Automatic Age

T h e A u t o m a t ic A ge
7
A Leader in Automatic
Inventions
Attempt to License
Sandwich Machines
An interesting inventor in the vend­
ing machine field is Mr. Millard o f the
Commonwealth Vending Corporation,
o f New York. Mr. Millard knows the
manufacturing side o f the business
from A to Z, and has several im por­
tant inventions to his credit. He in­
vented the automatic drink barrel
■which sells eight different kinds o f
drinks, and which has earned as high
as $265 in nickels and dimes in a
single day; He invented the first ma­
chine fo r vending mints. Twenty
years ago he says he invented the
Machine fo r vending paper drinking
cups.
Mr. Millard also claims to be the
first to introduce ball chewing gum
and says he put out the first machine
to sell it. There are eight men in the
trade who claim this distinction and
*t would be interesting "to compare
dates and find out just who was the
inventor o f ball gum. A ll these men
are earnest in their claims. Mr. Mil­
o rd , however, is certainly the first
^uan to introduce ball gum wrapped
tin foil, a novelty put out by his
company.
Kansas City, Mo.— A temporary in­
junction was granted by Judge Albert
L. Reeves in federal court to prevent
'the city from enforcing an ordinance
to regulate and license automatic
food-vending machines.
The restraining order, directed
against Mayor Beach and James A.
Taylor, city license collector, was
sought by the Servall Automatic Sys­
tem, Inc., 911 Campbell street.
The ordinance provides automatic
food-vending machines
cannot be
placed without permission o f the hos­
pital and health board, and that a
license fee o f $12 must be paid fo r
each machine.
The complaining company, in its
petition, declared it now has 400 pie
and sandwich machines in the city,
and plans to install 1,600 more.
The ordinance, the petition states,
is class legislation, gives the hospital
and health board arbitrary powers
and is unconstitutional.
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Amsterdam, N. Y.
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