EP2942762A1 - Automate de marchandise pour des produits de consommation au détail et procédé de fonctionnement d'un tel automate de marchandise - Google Patents

Automate de marchandise pour des produits de consommation au détail et procédé de fonctionnement d'un tel automate de marchandise Download PDF

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EP2942762A1
EP2942762A1 EP15166301.0A EP15166301A EP2942762A1 EP 2942762 A1 EP2942762 A1 EP 2942762A1 EP 15166301 A EP15166301 A EP 15166301A EP 2942762 A1 EP2942762 A1 EP 2942762A1
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Kai Janssen
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H05—ELECTRIC TECHNIQUES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • H05B—ELECTRIC HEATING; ELECTRIC LIGHT SOURCES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; CIRCUIT ARRANGEMENTS FOR ELECTRIC LIGHT SOURCES, IN GENERAL
    • H05B6/00—Heating by electric, magnetic or electromagnetic fields
    • H05B6/64—Heating using microwaves
    • H05B6/80—Apparatus for specific applications
    • H05B6/808—Microwave heating adapted for vending machines
    • 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
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07F—COIN-FREED OR LIKE APPARATUS
    • G07F17/00—Coin-freed apparatus for hiring articles; Coin-freed facilities or services
    • G07F17/0064—Coin-freed apparatus for hiring articles; Coin-freed facilities or services for processing of food articles
    • G07F17/0078—Food articles which need to be processed for dispensing in a hot or cooked condition, e.g. popcorn, nuts

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  • the invention relates to a vending machine for lumpy food products according to the preamble of claim 1.
  • the invention also relates to a method according to claim 12 for operating such a vending machine.
  • Vending machines for lumpy consumption products with heating devices are known in principle.
  • EP 1 118 968 B1 discloses a vending machine for lumpy hot products, in particular snack sausages, with a magazine, a dispensing path and a heating device for heating microwaved products of consumption.
  • the magazine can be equipped with a supply of consumer products.
  • the known vending machine is enclosed by a cabinet-shaped housing.
  • the cabinet has on its side a control panel and a removal tray for removing the heated food product.
  • the magazine which is formed by a plurality of magazine drums on a magazine plate. Below the magazine plate, a funnel is provided, which catches the selected and discharged from one of the magazine drums product and leads to the heating device.
  • the heating device is provided with a wave resonator, falling arranged portion of the discharge path, which is bounded below by a switchable blocking element.
  • the blocking element holds the consumption product in the heating chamber, in which the heating takes place by means of microwaves.
  • the heating chamber is part of the discharge path and arranged substantially vertically, so that a heated consumption product after the heating process can fall into a chute arranged below the heating device. Via the chute, the consumption product finally reaches the product dispenser designed as a removal tray.
  • the well-known vending machine needs a high altitude to within its cabinet-shaped housing all components, which the food product on his perpendicular path from the top of the magazine arranged to go through the bottom removal tray must accommodate.
  • the heating device and ultimately arranged under the heating chute are aligned with each other in the vertical direction to ensure that the consumption product in the sense of an automated processing of the output of a heated food product always follows the force of gravity and falls.
  • a switchable blocking element is arranged in the discharge path of the known vending machine.
  • the well-known vending machine is designed as a cabinet, which is set up on the floor.
  • the great height of the machine cabinet limits the possibilities for the installation of the known vending machines.
  • an installation of a vending machine as a table-top device or as a hanging machine for placement on a wall is desirable.
  • the object of the present invention is to reduce the size, in particular the height, of a vending machine for consumer products while ensuring automated heating and dispensing of the consumer products.
  • This object is achieved by a vending machine with the features of claim 1.
  • the object is further achieved by a method for operating such a vending machine with the features of claim 12.
  • the heating chamber is arranged in a heating container, which is arranged to be rotatable about a rotatable axis.
  • the heating container in this case has a parallel to the axis of rotation over a portion of its circumference formed on the opening.
  • Through the opening of the heating chamber can be equipped with actuation of the vending machine with a consumption product.
  • the consumed product is heated in the heating chamber in a next step by microwaves.
  • the rotatable heating container is rotated to a rotational angle position, in which the opening is at the top, so that a supplied consumption product can fall into the heating container and be taken up there.
