EP0482473B1 - Distributeur automatique de produits alimentaires - Google Patents

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EP0482473B1
EP0482473B1 EP91117537A EP91117537A EP0482473B1 EP 0482473 B1 EP0482473 B1 EP 0482473B1 EP 91117537 A EP91117537 A EP 91117537A EP 91117537 A EP91117537 A EP 91117537A EP 0482473 B1 EP0482473 B1 EP 0482473B1
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H05—ELECTRIC TECHNIQUES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • H05B—ELECTRIC HEATING; ELECTRIC LIGHT SOURCES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; CIRCUIT ARRANGEMENTS FOR ELECTRIC LIGHT SOURCES, IN GENERAL
    • H05B6/00—Heating by electric, magnetic or electromagnetic fields
    • H05B6/64—Heating using microwaves
    • H05B6/80—Apparatus for specific applications
    • H05B6/808—Microwave heating adapted for vending machines
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F25—REFRIGERATION OR COOLING; COMBINED HEATING AND REFRIGERATION SYSTEMS; HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS; MANUFACTURE OR STORAGE OF ICE; LIQUEFACTION SOLIDIFICATION OF GASES
    • F25D—REFRIGERATORS; COLD ROOMS; ICE-BOXES; COOLING OR FREEZING APPARATUS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • F25D23/00—General constructional features
    • F25D23/12—Arrangements of compartments additional to cooling compartments; Combinations of refrigerators with other equipment, e.g. stove
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F25—REFRIGERATION OR COOLING; COMBINED HEATING AND REFRIGERATION SYSTEMS; HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS; MANUFACTURE OR STORAGE OF ICE; LIQUEFACTION SOLIDIFICATION OF GASES
    • F25D—REFRIGERATORS; COLD ROOMS; ICE-BOXES; COOLING OR FREEZING APPARATUS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • F25D25/00—Charging, supporting, and discharging the articles to be cooled
    • F25D25/04—Charging, supporting, and discharging the articles to be cooled by conveyors
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07F—COIN-FREED OR LIKE APPARATUS
    • G07F17/00—Coin-freed apparatus for hiring articles; Coin-freed facilities or services
    • G07F17/0064—Coin-freed apparatus for hiring articles; Coin-freed facilities or services for processing of food articles
    • G07F17/0078—Food articles which need to be processed for dispensing in a hot or cooked condition, e.g. popcorn, nuts
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07F—COIN-FREED OR LIKE APPARATUS
    • G07F9/00—Details other than those peculiar to special kinds or types of apparatus
    • G07F9/10—Casings or parts thereof, e.g. with means for heating or cooling
    • G07F9/105—Heating or cooling means, for temperature and humidity control, for the conditioning of articles and their storage
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F25—REFRIGERATION OR COOLING; COMBINED HEATING AND REFRIGERATION SYSTEMS; HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS; MANUFACTURE OR STORAGE OF ICE; LIQUEFACTION SOLIDIFICATION OF GASES
    • F25D—REFRIGERATORS; COLD ROOMS; ICE-BOXES; COOLING OR FREEZING APPARATUS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • F25D31/00—Other cooling or freezing apparatus
    • F25D31/005—Combined cooling and heating devices

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  • the invention relates to an automatic food dispenser for dispensing hot ready meals, comprising a housing with a front side in which operating elements are provided and a cooling room for storing a supply of cooled packaged ready meals.
  • At least one oven preferably a microwave oven, is arranged under the cooling space, which has a cooking space for receiving a cooled ready meal, an oven door provided with an opening mechanism and a movable cooking surface mechanically coupled to the oven door.
  • An electromechanical removal device is provided on the underside of the cooling space, which removes a single ready meal from the cooling space and allows it to reach the cooking surface when the oven door is open.
  • the hot ready meal is delivered to the operator via an output space accessible to the operator.
  • one or more chilled food portions are removed from the storage container by means of an electro-mechanical folding mechanism. Due to its own gravity, this then slides over an inclined surface onto a deflection flap, which is lowered when the oven door is opened by means of an electromechanical device in such a way that the foodstuffs thereon are passed over another sloping surface slides into the interior of the furnace.
