Apparatus for renting articles

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 5007518
SERIAL NO

07309353

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An apparatus for rental of articles such as videocassettes comprises an outer housing, and a storage assembly within the housing having storage locations for storing a plurality of videocassettes. The housing has a front panel including an array of separate display areas each containing pictorial indicia representing a particular videocassette and a predetermined selection code corresponding to that videocassette, a selection device adjacent the array for allowing a user to enter the selection code of a selected videocassette, and a delivery chute for delivering selected videocassettes to users. A transport mechanism is provided for retrieving selected videocassettes from the storage assembly for delivery to users, and for returning videocassettes to the storage assembly. A control device associates each stored videocassette with its storage location and controls the transport mechanism to deliver selected videocassettes to customers.

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VU-TRON CORPORATION9275 TRADE PLACE SUITE H A CA CORP SAN DIEGO CA 92126

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Crooks, Theodore J La Mesa, CA 9 943
Morris, Matthew G San Diego, CA 9 634
Zentz, Terry L San Diego, CA 1 103

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