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PATENT SPECIFICATION No. 22,966. APPLICATION DATE: 16th October, 1896. SPECIFICATION ACCEPTED: 11th September, 1897. TITLE: IMPROVEMENTS IN OR IN CONNECTION WITH AUTOMATIC SALE OR HIRE APPARATUS. APPLICANT: WILLIAM KERSHAW of Bandstead Street, Roundhay Road; WALTER CLIFF of Western Flats, Wortley; ROBERT CHORLEY of Cardigan Road and ARTHUR PILKINGTON of Bond Street, all of Leeds, County of York. Size: 195mmx270mm. Number of pages of text: 6. Number of pages of drawings: 2. Size of page of drawing/s: 300mmx225mm & 140mmx225mm.. Brief Description of Patent: This invention refers to apparatus for sale or hire of articles, the delivery of the articles being controlled by coin freed mechanism and is suitable for the sale or hire of flat folded articles such as towels or newspapers though will be evident it is applicable to the sale of other articles. Condition: Slight crinkling. Wear to left hand edge where removed from volume, no loss to text or drawing.Pages coming loose. This was sold by Manchester Library and has their stamp impression on some of the pages/drawings. Multiple Item Postage: Patents can be combined for postage costs, the cost is the same whether you purchase one or several, so check out our Ebay Shop patent listings as well. This patent specification has been disbound from a volume of 100 different patents. This is an original HMSO published item at the time, not a modern copy as are being sold elsewhere. The drawings are often ideal for framing. It is part of a collection of several volumes from the 1893/5,1907 & 1920/50's that I have from which individual patents will be sold over the next few years.