  • the oven door is opened again and, at the same time, the food heating surface coupled via a mechanism is raised in such a way that the heated food portion is fed to the dispensing space via a further inclined sliding surface.
  • the known device also has the disadvantage that only a very specific product, for example pizza of a single flavor, can be dispensed.
  • a very specific product for example pizza of a single flavor
  • the user of a modern machine however, expects a choice between different products.
  • Ovens with extendable push frames are part of food machines known from US-A-3 838 790 and EP-A-0 184 655.
  • the object of the present invention is therefore to create a food vending machine for dispensing hot ready meals with an improved mechanism for removing and transporting the chilled or hot ready meals and the possibility of choosing between different dishes.
  • a food vending machine of the type described at the outset is that a drum store rotatable about its vertical axis of rotation is provided within the refrigerator, which has a number of on a circular path arranged tube magazines for receiving a stack of chilled ready meals each, that the oven has a horizontally extendable push frame with a push front, which forms the oven door, that on the push frame a tray with a horizontal cooking surface can be raised and lowered so that it is at Extending the push frame from a lowered cooking position inside the cooking space upwards into a loading position outside the cooking space and with the pushing frame fully extended is moved upwards into a dispensing position inside the dispensing space, furthermore that a movable closure member for the cooling space below the tube magazines and above that in Dispensing position located tray is provided, and that finally the dispensing space is behind an dispensing opening in the front of the housing.
  • Different ready meals can be stored in the chilled or, if necessary, deep-frozen state in the several tube magazines of the drum store.
  • the operator can select a specific tube magazine, which is then rotated into a predetermined position above the fixed closure element of the cooling space.
  • the oven located below the cooling room opens by extending its push frame together with the push front that forms the oven door.
  • the cooking tray arranged on the push frame moves upwards in synchronism with the push frame into a loading position.
  • the closure element of the cooling space opens and the product removed from the selected tubular magazine reaches the horizontal cooking surface of the cooking tray.
  • the cooking tray When the oven door is closed, the cooking tray automatically moves back into its lowered cooking position within the cooking space. After the heating process has been completed, the oven door extends again, and the cooking tray is automatically moved up again. This time, however, the push frame is moving a little further, so that the cooking tray is correspondingly moved further up into a serving position within the serving area.
  • the serving opening in the front of the housing, behind which the serving area is located, enables the operator to take the desired hot ready meal directly from the tray.
  • the design of the oven door according to the invention as a horizontally extendable push frame with a push front and the arrangement of a cooking tray which automatically rises when the oven door is opened on the push frame represents a transport mechanism for the cooled ready meal into the cooking chamber or the delivery of the hot ready meal which is as simple as it is reliable.
  • the invention has created a structurally simple, reliably functioning and satisfying operator's wish machine for dispensing hot ready meals.
  • the removal device comprises a pivoting closure flap as a closure member for the cooling space, which is arranged below the circular path of the tubular magazines and above the cooking tray located in the loading position. When the flap is open, the desired product slides out of the selected tube magazine onto the cooking tray.
  • the automatic food machine can contain two identical ovens arranged next to one another, the closure flap then being arranged in the middle between the two ovens and being pivotable about its central axis to both sides, and each oven having its own dispensing space with a dispensing opening. In this way, two operators can be supplied with different ready meals at the same time.
  • Microwave ovens with which even frozen foods can be thawed very quickly and heated to consumption temperature, are particularly suitable.
  • the tube magazines have a support base for the associated stack of ready meals, an ejection slot penetrating the support base in the circumferential direction and a side ejection opening for the ejection of the lowest ready meal in each case, and a movable ejector is arranged in the area of the closure flap, which engages in the ejection position in the ejection slot of one of the tube magazines.
  • the lowest ready meal is removed from a tube magazine by rotating the drum storage while the ejector is in the eject position. Due to the relative movement between the passing tubular magazine and the fixed ejector, the ready meal to be separated is pushed out laterally by the ejector through the ejection opening in the tubular magazine in the direction of the closure flap, which is still closed.
  • the ejector can, for example, be fastened to a swivel bracket that is pivotally mounted above the closure flap and can slide on the top of the closure flap, so that it is automatically pivoted upwards from its rest position into the eject position when the closure flap is opened.