  • the heated food product is finally dispensed through the opening.
  • the heating vessel is pivoted into a rotational angle position in which the hitherto resting food product falls from the heating chamber.
  • the magazine of the vending machine according to the invention is arranged in the working orientation of the vending machine on the heating chamber and at the entrance of the discharge chamber to the heating chamber. Under the work orientation of the vending machine is that position of the vending machine to understand in which the vending machine is set up for operation.
  • the axis of rotation can be arranged in any orientation other than the vertical in the inventive vending machine with a rotatably arranged heating vessel, with Increasing deviation from the vertical, a reduction in the height of the vending machine is achieved.
  • the heating container is arranged with a horizontal axis of rotation. As a result, a very low height of the vending machine is ensured, wherein the rotatability of the heating container allows the automated assembly and forwarding of the consumer product after completion of the heating process.
  • the vending machine is configured in such a way that the rotatable heating container alternatively into a loading position in which the opening of the discharge guide is facing, an operating position in which the opening is facing the magnetron or in an issue position, in which the opening of a product output is facing, is arranged pivotably.
  • the placement position, the operating position and the output position of the heating container are located in different rotational angle positions, wherein in the respective rotational angle positions of the heating container in the respective rotational angular positions with the heating vessel cooperating components of the vending machine are arranged.
  • the magnetron is located laterally of the heating container and does not rotate with the heating container, so that the microwave radiation generated by it can be coupled only in the operating position into the heating chamber within the heating container. In this way, the heating tank can be compactly configured with light weight. In other rotational angular positions of the heating vessel, the wall of the heating vessel hides the connection between the magnetron outside the rotary heating vessel and the heating chamber.
  • the rotatable heating container for placement in a certain
  • the heating container is pivoted into an operating position in which the opening of the heating container is facing the magnetron of the heating device or a coupling means of the magnetron.
  • the microwaves generated by the magnetron are coupled via the coupling agent in the heating vessel.
  • the coupling means is a device which serves to couple the microwave radiation of the magnetron into the heating chamber.
  • the coupling means is for example a hollow line or a coupling loop.
  • the heating vessel is pivoted to an ejection position in which the opening of a product dispenser is facing and the digestion product falls from the heating vessel.
  • the heating container In the loading position, the heating container is facing the discharge guide, so that a product falling out of the magazine falls through the opening into the heating container.
  • the opening In the operating position, the opening is the magnetron or a coupling means of the magnetron facing, whereby on the one hand, the microwaves generated by the magnetron are coupled via the antenna of the magnetron in the heating vessel and on the other hand, the periphery of the magnetron covers the opening in the operating position. In this way, an undesirable leakage of microwaves from the heating chamber is excluded.
  • the edges of the heating container which delimit the opening in the direction of the axis of rotation, carry an electromagnetic seal.
  • the electromagnetic seal is a sealing element which shields electromagnetic radiation by means of appropriate geometry and / or suitable selection of materials.
  • a drive unit is connected to the heating tank, which is acted upon by a control unit of the vending machine and the heating tank in the intended rotational angle position, which is called the placement position, the Operating position or the output position pivoted.
  • the drive unit are advantageous and the respective rotational angle positions for the placement position, the operating position and the output position specified.
  • the drive unit is a stepper motor, so that a precise control of the desired angular position is guaranteed according to the respective operating mode of the vending machine (assembly, heating or output).
  • the rotational angle position of the dispensing position of the heating container is advantageously located in a sector of the circle lying beyond the magazine with respect to the axis of rotation of the heating container. Under the circular sector is understood to be a part of the sum of all angular positions with respect to the axis of rotation.
  • the circular sector in which the issue position is provided lies in the work orientation of the vending machine below a horizontal plane in which the axis of rotation is located.
  • the product output is formed in an advantageous embodiment of the invention as at least partially inclined plane, whereby the heated food product falls down on the vending machine.
  • the product output can be designed as an output tray, which can be removed from the heated consumption product.
  • the inclined plane of the product output ends approximately at the level of a bottom plate of the vending machine, whereby the output product falls in a version as a desktop device on the table top on which rests the vending machine.
  • a further reduction of the structural height of the vending machine is given if the discharge guide between the magazine and the heating device is designed as a chute.
