EP3113123A1 - Dispositif de distribution pour un automate de marchandises - Google Patents

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EP3113123A1
EP3113123A1 EP16174575.7A EP16174575A EP3113123A1 EP 3113123 A1 EP3113123 A1 EP 3113123A1 EP 16174575 A EP16174575 A EP 16174575A EP 3113123 A1 EP3113123 A1 EP 3113123A1
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Fabian Bergner
Max Reimann
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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
    • G07F11/10—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 two or more magazines having a common delivery chute
    • 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
    • G07F11/16—Delivery means
    • G07F11/24—Rotary or oscillatory members
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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
    • G07F13/06—Coin-freed apparatus for controlling dispensing or fluids, semiliquids or granular material from reservoirs with selective dispensing of different fluids or materials or mixtures thereof
    • G07F13/065—Coin-freed apparatus for controlling dispensing or fluids, semiliquids or granular material from reservoirs with selective dispensing of different fluids or materials or mixtures thereof for drink preparation
    • G—PHYSICS
    • 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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  • the present invention relates to an output device for a vending machine, in particular for a vending machine, as well as a vending machine with such an output device.
  • the present invention is in the environment of vending machines, in particular designed as a vending machine vending machines.
  • a vending machine is an apparatus which usually issues goods against payment (vending machine). As a rule, this is a self-service machine.
  • a special form of self-service machine is a drinks machine, which is usually designed for the sale of cold or hot drinks, but also for other liquid food.
  • Vending machines deliver a requested beverage to an output device in open form, in a cup, as bottles, cans or the like.
  • Other vending machines dispensing only one drink on an output device upon selection and the user has to make sure that a suitable cup in which the drink is to be dispensed is ready.
  • a user can select a special hot beverage.
  • the hot drink machine After selecting the product, first pour a cup into a cup holder into which the corresponding hot beverage is then filled.
  • the cup holder is located on an externally accessible output device.
  • the cup is hidden in the machine filled.
  • means are provided in an output device of the machine to transport the filled cup to a user accessible output port.
  • the European patent application EP 2 369 559 A1 shows such a hot beverage machine.
  • the cup dispensing device of this hot beverage dispenser is configured to fill a cup with a variety of product components by means of a rotatable cup holder and then to transport the filled cup by rotation of the cup holder to a user accessible location and present it to the user , During the filling of a cup, a dispensing opening is covered by a rear panel of the cup holder. This rotates visibly with each movement of the cup holder from the outside.
  • the cup holder will continue to turn several times to stop several stations to fill with different ingredients (eg sugar, milk, coffee) and stop again or if necessary, turn in different directions.
  • This movement pattern which is not transparent from the outside, could misunderstand a user who uses the drinks dispenser for the first time.
  • a motor-driven trap door is provided, which does not move during the preparation of a drink and, if necessary, only for the final dispensing of the drink opens.
  • a powered drop door can improve the user experience, but requires its own drive to operate the trap door independently of a rotatable cup holder can.
  • Such a drive in turn needs its own connections and a controller.
  • Such an additional drive also requires additional space. Overall, this increases the number of parts required, which in turn means that the complexity, the production costs and ultimately the production costs of the drinks vending machine are increased.
  • the present invention seeks to provide an improved dispensing device for a vending machine, in particular for a vending machine.
  • the idea on which the present invention is based is to provide a shutter which is separate from an output carousel, wherein the output carousel and the shutter can be moved with a common drive, at least temporarily, separately from one another.
  • the shutter is advantageously moved only when an output is to be made through the discharge opening.
  • the common drive drives only the output carousel, while the shutter is not driven and / or blocked.
  • an improved user experience is thus provided without the need for an additional drive is. This reduces the number of parts required, the complexity, the manufacturing cost and ultimately the manufacturing cost of the dispenser.
  • the common drive in operation constantly drives a rotation of the output carousel and only occasionally drives an adjustment of the shutter with.
