Patent ID: 6857710

Claim:
In a bulk vending machine having a base having peripheral walls and a top frame rigidly secured with the base enclosing a coin box on a plurality of sides and supporting a merchandise container having peripheral side walls secured to a container frame, a deflectable lid covering said merchandise container, a first lock securing the mid portion of said lid to said base for resisting upward separation of said container from said base, said base having a vertical front wall pivotally mounted about a bottom front edge of the base and interlocking with a downwardly projecting lip of said container frame when the container frame is not separated from said base top frame and providing coin box access when said container frame and said base top frame are vertically separated, the improvement comprising in combination therewith a second lock by-rigidly connected with said base when said second lock is locked in engagement with a latch member carried by said container frame adjacent the front thereof with said container frame resting snuggly on top of the base top frame thereby positively securing said container frame to said base and preventing unauthorized upward lifting separation of said container frame relative to said vertical wall.