公开(公告)号：US5337876A

公开(公告)日：1994-08-16

申请号：US55721

申请日：1993-04-30

申请人： Jeffrey S. McGee ,  Joseph E. Fesi ,  John F. Murphy

发明人： Jeffrey S. McGee ,  Joseph E. Fesi ,  John F. Murphy

IPC分类号： G07F11/42 ,  G07F11/52

CPC分类号： G07F11/42

摘要： A vending machine has an outer housing with a hollow interior and a manual retrieval opening. At least one tray is removably supported by the housing inside the interior thereof. The tray has a plurality of storage bins, each bin being dimensioned for receiving a plurality of items to be dispensed. Each bin has a movably actuable mechanism for ejecting a single unit of the item therefrom. A manually operable coin mechanism is mounted to an exterior of the housing for receiving a predetermined number and size of coins. Insertion of the proper coins into the coin mechanism permits a single actuation thereof through a predefined range of motion. A manually operable selector mechanism is mounted to the exterior of the housing for designating the item to be dispensed when moved into engagement with the ejecting mechanism of a preselected one of the plurality of storage bins. A drive mechanism is coupled between the coin mechanism and the selector mechanism for enabling the predefined range of motion imparted by a single actuation of the coin mechanism to actuate the ejecting means of the preselected one of the storage bins. This causes a single unit of the item stored therein to be dispensed to the manual retrieval opening of the housing.

摘要翻译： 自动售货机具有外壳，其具有中空内部和手动取出开口。 至少一个托盘由其内部的壳体可拆卸地支撑。 托盘具有多个存放箱，每个箱的尺寸被设计成用于容纳多个要分配的物品。 每个仓具有可移动地致动的机构，用于从其中排出物品的单个单元。 手动操作的硬币机构安装在外壳的外部，用于接收预定数量和大小的硬币。 将适当的硬币插入硬币机构允许通过预定义的运动范围的单个致动。 手动操作的选择器机构安装到壳体的外部，用于指定当与多个存储箱中的预选的一个的排出机构接合时要分配的物品。 驱动机构联接在硬币机构和选择器机构之间，以使得能够通过硬币机构的单个致动所赋予的预定范围的运动来致动预选的一个存储仓的排出装置。 这使得存储在其中的物品的单个单元被分配到壳体的手动检索开口。