Food vending machine particularly warm food such as toasts, sand

Details Food vending machine particularly warm food such as toasts, sand Food vending machine particularly warm food such as toasts, sand

1995-03-16

1996-09-17

Simone, Timothy F.

Foods and beverages: apparatus

Cooking

Automatic control

99355, 99357, 99451, 221150A, A47J 2700, A47J 3700, G07F 910

Patent

active

055557937

DESCRIPTION:

BRIEF SUMMARY
TECHNICAL FIELD

The present invention relates to a vending machine for warm food such as toasts, sandwiches, pizzas, brioches, et cetera. In the current state of the art there are various kinds of vending machines. The most common ones are those for hot or cold beverages, often associated with vending machines for solid food (brioches, sandwiches, potato chips, etc.) that is invariably cold.
There are also stations for the distribution of toasts, for example, with a built-in oven that however entail manual intervention of the operator to unpackage the product and insert it into the toaster.
As an alternative, by inserting a token, coin or magnetic card in an appropriate collection unit, the machine dispenses an uncooked packaged toast that is collected by the consumer, manually unpackaged, and also manually inserted into the toaster to be then extracted, after various inspections, once cooking is complete, with the risk of burning to one's fingers.
The current process has several drawbacks.
The foremost drawback relates to the hygiene factor, because the toaster is exposed to the public and it is consequently easily subject to the insertion of foreign matter therein.
Accidents are another important drawback, since a child might imprudently insert his hand into the toaster.
Another drawback is the user's involvement for the manual process during the various operation steps, which can sometimes lead to loss of grip on the product.
Still another drawback is the handling of the product, which sometimes occurs with hands that are not perfectly clean and helps to worsen the hygienic situation.


DISCLOSURE OF THE INVENTION

Accordingly, a principal technical aim of the present invention is to provide a vending machine for warm toasts, pizzas, brioches, et cetera that is capable of dispensing products through an appropriately provided slot so that they are partially wrapped in a napkin for holding them and are perfectly as well as uniformly cooked.
An object of the present invention is to provide a vending machine for the above listed products which is obtained from the combination of partially conventional parts which are mutually connected so as to achieve an automatic and reliable productive result.
Another object is to provide a machine which has low manufacturing and running costs so as to avoid excessively affecting the cost of the product to be distributed.
An advantage of the vending machine according to the invention is the provision of electronic management and control systems suitable to provide timely reporting of jammings or failures occurring during the various steps of the process.
Another advantage is that the vending machine has been designed so as to considerably limit electric power consumption without however altering the quality of the dispensed product.
Another object is to achieve perfect cooking of the products in a considerably shorter time than normal toasters, so as to cope with intense demand by providing a high dispensing rate.
Another object is to store the products inside the vending machine so that they are pre-packaged in hermetically sealed containers which ensure that external agents cannot affect the product.
Another object is to ensure perfect preservation of the products even in case of prolonged inactivity of the machine, since they are stored in an appropriate refrigeration chamber.
With this technical aim and the consequent objects in view, there is provided a vending machine for warm food products such as toasts, which is characterized in that it comprises: a first station for storing pre-packaged products in an appropriate refrigeration chamber; a second station for cutting a protective package of the container inside which the product to be processed is present; arranged for receiving the product from the second station and being a pickup station formed by a gripper which is contrasted by springs and is such as to keep the product firmly clamped inside it; a device for rotating gripper about one of its axes through 90.degree., so as to arrange the gripper vertically wi

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