Vending machine, a vending system and methods for operating same

Details Vending machine, a vending system and methods for operating same Vending machine, a vending system and methods for operating same

1995-06-06

1998-03-17

Hajec, Donald T.

Registers

Systems controlled by data bearing records

Credit or identification card systems

235380, G06K 500, G06F 708

Patent

active

057289999

ABSTRACT:
A vending machine for serving a plurality of customers, each having a payment card, which includes a vending unit for storing and displaying an accessible inventory and for selectively enabling and barring free access of a customer to a plurality of items therefrom, a card payment unit which upon receipt of a payment card from a customer, validates, prior to said enabling, that the payment card can be charged for the value of the accessible inventory, and which charges, after the barring, the payment card with a sum in accordance with the items removed from the accessible inventory by the customer and a control unit for coordinating the operations of said vending unit and said card payment unit.

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