EP1396823A2 - Ausgabevorrichtung für Haushaltgasflaschen - Google Patents

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EP1396823A2
EP1396823A2 EP03360061A EP03360061A EP1396823A2 EP 1396823 A2 EP1396823 A2 EP 1396823A2 EP 03360061 A EP03360061 A EP 03360061A EP 03360061 A EP03360061 A EP 03360061A EP 1396823 A2 EP1396823 A2 EP 1396823A2
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Jacques Gonzales
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    • 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
    • G07F7/00—Mechanisms actuated by objects other than coins to free or to actuate vending, hiring, coin or paper currency dispensing or refunding apparatus
    • G07F7/06—Mechanisms actuated by objects other than coins to free or to actuate vending, hiring, coin or paper currency dispensing or refunding apparatus by returnable containers, i.e. reverse vending systems in which a user is rewarded for returning a container that serves as a token of value, e.g. bottles
    • G07F7/0609—Mechanisms actuated by objects other than coins to free or to actuate vending, hiring, coin or paper currency dispensing or refunding apparatus by returnable containers, i.e. reverse vending systems in which a user is rewarded for returning a container that serves as a token of value, e.g. bottles by fluid containers, e.g. bottles, cups, gas containers
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F17—STORING OR DISTRIBUTING GASES OR LIQUIDS
    • F17C—VESSELS FOR CONTAINING OR STORING COMPRESSED, LIQUEFIED OR SOLIDIFIED GASES; FIXED-CAPACITY GAS-HOLDERS; FILLING VESSELS WITH, OR DISCHARGING FROM VESSELS, COMPRESSED, LIQUEFIED, OR SOLIDIFIED GASES
    • F17C2270/00—Applications
    • F17C2270/05—Applications for industrial use
    • F17C2270/059—Mass bottling, e.g. merry belts

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  • the present invention relates to a dispenser device automatic gas cylinders, especially domestic gas.
  • the distribution of gas cylinders domestic is mainly carried out in the stations of fuel distribution, where it requires intervention of an employee, which is a disadvantage of in terms of operating costs. Otherwise, the employee who performs this operation is generally the cashier responsible for collecting the sale of fuel, so that it is forced to abandon his post and especially his cash while he delivers a gas bottle.
  • These dispensing devices generally include a system, carousel type, suitable for driving bottles of moving gas in order to compare them successively an exchange station with a door, the operation of which is slaved to a coin-operated payment system.
  • these devices include a system conditioning the delivery of a full bottle to the return of an empty bottle.
  • Dispensing devices with the characteristics mentioned above are described in documents FR 2.506.479, FR 2.554.263, FR 2.634.636, FR 2.699.310, FR 2.641.887, FR 2,685,519, EP 860,648, EP 1,054,363 and GB 2,251,609.
  • the object of the present invention is to remedy the various disadvantages mentioned above by proposing a device for vending machine for domestic gas cylinders, variable capacity, while being of design and use Simple.
  • the automatic device for domestic gas cylinders is of the type comprising in a box a system suitable for driving moving gas cylinders in order to put them successively next to an exchange station equipped of a door whose operation is controlled by a system of coin-type payment, while detection means are able to identify said bottles in order to deliver that requested, and it is essentially characterized in that said system capable of driving the bottles comprises a path bearing in the form of an oblong ring, that is to say comprising two parallel rectilinear parts connected at the ends by curved parts, and consisting of a juxtaposition of rollers on which the bottles which are driven by a piloted housing train by a computer or a PLC.
  • the device according to the invention is of simple construction and space-saving, especially in the height direction, which allows stacking multiple boxes to increase capacity relative to the footprint. Indeed, the height of a box is slightly higher than that of a bottle increased by that of the raceway.
  • the box consists of the abutment of several modules, two identical extreme modules comprising each a curved part of the raceway, a module intermediate comprising two parallel rectilinear parts of said raceway as well as the exchange station, and possibly one or more modules comprising two parts parallel straight lines of said raceway.
  • the device according to the invention can thus have different capacities according to the number of intermediate modules used. he it is also possible to provide intermediate modules of different lengths.
  • the means of identifying the bottles consist of means for reading bar codes.
  • the means of identifying the bottles consist of means of pattern recognition and / or the color of said bottles.
  • This device comprises a box 1 in the bottom of which is arranged a raceway 2 in the form of an oblong ring, that is to say comprising two parallel rectilinear parts 20 connected by two curved parts 21.
  • the raceway 2 consists of a succession of rollers 22 in free rotation on which gas cylinders can flow directly B placed upright.
  • the raceway 2 is associated with a housing train 3 30, suitable for driving bottles B.
  • Train 3 of housing 30 is in the form of an endless chain 31 or similar, driven by a gearmotor, not shown, and carrying U-shaped profiles 32 capable of each forming a housing 30.
  • the raceway 2 and the housing train 3 cooperate also with guides 23, arranged in particular in the curved parts, allowing the B bottles to be held on the rollers 22.
  • the box 1 laterally has an opening 4 closed by a door 40 of a width allowing the passage a bottle B, to allow loading and unloading.
  • the operation of door 40 is controlled by a computer, not shown, in association with means sensors, also not shown, used to determine the presence of a housing 30 opposite the opening 4, the presence or not of a bottle B in this housing 30, as well as the characteristics of this bottle B.
  • the sensor means are suitable, in association with the computer, to identify each of the housings 30, and therefore identify the B bottles they contain, with a view to deliver the requested bottle B.
  • the sensor means are preferably either means of reading of bar codes with which the B bottles have been fitted an adequate location, i.e. means of recognizing the shape and color of the bottles.
  • the dispensing device according to the invention has identical characteristics to existing devices for this which concerns its use, on the other hand, its design and manufacturing make it a simple device, can take up everything being of a great capacity.
  • a dispensing device is preferably built by assembling several modules which include means for connecting them two by two.
  • the device shown comprises four modules, two extreme modules 10 each incorporating a part curve 21 of a raceway 2, an intermediate module 11 comprising two parallel rectilinear portions 20 of the path bearing 2 as well as the opening 4 and its door 40, and the computer or automaton and its type payment system coin mechanism not shown, and a module 12 comprising only two parallel rectilinear parts 20 of the raceway 2.
  • variable capacity devices the basic device being consisting of two modules 10 and a module 11, while the addition of one or more modules 12, which can be provided in different sizes, increases the capacity of the device, within the limits of the power of the means drive train 3 housing 30.
  • the computer has certain features that facilitate the use of the dispenser device according to the invention, whether by customers, or by sellers.
  • the computer controls the device so that it puts successively the empty bottles opposite the opening 4, so that the delivery man can replace them with bottles full.
  • the computer is able to deliver only empty bottles of the brand of the company that delivers.

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EP03360061A 2002-05-21 2003-05-21 Ausgabevorrichtung für Haushaltgasflaschen Withdrawn EP1396823A3 (de)

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FR0206140 2002-05-21
FR0206140A FR2840095A1 (fr) 2002-05-21 2002-05-21 Dispositif et procede permettant la distribution et la gestion automatisee de bouteilles de gaz de toutes sections, et de toutes autres fournitures de configuration proche de celles-ci

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EP1396823A2 true EP1396823A2 (de) 2004-03-10
EP1396823A3 EP1396823A3 (de) 2006-11-22

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