Coin Machine Review (& Pacific ...)

Issue: 1940 March

The Gay Nineties will be remembered for a lot of things but I wonder
how many of you recall those daring, naughty pictures they used to pack
in cigarette packs?
Well, W. Parker Lyon, that demon collector of Thunder Mugs and
other Americana, does, and over in Arcadia at his Pony Express Museum
he has done his share towards preserving this historic phase of American
Art. The capital A is used advisedly.
It scarcely seems possible to us that just a few short years ago, less
than half a century, cigarettes were considered one of the important evils
that must be eradicated. Nice people did not u e them or even speak of
the things and in certain vulgar circles they were known as "pimp sticks".
The ladies of easy virtue affected them as did their "boy friends"; some
actresses were daring enough to smoke, hut, "you know how actresses
are, my dear" and the raised eyebrow and lorgnette went with that one.
Enterprising manufacturers of the despised cigarettes decided to
popularize the weed and turned to the age old lure of a pretty woman,
or in this case we should say, pretty women. So they began to inclose
pictures, daring pictures, if you please, in the packs of Sweet Caps.
That caused Anthony Comstock and the Purity League to blow a
gasket. It was bad enough that decent womanhood should be insulted
by having a feminine likeness packed with the filthy weed, but these
pictures! Why they were positively indecent! Girls in, would you
believe it, tights?
Nor was that all. Most of the cuties had what it takes and were
actually voluptuous damsels. The IT and OOMPH gals of their day. And
the costumes! They were positively revealing, to put it mildly. Why the
creatures actually showed their legs, er, beg pardon, limbs. Yeh, that's
what we called 'em in the Gay 90's. It was shocking, disgusting, that's
what it was and something had to be done about it, right away!
Something was. Cigarette sales boomed and the boys began collecting
the pictures in a big way. At first only the more obscure ladies of the
chorus and the "Burley Q" girls' photographs were obtainahle, but as
the demand grew the smart press agents (yes, you bet they had 'em in
those days), realized the importance of the publicity and such names
as Adelaide Neilson, Loie Fuller, Ada Richmond and Nellie De Sortis
began to appear with the pictures of the owners of said names on the
cards.
The examples reproduced herewith are from the issue by S. F. Hess
and Company, makers of "Sound" Long Cut and the gals appear to be
busting out with joy at having been selected for the honor even though
they are all in tight quarters.
Anyway the Cigarette Art of the Gay Nineties gives us an idea of
the kind of girls our dads fell for. The next time the Old Man ribs you
about that strip teaser just dig these out and watch him blush.


by
JAY CHARLES
PATENTS
AND TRADE MARKS
stack; and means for guiding the thus freed arti-
cle t o said receptor for manual removal therefrom
by way of said opening.
Vincent F . S lezak, Chieago , Ill.
2,189, 504
COIN CONTROLLED SCOREBOARD
Otto Klau s, S an Antonio , T exa s
Appli cation O c t. 2 5 , 1 9 38, Serial No . 236,9 5 2
6 Claim s. ( CI . 281 - 8 )
The following memorandum relating to patents
and trade-marks is made available through an
a rrangement had with JAMES ATKINS, registered
patent attorney, Munsey Building , Washington,
D_ C_ The trade-marks were recently published by
t he United States Patent Office and , if no oppo-
sition thereto is filed within thirty days after the
publication date, the marks will be registered .
We have also arranged with Mr. Atkins t o
furnish our subscribers with preliminary informa-
tion respecting their patent and trade-mark mat-
ters, the same to be without charge to them .
Addre .. your inquiries to Mr. Atkins, advising him
you are a reader of this paper, and a prompt
report will be se"t you.
Brief drawings of the Patents described are on
file in the COIN MACHINE REVIEW offices.
mi nated transparent panel carried by said casing
and exposed to view and bearing ru led markings,
feed ro llers mounted in said casing, means for
supporting paper in roll form for movement over
the panel by engaging said feed ro llers, sprocket
gears and a sprocket chain connecting the feed
ro llers, a ratchet gear secured to one of t he rollers,
a gravity actuated dog in engagement witb, said
gear for releasably securing the paper agaiost
movement over the panel, and means for sjmul~ ~
taneously releasing the dog from the ratchet . gear
and for adva nclOg the sprocket cbai n to feed·.the
paper over the panel.
