EP1080456A2 - Dispositif de distributeur automatique - Google Patents

Dispositif de distributeur automatique

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EP1080456A2
EP1080456A2 EP99925480A EP99925480A EP1080456A2 EP 1080456 A2 EP1080456 A2 EP 1080456A2 EP 99925480 A EP99925480 A EP 99925480A EP 99925480 A EP99925480 A EP 99925480A EP 1080456 A2 EP1080456 A2 EP 1080456A2
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product
storage
dispenser
vending machine
drawer
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Styrk Opheim
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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
    • G07F11/02—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
    • G07F11/06—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 supported individually on pivotally-mounted flaps or shelves
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47F—SPECIAL FURNITURE, FITTINGS, OR ACCESSORIES FOR SHOPS, STOREHOUSES, BARS, RESTAURANTS OR THE LIKE; PAYING COUNTERS
    • A47F1/00—Racks for dispensing merchandise; Containers for dispensing merchandise
    • A47F1/04—Racks or containers with arrangements for dispensing articles, e.g. by means of gravity or springs
    • A47F1/08—Racks or containers with arrangements for dispensing articles, e.g. by means of gravity or springs dispensing from bottom
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47F—SPECIAL FURNITURE, FITTINGS, OR ACCESSORIES FOR SHOPS, STOREHOUSES, BARS, RESTAURANTS OR THE LIKE; PAYING COUNTERS
    • A47F11/00—Arrangements in shop windows, shop floors or show cases
    • A47F11/04—Special arrangements of mirrors or the like

