| 摘要 |
A machine for dispensing newspapers and like articles, the machine comprising a platform for supporting a stack of newspapers, a carriage on which is mounted means for dispensing newspapers and the like one at a time from a stack thereof on said platform, a casing in which the platform, the carriage and the dispensing means are contained and mechanism operable from the exterior of the casing to cause the dispensing means to separate one newspaper from a stack thereof on the platform and to deliver the separated newspaper through a mouth-defining means in the casing to a location at which it is accessible to a user of the machine, wherein both the platform and the carriage are upwardly and downwardly displaceable in the casing along guide rail means mounted internally of the casing, the weight of the carriage, said dispensing means, the platform and newspapers stacked on the latter in the use of the machine being resiliently counterbalanced in such a way as to tend to maintain the top of such a stack at substantially a constant level despite progressive diminution of the stack height as a result of successive dispensing operations.
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