Classifications

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  • G07F11/00—Coin-freed apparatus for dispensing, or the like, discrete articles
  • G07F11/02—Coin-freed apparatus for dispensing, or the like, discrete articles from non-movable magazines
  • G07F11/04—Coin-freed apparatus for dispensing, or the like, discrete articles from non-movable magazines in which magazines the articles are stored one vertically above the other
  • G07F11/16—Delivery means
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  • G07F11/1657—Delivery means using xyz-picker or multi-dimensional article picking arrangements the picking arrangements using suction
• • G—PHYSICS
  • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
  • G07F—COIN-FREED OR LIKE APPARATUS
  • G07F11/00—Coin-freed apparatus for dispensing, or the like, discrete articles
  • G07F11/46—Coin-freed apparatus for dispensing, or the like, discrete articles from movable storage containers or supports
  • G07F11/50—Coin-freed apparatus for dispensing, or the like, discrete articles from movable storage containers or supports the storage containers or supports being rotatably mounted
  • G07F11/52—Coin-freed apparatus for dispensing, or the like, discrete articles from movable storage containers or supports the storage containers or supports being rotatably mounted about horizontal axes
• • G—PHYSICS
  • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
  • G07F—COIN-FREED OR LIKE APPARATUS
  • G07F11/00—Coin-freed apparatus for dispensing, or the like, discrete articles
  • G07F11/72—Auxiliary equipment, e.g. for lighting cigars, opening bottles
• • G—PHYSICS
  • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
  • G07F—COIN-FREED OR LIKE APPARATUS
  • G07F13/00—Coin-freed apparatus for controlling dispensing or fluids, semiliquids or granular material from reservoirs
  • G07F13/04—Coin-freed apparatus for controlling dispensing or fluids, semiliquids or granular material from reservoirs by weight
• • G—PHYSICS
  • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
  • G07F—COIN-FREED OR LIKE APPARATUS
  • G07F13/00—Coin-freed apparatus for controlling dispensing or fluids, semiliquids or granular material from reservoirs
  • G07F13/10—Coin-freed apparatus for controlling dispensing or fluids, semiliquids or granular material from reservoirs with associated dispensing of containers, e.g. cups or other articles

Definitions

• the present invention relates to a machine that is commonly known as vending, intended for dispensing bulk products, preferably sweets, and at the same time making the weight of the product being dispensed.
• the object of the invention is to simplify the operations that must be carried out for the purchase of toys, without the need to acquire the desired products and then have to weigh them as conventionally occurs.
• the machine is preferably and fundamentally intended for application in the dispensing and weighing of toys or sweets, its use in the sale or dispensing of any other type of small bulk product, such as screws, buttons, nuts, is not ruled out. , etc.
• vending machines that dispense bulk products of the aforementioned type, both of nuts and toys, etc., but the dispensing is usually carried out in bags, the consumer not having the option of acquiring a specific weight in grams, but You have to acquire the specific product weight contained in the corresponding bag.
• vending machines that include means for dispensing bulk products and at the same time means that weigh each product.
• the machine that is recommended has been designed to solve this problem previously exposed, so that it is constituted from a furniture as is conventional, that is, a closet, with a numerical selector of products, with an informative display, with a purse, with A series of product containers located in an display case, and with a product outlet, has the particularity of having a special system of dispensing tanks of the products, as well as a positioning system of a receiving hopper of each of the products, in combination with a scale that is part of that positioning and operating system of the hopper, also including the machine a system of automatic bagging of the products dispensed, either jointly or in a unitary way, as requested or required by the customer or consumer.
• the machine of the invention has as its first novelty the inclusion of a series of product container deposits, consisting of cylindrical tubes of transparent plastic material, supported by different pairs of rollers, cylinders that include a spring inside coiled in solidarity with the internal surface of the cylinder or tank, which is driven through its base or rear end by means of a motor that is activated when, through the purse, different currencies are deposited and the consumer presses the corresponding selector, there is a motor to drive a front door for closing and opening the tank or cylindrical tube itself, so that in the closed position it prevents the product from leaving, while in the opening position the product will exit when said cylindrical tube rotates, counting in proximity to that mouth with a pair of semi-discs, one of them fixed and another rotating, p
• an agitator pendulum system may be incorporated into said tubes
• Another novel feature of the machine of the invention is based on the positioning system of the receiving hopper of the product leaving the aforementioned tanks, as well as the dispensing by that hopper of the product to a receptacle provided at the exit.
• Said positioning system of the product receiving hopper is constituted by a transverse and frontal guide that can be moved up and down, being connected through pulleys and two vertical and lateral cables, with reels located superiorly, driven by a motor , so that the actuation of the latter carries, depending on the rotation, the upward and downward movement of the guide and therefore of the product receiving hopper, a hopper that has a small tilt to the side to be perfectly oriented in correspondence with the outlet of the container or cylindrical tube container of the product to be dispensed, including a second tilting in the opposite direction, for emptying the hopper over the outlet receptacle.
