EP1063621A1 - Une machine de vente pour des produits solides et liquides - Google Patents

Une machine de vente pour des produits solides et liquides Download PDF

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EP1063621A1
EP1063621A1 EP99112244A EP99112244A EP1063621A1 EP 1063621 A1 EP1063621 A1 EP 1063621A1 EP 99112244 A EP99112244 A EP 99112244A EP 99112244 A EP99112244 A EP 99112244A EP 1063621 A1 EP1063621 A1 EP 1063621A1
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Alvaro Sanchez-Munoz
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    • G07F11/00—Coin-freed apparatus for dispensing, or the like, discrete articles
    • G07F11/02—Coin-freed apparatus for dispensing, or the like, discrete articles from non-movable magazines
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    • G07F11/42—Coin-freed apparatus for dispensing, or the like, discrete articles from non-movable magazines in which the magazines are horizontal the articles being delivered by motor-driven means
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    • G07F11/02—Coin-freed apparatus for dispensing, or the like, discrete articles from non-movable magazines
    • G07F11/04—Coin-freed apparatus for dispensing, or the like, discrete articles from non-movable magazines in which magazines the articles are stored one vertically above the other
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    • G07F—COIN-FREED OR LIKE APPARATUS
    • G07F11/00—Coin-freed apparatus for dispensing, or the like, discrete articles
    • G07F11/68—Coin-freed apparatus for dispensing, or the like, discrete articles in which the articles are torn or severed from strips or sheets
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    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07F—COIN-FREED OR LIKE APPARATUS
    • G07F13/00—Coin-freed apparatus for controlling dispensing or fluids, semiliquids or granular material from reservoirs
    • G07F13/10—Coin-freed apparatus for controlling dispensing or fluids, semiliquids or granular material from reservoirs with associated dispensing of containers, e.g. cups or other articles
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    • G07F9/105—Heating or cooling means, for temperature and humidity control, for the conditioning of articles and their storage

