Check-actuated control mechanisms – Including value accumulator for plural checks – Having solid state circuitry
Patent
1995-01-31
1996-03-19
Huppert, Michael S.
Check-actuated control mechanisms
Including value accumulator for plural checks
Having solid state circuitry
221 2, 221264, 186 36, 235381, 414280, B65G 1137, G07F 1142
Patent
active
054997070
ABSTRACT:
A multi-product, self-service merchandising kiosk having a walk-in enclosure, interactive selection panel, illuminated merchandise display, internal drink dispenser and modular, dry goods dispenser having multi-compartmented inventory shelving and bottomless storage drawers. Purchases are selected via audio visual instructions entered at an interactive touch panel containing graphical icons, and a monitor having a menu and overlaid with an array of infrared transmitters and receivers. A programmable controller controls the drink and dry goods dispensers, manages payment transactions via a bill receiver, coin changer, credit card verifier, and receipt printer and provides periodic inventory status reports. A merchandise selector includes a motor driven, track supported collection bin and electromagnetic drawer puller. The selector aligns the bin to selected inventory drawers, extends and retracts the drawers and conveys the selected merchandise to a customer dispenser.
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Compu-Shop, Inc.
Huppert Michael S.
Lowe Scott L.
Tschida D. L.
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