EP0871942A1 - Verfahren zur entnahme von artikeln aus einem schrank und schrank zur ausführung des verfahrens - Google Patents
Verfahren zur entnahme von artikeln aus einem schrank und schrank zur ausführung des verfahrensInfo
- Publication number
- EP0871942A1 EP0871942A1 EP96941050A EP96941050A EP0871942A1 EP 0871942 A1 EP0871942 A1 EP 0871942A1 EP 96941050 A EP96941050 A EP 96941050A EP 96941050 A EP96941050 A EP 96941050A EP 0871942 A1 EP0871942 A1 EP 0871942A1
- Authority
- EP
- European Patent Office
- Prior art keywords
- cabinet
- storage medium
- information
- items
- articles
- Prior art date
- Legal status (The legal status is an assumption and is not a legal conclusion. Google has not performed a legal analysis and makes no representation as to the accuracy of the status listed.)
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- G—PHYSICS
- G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
- G07F—COIN-FREED OR LIKE APPARATUS
- G07F11/00—Coin-freed apparatus for dispensing, or the like, discrete articles
- G07F11/46—Coin-freed apparatus for dispensing, or the like, discrete articles from movable storage containers or supports
- G07F11/50—Coin-freed apparatus for dispensing, or the like, discrete articles from movable storage containers or supports the storage containers or supports being rotatably mounted
- G07F11/54—Coin-freed apparatus for dispensing, or the like, discrete articles from movable storage containers or supports the storage containers or supports being rotatably mounted about vertical axes
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- G—PHYSICS
- G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
- G07F—COIN-FREED OR LIKE APPARATUS
- G07F5/00—Coin-actuated mechanisms; Interlocks
- G07F5/18—Coin-actuated mechanisms; Interlocks specially adapted for controlling several coin-freed apparatus from one place
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- G—PHYSICS
- G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
- G07F—COIN-FREED OR LIKE APPARATUS
- G07F7/00—Mechanisms actuated by objects other than coins to free or to actuate vending, hiring, coin or paper currency dispensing or refunding apparatus
- G07F7/08—Mechanisms actuated by objects other than coins to free or to actuate vending, hiring, coin or paper currency dispensing or refunding apparatus by coded identity card or credit card or other personal identification means
- G07F7/0806—Details of the card
- G07F7/0833—Card having specific functional components
- G07F7/084—Additional components relating to data transfer and storing, e.g. error detection, self-diagnosis
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- G—PHYSICS
- G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
- G07F—COIN-FREED OR LIKE APPARATUS
- G07F9/00—Details other than those peculiar to special kinds or types of apparatus
- G07F9/002—Vending machines being part of a centrally controlled network of vending machines
Definitions
- the invention relates to a method for removing articles from a cabinet of the type defined by the preamble of claim 1 and a cabinet for performing this method.
- a method for removing articles from the compartments of a cabinet wherein a cabinet has a larger number of lockable individual compartments.
- the individual doors of the compartments or the articles in the compartments are electronically connected to a central billing system of the hotel. When the locker is opened or the item is removed, an automatic booking can be made to the guest bill via the hotel billing system.
- a method that can be carried out relatively inexpensively and a cabinet that is suitable for carrying out the method and has a comparatively simple structure are to be proposed.
- This object is achieved by the method according to claim 1 and a cabinet with the features listed in claim 11.
- the advantages achieved with the invention are based on the following mode of operation: By registering the information about the selected or removed articles on an insertable storage medium, in particular a chip or magnetic card, and in the cabinet, it is relatively easy for the operator of the cabinet to remove them determine and settle items removed from the cabinet using this storage medium and / or the information recorded in the cabinet.
- a cabinet suitable for carrying out this method accordingly enables the articles removed from the cabinet to be billed quickly and easily if the storage medium is e.g. presented at the reception and the information contained on it can be read out.
- filling up the cabinet is made easier, since the cabinet itself can be used to extract the information about which articles have been removed from the cabinet. This means that the entire inventory of items in the cabinet no longer has to be checked to determine which or how many items have been removed.
- the storage medium is particularly preferably inserted into the cabinet, so that the operation of the cabinet is clearer.
- the articles can preferably be removed from individual compartments of the cabinet, since this simplifies checking the contents of the cabinet.
- the information about the items removed is registered on the storage medium and in the cabinet. This makes it easy to create an exact list of the items that have been removed, which is advantageous on the one hand when creating an invoice and on the other hand, considerably simplifies refilling the cabinet, since it can also be determined directly on the cabinet. when certain items in the closet are no longer in stock.
- the frequency of opening each compartment on the storage medium and in the closet is registered, so that, for. B. also receives evaluable overviews over a longer period of time and so z. B. can determine which drink and which brand of this drink are preferred.
- information can be stored on the plug-in storage medium, which makes it possible to remove a certain number of certain articles from certain compartments of the cabinet.
