EP3561784A1 - Verkaufsautomat von essbaren produkten und/oder haltbaren waren - Google Patents

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EP3561784A1
EP3561784A1 EP19170785.0A EP19170785A EP3561784A1 EP 3561784 A1 EP3561784 A1 EP 3561784A1 EP 19170785 A EP19170785 A EP 19170785A EP 3561784 A1 EP3561784 A1 EP 3561784A1
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  • the present invention relates to an automatic distributor (or vending machine) of edible products (or foodstuffs) and/or of goods (or objects or items), even durable ones.
  • the automatic distributors for the rental and final sale of durable goods even the most delicate and fragile ones, such as books, videotapes, CDs, DVDs, smartphones, tablets and the like, and/or the definitive sale of edible products (or foodstuffs), such as sweet and savory snacks, sweets, sandwiches, ice creams, frozen foods, beverages of various kinds or the sale of products such as cigarettes, alcohol, tickets or coupons for instant lotteries, printer cartridges, watches, PC accessories, cameras, clothing and even more, are automatic distribution machines (commonly known as "vending machines") increasingly widespread on the market which supply products at the user's direct request, subject to payment.
  • the current automatic machines for distributing products of any type are available in numerous versions and sizes, suitable for satisfying the customer's various needs.
  • a vending machine of traditional type comprises a display store, arranged in several housing lanes, located at various height levels or horizontal supporting shelves and contained inside of a substantially box-shaped support frame (or casing) which, moreover, aesthetically characterizes the machine itself.
  • the horizontal supporting shelves are parallely and often, although not always, equally spaced apart each other along a vertical direction, so that the products to be dispensed, considering their dimensions and their conformation, are more evenly distributed in the display store inside the box-shaped support frame and occupy the inner volume of the latter as more efficiently as possible.
  • the housing lanes of the products to be dispensed are arranged side-by-side and parallel each other.
  • the products to be dispensed are placed inside a plurality of support seats defined in each of the housing lanes according to conformations able to house a wide range of products or goods that differ each other in shape, size and packaging.
  • the traditional vending machines are provided with a mainly transparent front shutter, rotatably coupled through rotation means with the box-shaped support frame into which the display store is contained: the transparency (obtained through the installation of a shatterproof glass plate) of such a front shutter allows the end user to view the products available to make his own choice.
  • Each housing lane if not even, in certain constructive solutions, each individual support seat defined in the display store of these automatic distributors is also marked by an alphanumeric code that the user types on a special control panel, applied externally to the support frame, to make the desired choice, after having paid the relative amount by inserting coins, banknotes or other in a special slot made in the front shutter.
  • the products aligned in the housing lanes are moved towards the front shutter, for a prefixed stretch, through transport or dispensing means (constituted for instance by a plurality of rotating spirals of conventional type), in such a way that the first product of the selected lane is conveyed, remaining supported, or released by gravity in an inner collection room defined in the support frame, in positions dependent on the construction choices and/or on the operational and application requirements.
  • transport or dispensing means constituted for instance by a plurality of rotating spirals of conventional type
  • the end user accesses the collection room as a result of a manual or automatic movement of a movable bulkhead (or safety window), which belongs to the front shutter itself or below it, depending on the embodiments, and which, normally or in the release position, closes the access mouth of the collection room itself.
  • a movable bulkhead or safety window
  • the movable bulkhead also prevents fraudulent removal of the products from the display store, being operatively associated with anti-shoplifting means which inhibit any wish of a ill-intentioned end user to illegitimately appropriate, without paying, one or more of the products or goods contained in the horizontal shelves of the display and containment store.
  • a typical vending machine of the known art also includes a keyboard and a screen, or a touch-screen, coupled with the front shutter or support frame in such a way as to be available to the user who uses them for the choice of the products.
  • the products and/or goods are made available to the user, generally by lateral or frontal translation, at an outlet mouth through which the previously rented product is returned after its temporary use, always as a result of the payment of a given amount or the insertion of a prepaid card from which the amount due is automatically deducted.
  • this second type of vending machine comprises transport and dispensing means, for example a pincer associated with a carriage slidable along at least two axes or a kind of lift sliding along at least three axes, which, following the command given on the keyboard by of the end user, withdraw the chosen product or the good (edible or durable) from the display store and convey it, performing a lateral and/or vertical translation movement, to the outlet mouth if the user is renting or purchasing the product or good, or in the opposite direction (from the collection room to the display store) if the user is returning the rented product or good.
