CN1161027A - Vending machine - Google Patents
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An improved crane type vending machine is disclosed in the invention. It provides the customer the opportunity to position a vacuum suction inlet over a selected product item and initiate the descent of the suction inlet so as to pick up the product. The machine deposits the item in a dispensing chute. The suction device may be a vacuum motor housed in a flying saucer. A telescoping structure prevents the motor from twisting the electrical lead. A limit switch disconnects the suction motor from electrical power when it is over the product outlet and reconnects the power when it moves away. The product items may be encased in plastic bags.
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The present invention relates to automatic vending machine, when giving client's chance to use after remote control equipment (RCE) attempts to select a Specific Goods from the warehousing container, automatic vending machine is just distributed kinds of goods.
The crane type automatic vending machine is well-known.In this automatic vending machine, drop into one or more coins or fractional currency and can make client and begin a program with location on the Specific Goods of crane type pawl in the warehousing container, in this program, pawl is fallen, clamp kinds of goods, shift to a slideway and kinds of goods are placed on the slideway.Some this vending machine is produced (for example Candy crane type automatic vending machine 5802 types) by Smart industry manufacturing company.
In above-mentioned automatic vending machine, pawl is difficult to clamp the kinds of goods (perhaps being considered to this difficulty at least) of different size and shape sometimes.In addition, because perhaps the impregnability of kinds of goods can go wrong when only picking up one at every turn.In addition, it is with low content of technology that crane may seem, is unable to lift customer ' interest, makes it that more interest is turned to video game.
Therefore, need a kind ofly above kinds of goods can be seldom fetched, the kinds of goods of difformity and size and the automatic vending machine more attractive can be fetched modern customers.
The invention provides a kind of automatic vending machine, this machine machine of selling automatically can make client can control a kind of mechanism, this mechanism can pick up the kinds of goods general in the warehousing chamber and will get and be placed on an outlet when kinds of goods are in the warehousing chamber, so that make client can take product.This automatic vending machine comprises a housing with inner warehousing chamber, and this warehousing chamber is limited by a diapire and sidewall.A balladeur train that is suspended on warehousing chamber top is suitable for responding remote control equipment (RCE) and moves to a plurality of lateral positions above the diapire.At least one above-mentioned position be basic with export vertical the aligning.Be suitable for responding remote control equipment (RCE) at a sucking hole that hangs on the balladeur train and move on the multiple height above the diapire.Be provided with a kind of control system, client can control the lateral position of sucking hole by it and can begin the catenary motion of sucking hole at least.Be provided with the suction generating device that is communicated with sucking hole.
According to one aspect of the present invention, a kind of kinds of goods that wrap in the material with smooth and airtight substantially surface are set in the warehousing chamber.For example be encapsulated in the bag.
According to another aspect of the present invention, suction generating device is mounted in the vacuum motor on the balladeur train.Can be provided with a limit switch, open and close vacuum motor through the location when sucking hole is positioned at the outlet top substantially, vacuum motor has a bottom air intake that is covered by filter screen.
According to another aspect of the present invention, the device of electric wire twisting when being provided with the electric wire and being used to that motor is connected in power supply and preventing that motor from connecting.In one aspect of the invention, be used to prevent that the device of electric wire twisting from comprising a telescopic supports that connects vacuum motor and balladeur train.
When enforcement is of the present invention, the power of the size of the weight of kinds of goods and size, bag and material, suction generating device and the size of sucking hole make, in the process of the kinds of goods in picking up the warehousing chamber of the kinds of goods that fill normal capacity, repay in the examination at ten times, kinds of goods of sucking hole pick up to pick up with kinds of goods and add the ratio that a plurality of kinds of goods pick up sum and be at least 0.9, can be at least 0.95.
As can be seen, the invention provides improvement to automatic vending machine.Vacuum motor is contained in the flying saucer, makes client that a kind of novelty, interesting experience be arranged, client can realize the dull of crane type vending machine.When using bagged product, suction device can reduce to get the danger of not returning kinds of goods (thereby the operation cycle of selling goods will unnecessarily prolong).
It should be noted,, need to solve several accessory problems of (removing beyond the design of using vacuum) in order to realize this point.For example, for fear of the twisting of electric wire, must control the rotation that the motor part rotates the flying saucer that causes.In addition, because kinds of goods are encapsulated in the plastic bag, the present invention can make suction device pick up to be unsuitable for originally the product with fine hair or rough surface that picks up by suction.Even also must find a kind of method (burning out) that still also can make suction device and power supply automatic cutout above suction device is in the kinds of goods slideway time in addition to balladeur train supply electric power to avoid motor, this be because, if often must be designed to not pick up kinds of goods (even crane has returned its initial position) and can work on for fear of this automatic vending machine of legal issue about gambling.
