| 摘要 |
A vending machine for newspapers and the like having a coin operated mechanism with: (a) a coin sorter; (b) a coin chute assembly having a plurality of vertical chutes through which coins of different denominations, from the coin sorter, fall; (c) a trip wire, one end of which extends through the coin chutes and can move downwardly in the chutes with downward movement of coins; (d) a totalizer, connected to the other end of the trip wire, for counting the value of coins which fall through the coin chutes; and (e) a vending controller connected to the totalizer. The coin operated mechanism has an improved totalizer with: a lever, connected at one end to the other end of the trip wire and rotatably connected between its ends to the mechanism; a dog, rotatably connected to the lever between the other end of the lever and the rotatable connection of the lever to the mechanism; the dog being adapted to revolve with the other end of the lever about the rotatable connection of the lever to the mechanism; one end of the dog extending toward the rotatable connection of the lever to the mechanism and being adapted to revolve about the rotatable connection of the dog to the lever, so as to move vertically relative to the lever; and a ratchet wheel, parallel to the lever and the dog and located on the same side of the lever as the dog; the ratchet wheel being adapted to rotate about the rotatable connection of the lever to the mechanism; the one end of the dog being adapted to urge a gear tooth on the circumference of the ratchet wheel to revolve about the rotatable connection of the lever to the mechanism with revolution of the dog about the rotatable connection of the lever to the mechanism when the one end of the lever moves downwardly with the one end of the trip wire.
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