Frank C Kecseti

US Patent:

41217071, Oct 24, 1978

Filed:

Feb 23, 1977

Appl. No.:

5/771377

Inventors:

Philip F. Jacobs - Whitehall NY
Evelyn Friedman - Whitehall NY
Peter Southall - Whitehall NY
Cyrus A. Alldred - Sherrills Ford NC
Frank M. Kecseti - Winston-Salem NC

Assignee:

E. B. Metal & Rubber Industries, Inc. - Whitehall NY

International Classification:

G07F 516

US Classification:

194 10

Abstract:

The invention relates to an article dispensing satellite vending machine which has no coin slots for coin deposits or coin operated mechanism but which is capable of being interconnected with another vending machine having a coin mechanism and an article dispensing mechanism which may dispense articles other than those dispensed by the satellite unit. The satellite machine includes a frame housed in a cabinet which is attached to the cabinet of the other vending machine, an article storing assembly being carried on the frame for storing articles to be dispensed. Ejectors are provided in the satellite unit for ejecting articles from compartments in the assembly, the ejectors in the satellite vending machine being interconnected with the coin mechanism in the other machine for enabling movement of the ejectors in the satellite machine under control of the coin mechanism in the other machine and for clearing the coin mechanism incident to movement of the ejectors whereby to dispense articles from the satellite unit as a function of coin deposit in the other machine. The satellite vending machine is adapted for interconnection with electrically, mechanically or electromechanically operated vending machines.

US Patent:

44638744, Aug 7, 1984

Filed:

May 18, 1982

Appl. No.:

6/379305

Inventors:

Evelyn Friedman - Whitehall NY
Martin A. Borho - Ticonderoga NY
William R. Carswell - Whitehall NY
Frank Kecseti - Winston Salem NC

Assignee:

E B Metal Industries Inc. - Whitehall NY

International Classification:

B65H 106

US Classification:

221238

Abstract:

A dispenser for a stack of horizontally disposed, rectangular cards or the like and a product vending machine incorporating the dispenser. The dispenser features a magazine for the stack of cards and a dispensing chute beneath the magazine. Between the magazine and the chute, on one lateral side thereof, is a slider with a pair of laterally extending front and rear fingers that can be moved frontally and rearwardly against the front and rear edges, repectively, of the bottommost card of the stack. When the dispenser is actuated, the slider moves rearwardly so that its front finger urges the bottommost card to move rearwardly to an intermediate position in which the rear portions of the card are restrained from moving downwardly while the front portions of the card are free to move downwardly into the dispensing chute. Then, the slider moves frontally so that its rear finger urges the bottommost card from the intermediate position frontally so that the rear portions of the card no longer restrain the card from moving downwardly into the dispensing chute.