EP0903704A2 - Speichersäule für Nahrungsmittelausgabevorrichtung - Google Patents

Speichersäule für Nahrungsmittelausgabevorrichtung Download PDF

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EP0903704A2
EP0903704A2 EP98117246A EP98117246A EP0903704A2 EP 0903704 A2 EP0903704 A2 EP 0903704A2 EP 98117246 A EP98117246 A EP 98117246A EP 98117246 A EP98117246 A EP 98117246A EP 0903704 A2 EP0903704 A2 EP 0903704A2
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Romolo Rossi
Francesco Pellovini
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    • 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
    • G07F11/00—Coin-freed apparatus for dispensing, or the like, discrete articles
    • G07F11/46—Coin-freed apparatus for dispensing, or the like, discrete articles from movable storage containers or supports
    • G07F11/58—Coin-freed apparatus for dispensing, or the like, discrete articles from movable storage containers or supports the articles being supported on or by endless belts or like conveyors
    • 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

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  • This invention concerns a storage column for food dispensers to dispense food products as set forth in the main claim.
  • the invention is applied in the production of equipment or containers to dispense hot or cold food in individual packs which are temporarily stored in a refrigerated structure and then, after selection by the user, they are removed from the refrigerated structure and made available to the user.
  • the state of the art includes automatic dispensers for pre-packed foods with possible pre-heating of the food before it is removed by the purchaser.
  • the European patent EP-B-482.473 describes an automatic dispenser for hot, pre-packed foods comprising a containing shell, a refrigerating chamber for the temporary storage of the pre-packed foodstuffs, an oven located below the refrigerating chamber and equipped with a reception chamber for the individual refrigerated dish, a door which can be opened on command and a movable preparation surface mechanically connected to the oven door.
  • the dispenser described in EP'473 also comprises a removal device located on the lower side of the refrigerating chamber and is suitable to remove a dish from the chamber and to arrange it on the preparation surface, and a distribution zone accessible to the user.
  • a dispenser inside the refrigerating chamber there is a dispenser consisting of a drum rotating around a vertical axis and comprising a plurality of tubular loaders arranged in a circle, each containing a plurality of refrigerated dishes.
  • the refrigerating chamber also cooperates with a movable closing element located below the tubular loaders and above the preparation tray when the tray is in the loading position.
  • this activates the rotation of the rotary store and the pack of food is delivered first to the heating device and then to the user.
  • the present applicant has designed and embodied this invention to overcome all these shortcomings with a solution which is extremely practical, flexible, functional, easy to construct and simple to operate.
  • the purpose of the invention is to provide a storage column for individual packs of foodstuffs, to be used in an automatic food dispenser, whether the food be preheated or not; the column according to the invention is more versatile, flexible and functional than those used at resent in the state of the art.
  • Another purpose is to reduce the movements required for every sales cycle and therefore also the times required to unload the pack from the refrigerating chamber to the distribution zone.
  • a further purpose of the invention is to provide a storage column which is not constrained by the sizes or shapes of the pack of foodstuff stored inside; in fact, a limited range of columns according to the invention can house packs or food products of any shape or wrapping and of different sizes in a very wide range.
  • a food dispenser may contain even more than one storage column according to the invention.
  • the storage column consists of a rigid outer container and a system of movable blades mounted on relative rotary chains or belts.
  • the movable blades have two functions: to maintain the individual packs of food separate from each other in the refrigerating chamber, and to deliver them, once the user has made his/her selection, during every sales cycle.
  • the movable blades are attached to a chain or belt rotating around two wheels or pulleys, respectively upper and lower.
  • Each blade defines, together with the blade immediately above and below, the chamber to contain and cool the pack of food.
  • the chains or belts rotate in synchrony with each other, since the respective drive means are shared by both, or they are synchronised mechanically or electrically.
  • the blades associated with one of the chains or belts couple with the blades associated with the other chain or belt so as to define a supporting plane on which the pack of food is housed, prior to being possibly heated and then delivered.
  • the rotation of the chain or belt after selection has been made by the user causes the coupled blades to open and therefore the pack of food held therein is discharged in correspondence with the delivery zone or the possible oven, which during the unloading step puts itself temporarily in a position to receive the pack.
  • the procedure of delivering the heated food may be made in any desired manner.
  • Figs. 1 and 2 show a diagram of a dispenser 10 for food products 11, in this case, packed in trays, with a box-like structure 12 containing a storage column 13 according to the invention.
  • Fig. 4 shows a dispenser 10 containing six storage columns 13; this embodiment is employed particularly in dispensers 10 selling several types of food product 11.
  • each storage column 13 is associated with a structure 14, in this case hexagonal, which is suitable to rotate around a vertical axis 15.
  • each storage column 13 moves sequentially and stop, after the user has made his/her selection, in correspondence with the distribution zone 16.
  • each containing seating is defined by a pair of facing blades 25, each blade 25 of the pair rotating around a respective chain 18 or belt.
  • the invention also provides for the case wherein there is a single chain 18 supporting the plurality of blades 25 which define the containing seating for the pack of food.
  • the description concerns the case wherein there is a dispenser of hot foods with an oven located below the storage column, but the invention may also be applied in the case of a dispenser of unheated foods.
  • the storage column 13 consists of a rigid structure 17 which supports a pair of rotary chains 18 arranged opposite each other in correspondence with a respective side of the rigid structure 17.
  • the chains rotate in synchrony and are driven by an electric motor 19.
  • the electric motor 19 as shown in detail in Fig. 3, by means of a gear 33 solid therewith and a key 32, drives a first bevel gear 20a which makes a shaft 21 rotate, the shaft 21 being orthogonal to the exit axis of the motor 19, at the ends of which there are respective bevel gears 20b.
  • Each bevel gear 20b makes a respective shaft 22 rotate, orthogonal to the shaft 21, on the outer end of which there is solidly associated a toothed wheel 23 each of which drives the respective chain 18.
  • Both the toothed wheels 23 cooperate at the lower part with a respective toothed wheel 24 to return and tension the chain 18.
  • each chain 18 carries a plurality of blades 25, in this case associated with the pins of the chains 18, whose function is to keep the individual packs 11 of foodstuffs separate and also to deliver them at every sales cycle.
  • the storage column or columns 13 are contained in a refrigerating chamber 27, shown in the Figures with a line of dashes, and at every sales cycle the blades 25 unload a pack of foodstuff 11 onto a movable tray 26.
  • the movable tray 26 is moved from the unloading zone located under the storage column 13 into an oven 28 to heat the foodstuff 11, and subsequently to the distribution zone 16 where there is a removable drawer, or window, 29 accessible to the user.
  • the blades 25 are mounted radially on the chains 18 and, in the upper part of the storage column 13, the blades 25 associated with the right chain 18 are aligned with the blades 25 associated with the left chain 18 so as to define a supporting plane 30 on which the pack of foodstuff 11 is housed prior to heating and distribution.
  • each blade 25 is made in two parts, respectively the inner part 25b and the outer part 25a, associated with each other by a hinge 31.
  • the hinge 31 is suitable to make the outer part 25a rotate in one direction by about 90° with respect to the inner part 25b and, in the opposite direction, to clamp the outer part 25a in a position aligned with the inner part 25b.