  • the output carousel can be temporarily driven separately or independently of the shutter by means of the common drive and, at times, the shutter is also driven.
  • the movement of the shutter may be different from the movement of the output carousel as needed.
  • the movement sequence of the shutter can be synchronized at least in sections with the movement sequence of the output carousel, for example by simultaneously moving or adjusting the shutter and the output carousel to output a product to a suitable open position.
  • a common transmission element which transmits rotational movements of the drive to a drive axle of the output carousel and engages, at least temporarily, in a guide provided on the shutter, in order to adjust the shutter.
  • the translation element is preferably permanently kinematically coupled to the drive and to the output carousel.
  • the translation element is either fixed to the drive or over a predetermined Translation coupled with the drive.
  • a predetermined translation for example, a direct translation of 1 to 1, provided between the transmission element and the drive axle of the output carousel.
  • the guide can also have sections in which, depending on the position of the transmission element temporarily no force is transmitted. In the case of a rotating translation element, these may be sections tangential to the rotational movements.
  • the shutter is only temporarily, ie at a power transmission of the transmission element on the leadership of the shutter, adjusted.
  • a closure of the shutter which is separate from the rotation of the dispensing carousel is thus particularly advantageously realized, wherein the movement of the shutter can be largely influenced by the way in which the guide is formed.
  • the guide may describe a path which, in combination with the trajectory of the translation element, results in movement when adjusting the shutter at a constant speed.
  • the web may have one or more bends.
  • the guide is straight in the simplest case.
  • the guide is preferably open at one end. Furthermore, the guide is preferably designed such that a rotating transmission element can engage in the guide at the open end of the guide. Initially, no movement component is present, which transmits force or adjusts the shutter. Upon further rotation of the translation element then acts a first slowly increasing motion component of the transmission element force transmitting. In the middle of the movement process of the adjustment, this component of motion is maximum. When crossing the middle of the component of motion is then reduced again and goes back to zero at a maximum displacement angle. Such a movement is particularly true in a straight guide.
  • a corresponding velocity profile of the sequence of movements when adjusting the shutter in one direction may, for example, have the form of a half sine period.
  • the shutter has an axis of rotation about which it rotates to move between the open and closed positions.
  • the shutter can be so installed together with the output carousel in a common rotation mechanism, in particular the axis of rotation of the shutter and the drive axis of the output carousel geometrically coincide or can lie on a common straight line, but are separately rotatable.
  • the output device can be realized with minimal space.
  • the transmission element has a running cam.
  • the shutter has a correspondingly shaped running surface.
  • the translation element in this case has a blocking position, in which the running cam engages in the closed position of the shutter in the tread and thus blocks the shutter.
  • the running cam can continue to rotate.
  • the running cam slides only on the running surface, which likewise describes a shape of a circle segment, but blocks the shutter due to the positive connection with the running surface.
  • the translation element simultaneously serves as a blocking element for blocking the shutter in the closed position.
  • no additional blocking agent is necessary. Instead, a functional integration is created, which reduces the number of components required.
  • the transmission element has a pin which engages in the guide of the shutter when the transmission element is rotated about a transmission axis in the closed position of the shutter when the running cam and the running surface are disengaged.
  • the pin can be arranged such that it engages in the guide as soon as the barrel cam and the tread disengage.
  • the running cam thus leaves the running surface only in a position of the closure panel and of the transmission element, in which the pin engages or can engage in the guide, so that there is always contact between the closure panel and the transmission element and there is no undefined condition.
  • the pin leaves the guide only in a position of the shutter and the translation element, in which the running cam engages or can engage in the tread.
  • the translation axis of the transmission element is different from the drive axis of the output carousel and the axis of rotation of the shutter, in particular offset thereto.
  • the pin may have any form suitable for engaging in a guide shape, for example, in cross-section round, oval, diamond-shaped or similar. Further, the pin may be tapered conically or frusto-conically upwards or alternatively at an upper end of the pin, which is opposite to the translation element, have a widening to secure the leadership of the pin in the guide.
