DE202016103573U1 - Vending machine with burglary protection - Google Patents

Abstract

Vending machine having a housing (2) in which at least one goods shaft (4) is arranged, wherein in the goods shaft (4) a plurality of individual goods are stored, wherein the housing (2) has a door (3) in the opened state allows access to the at least one goods shaft (4) characterized in that the door (3) in the closed state by at least two different locking means can be closed.

Description

The invention relates to a vending machine with burglary protection according to the preamble of independent claim 1.

Such vending machines are used, for example, to sell theft-prone goods. Such goods include, in particular, tobacco products.

State of the art

The DE 71 31 693 U1 shows a vending machine, which activates an alarm tone during a break-in attempt. If thieves can leave the scene quickly enough, they can not always be deterred by an alarm sound.

task

The object of the invention is to propose a vending machine with an improved theft protection.

The object is solved by the characterizing features of independent claim 1.

Advantageous embodiments of the invention are specified in the subclaims.

The vending machine according to the invention consists of a housing in which at least one goods shaft is arranged. As a rule, the vending machine has several goods shafts in each of which a plurality of individual goods are stored. The goods are, for example, cigarette packs, with the individual manholes usually containing different varieties.

The housing has a door, which allows access to the at least one goods bay in the open state. This door is locked or closed in the closed state by at least two different locking means.

A potential thief would have to overcome two independent locking systems in this case. This would take more time, thereby increasing the risk of the thief increasing. Experience has shown that thieves are more deterred by a high outlay for a break-in to a vending machine than by a signal or alarm sound.

In an advantageous embodiment of the invention, the vending machine on a door which is closed in the closed state by three differently executed locking means. This further increases a potential break-in time.

It is advantageous to arrange the locking means in each case in a lower region and in a central region of the door. A potential thief would have to attack here in succession at different points of the door to open the vending machine.

Advantageously, a locking means is arranged in the upper region of the door, which consists of at least two hooks, but preferably of five hooks, wherein the hooks are displaceable in the direction of the door opening. The locking means consists essentially of a rail having five hooks. The hooks can each engage in corresponding recesses in the housing. The rail can be moved together with the hook in the direction of the door opening. The hooks can then no longer be removed by a door pivoting movement of the recesses. Only when the hooks in the opposite direction, ie in the direction of a door hinge, are moved, the hooks can be pulled out of the recesses, whereby the door is released in the upper area.

In a particularly preferred embodiment of the vending machine, a two-stage locking means is arranged in the middle region of the door of the vending machine. The locking means has a pivotable latching hook, which engages in the closed state of the door in a recess of a side part of the housing of the vending machine. In addition, the locking means comprises two bolts, wherein the one bolt in the closed state of the door engages in a recess of the upper side of the housing and wherein the other bolt engages in a recess in the underside of the housing of the vending machine. In the open state of the door locking hooks and bolts are parallel to each other. When the door is closed, latching hooks and bolts are perpendicular to one another.

It is particularly advantageous to make the above-mentioned two-stage locking means activatable via a system comprising a security lock with an associated security key. The locking hook and the two bolts can only be moved over such a system. For example, a thief can do nothing with a lockpick.

Preferably, the different locking means described above can be activated and deactivated via a central security lock and security key system. By activatable here is meant that the Locking means prevent opening of the door. By deactivatable is meant that the locking means allow an opening of the door.

embodiment

An embodiment of the invention is illustrated in the drawings and will be explained in more detail below. Show it:

1 a perspective view of a section of a vending machine and

2 a sectional view of a locking means in the central region of a door of the vending machine.

The figures contain partially simplified, schematic representations. In part, identical reference numerals are used for the same but possibly not identical elements. Different views of the same elements could be scaled differently.