- Storing this type of information on the storage medium has the advantage that this card must first be purchased in order to be able to remove certain articles from the cabinet. This prevents misuse, since it is no longer possible to first remove a large number of items from the cupboard with a card and then "lose" the card, so that it is no longer possible to determine exactly which items from the card Cabinet have been removed.
- the compartments with the articles are particularly preferably arranged such that they can be rotated past the removal opening by the customer's operating operations, so that the customer can first look at all the articles before deciding on a specific article.
- a selected subject can expediently be released by means of an operating operation by the customer or user, so that the article contained in this subject can be removed.
- a suitable display device on the cabinet advantageously indicates whether articles have been removed from the cabinet. It can thus be determined at a glance whether the cabinet needs to be refilled.
- the information registered in the cabinet about the items removed can be registered on an additional storage medium which is inserted into the cabinet by the operating personnel when the operating personnel checks whether items have been removed from the cabinet.
- the information contained in the cabinet about the items removed is then written to this storage medium, so that, for example, only one storage medium has to be inserted into each of these cabinets in order to fill up several cabinets and the information about the type and number of all items to be refilled is stored on this storage medium .
- this storage medium With this storage medium, the exact number of articles required can thus be determined relatively easily, so that it is no longer necessary to keep these articles in stock when refilling.
- a device for receiving the storage medium is provided for the cabinet, which does not necessarily have to be arranged on the cabinet itself, but can, for example, also be arranged at a central point in the room. It would also be possible to use the storage medium not only to operate the cabinet, but also e.g. to operate a hotel's own pay TV system.
- the cabinet designed according to the invention has a control device with which information about the selected or removed article can be recorded on the storage medium and in the cabinet.
- Cooling units are particularly preferably arranged in the cabinet, so that the articles contained in this cabinet can be cooled and thus kept fresh for longer. Such cooling units are also useful for cooling beverages.
- the compartments of the cabinet are arranged on a rotatable base, so that the different articles of the individual compartments can be selected by rotating the base.
- Viewing windows are particularly preferably arranged on the cabinet, so that the customer can view the articles contained in the cabinet before deciding on an article.
- two rotatable disks with compartments provided thereon are arranged one above the other, so that the customer can be presented with a large selection of articles.
- the control device of the cabinet is particularly preferably designed such that it can accept a chip card and record information thereon.
- the cabinet preferably has sensors which can determine information about the articles contained in and / or removed from the cabinet.
- a display device for displaying the information recorded in the cabinet is provided on the cabinet so that, for example, it can be determined without additional aids which and how many items have been removed from the cabinet.
- a green lamp on the cabinet which indicates that no articles have yet been removed from the cabinet
- a red lamp which indicates that at least one article has been removed from the cabinet.
- a control device is particularly preferably provided in the cabinet, with which the information recorded in the cabinet can be written to a storage medium to be inserted into the cabinet.
- the control device in the cabinet can see that this is not the storage medium described above for removing articles from the cabinet, after which the Control device, the stored information about the removed articles are transferred to this storage medium.
- Information for identifying this cabinet can also be transferred to the storage medium, so that the person entrusted with filling the cabinets can simply insert this storage medium into several cabinets, in order to subsequently use the storage medium and the information recorded thereon in the warehouse, for example can get the exact number of different items needed to replenish the cabinets from which items have been removed.
- Figure 1 is a front view of the cabinet according to the invention.
- Figure 2 is a vertical section through the cabinet of Fig. 1.
- Fig. 3 is a plan view of the cabinet of Fig. 1; and
- FIG. 4 shows a flow chart of the method according to the invention.
- the cabinet 1 shown in Fig. 1 has on its front two viewing windows 1 la and 1 lb through which the customer can view the articles in the cabinet.
- the viewing windows are interrupted in the central part by openings 2a and 2b, in front of which flaps 17a and 17b are arranged.
- the flaps 17a and 17b are locked by locking devices 5a and 5b and can be opened after unlocking, so that the customer can reach into the cabinet 1 through the openings 2a and 2b of the viewing windows 11a and 11b and remove the desired article .
- the cabinet 1 also has a receiving opening 4 for a chip card and a control panel 6. Of course, it is also possible that the receiving opening 4 for the chip card and the control panel 6 are arranged separately from the cabinet.
- the control panel 6 consists of three buttons with which the desired items to be removed from the cabinet 1 can be selected.
- the rotatable disks 7 which are located in the interior of the cabinet and are not shown here are first rotated with the rotary button 6c in such a way that the desired article to be removed lies behind one of the flaps 17a and 17b.
- the upper flap 17a or the lower flap can then be released using the release buttons 6a or 6b 17b are released by appropriately actuating the locking devices 5a and 5b.
- the position of the disk 7 can be used to determine which article has been selected or removed, so that this information can be registered on the inserted storage medium and in the cabinet.