  • the translation element rotates in an angular range in which the pin engages in no guidance of the shutter.
  • the translation element of the barrel cam engages in the running surface of the shutter, so that the shutter is blocked at the same time.
  • the pin engages in the guide and the tread is released from the running cam.
  • the shutter has a control section and a screen wall. At the control section while the guide and the tread are provided.
  • the diaphragm wall is fixedly coupled to the control section.
  • the control section and the diaphragm wall are made with a one-piece plastic part in this case, a bridging section is provided between the control section and the diaphragm wall.
  • the shutter may be formed, for example, as an injection-molded or 3-D printed plastic part.
  • the shutter with multiple functional sections is thus realized in one piece, creating a functional integration and thus the number of parts is reduced.
  • the screen wall blocks in the closed Position of the shutter access from the outside through the discharge opening. In the open position, the screen has moved behind the front panel and so not visible from the outside.
  • the diaphragm wall extends tangentially to the axis of rotation.
  • the tangential course over an angular section is continuous, so that the diaphragm wall runs like a circle around the axis of rotation.
  • the curvature of the diaphragm wall extends like a circle segment around the axis of rotation of the shutter.
  • the diaphragm wall is thus curved, as a segment of a (circular) cylinder jacket surface formed.
  • the shutter has two guides, wherein the running surface is arranged between the two guides.
  • the shutter is thereby advantageously adjustable in two different open positions.
  • the translation element engages for adjusting the shutter from the closed position to a first open position in a first guide.
  • To adjust the shutter from the closed position to a second open position engages the translation element in a second guide.
  • the output device can advantageously be operated flexibly, in particular because positions or interpretations of the shutter in both directions are possible.
  • different types of goods can be issued.
  • the output carousel and the shutter can then each be adjusted or rotated in a first direction.
  • the output carousel and the shutter can then each be adjusted or rotated in a second direction.
  • the first and second directions are the shutter and the output carousel each own. That is, the first direction of the output carousel may, but need not correspond to the first direction of the shutter, and vice versa.
  • the open position of the shutter and a position of the output carousel to which the respective cup can be removed through the discharge opening are assumed.
  • the tread has a contour which describes a circle segment cutting the control section.
  • the barrel cam may also have a circular segment-like shape or at least have a circular segment portion which runs in the blocking position or in positions in which the shutter is blocked, positively in the tread.
  • a positive connection between the running cam and the running surface can thus be generated, wherein nevertheless the running cam can be rotated within the running surface. In this way, the shutter is blocked, the translation element and thus the output carousel is still free to move.
  • control section has a shape which, apart from the guide and the tread, covers a circular sector with respect to the axis of rotation.
  • the circular sector preferably has an opening angle which is approximately equal to the opening angle of the diaphragm wall.
  • a particularly compact design of the shutter is provided as the control section and a bridging section connecting the control section with the screen wall overlap.
  • an opening angle enclosed by the two guides is approximately equal to an opening angle covered by the screen wall.
  • a particularly compact design of the shutter is provided, since exactly such an opening angle is described by the shutter, which is necessary for closing the discharge opening and for adjusting the shutter in the two open positions.
  • An approximately identical opening angle is to be understood as meaning opening angles which are the same or differ slightly in their size, for example in a range from 0 to 20 °, in particular 0 to 10 °, preferably 0 to 5 °.
  • the opening angle of the two guides or the opening angle of the circular sector is particularly preferably congruent with the opening angle of the diaphragm wall. That the respective opening angle coincides without deviation with the opening angle of the diaphragm wall.
  • the arrangement is thus made particularly compact, so that the necessary space is advantageously minimized.
  • it also improves the mechanical stability, since a continuous transition between the control section, a bridging section from the control section to the diaphragm wall and the diaphragm wall itself is provided.
  • radially extending ribs may additionally be provided at the bridging section.
  • a control device which controls the drive such that starting is predetermined by the blocking position a maximum displacement of the transmission element.
