WO2014154208A1 - Transport of dishes within vending machine with integrated microwave - Google Patents
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- WO2014154208A1 WO2014154208A1 PCT/DE2014/100107 DE2014100107W WO2014154208A1 WO 2014154208 A1 WO2014154208 A1 WO 2014154208A1 DE 2014100107 W DE2014100107 W DE 2014100107W WO 2014154208 A1 WO2014154208 A1 WO 2014154208A1
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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
- G07F11/165—Delivery means using xyz-picker or multi-dimensional article picking arrangements
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- G07F—COIN-FREED OR LIKE APPARATUS
- G07F9/00—Details other than those peculiar to special kinds or types of apparatus
- G07F9/10—Casings or parts thereof, e.g. with means for heating or cooling
- G07F9/105—Heating or cooling means, for temperature and humidity control, for the conditioning of articles and their storage
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- 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
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- G07F—COIN-FREED OR LIKE APPARATUS
- G07F17/00—Coin-freed apparatus for hiring articles; Coin-freed facilities or services
- G07F17/0064—Coin-freed apparatus for hiring articles; Coin-freed facilities or services for processing of food articles
- G07F17/0078—Food articles which need to be processed for dispensing in a hot or cooked condition, e.g. popcorn, nuts
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- H—ELECTRICITY
- H05—ELECTRIC TECHNIQUES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
- H05B—ELECTRIC HEATING; ELECTRIC LIGHT SOURCES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; CIRCUIT ARRANGEMENTS FOR ELECTRIC LIGHT SOURCES, IN GENERAL
- H05B6/00—Heating by electric, magnetic or electromagnetic fields
- H05B6/64—Heating using microwaves
- H05B6/80—Apparatus for specific applications
- H05B6/808—Microwave heating adapted for vending machines
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- the present invention relates to a vending machine for food with a housing which encloses a product storage for holding held for sale product trays and a unilaterally accessible microwave oven, and a closure element for microwave-tight sealing of the microwave oven.
- vending machines have been known for many years in a variety of configurations.
- vending machines provide a microwave oven to heat the food selected by the user so that a ready-to-eat hot meal can be provided to the user.
- a corresponding solution is known from DE 10 2009 040 669
- vending machines are often located in public facilities such as airports, train stations and the like, as well as in larger companies, offices and self-service canteens. Basically, they are always placed where users have little time to eat a meal. All the more urgent is the desire to provide the desired meal in the shortest possible time frame, while the highest possible quality is to be delivered. In particular, the quality of warm meals is also influenced by the fact that as complete and uniform heating must have taken place. Within the vending machine, the individual meals are held in product trays, which are visible through a window in the machine. Therefore, a user of the vending machine can first make his selection from the display and then receive the specially selected product after its preparation, essentially heating.
- the specially selected product is conveyed from the product store to a microwave oven and from there to the product dispenser.
- the product is in the product store from which it must be collected for heating.
- it is placed in a microwave oven, which must be sealed microwave-tight for the heating process, so that leakage of the microwave radiation is prevented.
- the microwave oven is opened again, the product taken out and brought to the product output, to which again a conveyor must be provided.
- the object of the present invention is to propose a vending machine for foodstuffs whose conveyor system fermented compared to known vending machines are significantly accelerated and its construction is simplified at the same time.
- the closure element for closing the microwave oven is movable independently of the microwave oven within the housing and has a receptacle in which the product to be heated can be transported.
- the closure element for the microwave oven is thus approach the product storage in a first step after selecting the desired product, where the product tray is inserted into the receptacle of the closure element. Together with the product shell, the closure element will then move into the area of the microwave oven, drive the product dish into the preparation space of the microwave oven and close it in a microwave-tight manner. After a heating phase, the closure element moves the product dish out of the microwave oven again, brings the product dish into the area of a product output and delivers the product dish via the product output to the
- the product storage in which the product trays are held, is formed from a plurality of magazines which can be removed individually from the casing of the vending machine. In the individual magazines, the product trays can be held up to the selection by the user of the vending machine.
- a product tray is removed from the magazine. This can be realized in particular by means of conveyor spirals, in which the products are inserted and by turning the product trays can be moved forward.
