EP1119830A1 - Cigarette vending machine - Google Patents
Cigarette vending machineInfo
- Publication number
- EP1119830A1 EP1119830A1 EP99946183A EP99946183A EP1119830A1 EP 1119830 A1 EP1119830 A1 EP 1119830A1 EP 99946183 A EP99946183 A EP 99946183A EP 99946183 A EP99946183 A EP 99946183A EP 1119830 A1 EP1119830 A1 EP 1119830A1
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- EP
- European Patent Office
- Prior art keywords
- cigarette
- machine according
- shaft
- vending machine
- housing
- 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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Classifications
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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
- G07F11/60—Coin-freed apparatus for dispensing, or the like, discrete articles from movable storage containers or supports the storage containers or supports being rectilinearly movable
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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
- G07F11/38—Coin-freed apparatus for dispensing, or the like, discrete articles from non-movable magazines in which the magazines are horizontal
- 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
Definitions
- the invention relates to a cigarette vending machine, in particular for installation in the checkout area of a point of sale, with a housing, with a plurality of shafts arranged in the housing for receiving a packing column consisting of cigarette packs lying against one another in a vertical arrangement and with a packing column located on the front of the shafts Dispensing opening for individual cigarette packs.
- the object of the invention is therefore to develop a cigarette machine for installation in the checkout area of a sales outlet, which reduces the risk of theft of the cigarettes, but the incentive to buy is to be retained by direct visual contact of the customer with the offered cigarettes.
- each shaft is therefore assigned an optionally controllable drive mechanism which has a pressure piece acting against the rear cigarette pack of the packing column in the direction of the front, and in the front area of each shaft there is a clamping mechanism for cigarette packs which is open to form the dispensing opening arranged.
- the cigarette vending machine according to the invention is accordingly designed such that the broad sides of the individual cigarette packs are in the customer's field of vision and thus offer an incentive to buy, but cannot be removed directly from the shafts, but are ejected by means of the drive mechanisms and from there reach the conveyor , from where they are brought to the cash register with other goods.
- the shafts located in a common plane form a shaft days which is arranged in the housing in a manner that can be moved in a drawer-like manner in order to be equipped with the cigarette packs.
- a conveyor device is preferably in the lower front area of the housing
- the housing has a cover element on its front side, preferably a glass or plexiglass pane. This additionally ensures that the cigarette packs cannot be removed directly from the shafts.
- the cover element is preferably mounted on the housing so that it can be swiveled or folded when the shaft days are released.
- the drive mechanism of each shaft has a preferably electric drive motor and transmission means for transmitting a driving force to a spindle arranged below the shafts, wherein the transmission means can be designed as a belt, chain or gear transmission.
- the gear means are preferably designed as a reduction gear.
- the shaft days expediently have a floor, preferably made of sheet metal, in which the longitudinal Direction of each shaft extending, slot-like guide openings are provided for a driving piece of the pressure piece, which cooperates with an external thread of the spindle and has an internal thread.
- the guide openings are advantageously designed to be open at the edge at least at one end, preferably in the rear region of the shafts.
- the guide openings each have a closed edge and that the pressure piece consists of two parts which are assembled through the opening during assembly.
- the pressure piece should be guided with play in the guide opening.
- the drive element of the pressure element does not enclose the spindle by more than 180 °, so that the pressure element can be lifted off the spindle.
- the pressure piece can be quickly pushed back to its rear starting position by hand when it reaches its foremost position, ie when all the cigarette packs have been ejected from the shaft, without the need for a cumbersome retraction by means of the drive mechanism.
- Automat in the front loading Richly arranged the shafts a clamping mechanism that has a braking effect on at least part of the packing column.
- the clamping mechanism preferably has at least one clamping spring arranged at the front end of each shaft and acting on the narrow side surface of at least the foremost cigarette pack.
- An attractive presentation and a further improved hold of the packs is achieved in that two clamping springs acting symmetrically on the cigarette pack are provided on each shaft.
- the at least one clamping spring is designed as a leaf spring extending in the longitudinal direction of the shaft, the free end of the leaf spring pointing in the direction of the shaft front.
- the packs are additionally guided in that the spring acts not only on the foremost pack, but also, to a lesser extent, on the second and / or third foremost pack.
- the clamping spring is designed as an essentially V-shaped bent sheet metal part, which with its
- Tip is inserted into a slot of a shaft divider dividing the shafts in the longitudinal direction.
- One leg of the spring then acts on a narrow side of the packs in one shaft, while the other leg acts on the packs in the adjacent shaft.
