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Originally Posted by stevej37
After paying, does the bottle emerge standing upright?....I don't remember.
Trying to figure out how it would from the first two pics.
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If you will notice in the 2nd pic, there are 3 holes in the door liner. The bottle holders in the rotating drum are all offset in a pattern. As the drum rotates, one of the bottle holders in the drum will line up with one of the holes in the door, you just open the outer door and pull out the bottle by the bottle cap. You can see 2 other bottles but they are not lined up with the holes enough to pull out.
The drum rotates purely by the weight of the cokes as loaded in the drum via a ratchet mechanism. There are specific instructions on how to load the machine printed on the inner door liner . When you insert a dime, you push down the handle by the coin slot which operates the ratchet mechanism which allows the drum to turn one click to dispense one bottle. Really a very simple yet ingenious system.
I remembered these from when I was a kid, they were everywhere. This machine takes a dime but per the manual, there was also a kit for taking nickels. When I first got the machine I was buying the 6 oz returnables directly off a Coca Cola truck. When they no longer were available in our area (don't remember just when) I used the 8 oz non-returnables which is what I still use. It only cost a dime now to get a bottle of coke which costs around 90 cents.. such a deal.
Unfortunately will not take beer, only the small coke bottles....