- Such a magazine can be closed on the visible side of the user by a hinged door, so that by forward feeding a product shell, the pivot door is pressed and the supported by the pivoting door product shell can pour into the receptacle of the closure element.
- this is limited in its opening angle, so that too wide unfolding of the swing door is prevented.
- the swing doors offer the possibility of operating magazines at different temperature levels, since there is no need for temperature adjustment via the front openings, which would be present without the swing door.
- no temperature drop with respect to the other magazines while the swing doors are closed when filling, to be expected.
- the closure element with the receptacle attached to it can thus move into the region below the desired product and then accept this product in the manner described above.
- the closure element can be tilted in such a way that the direction of incidence of the product shell can be achieved.
- the closure element may be further held on a tiltable arm, as well as with some
- the arm is preferably with a lift connected, which can spend the entire arrangement within the housing of the vending machine to any position of the product storage.
- the receptacle can also be adapted in its shape to the shape of the product shells, which can be shaped so that a centering takes place in the receptacle. This is easily possible with round product trays, where a centering can be omitted due to the circular symmetry. For example, with oval shaped product shells, the recording a
- the product shell at a later time in the microwave oven receives a defined position, which can take place due to the uniform distances to the walls of the preparation chamber of the microwave oven efficient heating.
- the receptacle preferably forms a substantially oval collecting basket, which is suitable for receiving substantially all forms of common product trays, so that even differently shaped product trays can be held and offered simultaneously in the vending machine.
- the receptacle also has a position switch which is actuated as soon as a product shell has fallen into the receptacle.
- a position switch which is actuated as soon as a product shell has fallen into the receptacle.
- the microwave oven can also be moved on a rail assembly from a rest position to a working position, so far to meet after passing the height level of the microwave oven through the closure element this and to shorten the travel of the elevator and arm.
- the closure element can then move into a closure position of the microwave oven, wherein the product dish is then in the closed position in the interior of the microwave oven embarkaussraums.
- the receptacle may advantageously be made of a microwave-transparent material, so that the product shell can be reached on all sides by the microwaves.
- the lid of the product tray engages a tool for locally opening the product tray, which is arranged in the microwave oven.
- a tool for locally opening the product tray which is arranged in the microwave oven.
- This is, for example, a knife suspended in the ceiling region of the microwave oven or a needle or the like, which, however, is arranged so far in the upper region of the microwave oven that the blade or tip of the tool opens after the lid of the product bowl has opened due to the decrease in the inflation the lid comes out of the product shell again.
- a punctual opening is a bursting of Product shell avoided by an internal overpressure. Otherwise, such a burst could lead to an explosion of the product shell in the microwave oven, which would have to be eliminated again by a complex cleaning.
- the selective opening of the product shell therefore serves primarily hygienic goals.
- a bulge of the lid of the product shell in the range of about two centimeters can be pronounced.
- the tool will then hit the lid after about a centimeter of curvature and eventually retract into the lid up to one centimeter. This will be the
- an eccentric roller may be provided in the region of the closure element or the microwave oven, which engages in the closure position of the closure element either the product tray or the receptacle from below and at least on one side moves up and down by a rotation about an eccentric axis. As a result of this movement, it is ensured that microwave radiation propagating in the preparation chamber of the microwave oven reaches all areas of the product dish uniformly, thereby ensuring a faster, more uniform heating of the product.
- the product held on the closing element leaves the microwave oven again and, in the course of a further rotation of either the receptacle or the entire closing element, ejects the product dish from the housing via a product outlet.
- the product output can be assigned at least one means for detecting a machine-readable code, for example a barcode, arranged on the product shell. This can ensure that only authorized products are kept in the vending machine. Is determined at issue If an unauthorized barcode has been found, the operation of the vending machine may be suspended until it is reopened.
- FIG. 1 shows a vending machine according to the invention in a frontal sectional view
- FIG. 2 shows the vending machine according to FIG. 1 in a lateral sectional view with a receptacle located in a filling position
- FIG. 3 shows the vending machine according to FIG. 1 in a lateral sectional view with a receptacle located in a retraction position
- FIG. 4 shows a cross-sectional illustration of a microwave oven with a receptacle with product dish located therein
- FIG. 5 shows a schematic side view of a product bowl with indicated air circulation
- FIG. 8 shows the vending machine according to FIG. 1 in a side sectional view with a receptacle which has a finished product shell ready for output
- FIG. 7 shows the vending machine according to FIG. 1 in a lateral sectional view during product dispensing.