  • a passive ejection mechanism the movement of which is coupled to the pivoting movement of the closure flap, an ejector that can be activated independently can also be provided.
  • the removal device comprises, as a closure member, a sliding door provided in the bottom of the cooling space, which is arranged below the tubular magazines and above the cooking tray located in the loading position. This horizontally movable sliding door opens when a ready meal is to be removed from the previously selected tube magazine and placed on the cooking tray.
  • the tubular magazines expediently each have a support base for the stack of ready meals, a radially outwardly directed ejection opening for the ejection of the lowest ready meal in each case, and a recess arranged directly above the support base and opposite the ejection opening on, and a movable pusher is provided which engages in the recess of one of the tubular magazines when the sliding door is open and pushes out the lowermost ready meal through its ejection opening in the radial direction.
  • the pusher can be coupled to the sliding door via a pull frame so that when the sliding door is opened, the pusher automatically engages in the selected tubular magazine and pushes out the bottom ready meal, which then falls down onto the cooking tray in the loading position due to gravity.
  • the pusher In order to prevent the ready-to-serve meal, which is pushed out laterally, from tipping over the front edge of the support base of the tubular magazine, in a further development of the invention, the pusher carries a pivotably articulated pivot plate on its front edge, which rests on the floor of the refrigerator in the rest position and only vertically when the sliding door is fully open folds down. This ensures that the ready-made meals stacked flat on top of each other in the tubular magazine fall flat onto the cooking tray while maintaining their position parallel to the bottom of the cooling space.
  • the proposed automatic food machine is particularly suitable for serving pizza, which is usually round. It is therefore expedient for the tube magazines to store the chilled or frozen ready meals to have a round cross section.
  • the tube magazines can, however, also have a rectangular, in particular square, cross-section, in order, for example, to hold frozen packs with Italian pasta dishes.
  • the automatic food dispenser additionally comprises at least one cutlery magazine arranged within the housing for receiving a stack of packaged disposable cutlery and an associated removal slot in the front of the housing.
  • the user of the machine will also receive the appropriate cutlery along with the desired hot dish.
  • An electrically operated pusher is expediently provided on the cutlery magazine, which moves the lowest disposable cutlery from the cutlery magazine in the direction of the removal slot.
  • the food dispenser shown in FIG. 1 from the point of view of the operator has an all-round closed housing 1.
  • On its front side 2 there are operating elements, namely two coin inserts 3 and fields with selection keys 4.
  • the controls are assigned an output opening 5 and 5 'for the desired ready meal and a double removal slot 6 for the delivery of packaged cutlery.
  • the housing 1 contains a frame 7, in the upper part of which a cooling space 8 is arranged.
  • the inside of the cooling space 8 is accessible to authorized service personnel through a door 9 opening towards the front.
  • the cooling chamber 8 contains a drum store 10, which comprises six tubular magazines 11 arranged on a circular path, each for receiving a stack of frozen ready meals 12.
  • the drum store 10 is mounted rotatably about a vertical axis of rotation 13 in an upper pivot bearing 14 and a lower pivot bearing 15.
  • the drum store 10 can be set in rotation by means of a gear motor 16 acting on the axis of rotation 13, the tubular magazines 11 moving in a circular path.
  • the individual tubular magazines 11 are suspended in brackets 17 fastened radially on the axis of rotation 13, so that they can be easily removed for maintenance purposes.
  • cutouts 18 are provided which extend radially outward and through which the ready meals 12 can be stored after opening the front side 2 and the door 9 of the cooling space 8.
  • the tubular magazines 11 At its lower end, the tubular magazines 11 have a support base 19 on which the stack of ready meals 12 stands. Corresponding to the circular path on which the tubular magazines 11 travel, curved ejection slots 20 pass through the shelves 19. Lateral ejection openings 21 serve to eject the lowest ready meal 12 in each case.
  • a cooling unit 22 arranged in the lower part of the frame 7 maintains the required low storage temperature within the cooling space 8.
  • a rectangular opening 23 is provided in the underside of the cooling space 8, which is followed by a removal shaft 24 at the bottom.
