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• • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
  • E04—BUILDING
  • E04H—BUILDINGS OR LIKE STRUCTURES FOR PARTICULAR PURPOSES; SWIMMING OR SPLASH BATHS OR POOLS; MASTS; FENCING; TENTS OR CANOPIES, IN GENERAL
  • E04H14/00—Buildings for combinations of different purposes not covered by any single one of main groups E04H1/00-E04H13/00 of this subclass, e.g. for double purpose; Buildings of the drive-in type

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• the invention relates to a beverage market according to the preamble of claim 1.
• beverage markets are known, the material management within the beverage market being explained in each case, but the arrangement of the parking spaces or vehicle lanes provided for the customers on the grounds of the beverage market is no longer explained are.
• beverage markets which use existing buildings, such as former gas stations, bakeries or which are even arranged within a residential building. Due to the close development in the neighborhood, the number of vehicles to be parked in front of or next to the beverage markets is often no more than six or ten.
• beverage markets are known, which are newly established as part of a settlement of several shops, e.g. in the vicinity of a supermarket, food and / or textile market.
• a parking space for a large number of customer vehicles is provided in front of or next to the beverage markets, the various aforementioned shops possibly sharing the same large parking space.
• the object of the invention is to improve a generic beverage market in such a way that the flow of people and vehicles is carried out with as little collision as possible.
• the design of the parking area as a lane ensures that the vehicles only drive through the parking area in a predetermined direction without being parked on parking spaces on the right or left deviating from this direction. Shunting movements of the vehicles diagonally, transversely or opposite to the intended direction of travel therefore do not take place. This creates a protected walking zone for pedestrians who only want to get to or from the entrance to the beverage market from their vehicle or entirely on foot. Also for the movements of the vehicles themselves there are no obstacles except for a possibly parked vehicle, which hinders the movement of the following vehicles. Lateral movements that are difficult to see, such as shunting movements, are excluded.
• the invention is based on the consideration that the number of customers in a beverage market affects relatively few customers at the same time, in contrast to the number of customers in supermarkets, for example. Therefore, if the parking area enables parking of approximately three to ten motor vehicles, this is usually sufficient in practice. Since the parking area designed as a lane leads to the entrance of the sales and presentation area, customers can walk along the lane to their vehicles without being hindered by cross traffic, because the vehicles can only be moved along the lane. In particular, with a low volume of customers, it is possible for the vehicles to be parked near the entrance, since this lane leads along the entrance, so that quick access to the vehicles or from the vehicles to the beverage market is possible and long distances for the customers with heavy loads can be avoided.
• a second lane is provided according to the invention, which can be referred to as an "express lane" and which runs further away from the entrance, for example parallel to the first lane. Customers who use this second lane do not have to use the entrance to the shop:
• the removal point of the express lane can advantageously be designed as a vending machine, so that the drinks can be selected, for example, by pressing a button, and the drinks are then available to the customer via a conveyor.
• the payment process can be automated in a manner known per se: for example, it may be possible to pay for the banknotes or cards before the drinks are dispensed, or it may be necessary to read in a card before the drinks are dispensed, the drinks dispensed then automatically being read Be debited or debited from the credit card remaining in the machine, the credit card with the reduced credit finally being issued again.
• personal operation can be provided in the area of the express lane, for example also for accepting empties in the area of this express lane or combined with the service that this personal operation loads the drinks into the vehicles.
• the automated handling on the express lane can preferably have an order acceptance, which can be provided near the entrance to this express lane.
• This order acceptance can either be staffed or preferably carried out via an order acceptance device.
• This order acceptance device can be a microphone, so that orders can be placed there that are processed elsewhere by the staff, for example by compiling the desired beverage crates. Similar to a vending machine, however, the order acceptance device can also enable machine selection, for example by pressing the desired drinks, which can then preferably be compiled fully automatically and when the vehicle is on the second drive.
• lane has advanced further, can be removed by the customer or by the staff at the beverage removal point and can be handed over to the customer.
