Abstract: A clothes hanger vending machine comprising a box-like cabinet, a horizontal clothes hanger supporting rod within the cabinet with a free end spaced from a wall in the cabinet a distance sufficient to permit the downward movement of the hook portion of one clothes hanger therebetween; a spring loaded stop normally bridging the space between the free end of the rod and said wall; a spring loaded follower shiftably carried by the rod and normally yieldingly urging a row of hangers hooked over the rod toward the free end thereof and the first hanger of said row of hangers into said space and onto engagement with said stop; a vertically shiftable ejector normally above said space and said first hanger; and, a coin released manually operable actuating member intermittently operable to move the ejector downwardly and to urge said first hanger downwardly by the stop and through and from said space for free manual engagement and extraction from the machine.