Abstract: A coin-operated newspaper vending machine comprising a cabinet with a lower forwardly opening discharge opening and a flat forwardly and upwardly inclined support plate in the cabinet space above and rearward of the opening, a vertical stack of newspapers supported atop the plate, an elongate vertical stop post in the cabinet forward of the plate and engaging and stopping forward downward movement of the newspapers, manually operable drive operable to move the post down and out of engagement with the newspapers above the plate one at a time, a latch mechanism locking the drive each time a newspaper moves from above the plate and a coin mechanism to release the latch mechanism.

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.

Abstract: A vending machine for flat, folded paper maps comprising, a box-like housing with a horizontal interior plate, elongate vertical open-ended chutes with front, side and rear walls, slidably receiving vertical stacks of flat multi-panel folded paper maps and arranged in the housing above the plate, structure yieldingly connecting the rear walls to the plate, members yieldingly urging the upper ends of the chutes rearwardly to incline the chutes rearwardly to vary the vertical space between the plate and lower edge of the front walls of the chutes, discharge slots in the housing spaced forward of the lower ends of the chutes, U-shaped ejector slides with flat bases slidably engaged on the plate beneath the bottoms of the chutes and vertical side flanges slidably engaging the exterior of the side walls of the chutes, gripping elements on the slides to grip arched portions of the lowermost maps upon forward shifting of the slides to urge the maps forwardly beneath the lower edges of the front walls of the chutes a