Storage and article dispensing means

Claim 1

A STORAGE DISPLAY AND DISPENSING APPARATUS COMPRISING A PLURALITY OF VERTICAL MAGAZINES ARRANGED IN A SERIES ONE BEHIND ANOTHER, EACH MAGAZINE HAVING AT ITS UPPER END A DISPENSING OPENING THROUGH WHICH THE UPPERMOST ARTICLE OF A STACK OF ARTICLES IN THE MAGAZINE CAN BE HORIZONTALLY WITHDRAWN, THE MAGAZINES OF SAID SERIES BEING SUCCESSIVELY TALLER WITH THEIR DISPENSING OPENINGS AT VERTICALLY STAGGERED LEVELS TO ALL AN ARTICLE TO BE WITHDRAWN FORWARDLY FROM ONE MAGAZINE ACROSS THE TOP OF THE ADJACENT MAGAZINE TO THE FRONT, A FRAME FOR SUPPORTING SAID MAGAZINES, SAID FRAME COMPRISING A PLURALITY OF TRANSVERSE MEMBERS EXTENDING TRANSVERSELY TO THE DIRECTION IN WHICH SAID ARTICLES ARE TO BE WITHDRAWN AND A PLURALITY OF SAID MEMBERS EXTENDING TRANSVERSELY TO SAID TRANSVERSE MEMBERS, ONE SIDE MEMBER BEING POSITIONED ON EACH OF TWO OPPOSITE SIDES OF EACH MAGAZINE, EACH SIDE MEMBER BEING PROVIDED WITH A HORIZONTAL SLOT OPENING TOWARD A MAGAZINE, SAID SLOTS EXTENDING HORIZONTALLY FROM A POSITION AT THE TOP OF ONE MAGAZINE ALONG THE SIDES OF THE TALLER ADJACENT MAGAZINE WHENEVER A TALLER ADJACENT MAGAZINE EXISTS, A VERTICAL TUBE FORMING PART OF EACH MAGAZINE, SAID TUBE BEING OPEN AT ITS UPPER END TO RECEIVE A STACK OF SAID ARTICLES AND PROVIDED AT SAID UPPER END WITH OUTWARDLY EXTENDING PROJECTIONS SEATED IN THE SLOTS OF THE SIDE MEMBERS EXTENDING ALONG THE SIDES OF THAT MAGAZINE, A TRANSLUCENT PLATE FORMING THE TOP OF ACH MAGAZINE SEATED IN THOSE SLOTS OF THE SIDE MEMBERS WHICH ARE POSITIONED AT THE TOP OF THAT MAGAZINE, AND MEANS FOR URGING A STACK OF ARTICLES IN EACH TUBE UPWARDLY TOWARD SAID TRANSLUCENT PLATE.