MECHANISM FOR ISSUING PIECE GOODS IN VENDING MACHINE Russian patent published in 2013 - IPC G07F11/00 

FIELD: physics.

SUBSTANCE: vending machine has a housing, a vertical channel for holding a pile of items, below which an ejection mechanism is mounted, the ejection mechanism consisting of an ejector for ejecting items into a tray mounted on a rotary surface. The rotary surface is formed by the radial surface of a cylinder placed under the vertical channel, and the item ejectors are at least one cam gear, having a star wheel for engaging the item. The side surface of the cam gear has constant contact with the bottom surface of the item in the pile. An item resting by its bottom surface on the side surface of the cam gear is released when the cam gear rotates until the moment it becomes possible for the star wheel to drop item into the tray though a window formed between the bottom edge of the side of the vertical channel closer to the tray and the longitudinal surface of the cylinder. The support plane of the star wheel is on the side of the tray. The radial surface of the cylinder is the surface of a motorised conveyor drum.

EFFECT: simple design of a vending machine and high reliability of operation.

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