- each manhole day has two catch hooks protruding from the front and arranged on the edge for hooking one in flush with the manhole front when the manhole is filled.
- the filler rod is therefore hooked into the catch hooks located on the left and right outside of the shaft days and the cigarette packs are arranged in the corresponding shafts, the front broadest pack resting against the filler rod with its front broad side. Then the filler rod is removed and the filled shaft days are pushed back into the housing.
- the fill stick can be stored in a suitable location in the housing when not in use.
- the lower edge of the faceplate in the area of the sloping surface should be at a distance from the upper edge of the cigarette pack that exceeds the height Have the cover of the shaft underneath.
- the front edge of each screen expediently has the thickness of the cigarette packs exceeding distance from the cover element, so that there is also a sufficient gap width for the downward falling cigarette packs.
- the conveyor device can be designed as a conveyor belt or have a plurality of conveyor belts arranged parallel to one another, the latter variant having proven to be particularly advantageous.
- the cigarette packs are arranged upright in the shafts and are also ejected in this position.
- studies have shown that the transport of the cigarette packs into the outside area of the machine is particularly reliable when the cigarette packs are in a position on their broad side.
- a slide for the cigarette packs can be arranged in the area of the conveyor device, which tilts the cigarette packs that hit it from a standing position into a lying position for further transport.
- a light barrier for detecting the cigarette packs transported to the outside can be arranged in the area on the output side of the conveying device, while according to an advantageous development of the invention a further light barrier, which is arranged above the conveying device and detects the width of the shaft days, a shutdown signal for the drive mechanism of a Chute generated after ejecting a packet of cigarettes.
- the light barrier arranged in the output-side area of the conveyor device can be used for error monitoring. Chung be determined whether an ejected cigarette pack is actually conveyed to the outside, while the light barrier arranged above the conveyor serves to control the drive mechanisms after ejecting a cigarette pack.
- the conveyor device can have a switch device for transporting a pack of cigarettes to different destinations, in particular to two different checkouts. This makes it possible to operate two cash registers with a single machine.
- an insertion opening for returning incorrectly selected cigarette packs is preferably arranged on the front of the housing, behind which a collection container which can be removed from the housing is expediently arranged for receiving the returned cigarette packs. This not only simplifies logistics, but also prevents theft.
- a keyboard is expediently used for the selection and control of the drive mechanisms. This can be arranged on the front of the housing or the cover element. In order to make the selection of a cigarette packet as easy as possible, the keyboard should have as many keys as there are slots in the machine. Accordingly, the individual buttons are the
- Keyboard preferably according to the individual chess ten arranged in rows and columns like a matrix and the position of each key on the keyboard is assigned to a corresponding position in the slot.
- the keyboard can be designed as a number keyboard, with each slot being assigned a position number and the desired cigarette pack being selected by entering the position number of the corresponding slot.
- a display device indicating the respectively selected shaft or the selected shaft number should be arranged in the area of the keyboard or the front of the housing and the keyboard should have an acknowledgment key which controls the drive mechanism of the shaft in question and causes the selected cigarette pack to be ejected.
- a remote control switch which is arranged at a distance from the machine, preferably in the cash register area, can be provided for blocking or enabling use of the machine.
- a further safety measure results from an acoustic display triggered when the machine is actuated, which signals to the operating personnel that a cigarette packet has been ejected.
- a counting device that registers the sales can be provided in the machine.
- FIG. 1 shows a section through an embodiment of a cigarette vending machine according to the invention with five shaft days.
- FIG. 2 shows the automatic cigarette machine according to FIG. 1 with the cover element open and one shaft in the loading position;
- Fig. 3 is a front view of the cigarette machine according to
- Fig. 4 is a front view of the cigarette machine according to
- FIG. 5 shows a plan view of an area of a shaft level of the automatic cigarette machine in the loading position
- 6a and b show a detailed view of the pressure piece of the drive mechanism of the automatic cigarette machine
- the cigarette vending machine shown in the drawing designated overall by 10, essentially consists of a housing 12 in which a plurality of shaft days 14 with individual shafts 16 are arranged. In the exemplary embodiment shown, the machine 10 has five shaft days 14 with twelve shafts 16 each, for a total of sixty shafts. With a holding capacity of twenty cigarette packs 18 standing upright one behind the other, this results in a total capacity of 1200 packs.
- the front of the housing 12 has a cover element 20 designed as a glass or plexiglass pane, which is pivotably mounted on the housing 12 and is shown in FIG. 1 in the closed position and in FIG. 2 in the open position.
- a safety switch not shown, ensures that the machine 10 cannot be actuated.