• the first Lane can be referred to as a "drive-in” lane and the second as a "drive-through” lane.
• the two lanes mentioned are provided, but that not only one, but two or more lanes of the first type of lane can be provided, so one to provide a larger parking area for customers who want to visit the sales area of the beverage market. It can also be provided to provide two or more of the second lanes, that is to say the "express lanes", and to equip them each with their own beverage removal point and / or their own order acceptance device.
• a conveying device can advantageously be provided, which runs from a beverage store to the tapping point. This makes it possible to make a large number of different beverages and a large number of beverages - which could hardly be accommodated in a single machine - available at the tapping point.
• the beverage market can advantageously be configured on two floors, an upper floor being provided, which preferably serves as a beverage store. Depending on the turnover of the beverage market, provision can preferably be made to build this beverage store not only over one but over two or three floors in order to be able to store a particularly large number of beverage crates that are called up by the customers using the express track can.
• the removal point is fed from this upper beverage store, the height difference permitting a particularly simple configuration of the conveyor system with a comparatively low required drive power.
• a simple roller conveyor via which the beverage crates overcome the height difference, can be provided as a conveyor device that is suitable for this purpose.
• so-called “lifters” can be provided, that is, escalator-like devices with revolving segments, wherein a beverage crate can be placed on each segment.
• a conveyor can advantageously be provided, which leads the empties to an empties warehouse.
• Such conveyors can be provided in addition to both lanes or possibly only on one of the two lanes. The guidance of these conveyors over a height difference enables the collision-free arrangement of both these conveyors and the lanes for the motor vehicles.
• the empties can be conveyed under the lanes or bridge-like over the lanes to promote a smooth process within the beverage market, so that the vehicles can flow or flow in via the lanes, even if empties are conveyed at the same time.
• At least one of the two lanes can advantageously be covered, for example the first-mentioned lane leading to the entrance of the shop, in which it is provided that that customers get out and visit the store of the beverage market.
• the second lane is designed as an express lane or a “drive-through” lane, in which the service staff takes out the empties and loads the vehicles with drinks, it can be provided here that this express lane is not closed
• both lanes are preferably roofed over in order to enable optimal working conditions for the staff or optimal stay conditions for the customers and, in addition, when the beverage market is closed, to optimally protect the entire facilities of the beverage market against theft or vandalism to close the entrances and exits of the lanes and thus form a hall that can be closed overall.
• the roofing of the two or more lanes provided in the form of a closed hall can in particular also be used to use this space thus created as an event space.
• Access to this event space can advantageously be provided through an additional access door, regardless of the gates that are provided at the entrances and exits of the lanes.
• This access can, in particular, be advantageously designed in such a way that it is independent of the shop, that is to say it enables access to the lane hall even when the shop is closed.
• the main store for beverages can advantageously be provided on the side of the beverage market which lies opposite the two lanes, so that the shop is arranged between this store and the lanes. In this way, a possible collision-free traffic management for both the beverage vehicles and the customer vehicles is possible, and in addition there is a low-interference route for the drinks from the warehouse through the shop to the lanes and to the customer vehicles.
• a night counter can advantageously be provided, at which the drinks are only available in packs, e.g. in boxes: due to the fact that the drinks market can be operated in addition to the actual opening hours, part of the customer traffic shifts to these additional times, so that during the actual opening hours the people - and vehicle flows are lower and therefore automatically less collision.
• the night counter enables drinks to be supplied - even when the shop is closed - if the lane hall is used as an event location.
• the same conveying device that runs to the removal point of the express lane can preferably be used in a cost-saving manner.
• the operator terminal which is used to order the beverages at the removal point, can also be used for the night counter: for example, operability from two different sides can be provided at this terminal so that the express lane faces the inside of the building during the day Terminal can be operated by customers or staff of the beverage market, while at night the terminal can be operated from the outside of the building. The building can thus be locked and access to the beverage store is still possible via the night switch.
