Abstract:
Dispensador (1) de unidades (2) maleables que comprende una carcasa (3) provista de una zona (4) de dispensación y un primer mecanismo para almacenar y dispensar las unidades (2) maleables, que comprende una cinta (5), estando los extremos de la cinta (5) unidos a sendos tambores (T1, T2) de enrollamiento de sentido reversible, comprendiendo el mecanismo un rodillo (6) de reenvío, de modo que al enrollarse el primer tambor (T1) se pueden almacenar unidades maleables en el primer tambor (T1) por atrapamiento de las unidades maleables entre la cinta (5) y la cinta (5) ya enrollada en el primer tambor (T1) y de modo que al desenrollarse el primer tambor (T1) se dispensan las unidades maleables (2) almacenadas en la cinta (5) enrollada en el primer tambor (T1) por la zona de dispensación (4).
Abstract:
Eine Ausgabeeinheit (5) für Backprodukte (3) weist wenigstens ein Übernahmefach (8) zur Übernahme der Backprodukte (3) von einer Zuführeinheit (4) in die Ausgabeeinheit (5), wenigstens einen im Wesentlichen vertikal orientierten Ausgabeschacht, sowie ein unterhalb des Übernahmefachs (8) angeordnetes Ausgabefach (7) zur Ausgabe der Backprodukte (3) auf, wobei die Backprodukte (3) in dem Ausgabeschacht von dem Übernahmefach (8) zu dem Ausgabefach (7) transportierbar sind. Der Ausgabeschacht ist als Fallschacht (6) für den rein schwerkraftgetriebenen Transport eines einzelnen Backprodukts (3) ausgebildet, wobei der Fallschacht (6) mehrere übereinander angeordnete Fallabschnitte (6') und mehrere Freigabeeinrichtungen (9) aufweist, wobei jedem der Fallabschnitte (6') jeweils eine Freigabeeinrichtung (9) zugeordnet ist. Die Fallabschnitte (6') sind durch die Freigabeeinrichtungen (9) sukzessive von oben nach unten freigebbar. Bei einem Produktionsautomat (1) für Backprodukte (3) mit einer Backeinheit (2) und mit einer der Backeinheit (2) nachgeordneten Zuführeinheit (4) ist der Zuführeinheit (4) eine derartige Ausgabeeinheit (5) nachgeordnet. Bei einem Verfahren zum Transportieren von Backprodukten (3) in einer Ausgabeeinheit (5) eines Produktionsautomaten (1) wird in einem als Fallschacht (6) ausgebildeten Ausgabeschacht jeweils ein einzelnes Backprodukt (3) rein schwerkraftgetrieben transportiert, wobei das Backprodukt (3) mittels mehrerer Freigabeeinrichtungen (9), welche den Fallschacht (6) in mehrere übereinander angeordnete Fallabschnitte (6') unterteilen, schrittweise um jeweils einen Fallabschnitt (6') fallend transportiert wird.
Abstract:
Identification card (ID) dispenser comprising an ID card storage module (20) for receiving and coupling with one or more ID card containers (30) with a plurality of positions for receiving an ID card; an ID card extractor (60) for picking ID cards from the ID card containers (30); wherein the ID card extractor (60) has access to the individual ID card positions of the ID card containers (30); and the ID card containers (30) are removable from the dispenser and suitable for uncoupling from the ID card storage module (20); optionally comprising a confirmation slip printer, a touch screen, a bank note reader and respective opening, and a card reader (4) and respective opening, in a user interaction module; optionally comprising a biometric module (40). Therefore, the present invention is useful for applications in the areas of ID card production, transport and management, and final user dispensing.
Abstract:
We describe a chilled beverage or glass dispenser, the dispenser comprising: an input port to receive a beverage bottle or glass to be chilled: an outlet port to provide a chilled beverage bottle or glass; a first, chilling region located on a path for a said bottle or glass between said input port and said output port; a blast chiller configured to chill a said bottle or glass in said chilling region; a second, refrigerated region located after said chilling region in said path, to maintain said bottle or glass in a chilled condition; and wherein said dispenser is configured such that, in use, a said path from said input port, through said chilling region, through said refrigerated region to said output port maintains a first-in first-out order of said beverage bottles or glasses.
Abstract:
A support group (1; 50) of products distributable by means of vending machines comprising a shaped body (2; 51) suitable to be coupled with transport means (6; 75) belonging to the vending machine, the shake body (2; 51) defining an inner seat (3; 52) which receives the product to be supplied and comprising a base plate (4; 53), suitable to be coupled to transport means (6; 75), and a boundary bulkhead 5; 54) removably coupled with the base plate (4; 53) in order to define a plurality of positions of the boundary bulkhead (5; 54) on the base plate (4; 53) varying the dimensions of the inner seat (3; 52) as the type of product to be supplied varies.
Abstract:
In a vending machine (1), in which products (2) are arranged on a tray (7) and are movable along the tray (7), by a conveyor device (16), towards an outlet (21) controlled by a release device (22) movable between a closed position and an open position, the conveyor device (16) is reversed, after one product (2) is dispensed and before and during closure of the release device (22), to detach the remaining products (2) from the release device (22).
Abstract:
An apparatus for dispensing open-ended objects such as pharmaceutical vials includes: a housing having an internal cavity configured to house open-ended objects, the housing including a guide and a floor; a pick-up unit mounted to the housing, the pick-up unit including an endless member and at least one pick-up member attached to the endless member; and a drive unit. The endless member engages the drive unit and the guide for movement relative thereto. As the drive unit drives the endless member, the at least one pick-up member travels on a pick-up path, at least a portion of which is within the housing.
Abstract:
Products are dispensed from a dispensing apparatus in which products marked with transaction information are received in a two-dimensional array of moveable bins. In response to control information synthesized from transaction information on the products in the bins and a dispense request, the array is operated to place a bin at a dispensing station on the dispensing apparatus. At the dispensing station, a mechanism is operated in response to the control information to provide access to the bin. A product in the bin may then be retrieved.
Abstract:
The invention concerns improvements to patent P9800864: vending machine, said machine including refrigerating equipment to refrigerate the products for adequate preservation until said products are consumed. The products to be dispensed are kept in compartments and individually displaced by corresponding bodies (2) rotationally linked to a chain (3) meshing between a pair of gear (4). The base for depositing the products has a central opening relative to a chain (3) in such a way that the bodies (2) has a central lower undercutting whose sides have two flaps (9) and two pivots (11) relative to the outer face of the flaps (9), said pivots being placed in an orthogonal position facing outward and positioned under the corresponding bands (6) forming the base for storing said products.
Abstract:
A vending machine for increasing consumer interest in the vending process and vended product includes a tipping mechanism. The tipping mechanism is positioned at a first end of a shelf, and modifies the orientation of an article being delivered from the shelf to a conveyor. The tipping mechanism causes the article to be tipped from an upright orientation to a perpendicular, lateral orientation. The tipping mechanism includes a ramp supported by the shelf, a spacer that provides the ramp with an incline from the shelf, and a product rotator extending from the shelf toward the conveyor. The conveyor then delivers the article to a vend port, where it is dispensed in the upright position. The conveyor may be mounted on internal elevator that carries the conveyor between one or more shelves and the vend port. A transparent window is provided on the face of the vending machine whereby a consumer can view the dispensing operations.