responsive to a bending of said flap and the wings at angles to the body portion and one to another.

7. In merchandise dispensing apparatus, a cabinet formed from a material blank trisected by scorings to separate the same into a central body portion and side wings, said blank having spaced-apart apertured flaps and a base board stamped through the body portion and connected therewith along one transverse edge of each, said flaps being bent outwardly into approximate right angular relation to the body to dispose the apertures of the flaps in alignment, said base board being bent outwardly into approximate right angular relation to the body to serve, as a platform, a merchandise-holding magazine received through the apertures of said flaps, and ejection mechanism supported on said latform to successively deliver the articles rom saidmagazine.

8. In merchandisedispensing apparatus, a cabinet formed from a material blank trisected by scorings to separate the same into.

a body portion and wing elements adapted to d be bent at an angle to the body portion for' supporting said body portion in an upright position,said blank having an apertured flap adapted to be bent at an angle to the body portion stamped from the body portion and connected therewith along one transverse edge, a merchandise-holding magazine engageable through the aperture of said flap for supporting the magazine, and ejection mech-- anism for dellverlng articles from said magazine carried by said cabinet. i

9. Thecombination with a cabinet providing a floor, of a' pair of open-bottom merchandise-containing magazines detachably supported by said cabinet to'loca te said bottom openings in spaced dispositions above the floor, and a lever member having an approximate pelecoidal configuration pivotally supported over said floor for movement in the space between saidmagazines and the floor,

said pelecoid configuration providing quad rant-shaped members at each side of its pivot adapted to eject the lowermost article from a respective magazine with the body proper of the same acting to maintain the articles succeeding the ejected article in an elevated disposition during the period of article ejection. 3 EDWARD J. RAYMOND.

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