The apparatus and method of selection of products for automatic vending machine

The invention relates to a mechanism for moving products for vending machine

The invention relates to the field of trade and is intended to accelerate the turnover of goods, provision of a large number of consumer goods at discounted prices, which increases economic efficiency in the production and sale of goods

In proposed device containing drive and fixed support for pile of sheet articles, gripper of putout mechanism thrust against upper sheet of pile at initial force required for putting out most thin sheet article and it is made in form of flexible material roller of high friction coefficient on paper being installed on carriage hinge-connected over and behind the roller with positioning holder provided with stop and support spring keeping part of carriage with roller in contact with stop and provided with possibility of lowering, without changing angle of tilting, as height of pile decreases, and fixing by reverse travel stop. Thanks to it roller, moving along fixed sheet backwards from side of putting out and tilting the carriage downwards and extending the support spring, increases automatically force of pressing and separation to value required for separation and putting out copy of sheet article without creating forces for gripping two or more articles. Positioning holder can be released from locking to lift carriage with roller to put in new pile. Initial roller pressing force is provided by counterweight of putout mechanism.

Motor starts working upon receiving signals from control elements. Motor turns carousel in such way that stack of glasses, disposed before first and second ends of corresponding guides, moves in direction of ends. Round skirting of lower glass, when moving along first and second guides, fids itself in spaces third ends and between second and fourth ends of guides. First and second enter space between round welts of lower glass and of glass disposed above it. Then stack of glass shifts in such a way that separators find their place in space. Lower glass moves away from stack until it cannot keep to top glass due to friction, and lower glass separates from stack. At this moment stack of glasses finds itself above outlet and glass, separated from stack, falls down. Separated glass falls down through outlet under effect of gravity. Next stack of glasses stops in front of first and second ends of first and second guides correspondingly. Carousel stops until motor turns on the next time.

In the trading machine, to extract an object the motor is activated, from which rotary movement is transferred by means of an axis to platform, and pusher unit positioned on the platform is moved towards the channel for placement of object until stopped by the end of lower object, during that time a stack of objects is held in the channel, supported by third wall and simultaneously sliding along the working surface of the platform, lower object, its end being pushed by pusher unit, shifts towards first window. The object which is positioned directly above the lower object, is still partially supported by the latter, whole stack of objects is maintained in unchanged position. Rotation of the platform is continued, lower object under effect of the pusher is ejected into first window, passed into it and moved towards second window, while the pusher approaches second wall. In the moment when the suspended part of lower object is larger than the part in touch with working surface, the lower object is separated from the stack under effect of gravity and then falls into tray.

In accordance to the invention, pouring trading machine ensures a distributing channel, which has rotational input branch pipe, which is mounted on the top of a pile of objects in bunker for the goods. Input branch pipe is capable of movement between horizontal orientation, in which input branch pipe may scoop objects from the surface of the pile, and vertical orientation, in which the neck of distribution channel is opened to allow the object, which is scooped in input branch pipe, to fall through distribution channel. Rotation of distribution channel by turning the handle forces the input branch pipe to rotate around the pile of objects, scooping one or more objects on its trajectory.

Trading machine includes following parts, all connected by direct and reverse connection to central control block: product selection panel with keyboard, information displaying device, coin mechanism with possible output of change, connected by its output to input of central control block, paper money intake mechanism, communication device made in form of wireless receiving-transmitting devices, connected by direct and reverse connection to central control block, owner notification and/or remote multimedia content updating block connected to central control block by direct and reverse connection and connected by its input to output of central block for controlling sound device, where central control block is provided with ports for external management and monitoring.

In accordance to the invention, to extract an object from the trading machine, first drive is activated on signal from controlling elements, with downward shifting of pusher along axial transmission to cause pressure on a stack of objects, second drive is activated, stopper is turned for 90°, freeing lower object in a stack, prevented from falling out by braking elements. Under pressure of the pusher the lower object exits the limits of side walls. The stack of objects continues downward movement, and following object in the stack is moved to extreme lower position, on signal from controlling elements first drive is disabled, axial transmission stops rotating, pusher and stack of objects are stopped. Simultaneously with that second drive is enabled, stopper is returned to original position, preventing the fall of next object. After that second drive is disabled. Device is stopped until enabled again by signal from control elements.

Said invention relates to public utilities and commercial mechanical engineering, in particular, to methods for collecting secondary raw materials, as well as to automatic devices for secondary raw material collection and separation. The invention also relates to token automatic devices and may be used in entertainment industry. The said invention key feature is that raw material is exchanged for the right of a bonus game(s) in a game machine or a commercial game machine and/or computer game, Internet game or mobile phone game. The game implies possibility of winning a bonus game or prize money, goods, service or discount for goods or service.

Machine is designed for selling both cooled and warmed up food products in places where people gather, for example, in hotel halls, station-houses, airport halls, coffee houses, bars, shops etc. The machine comprises heat-insulated frame with a door and cooling system as well as pull-out tray with spiral screws. Microwave is placed in the lower part of the machine; the microwave door is made as two perpendicular to each other plates with a leading element in-between, this element with concave surface serves simultaneously as catcher and as element of the mechanism for transporting a product into the microwave heating chamber and into the basket for delivered products. In case the microwave is placed between the machine trays heating of products on the trays under the microwave is completely excluded.

Invention relates to coin and similar machines for distribution of separate goods. The mechanism of goods moving for vending machine contains good gripping tool and a mechanism of gripping tool moving. The gripping tool contains a tray, flat-topped rigid frame, cross-beams, turning flange, furnished with turning device. Cross-beams are executed in form of plates with end flaps. Cross-beam is fastened to the flat-topped rigid frame with possibility of swivel turn about axis of parallel axial axis of flat-topped rigid frame. Turning flange can turn about axis of parallel axial axis of flat-topped rigid frame. Each cross-beam is connected to the turning flange by rodding. Side surfaces of flat-topped rigid frame has wheels, which can move the frame on guideways fastened on tray sides. Flat-topped rigid frame is equipped with gearing of excursion along the tray.

Present invention relates to methods of giving out articles chosen by a user and can be used in automatic machines and semi-automatic machines for selling flat articles with the same shape. The method employs an automatic machine the case of which is a container for the articles, made from elastic material. The articles are staked close to each other inside the case and are held in the container by not less than one plate made from elastic material, on the radius of which there is a cut such that, an aperture is formed by the cut is lower than the height of the article or package of the article. The plate can rotate about an axis. The article is given out through rotation of the plate around its axis not less than one complete turn in the direction for which the plate with the cut catches and separates the article, lying at the bottom of the stake from the rest of the stake.