Therefore, purpose of the present invention comprises provides a kind of automatic vending machine that is picked up by client's control, and it can make client now be subjected to attracting, finding of interest, and can fetch the kinds of goods of difformity and size reliably.
Can more be expressly understood above and other objects of the present invention by following description.To consult accompanying drawing below and describe preferred embodiment.These embodiment do not represent gamut of the present invention, but can use the present invention in these embodiments.In order to illustrate that scope of the present invention should the reading right claim.
Brief Description Of Drawings is as follows:
Fig. 1 is the block diagram of automatic vending machine of the present invention;
Fig. 2,3 and 4 partial front elevation view represent respectively suction device above the kinds of goods, reduce near the kinds of goods and moved to supply of material slideway top position;
The local front cross sectional view of the amplification of Fig. 5 is represented balladeur train, guide rail structure and flying saucer shaped electric machine housing;
Fig. 6 is the cutaway view along 6-6 face among Fig. 5;
Fig. 7 is the view along 7-7 face among Fig. 5;
Fig. 8 is the view along 8-8 face among Fig. 5;
Fig. 9 is the cutaway view along 9-9 face among Fig. 5;
Figure 10 is the cutaway view along 10-10 face among Fig. 5, and expression has the embodiment of telescopic structure.
Figure 11 is the partial view with another embodiment of telescopic structure;
Figure 12 is the cutaway view along 12-12 face among Figure 11;
Figure 13 is the cross-sectional figure of telescopic structure shown in Figure 10.
Fig. 1 represents an automatic vending machine, it have one vertical microscler, substantially the housing 11 of four sides arranged.
Comprise (a limiting) warehousing chamber 13 within the housing top that client can watch by transparent wall 12, an open spaces 14 is arranged above it by diapire and sidewall.A large amount of kinds of goods 15 are equipped with as toy or stuffed animal in warehousing chamber 13.Kinds of goods preferably are sealed in the plastic bag.
In open spaces 14, client can see a flying saucer, and it is an electric machine casing 16, and this will describe in detail hereinafter.Common Joystick controller 17, coin entry 18, kinds of goods outlet 19 and loudspeaker grid 20 are housed in the vending machine front portion.Machine part (for example control circuit) under warehousing chamber 13 can be taken from common vending machine such as Smart crane type automatic vending machine.
As illustrated in Figures 5 and 6, electric machine casing 16 hangs on balladeur train 25, and balladeur train 25 hangs on the tubular guide 26 of a pair of left and right direction again by four sheaves 27, and sheave 27 is contained in the front and rear portions of balladeur train 26 and on guide rail 26.Left and right guide rail 26 hangs on the horizontal supporting bar 29 that is parallel to guide rail 26 by carriage 28 again.Cramp bar 29 is at every end bearing one sheave 30, and each sheave is on the horizontal guide rail 31 of front and rear direction.Because above-mentioned layout, balladeur train 25 can be positioned on a plurality of lateral positions above the warehousing chamber 13.This guide track system is known in prior art (for example Smart crane type automatic vending machine).
The power of mobile balladeur train is to be provided by the motor 32 that is contained in left and right rail 26 ends (Fig. 5 and 7) on front and rear direction, and is used for rotating horizontal supporting bar 29 by gear 33, thereby rotates sheave 30.Provided by motor 34 (see figure 10)s at the move up power of balladeur train of right and left, motor 34 is contained in the balladeur train 25 so that rotate by gear 35 and a pair ofly takes turns 27.It also is common (for example Smart crane type vending machine) that this motor is arranged.Motor 32 and 34 is under the control of control lever 17 by the common unit that can comprise micro controller system.
Shown in Fig. 5 and 10, electric machine casing 16 hangs on a cable 40, and cable 40 is upward through a sleeve pipe 41, through a free gear mechanism 42 to reel 43 (Figure 10), reel 43 is to be driven by a motor (reel-motor does not draw) that is adjacent to the motor 34 in the balladeur train 25.Reel-motor can make cable 40 open around, thereby fall electric machine casing 16, perhaps roll cable 40, thereby rise electric machine casing 16.When electric machine casing reached fully lift position, it touched the energy disperser 44 on sleeve pipe 41 lower ends and the drive sleeve 41 that makes progress, and makes the casing drive head 45 that is contained in sleeve pipe 41 upper ends upwards move apart the lever arm 46 of limit switch 47.This closes reel-motor and starts one by microprocessor-controlIed program, makes balladeur train move to its initial position, and this will be explained below.
