Apparatus for storing and delivering sale units

US5438523A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• ADOLF WÜRTH GMBH & CO. KG · DE

Inventors

• Siegfried Humm · Forchtenberg, DE
• Gabor Palosi · Dornstetten, DE
• Karl Weidner · Birkenfeld, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 13, 1994
• Grant date: Aug 1, 1995
• Expiry date: Jun 13, 2014

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G07F11/62
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

An apparatus is provided for delivering assembly and machining expendable materials or tools. The apparatus has an internal continuous mechanism with different compartment rows arranged in rotary manner and to move past a removal door row. An embodiment having relatively stationary compartments and movable doors to align with a selected compartment is also disclosed. An inputting keyboard for the positioning of the particular compartment row in front of the removal door row also controls the unlocking of a door in the door row associated with the selected compartment. The delivery unit is connected by means of a long-range transmission means to a data processing unit, which records the removal of the materials and optionally initiates reloading, billing, etc.