公开(公告)号：US5772072A

公开(公告)日：1998-06-30

申请号：US626301

申请日：1996-04-01

申请人： Jack R. Prescott ,  John D. Smead ,  Edward Durbin ,  Michael Kanyon ,  Michael E. Rudder ,  James W. Bradfield ,  Gregory Elliott ,  Stanley Arai ,  Mark A. Hopkins ,  Donald Morrison ,  Paul T. Rudewicz ,  Kenneth Sineri ,  Thom Thomas ,  Dale Weber

发明人： Jack R. Prescott ,  John D. Smead ,  Edward Durbin ,  Michael Kanyon ,  Michael E. Rudder ,  James W. Bradfield ,  Gregory Elliott ,  Stanley Arai ,  Mark A. Hopkins ,  Donald Morrison ,  Paul T. Rudewicz ,  Kenneth Sineri ,  Thom Thomas ,  Dale Weber

IPC分类号： G07F9/02 ,  G07F9/10 ,  G07F11/04 ,  G07F11/54 ,  G07F11/00 ,  B65G59/00

CPC分类号： H05B6/808 ,  G07F11/04 ,  G07F11/54 ,  G07F17/0078 ,  G07F9/026 ,  G07F9/105

摘要： A vending machine includes a refrigeration compartment, an oven compartment, structure for transferring a food product from the refrigeration compartment to the oven compartment, and structure for transferring the food product from the oven compartment to a user of the vending machine. The vending machine provides automated handling and cooking of packaged food products that enables a hot cooked food to be delivered to a customer in a cool package sleeve. The vending machine also includes a system for inventory control that enables vertical storage of packaged food products while minimizing crushing of packaged food products at the bottom of a stack. A magazine empty indicator automatically indicates when an inventory magazine is empty. An oven door latch mechanism eliminates the possibility that the oven can be operated while the oven door is open.

公开(公告)号：US5503300A

公开(公告)日：1996-04-02

申请号：US231195

申请日：1994-04-21

申请人： Jack R. Prescott ,  John D. Smead ,  Edward Durbin ,  Michael Kanyon ,  Michael E. Rudder ,  James W. Bradfield ,  Gregory Elliott ,  Stanley Arai ,  Mark A. Hopkins ,  Donald Morrison ,  Paul T. Rudewicz ,  Kenneth Sinera ,  Thom Thomas ,  Dale Weber

发明人： Jack R. Prescott ,  John D. Smead ,  Edward Durbin ,  Michael Kanyon ,  Michael E. Rudder ,  James W. Bradfield ,  Gregory Elliott ,  Stanley Arai ,  Mark A. Hopkins ,  Donald Morrison ,  Paul T. Rudewicz ,  Kenneth Sinera ,  Thom Thomas ,  Dale Weber

IPC分类号： G07F9/02 ,  G07F9/10 ,  G07F11/04 ,  G07F11/54 ,  B65G59/06

CPC分类号： H05B6/808 ,  G07F11/04 ,  G07F11/54 ,  G07F17/0078 ,  G07F9/026 ,  G07F9/105

摘要： A vending machine includes a refrigeration compartment, an oven compartment, structure for transferring a food product from the refrigeration compartment to the oven compartment, and structure for transferring the food product from the oven compartment to a user of the vending machine. The vending machine provides automated handling and cooking of packaged food products that enables a hot cooked food to be delivered to a customer in a cool package sleeve. The vending machine also includes a system for inventory control that enables vertical storage of packaged food products while minimizing crushing of packaged food products at the bottom of a stack. A magazine empty indicator automatically indicates when an inventory magazine is empty. An oven door latch mechanism eliminates the possibility that the oven can be operated while the oven door is open.

摘要翻译： 自动售货机包括冷藏室，烤箱隔室，用于将食品从冷藏室转移到烘箱室的结构，以及用于将食品从烤箱室转移到自动售货机的使用者的结构。 自动售货机提供包装食品的自动处理和烹饪，使热烹饪食物能够在冷却套筒中交付给客户。 自动售货机还包括一个库存控制系统，可以实现垂直存储包装的食品，同时最小化堆叠底部的包装食品的破碎。 杂志空白指示器会自动显示库存杂志何时为空。 烤箱门闩锁机构消除了烤箱门打开时可以操作烤箱的可能性。

公开(公告)号：US5688423A

公开(公告)日：1997-11-18

申请号：US299927

申请日：1994-08-31

申请人： Paul T. Rudewicz ,  Thom Thomas ,  James W. Bradfield

发明人： Paul T. Rudewicz ,  Thom Thomas ,  James W. Bradfield

IPC分类号： A47J27/14 ,  G07F9/10 ,  H05B1/02

CPC分类号： G07F17/0078 ,  A47J27/14 ,  G07F9/105

摘要： In accordance with the present invention, a vending machine has one or more programmable cook cycles for use with one or more heat sources in cooking a food package to be dispensed to the customer. In one embodiment of this invention, each cook cycle includes a start time and a duration. Each cook cycle is associated with a heat source and a product code indicating the type of food to be cooked. Initially, cook cycles are copied into a random access memory from default cook cycles hard coded in the software program code and stored in electrically erasable programmable read only memory (EEPROM) of the vending machine controller. The cook cycles in RAM can be over written by an operator for the various type of foods to be cooked. The cook cycles in RAM are used by the vending machine to automatically cook a food product selected by a customer, without any further inputs.

摘要翻译： 根据本发明，自动售货机具有一个或多个可编程烹饪循环，用于在烹饪要分配给顾客的食品包装中与一个或多个热源一起使用。 在本发明的一个实施例中，每个烹饪周期包括开始时间和持续时间。 每个烹饪周期与热源和表示要烹饪的食物类型的产品代码相关联。 最初，将烹饪周期从软件程序代码中硬编码的默认烹饪周期复制到随机存取存储器中，并存储在自动售货机控制器的电可擦除可编程只读存储器（EEPROM）中。 RAM中的烹饪循环可以由操作者对于要烹饪的各种类型的食物进行过写。 自动售货机使用RAM中的厨师循环自动烹饪客户选择的食品，无需任何进一步的输入。