RU2816568C1 - Vending machine for automatic sale of ready food products - Google Patents

Abstract

FIELD: physics.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to vending machines, in particular, to vending machines for automatic sale of food products. Apparatus comprises a housing in which there is a window for installing a touch screen, a place for installing a payment terminal, an automated issuing window, inside the housing there are a control unit, a payment unit, a rack for placing the products on sale, robot for collection and movement of sold products to the dispensing window, electric power supply unit.

EFFECT: disclosed is a vending machine for automatic sale of food products.

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Description

The invention relates to vending machines, in particular to the field of vending machines for the automatic sale of food products.

Known (RU patent 2718326, publ. 04/01/2020) is a vending machine for selling soup, containing a housing with a monitor screen, a manual dispenser for dispensing glasses, a payment and delivery system for change, a front door for access to internal systems, and also installed inside the housing : a system for storing and dispensing soup, including at least one container with soup, a hydraulic system for dispensing and dispensing soup from at least one container with soup, a system for maintaining a given temperature in the compartment with the container, a system for periodically mixing soup in the container , a main control board with a microcontroller, and the machine additionally contains a monitor with a touch screen, a manual dispenser for dispensing lids, a manual dispenser with ingredients, an automatic pipeline washing system, a semi-automatic pipeline washing system - with the participation of an operator, a microwave heating system for a glass with a product, as well as that the system of periodic mixing of soup in a container is carried out by a pump of a hydraulic system for dispensing and dosing soup, designed with the ability to intensively pump air into the container with soup, thereby stirring it.

A disadvantage of the known device is the narrow scope of application (only the sale of soups), as well as the complexity of the design.

Known (RU, patent 2777275, publ. 08/01/2022) is a vending machine containing: a vending machine body with a door in which the user interface and payment terminal are located, a window for dispensing ready-made dishes, a folding table fixed in the door of the housing from the outside , a garbage can with a hole for garbage, where the hole is located in the door of the housing on the outside, and the garbage can is located in the housing; At the same time, inside the body of the vending machine there is a sealed freezer chamber with a cooling system for storing dishes at subzero temperatures, inside the freezer chamber there is a drum consisting of at least one removable pipe for loading and storing packaged portions of frozen dishes, as well as a block for storing sauces with a cooling system and a sauce dispensing mechanism consisting of three electric drives and three pushers, while the dishes inside the device are stored in portions in cardboard glasses with lids, and the bottom row of cardboard glasses is fixed in the pipe and does not come into contact with the base of the freezer, to exclude friction of glasses during rotation of the drum, an ejector mechanism that pushes one glass with food out of the pipe so that the glass with the selected dish falls into the heating unit, a motor for rotating the drum, allowing the pipe with the user-selected dish to be moved to the ejector mechanism, a shielded unit for heating dishes , containing two magnetrons and two shielded covers, a system for automatically opening and closing the upper opening of the heating unit using a manipulator, a system for automatically opening the lower opening of the heating unit for moving a portion of food from the heating unit to the dispensing window, a pipe built inside the heating unit for fixing a glass with a portion dishes with a hole to provide ventilation during heating of the dish and a control system unit, which contains a microcircuit connected to a microcomputer and a GPRS modem, a power supply and an autonomous power supply unit for the machine, and the control system unit provides communication with all elements of the device.

The disadvantage of the known device is its complexity.

Known (KR, patent 101090647, publ.: 12/07/2011) is a vending machine containing a housing, inside of which there is a refrigeration device for storing commercial products (frozen pizza), a microwave oven for heating the products, a user interface for placing an order, and a moving and serving system trade products from the refrigeration unit to the microwave oven and from the microwave oven to the user.

The disadvantage of this solution is the complexity of the design, in particular due to the need to use special equipment (for example, a refrigeration device and a microwave oven) of a special design that is not widely available. In addition, the disadvantage of this solution is the possible instability of the vending machine due to the design feature in which the refrigeration device and the product are located in the upper part of the housing.

The known device is accepted as the closest analogue of the claimed device.

The technical problem solved by using the developed device is to expand the range of devices for the automated sale of food products.

The technical result achieved by implementing the developed device is to ensure the possibility of automated sale of goods produced by Milti LLC.