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  • the present invention relates to an arrangement of a vending machine such as is indicated in the introduction of the following claim 1. More specifically the invention relates to an arrangement of a vending machine, for example a pay automat, for dispensing/emitting like or unlike product units, comprising a number of product units of each product type in separate storage, together with a mechanism for delivery of a selected product to an outlet, such as a drawer or the like, plus a device for registration of the choice of product.
  • a vending machine for example a pay automat, for dispensing/emitting like or unlike product units, comprising a number of product units of each product type in separate storage, together with a mechanism for delivery of a selected product to an outlet, such as a drawer or the like, plus a device for registration of the choice of product.
  • the invention also relates to a novel device for the output of the product units one by one from storage in the dispenser, together with an application of the invention.
  • vending machines A series of designs for vending machines are known. All possible products are sold through such vending machines, both foodstuffs (chocolate) , smoke items, toilet articles, perfumes etc.
  • a vending machine consists of a housing-forming unit ( a floor- or wall- placed box) , and which contains all devices which are necessary in order for the vending machine to function.
  • Housing-forming unit a floor- or wall- placed box
  • a pay unit such as for coin- and/or disc collection and/or credit card reader unit, an electronic connection between the pay unit and the selector unit (which has a number of selector buttons which correspond to the number of goods which the vending machine can sell.
  • the physical design itself can vary considerably .
  • a vending machine for beverages is known from Swedish Patent Specification No. 370,804.
  • the vending machine comprises: a number of containers each of which can hold powder, such as bouillon, coffee, chocolate, lemonade, a storage space for mugs, and a water container with a device for heating the water. Powder is filled into the containers as required, while the water container can be coupled to the available water supply network of the locality.
  • a mug falls down and is first filled with a correct dose of powder, for hot water to be added from the water tank so that the powder is dissolved.
  • This Swedish sales vending machine shows a sales vending machine with a base unit which can hold two product cassettes each having a fair-sized coherent amount of a pulverised product . From an opening in the bottom of the cassette there is portioned out a measured amount of product via the base unit. The cassette, or the braced box-shaped product container, is in itself not sufficient to run the vending machine .
  • vending machines function admirably according to their purpose. There are however a series of drawbacks which, with the present invention, one aims to remedy, so that a vending machine can become more flexible and easily adjusted for dissimilar changing needs for dissimilar goods .
  • the object of the present invention is to provide a new design or construction of sales vending machines, where the change of product in the vending machine is done by means of a few simple manipulations.
  • the aim is to provide a vending machine construction which will be well-suited for vending machine sales of smaller products, such as small samples of perfume stored in small flacons or flasks, disposable shaving items, mouth hygiene products, and which will be well-suited for an optional location, but especially well- suited for communication means like planes, ships, trains, or for travel terminals, airports and the like, and in theatres, cinema layouts, and for hotel rooms.
  • vending machine ought to be able to handle products, of widely different sizes, and can be packaged in boxes of dissimilar shapes and sizes, a case, in a linked form, as a jacket of plastic film/paper, or be vacuum-packed. For example a pack of two cigarettes, or 4-5 toothpicks, can be vacuum-packed. Every vending machine ought to be able to handle products which in packaged form, have sizes varying for example downwards from a conventional vacuum-packed toothpick and upwards to a can of lemonade, and larger than this (that is to say as realised according to the following claims 11 - 16) .
  • the new construction can be considered to comprise 5 vending machine units according to the invention for the sale of 5 dissimilar types of perfume, which can be placed for example centrally on board a plane (for example in the toilets) which passes over longer distances (such as trans-Atlantic) .
  • a coin for example a five kroner, 10 kroner or 20 kroner, in
  • the arrangement according to the invention is distinguished by the features which are evident from the characterising portion of the following claim 1. More specifically the arrangement is distinguished in that it comprises a dispenser holder with a number of spaces for placing and fixing of a corresponding number of replaceable housing-shaped dispensers, and where each dispenser comprises: a product storage-section in which separate product units can be arranged, and a section for presentation of the product type. Preferred constructions are evident from the dependent arrangement claims 1- 9.
  • the device according to the present invention is distinguished by the features which are evident from the characterising portion according to claim 11. Preferred constructions are evident from the dependent device claims. The use is indicated in claim 10.
  • the present invention comprising a combination of a dispenser holder and replaceable dispensers, represents a substantial simplification of the previously known vending machine systems .
  • vending machines can be rearranged on short notice, and very rapidly to offer new products for sale.
  • Figure 1 shows schematically a dispenser holder with 4 dispensers separately installed.
  • Figure 2 shows a perspective view of the dispenser holder of Figure 1, according to the invention.
  • Figure 3 shows a perspective view of one of the four dispensers of Figure 1 according to the invention.
  • Figure 4 shows an example of a display unit having a mirror unit and a light spot.
  • Figure 5 shows according to an embodiment, a perspective view of a storage and output mechanism of the dispenser.
  • Figure 6 shows a side cross-section of the storage and output mechanism of the dispenser according to Figure 5.
  • Figure 7 shows a section of the lower section of the repository device.
  • Figure 8 shows a side view of a rail having electronically controlled downward foldable drawer holders .
  • the dispenser holder 10 is constructed with a standard framework, appearing as an oblong box comprising a rear wall 12, side walls 14,16, and bottom plate 18.
  • Three partition walls 20,22,24 divide the box, into a number of dispenser- carrying spaces 26,28,30,32 in which a corresponding number of housing-formed dispensers can be replaceably located and fixed.
  • the partition walls 20,22,24 start at the bottom 18 of the box and extend forwards to the roof plate's 34 closing cover of the side walls.
  • the dispenser box has no front panel .
  • Top plate 34 of the box extends only partly over the side walls 14,16 and the partition plates.
  • the metrical sizes of the box are marginally greater than the inserts/dispensers which are shown in Figures 1 and 3, so that they can be set in place in a ready manner.
  • the insert/dispenser is shown designed as a closed housing part or small box 42, which preferably can be grasped with one hand.
  • the side walls 44,46 have mutually identical measurements.
  • the roof plate 48 covers the side walls 44,46.
  • the roof is removeable but lockable mounted, for example by means of a hinge in the rear edge, so that the roof plate 48 can be tilted upwards at the front edge.
  • the insert also has a double bottom formed by plates 54,56.
  • the insert has a front 50 and a rear 52 (back) plate having a relatively large mutual spacing.
  • the front back plate 50 terminates against the uppermost bottom plate 54. Further the bottom plate 54 only extends forwards to the regions where it is joined to the plate 50. Thus there is established a free passage between the hollow space (see below) of the bottom plates 54,56 and the hollow space 51 between the two back plates 50,52.
  • a register that is to say one for each dispenser unit, and product storage (not shown further) with well-known mechanical principles for assistance, if desired with the novel selector and forward feeding mechanism indicated in claims 11 - 16.
  • counters on the same units.
  • the bottom plates extend forwards and outside the side walls 44,46 and the roof 48, and comprise preferably a rounded/arcuate front wall 58.