  • Under a slide is to be understood as a slide, namely an inclined plane of a smooth material on which the food product slides with reduced friction following the gravity.
  • the slide can be provided in a development of the invention with lateral guide walls.
  • the chute is directed in its end portion in coincidence with the axis of rotation of the heating container, whereby the chute directs the movement of the product falling out of the magazine in a direction parallel to the axis of rotation.
  • the forced orientation of the product parallel to the axis of rotation of the heating vessel ensures that the product will fall by gravity into the heating vessel through the opening.
  • each slide is advantageously a magazine, such as a magazine drum, assigned, so that the number in the vending machine for the heating held ready products is increased.
  • the heating container is configured as a microwave resonator.
  • the microwave resonator is a cavity whose walls are made of a very good conductive material.
  • the dimension of the microwave resonator is tuned with the wavelength of the microwave radiation of the magnetron, whereby a uniform heating of the food product is achieved by the coupled microwaves.
  • Fig. 1 shows a perspective view of a trained as a table-top vending machine 1 for lumpy food products 2, namely snack sausages for a snack, which are heated by the vending machine 1 before issuing.
  • Fig. 2 shows a sectional side view and Fig. 3 a plan view of this vending machine 1.
  • the vending machine 1 has 2 drum-shaped magazines 3, which are each arranged rotatably about an axis 4 and are provided at its periphery with magazine compartments 5.
  • a product 2 is arranged in each case, namely a sausage product received in a packaging bag.
  • the automatic vending machine 1 is actuated, or if a coin switching device is actuated in the case of a device designed as a vending machine, then one of the two magazines 3 is moved in accordance with the user's request, so that a selected consumable product 2 is conveyed through a dispensing opening 6 (FIG. Fig. 2 ) falls.
  • the magazines 3 are in the direction of arrow 7 ( Fig. 3 ) rotatably movable.
  • the magazine 3 are equipped with the same consumption products 2, wherein in the case of operation of the vending machine 1, a drive unit, not shown, one of the magazines by a fan width corresponding angular step further rotates, whereby each one already emptied magazine compartment 8 subsequent magazine compartment in Cover with the discharge port 6 is brought.
  • the automatic vending machine 1 comprises a heating device 9 for heating consumer products 2 by means of microwaves, which comprises a heating chamber 10 and a magnetron 11 (FIG. 2) associated with the heating chamber 10. Fig. 4-6 ).
  • the magazine 3 is arranged in the illustrated work orientation of the vending machine 1 on the heating chamber 10 and at the entrance of a discharging guide 12 falling to the heating chamber.
  • the dispensing guide 12 adjoins the dispensing opening 6 in the region of the magazine 3 and is designed as a chute 13, on which the food products 2 falling from the magazine slide in the direction of arrow 14 to the heating chamber 10.
  • Each magazine 3 is assigned a slide 13.
  • the heating chamber 10 is rotatably disposed about a rotation axis 15 Heating tank 16 is arranged.
  • the heating chamber 10 is the interior of the heating container 16.
  • the heating container 16 is cylindrical and has an opening 17 formed parallel to the axis of rotation 15 in its jacket over a portion of the shell periphery. Through the opening 17 there is an exposed access to the heating chamber 10 in the interior of the heating tank 16. In the embodiment shown, the opening 17 extends over the entire length of the cylindrical heating tank 16 between the end faces 18th
  • the heating chamber 10 can be equipped with food products 2 to be heated. After the heating process, the prepared eating products 2 are discharged from the heating chamber 10.
  • rotation of the heating container 16 while the opening 17 is required in a mounting position, a working position in which the heating device 9 operates, and a dispensing position pivoted.
  • the placement position, the operating position and the output position are provided in different rotational angle positions of the heating tank 16. The placement position, the operating position and the issue position are later based on the FIGS. 4 to 7 explained in more detail.
  • the magnetron 11 is arranged in a compact design, approximately centrally with respect to the heating container 16, wherein an unillustrated antenna of the magnetron 11 radiates the microwaves generated by the magnetron.
  • the microwaves of the magnetron 11 located outside the heating container 16 are coupled into the heating chamber 10 by means of a coupling means, for example a hollow conduit.
  • the heating tank 16 is designed as a microwave resonator.
  • the walls of the heating tank 16 consist of a highly conductive material.