2,191 ,585
Walte r W. Willi a m s, Blo o min g ton , Ill.
A ppli c ation I a n . 6, 1 938 , Seri a l N o . 183,5 64
-
2 CIa;'n.. ( CI. 31 2- 36 )
1. A scoreboard comprisi ng a casing, an illu-
2 ,189,157
,
VENDI NG MACHI NE
F ra nk F . Pul ver , S t. P e t e r s burg, F l a., assigno r
t o A lli a n ce In ves tm e nt C orp o r a tion, Gen eseo ,
N. Y ., a c orporati o n of Florid a.
A l)pliea ti o n A u gus t 22, 1936, Seri a l No. 9 7 ,446
3 Claim s . . (CI. 312- 35)
1. In a vending mach ine, mea ns to support a
stack of vendible articles, a goods-dispensing plate
disposed adjacent an end of said stack and hav-
ing mea ns by which to displace a vendible article
from said stack upon movement of said plate,
a turntable shaft from which the dispensing plate
is pea dent, coin controlled means for turning the
shaft, including a back plate also I?endent from
the shaft in laterally offset relationshIp to the dis-
pensing plate, a spring connected to the back
p late be ing put under supertension by a coin-
controlled movement in one direction of the back
plate, and means exercising a drag on the back
p late upon its return movement by action of said
spring.
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COIN
MACHINE
REVIEW
Ser . No. 425 .243 . K o n ey-Kin g, Incor po r a t ed,
Los A n geles, Calif. F ile d N o v. 4, 1939.
F o r E lec tri ca l a nd A ut o m a tic Coi n Vend i n g M a-
ch i n es Ser vi n g E lec tri e aJl y Coo k e d H O I D ogs .
C la im s u se si n ce Se pt. 1, 1939.
2,1 88,615
HOROSCO P E UN IT F O R DISP ENS ING
MAC HI NES
Vin cent F. S lez ak , Chi cago , 111.
A p p li ca t io n Jul y 2 ] , 193 7, Seri a l No. 154,740
4 Claim s. (CI. 2 8 3 -1)
1. A dispensable printed matter unit for vend-
ing machines comprising an exteriorly smooth ,
open-ended, tu bular casing of hard, lubricous,
mois ture· proof material and a strip of material
bearing JOdicia wound into a cylinder disposed
within said casing, said cylinder being dimensIOned
so that the expansion of the cylinder through the
un.winding of the strip will cause said strip to
frictionally engage said casing.
2, 1 8 8 , 57 3
DI SP ENS ING
ul v utore Lon g o , New Y ork, N. Y.
A ppli ca tion A pril 9, 19 38, Seri a l N o. 2 01 ,116
7 Claim s. (CI. 312-63)
1. A mach ine of the ki n d described, comprisi ng
a holder for an article to be dispensed, said holder
includint: means for maintaini ng a plura lity of like
a rticleS' In vertically stacked relat ion, said articles
being elongated and of considerably different
shapes at opposite ends and being individua lly
horizontally arranged with each article in the
stack directly vertica lly below another therein; a
housing for the holder for protecting the articles
aga inst contaminating contact, said housi ng hav·
ing an opening; a receptor adjacent to sa id open-
ing; means manually operable from the exterior of
the housing for swinging aa end article in the
stack latera lly of the stack thereby firs t to free
one end ot said article from the stack and then
to free the remainder of said article from the
NAME
AND
2, 189,641
COIN-CONTROl.Ll.j:J) ASTROLOGI CAL
, MACH.I NE
DISP ENSI NG APPARAT US
1. In an apparatus for cooling and dispensing
containers, a cabinet conta ining a storage cham-
ber baving a discharge opening, a pair of verti-
cally spaced and aligned spiral ramps mounted
interiorly of said storage chamber for supporting
and for advancing said containers by sravity to
said discharge opening, and an osci ll ahng cylin-
drical dispensing closure for said discharge open-
ing in said storage chamber having a pair of lon-
gitudinal pockets one for each ramp, said pockets
being disposed on one side of a diametrical p:ane
through said cylindrica l closure, the ends of said
ramps terminating at substantially diametrically
opposed portions of said cylindrical closure where-
by said containers are received and dj 'jyensed
alternately from said ramps upon the osci lation
of said cylindrical closure.