- 1 shows a vending machine 10, which is enclosed by a housing 1 1, in which both a series of magazines 13 with a plurality of product trays 18 for selection by a customer, as well as a microwave oven 30 and an automatic cutlery output 17 not considered here be kept ready.
- a closing element 20 which has a receptacle 21 in the form of a collecting basket, moves into a position below the magazine compartment with the desired product tray 16.
- a conveying spiral 15 of the magazine 13 makes a rotation through which a product tray 16 is conveyed to the closure member 20 and the receptacle 21 to.
- the magazine 13 concealing pivoting door 14, which is made of Plexiglas to obtain the transparency for the customer, disengage to a stop, so that an incidence path of the product shell 16 is formed in the receptacle 21.
- the receptacle 21 additionally has a receiving funnel 22, which simplifies centering of the product pan 16 in the receptacle 21.
- Figure 2 shows the same vending machine 10 in a side view, in which it can be seen that the magazines 13 are filled with a plurality of product trays 16 which are successively conveyed out of the magazines 13 by rotation of the conveyor spirals 15 while pushing the pivot door 14 away can.
- the closure element 20, which carries the receptacle 21 and then the product shell 18, spend them in a microwave oven 30, in which the receptacle 21 with the product shell 16 enters via a bottom-side access 32.
- FIG. 3 shows the next step in which the closure element 20 with the product shell 16 accommodated in the receptacle 21 has now been brought into an area below the microwave oven 30 by means of the elevator 24.
- the closure element 20 was placed on the arm 23 in a horizontal position. In this deep position now the microwave oven 30 is moved out via rails 33 under the magazines 13 and thus in a
- the closure element 20 will now insert the product shell 16 through the bottom-side access 32 of the microwave oven 30 into its preparation space 31 and at the same time seal the microwave oven 30 microwave-tightly.
- FIG. 4 shows the microwave oven with the retracted therein product, which is held in the receptacle 21.
- the microwave oven is microwave-tightly locked on the bottom side by the closure element 20, so that a separate step for closing a door can be dispensed with.
- an eccentric roller 35 is arranged, which engages over a slot through the closure member through the receptacle 21 and this moves in the course of rotation about an eccentric axis 36 up and down. Due to a bulge of the lid of the product shell
- this lid also engages a tool 34, which pierces the lid and thus helps to reduce the internal pressure of the product shell 16.
- the tool 34 is arranged so high that, when the bulge of the lid of the product pan 16 forms, the tool is no longer in engagement with the product pan 16. Due to the fact that the
- Receiving 21 is formed of a microwave transparent material is a uniform circulation of microwaves within the preparation space 31st allows.
- a very uniform heating of the product in the product shell 16 is made possible.
- the product shell has more or less the same distance from all the walls of the preparation space 31. Due to the exact averaging of the product in the preparation chamber 31, the preparation time is approximately halved compared to a randomly placed product because of the associated uniform irradiation by microwaves. In addition, it is possible to circulate the resulting hot air around the product pan 16, as indicated in FIG.
- FIG. 6 once again shows the entire vending machine 10 in a lateral sectional view, wherein in the position shown the closure element 20 with the receptacle 21 has first moved downwards, the oven 30 has returned to its rest position via the rails 31 and the closure element 20 was brought to the height of a product output 12 by means of the elevator 24. At the same time a rotation of the receptacle 21 by 180 ° took place, so that now the receiving hopper 22 points to the product output 12.
- the product tray 16 is dispensed through the product dispenser 12, at the same time being verified by means for detecting a bar code, in particular a bar code scanner, arranged in the region of the product dispenser 12, that the product shell 16 is a permissible product.
- a bar code in particular a bar code scanner
- a vending machine which provides a new transport concept for the product shells to be heated, in which the closure element of the microwave oven has a receptacle with which the product is picked up from a product store, placed in the microwave oven and finally led to the product output, without the Having to put down the product in between.
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