Article dispensing – Plural sources – stacks or compartments – Each entirely depleted in order
Patent
1991-01-14
1992-03-03
Skaggs, H. Grant
Article dispensing
Plural sources, stacks or compartments
Each entirely depleted in order
221111, 221266, 221258, 221196, B65G 5900
Patent
active
050924893
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
The subject of the present invention is a device for automatic dispensing of bottles, particularly of flexible material.
The invention is aimed at the sector of manufacturing automatic vending machines for individually packaged drinks in bottle type containers.
One of the applications of the invention is the production of automatic coin-operated vending machines for dispensing plastic bottles containing mineral water.
Various types of hot and cold drink vending machines are already familiar; these are placed in the public thoroughfare or in public access areas in establishments such as schools, hospitals, sports arenas and public offices, receiving large numbers of people.
Such vending machines can be classified into two main classes:
the first, which includes most of the cold drink dispensers, containes all those that deliver individual rigid bottles, usually in glass, that the consumer extracts by opening a flap which retains the said bottle, this flap only being freed after payment of the price (in coinage or tokens), and which locks the next bottle after extraction of the previous one.
Bottles are automatically reloaded behind this flap from an inclined ramp staorge area with sufficient slope for the bottles to slide under their own weight so as to take up the position of the bottle to be taken by the consumer. There is generally access to each end of each of the ramps which are therefore arranged one above the other amnd parallel to each other so as not to waste space; this also enables bottles of different types of drink to be placed on each row. For vending machines with only one type of drink, a single access can be common to several rows, which then feed a single channel in which the bottles pile up several high.
Particular mention can be made of certain glass bottle vending machines distributed under the brand name "DIAM".
Mention can also be made of vending machines such as those described in patent No. FR 1.091.027 of the Societe Anonyme Francaise des Appareils Automatiques, applied for on the 10th Oct. 1953 under a "dispenser of cylindrical objects", consisting of a cabinet containing ramps arranged alternately and of a gearwheel with cradles receiving several objects at a time and dispensing one by one using their weight as a drive mechanism.
Finally mention will be made of the American patents of Messrs ODEN U.S. Pat. No. 4,509,658, LINDSEY U.S. Pat. No. 4,511,060 and MANZER U.S. Pat. No. 4,511,059 applied for in 1985 on various types of vending machines for cylindrical cups, placed in a vertical channel to receive and dispense containers one by one.
Other machines are also manufactured and amongst others distributed by various Italian, American, German and Japanese companies, who have applied for patents on certain parts of their machines: either for anti-vandalism of anti-theft systems, or for the coin-operating system, or for temperature control, etc. All this is well known in the field of vending machines of drinks in bottles or cans, but always in containers made of rigid materials such as glass or metal.
The second class of drink vending machines, which also includes vending machines of cold drinks, covers all those that deliver the liquid in individual cups; hot drinks are almost always dispensed by this method.
The cups, generally of plastic, are delivered empty by a vertical drum system, in which they are piled up one on top of another and from where they fall one by one into the access of the consumer, when he or she introduces the correct coin or token into the machine.
The cup is then held under a filling spout from which is poured the the cold or hot liquid which is either ready-made or prepared on request in a single container. Many patents have been taken out in this field of automatic vending machines.
Among this type of dispenser of hot drinks in cups, mention can be made of the Danish company WITENBORG AUTOMATFABRIKER AS, for which two patents have been applied for, the first published on the 23rd Nov. 1979 in FRANCE under the Nos. FR. 2.423.991 and FR. 2.424.010, the first
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Pastor Christian B.
Pastor Claude I.
James Roland R.
Skaggs H. Grant
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