1, Ink Vending Machine

[rhr]

Here's a little, miniature, bricks-and-mortar store for dispensing ink at 1¢ per filling, patent no. 1,960,549.

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v71/rhrpen/1960549.jpg

 

Mark Z. pointed out patent 1,615,354 to me, an equally eccentric idea. Some of these goofy ideas were never produced, and some were produced in a limited fashion but never caught on. However, until someone finds some of these machines out in the wild somewhere, there is no way of answering any questions of production and marketability. [see my next thread. I think I'll start a series of these patents.] As for where they were used, perhaps on countertops in stationeries, drugstores, five-and-dime variety stores, novelty stores, corner groceries, pen repair shops, pen sections in department stores, and the like. And by whom? Desperate pen geeks caught unprepared, or those with pens without an ink-vue window, or those suffering from senior's moments. ;~)

 

George Kovalenko.

 

:ph34r:

Edited March 21, 2007 by rhr

[Johnny Appleseed]

George, it is such a pleasure to see you posting these patents here.

 

I think Ruaidhri and the lab could come up with an improvement on this patent - one that is coal-fired and automatic. Unfortunately, it would not fit in most stationary stores.

 

John

[rhr]

Thanks, John. Maybe it would fit in a mobile store. ;~)

 

George.

 

:ph34r:

[Johnny Appleseed]

Maybe it would fit in a mobile store. ;~)

 

Self-propelling, no less!

 

Of course, you would have to make sure you had rails.

 

John

[Johnny Appleseed]

Wow - and here is one, to show that these were in fact made (at least in some versions).

 

Ink Vending Machine

 

John

[rhr]

Hi John,

 

Thanks for the heads up about the penny ink dispenser. I don't often check the Repair forum.

I might have to weigh in on the restoration issue, but I'll do it over there.

 

George Kovalenko.

 

 

[jmkeuning]

Even better.