  • This maximum displacement angle of the transmission element is dimensioned so that the shutter occupies the open position at the maximum displacement angle of the transmission element.
  • the translation element is in engagement with the guide of the shutter.
  • the transmission element In the blocking position, the transmission element is previously in particular still out of engagement with the guide.
  • the translation element engages the guide and begins to adjust the shutter as the rotation progresses. The adjustment of the shutter reaches when reaching the maximum displacement angle of the transmission element also a maximum, in particular a maximum deflection, in which the open position of the shutter is taken.
  • the control device can be realized in many ways, for example, electromechanically as a control disk with control grooves, which switch according to predetermined positions of the transmission element, the contacting for different modes of the drive accordingly.
  • the control device can also be realized electronically, for example by means of a control device in conjunction with corresponding sensors for detecting the individual positions or in conjunction with a pedometer for recording the change in positions, the individual control states depending on the sensor values or the number of steps can be programmed into a control software.
  • the dispensing carousel is adapted to receive and dispense cups.
  • a cup magazine and a filling device are provided in the region of the output carousel.
  • a mug magazine is used to stock cups and the output of individual cups in the output carousel.
  • a filling device is used to fill a cup located in the output carousel.
  • the output carousel may approach a predetermined cup dispensing position for receiving a cup from the cup magazine. Furthermore, it can approach a predetermined filling position for filling a cup. Both the approach of the different positions of the output carousel as well as the output of a cup in the output carousel and the filling of the cup take place with closed shutter.
  • the translation element is designed to adjust the shutter from the closed position to the open position upon rotation of the output carousel to a position in which a cup is to be dispensed from the vending machine.
  • the rotation of the output carousel and the adjustment of the shutter occur, in particular temporarily, simultaneously.
  • an adjustment of the shutter takes place only in a last section of the rotational movements of the output carousel.
  • the translation element engages only in a final portion of the rotational movements of the carousel before reaching a position in which a cup should be issued from the vending machine (issue position), in the leadership of the shutter.
  • the last section of the rotational movements can begin, for example, upon reaching a setting angle of the output carousel of 30 ° to 90 °, in particular 45 ° to 75 °, preferably 55 ° to 65 °, particularly preferably 60 °, before reaching the dispensing position.
  • the output carousel preferably has two different cup holders for holding cups in two different sizes.
  • the first guide is designed or configured such that upon engagement of the translation element in the first guide, a first open position of the shutter is receivable, at the same time the output carousel occupies a first dispensing position, in which the cup holder of a first size from the outside through the Output opening is accessible.
  • the second guide is designed such that upon engagement of the translation element in the second guide, a second open position of the shutter is receivable, at the same time the output carousel occupies a second dispensing position in which the cup holder of a second size is accessible from the outside through the dispensing opening ,
  • the transmission element is designed such that it is in positions of the output carousel, in which a cup is taken from the cup magazine or in which a cup is filled at the filling device in the blocking position.
  • a running cam which runs in a running surface of the shutter.
  • the running cam is, for example, in an angular range in which the translation element for moving the said positions of the cup dispensing or filling, is moved around, in particular circular segment-like, formed.
  • the tread has a corresponding negative mold, in particular in the form of a circular segment-like indentation, within which the running cam runs or engages when approaching these positions of the output carousel and thus blocks the shutter.
  • Fig. 1 shows a schematic plan view of an output device 1 in a closed position of the shutter 5.
  • the output device 1 has a front panel 2, which has a discharge opening 3.
  • the dispensing device 1 further comprises a rotatable dispensing carousel 4, which is designed and provided for dispensing goods at the dispensing opening 3.
  • the dispensing device 1 has a closure panel 5, which is designed and provided to close the dispensing opening 3 in the illustrated closed position of the closure panel 5 in such a way that the dispensing carousel 4 is not accessible from outside through the dispensing opening 3.
