Abstract: An anti-theft apparatus for use in a dispensing machine for newspapers and the like having a coin-operated locking access door. The apparatus includes a cover panel sized to mount within the access opening in the rack. The cover panel restricts access into the dispensing machine is through a T-shaped access opening in the cover panel. Newspapers and the like stacked within the dispensing machine may be grasped through the vertical slot in the T-shaped access opening and raised for removal through the horizontal slot in the opening along the axis of the horizontal slot. A pivoting gauge gate mounted to the cover panel above the T-shaped access opening restricts the thickness of newspapers and the like which may be removed through the hozizontal slot. The gauge gate pivots between an open position wherein newspapers and the like can be removed through the horizontal slot and a closed position wherein access through the horizontal slot is substantially restricted.

Abstract: A unit is provided to facilitate carrying with one hand a plurality of handle bearing articles, such as suitcases, for example. The handle of one of the articles is encircled by the strap portion of the unit, and a handle portion at the ends of the strap portion is grasped in one hand together with the handle of another of the articles, to carry them. One embodiment has latching handle portions at opposite ends of the strap portion, and another embodiment has latching means at opposite ends of the strap portion, and an associated handle.