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Combined Automatic Vending and Money-Changing Machine.

Description: Patent for an improved combined automatic vending and money changing machine. It has "a locking mechanism constructed to lock said article and change-delivery mechanisms when a coin inserted by a purchaser is of less value than the article desired by him, and [a] mechanism for unlocking both of said delivery mechanisms while the purchaser's said coin remains in the machine and adjusting bot of said delivery-mechanisms to thereafter deliver an article corresponding to the value of said coin" (li… more
Date: June 18, 1895
Creator: Sturgis, Herbert Marshall

Fare-Receiver and Automatic Change-Maker.

Description: Patent for a fare box and change maker mean to improve on fare-receivers and automatic change-makers that "automatically deliver the correct change to a passenger or other person, who deposits in the machine a coin of greater value than is the regulation fare" (lines 16-19).
Date: June 18, 1895
Creator: Sturgis, Herbert Marshall
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