  • the dimension of the microwave resonator is tuned with the wavelength of the microwave radiation.
  • a transformer 19 ( Fig. 5 ) is arranged in a compact design in the region of an end face 18 of the heating container 16 and ensures the electrical supply of the heating device, in particular of the magnetron 11th
  • the heating tank 16 is rotatably arranged with a horizontal axis of rotation 15.
  • the trained as a slide 13 discharge guide 12 is formed in each case curved inward and is directed in its end portion 20 in coverage of the axis of rotation 15 of the heating vessel 16.
  • the chute 13 therefore has a substantially vertical section in the region of the dispensing opening 6, so that the consumer products 2 leaving the magazine 3 initially fall and from the inward direction curved central portion 21 of the chute 13 are forced in the direction of arrow 14 to the heating tank 16.
  • the two chutes 13 are arranged symmetrically, so that their respective end portions 20 are opposite.
  • the heating container 16 To load the heating container 16, the heating container is rotated to a loading position in which the opening 17 faces upward, whereby a consumption product 2, which slides over the chute 13 to the heating container 16, through the opening 17 in the heating chamber 10 falls.
  • Fig. 1 is the heating tank 13 in the loading position in which the opening 17 facing upward and is aligned with the chutes 13.
  • Fig. 4 shows a section of the heating device 9 with a heating tank 16 in the loading position I. After the assembly with the selected consumption product 2 from the magazine 3, the heating tank 16 is in the in 6 and 7 shown operating position II pivoted. In the operating position II, the opening 17 of the heating container 16 is facing the magnetron or the location of the coupling of the microwave radiation of the magnetron.
  • the magnetron 11 or an access of the coupling means of the magnetron 11 to the heating tank 16 is arranged laterally of the heating tank 16.
  • the magnetron 11 is therefore outside of the heating tank 16 and is fixed relative to the rotatable heating tank 16.
  • the opening of the heating container faces the access of the coupling means.
  • the operating position is about 90 ° relative to the mounting position I ( Fig. 4 ) is offset.
  • the heating device 9 is designed such that in the operating position 2, the opening 17 of the heating tank 16 is covered.
  • the edges 22 of the heating container 16, which delimit the opening 17 carry an electromagnetic seal or a sealing element which electromagnetically shields the heating chamber 10.
  • the heating vessel 16 After completion of the heating operation and switching off the magnetron 11, the heating vessel 16 is placed in the in Fig. 5 illustrated issue position III pivoted. In the dispensing position, the opening 17 of the heating container 16 is facing a product outlet 23.
  • the output position III is in an angular position on the outside of the heating device, that is, on the magnetron 11 opposite side of the heating vessel 16. In other words, the operating position II and the output position III in the circular sector of the movement of the Heating container 16 about the rotation axis 15 on opposite sides of the loading position I.
  • the output position III is set in a sector below the horizontal plane, with respect to the rotation axis 15 , In the dispensing position III, therefore, the opening 17 is directed downwards, so that a heated food product 2 following the gravity falls from the heating tank 16.
  • the product output 23 is formed in the illustrated embodiment as an inclined plane on the front 24 of the vending machine 1.
  • the front 24 of the vending machine 1 is opened in the region of the product output 23.
  • the opening of the front is designed in such a way that an operator can grasp the product dispenser 23 and remove the consumer product 2.
  • the edge 22 of the opening 17 of the heating container is aligned with the inclined plane of the product dispenser 23, whereby the heated consumer product is dispensed from the vending machine 1 via the product dispenser 23.
  • the rotatable heating container is alternatively in the loading position 1, in which the opening 17 of the chute 13 is facing, the operating position II in which the opening 17 is the magnetron 11 or its coupling means is facing, or the dispensing position III pivoted , in which the opening 17 of the product output 23 is facing.
  • an electric drive unit 25 (FIG. Fig. 4-6 ) connected.
  • the mounting chassis 26 for an electric drive motor and a gear 27 is shown, via which the drive unit 25 acts on the heating tank 16.
  • the drive unit 25 comprises an electric stepping motor, not shown, whose control unit the intended rotational angle positions for the placement position I the operating position II and the output position III are given.
  • the stepper motor always ensures the precise approach of the intended rotation angle positions.

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