On other direction, when making electric machine casing 16, motor 34 descends until the kinds of goods 15 in warehousing chamber 13 or when cable 40 reaches its limitation of length, and 42 work of free gear mechanism are so that the lever arm 48 of mobile limit switch 49.This starts one by microprocessor-controlIed program, makes the reel-motor counter-rotating, thereby rises electric machine casing 16.The decline of electric machine casing 16 is started by Joystick controller 17 at least.
As shown in figure 10, according to the present invention, vacuum motor 53 is contained in the electric machine casing 16.In a preferred embodiment, vacuum motor 53 is one 120 volts, 50/60 hertz of runoff vacuum motor.Use has proved particularly advantageous by the 116309-00 type motor that the electric branch of the Lamb of the Ametek company of Kent, Ohio makes.Vacuum motor 53 forms suction at bottom air inlet 54, at top exit (not shown) air-out.Provide (separating) independent electric power by helix cable 56 to vacuum motor 53 with balladeur train motor electric power.This is by the limit switch 57 (see figure 7)s control that is connected in power supply and cable 56.
As mentioned above and as shown in figure 10, vacuum motor 53 is encapsulated in the electric machine casing 16.Can know from Fig. 9 and 10 and to find out that electric machine casing 16 has a restriction pore 62 on diapire 63.As shown in Figure 9, the assembling of vacuum motor 53 and electric machine casing 16 comes into line so that form the sucking hole 64 that reduces, so that air is sucked motor the air intake 54 of motor 53 and the hole 62 of diapire 63.As shown in Figure 9, a screen cloth 65 (Fig. 8) is contained on the hole 62 of electric machine casing 16.
The size and the weight that depend on kinds of goods 15, the diapire 63 of electric machine casing 16 can be provided with little or little bottom outlet 62, so that make the number of success optimization of only picking up kinds of goods 15.Screen cloth 65 is used for eliminating kinds of goods and squeezes hole 62 at vacuum motor housing 60.
At work, vacuum motor 53 produces the torque of tending to make motor 53 and 16 rotations of its housing.As not adding prevention, this will make the work of cable 56 twistings and final heavy damage system.The present invention also provides the structure that addresses this problem.
An embodiment of Figure 10 and 13 expression telescopic structures.Telescopic pipe 70 is contained on the balladeur train 25 by top support frame 71.The lower end of telescopic pipe 70 is contained on the motor 53 by lower tray 72.Because balladeur train 25 does not rotate, thereby telescopic pipe 70 can prevent that vacuum motor 53 and housing 16 thereof from rotating.
Figure 11 represents second embodiment of telescopic structure.Hollow, an expansion box 73 microscler, rectangle are connected in balladeur train 25 to substitute the telescopic pipe 70 that install the side, and expansion box 73 surrounds cables 40, cable 40 supporting vacuum motor housings 16 and to the cable 56 of its power supply.The upper end of expansion box 73 is connected in balladeur train 25, and its lower end then is connected in electric machine casing 16 or is directly connected in vacuum motor 53, thereby can prevent that vacuum motor 53 from rotating.
" original " position of Fig. 4 and Fig. 6 (dotted line) expression electric machine casing 16, this moment, vending machine was in obsolete dormant state.The initial position is in the top of the slideway 74 that leads to kinds of goods outlet 19.When client drops into necessary coin or fractional currency, client by handle joystick can one fixing during (for example 20-30 second) about and on the fore-and-aft direction electric machine casing 16 moved to the lateral position that client selects, putatively be ready vertical substantially aligning of kinds of goods 15 obtained with client.Drawing in Fig. 2 in above-mentioned position, and draws with solid line in Fig. 6.After making electric machine casing 16 location, client can push joystick button 50, makes fall kinds of goods 15 in warehousing chamber 13 of electric machine casing 16 by internal circuit.This just starts an automatic circulation, in this circulation, electric machine casing 16 falls to kinds of goods top layer (Figure 13), pause, automatically rises to the extreme higher position, moves to the initial position of slideway 74 tops and kinds of goods 15 (if picking up) pine oil is gone into (Fig. 4) in the slideway 74.If desired, a timing sequence can make flying saucer fall automatically after second at 20-30, if client does not make the decision of falling flying saucer.
