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EP0562198A1 - Automat für Trinkbecher mit umgekehrter Stapelung - Google Patents

Automat für Trinkbecher mit umgekehrter Stapelung Download PDF

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EP0562198A1
EP0562198A1 EP92400862A EP92400862A EP0562198A1 EP 0562198 A1 EP0562198 A1 EP 0562198A1 EP 92400862 A EP92400862 A EP 92400862A EP 92400862 A EP92400862 A EP 92400862A EP 0562198 A1 EP0562198 A1 EP 0562198A1
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René Besso
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    • G07F13/10—Coin-freed apparatus for controlling dispensing or fluids, semiliquids or granular material from reservoirs with associated dispensing of containers, e.g. cups or other articles

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  • the invention relates to a dispenser for cups stored upside down in a stack.
  • cups can be all kinds of stackable containers, but more particularly frustoconical cups, whether or not provided with a ring on their edge, and intended essentially for the distribution of liquid products, such as beverages or powdered grain products, such as popcorn.
  • the capacity of these cups can range from a few centiliters to a liter, for example.
  • the stacks of cups are stored upright, often in rotating barrels such as that shown in document FR-A-2 537 307. It is then easy to drop the gravity by simple lower cup of a battery in the reception window placed at hand level in front of the machine.
  • the object of the invention is to propose a cup dispenser provided with an overturning device based on other principles, making it possible to considerably simplify its construction.
  • the tilting means comprises an abutment advantageously placed on the trajectory of a lower part of the cup pushed upwards, in order to cause or continue the imbalance and the tilting.
  • the pushing means is, for its part, advantageously in the form of a finger which is introduced substantially tangentially under the lower edge of the upper cup and then driven upwards.
  • a single finger is enough to disengage and release the upper cup, the upward movement of which is guided inside by the cup immediately below, and outside by the gutter - upper ramp and side wall (s) ) -, then by the fixed reversing stop.
  • the finger is carried by a chain stretched between two sprockets in a substantially neighboring plane and parallel to a generatrix of the upper cup in the inverted position.
  • the gutter advantageously comprises a curved wall which is substantially cylindrical with a horizontal generatrix which can guide the upper part of the cup during its overturning.
  • a cover dispenser can be provided if necessary.
  • the stack of cups is advantageously included in a barrel magazine rotating with several batteries.
  • the precise position of the rotating barrel is obtained by indexing a disc integral in rotation with the barrel and provided with notches; the periphery of the disc is followed by an indexing roller; the drive of the barrel allows a game by which the disc blocked by the roller in the notch stops immediately and precisely.
  • This backlash drive can be achieved, for example, by a belt drive.
  • the disc can advantageously serve as the end flange of the barrel.
  • Figure 1 schematically shows a dispensing machine 1 for liquid products (drinks), or solids (for example popcorn) presented in cups 2 to a window 3 of the machine, generally at hand.
  • the cups 2 are distributed on the spot, individually, thanks to an inversion device 4 placed above a magazine 5 of empty cups stacked upside down in a rotating barrel.
  • the store is located in the lower volume of the vending machine 1: this volume, generally of great height, makes it possible to store a large number of cups 2, even if these are cups of large capacity (for example a liter).
  • the vertical magazine 5, illustrated in FIGS. 2 and 3, comprises a rotating barrel 6 formed by two respectively lower 7 and upper 8 flanges between which vertical walls 9 are arranged so as to define four (for example) cells A, B, C, D receiving a stack of spilled cups. These cells can be opened radially on the side to facilitate the loading of a stack of cups, especially since each stack, supported on the widest part of the lower cup, is stable.
  • the lower cup can also be a false cup of any height allowing to adapt the capacity of store 5 to actual needs.
  • the rotating barrel 6 can be surrounded by a fixed cylindrical wall on a part of its periphery.
  • the flanges 7 and 8 are mounted on a vertical shaft 10 (only partially shown in the drawings) rotating in bearings (not shown), while a pulley 11, wedged on the lower part of the shaft 10, is driven by to a transmission belt 12, by a geared motor assembly 13 with output pulley 14.
  • the upper flange 8 comprises on its periphery four notches 15 in V regularly distributed.
  • a roller 16 mounted horizontally on a horizontal arm 17 articulated at 18, can follow the edge of the flange 8 against which it is permanently pushed thanks to the action of a spring 19.
  • a controllable electromagnet 20 makes it possible to counteract the action of the spring 19 and of pulling the roller radially out of contact with the flange 8.
  • the assembly of the drive means 11-14 and indexing 15-20 makes it possible to rotate the barrel by quarter turn very precisely in the direction of arrow F.
  • Opposite cell A is a set for mounting the stack of cups.
  • This assembly comprises a vertical screw 21 parallel to the magazine 5, and extending over its height, mounted in rotation between an upper support 22 and a lower control motor 23 allowing rotation in both directions at will.
