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Article: South Carolina Inventor Develops Vending Machine Positioning Mechanism
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- August 2, 2008
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ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 2 -- Paul Hayward Kelly of Aiken, S.C., has developed a vending machine.
An abstract of the invention, released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, said: "A positioning mechanism for a vending machine is provided to properly align product containers for vending purposes. The vending machine includes a cabinet that establishes a product storage zone, a product delivery zone and a dispensing chamber. Arranged within the product storage zone are pluralities of shelves which include dividers that separate the shelves into a plurality of product queues. Each product queue includes a dispensing mechanism that releases a selected product from the product queue for ...