The 1 shows a vending machine 1 that is made of a housing 2 which is about a door 3 can be opened or closed. At the door 3 are individual goods shafts 4 attached. In the individual goods shafts 4 For example, a plurality of packets of cigarettes (not shown) may be stored. At the top of the door 3 is a rail 5 attached to the total of five locking hooks 4 are formed. About the rail 5 can the latch hooks 6 in the direction of the double arrow 7 to be moved. The locking hooks 6 engage in recesses (not shown) of the housing 2 one. The locking hooks 6 are in an open position when moved towards the door hinge towards an end position. The locking hooks 6 are in a closed position when they are in the direction of the open door 3 be moved to an end position.

In 2 is a locking means in the middle region of the door 3 to see. The picture shows the inner wall of the door 3 and a section through a side wall of the housing 2 , The locking means in the central area comprises one along the double arrow 8th swiveling latching hook 9 , the here in a matching recess of the housing 2 intervenes. In this condition is the case 2 locked. Will the catch hook 9 pivoted high, the latch hook 9 removed from the recess and the housing 2 is no longer closed at least in the middle area.

The locking means in the middle area of the door 3 also includes two bolts 10 . 11 pointing in the direction of the arrow 12 are pushable up and down. Will the bolt 10 down and the bolt 11 pushed upwards, grab the bolts 10 . 11 each in a recess (not shown) of the housing 2 a, causing the housing 2 is locked. By a movement of the bolts 10 . 11 in the opposite direction, the housing 2 be opened again when the remaining locking means are disabled.

All locking means described above in the middle and in the upper part of the door 2 can be simultaneously (simultaneously) activated and deactivated via a central system of security lock and security key. The upper snap hooks 6 , the middle snap hook 9 as well as the middle bolts 10 and 11 can be moved in parallel via the security lock and security key system. The central security lock 13 is in the middle area of the door 3 , accessible from the outside of the door (not shown).

Due to the central system of security lock and security key, which accesses all locking means, the vending machine is still easy to use. The increased theft protection does not cause additional expense for an operator of such a vending machine.

LIST OF REFERENCE NUMBERS

1

 Vending Machine

2

 casing

3

 door

4

 goods bay

5

 rail

6

 latch hook

7

 arrow

8th

 double arrow

9

 latch hook

10

 bolt

11

 bolt

12

 double arrow

13

 Central security lock

QUOTES INCLUDE IN THE DESCRIPTION

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Cited patent literature

• DE 7131693 U1 [0003]

Claims (8)

Vending machine, which has a housing ( 2 ), in which at least one goods shaft ( 4 ) is arranged, wherein in the goods shaft ( 4 ) a plurality of individual goods are stored, wherein the housing ( 2 ) a door ( 3 ), which in the opened state access to the at least one goods shaft ( 4 ) characterized in that the door ( 3 ) Is closed by at least two different locking means in the closed state. Vending machine according to claim 1, characterized in that the door ( 3 ) is closed by three different locking means in the closed state. Vending machine according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the locking means are each arranged in a lower region and in a central region of the door. Vending machine according to the preceding claim, characterized in that in the upper part of the door ( 3 ) a locking means is arranged, which consists of a rail ( 5 ) with at least two hooks ( 6 ) consists. Vending machine according to claim 3, characterized in that a locking means is arranged in the central region of the door, which has a pivotable latching hook ( 9 ), which in the closed state of the door ( 3 ) in a recess of a side part of the housing ( 2 ) of the vending machine ( 1 ) intervenes. Vending machine according to the preceding claim, characterized in that the locking means in the central region of the door ( 3 ) two bolts ( 10 . 11 ), wherein the one bolt ( 11 ) in the closed state of the door ( 3 ) in a recess of the top of the housing ( 2 ) and wherein the other bolt ( 10 ) in a recess in the bottom of the housing ( 2 ) of the vending machine ( 1 ) intervenes. Vending machine according to one of the two preceding claims, characterized in that the latching hook ( 9 ) and the two bolts ( 10 . 11 ) via a system of a security lock ( 13 ) are movable with an associated security key. Vending machine according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that all locking means via a central system of security lock ( 13 ) and security key can be activated and deactivated.

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