  • the uppermost bottom plate 54 has upstanding parallel rails on the longitudinal sides. Two such parallel rails 62,64 are shown in Figure 2. Most forward and centrally disposed on the front wall there is cut out an opening for a drawer 66. In immediate connection to the drawer for drawing out there is mounted a register for feeding product units to the drawer.
  • the forward feeding register is further connected to a corresponding forward feeding register and product storage in the space 51 between the two back plates of the dispenser.
  • the display ramp can also comprise an arcuate mirror 84 which will provide a mirror image of the product 86, and thereby a more delicate and attractive display of the product.
  • the dispenser comprises according to the invention a separate product storage section in which the separate product units can be arranged, and a separate section for presentation of the type of product.
  • the storage space is especially preferred arranged in the rear section of the dispenser while the section for presentation is in the forward section of the dispenser, as is indicated in the previous paragraph.
  • the dispenser/insert 42 is closed in the front by the installation of a transparent cover 70.
  • the cover 70 has a corresponding rounded off form in its roof portion at 72 as the front wall 58 in the bottom portion.
  • the front of the cover has a corresponding rounding off in its termination lowermost.
  • the front side of the cover is ovally shaped as is clearly evident from the Figures.
  • the height and breadth of the cover 70 are marginally less than the insert/dispenser so that the cover can be easily installed on the front side of the insert/dispenser .
  • the cover has no bottom plate other than rails in the termination of the side walls.
  • the straight side walls of the cover 70 are terminated by 1. back wall in the insert.
  • the displayed product can have a totally different form and dimensions than the product unit present behind. For example a perfume bottle (or a whiskey bottle) can be displayed in full size, while the product unit itself can be a much smaller flacon or bottle .
  • the dispensers can also have a neat and small size, for example so that the operator with a single hand can get hold of a dispenser and set in place in the holder, and carry out a locking function so that the dispenser cannot be unintentionally removed from the holder.
  • the holder can for example be fastened in a simple manner to a wall, without taking much space.
  • the repository which is sketched wholly schematically in the Figures, is adapted and dimensioned to be arranged in space 51 of the dispenser between the two plates 50,52, and connected to the bottom space beneath the bottom plate 54.
  • the repository can for example comprise 15 drawers for depositing product units.
  • one of the drawers is shown in a lowered position on supplying the product unit.
  • the product unit is conveyed by free downward sliding forward to a drawer or a hatchway portion which is accessible to the user either in the bottom of the holder component, or in the dispenser bottom itself.
  • the device comprises a trussed framework 100 having a given plane section. Within the framework there is space for a number of plate-shaped tapered designed drawers 112 a-n which are placed on top of each other with a mutual vertical spacing. In the one end of a drawer 112 two pins 114 project horizontally outwards, in opposite directions. In each of two adjacent corner-frame members 100a, and 100b a vertical longitudinal groove 116 is formed.
  • a drawer 112 (also termed a storage flap) is mounted within the framework so that the two oppositely projecting pins lie within respective grooves 116 which thereby function as a guide groove .
  • the drawer can thus be pushed upwards and downwards through the whole framework with the pins lying in the groove .
  • a holder rail 122,124 is mounted about the middle of each of the two adjacent framework side surfaces 118 and 120 facing towards each other.
  • the holder rail comprises a number of electronically controlled and foldable holder flaps 126 a-n, that is to say 15 flaps are shown here.
  • FIGS 5, 6 and 7 show a repository where the lowermost drawer 112a is released from the flap pair 126a in that the latter is downward folded as a consequence of a selection from the panel of the vending machine.
  • the vertical groove 116 is stopped at 136 so that the drawer is pivoted, illustrated by the arrow P, downwards about a horizontal axis through the two pins 114.
  • the oblique angle of the drawer becomes thereby so large that the product 130 slides down the plate 112a, and further out on an obliquely positioned delivery tray and forwards to the drawer of the vending machine or the selection hatchway where the user can fetch out the product .
  • the dispenser holder functions in combination with the dispensers as a vending machine, constructed on simple, well-known mechanical principles.
  • the dispenser according to the example provides 4 free of choice alternatives, of which 1 choice is possible per time.
  • the coin collector/card reader on the dispenser holder are electronically connected to withdrawable drawers on the dispensers.
  • the holder member for example in the region by the pay register 36,38,40 can itself comprise the sensor buttons for the product selection.
  • An electronic/mechanical register for example as shown in the Figures 5 - 7, will push a new and identical article forward into the drawer.
  • This mechanism connects the drawer with stored- roduct in the double bottom of the dispenser and further to the stored product in the rear hollow space of the dispenser.
  • the dispenser will itself arrange for new products from storage to be delivered until the same storage is emptied.
  • the counter mounted for storage tells all the time about withdrawals/stock on hand.
  • Cast rails lowermost on the side walls of the dispenser fasten the insert against equivalently designed rails on the uppermost bottom plate of the dispenser holder.
  • the locking mechanism on the side wall of the dispenser holder locks and fixes the dispenser against the dispenser holder.
  • Correspondingly mechanisms lock/release the dispenser holder from the wall.
  • the card reader is equipped with functions for registering and storage of data about the card user.
  • the bottom space 57 having the drawer function is installed as "the floor member" of dispenser holder itself, that is to say that the dispenser does not comprise this drawer construction.
  • the vending machine integrates all member functions in one unit.
  • the bottom of the vending machine includes separate spaces, which continue further up into the back space of the vending machine .
  • the most central space is arranged for storage, counting and delivery functions for physical goods.
  • the mechanical is designed according to the water wheel principle.
  • the vending machine will fetch goods from storage in the back plate portion and transport this to the front of the vending machine .
  • the delivery of goods takes place by pulling out drawers in the front .
  • the two outermost spaces are pure coin vending machines .
  • a coin vending machine is intended for necessary currency of the respective country.
  • the other will accept other types of currencies, such as Euro currency.
  • the coin vending machines will possess well-known mechanics .
  • Each space/duct will in addition be equipped with an internal counter.
  • a signal lamp which shows the size of the goods in stock of the storage.
  • a small spot which illuminates displayed goods in the display window of the vending machine.
  • a lock mechanism with the following functions:
  • the cassette is fastened on rails in the bottom of the vending machine and by a clip in the back portion. Thereby the cassette can be readily replaced as required without consequences for the vending machine as such.
  • a mirror can be mounted between the goods and the first back plate of the vending machine.
  • the mechanical functions of the vending machine are separated from its display window by means of internal walls in the bottom and back portions.
  • the replacement of the dispensers is very easy.
  • the operator needs only to "lock up" the lock mechanism on the dispenser holder, whereby each of the dispensers is drawn off the dispenser holder one after the other. Thereafter the operator sets the new dispensers into the holder and resets the lock mechanism. That is the whole operation.
  • the light spots, and the other electrically driven functions of the dispensers for the vending machine are supplied with current either by a battery, or are coupled by installation directly in on the current delivery of the holder.
  • the invention will consequently represent a big advance, and widen the possibilities for the sale of products via vending machines.

