Modular article dispensing unit for an automatic vending machine

US6390328B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• Deutsche Wurlitzer GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Juergen Obermeier · Hille, DE
• Horst Schmidt · Bad Endbach, DE
• Bernhard Rath · Gladbeck, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 22, 2000
• Grant date: May 21, 2002
• Expiry date: Sep 22, 2020

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G07F11/44
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A modular article dispensing unit for an automatic vending machine includes an article compartment for accommodating articles with a rotatably mounted rotary body at the dispensing opening of the article compartment for the removal and discharge of individual articles from the article compartment. The rotary body has at least one recess which in a removal position is filled with an article from the article compartment and delivers the article after a predetermined rotary movement in a dispensing position. Arranged in the interior of the article compartment is at least one motion member which is set in motion prior to and/or during each rotary movement of the rotary body.