  • a closure flap 25 closes the removal shaft 24 and thus the cooling space 8 in a cold-tight manner from the bottom.
  • the closure flap 25 is pivotable about its central axis 26 to both sides. By means of an electric servomotor 27, the closure flap 25 can pivot either clockwise or counterclockwise.
  • a swivel bracket 28 is pivotally mounted in the side walls of the removal shaft 24.
  • the swivel bracket 28 carries an ejector 29, which is designed here as a rectangular plate. With its lower edge, the ejector 29 slides on the top of the closure flap 25. To reduce the friction, the ejector 29 carries a small roller 30 at its lower end.
  • each oven 31 and 31 ' has a horizontally extendable push frame 32 with a push front 33, which forms the oven door.
  • a lifting cylinder 34 serves as the drive for the push frame 32.
  • the push frame 32 carries one on the right and one on the left Bearing block 35.
  • a respective pivot lever 36 with a short lever arm 37 and a long lever arm 38 is pivotally mounted in the associated bearing block 35.
  • a cooking tray 39, 39 ' is suspended so that its flat cooking surface is always horizontal.
  • a stop 40 is provided on the right and left on the side, which interacts with the corresponding short lever arm 37 (see FIG. 4).
  • the cooking tray 39 is in its lowered cooking position within the cooking space 41, as shown in dashed lines in FIG. If the push frame 32 is now extended to the front, the fixed stop 40 strikes the short lever arm 37 which is also transported from a certain distance traveled, which, when the push frame 32 is extended further, causes the pivoting lever 36 to pivot and the cooking tray 39 suspended thereon to be lifted out leads upwards. In FIG. 4, the cooking tray 39 is drawn with solid lines in the loading position.
  • the drawer front 33 of the oven 31 closes again, the cooking tray 39 due to the interaction between the short lever arm 37 and the stop 40 corresponding to the distance traveled back into its lowered cooking position within the cooking space 41 is moved back.
  • cutlery magazines 43 for accommodating a stack of packaged disposable cutlery are arranged inside the housing 1 on the right and left. Electrically operated pushers 44 are provided on these cutlery magazines 42, by means of which the bottom disposable cutlery is pushed out of the respective cutlery magazine 43 to the front so that it can be gripped by the operator through the associated removal slot 6 in the front side 2.
  • the closure flap 25 is in its horizontal rest position, in which it closes the removal shaft 24 in a cold-tight manner at the bottom.
  • the ejector 29 with its roller 30 lies loosely on the top of the closure flap 25.
  • the swivel bracket 28, which carries the ejector 29, is also in the horizontal rest position.
  • a tube magazine 11 is located vertically above the opening 23 in the underside of the cooling space 8 and thus also directly above the closure flap 25.
  • the lowest frozen ready-made meal 12 lies on the slightly inclined support base 19 of the tube magazine 11, it already has something to the side of the ejection opening 21 protrudes.
  • the tubular magazine 11 is slowly moved in the direction of the arrow by rotating the drum store 10 on its predetermined circular path.
  • the upper part of the ejector 29 comes into engagement with the ejection slot 20 in the support base 19 in a finger-like manner.
  • the ready meal 12 begins to slide out of the ejection opening 21 laterally. If the tubular magazine 11 has been moved far enough in the direction of the arrow, the ready meal finally falls from the support base 19 onto the surface of the closure flap 25.
  • the closure flap 25 returns to its horizontal rest position. Due to the special design of the removal shaft 24 and the only limited pivoting of the closure flap 25 by approximately 20 degrees, the removal of the separated ready meal 12 from the tubular magazine 11 could be accomplished without cold air having escaped from the cooling space 8 downwards.
  • the closure flap 25, which can be pivoted equally in both directions, thus represents a switch with which an isolated ready meal 12 is optionally supplied to the cooking tray 39 of the left-hand oven 31 or the cooking tray 39 'of the right-hand oven 31' (see FIG. 3).
  • closure flap Upon completion of the removal and delivery cycle described above, the closure flap returns to its horizontal closed position, as shown in Figure 5a.