  • the shutter 5 is designed and provided to release the discharge opening 3 in an open position of the shutter 5, so that the output carousel 4 is accessible from outside through the discharge opening 3.
  • Fig. 2 shows a schematic plan view of the output device 1 according to Fig. 1 in an open position of the shutter 5 and an output position of the output carousel 4.
  • the shutter 5 is offset relative to the discharge opening 3, ie adjusted behind the front panel 2, so that the discharge opening 3 is freely accessible from the outside.
  • the output carousel 4 is moved or rotated in such a way that it provides goods stored in this position in the delivery carousel 4 for removal from outside through the delivery opening 3.
  • a translation element 7 is provided, which engages in a guide 9 of the shutter 5 and thereby causes the adjustment of the shutter 5.
  • the adjustment may be a rotation.
  • the output carousel 4 can also be driven by the transmission element 7, wherein the transmission element 7, for example, has a toothing which engages a corresponding toothing for driving a drive axle of the output carousel 4.
  • the transmission element 7, for example, has a toothing which engages a corresponding toothing for driving a drive axle of the output carousel 4.
  • other kinematic couplings for example via a belt drive, a chain, or the like are conceivable.
  • the translation element 7 is continuously kinematically coupled to the output carousel 4.
  • the translation element 7 is only temporarily coupled, that is, only when the transmission element 7 engages in the guide 9.
  • the translation element 7 can move independently of the shutter 5.
  • separate movements of the output carousel 4 and the shutter 5 are possible, that is, the output carousel 4 can, at least in certain positions, move, without causing the shutter 5 adjusted.
  • the output carousel and the shutter can also be driven synchronously. In particular, an opposite drive is not possible. Nevertheless, the output carousel 4 and the shutter 5 are both driven separately via the transmission element 7.
  • the transmission element 7 is driven by means of a drive 6, for example by means of an electric motor.
  • Fig. 3 shows a perspective view of an output device.
  • the output carousel 4 has 2 compartments in this embodiment.
  • the two compartments are provided with a different size.
  • these are cup holders of various sizes, wherein a first cup holder 28 is provided for receiving a cup of a first size and a second cup holder 27 for receiving a cup of a second size. This will be below in relation to the FIGS. 12A to D explained in more detail.
  • the output carousel 4 is mounted on a drive axle 8.
  • the drive axle 8 of the output carousel 4 is driven by means of a toothing 19, which is coupled to a toothing 20 provided on the transmission element 7.
  • a motor 36 and a transmission gear 37 together with drive pinion 38 are provided, which together form a drive 6 which drives the transmission element 7 via the toothing 20.
  • the shutter 5 has a diaphragm wall 16, which serves for closing a discharge opening 3 of a front panel 2, not shown here for clarity.
  • the shutter 5 is rotatably mounted on a rotation axis 10.
  • the rotation axis 10 coincides geometrically with the drive axis 8, but the drive axis 8 and the rotation axis 10 are not fixedly connected to each other. Instead, the output carousel 4 and the shutter 5 are separately adjustable or rotatable.
  • Fig. 4 shows a cross-sectional view of the dispenser 1 after Fig. 3 , In this cross-sectional view, only the shutter 5 and a part of the drive shaft 8 representing drive pulley 17 are shown in dashed lines in their sectional areas. The sectional surfaces of the output carousel 4 and the translation element 7 are shown for better clarity or better distinguishability of the parts without hatching.
  • the drive shaft 8 is geometrically in the center of a central pin 18 on which the drive pulley 17 is mounted.
  • the drive pulley 17 has a toothing 19. This meshes with a corresponding toothing 20 of the transmission element 7 and is thus drivable via the transmission element 7.
  • the translation element 7 is mounted on an offset to the drive axis 8 and the axis of rotation 10 arranged translation axis 14 which is geometrically located in the center of a short pin 22.
  • the cutting plane also extends through a drive motor associated with the drive 6 of the dispenser.
  • the drive pulley 17 is rotatably connected to the output carousel 4. A rotation of the drive pulley thus leads to a rotation of the output carousel 4 about the drive axle 8.
