Automatic vending machine with discount function
US4679150A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Mar 7, 1985 |
| Grant date | Jul 7, 1987 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Mar 7, 2005 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06Q30/0283
- WIPO fieldControl
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
An automatic vending machine is provided which has a continuous sale controller for continuously selling a plurality of products within a total amount of coins inserted therein for a single purchase. Until the outstanding balance becomes zero single sale operations are stored in a single sale operation memory. When a count of a counter reaches a reference number while the single sale operations are being stored, a reference number detector generates an output. The regular sales price supplied from a product sales price generator to the continuous sale controller is updated to a discount price when an output is generated from the reference number detector.
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