• the conveyor which runs from the beverage store to the tapping point, can be extended for this purpose if necessary, so that the beverages can be conveyed beyond the tapping point to a night counter tapping point: this can be achieved in a simple and inexpensive manner by a removable stop which stops the beverages at the tapping point during the day and which is removed for night operation so that the beverages are conveyed to the night counter tapping point.
• a section of the conveyor can be designed to be foldable. This section is used during the day, folded up, as a stop for the beverage crates and also creates space for a cash register or another place for the operating and / or cash register personnel that may be provided. This section is folded down for night operation and thus extends the conveyor to the night switch removal point.
• the night counter can advantageously be provided with a vending machine known per se for the empties receiving point, so that a return trip to the beverage market is not required during the day for the empties return and the frequency of the beverage market is not unnecessarily increased during the day.
• An incline leading downwards can be provided outside the building, so that a truck can be driven below the floor level of the beverage market.
• the ramp provides for a lowering to such an extent that the truck is arranged almost level with the floor level of the beverage market from its loading area and accordingly enables an almost level unloading.
• the truck can be unloaded particularly quickly, since no lifting platforms have to be used with the comparatively long lowering and lifting times of such platforms. Rather, the truck can be unloaded quickly and on pallets.
• 1 is a plan of the ground floor of a beverage market with two lanes
• FIG. 1 shows the floor plan of the upper floor of the beverage market of FIG. 1,
• FIG. 7 is a plan similar to FIG. 1, but for an embodiment with three lanes, and FIGS. 8 and 9 are external views of the beverage market of FIG. 7.
• Fig. 1 generally denotes a beverage market, that is to say a building which contains a beverage market.
• the beverage market 1 has a sales and presentation area 2, that is to say a shop, in which the customers can view, select and purchase the products.
• the shop is stocked from a warehouse 3, the warehouse 3 can be loaded with goods through a warehouse gate 4.
• the parking area is narrow in the manner of a lane, so that the vehicles can only be arranged one behind the other on the parking area 10 and can therefore drive in the lane like a one-way street, for example, as indicated by the arrow P, from right to left.
• a conveyor 11 for empties is provided. Between the conveyor 11 and the building wall shown on the right, a door is provided through which the empties storage 6 is accessible, for example for the removal of the empties.
• the customers therefore drive in the lane 10, the entrance 9 being provided within the beverage market 1 at the end of this lane 10, so that the customers drive in the lane as far as possible in the direction of the arrow P in order to get as close as possible to the entrance 9 reach.
• the customer then leaves the vehicle and can place existing empties on the conveyor 11, which conveys the empties to the empties warehouse 6. It can be provided to convey this empties along the checkout 8 so that deposit credits at the checkout 8 can be taken into account and credited to the customer. If necessary, however, a machine-based, automated empties detection can also take place, so that the customer can be given credit receipts from such a machine, which can then be taken into account when the drinks are paid for at the cash desk 8.
• the customer now enters the sales and presentation area 2 through the entrance 9, where he selects the desired drinks and pays at the checkout 8, then leaves the shop with the products through the entrance 9 and brings the drinks to his vehicle. He now leaves the beverage market 1 by driving his vehicle in the lane 10 in the direction of the arrow P and leaving the building.
• a second lane 12 which can also be referred to as an express lane.
• this second lane 12 there is also a conveyor for Empties are provided, which are identified by 14 and, like the empties conveying device 11, lead into the empties storage 6.
• this conveying device 14 crosses the lanes 10 and 13, it runs offset in height to the lanes 10 and 12, for example, deep underground or bridge-like high. The same applies to the area of the entrance 9, so that this conveying device 14 does not hinder the movement of people or vehicles within the beverage market 1.
• the conveyor device 14 is shown in dashed lines to indicate that it runs almost completely at a very low level in the illustrated embodiment, e.g. mostly underground as under lanes 10 and 12 and entrance 9.
• a removal point is provided and indicated at 15, at which the customers receive the drinks, possibly with the aid of a machine.
• a service-oriented variant is provided for the express lane 12, in which the drinks are dispensed and the empties are also dispensed with personnel assistance.