  • a horizontal pallet 24 with nut is mounted on the screw 21 and is locked in rotation by the cooperation of an appendage 25 guided in sliding by a vertical rail 26, whereby the rotation of the screw 21 in one direction or in the another causes the pallet 24 to go up or down.
  • Two sensors respectively lower 27 and upper 28 detect the low and high positions of the pallet.
  • the passage of the pallet 24 through the lower flange 7 is possible thanks to four radial notches 29 provided in the four indexing positions to be in front of the mounting assembly.
  • the upper flange 8 has four holes 30 for passage of the cups.
  • a holding assembly (cf. FIGS. 2 and 4) is provided for the outgoing cups, emerging from the upper flange 8 under the thrust of the pallet 24 at the base of the stack.
  • This retaining assembly consists of three springs 31 (for example with a leaf) mounted on a fixed support (not shown) above the flange 8 (although three springs mounted on the flange 8 can be provided directly around each orifice 30 ).
  • the shape and height of the springs 31 is such that they retain (slightly) elastically the second cup 2 of the stack emerging above the flange 8. If the cup 2 carries a ring, as shown, the support by the spring 31 can be made easier, but this ring is by no means essential.
  • a sensor 32 for example a photoelectric cell, makes it possible to precisely determine the presence of the top of the upper inverted cup 2 on a reference line.
  • a sensor 32 makes it possible to detect the presence or absence of a cup in the cell (B), just upstream from the cell (A) during use.
  • the upper cup of the stack is supported by the reversing device 4 which will be described with reference to FIGS. 5 and 6.
  • the device 4 comprises a curved guide groove, in a ramp, 33-34, formed by a wall 33 with a horizontal genera-trice, held on at least one lateral vertical wall 34.
  • the curved wall 33 overhangs the stack of cups 2, at least at the entrance, slightly flared, 35 of the gutter.
  • a thrust means 36 is constituted by a disengaging finger 37, substantially horizontal, carried by a chain 38 stretched between two sprockets 39, one of which is driven by a geared motor 40.
  • the plane formed by the chain 38 is arranged parallel with a generator 42 of the cup 2 in the inverted position and in the vicinity thereof (see FIG. 6) so that the finger 37 can, during its extreme low passage, be introduced between the edge 41 of the upper cup 2 and the corresponding edge of the cup immediately below.
  • the rising strand 43 of the chain defining the rising path of the finger 37, generally remains close to a vertical plane containing the generator 42, but tilts slightly on the same side as the ramp 33.
  • the bottom of the chain 38 is at the height of the space separating the lower edges of the two upper cups of the stack, while the top of the chain is at the height of the intermediate tilting position of the cups.
  • a sensor 44 detects the passage of the finger 37 to control its setting in motion and its stop.
  • a stopper 45 placed in the immediate vicinity of the upper cup 2 cooperates, slightly overhanging its base so as to be on the path of the lower part of the cup 2 and / or its edge 41 when the cup is raised.
  • the stop 45 is at an intermediate height between the low and high points of the chain 38, preferably upwards, for example at its third or its upper quarter, so as to act when the upper cup 2 is sufficiently disengaged from the cup immediately lower to be able to rotate.
  • the stop 45 is adjacent to a part for receiving the cup 46 in a vertical position at the location, at the level of the window 3 of the dispensing machine.
  • This receiving part comprises, in addition to the actual receiving plate 47, recovery surfaces 48 and 49 connecting the stop 45 to the plate 47 by increasingly steep slopes, while side walls 50 (only one is shown in figure 6) guide the cup on the side.
  • a magazine 51 with a cover 52 for cups opens out above the cup in the receiving position.
  • the covers 52 are gripped by two clamps 53 carried at the end of an articulated arm 54 controlled by an electromagnet 55.
  • Barrel 6 is loaded; four stacks of 50 cups (for example) are in the cells A, B, C, D.
  • the pallet 24 is in the lower extreme position, controlled by the sensor 27.
  • Pallet 24 vertically pushes the cups until cell 32 detects the edge of the bottom of the upper cup.
  • the finger 37 of the rocker assembly comes into contact with the edge of the opening, disengages and lifts the cup 2. After a certain displacement, the edge of the opening of the cup abuts against the part 45 which causes the beginning of the tilting.
  • the ramp 33 and the walls 34 and 50 channel the cup 2 during its tilting. From the start of the cup 2, the cell 32 controls the rise of the pallet 24 so that a cup is always available.
  • the high position sensor 28 controls the descent of the pallet to its extreme low position.
  • Tray 6 must make a quarter turn to present a new full stack.
  • the roller 16 is released by the electromagnet 20; the motor-belt assembly 13-12 controls the rotation of the barrel 6.
  • the roller 16 after a certain time indexes in the next notch 15 and immobilizes the barrel 6.
  • the sliding of the belt 12 allows positioning precise of barrel 6.
  • the pallet 24 rises the cup stack until cell 32 detects the bottom of the upper cup.
  • the set is ready for a next request for cup 2.
  • the pallet 24 in the high position will be detected by the sensor 28 and, simultaneously, the sensor 32 ', will indicate that the last battery is empty the dispenser will be put out of service by the electronic control unit.