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Abstract

La présente invention concerne un dispositif de distributeurs automatiques, par exemple des distributeurs automatiques à paiement, servant à distribuer ou à émettre des produits unitaires similaires ou différents, comprenant un nombre de produits unitaires de chaque type de produit dans un rangement séparé, ainsi qu'un mécanisme de restitution des produits sélectionnés dans un organe de distribution tel qu'un tiroir ou analogue, plus un dispositif pour l'enregistrement du choix du produit. Le dispositif est caractérisé en ce que le distributeur automatique comprend un support de distribution pourvu d'un nombre d'espaces pour placer ou fixer un nombre correspondant de distributeurs échangeables en forme de logement, chaque distributeur comprenant une partie rangement de produit dans laquelle il est possible de disposer les produits unitaires séparés, et une partie pour la présentation du type de produit. L'invention concerne également un dispositif permettant de ranger un certain nombre de produits unitaires dans le stockage, ainsi que l'utilisation des inventions.
EP99925480A 1998-05-29 1999-05-31 Dispositif de distributeur automatique Withdrawn EP1080456A2 (fr)

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NO982492A NO307237B1 (no) 1998-05-29 1998-05-29 Anordning ved automat, samt anvendelse derav
NO982492 1998-05-29
PCT/NO1999/000169 WO1999066458A2 (fr) 1998-05-29 1999-05-31 Dispositif de distributeur automatique

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