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  • This invention relates to a vending machine for solid products such as snacks, pastries, sandwiches, other foods, fruit juice or drinks packed in cans and so on as well as for liquid products in cups such as coffee, tea and other types of infusion.
  • vending machines of solid products and of hot and cold liquid products to be installed in schools, hospitals, factories, stations, airports and similar locations where there is the need for a quick snack are already well-known.
  • vending machines generally have a metal cabinet-type structure representing the casing of the machine inside which vending apparatuses for solid or liquid products are positioned, which are activated when the purchasing price of the product to be retrieved (selected by the user through an appropriately positioned push-button panel) has been cashed by inserting coins or tokens into a slot on the front panel and/or a bank note into a bank note reading device and/or a magnetic card on a suitable decoder and/or through another already known cashing device.
  • vending machines designed to sell at least two different types of product i.e. a solid product such as a snack and a liquid product such as coffee, have been realised by bringing together two distinct vending machines, each with its own delivery door which the user must open in order to retrieve the pre-selected product.
  • This type of positioning which is quite necessary to limit to a minimum the surface area of the vending machine, involves that the two products are delivered by doors positioned on the front panel at different heights: at least one of the doors is situated in a very low position rendering difficult the retrieval operation by the user.
  • the present invention overcomes said drawbacks as it refers to a vending machine for solid products (snacks, pastries and so on) and for liquid products in cups (coffee, tea and so on, served hot if required) positioned one on the top of each other, where the delivery doors of the said products are positioned side-by-side at on the same height from the ground to be easily accessible by the user, rendering therefore the retrieval operation extremely simple.
  • the vending machine to which this invention refer includes a solid product vending unit, of the spiral type for example, situated in the upper part, and a liquid product vending unit situated underneath.
  • Another feature of the invention is a special and innovative structure of a hot drink vending machine where the single portions of product (in powder, granules or leaves) to be infused for obtaining the hot drink are allocated on a continuous strip wound onto a reel and lifting means for lifting the cup containing the hot drink from a lower position to the delivery door situated at a higher level at approximately the half-way point of the cabinet's front panel are also provided.
  • the present invention refers to a vending machine for solid and liquid products, comprising a cabinet-type structure inside which a solid products vending apparatus and a liquid products vending apparatus are installed one on the top of the other, where the delivery doors of the products delivered by the liquid products vending apparatus and by the solid products vending apparatus are positioned side-by-side on the same height from the ground, arranged approximately in line with the half-way point of the cabinet's front panel.
  • the vending machine comprises lifting means suitable to lift the product delivered by the down-placed vending apparatus at the relevant delivery door.
  • a characterising feature of said vending machine is that it comprises lifting means (figures 2 and 3) suitable to lift the product delivered by the down-placed vending apparatus at the relevant delivery door.
  • a vending machine comprises a cabinet-type structure 1 whose front panel 14 provides for at least one delivery door 15 for solid products, for at least one delivery door 13 for liquid products and for a selection and cashing panel 16, not disclosed therein as it is known to any person skilled in the art and in any case it is outside the scope of the present invention.
  • the front panel 14 of the vending machine 1 provides for a delivery door 13 for liquid products, for a pair of delivery doors 15 for solid products, positioned on the sides of the delivery door 13, and for transparent zone 2 belonging to the solid product vending unit 3 positioned in the upper part of the vending machine 1 but, without departing from the scope of the invention, a different number of delivery doors (13, 15) could be provided and/or the solid product vending unit 3 could be positioned in the lower part of the vending machine 1.
  • Both the solid products vending apparatus 3 and the liquid products vending apparatus 4 are controlled by a commonly used control unit 3 driven by the user through the keyboard of the selection and cashing panel 16 (figure 1) and omitted on the enclosed drawings to simplify the graphical representation.
  • the solid products vending apparatus 3 uses an already known spiral system 5 to distribute the solid products 17, which are dispensed by the rotation of the spiral system 5 and drop in "pockets" (already known to any person skilled in the art and not shown in the drawings to simplify the graphical representation) positioned behind the delivery doors 15 for solid products (figure 1).
  • the liquid products vending apparatus 4 includes at least an infusion machine 9 (not disclosed therein as it is known to any person skilled in the art) supplied by a continuous strip 6, wound onto a first reel 7, into which are inserted in "blister" wrappings 8 single portions of products for infusion (coffee, tea, etc.) used by the infusion machine(s) 9 to realise the liquid product(s) collected in a known manner in a glass.
  • an infusion machine 9 not disclosed therein as it is known to any person skilled in the art supplied by a continuous strip 6, wound onto a first reel 7, into which are inserted in "blister" wrappings 8 single portions of products for infusion (coffee, tea, etc.) used by the infusion machine(s) 9 to realise the liquid product(s) collected in a known manner in a glass.
  • a pair of sprocket wheels 18, positioned at the opposite sides of the infusion machine 9, are engaged on two series of holes 21 (figure 6b), positioned on the longitudinal edges of the continuous strip 6, whose "step” is corresponding to that between two adjacent "blister” wrappings 8 (or, at least, rigidly related thereto): the sprocket wheels 18 controls the rotation of the second reel 11 and stretch the portion of continuous strip 6 positioned inside the infusion machine 9 to help the removal of the empty "blister" wrapping 8 from the infusion machine 9.
  • the product for infusion could be in powder, in granules, in leaves or in any other form suitable for infusion.
  • Lifting means 12 lift the filled glass from its lower position 10 to its upper position 10", inside the "pocket” 14 positioned behind the delivery door 13 for liquid products (figure 1).
  • Lifting means 12 comprise an endless chain (or belt) 19 moved in a known way by an electric motor (or by another moving means, functionally equivalent to the electric motor and not disclosed as it is know to any person skilled in the art) and provided with at least one grasp means 20 (for example a fork-shaped body connected to a support integral to the endless chain 19 through coupling pins) coplanar to the plane defined by the endless chain 19 and suitable to receive the glass to be filled at its lower position 10; when the glass is filled, the endless chain 19 is moved by the electric motor to lift the glass to its upper position 10" inside the "pocket” 14 positioned behind the delivery door 13 of the liquid products vending apparatus 4.
  • an electric motor or by another moving means, functionally equivalent to the electric motor and not disclosed as it is know to any person skilled in the art
  • at least one grasp means 20 for example a fork-shaped body connected to a support integral to the endless chain 19 through coupling pins
  • the endless chain 19 is moved by the electric motor to lift the glass to its upper position 10" inside the "poc
  • Lifting means 12 further include control means suitable to stop the electric motor moving the endless chain 19 when a glass is in its lower position 10 or in its upper positions 10" and to energise the electric motor, moving the endless chain 19, for lifting a filled glass from its lower position 10 to its upper position 10".
  • Figure 3 provides for a second embodiment of the lifting device 12, which differs from that shown by figure 2 in that the grasp means 20 are orthogonal to the plane defined by the endless chain 19 instead of being coplanar and in that coupling pins could be omitted on grasp means 20.
  • Figure 4 shows a front view of a preferred embodiment of the lifting means 12 of figure 3, where the endless chain 19 is a roller chain supported and moved in a known way through a pair of gears 21.
  • the grasp means 20 comprise at least a "L"-shaped body 22 pivotally connected to a body 25 integral to an element of the roller chain 19, the body 22 being connected to a roll 23 which moves in an "U"-shaped slide 24 to maintain the grasp means 20 horizontal when moving from their lower to their upper position to lift a glass from its lower position 10 to its upper position 10".
  • Figure 5 shows a side view of the lifting means 12 of figure 4, where a portion of the roller chain 19, a portion of one of the gears 21 supporting and moving the roller chain 19 and a grasp means 20 comprising the roll 23 and supporting a glass on its lower position 10 and its upper one 10" are shown.
  • Figure 5 further shows a pair of optical sensors 26 suitable to sense the position of a glass and/or of grasping means 20 for controlling the electric motor moving the roller chain 19.
  • Figure 6a shows schematically a lateral view of a part of an infusion machine 9 wherein a portion of the continuous strip 6 is positioned, the single portions of products to be infused by the infusion machine 9 being allocated into a plurality of "blister" wrappings 8.
  • Figure 6b shows a top view of a portion of the continuous strip 6 where a plurality of "blister” wrappings 8 and two series of holes (only one of which is labelled “21" in figure 6b to simplify the graphical representation), positioned on the longitudinal edges of the continuous strip 6 and wherein are engaged sprocket wheels 18 (figure 2), positioned at the opposite sides of the infusion machine 9 and not shown in figure 6b, are provided.
  • the "step" between two adjacent holes 21 is preferably corresponding to that between two adjacent "blister” wrappings 8 but, without departing from the scope of the invention, the “step” between two adjacent holes 21 could be rigidly related (for example, 1 ⁇ 2, 2/3 and so on) to that between two adjacent "blister" wrappings 8.