Slideway 74 can be equipped an opto-electronic pickup 80.If the beam detection of opto-electronic pickup 80 by sensor passed through to kinds of goods 15, so, it can make lever failures, and recreation stops.
But if vacuum motor housing 16 is not picked up kinds of goods, thereby opto-electronic pickup 80 is not triggered, and so, Joystick controller 17 still can be worked, and client can take a whirl at till sending kinds of goods 15 again.
When electric machine casing 16 left the initial position, vacuum must be activated.In addition, when reaching the initial position, it must turn-off the power supply of vacuum motor 53.This is the (see figure 7) of finishing by the limit switch 57 on the sidewall of the contiguous slideway that is contained in machine case 11.When balladeur train 25 left or reaches the initial position, it acted on the bias voltage lever arm 81 of limit switch 57, thereby made vacuum motor 53 connect or throw off power supply.
Can be by the self-service goods of this vending machine, its shape is fitfull (filling shape that for example has the fine hair surface) often.This fitfull surface can not be held it by suction.Therefore, they preferably are encapsulated in the material with smooth and airtight substantially surface.For example, kinds of goods can be encapsulated in plastic bag (for example thermal welding or a kind of Zip-lock
TMReclosable bag) or plastic capsule or can provide vast and " avette " of regular surfaces more to sucking hole 64.
For the kinds of goods of a type, weight and size are realized that a high product picks up ratio, can change vacuum motor 53 power, sucking hole 64 size and cover the rugosity of the filter screen 65 of sucking hole 64.
The present invention is used for attracting space era client (particularly those are no longer interested in the manipulation crane, but can be handled the client that performance attracted of flying saucer).In addition, suction/bag extraction system can improve the perception of client to the possibility that obtains required kinds of goods fast.
Though described the preferred embodiments of the present invention above, therefore do not limited the present invention.Can make various modifications and variations and not exceed scope of the present invention these embodiment.For example, vacuum motor 53 can directly be contained on the balladeur train 25 or be contained on the wall of a static structures such as housing 11.In this case, flexible pipe (for example resemble in the vacuum cleaner used the sort of) can be connected to the structure that comprises sucking hole 64 dish-shaped housing like flying from vacuum motor 53.Therefore, the present invention is limited by top specific descriptions, but is defined by the claims.
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1. automatic vending machine, it can make client handle a mechanism, but this mechanism can when warehousing chamber, kinds of goods place, pick up the kinds of goods in the warehousing chamber and place it in the outlet so that make client can take these kinds of goods, this automatic vending machine is characterised in that:
A housing has an inner warehousing chamber, and this warehousing chamber is limited by a diapire and sidewall;
One balladeur train is suspended on warehousing chamber top and is suitable for ringing the some lateral positions that move to the diapire top in remote control, at least one in these positions substantially with export vertical the aligning;
One sucking hole is suspended and be suitable for responding remote control and move to some height above the diapire from balladeur train;
A control system, client can borrow the lateral position of its control sucking hole, and can begin the catenary motion of sucking hole at least;
A suction generating device is communicated with sucking hole.
2. automatic vending machine according to claim 1 is characterized in that: the kinds of goods in the warehousing chamber are encapsulated in the material with smooth and sir-tight substantially surface.
3. automatic vending machine according to claim 2 is characterized in that: the kinds of goods in the warehousing chamber are encapsulated in the bag.
4. automatic vending machine according to claim 1 is characterized in that: suction generating device is mounted in the vacuum motor on the balladeur train.
5. automatic vending machine according to claim 4 is characterized in that: when described sucking hole was located above outlet substantially, the limit switch of a location turn-offed vacuum motor.
6. automatic vending machine according to claim 4 is characterized in that: an electric wire is connected in power supply with motor, is provided with a device to prevent when motor is connected the lead twisting that becomes.
7. automatic vending machine according to claim 6 is characterized in that: describedly be used to prevent that the device of electric wire twisting from comprising the telescopic supporting member that connects vacuum motor and balladeur train.
8. automatic vending machine according to claim 3, it is characterized in that: the power of the size of the weight of kinds of goods and size, bag such as material, suction generating device and the size of sucking hole make, in the process of the kinds of goods in picking up the warehousing chamber of the kinds of goods that fill its normal capacity, repay in the examination at ten times, kinds of goods be inhaled into mouth pick up with kinds of goods picked add a plurality of kinds of goods picked and ratio be at least 0.9.
9. automatic vending machine according to claim 8 is characterized in that: described ratio is at least 0.95.
10. automatic vending machine according to claim 4 is characterized in that: described motor has a bottom air suction inlet that is covered by filter screen.
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