• the hopper is movable through a skate, in the referred front guide, to be placed, depending on the selector that the consumer presses, in correspondence with the exit end of the respective cylindrical tube or tank whose product has been selected by the consumer, having anticipated that the The tipping of said hopper is achieved as a consequence of the fact that in the support structure of the hopper there is a pinion capable of engaging with a rack section located at the end of the path of said hopper, causing it to swing for emptying Of the same.
• a product load or weighing cell is included on the sliding skid of the hopper, on which in turn the pinion system of the hopper and means or hinge of tilting it is located.
• an automatic bagging system that is constituted from a bag container tank, with a rectangular prismatic configuration in which the bags are located, and with a curved front to allow tilt and position of a tilting plate with suction bellows, which, through these bellows, is located in proximity to the front end of the stack of bags for extraction by aspiration of each of them, being that tilt suction plate linked to a duct derived from a vacuum cleaner, while that duct is extended to another vertical plate, also for suction, located above the receptacle where the dispensing hopper deposits the collected products by tilting.
• the bellows tilt plate has at its articulation end the flexible tube in communication with the vacuum cleaner, a pinion capable of engaging with two sections of zippers, one located superiorly to the same to carry out the tilting down of the suction plate when is facing the deposit of the bags, and another to carry out the tilt forward, when that suction plate reaches and faces the vertical plate located above the product outlet receptacle, so that in this case and through a cam a valve is actuated that allows the suction drive of this plate vertical carrying out the suction and separating the two walls of the bag, one adhered to the bellows of the suction plate and another that is logically adhered to the vertical plate referred to above, producing the opening of the bag by slight tilting backwards of the suction plate.
• the bag falls by gravity, with the product contained and that has been deposited in it by the hopper, falling into the receptacle, there being a trapdoor that must be manually tilted to extract said container bag from the dispensed product.
• the movements of displacement and tilting of the tilting plate with the suction bellows is carried out on the basis of an engine with a pinion and a rack whose drive carries with it the displacement in one direction and another of the tilting plate and that when the pinion of this reaches the independent zipper sections referred to above, tilts in one direction and another to carry out the appropriate operations of aspiration of the bag of the corresponding deposit and release of it when it is facing the outlet receptacle with the product dispensed by the hopper.
• Figure 1. Shows a front representation of the automatic vending machine made in accordance with the object of the invention.
• Figure 2. Shows a sectional side view of one of the cylindrical tubes that constitutes a container container of the product, supported on the lower rollers.
• Figure 3. Shows a front view of the cylinder or tank represented in the previous figure, as well as the different lower rollers for support of each of these tanks.
• Figure 4. Shows a view according to a general perspective of the set of rollers, specifically four pairs, for support of as many tanks or cylinders, specifically four, with the elements provided subsequently for actuation of each of the said cylinders or tanks.
• Figure 5. It shows a front detail of the system of displacement of the receiving hopper of the products dispensed from the different cylinders or container tanks thereof, ' being seen at the outlet end the rack section on which the linked pinion engages to the hopper to swing it. It has also been represented at the end corresponding to the section Zipper previously referred to, the starting position of tilting a hopper for unloading.
• Figure 6. Shows a side elevation view of the hopper with the means associated with it, that is to say those that produce the tilting to one side and another of it, the gear pinion, the skid with the load cell and its assembly on the corresponding frontal and linear guide. This figure also shows the tilting in the opposite direction of said hopper to be oriented towards the exit of the respective tank or dispensing cylinder of the product.
• Figure 7. Shows a schematic view of the automatic bag bagging system, where each and every one of the elements that constitute it are shown.
• Figure 8. It shows a plan view of the part corresponding to the container storage of the bags, as well as the suction plate with bellows for the extraction of each of the bags and the pinion integral to it to produce the tilting in one way or another of such a tilting plate.
• Figures 9 to 13. They show different operating sequences of the automatic bagging system that includes the machine of the invention. PREFERRED EMBODIMENT OF THE INVENTION. -
• the automatic bulk vending machine made in accordance with the object of the invention is a vending machine and is constituted, as is conventional, from a rectangular prismatic cabinet or cabinet (1 ) with a display case in which a series of deposits (2) product containers, a numerical selector (3), an information display (4), a coin slot (5) and an exit opening are shown frontally (6) for the product dispensed.
