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Ice cream vending machine
| Details |
Inventors: Chirnomas, Munroe;
Assignee:
Primary Examiner: Simone; Timothy F.
Assistant Examiner:
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Selitto, Jr.; Ralph W.
A vending machine stores a plurality of cups that are filled with primary food products and sealed with covers, and on command, dispenses one cup from the plurality of cups, removes the cover from the one cup, and adds secondary food products to the primary food product in the one cup. The primary food product can be heated. The operation of the vending operation is automatically controlled. |
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DETAILED DESCRIPTION The present invention relates to a novel vending machine for dispensing ice cream or yogurt.
The vending machine vends cups filled with a primary food product and sealed with a cover.
The vending machine includes storing means for storing the cups, first dispensing means for dispensing one cup from the storing means, removing means for removing the cover from the dispensed cup, second dispensing means for selectively adding at least one secondary food product to the primary food product in the dispensed cup, and controlling means for automatically controlling the first dispensing means, the removing means and the second dispensing means.
In the preferred embodiment of the present invention, the vending machine is adapted to vend cups of ice cream.
The cups have frustum shapes.
The cups of ice cream are stored sideways in a serpentine rack located within a freezer.
The serpentine rack is divided into bins, with each bin storing a flavor of ice cream.
To adapt the serpentine rack to store the frustum-shaped cups, a runner blade is located within each bin in order to elevate the conical axes of the cups to their horizontal positions.
The cups are dispensed by spring-biased levers located at the bottom of the serpentine rack.
By depressing a lever, the cup is dispensed from its corresponding bin, and jettisoned from the refrigerator though an access window.
A dispensing unit has a conveyor assembly, which includes a selector unit to depress a lever of a selected bin.
The selector unit has a carriage which is positioned in front of the selected bin.
A finger on the carriage depresses the lever of the selected bin, whereupon the dispensed cup falls from the refrigerator and onto the conveyor assembly.
A centerwall and a sidewall on the conveyor assembly cooperate to orient the frustum-shaped cup in an upright position.
The distance between the center and rear walls is greater than the diameter of the lower portion of the cup, but less than the diameter of the upper portion of the cup
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