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Cited By (5)

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EP1239428A2 (de) * 2001-02-19 2002-09-11 Samsung Kwangju Electronics Co., Ltd. Becher-Transfervorrichtung für einen Verkaufsautomat
US6540100B2 (en) * 2001-03-06 2003-04-01 The Coca-Cola Company Method and apparatus for remote sales of vended products
US20150041485A1 (en) * 2012-07-30 2015-02-12 Kil Jae Chang Sanitized Vending Machine Having Cup Retention-And-Release Mechanism
US9384621B1 (en) * 2012-07-30 2016-07-05 Kil Jae Chang Product and cup dispensing mechanisms concentrically arranged on common rotatable wheel in a sanitized vending machine
CN109389756A (zh) * 2018-12-05 2019-02-26 深圳鼎加弘思饮品科技有限公司 用于饮品自动售卖的杯子及装置及其自动售卖方法

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US4396131A (en) * 1977-02-16 1983-08-02 Milton Morse Vending machine for beverage cups having a soluble component
EP0379238A1 (de) * 1989-01-16 1990-07-25 Beltramo, Teresina Maddalena Piera Vorrichtung zur automatischen Ausgabe von Hörnchen und ähnlichem, bestimmt für Speiseeis
FR2667421A1 (fr) * 1990-09-28 1992-04-03 Besso Rene Distributeur de gobelets empiles en position inversee.

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Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US4396131A (en) * 1977-02-16 1983-08-02 Milton Morse Vending machine for beverage cups having a soluble component
EP0379238A1 (de) * 1989-01-16 1990-07-25 Beltramo, Teresina Maddalena Piera Vorrichtung zur automatischen Ausgabe von Hörnchen und ähnlichem, bestimmt für Speiseeis
FR2667421A1 (fr) * 1990-09-28 1992-04-03 Besso Rene Distributeur de gobelets empiles en position inversee.

Cited By (8)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
EP1239428A2 (de) * 2001-02-19 2002-09-11 Samsung Kwangju Electronics Co., Ltd. Becher-Transfervorrichtung für einen Verkaufsautomat
EP1239428A3 (de) * 2001-02-19 2004-03-31 Samsung Kwangju Electronics Co., Ltd. Becher-Transfervorrichtung für einen Verkaufsautomat
US6540100B2 (en) * 2001-03-06 2003-04-01 The Coca-Cola Company Method and apparatus for remote sales of vended products
US6742673B2 (en) 2001-03-06 2004-06-01 The Coca-Cola Company Method and apparatus for remote sales of vended products
US20150041485A1 (en) * 2012-07-30 2015-02-12 Kil Jae Chang Sanitized Vending Machine Having Cup Retention-And-Release Mechanism
US9384621B1 (en) * 2012-07-30 2016-07-05 Kil Jae Chang Product and cup dispensing mechanisms concentrically arranged on common rotatable wheel in a sanitized vending machine
US9489791B2 (en) * 2012-07-30 2016-11-08 Kil Jae Chang Sanitized vending machine having cup retention-and-release mechanism
CN109389756A (zh) * 2018-12-05 2019-02-26 深圳鼎加弘思饮品科技有限公司 用于饮品自动售卖的杯子及装置及其自动售卖方法

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