• a second cash register 16 is provided in the area of the removal point 15, so that the payment does not have to be made exclusively by machine, but can also be carried out with the aid of personnel.
• a walking lane 17 for the staff runs from the cash register 16 between the second conveyor 14 and the lane 12, so that the staff can both remove the empties from the vehicles and place them on the conveyor 14 and also remove the drinks at the removal point 15 and can load the vehicles with the drinks.
• the cash register 16 can also be arranged further inside in the beverage market 1, that is to say closer to the tapping point 15, for example to such an extent that it is at the level of the driver's door of a vehicle when the front of the vehicle is on the left DAR provided building side is aligned.
• This enables optimal use of the second lane 12 by as many vehicles as possible, the foremost vehicle also being protected from the weather in the building, and the customers can remain in the vehicle with the “service-oriented variant” mentioned, including the payment process at the cash register 16th
• a walking lane similar to the walking lane 17, not specifically shown, is provided next to the first conveyor 11 or next to the first lane 10, so that visitors to the beverage market 1 can get to the entrance 9 along this lane without passing through the lane 10, if necessary moving vehicles to be at risk.
• the removal point 15 is loaded from a fully automated upper beverage store, which is explained in more detail with reference to FIG. 2. Since it is intended for the delivery of the second lane 12 or "express lane”, it can be referred to as an "express warehouse” to distinguish it from the warehouse 3, which is the main warehouse, from the trucks of a beverage service, and from which the goods are distributed further within the beverage market 1.
• Fig. 2 shows the upper floor of the beverage market 1, and it can be seen that the area which is used in the basement for the sales and presentation area 2, the empties warehouse 6 and the two lanes 10 and 12 is used almost entirely as a beverage store on the upper floor becomes.
• the (main) warehouse 3 extends over the entire height of the building, so that beverages from the warehouse 3 can be given to a loading track 19 on the upper floor via a corresponding lift or lifting truck.
• a distribution wagon or a similar transport device can be moved back and forth on this loading track 19. From the loading track 19, the beverages can be stored in thirty storage rows 20, these storage rows 20, for example, as conveyor belts, roller tracks, sloping downward slideways or the like. are configured, which lead from the loading track 19 to a conveyor belt 21.
• metering devices such as barriers, screws, turnstiles or similar devices are provided, which can be operated from the removal point 15 or the cash register 16 in the basement. In this way, up to thirty different types of beverages can be selected at the removal point 15 and the corresponding amount of the respective types of beverage are transferred from the storage rows 20 to the conveyor belt 21, which transports the beverages to the removal point 15, by the aforementioned metering devices.
• the supposed end of this conveyor belt 21 shown below in FIG. 2 does not represent the actual end of this conveyor belt 21, but at this point the conveyor belt 21 has already been lowered from the upper floor shown in FIG. 2 and already runs further down to the removal point 15 here.
• the conveyor belt 21 is also shown in FIG. 1, a quasi overlapping area being provided due to the purely schematic representation, in which the conveyor belt 21 is shown both on the lower and on the upper floor. To distinguish it from the conveyor device 14, the conveyor belt 21 is not shown in dashed lines but rather in solid lines and, as can be seen from FIG. 1, ends at the removal point 15.
• FIGS. 1 and 2 shows the view of the drinks market 1, which is shown on the left in FIGS. 1 and 2: the outlet gates for the lanes 10 and 12 and the storage gate 4 can be seen in the basement.
• Fig. 4 shows the opposite side of the building shown, here the entrance gates for lanes 10 and 12 can be seen.
• Fig. 5 shows the narrow side of the building shown in Figs. 1 and 2 below.
• Window areas 22 allow daylight into the area of the two lanes 10 and 12 and give outsiders a view of this area of the beverage market 1.
• the window surfaces 22 extend over both floors of the beverage market 1.
• a night switch can be provided, which is preferably accessible from the outside, that is to say also when the storage gate 4 is closed and the lanes 10 and 12 are closed.
• the night switch is preferably arranged in the extension of the conveyor belt 21, that is to say next to the one shown in FIG. 3 Exit gate opening of the lane 12.
