Appeal No. 1998-1969 Page 4
Application No. 08/535,708
claims, to the applied prior art references, and to the
respective positions articulated by the appellant and the
examiner. As a consequence of our review, we make the
determinations which follow.
Hotaling discloses a newspaper vending machine. As shown
in Figure 1, the newspaper vending machine includes a cabinet
A, a dispensing opening 1, a shelf 2, a swinging arm B having
a dispensing tooth 15, and a handle 20 which projects out of a
slot 21 in the coin-controlled mechanism chamber 22. The
shelf 2 supports a pile of newspapers with each paper lying on
its edge so that its face will be in a vertical plane.
Hotaling teaches (page 2, lines 35-38) that "the handle 20 is
again operated after a coin has been deposited" in the coin-
controlled mechanism chamber 22, which mechanism is not
disclosed by Hotaling since it forms no part of his invention
(see page 2, lines 15-18).
Crawford discloses a newspaper vending unit. As shown in
the drawings, the newspaper vending unit includes an outer
cabinet 12 (Figures 1 and 8), a publication storage mechanism
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