  • control and timing of the geared motor 16, which sets the drum store 10 in rotation, the servomotor 27, which pivots the flap 25, the lifting cylinder 34 for opening the oven 31 or 31 'and the pusher 44 on the cutlery magazines 43 by a control electronics (not shown in the drawings), which also contains a regulation for maintaining the correct heating times.
  • FIG. 6 shows the closed housing 101 of an alternative embodiment of the automatic food dispenser, which differs from the above-described automatic dispenser mainly in that it contains only a single oven and can therefore only dispense a single hot ready meal at any given time.
  • a single coin slot 103 and a field with selection buttons 104 are provided on the front side 102.
  • the housing 101 contains a frame 107, in the upper part of which a cooling space 108 is arranged with a door 109 opening towards the front.
  • a rotatable drum store 110 is arranged in the cooling space 108, which has six tubular magazines arranged on a circular path 111, 111 'for receiving the frozen ready meals 112 includes.
  • the tubular magazines 111, 111 ' which are rectangular in cross section, radially outwardly directed cutouts 118 are provided, through which the ready meals 112 can be inserted.
  • the tube magazines 111 In their rear sides, the tube magazines 111 have a radially inward recess 120; on their opposite front sides, radially outward ejection openings 121 are provided for the ejection of the lowest ready meal 112 in each case (see FIG. 11).
  • a rectangular opening 123 (cf. FIG. 10b) is provided in the underside of the cooling space 108 and is closed by a sliding door 124.
  • the sliding door 124 can extend forward in the horizontal direction and open the opening 123.
  • a movable pusher 125 is coupled to the sliding door 124 via a U-shaped pull frame 126.
  • elongated holes 127 and 127 ' are provided in the free legs of the pull frame 126, into which sliding bolts 128, 128' arranged on the inside of the sliding door 124 engage.
  • the pusher 125 carries on its front edge a pivotably articulated pivot plate, which here has a rectangular outline.
  • the oven 131 has a horizontally extendable push frame 132 with a push front 133 which forms the oven door.
  • the push frame 132 carries on the right and left a laterally arranged bearing block 135.
  • a respective pivot lever 136 with a short lever arm 137 and a long lever arm 138 is in the associated bearing block 135 pivoted.
  • a cooking tray 139 is suspended so that its flat cooking surface is always horizontal.
  • a stop 140 is provided on the right and left on the side, which interacts with the corresponding short lever arm 137 (see FIG. 9).
  • the oven 131 is opened and closed and the associated automatic raising and lowering of the cooking tray 139 takes place in the same way as in the first embodiment of the food vending machine.
  • the cooking tray 139 transports the hot ready meal into the dispensing space 142 behind the dispensing opening 105 (see FIG. 6).
  • a cutlery magazine 143 for receiving disposable cutlery is arranged on the right side within the housing 101. In each case together with a hot ready meal, a suitable disposable cutlery is dispensed via the removal slot 106 in the front 102.
  • the uniform heating in the oven 131 is served by a turntable 145 arranged on the cooking tray 139, which is connected to a flat drive disk 146 arranged coaxially on the underside of the cooking tray 139.
  • An electric rotary drive 147 is provided on the bottom of the furnace 131.
  • the sliding door 124 of the cooling space 108 is closed in FIG. 10a.
  • the pusher 125 is in the rest position outside the tube magazine 111.
  • the lowest frozen ready meal 112 lies on the shelf 119 of the tube magazine 111.
  • the swivel plate 129 on the front edge of the ejector 125 rests on the bottom of the cooling space 108.
  • the removal process is now initiated by the horizontal opening of the sliding door 124.
  • the pusher 125 remains in the rest position since - see FIG. 12 - the sliding bolts 128, 128 'on the sliding door 124 initially in the elongated holes 127, 127' of the pull frame 126, connected to the pusher 125 slide.
  • the sliding bolts 128, 128 ' reach the front ends of the elongated holes 127, 127' (see FIG. 12), so that from this point in time the sliding door 124, via the coupled pull frame 126, extends the pusher 125 together with the pivoting plate articulated thereon 129 takes away.
  • the pusher 125 moves in the radial direction through the recess 120 into the interior of the tube magazine 111 and pushes out the bottom ready meal 112 to the front.
