Vending machine including refrigeration and oven compartments

Details Vending machine including refrigeration and oven compartments Vending machine including refrigeration and oven compartments

1996-04-01

1998-06-30

Skaggs, H. Grant

Article dispensing

Plural sources, stacks or compartments

Rotatably mounted or endless belt carried source assembly

53459, 53567, 221150HC, 221150A, 221224, 221211, 221298, G07F 1100, B65G 5900

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057720720

ABSTRACT:
A vending machine includes a refrigeration compartment, an oven compartment, structure for transferring a food product from the refrigeration compartment to the oven compartment, and structure for transferring the food product from the oven compartment to a user of the vending machine. The vending machine provides automated handling and cooking of packaged food products that enables a hot cooked food to be delivered to a customer in a cool package sleeve. The vending machine also includes a system for inventory control that enables vertical storage of packaged food products while minimizing crushing of packaged food products at the bottom of a stack. A magazine empty indicator automatically indicates when an inventory magazine is empty. An oven door latch mechanism eliminates the possibility that the oven can be operated while the oven door is open.

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