Coin changer having double escrow unit

Claim 1

IN COIN CHANGING APPARATUS FOR A POSTSELECT VENDING MACHINE: STRUCTURE FOR STORING A QUANTITY OF COINS OF CHANGE MAKING DENOMINATION; MEANS DEFINING A COIN PATHWAY ABOVE SAID STRUCTURE FOR COINS OF SAID CHANGE MAKING DENOMINATION AND POSITIONED TO DIRECT COINS THEEFROM INTO THE STRUCTURE; AN UPPER ESCROW UNIT HAVING MOVABLE INCLINED MEANS NORMALLY LOCATED IN SAID COIN RECEIVING PATHWAY ABOVE THE STRUCTURE IN BLOCKING RELATIONSHIP TO THE LATTER FOR SUPPORTING AT LEAST ONE COIN OF CHANGE MAKING DENOMINATION ON EDGE ABOVE THE STRUCTURE AND MOVABLE OUT OF THE COIN PATHWAY TO A POSITION RELEASING SAID CHANGE MAKING DENOMINATION COIN THEREON TO THE STRUCTURE, AND MOVABLE COIN RETAINING MEANS NORMALLY LOCATED IN SAID COIN RECEIVING PATHWAY ABOVE THE INCLINED MEANS AND COOPERABLE THEREWITH TO RECEIVE AND RETAIN A COIN OF SAID CHANGE MAKING DENOMINATION ON THE INCLINED MEANS, SAID RETAINING MEANS BEING MOVABLE OUT OF THE COIN PATHWAY TO A POSITION CLEARING THE INITIALLY RETAINED COIN FOR GRAVITATIONAL MOVEMENT FROM THE INCLINED MEANS; A LOWER ESCROW UNIT BELOW SAID UPPER SCREW UNIT AND HAVING A FIRST ELEMENT MOVABLE TO A POSITION RELEASING ALL COINS RECEIVED THEREIN FOR RETURN TO THE DEPOSITOR AND A SECOND ELEMENT MOVABLE TO A POSITION RELEASING COINS RECEIVED IN THE LOWEER ESCROW UNIT TO A COLLECTION AREA; MEANS DEFINING AN UPRIGHT COIN PASSAGE AND INCLUDING A PORTION EXTENDING DOWNWARDLY FROM THE COIN PATHWAY AND THE LOWER EXTREMITY OF SAID INCLINED MEANS, TO SAID LOWER ESCROW FOR DIRECTING COINS RELEASED FROM SAID INCLINED MEANS, CHANGE MAKING DENOMINATION COINS DEFLECTED FROM THE COIN PATHWAY INTO SAID COIN PASSAGE BY A COIN RETAINED ON SAID INCLINED MEANS, AND COINS DEPOSITED ON THE APPARATUS OTHER THAN OF CHANGE DENOMINATION, INTO SAID LOWER ESCROW; MEANS COUPLED TO SID RETAINING MEANS AND THE FIRST ELEMENT FOR MOVING THE SAME TO COIN RELEASING POSITIONS IN RESPONSE TO DEPOSITOR ACTUATION THEREOF; AND MEANS OPERABLY COUPLED TO SAID INCLINED MEANS AND THE SECOND ELEMENTS FOR MOVING THE SAME TO COIN RELEASING POSITIONS THEREOF ONLY AFTER AN ARTICLE SELECTION HAS BEEN MADE.