  • the sliding door 124 After completion of the removal cycle described above, the sliding door 124 returns to its horizontal closed position, as shown in Figure 10a. In doing so, the pusher 125 and the swivel plate 129 attached to it move back into their starting positions.

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  1. Distributeur automatique de produits alimentaires pour la distribution de plats préparés chauds, comportant
    - un carter (1, 101) avec une face frontale (2, 102), dans laquelle sont prévus des éléments de commande,
    - une enceinte frigorifique (8, 108) pour stocker une réserve de plats préparés emballés réfrigérés (12, 112),
    - un four (31, 131), au moins, disposé sous l'enceinte frigorifique (8, 108), avec une chambre de chauffe (41, 141) pour recevoir un plat préparé réfrigéré (12, 112), avec une porte de four munie d'un mécanisme d'ouverture, et avec une surface de chauffe mobile, accouplée mécaniquement à la porte de four,
    - un dispositif de soutirage électromécanique, prévu sur la face inférieure de l'enceinte frigorifique (8, 108), qui extrait un plat préparé individuel (12, 112) de l'enceinte (8, 108), et le fait parvenir sur la surface de chauffe en position d'ouverture de la porte de four,
    - un compartiment de distribution (42, 142), au moins, accessible au manipulateur, pour la distribution du plat préparé chaud,
    caractérisé en ce que
    - un réservoir à tambour (10, 110) est prévu à l'intérieur de l'enceinte frigorifique (8, 108), avec une possibilité de rotation autour d'un axe vertical (13), ce réservoir comportant un certain nombre de magasins tubulaires (11, 11′; 111) pour recevoir respectivement une pile de plats préparés réfrigérés (12, 112),
    - le four (31, 131) présente un tiroir (32, 132) amovible dans le sens horizontal, avec un front (33, 133) qui forme la porte du four,
    - une tablette de chauffe (39, 139), avec une surface de chauffe horizontale, est montée sur le tiroir (32, 132) avec une possibilité de relevage et d'abaissement, de sorte qu'elle se déplace vers le haut à l'intérieur de la chambre de chauffe (41, 141), lors de la sortie du tiroir (32, 132), d'une position de chauffe basse dans une position de distribution externe à la chambre de chauffe (41, 141), et qu'elle poursuit son déplacement vers le haut, en position de sortie intégrale du tiroir (32, 132), dans une position de distribution interne au compartiment correspondant (42, 142),
    - un organe de fermeture mobile pour l'enceinte frigorifique (8, 108) est prévu au-dessous des magasins tubulaires (11, 11′; 111) et au-dessus de la tablette de chauffe (39, 139) en position de distribution,
    - le compartiment de distribution (42, 142) se situe en arrière d'une ouverture de distribution (5, 105), prévue dans la face frontale (2, 102) du carter (1, 101).
  2. Distributeur automatique de produits alimentaires suivant la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que le dispositif de soutirage comporte un clapet pivotant (25) comme organe de fermeture pour l'enceinte frigorifique (8), ce clapet étant disposé au-dessous de l'orbite des magasins tubulaires (11, 11′) et au-dessus de la tablette de chauffe (39) en position de distribution.
  3. Distributeur automatique de produits alimentaires suivant la revendication 2, caractérisé en ce que
    - deux fours similaires (31, 31′) sont prévus l'un à côté de l'autre,
    - le clapet de fermeture (25) est disposé entre les deux fours (31, 31′), au centre de ces derniers, et peut pivoter bilatéralement autour de son axe médian (26),
    - un compartiment de distribution (42), avec une ouverture de distribution (5, 5′), est associé à chaque four (31, 31′).
  4. Distributeur automatique de produits alimentaires suivant l'une des revendications 2 ou 3, caractérisé en ce que
    - les magasins tubulaires (11, 11′) présentent respectivement un fond d'appui (19) pour la pile de plats préparés (12), une fente d'éjection (20) traversant le fond d'appui (19) dans le sens périphérique, et une ouverture d'éjection latérale (21) pour le rejet de chaque plat préparé inférieur (12),
    - un éjecteur mobile (29), disposé dans la zone du clapet de fermeture (25), s'engage en position d'éjection dans la fente d'éjection (20) de l'un des magasins tubulaires (11, 11′).