  • the shutter 5 is rotatable about an axis of rotation 10, which coincides geometrically with the drive shaft 8, separately from the output carousel 4. In the region of the axis of rotation 10, the shutter 5 slides on a smooth outer surface 21 of the drive pulley 17. Corresponding thereto, the shutter 5 in the region of the axis of rotation 10 a likewise smooth recess 20, which is slipped over the outer surface 21 of the drive pulley 17. Thus, the drive pulley 17 and the shutter 5 are rotatable relative to each other.
  • Fig. 5 shows a perspective view of the underside of a shutter 5.
  • Fig. 6 shows a perspective view of the top of the shutter.
  • a shutter 5 is also referred to as a "shutter”.
  • the shutter 5 has a control section 15, in which the smooth recess 20, two guides 9 and a tread 12 are arranged. Furthermore, the shutter 5 has a bridging portion 23, which connects the control portion 15 with the diaphragm wall 16.
  • the entire closure panel 5 is integrally formed, preferably as an injection molded part.
  • Both the control section 15 and the bridging section 23 and the diaphragm wall 16 each have an opening angle relative to the axis of rotation 10, the opening angles of the control section 15, the bridging section 23 and the diaphragm wall 16 overlapping and congruent.
  • the bridging section 23 is arranged on a lower end 24 of the region of the diaphragm wall 16 which is slightly offset from the diaphragm wall 16 and has stiffening ribs for increasing the stability of the shutter 5.
  • the control section 15 and the bridging section 23 have an approximately circular segment-like shape when viewed from above.
  • the diaphragm wall 16 extends perpendicular and is in the range of the entire opening angle tangent to the axis of rotation 10, that is curved as a segment of a cylindrical surface. In a plan view from above, the curvature of the diaphragm wall 16 is accordingly circular segment-like.
  • the shutter 5 has a shape which, except for the details of the control portion 15 and the slight heel of the lower end 24, is approximately the shape of a segment of a pot.
  • Fig. 7 shows a perspective view of the underside of a translation element. 7
  • the translation element 7 has a circular disk-shaped base 25, on the underside of the toothing 20 is provided.
  • the toothing 20 is provided as an external toothing and extends from the underside of the base 25 offset and offset from the edge of the base 25 radially inwardly.
  • a hollow shaft-like axis portion 26 is provided, which runs on the short pin 14.
  • Fig. 8 shows a perspective view of the top of a translation element. 7
  • a pin 13 is provided at the top of the translation element 7. This is formed like a circular cylinder and is in the axial direction of the base 25 from.
  • a protruding from the base 25 barrel cam 11 is provided.
  • the barrel cam 11 engages the tread 12 of the control section 15 of the shutter 5.
  • the running cam 11 is in an angular range in which the pin 13 is not in the guides 9 of the control portion of the shutter 5 engages, formed like a circle segment. In this angular range, which forms a circular segment portion, the running cam 11 thus slides on the running surface 12, so that the translation element 7 when approaching positions of the output carousel, which serve the Becherausgabe (Becherausgaberus) or the filling of a cup (filling position), the shutter 5 not adjusted. That is, the shutter 5 remains in the closed position.
  • Fig. 9 shows a plan view of a horizontal section through the output device 1 after Fig. 3 in a blocked position. The illustrated position corresponds to a starting position.
  • the diaphragm wall 16 is outside the section plane shown. Their position is therefore merely symbolized by dashed lines for illustration.
  • the shutter 5 In the blocked position shown, the shutter 5 is closed and blocked. This is achieved in that the running cam 11 engages positively with its circular segment portion in the tread 12. In the illustrated embodiment, the circle segment portion describes an angle of about 300 °. If the circle segment portion engages positively in the tread 12, the control portion 15 and thus the shutter 5 is blocked in any position of the transmission element 7 and the running cam 11.