  • transport and dispensing means for example a pincer associated with a carriage slidable along at least two axes or a kind of lift sliding along at least three axes, which, following the command given on the keyboard by of the end user, withdraw the chosen product or the good (edible or durable) from the display store and convey it, performing a lateral and/or vertical translation movement, to the outlet mouth if the user is renting or purchasing the product
  • the anti-shoplifting means (such as a bulkhead numbered with 11) of the vending machine highlighted by the known document WO2017/187467 are, actually and more precisely, coupled with the dispensing or transport means (such as the movable carriage) of the products and/or goods and slide between an open position and a closed position to allow, respectively, to place the selected items in an automatic positioning system (numbered with 10 in that document), passing them through an opening (numbered with 12 in WO2017/187467 ) made in such a positioning system, and to deliver to the user the selected items, after closing the opening 12 itself.
  • an automatic positioning system numbered with 10 in that document
  • an opening numbered with 12 in WO2017/187467
  • the anti-shoplifting means negatively and disadvantageously, slide only along a vertical direction so that, whatever is their position with respect to the opening which allows the introduction of the selected products and/or goods to be dispensed into the automatic positioning system and/or, in some cases, their return, obstruct or make more difficult and inconvenient for the end user the view of a part of these products and/or goods still in the store.
  • primary purpose of the invention is to provide an automatic distributor (or automatic vending machine) of edible products (or foodstuffs) and/or durable goods (or objects or items) which includes a horizontal supporting shelf also at the inner collection room to which the access mouth from which the user picks up or returns the chosen product or good faces.
  • the cognitive sphere of the aforesaid main purpose it is also task of the present invention itself to indicate an automatic distributor of edible products and/or durable goods which is capable of satisfying a number of users greater than the known automatic distributors, still the inner volume of the box-shaped support frame being equal and at the net of interventions to restore the display store performed by the operator responsible for managing the automatic distributor.
  • the automatic distributor (or automatic vending machine) of edible products and/or durable goods, object of the present invention, allows to recover, with respect to known distributors comparable to it and of equal volume, a significant part of the space available inside the box-shaped support frame and effectively and appropriately appoint it to the display of products and/or goods: in practice, the automatic distributor of the invention increases by about 20% with respect to the current state of the equivalent technique the space available for the display of products and/or goods which can be dispensed to the public.
  • the anti-shoplifting means are not of the fixed type but include at least one movable laminar damper (inventive heart of the present description) contained in the support frame which it is properly coupled with, and operatively connected with moving means which alternately move it between a rest position, defined when the movable bulkhead (or safety window) takes the release position, in which the laminar damper is arranged according to a plane parallel to the supporting shelves, and an operating position, defined at least when the movable bulkhead takes the re-enter position, in which the laminar damper is arranged according to a plane orthogonal to the plane defined by the supporting shelves and obstructs access to the display store through the collection room and the open access mouth faced to it.
  • movable laminar damper inventive heart of the present description
  • the automatic distributor of the invention allows to expose and, therefore, deliver to the end users a quantity of edible products and/or durable goods greater than that one associated with the vending machines of the known type, the inner volume of the box-shaped support frame in which the display store is contained being equal: in practice, the automatic distributor of the invention can house, in its own display store, more than 1,200-1,400 products generally distributed on a total of nine horizontal supporting shelves.
  • the vending machine of the present invention allows to satisfy a number of users greater than the equivalent vending machines of the prior art, always the inner volume of the box-shaped support frame in which the display store is contained being equal.
  • the height position of the movable laminar damper is adjustable at will during installation phase according to the dimensions of the products or goods which are housed in the housing lanes of the horizontal supporting shelf that it must hide and protect, considering however the space constraints imposed by the support frame.
  • this automatic distributor 1 comprises:
  • the vending machine 1 of the invention also comprises, according to technological solutions yet currently available in the known machinery of the sector involved, a self-diagnosis system before each dispensing, suitable for checking the operating status of each housing lane 30 of the products and/or goods to be supplied to end users.
  • All the movements of the movable components of the automatic distributor 1 of the invention are preferably managed by a central processing and control unit, not shown in the enclosed drawing tables, contained inside the box-shaped support frame 2 where it is, if necessary, accessible to the operator only through the opening of a side door, for the sake of simplicity not visible in the following figures.
  • the movable laminar damper 11 extends substantially over the entire width L and the entire depth P of the display store 4, substantially on the exact pattern of what occurs for each of the horizontal supporting shelves 5.
  • the guiding means 13 are arranged on two inner side walls 2a, 2b facing and opposite each other of the support frame 2 itself, separated posteriorly by the bottom wall 2e and frontally by the front shutter 6 as well as by a fixed longitudinal column 34, placed side-by-side the rotatable front shutter 6 and belonging to the support frame 2 and in which the interface commands available to the user (as well as to the operator) previously and synthetically cited are applied.
  • the guiding means 13 comprise in the specific case:
  • the side edges 11b, 11c of the laminar damper 11 engage in the respective vertical shaped sections bars 16, 17 for a length that preferably depends on the height of the edible products and/or durable goods contained in the housing lanes 30 of the horizontal supporting shelf 5 which must be hidden outside and protected when the movable bulkhead 7 takes the re-enter position and the products and/or goods are in dispensing and/or returning phase.