To achieve the specified technical result, it is proposed to use a vending machine for the automatic sale of finished food products of the developed design. The developed vending machine for the automatic sale of finished food products contains a housing in which there is a window for installing a touch monitor, a place for installing a payment terminal, an automated dispensing window, a control unit, a payment unit, a rack for placing sold products, a robot for picking up and movement of sold products to the dispensing window, an electric power supply unit, wherein the dispensing window is equipped with a laser curtain, which is configured to transmit a signal to the control system about the location of items in the dispensing window; the dispensing window also contains adaptive lighting and a sound speaker, which are configured with the additional capability informing the consumer of information about the operation of the dispensing window, the rack for storing products is a rectangular frame with shelves and drawers attached to it with a spiral dispensing of goods, the specified rack is located at the rear wall of the frame of the device body and is located behind the panoramic door of the case. There is a free space (slot) between the shelves of the rack, which ensures unhindered collection of goods from the shelves. Boxes with spirals are a hollow structure with 3 side walls and one bottom wall. The device contains two types of boxes: for small products with packaging up to 70 mm wide; for wide products with a width of up to 210 mm. On boxes used for storing and dispensing products weighing up to 300 grams. an auxiliary mechanism of a folding type is used, which is a surface rejected when dispensing goods. The deflected surface increases the length of the bend along which the dispensed product rolls. The robot contains a base, a stand mounted perpendicular to the base, and a platform mounted on the stand. The stand has the ability to move rectilinearly along the base guides, and the platform has the ability to move rectilinearly along the stand. By moving the platform in two planes, goods can be delivered from the rack to the delivery window. To move the robot stand and platform in two directions, guide rails and belt drives are used. The robot's platform contains a picking mechanism that allows it to pull product(s) off shelves when the platform is positioned at the appropriate shelf. The intake mechanism is a retractable rod with a rotating hook that grabs the goods and allows you to pull them onto the platform, while the touch monitor, payment terminal, automated issuing window, control unit, payment unit, robot are connected to the outputs of the electrical power supply unit, and the touch monitor, payment terminal, automated dispensing window, robot are connected to the control unit.

The device works as follows. A vending machine for the automatic sale of prepared food products contains a housing in which there is a window for installing a touch monitor, a place for installing a payment terminal, an automated dispensing window, inside the housing there is a control unit, a payment unit, a rack for placing the products being sold, a robot for picking up and movement of sold products to the dispensing window, electrical power supply. The dispensing window is equipped with a laser curtain, which signals the control system about the presence of objects in the dispensing window. The dispensing window also contains adaptive lighting and a sound speaker, which additionally inform the consumer about the operation of the dispensing window. The food storage rack is a rectangular frame with shelves and drawers attached to it with a spiral dispensing of goods. The rack is located at the rear wall of the frame and is located behind the panoramic door. There is free space (slot) between the shelves of the rack, which serves for unhindered collection of goods from them. Boxes with spirals are a hollow structure with three side walls and one bottom wall. The device contains two types of boxes: for small products with packaging up to 70 mm wide; for wide products with a width of up to 210 mm. On boxes used for storing and dispensing products weighing up to 300 g, a special folding auxiliary mechanism is used, which is a surface that is deflected when dispensing goods. The deflected surface increases the length of the bend along which the dispensed product rolls. The robot contains a base, a stand mounted perpendicular to the base, and a platform mounted on the stand. The stand has the ability to move rectilinearly along the base guides, and the platform has the ability to move rectilinearly along the stand. By moving the platform in two planes, goods can be delivered from the rack to the delivery window. Guide rails and belt drives are used to move the robot's stand and platform in two directions. The robot platform contains a picking mechanism that allows you to pull product(s) from shelves when the platform is at the appropriate shelf. The picking mechanism is a retractable rod with a rotating hook that grabs the product and allows it to be pulled onto the platform.

Claims (3)

1. A vending machine for the automatic sale of finished food products, characterized in that it contains a housing in which there is a window for installing a touch monitor, a place for installing a payment terminal, an automated dispensing window, a control unit, a payment unit, and a rack for placement are located inside the housing products sold, a robot for picking up and moving sold products to the dispensing window, an electrical power supply unit, wherein the dispensing window is equipped with a laser curtain, which is configured to transmit a signal to the control system about the presence of items in the dispensing window; the dispensing window also contains adaptive lighting and sound a speaker, which is configured to inform the consumer about the operation of the dispensing window, a rack for storing products, which is a rectangular frame with shelves and drawers attached to it with a spiral dispensing of goods, and the said rack is located at the rear wall of the frame of the apparatus body and is located behind the panoramic door housing, between the shelves of the rack there is a free space that ensures unhindered collection of goods from the shelves, boxes with spirals are a hollow structure with three side and one bottom wall, the said robot contains a base, a stand mounted perpendicular to the base and a platform mounted on the stand, wherein the stand is made with the possibility of rectilinear movement along the guides of the base, and the platform is installed with the possibility of rectilinear movement along the rack; guide rails and belt drives are used to move the rack and the robot platform in two directions; a picking mechanism is located in the robot platform, allowing you to grab goods from the shelves when the platform located at the corresponding shelf, the specified mechanism is a retractable rod with a rotating hook that grabs the product and allows you to pull it onto the platform, while the touch monitor, payment terminal, automated dispensing window, control unit, payment unit, robot are connected to the outputs of the electrical power supply unit , and the touch monitor, payment terminal, automated dispensing window, robot are connected to the control unit. 2. The apparatus according to claim 1, characterized in that it contains two types of boxes, one of which is designed for storing small products with packaging up to 70 mm wide, and the second for storing products with packaging up to 210 mm wide. 3. The device according to claim 1, characterized in that on the boxes used for storing and dispensing products weighing up to 300 g, an auxiliary mechanism of a folding type is used, which is a flat surface made with the possibility of deflection when dispensing goods.