- two rotatable disks 7 are arranged one above the other in the interior of the cabinet 1.
- An axis 12 is guided in the vertical direction through the center points of the two disks 7 and is rotatably mounted in the cabinet 1.
- the axis 12 On its underside, the axis 12 has a gear wheel 15, which is connected to a drive motor 14 via a V-belt 13.
- the drive motor 14 can be controlled by means of the rotary button 6c described above, so that the axis 12 is rotated by the drive motor 14 as long as the button 6c is pressed.
- the cabinet 1 has a cooling unit 8 on its rear side and is provided with insulation 16 on the top and bottom.
- the cabinet 1 has a green lamp 18a and a red lamp 18b at its upper right corner. If the cabinet 1 is filled, only the green lamp 18a lights up. If an article is removed from the cabinet 1, the green lamp 18a goes out and the red lamp 18b lights up.
- the receiving opening 4 located below the lamps 18a and 18b also serves to receive chip cards for transferring the information stored in the control device of the cabinet 1 about the type and number of the items removed to this chip card.
- Fig. 3 the rotatable disc 7 can be seen, which has compartments 3 on the edge, in which the articles can be placed.
- the front part 10 of the cabinet 1 is pivotable bar stored so that it can be opened for filling the compartments 3 or for other service work.
- the chip card holder 4 is arranged together with the control electronics 9 on the pivotable front part 10.
- FIG. 4 shows a flow or flow chart of the method according to the invention. It is first checked whether a storage medium has been inserted into the cabinet 1 or the receptacle 4. If no storage medium has been inserted, this check is repeated. However, if a storage medium has been introduced, it is first checked whether this is a valid customer card. If this is the case, it is checked whether cabinet 1 has been opened. In this case, the green lamp 18a is first switched to the red lamp 18b. Furthermore, the information about the items removed from cabinet 1 is written on the customer card. Finally, this information is also written to an internal memory in the cabinet 1. The process then returns to the starting point.
- cabinet code and / or the data from the internal memory of cabinet 1 are written to the service card. The process then returns to its original state.
- the customer card When billing, the customer card is e.g. presented at the reception and the information contained on it read out, so that a quick and easy accounting of the items removed from the closet can take place.
- a person entrusted with refilling the cabinet can either use the service card to go to other cabinets to store more information about the items removed from these other cabinets on this service card, or can go straight to go to a central warehouse to use the service card to determine which items are needed for which cabinets in order to refill them.
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- General Physics & Mathematics (AREA)
- Coin-Freed Apparatuses For Hiring Articles (AREA)
Abstract
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Applications Claiming Priority (3)
Application Number | Priority Date | Filing Date | Title |
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DE19549115 | 1995-12-29 | ||
DE19549115A DE19549115A1 (de) | 1995-12-29 | 1995-12-29 | Verfahren zur Entnahme von Artikeln aus einem Schrank und Schrank zur Ausführung des Verfahrens |
PCT/EP1996/005274 WO1997024700A1 (de) | 1995-12-29 | 1996-11-28 | Verfahren zur entnahme von artikeln aus einem schrank und schrank zur ausführung des verfahrens |
Publications (2)
Publication Number | Publication Date |
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EP0871942A1 true EP0871942A1 (de) | 1998-10-21 |
EP0871942B1 EP0871942B1 (de) | 1999-07-14 |
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EP96941050A Expired - Lifetime EP0871942B1 (de) | 1995-12-29 | 1996-11-28 | Verfahren zur entnahme von artikeln aus einem schrank und schrank zur ausführung des verfahrens |
Country Status (5)
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US (1) | US6142373A (de) |
EP (1) | EP0871942B1 (de) |
DE (2) | DE19549115A1 (de) |
ES (1) | ES2134651T3 (de) |
WO (1) | WO1997024700A1 (de) |
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US7137385B2 (en) * | 2002-11-01 | 2006-11-21 | Visteon Global Technologies, Inc. | Device to provide a regulated power supply for in-cylinder ionization detection by using the ignition coli fly back energy and two-stage regulation |
AT500304B1 (de) * | 2004-05-14 | 2006-11-15 | Keba Ag | Aufbewahrungsautomat für gegenstände |
DE202005021564U1 (de) * | 2004-09-21 | 2008-10-02 | Keba Ag | Aufbewahrungsautomat für Gegenstände |
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- 1996-11-28 EP EP96941050A patent/EP0871942B1/de not_active Expired - Lifetime
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US6142373A (en) | 2000-11-07 |
WO1997024700A1 (de) | 1997-07-10 |
ES2134651T3 (es) | 1999-10-01 |
DE59602459D1 (de) | 1999-08-19 |
DE19549115A1 (de) | 1997-07-03 |
EP0871942B1 (de) | 1999-07-14 |
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