2, 1 89, 7 4 0
VEND ING MACHI NE
B e r t E. Mills, O a k P a rk , 111., assig n o r t o M i lls
Novelt y Co mpan y , Chi cago , Ill., a co rp o r a tion
o f lJUnois.
A p p Ji ca ti o n D ee. 27, 1935, Serial No. 5 6 ,361
J 6 Claim.. (CI. 194--10 )
1. In a refrigerated vending machine, an insu-
lated cabinet, vending mechanism supported in
said cabinet, said mechanism including means for
supporting a plurality of the articles to be vended
and means for dispensing said articles individually
from the supportlOg means throug h a discharge
port in the cabinet wa ll , and means ooerated by
said dispensing means for preventing further oper-
ation of the vending mechanism after the !lumber
of articles in the machine have been reduced to a
predetermined number but while a substantia l
number of articles remai n in the mach ine said
vending mechanism including a drive motor and
said last·mentioned means comprising a control
member adapted to be set before operation of the
machine is begun and to be advanced toward
effective P?sition by s':1ccessiye vending operations
and electrical means JOcludlOg a switch adapted
to be actuated by said control member upon re-
duction of the number of articles in the machine
to said. predetermined number to prevent further
energIz ing of the d ri ve motor unti l sa id control
;::~~h~~~. has been reset, as upon re loading of t he
A pplieation No v. J.O; 1 9 3 6 , Ser i al No . 1 1 0 ,148

5 Claim s. (CI. 312-77)
: r.1. Ia a n '~strol ogica l macbine for dispensing
hqf0scope scrolls, in combination, a magazine for
hQldl ng tubuli'r paper scrolls bearing horoscopes
arra nged, in a body within the magazine side by
sid~~ horizontall y and superposed one on another
vertldally, an incl ined enclosed chute having a dis-
ch:vge bpening at its lower end, said chute being
disposed at the bottom of one side of said maga-
zine an d open ing into said magazine and of a
size to just pass a si ngle side by side row of said
scrolls, a movabl e member located at the inner
end of said chute and supporting and directing
the scrolls one by one into said chute, mea n. for
moving the supporting member for tbe scrolls ia
a downward direction toward the chute for ad-
vancing scrolls into the chute and jn a reverse
d irection for imparting a rising and rolling- agita-
,. tional movement to the scrolls, and manually oper-
ated means for rejecti ng a scroll from the chute
througb th e discharge opening there in.
2,189,5 44
MACm NE FOR DI SPLAYING AND DISP ENS-
I NG S OAP T ABLET S OR T HE LIKE ARTI -
CLES.
B e njamin Cra mp, B a rldo gside, liford, Engl a nd
A ppUca t io n Ma y 1 8, 1938, Seri a l No. 2 0 8.5 17
In G r ea t Britain M ay 31, 193 7
4 Claim s. ( CI. 3 12-(4)
1. A machine for displaying and dispensing
stacked soap tab lets or the like articles comprising
a base member having a delivery side, a track
along which is guided the lowermost article of
the stack, said track being formed between a snail
cam and a guide secured to the top of said base
member, a discharge aperture to said track, a
storage element, tor the stacked articles rotatably
secured above S'aid snail cam, and with its axis of
rotation perpendicu lar to the plane of said snail
cam, means for rotating said storage element, a
discharge orifice to said storage element, a bridge-
member crossinI' the said discharge orifice, the
arrangement bemg such that when the rotating
mechanism is operated, the guiding face of the
snail cam displaces the centre of gravity of the
lowermost stacked tablet, the cam movin,g the
bottom of the tablet outwards whilst the bridge
member retains the top of the tablet in its original
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