  • the circular segment of the barrel cam 11 has an interruption, which describes an angle of about 60 °.
  • the interruption is designed such that the control section 15 is not obstructed or blocked by the running cam 11 in the region of the pin.
  • the interruption is formed as a circular segment-like recess in the running cam 11.
  • the control section 15 has two guides 9. Both guides 9 are arranged such that they run tangentially to the circular segment portion of the barrel cam 11 at its open end. This ensures that the pin 13 can engage harmoniously, in particular jerk-free and without jamming, in a corresponding position of the transmission element 7 in the guides 9.
  • the guides 9 are arranged at an opening angle to each other or include an opening angle.
  • the opening angle of the guides corresponds approximately to an opening angle described by the course of the diaphragm wall 16.
  • the control section 15 covers, based on the axis of rotation 10, a circular sector whose opening angle likewise corresponds approximately to the opening angle described by the course of the diaphragm wall 16.
  • the guides 9 each have a slightly curved course, wherein the curvature of the guides 9 extends radially inwards towards the axis of rotation 10.
  • Fig. 10 shows a plan view of a horizontal section through the dispenser 1 when moving to a first open position.
  • the mechanism shown is in the position shown moving.
  • the shutter 5 rotates about the rotation axis 10 in the counterclockwise direction in a first open position.
  • the drive 6 drives the transmission element 7 such that it rotates clockwise.
  • the translation element has already rotated about 180 ° clockwise.
  • the pin 13 engages in a first guide 9 of the control section 15, so that the pin 13 causes a rotation of the control section 15 and thus the entire shutter 5. This is also illustrated by the misaligned orientation of the dashed symbolized orientation of the diaphragm wall 16.
  • the transmission element 7 still rotates about another 30 ° to 45 ° clockwise, so that the shutter 5 again rotates counterclockwise by about 30 to 45 ° and the discharge opening 3 of the front panel 2, not shown here completely free gives.
  • Fig. 11 shows a plan view of a horizontal section through the dispensing device 1 when moving to a second open position.
  • the drive 6 has been hidden in this illustration.
  • the adjustment works in a second open position by opposite rotation of the transmission element 7, ie counterclockwise.
  • the mechanism is in motion in the position shown.
  • the shutter 5 moves by a clockwise rotation about the axis of rotation 10 in the first open position, which is not reached in the illustrated position.
  • Fig. 9 Compared to Fig. 9 has the translation element 7 already rotated by 180 ° counterclockwise. Further, the pin 13 engages in the second guide 9 of the control section 15, so that the pin 13 causes a rotation of the control section 15 and thus the entire shutter 5 clockwise, which also illustrates here by the misaligned orientation of the symbolized orientation of the diaphragm wall 16 shown in dashed lines is.
  • the transmission element 7 still rotates approximately 30 ° to 45 ° counterclockwise, so that the shutter turns again by about 30 to 45 ° clockwise and the discharge port 3 of the front panel 2, not shown here completely free gives.
  • Fig. 12A shows a perspective view of an output device 1 in a closed starting position.
  • the dispensing opening 3 of the front panel 2 is closed by the shutter 5.
  • the shutter 5 is blocked, ie it is a position of the translation element 7 and the control section 15, as in Fig. 9 is shown.
  • a first cup holder 28 and a second cup holder 27 are provided.
  • the two cup holders 27, 28 are located at a position facing away from the dispensing opening 3 position.
  • the cup holders 27, 28 each have a different size.
  • Fig. 12B shows the output device 1 according to Fig. 12A in a closed position, wherein the output carousel 4 has a position rotated relative to the starting position.
  • the output carousel is rotated counterclockwise by about 150 ° compared to the starting position.
  • the shutter 5 has not moved compared to the starting position.
  • the pin 13 of the translation element 7 is just at the entrance to the guide 9.
  • the associated positions of the locking cam 11, the pin 13 and the shutter 5 are in Fig. 15B illustrated.