  5. Distributeur automatique de produits alimentaires suivant la revendication 4, caractérisé en ce que
    - un étrier pivotant (28), monté au-dessus du clapet de fermeture (25), supporte l'éjecteur (29),
    - l'éjecteur (29) s'applique et glisse sur la face supérieure du clapet de fermeture (25), qui le pousse vers le haut de sa position de repos dans sa position d'éjection.
  6. Distributeur automatique de produits alimentaires suivant la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que le dispositif de soutirage comporte, comme organe de fermeture, une porte à coulisse (124) prévue dans le fond de l'enceinte frigorifique (108), et disposée au-dessous des magasins tubulaires (111) et au-dessus de la tablette de chauffe (139) en position de distribution.
  7. Distributeur automatique de produits alimentaires suivant la revendication 6, caractérisé en ce que
    - les magasins tubulaires (111) présentent respectivement un fond d'appui (119) pour la pile de plats préparés (112), une ouverture d'éjection (121), dirigée dans le sens radial externe, pour le rejet de chaque plat préparé inférieur (112), ainsi qu'une cavité (120), disposée immédiatement au-dessus du fond d'appui (119) et en vis-à-vis de l'ouverture d'éjection (121),
    - un repoussoir mobile (125) est prévu, ce repoussoir s'engageant dans la cavité (120) de l'un des magasins tubulaires (111), en position d'ouverture de la porte à coulisse (124), et repoussant vers l'extérieur, dans le sens horizontal, le plat préparé inférieur (112) au travers de son ouverture d'éjection (121).
  8. Distributeur automatique de produits alimentaires suivant la revendication 7, caractérisé en ce que le repoussoir (125) est accouplé à la porte à coulisse (124) par l'intermédiaire d'un cadre de traction (126).
  9. Distributeur automatique de produits alimentaires suivant l'une des revendications 7 ou 8, caractérisé en ce que le repoussoir (125) supporte sur son bord avant une plaque pivotante (129) articulée, qui s'applique sur le fond de l'enceinte frigorifique (108), et ne se rabat vers le bas, à la verticale, qu'en position d'ouverture intégrale de la porte à coulisse (124).
  10. Distributeur automatique de produits alimentaires suivant l'une quelconque des revendications 1 à 9, caractérisé en ce que
    - le tiroir (32, 132) du four (31, 31′; 131) supporte deux paliers latéraux (35, 135),
    - un levier pivotant à deux bras (36, 136), avec un bras court (37, 137) et un bras long (38, 138), est respectivement logé dans les paliers (35, 135),
    - la tablette de chauffe (39, 139) est en suspension oscillante sur les extrémités des bras longs de levier (38, 138),
    - un bras court de levier (37, 137), au moins, concourt avec une butée stationnaire (40, 140), de sorte que le levier pivotant (36, 136) pivote vers le haut lors de la sortie du tiroir (32, 132), à partir d'une trajectoire définie.
  11. Distributeur automatique de produits alimentaires suivant l'une quelconque des revendications 1 à 10, caractérisé en ce que
    - un plateau rotatif (145) est disposé sur la tablette de chauffe (139),
    - un disque d'entraînement plat (146), disposé d'une manière coaxiale sur la face inférieure de la tablette de chauffe (139), est assemblé avec le plateau rotatif (145),
    - une commande de rotation électrique (147), prévue dans le four (131), concourt avec le disque d'entraînement (146) en position basse de la tablette de chauffe (139), pour faire tourner le plateau rotatif (145).
  12. Distributeur automatique de produits alimentaires suivant l'une quelconque des revendications 1 à 11, caractérisé en ce que
    - un magasin de couverts (43, 143), au moins, est disposé à l'intérieur du carter (1, 101), pour recevoir une pile de couverts à jeter emballés,
    - une fente de soutirage (6, 106), au moins, est prévue dans la face frontale (2, 102) du carter (1, 101) pour les couverts à jeter.
  13. Distributeur automatique de produits alimentaires suivant la revendication 12, caractérisé en ce qu'un repoussoir (44) à commande électrique est disposé sur le magasin de couverts (43) pour chaque couvert à jeter inférieur.
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