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ITUD970160 IT1294635B1 (it) 1997-09-19 1997-09-19 Colonna di stoccaggio per distributore di prodotti alimentari
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GB508143A (en) 1938-07-12 1939-06-27 Liquid Carbonic Corp Improvements in a coin-freed article dispensing apparatus
US2176823A (en) 1936-08-19 1939-10-17 Fischman Company Vending machine
US2488798A (en) 1944-01-11 1949-11-22 Bouracier Cyril Eugene Refrigerated vending machine
US2791889A (en) 1954-04-19 1957-05-14 Vendo Co Refrigerated article dispensing apparatus
US3075670A (en) 1959-10-07 1963-01-29 Brugger Franz Multiple compartment refrigeration installation
EP0482473B1 (de) 1990-10-26 1995-03-15 MENÜ-EXPRESS Vertriebs GmbH Speisen-Automat
DE19755579A1 (de) * 1997-12-15 1999-06-17 Krull Hans Peter Warenautomat mit Warenschächten mit einzelnen, übereinander angeordneten Tragböden, welche sich in einem endlosen Umlauf befinden

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LU85637A1 (fr) * 1984-11-09 1985-06-04 Rene C Bour Distributeur automatique d'aliments
JPH0719304B2 (ja) * 1989-07-06 1995-03-06 東広島ゴルフ振興株式会社 自動フライ販売装置
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FR2711497B1 (fr) * 1993-10-25 1996-10-11 Bernard Delarue Appareil distributeur d'assiettes garnies, notamment pour la restauration collective.
IT1275597B1 (it) * 1995-07-21 1997-08-06 Unilever Italia Spa Macchina per la distribuzione automatica,particolarmente per la distribuzione automatica di confezioni di gelato o di prodotti

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* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US2176823A (en) 1936-08-19 1939-10-17 Fischman Company Vending machine
GB508143A (en) 1938-07-12 1939-06-27 Liquid Carbonic Corp Improvements in a coin-freed article dispensing apparatus
US2488798A (en) 1944-01-11 1949-11-22 Bouracier Cyril Eugene Refrigerated vending machine
US2791889A (en) 1954-04-19 1957-05-14 Vendo Co Refrigerated article dispensing apparatus
US3075670A (en) 1959-10-07 1963-01-29 Brugger Franz Multiple compartment refrigeration installation
EP0482473B1 (de) 1990-10-26 1995-03-15 MENÜ-EXPRESS Vertriebs GmbH Speisen-Automat
DE19755579A1 (de) * 1997-12-15 1999-06-17 Krull Hans Peter Warenautomat mit Warenschächten mit einzelnen, übereinander angeordneten Tragböden, welche sich in einem endlosen Umlauf befinden

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