Dispensing devices with audible announcing means

• US 3,258,153 A
• Filed: 11/12/1964
• Issued: 06/28/1966
• Est. Priority Date: 11/12/1964
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: George H. Morgan, Rodney W. Stout
• Original Assignee: George H. Morgan, Rodney W. Stout
• Inventors: Morgan, George H., Stout, Rodney W.
• Application Number:
  US04/410,383
• Time in Patent Office: 593 Days
• US Class Current: 221/3
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 9/02 Devices for alarm or indication, e.g. when empty; Advertising arrangements in coin-freed apparatus alarms or warning devices indicating the interruption of flow to be metered G07F15/10

Claims

1. IN A MERCHANDISING APPARATUS ADAPTED TO DISPENSE VENDED ARTICLES IN RESPONSE TO ACTUATION BY MANUAL SELECTION AND OPERATION, WHEREIN THE MERCHANDISING APPARATUS INCLUDES A PLURALITY OF MAGAZINES CONTAINING VENDABLE ARTICLES WHICH ARE DISPENSED BY ACTUATION OF A DISPENSING CONTROL MEANS ASSOCIATED WITH EACH MAGAZINE;

AN AUDIBLE MESSAGE ANNOUNCING DEVICE CAPABLE OF RENDERING A SEPARATE MESSAGE APPROPRIATE TO AND ASSOCIATED WITH EACH VENDABLE ARTICLE UPON ACTUATION OF THE DISPENSING CONTROL MEANS, SAID MESSAGE ANNOUNCING DEVICE COMPRISING A SOUND PRODUCING MECHANISM, MESSAGE RETAINING MEANS ASSOCIATED WITH SAID SOUND PRODUCING MECHANISM AND CONTAINING A SEPARATE MESSAGE FOR EACH VENDABLE ARTICLE, SELECTING MEANS OPERATIVELY ASSOCIATED WITH SAID MESSAGE, RETAINING MEANS FOR SELECTING THE PROPER MESSAGE TO BE RENDERED BY SAID SOUND PRODUCING MECHANISM UPON ACTUATION OF A SELECTED DISPENSING CONTROL MEANS, AND AUTOMATIC CONTROL MEANS OPERATIVELY CONNECTED TO SAID MESSAGE RETAINING MEANS, DISPENSING CONTROL MEANS AND SELECTING MEANS FOR ACTUATING SAID SELECTING MEANS TO SELECT A PROPER MESSAGE ON SAID MESSAGE RETAINING MEANS AND TO RENDER SAID MESSAGE OVER SAID SOUND PRODUCING MECHANISM RESPONSIVE TO ACTUATION OF A SELECTED DISPENSING CONTROL MEANS.