• the tanks (2) are constituted, in each case, by a cylindrical tube as shown in Figure 2, in which a spiral spring (7) is joined in such a way that the tanks or cylinders (2) are supported by pairs of rotating rollers (8), assisted by a frame (9), there is a motor (10) for rotating operation of the tanks or cylinders (2) product containers, motor (10) ) which has a drive element (11) that is embedded in a recess or machining (12) established in the base (13) of each of the cylinders (2), having also provided that in proximity to the outlet said cylinders or tanks (2) have a means for limiting the output of the product according to the thickness, constituted by two half-discs (14 and 14 '), the first one fixed and the second partially rotating to throttle in greater or lesser extent the output, according to the position of The same, depending on the thickness of the product, having also provided a pivot (15) adjustable its position in or out, as required by the product.
• Each cylinder or tank (2) rotates independently according to the selection made by the consumer,
• the output of the products that leave the different tanks or cylinders (2) is carried out by means of a tilting hopper (18) that slides, through a skid (19), on a linear front guide (20), as it can be seen clearly in figure 4, so that at the end where the hopper (18) is to be emptied, it includes a rack section (21) whose function will be exposed later.
• a load cell is located on the skate (19)
• a pinion (26) is provided to engage with the rack section (21) when the hopper (18) approaches towards that end where the rack section (21) is ), including on this edge a tilting axis or hinge (27) that produces the tilting towards the hopper discharge position (18) when it reaches the end where the rack section (21) is located, as, as saying, the hopper (18) according to the product selected at any time in the numerical selector (3), will move to one side or the other, and / or up / down to be placed at the exit of the respective tank or cylinder (2 ) of which the specific product has been requested, to receive that product and then move towards the end of the rack section (21) and carry out the tilting by means of the gear that establishes the pinion (26) with that rack section (21) for emptying the product contained and previously received by the hopper (18).
• the automatic bagging system shown in Figures 8 and 9 it is constituted from a suction plate (33) with bellows (34) that is tilting around an articulation point (36) of the same respect of the connection with a flexible tube (37) that belongs to the suction system itself, connected to through a duct (38), with a vacuum cleaner (39), including the articulation shaft (36) a solidarity pinion (40) whose function will be discussed later.
• a second conduit (38 ') is established, leading to a vertical and fixed plate (57) located above the receptacle (41) in which it is established the exit (6) of the product dispensed, in whose exit a swinging door (42) with counterweight (43) is provided.
• This vertical and fixed suction plate (57) is put into operation by means of a valve associated with a cam (45).
• This system also includes a guide (46) which in combination with a rack (47) establishes the means of movement to one side or another of the suction plate (33), by driving a motor (48) with a pinion ( 49) that meshes with the rack (47), there is also a section of rack (50) at the end, and a section of rack (50 ') provided above and movable to the opposite end.
• a guide (46) which in combination with a rack (47) establishes the means of movement to one side or another of the suction plate (33), by driving a motor (48) with a pinion ( 49) that meshes with the rack (47), there is also a section of rack (50) at the end, and a section of rack (50 ') provided above and movable to the opposite end.
• the selector number (3) corresponding to the desired product is pressed, each number corresponding to a cylinder or tank (2) container of different products, so that the consumer will keep pressing that number of the selector (3) until the desired quantity of product is obtained.
• the selector (3) the hopper (18) receiving the product is pressed, it will move conveniently until it is placed under the outlet of the container or cylinder (2) container of the selected product, producing a swinging of the hopper (18) towards the outlet of that cylinder or tank (2) to receive the product, dispensed that is made by turning such a tank or cylinder (2) to gradually dispensing the product until the consumer stops pressing the number of the selector (3) or until the available balance is used up.
• the consumer with the balance in proportion to the money introduced can press each time a button and thus receive the hopper (18) of the different products selected, taking into account that in each selection the customer is informed, through the display informative (4), the quantity of product in grams and the available balance.
• reservoir (52) which is of general rectangular prismatic configuration with its front wall (52 ') curved with a path that must correspond to that made by the front edge of the suction plate (33) in its introduction and exit with respect to the tank (52).
• serrated strips (53) are provided inside the front wall (52 ') of the tank (52) bag container (51 to prevent the glued bags from coming out, in combination with small upper springs (54 ).
• the tank (52) also has a wall (55) at the back, equipped with a stop (56) for stacking the bags (51) inside the tank
• the automatic bagging of the product that is emptied by the hopper (18) is as follows:
• the vacuum cleaner (39) is activated and the order is given that the tilting plate (33) moves backwards so that it tilts down and the bellows (34) can suck the upper bag (51) from those contained in the tank (52), adapting the bellows (34) according to the amount of bags left in the tank and making the extraction in correspondence with the front part of those bags (51), as shown in Figure 9.
• the vacuum cleaner (39 ) stops and the tilting suction plate (33) is pulled back, allowing the bag (51) to fall with the product that had previously fallen to it from the hopper (18), as shown in the figure 13, all in such a way that the bag (51 ) with the product inside the receptacle (41), as shown in that figure 13, so that the consumer can manually tilt the trapdoor (42) and remove the bag (51) with the product; meanwhile the tilting suction plate

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