AUTOMATIC VENDING MACHINE Russian patent published in 2014 - IPC G07F7/06 

FIELD: personal use articles.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to automatic vending machines. The vending machine consists of a body, a payment receptacle device, a control unit, bottle movement channels and bottle release means with a bottle release window ; the automatic vending machine is equipped with a user loading window for receiving empty containers; positioned inside the body are vertical support racks with guides forming the commodity loading and release locations and equipped with combinations of sequentially operating locks ensuring the possibility of commodities release and movement of bottles along the channels formed by the guides that are parallel to each other, operate alternatively as far as each channel becomes filled with empty containers and are equipped with loosely attached rollers contacting the bottles edges and ensuring easier movement of bottle along such channels; the working guides are positioned at an angle relative to the horizontal plane (which ensures origination of sufficient gravitation force for the bottle movement and rolling down) and are equipped with locks in each guiding channel for locking non-operating bottle movement channels and unlocking operating bottle movement channels.

EFFECT: creation of an automatic vending machine with the possibility of movement of empty and filled bottles inside it by way of charging an empty bottle into the loading and movement window and movement of filled bottles inside the acceptance-and-release mechanism as a result of such charging with a filled bottle released in returned for a loaded empty one.

2 cl, 3 dwg