Automatic vending machine

Details Automatic vending machine Automatic vending machine

1994-02-18

1995-05-09

Oberleitner, Robert J.

Dispensing

Automatic control

Constant weight, volume or pressure control by output

2221294, 2221466, 62354, B67D 562

Patent

active

054132495

ABSTRACT:
An automatic vending machine for supplying a drink in a cup. A predetermined amount of ice is supplied from an ice making machine with rapidity and stability. The vending machine has: an ice making machine; an ice chute for feeding the ice discharged from the ice making machine into a cup; a sensor for detecting the ice passing through the ice chute and outputting an ice passage signal; and a controller for detecting the amount of ice discharged from the ice making machine and controlling the ice discharging operation of the ice making machine on the basis of the ice passage signal.

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