Abstract: Coin handling apparatus having an inclined chute and a lateral entrance to the chute, the arrangement being such that the motion of the coins is retarded or deadened for rolling of the coins on edge down the chute without substantial bounce or flutter for accurate detection by a detector at one side of the chute downstream from the entrance.

Abstract: A fascia-protecting drip-diverting device has an upper portion which is thin enough to be telescoped upwardly into the narrow space between a fascia and a gutter which is disposed immediately adjacent that fascia, has a lower portion which is thicker, stiffer and stronger than said upper portion to enable it to withstand the forces which must be applied to that fascia-protecting drip-diverting device to cause that upper portion to telescope upwardly between that fascia and that gutter, has a stop which limits the extent to which that upper portion can be telescoped between that fascia and that gutter, and has flanges at the side edges thereof which displace those side edges outwardly away from the fascia to keep laterally-moving drips from reaching that fascia, and has the bottom thereof displaced below the level of the bottom of the fascia to cause drips to move downwardly below the level of, and then fall away from, the bottom of the fascia without engaging that fascia.

Abstract: A control for a vendor operable by a coded card comprising a validator for validating the code on the card inserted by a customer, enabling a vend if the card is valid, rejecting the card if invalid, and feeding the card out of the validator upon completion of a vend. A validated card fed out of the validator upon a vend is releasably retained for verification of the insertion of a proper card by the customer, being held for verification until the subsequent vend, and then released to storage.