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Display apparatus for an automatic vending machine

CA 1304938 C · Owner: Sanyo Electric Co. Ltd. · Inventors: Inamura, Yoshihisa; Moriya, Hirohito; Kawahara, Tsugio

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An automatic vending machine or a slot machine, has a display plate provided at the rear wall of a sample room which is covered by a transparent window panel fitted in a front door of the machine. A plurality of vertically elongate display strips arranged side by side at desired intervals adjacent to the display plate to be rotatable about their own axes. The front or rear faces of these display strips can cooperate with each other to produce associated composite figures, which fully covers the display plate when the display strips rotate together at the same time thereby either the front or rear faces of the display strips take their positions substantially parallel to the display plate. …

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  • Granted July 14, 1992. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended July 14, 2009.
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FiledMarch 18, 1988
GrantedJuly 14, 1992
Term endedJuly 14, 2009
Patent numberCA 1304938 C
Classification (IPC)G09F11/12 +2 more

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1989199219951998200120042007Application filedMarch 18, 1988Patent grantedJuly 14, 1992Term endedJuly 14, 2009

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