The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-27
.TOPEKABOY'SIDE
Butler j. Haskins Makes a Novel
Invention.
Miniature Dredge That Deals
Out Peanuts.
ORGANIZE A COMPANY
Machines Will Be Made Here in
Topeka.
Model for Demonstration Proves
Sensation.
ORGANIZE A COMPANY

topeka young man. Butler J.
Hask1ns. 723 Tyler street, has invent
cd an automatic peanut vender.
winch 1t is believed will work
to the revolutionization. of this branch
OF industry, and following the recent
OF patent papers a machine which was
made for demonstration purposes has
SHOWN successful operation on the
streets of Topeka
A company has been formed for it's
manufacture with Albert Cross sec
rotary; Charles Kelley. treasurer; But
Ter ). Haskins. superintendent of
manufacture, and A. D. Garter. as
ISOLATED with the latter. in the me-
chanical department.
1t is planned to manufacture the
vendors here and sell them to others
with town rights, which may be sub
let by the person who has the terri
tory arranged for with the company.
The company is ready TO contract for
the installation of machines on the
streets of Topeka and Kansas City.
During his spare moments last
summer, while employed at Vinewood
park, Haskins evolved the idea of the
automatic peanut vender which would
at all times supply fresh roasted pea
nuts and retain the high flavor almost
Indefinitely. He set to work and COM
pleted model, recently secured a
patent. and then set about plans for
their manufacture, with the result
that the machine will shortly be
placed on the market
That it will revolutioniZe the pea
nut vending industry is the expecta-
ton of the promoters. The mechan-
ism is automatic in every detail and
the operation is like miniature
dredge. The machine holds rs pounds
of peanuts and 500 sacks. When a
scent piece is placed in the slot the
vender supplies the purchaser with
peanuts, also sack for them, ard be-
sides registers the sale, SO that there
is no danger in case of sub-let ma
chimes on royalty, of the practice of
| fraud.
With the ordinary peanut machine,
the lights are turned out at night
when the proprietor leaves, the then
warm nuts are thus allowed to be-
come cold, and when the blaze is
| started the following morning an
operation is begun which causes the
peanuts to have taste. which for
comparison might be called as much
different from the original flavor, as
| a warmed over potato to the new
| baked one.
| The Haskins machine obviates this
condition; it keeps the nut in its high
| flavor for the longest possible time,
and dispenses them fresh roasted at
any time of day or night. If the
mechanism gets out of order. then a
cover on the inside drops down over
the slot so that it is impossible to in
sert the requisite nickel, and not only
| that but the register is irreversible,
and in 10000 try-outs has never yet
refused to work other than in its per-
| feet way
| All springs are eliminated in the
mechanism, with the exception of one
small one. and the action is purely
mechanical No dependence is placed
on gravity or other forces in the man.
! ipulation of the machinery. From the
standpoint of the inventor and those
| interested in the enterprise the idea
| is considered perfect, and in its dem
| onstration has proved itself to be SO.
Those interested have had several