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GB2405860A (en) * 2003-07-10 2005-03-16 Necta Vending Solutions Spa Automatic vending machine with integrated capsule feeding apparatus
ITUA20162859A1 (it) * 2016-04-06 2017-10-06 Ivan Capatti Dispenser erogazione prodotti per l'igiene e disinfezione
CN107274565A (zh) * 2017-08-11 2017-10-20 宁波祈禧电器有限公司 一种具有售卖开水和凉白开功能的自动售卖机
CN110148255A (zh) * 2019-05-23 2019-08-20 宋侃 一种手环存取控制系统
JP2021027907A (ja) * 2019-08-09 2021-02-25 富士電機株式会社 飲料供給装置

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EP0288142A2 (fr) * 1987-04-21 1988-10-26 Unidynamics Corporation Dispositif de stockage et distribution de récipients et machine de vente pour la distribution d'aliments réfrigérés, non réfrigérés et/ou chauffés
WO1996005578A1 (fr) * 1994-08-12 1996-02-22 Recot, Inc. Distribution conjointe d'en-cas et de boissons a partir d'un distributeur automatique
EP0866430A2 (fr) * 1997-02-25 1998-09-23 Sanden Corporation Stent flexible

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US4823984A (en) * 1986-04-30 1989-04-25 Unidynamics Corporation Container storage and dispensing apparatus and vending machine for dispensing refrigerated, unrefrigerated and/or heated foods
EP0288142A2 (fr) * 1987-04-21 1988-10-26 Unidynamics Corporation Dispositif de stockage et distribution de récipients et machine de vente pour la distribution d'aliments réfrigérés, non réfrigérés et/ou chauffés
WO1996005578A1 (fr) * 1994-08-12 1996-02-22 Recot, Inc. Distribution conjointe d'en-cas et de boissons a partir d'un distributeur automatique
EP0866430A2 (fr) * 1997-02-25 1998-09-23 Sanden Corporation Stent flexible

Cited By (6)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
GB2405860A (en) * 2003-07-10 2005-03-16 Necta Vending Solutions Spa Automatic vending machine with integrated capsule feeding apparatus
GB2405860B (en) * 2003-07-10 2006-09-20 Necta Vending Solutions Spa Automatic vending machine with integrated capsule feeding apparatus
ITUA20162859A1 (it) * 2016-04-06 2017-10-06 Ivan Capatti Dispenser erogazione prodotti per l'igiene e disinfezione
CN107274565A (zh) * 2017-08-11 2017-10-20 宁波祈禧电器有限公司 一种具有售卖开水和凉白开功能的自动售卖机
CN110148255A (zh) * 2019-05-23 2019-08-20 宋侃 一种手环存取控制系统
JP2021027907A (ja) * 2019-08-09 2021-02-25 富士電機株式会社 飲料供給装置

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