- the opening of the cover element 20 is supported by one or two pressure cylinders 22 articulated laterally on the housing 12.
- the shaft days 14 each have an aperture 24 on their front side, which has a bevel formed as a slide to the front of the housing 12, so that lifted cigarette packs 18 can slide down over the bevel.
- the front edge of the bezel projects above the foremost cigarette packet 18 located in the shaft 16 below it, see above that an ejected cigarette packet is guided past the cigarette packs underneath without bumping into it.
- the shaft days 14 have a base made of sheet metal with insertion openings for insertion tabs 26 (FIG. 8b) of shaft dividers 28, which extend in the longitudinal direction of the shaft days 14 and separate the individual shafts 16 from one another.
- the shaft dividers 28 are arranged at the same lateral spacing from one another, so that the individual shafts 16 each have the same width and cigarette packs with a width which differs from the most frequently occurring packaging variant can be arranged in any shaft.
- each chute has a clamping mechanism which is formed by clamping springs which act laterally on the packs and are designed as leaf springs 30.
- the leaf springs 30 are designed as V-shaped sheet metal bent parts made of a resilient material, for example spring steel, which are inserted with their tips 32 into corresponding slots 34 in the shaft dividers 28 (FIGS. 8a and b). The free ends of the leaf springs 30 extend into the area of the shaft front sides and laterally limit the discharge openings.
- each shaft 16 has an electric drive motor 36 which is arranged in the rear region of the shaft and which by means of a Belt drive trained reduction gear 38 drives a spindle 40 arranged below the shaft and extending in the longitudinal direction of the shaft.
- the spindle 40 which has an external thread, in turn drives a pressure piece 42 which acts on the packing column from behind.
- This consists of an above the shaft bottom, essentially L-shaped pushing part in profile, and a drive element 46, which is guided in a guide opening 44 in the shaft bottom and arranged below the shaft bottom and which has an internal thread cooperating with the external thread of the spindle 40
- the drive mechanisms are actuated on the operator side when a cigarette pack is selected by means of a device arranged on the front of the housing 12. neten keyboard, which will be described in more detail below.
- the drive mechanisms are switched off after a cigarette packet 18 is ejected by a control signal which is generated by a light barrier 52 arranged above the conveyor device 50 arranged in the lower front area of the housing and covering the entire width of the shaft days 14 when the falling cigarette packet 18 interrupts it.
- the drive speed of the drive device is designed such that the falling cigarette pack 18 passes through the light barrier 52 and thus triggers the stop signal for the corresponding drive mechanism before a second pack is ejected from the same shaft.
- the conveyor device 50 arranged in the lower front area of the housing 12 has two rollers or rollers 54 mounted on the left and right in the housing 12, at least one of which is driven.
- the chute days 14 can be pulled out of the housing 12 like a drawer, as shown in FIG. 2.
- a further simplification when filling the machine is achieved by a filling rod 58, which is arranged in two on the left and right on the shaft days 14
- Catch hook 60 can be hooked in and flush with the front term output openings of the shafts 16 closes (Fig. 5). When the filler rod 58 is not in use, it can be stored at a suitable location in the housing 12.
- a keyboard 62 for controlling the drive mechanism of a respectively defined shaft 16 is arranged on the front of the housing 12.
- the selection made by the operator is additionally displayed graphically on a display device 64 arranged in the area of the keyboard 62.
- a slide is arranged in the lower front area of the housing 12 above the conveyor, which directs the upright falling cigarette packs 18 onto the conveyor belt 22 and thereby tilts from the upright position into a lying position for transport into the outer region of the housing 12 .
- this In the exit area of the conveyor from the housing 12, this has an opening in its side wall.
- a return opening 66 for erroneously selected cigarette packs is provided in the front of the housing 12, behind which is arranged a collecting container, not shown, which can be removed from the housing by the operating personnel at regular intervals for emptying.
- the invention relates to a cigarette vending machine, in particular for installation in the checkout area of a sales outlet, with a housing 12, with a plurality of shafts 16 arranged in the housing 12 for receiving a packing column consisting of cigarette packs 18 lying against one another in a standing arrangement, and with a The front opening on the chutes 16 for individual cigarette packs 18.
- the dispensing of a cigarette pack should be simple in an appealing presentation of the packs for the customer, on the other hand the removal should not take place directly from the storage chutes 16.
- each shaft 16 is therefore assigned an optionally controllable drive mechanism 36, 38, 40, which has a pressure piece 42 acting against the rear cigarette pack of the packing column in the direction of the front, and in the front area of each shaft 16 there is an under formation the dispensing opening is arranged an open clamping mechanism 30 for cigarette packs.
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