Programming presets in a vending machine

Details Programming presets in a vending machine Programming presets in a vending machine

2007-07-30

2010-11-16

Crawford, Gene (Department: 3651)

Data processing: generic control systems or specific application

Specific application, apparatus or process

Article handling

C700S231000, C221S092000, C221S093000, C221S094000, C221S095000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07835818

ABSTRACT:
A vending machine apparatus includes a housing which defines an internal cavity and an article storage area where predetermined groups of stored articles are located at predetermined positions within the housing. An article retrieval device associated with the housing moves articles to be vended from the storage area to a dispensing area. A user interface and control apparatus allows a user of the dispensing apparatus to initiate an article dispensing operation, and generates control signals for causing controlled movement of the article retrieval device so that a user selected article is retrieved from a predetermined location in the article storage area and moved to the dispensing area. The user interface and control apparatus includes a memory for storing therein at least two different groups of position data, each group of position data corresponding to the positions of a plurality of different article storage locations in the article storage area.

REFERENCES:
patent: 5272321 (1993-12-01), Otsuka et al.
patent: 5593267 (1997-01-01), McDonald et al.
patent: 6416270 (2002-07-01), Steury et al.

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