Patent ID: 11954983
Assignee: nan
Field: Control (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G  A | IPC A  G

Claim 16:
17. A method of selling golf balls, comprising:
providing at least one transparent clamshell container sized in dimension and configured to contain a plurality of recycled golf balls;
providing a first plurality of recycled golf balls, said first plurality of recycled golf balls disposed within said at least one transparent clamshell container;
providing at least one vending machine configured to vend the at least one transparent clamshell container containing said first plurality of recycled golf balls, wherein said at least one vending machine comprises a housing having a bottom retrieval chamber, wherein said at least one vending machine comprises a plurality of shelves disposed above said retrieval chamber within said housing, wherein at least one shelf of the plurality of shelves comprises at least two opposing coiled wires configured to rotate at the option of a user, wherein a rotation of the at least two opposing coiled wires conveys the at least one transparent clamshell container horizontally along said at least one shelf until said at least one transparent clamshell container slides over a front edge of the at least one shelf and drops into the retrieval chamber, said at least one vending machine being loaded with said at least one transparent clamshell container containing said first plurality of recycled golf balls;
vending selectively from said vending machine said at least one transparent clamshell container containing said first plurality of recycled golf balls.