  • Each of the horizontal shaped section bars 14, 15 or vertical section bars 16, 17 presents in cross section a substantially C-shaped opened profile, whose opening faces the inner volume of the support frame 2 and towards each of the side edges 11b, 11 c of the laminar damper 11.
  • the horizontal section bars 14, 15 are arranged at a vertical height, calculated starting from an internal base wall 2c of the support frame 2, higher than a vertical height at which the upper end 16a, 17a of the vertical section bars 16, 17 is located.
  • the moving means 12 are concerned, preferably but not necessarily they are arranged beneath the laminar damper 11.
  • the motorization means 19 comprise a pair of electric motors 20, 21, each of which keyed to a first mechanical transmission member 22, 23 (such as a toothed wheel) through which the relative electric motor 20, 21 is connected with a respective second mechanical transmission member 24, 25 (such as a chain) coupled with the lower surface 11a of the laminar damper 11 and cooperating with a third transmission member 26, 27 opposed and aligned with the first transmission member 22, 23 (such as a toothed wheel again) along a horizontal direction Z orthogonal to the vertical direction Y and coinciding with the depth development direction P of the laminar damper 11.
  • a first mechanical transmission member 22, 23 such as a toothed wheel
  • second mechanical transmission member 24, 25 such as a chain
  • the first mechanical transmission member 22, 23 is arranged near the rear edge 11d of the laminar damper 11 while the third mechanical transmission member 26, 27 is arranged at the front edge 11 of the laminar damper 11.
  • the moving means comprise a number of mechanical transmission assemblies different from two, this number being able to vary according to the construction choices starting from one.
  • the motorization means could include a number of electric motors different from two, the number of electric motors being able to vary according to requirements starting from one and independently of the number of mechanical transmission units installed (it should be thought about the possibility of moving a pair of mechanical transmission units by means of a single electric motor by providing transmission means).
  • the additional supporting shelf 51 is stably and removably coupled with the two inner side walls 2a, 2b facing and opposite each other of the support frame 2 through fastening means, generally numbered with 28 and of the type per se known to the man skilled in the art, being appropriately equal to those ones with which the supporting shelves 5 are fixed to the inner side walls 2a, 2b themselves.
  • the automatic distributor 1 of the present invention has a general operation substantially equivalent to that one of the vending machines of the prior art, with the only notable and relevant exception represented by the movable laminar damper 11 which, according to what has already been previously described, represents the innovative technical core of the invention itself: under the action exerted on it by the moving means 12, the laminar damper 11 takes the rest position and the operating position according to the position of the movable bulkhead 7.
  • the moving means 12 initially position the movable laminar damper 11 in the rest position, when the movable bulkhead 7 stably takes the release position, so that the user can also view and have available the edible products and/or durable goods of the additional supporting shelf 51.
  • the moving means 12 bring the laminar damper 11 to the operating position, defined immediately before the movable bulkhead 7 takes, in this case automatically, the re-enter position: in such a position, the laminar damper 11 is arranged at least in part according to a plane orthogonal to the plane defined by each of the supporting shelves 5 and obstructs access to the display store 4 through the access mouth 8, in particular access to the additional supporting shelf 51 behind the movable laminar damper 11.
  • the automatic distributor or automatic vending machine of durable goods (or objects or items) and/or edible products of the present invention achieves the purposes and reaches the advantages mentioned above.
  • the automatic distributor of the present invention also guarantees a process of delivery of greater efficacy and reliability, which, avoiding to manipulate and/or overturn the selected item, allows to provide users even the most fragile and delicate products and/or goods (such as tablets, mobile phones, smartphones, glass products and even more).
  • the anti-shoplifting means have a constructive conception and allow an installation simpler than those ones which can be found in equivalent automatic vending machines of the known type, mainly thanks to the fact of being directly coupled with a more solid and extended structure determined by the substantially box-shaped support frame.
  • the automatic vending machine of the invention could comprise, in alternative and optional embodiments, at least one auxiliary movable laminar damper, not properly with an anti-shoplifting function, coupled to the support frame at any supporting shelf of the display store (that is, established at will at production stage, depending on the construction choices) and suitable to take the operating position even when the movable bulkhead, operated by automatic actuation means, takes the release position in which, as seen, closes the access mouth of the collection room defined in the box-shaped support frame.
  • at least one auxiliary movable laminar damper not properly with an anti-shoplifting function
  • the presence of the at least one auxiliary movable laminar damper is particularly recommended and suitable when the automatic vending machine of the invention provides for the supply of products prohibited to minors and intended for adults only, since it also allows the auxiliary mobile laminar damper to be positioned automatically, through the moving means, in the rest position only when the user inserts, in a special slot made in the support frame, a personal identity document - in the shape of a card or badge - which certifies the age of majority, before the user makes his choice and before the automatic actuation means, following the selection made by the user, arrange the movable bulkhead in the return position.

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