Article dispensing – With discharge assistant – Article adhering or gripping type
Patent
1995-12-12
1998-10-06
Noland, Kenneth
Article dispensing
With discharge assistant
Article adhering or gripping type
186 55, B23Q 704
Patent
active
058164430
ABSTRACT:
A system is provided for vending products such as beverage and other food products, preferably individually packaged, from a storage unit to a customer terminal at a remote location through a pneumatic tube conveyor to move the product from storage to a dispensing unit at the remote location in response to product selection made by a customer at the remote location. Preferably, a vending system is provided for marketing products to customers of a facility at which they are engaged in a transaction for the purchase of another product or service of a diverse vending system. In such an embodiment, payment for the purchase price of the product is accounted for through the payment subsystem that accounts for the transaction with the diverse vending system. For example, an ancillary system may sell food, beverages or vehicle care products to gasoline customers by charging to a gasoline charge system having a credit card reader associated with a self-service gasoline pump to process the gasoline purchase charge. A hotel guest's room account may be charged for items purchased on a terminal in the guest's room, or elsewhere by reading the guest's key card. Terminals at retail checkout lanes may automatically charge to a cash register transaction being processed. The product is preferably moved through the conveyor in a reusable carrier or in its own product packaging container that serves as a carrier.
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L&P Property Management Company
Noland Kenneth
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