• the conveyor belt 21 can be further on a level above the second conveyor device 14 than in FIG. 1 run, or a portion of the conveyor belt 21 folded up during the day can be provided in the region of the removal point 15, which at the same time represents a stop for braking the beverage crates on the conveyor belt 21.
• the section is folded down and extends the conveyor belt 21 to the night switch, which is provided in the building wall shown in FIG. 3.
• FIG. 7 shows a floor plan of a beverage market 1, in which the same devices are provided with the same reference numbers as in the embodiment of FIGS. 1 to 6.
• this beverage market shown in FIG. 7 has two first lanes. 10, which also serve as a parking area and are intended for visitors to the beverage market 1 who want to enter the shop, that is to say the sales and presentation area 2 of the beverage market 1.
• a second lane 12 is provided, which is used for particularly quick handling of the customers.
• the “second” lane 12 is therefore not the mathematically or mathematically second lane, but rather the lane that corresponds to the second type of lane, namely the express lane.
• the ordering process can take place for the users of this second lane 12 on an ordering input device 22, whereby this can either be a speech device so that the customers place their order with an employee of the beverage market 1.
• the ordering input device is designed similarly to a vending machine known per se, for example cigarette vending machines or the like, so that certain products can be selected.
• the payment process otherwise associated with such automatic vending machines is not provided here, however, so that only the order is placed on the order input device.
• the arrangement of the order input device 22 has the effect that the staff working at the second cash register 16 can work more effectively and possibly only have to process the payment. Depending on the service intensity of the beverage market 1, the staff working at this second cash register 16 can also deliver the ordered drinks to the customer and, if necessary, accept empties.
• the order initially recorded on the order input device can be processed.
• the beverage crates provided above the sales and presentation area 2 can be used to automatically compile the beverage crates belonging to each order, as well as automatically transfer these beverage crates to the conveyor, which then conveys the beverage crates to the removal point 15.
• his order has typically already been processed to such an extent that the drinks ordered are available at the tapping point 15 without waiting time or with only a short waiting time and can be removed from the conveying device.
• this second exemplary embodiment of a beverage market differs from the first exemplary embodiment in that the parking area for the customers is not limited exclusively to the first lanes 10, but in that a parking space 23 is also provided, which can also be seen from FIG. 8 and on which In particular, those customers and employees of the beverage market 1 can park their vehicle who are likely to be in the beverage market for a comparatively long time, so that they "Long-term parkers" do not have to block lane 10 unnecessarily.
• Another feature of this second exemplary embodiment is in the form of a sloping ramp 24 which leads below the floor level of the beverage market 1 and which can be seen from FIGS. 7 and 9.
• HGVs can drive up to the vicinity of the warehouse gate 4 and get so low below the floor level of the beverage market 1 that an approximately level unloading from the loading area of the HGV onto the hallway of the warehouse 3 can then take place.
• a space 25 is provided which runs at the level of the floor of the warehouse 3 and to which the truck with its loading area can connect approximately at the same level.
• the storage gate 4 is located on the same side of the building as the entrance to the lanes 10 and 12, in contrast to the first embodiment where the storage gate 4 is provided on the building side of the exit of the two lanes 10 and 12 provided there.
• This access space 26 has on the one hand a door 27 which basically allows access to the entire building and in particular to the access space 26. From the access space, the customer can either go to the store via entrances and exits 28 - Enter and leave presentation area 2. However, it can also be provided that these entrances and exits 28 are closed after the shop closes and that the part of the beverage market 1 surrounding the lanes 10 and 12, which overall represents a hall, is used as an event space for evening events. In this case, access to this hall can take place through the door 27 and through the access space 26 and the entrance 9. During the remaining opening times of the beverage market 1, access is from the lanes 10 to Sales and presentation area 2 through this entrance 9, through the access space 26 and through the entrances and exits 28 provided there.
• first lane 10 and two second lanes 12 can be provided, or more than three lanes with correspondingly different division into first and second lanes can be provided.

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