Foods and beverages: apparatus – Cooking – Automatic control
Patent
1998-11-24
2000-02-15
Simone, Timothy
Foods and beverages: apparatus
Cooking
Automatic control
99357, 99352, 99427, 99443R, 219388, 219400, A47J 3700, G07F 910, G07F 1100
Patent
active
06024013&
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
OBJECT OF THE INVENTION
The present invention refers to a dispensing machine for hot food products, preferably precooked, especially pizzas, which are originally piled in different columns distributed in a refrigerator store, from which, prior product selection by a consumer, they are transferred to an oven where they are rapidly heated, then being ejected towards the external tray.
An object of this invention is that the dispensing machine for hot food products has the means necessary to separate and supply the product selected from one of the storage columns, as well as means of support and transport to direct said product to a specially configured oven.
Likewise, an object of the invention is the displacement and transport device introducing and supporting the food product inside the oven during heating, likewise provided by this device.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
There are several dispensing machines on the market used for the distribution of liquid or solid food products, using different methods to facilitate the selection and dispatch of the product chosen by the consumer after introducing the corresponding coins.
A type of dispensing machine is known in which the products to be supplied are normally housed in different compartments of a tower or vertical column in which products of the same type are grouped, whether bags of crisps, chocolates or other products, to which the user has access by an external tray over which the product falls after introducing the coins and pressing the selector for said product.
In other embodiments, it is contemplated that the dispensing machine has the products grouped in the compartments of some rotating horizontal stores located at different levels, which rotate after pressing the corresponding button, until placing one of the products available opposite the exit through which the user introduces his/her hand after passing a normally foldable door providing access to the product selected.
As may be verified, the applications of the dispensing machines are different as are the solutions for storage, selection and dispatch of the product, finding internal mechanisms, normally developed according to requirements of effectiveness and operational simplicity, applicable to dispensing machines for a type of product not requiring any other treatment than its storage and distribution.
When the product concerned to be dispensed requires heat treatment, whether for its cold preservation or heating, as is the case in this last example of dispensing machine for hot drinks, it is necessary for the machine to incorporate, as well as the mechanical means for selection and transport, heating or cooling components, conveniently located according to the intended operation sequence.
Starting from the extended acceptance of this type of dispensing machine, the development of a series of internal mechanisms situated according to operational mechanisms for the dispatch of a specific food product becomes viable, its design normally being conditioned by the different stages from the introduction of the coin until obtaining the product.
Specifically, the development of a series of mechanisms configuring a machine permitting previously precooked hot food to be dispensed, especially pizzas or similar products, makes the invention described below viable.
DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
The automatic dispensing machine for hot food products, object of this invention, covers the expectations expressed completely satisfactorily by means of incorporating a series of internal mechanisms permitting the selection of the product desired, its transport to an oven where it is rapidly heated and its dispatch to the outside tray to which the consumer has access.
The dispensing machine incorporates a refrigerator store in which there is a series of columns in which the food products are grouped, preferably pizzas or similar products, according to the ingredients they contain.
These columns display some means for opening with easy access, preferably in their upper part, through which a series of plates
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Schwartz Robert M.
Simone Timothy
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