US1981272A - Vending device - Google Patents

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Nov. 20, 1934. A. KUHN Er AL VENDING DEVICE Filed July 26. 1930 Patented Nov. 20, 1934 i 1,981,272 vENDlNG DEVICE Anthony Kuhn, New York, N. Y., and charles n. Beltman, Bergen County, N.. J.; said Heitman assignor to Andrew D. Reid, Weehawken, N. J.

vApplication July 26, 1930, Serial No. 470,826

Claims.

This invention relates to improvements in vending devices, being particularly directed to a vending mechanism applied in conjunction with a refrigerating device in a display casing, where-A '5 by bottled goods may be disposed for sale in a manner so as to be easily removable from said display casing, in sequential or progressive order,

without exposing the surfaces of the bottles to f any undue shock, to cause breakage of the same 1n in their passage through the vending mechanism.

Broadly, it is an object of this invention to provide for a vending mechanism, in conjunction with a refrigerating unit, whereby bottled goods may be caused to be progressively actuated and displaced from position in a storage receptacle in a display casing, while under the effect of the cooling medium controlled by the refrigerating mechanism, the bottled goods being caused to be displaced in an angular and .tortuous path, and

in a manner so that the bottles reverse their direction of rotation after each and every angularly downward displacement and directional movement, for each ofthe several angular pasg5 sages disposed in the storage receptacle.

Still further, to provide for a novel vending mechanism, in association with a refrigerating device, wherein the cooled bottled goods are caused to rest against and move along stamped curved guide members defined so as to form a zig-zag tortuous passage, the said guide means being in the form of inA verted V-shaped stampings, opposite stampings being disposed so as to provide a space slightly larger than the diameter of a bottle, and the apexy or ledge of the respective opposite guide means being disposed directly opposite to the flat portion of the opposite guide means. f

Still further, it is aimed to provide a novel discharging mechanism' for refrigerated bottled goods, which have passed through a tortuous path in their progressive movement through the Storage receptacle, which discharging mechanism comprises a shell 'formed of vsubstantially one cylinder within.another, and having a cutout portion adapted to receiveone and only one bottle, which said discharging mechanism is rotatable upon the actuation of a control against spring tension to discharge the captured bottle into the discharge opening, but at the same time, which is so disposed as to prevent the escape of cold air from the vending chamber as thev discharging mechanism is rotated from pont to point, and the downward movement of any bot- 5,5 tle in the storage receptacle, unless and until thel it is an object of this invention shell is empty, and disposed in a position to capture another bottle.

Other objects fandadvantages, capabilities, and features of the invention will appear from the subjoined detailed description of one specific `em- 50 bodiment of the invention as illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which Figure 1 is a front view, partly the completely assembled device.

Figure 2 is a plan view partly cut out of the g5 device.

Figure 3 is a side elevation in section along lines 3--3 of Figure 1.

Figure 4 is a plan view in section along lines i- 4 of Figure 3.

Figure 5 is a front view in sectin along lines 5-5 of Figure 3.

Referring to the reference characters in the drawing, numeral 10 represents a casing formed of stamped metal, and adapted to enclose Vthe vending chamber 11, or the distributingchamber 12, the freezing chamber 13, and the cooling chamber 14. The casing 10 has walls 15, carrying'the usual form of insulation applied in refrigerators. A

Since the wall structure, the brine or cooling chamber, and the electrical 'freezing unit are of the type normally used in electrical refrigerators, no descriptionwill be made of the same, nor will any detailed drawing of the same be shown herein, except insofar a's their location in relation to the elements forming the subject-matter of this invention.

Referring particularly to Figures 1 and 2, the vending chamber-11 comprises a series of sectionsv 16, separated from one another and from the brine chamber respectively bymetallic conducting walls 1'7 and 1'7', and extending from the top 'of the casing to the `discharge chamber 12, there being; provided a closure element 18- for the top of the respective sections, and a discharging mechanism 19, which will be later described, such mechanism being adapted to serve as a closure for the lowermost portion of the respective sections in conjunction with its operative functions.

Within each section 16, there is fastened to the respective walls v17 thereof, as by welding, riveting, or otherwise, a series of V-notched sections 20, so arranged along the respective walls as to form areas of depression 2l, and areas. of projection as ledges or ribs 22. As is clearlyshown in Figure 1, the series of V-notched elements on; the respective walls 17 of the sections 16 are so disposed that the ledges 22 and the depressions 2l on one wall are oppositely disposed respectively 11a in section, of

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, 5. In a storage andvending method, methodchamber having its opposite sides respectively formed with staggered series of guide projections having upper guide faces respectively; each provided at its discharge edge, with a projection adapted to engage abottle to give it an upward movementand project it to the adjacent guide face on the opposite side of the chamber.

4. In combination, means forming an upright passage chamber for bottles and the like, said chamber having its opposite sides respectively formed with staggered series of'guide projections having upper guide faces respectively; the upper guide face of each projection being concaved and provided, at its discharge edge, with an upwardly and' outwardly inclined projection adapted to engage, a bottle rolling down said face, to give it an upward movement as it projects to the adjacent upper guide face on the opposite side of the chamber, thereby to retard the fall of the bottle by said upward movements.

steps which comprise initially dropping one-byone a plurality of axially horizontal bottles into an upright space; stoppingv the first bottle at .a lower part of said space, whereby each subsequent on the side of the preceding bottle;y causing each bottle is brought to rest on its side by striking bottle to move slightly upwardly at frequentv points all along said space,'thereby limiting the downward velocity and acceleration of the bottles Ato low maxima near the upper part of the space, said maxima being sufiiciently low to prevent'breakage from said striking; said points being sutllciently close together to maintain the downward velocity and 'acceleration as low as said maxima. throughout.'l the whole of saidwspace and fall, whereby breakage is prevented no matter how far the bottles may travel in the space;

. v ANTHONY KUHN.

CHAS. HEITMAN.

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