Abstract: A coin chute construction for a dispensing machine and method of making same are provided wherein such machine requires at least one coin of predetermined size and valuation to initiate one operation of the machine for one item of goods or service. The construction comprises cooperating structural components for providing movement of the coin away from and then back toward a rectilinear path during movement of a slider of the construction which carries such coin from an inoperative position to a test position for the coin prior to initiation of the one operation of the machine.

Abstract: A coin chute construction for a dispensing machine and method of making same are provided wherein such machine requires at least one coin of predetermined size and valuation to initiate one operation of the machine for one item of goods or service. The construction comprises cooperating structural components for providing movement of the coin away from and then back toward a rectilinear path during movement of a slider of the construction which carries such coin from an inoperative position to a test position for the coin prior to initiation of the one operation of the machine.

Abstract: A hardened protective housing is rotatably secured to the outer head of a cylindrical lock for precluding access to and mistreatment of said head for rendering the lock ineffective for its intended purpose.

Abstract: A coin testing device includes one or more coin-receptive slots of specific depth, height and width for testing the flatness, thickness and diameter of like, "on-edge" coin-tokens which pass therethrough, and a rearwardly declining deck projecting from the slots for receiving and advancing acceptable coin-tokens, wherein a guide member is disposed upwardly from and substantially parallel to the deck for engaging the peripheral edge adjacent face of acceptable coin-tokens for testing the peripheral configuration thereof, wherein ultimately accepted coin-tokens are advanced across the deck and are guided by the guide member into coin-receptive discharge apertures which are disposed at substantially right angles to the slots.

Abstract: A reciprocable slide actuator is movable between fully retracted and fully advanced positions, wherein a latch is selectively engageable with the slide actuator to preclude advancement thereof from a retracted position. Control means are selectively operable to disengage the latch from the slide actuator for permitting advancement of the slide actuator to the fully advanced position.

Abstract: A coin-actuated circuit-closing device includes a coin chute into which a predetermined number of like coins must be inserted to initiate the closing of a normally-open electrical control circuit. The device is responsive to introduction of a predetermined number of like coins into a coin-receptive chute to close the normally-open electrical control circuit, and is operable upon closing of the control circuit to reopen same.

Abstract: An inclined coin chute includes devices for testing the ferrous content of, the weight of, and the presence or lack of a central aperture in coin-tokens which are present in and advancing through the coin-receptive chutes of the inclined coin-chute, wherein the testing devices are operable to intercept and eject spurious coin-tokens from the coin-chute.