Automatic Age

T h e A u t o m a t ic A
Th
ne application o f the coin-oper-
P^nciple to new fields is of un-
Ste ^ interest to the inventor. L.
Ce
Gatter, a patent attorney, re-
tio ^
the number of applica-
„
for patents on such devices at
^ ^ n*ted States Patent Office as
^ n d 5,000 a year, and the number
°f
increasing. A good many
hese contraptions never get be­
ge
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yond the patent drawing stage, or
perhaps the working model of the
inventor. The commercial exploita­
tion of such devices is today a mat­
ter of considerable capital invest­
ment, not only for the exploitation of
the product itself, but for protection
o f the patent against claims for in-
fringment.
Something To Embarrass Slug Users Is New
Cigarette Vendor Which Throws Them
Back at the Customer
ee Next Page For Description of Features of the New Machine Made by
National Sales Machine Company
National
Cigarette
Vendor No. 3
'''ith rear door
removed,
showing
interior
construction
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