A rare way to pay for a soda.

[Funtronics]

Talk about a rare way to pay for a soda. I picked this up at a local Coca-Cola bottling plant that closed many years ago. I finally got around to tinkering with it and seeing how it works. I am getting ready to restore it. I guess you would pull your bottle of soda out of the cooler and in order to pay for it you had to put a nickle in this and it lets you use the opener to open your soda. You try and use the opener to open a soda and it won't work unless you deposit a nickle in it, and then a small pin releases and it lets you get the bottle all the way in so you can open it.  This was a great find and I plan on restoring it and adding it to my collection. 

[georgescustompaint]

Never seen one of those before...... Very Neat

[MoonDawg]

        Incredible, the thought that went into designing this machine.
        It was a time before all men carried a bottle opener on their keychains, and kids figured out how to use their teeth.

[sc1101]

Here is the patent   http://www.freepatentsonline.com/2179883.html

[HowDueYouDue]

Awesome find. Probably how the lighter trick or using a railing also began.

This got me thinking of the married with children episode where they were in a town that still had nickel cokes. When Al Bundy couldnt find the opener the locals charged him $5 for one.