  • a not shown cup magazine 31, 32 may be provided for corresponding cups of different sizes. If necessary, a cup can be dispensed from the cup magazine 31, 32 into a corresponding cup holder 27, 28 of the output carousel 4. In this case, the position shown would be a cup dispensing position of the dispensing carousel 4.
  • Fig. 12C shows the output device according to the Figures 12A and 12B , in an intermediate position during the adjustment of the shutter 5 in an open position.
  • the position shown corresponds approximately to a position of the control section 15 and the transmission element 7 according to Fig. 10 ,
  • the translation element 7 is now rotated by about 180 ° compared to the starting position and the pin 13 is in engagement with the first guide 9.
  • the output carousel 4 and the control disk 17 are rotated by about 180 ° compared to the starting position.
  • the shutter 5 is rotated in the counterclockwise direction by about 30 ° compared to the starting position, but has not yet reached the open position.
  • the guide is designed such that the shutter rotates in coincidence with a second cup holder 27, while the first cup holder 28 is released accessible by the shutter 3 from the outside.
  • Fig. 12D shows the output device 1 according to the FIGS. 12A to 12C in an open position of the shutter 5 and an output position of the output carousel 4.
  • the corresponding positions of the latching cam 11, the pin 13 and the shutter 5 are in Fig. 15C illustrated.
  • the shutter 5 and the output carousel 4 are compared to Fig. 12C respectively.
  • Fig. 10 rotated again by about 30 ° counterclockwise, so that the discharge port 3 is now fully released.
  • the first cup holder 28 is accessible in this position through the discharge opening 3 from the outside.
  • the second cup holder 27 and the shutter 5 are now completely hidden behind the front panel 2.
  • a cup located in the first cup holder 28 can now be removed from outside through the dispensing opening 3.
  • a control device 35 which controls the drive 6 such that, starting from the blocking position, a maximum displacement angle of the transmission element 7 is predetermined.
  • This maximum adjustment angle is in the in Fig. 12 D reached position and dimensioned such that the shutter 5 is completely hidden behind the front panel 2 and the pin 13 while still guided in the guide 9.
  • the maximum displacement angle of the transmission element is in the range of 200 to 240 °, preferably 210 ° to 225 °. In the illustrated embodiment, the maximum displacement angle is about 210 °.
  • Fig. 13 shows a vending machine 30 with an inventive output device 1.
  • the vending machine has a main body 34 and a door 33.
  • the door 33 of the vending machine is shown open.
  • the dispenser 1 is preferably provided mounted on the door 33. Furthermore, a first and a second cup dispensing magazine 31, 32 are provided, which are also preferably mounted on the door 33. Within the main body 34, a filling device 29 is provided for filling cups received in the output carousel of the dispenser 1.
  • a control device 35 is provided, which is designed such that a user in a known manner, a commodity product, here a drink, request and pay.
  • a commodity product here a drink, request and pay.
  • an operator keypad and a coin insertion and dispensing unit are provided for this purpose.
  • the control device 35 controls the output device or its drive.
  • Fig. 14 shows the vending machine 30 according to FIG. 13 with closed door 33.
  • the dispenser 1 is integrated into the door 33 in such a way that the front panel 2 is flush with the door 33, the dispensing opening 3 being accessible from the outside. In the illustrated position, the shutter 5 is closed.
  • a different position can be provided for filling with different product components and / or for dispensing different cups.
  • a first filling position for filling with coffee a second filling position for filling with milk
  • a third filling position for filling with sugar and / or a fourth filling position for filling with hot water may be provided.
  • one cup dispensing position for dispensing large and small cups may each be provided.
  • the different positions may differ relative to the starting position with respect to their angle by a predetermined angular amount from each other.
  • the different Beyogll tooen can also be provided on different sides of the output carousel, so that for starting individual filling positions, the Ausgabekarussell is partially rotated first in the opposite direction and then back to reach the issue position.
  • the front panel does not necessarily terminate flush with the door.
  • the front panel could also protrude from the surface of the door

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