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COIN
MACHINE
REVIEW
16
FOR
JANUARY
1947
ments on th~ Harris Automatic Coin
Changer a decade ago, and during the past
five years the mechanism has proved itself
under the toughest field tests.
"Only through the long period field test
were we able to determine public abuses
and how to develop features of design to
correct such abuses," says Fred J. Burt,
vice-president.
According to data compiled from oper-
ators in the field, drink dispensers having
Harris Changers outsell non-changer dis-
pensers by more than 25 per cent. The
machine accepts nickels, dimes and quar-
ters through a single slot. The manufac-
turer states that it can be readily adapted
to all types of mechanically or electrically
operated machines handling six-, seven- or
ten-cent items.
The A.B.T. Changer has been in oper-
ation on a number of drink machines for
the past ten months. This device, which
has only one moving part and holds $3.00
in nickels, gives change for a dime only.
"From personal observation and study
over the past three years, I found that the
additional revenue earned by the machine
having a money changer comes from a
ten-cent coin and not from a 25-cent coin,"
W. A. Patzer, A.B.T.'s executive vice-presi-
dent told THE REVIEW. "I think logic alone
will verify my statement. Sixty dimes, in
succession, can be deposited in our money
changer before the tube becomes ex-
hausted."
National's changer is equiP1>ed with a
single slot which takes nickels, dimes · and
quarters and has a capacity of 58 to 63
nickels ( depending on their thickness) .
Two outstanding features are: (1) two
slots, on the side and in front; only one,
however, is visible on the outer casement.
Advantage is that the serviceman has flexi-
bility in installing and can adjust the
changer in the position which will best fit
the particular size and shape of the ma-
chine. (2) If the sales price· rises above
five cents ( the change maker is geared
only for nickel transactions), the service-
man can replace the changer with an
interchangeable unit in a matter of two or
three minutes (the three mounting holes
on the interchangeable unit are in the
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Flanked by an assortment of coin-operated equipment in an office building lobby is Vendo's
Coin Changer.
exact position as the ones on the changer;
screws and wiring are also identical) and
can set the interchangeable to vend at a
pre-determined figure. Of course, this nulli-
fies the change-making element because the
customer must have -the required coins. The
interchangeable is particularly popular in
Canada where taxes have raised soft drinks
to seven cents and also in a number of
Southern states where drinks retail at six.
Thos. 1. Heaton of Blytheville, Ark., who
invented a newspaper vendor and change-
making machine, reveals that his device
can be adapted to any machine that is
operated by the movement of a slide across
the face of the coins.
Heaton's mechanism was originally made
for a three-cent opening and was later
adapted to make change for five cents 'when
the single coin was inserted. "It could be
made to take care of any number of coins
and make change for a single larger coin,"
the newspaper agent-inventor declared. He
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describes the operation of his machine
thusly:
"If you insert the required number of
coins, the last coin inserted will operate the
machine and vend the merchandise, or if a
single large coin of certain value is inserted,
the slot adjacent to it, by not having a
coin in it, will let the coin making device
operate ' and dispense a predetermined
amount of change, or if this adjacent slot
is filled with a coin, this coin will lift up
the lever that operates the coin-changer
, and make it inoperable."
. The revolutionary stamp vending ma-
chine, with in-built changer, will vend any
combination of postage stamps (for ex-
ample: 3 threes, 5 airmails, 4 ones). Upon
insertion of a coin (nickel, dime, quarter,
half dollar, or combination of denomina-
tions) the stamps are dispensed at regular
post office prices, with one cent being de-
ducted for making change. In the above
example, total purchase price is 38 cents.
A half dollar in the slot results in the
return of 11 cents.
The change-making stamp machine also
operates independently of the vendor. Any-
one desiring change who doesn't wish to
buy stamps can insert a coin and receive
full value, less one cent.
Six months ago, when coin radios made
their debut, there were five manufacturers
in the field. Today there are 20. In January,
1947, six coin-changer devices are coming
off production lines. By the summer of '47
their number should quadruple, and when
the horns root and roar at the dawning of
1948, coin-changers will be looked upon as
an "old reliable" by the coin-pushing
public.
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