RU54448U1 - VENDING MACHINE - Google Patents

Description

The utility model relates to the field of vending machines selling drinks or piece goods. Such automatic machines necessarily contain devices for dispensing and mixing the product (in the case of the sale of drinks) and a device for dispensing goods and money receivers electrically connected to them through the control device.

A known vending machine containing a device for dispensing goods and an electronic control device for a previously named device for dispensing goods. This electronic control device is equipped with a banknote receiver and / or a coin receiver, allowing to pay for the cost of goods with various combinations of banknotes and / or coins (see utility model patent No. 37249, IPC: G 07 F 11/00).

However, the cost of such a vending machine, due to the installation of expensive electronics in it, increases significantly and is the reason for the increase in overhead costs laid down in the cost of goods. Since such an automaton is never installed in a single copy, then with each new automaton this drawback is replicated in an increasing volume.

To eliminate this drawback, a vending machine containing a device for dispensing goods and electronic controls for this device, including a money receiver, allows you to pay

the cost of the goods in various combinations of banknotes and / or coins, additionally contains an electronic reader of programming keys electrically connected to the specified control device and device for issuing goods, and is also equipped with at least one additional device for issuing goods and an additional reader of programming keys electrically connected to the specified additional product dispensing device.

Such a vending machine may have an additional housing in which additional devices for dispensing goods with “their” reader of programming keys are located, or these devices for dispensing goods can be placed in neighboring buildings. Thanks to such a device, it becomes possible to install a so-called uterine vending machine containing a device for dispensing goods and electronic controls for this device, allowing to pay for the cost of goods with various combinations of banknotes and / or coins and an additional electronic reader of programming keys electrically connected to the specified control device and device the issuance of goods, and a whole family of vending machines that have only a device for issuing goods and a key reader programming and without expensive item issuing control device with the receiver of coins and / or banknotes. In each case, the device for dispensing goods may be either a beverage spill device or a device for dispensing piece goods. When the programming key is inserted into the reader of the uterine machine, an electric circuit is closed connecting the reader to the money receiver of the vending machine control device. If after that you put the money in the receiver, the reader will fix this amount on the key chip.

When the button that drives the product dispenser is pressed, the electric circuit is closed, connecting the reader through the control device, with the programming key inserted into it, with the product dispenser, to which the command signal is supplied.

Such a system makes it possible to put a certain amount on a programming key, and then, if necessary, use this key as a means of payment for goods in all machines of the family that do not have banknotes and coins receivers placed in the building on its different floors. The more such machines of simplified design in the "family"

vending machines with a single machine-uterus, the greater the opportunity to reduce the cost of equipment and goods sold by machines.

As a key reader for programming, you can use the industrial-scale Point FAS Reader or VIPKEY NDB readers, article 959883, manufactured by the Italian company Necta. The reader can be connected to the vending machine control device and to the product dispenser via the Programming Cable for Powerboard cable, also produced by Necta, for loading firmware into the control boards of various electronic control systems. Programming keys ("flash keys") are supplied with the readers, or are manufactured separately.

To explain the essence of the utility model, a block diagram of the device is attached, in which the position:

1 - the main building 1 of the vending machine,

2 - its additional housing,

3 - product dispensing device,

4 - money receiver,

5 - electronic reader of programming keys

6 - electrical connection between the receiver of money and the device for issuing goods,

7 - electrical connection between the money receiver and the reader of programming keys,

8 - electrical connection between the reader of the programming keys and the device for issuing goods,

9 - electronic communication between two electronic readers of programming keys, carried out by means of a programming key.

Claims (1)

A vending machine containing a device for dispensing goods and electronic controls for this device, including a money receiver, which allows you to pay for the price of goods with various combinations of banknotes and / or coins, characterized in that it further comprises an electronic reader of programming keys, electrically connected with the specified controls for issuing a device of goods, and is also additionally equipped with at least one additional device for issuing goods and an additional key reader programmer electrically connected to the specified additional device for the delivery of goods.