PACKAGED ICE VENDING MACHINE
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    发明申请
    PACKAGED ICE VENDING MACHINE 审中-公开
    包装冰机

    公开(公告)号:US20160292953A1

    公开(公告)日:2016-10-06

    申请号:US15092104

    申请日:2016-04-06

    Inventor: Donald Ray Brown

    CPC classification number: G07F17/0071 F25C5/20 G07F9/105 G07F11/10 G07F11/42

    Abstract: Embodiments of packaged ice vending machines are provided. One embodiment comprises an array having a plurality of longitudinal dispensing cells. Each of the dispensing cells has a substantially horizontal surface that supports a respective ice package and a dispensing cell opening sized to permit passage of the respective ice package through the dispensing cell opening when pushed in a direction toward the dispensing cell opening. An elongated vertical ice package chute receives ice packages from the plurality of dispensing cell openings and delivers the ice packages to an ice package dispensing surface situated below the dispensing cell openings. The ice package dispensing surface is accessible by a user of the vending machine to enable the user who is situated outside of the vending machine to remove a vended ice package. A belt extends continuously in a substantially horizontal serpentine manner through the plurality of dispensing cells so that a part of the belt can cause a rear part of each of the ice packages to be pushed, directly or indirectly. The belt is fixedly secured at one end and secured to a spool on the other end. The spool pulls and coils the belt when the spool is rotated to thereby cause the vended ice package to be pushed on the rear part toward and through the respective dispensing cell opening and then into the vertical chute. An electric motor exerts rotational force on the spool in order to roll up and pull on the belt during a vending operation associated with the vended ice package.

    Abstract translation: 提供了包装冰自动售货机的实施例。 一个实施例包括具有多个纵向分配单元的阵列。 每个分配单元具有基本上水平的表面,其支撑相应的冰封和分配单元开口,其尺寸设定成当朝向分配单元开口的方向被推动时允许相应的冰封通过分配单元开口。 细长的垂直冰包装滑槽从多个分配单元开口接收冰包装,并将冰包装输送到位于分配单元开口下方的冰包装分配表面。 自动售货机的使用者可以访问冰包装分配表面,以使得位于自动售货机外部的用户能够去除已经经过升级的冰包装。 皮带以基本上水平的蛇形方式连续地延伸通过多个分配单元,使得皮带的一部分可以使得每个冰包的后部被直接或间接地推动。 皮带一端固定固定在另一端的线轴上。 当阀芯旋转时,阀芯拉动并卷绕皮带,从而使得经过改装的冰包被朝向并穿过相应的分配单元开口推到后部,然后进入垂直滑槽。 电动机在卷轴上施加旋转力,以便在与升级的冰包装件相关联的自动售货操作期间卷起并拉动皮带。

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