VENDING MACHINE THAT COMBINES THE STORAGE OF FROZEN READY MEALS AND HEATING OF READY MEALS WITH MICROWAVES Russian patent published in 2022 - IPC G07F9/10 

FIELD: computer technology.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to the field of computer technology. The vending machine contains: a vending machine body (1) with a door (2) in which the display is located (3); a window for the delivery of ready meals (4); a folding table fixed in the door of the body from the outside (5); a garbage container with a garbage hole (6), and the hole it is located in the door of the body from the outside, and the garbage container is located in the body; at the same time, a sealed freezer with a cooling system for storing dishes at a negative temperature is placed inside the vending machine body; inside the freezer there is a drum consisting of at least one removable tube for loading and storing packaged portions of frozen dishes (8), and a block for storing sauces with a cooling system and a sauce dispensing mechanism consisting of three electric drives and three pushers (9); at the same time, the dishes inside the device are stored in portions in cardboard cups with lids (10), and the bottom row of cardboard cups is fixed in the pipe and does not come into contact with the base of the freezer, to eliminate the friction of the cups during the rotation of the drum (11), an ejector mechanism that pushes one cup with a dish out of the pipe so that the cup with the selected dish fell into the heating unit (12), the motor for rotating the drum to move the pipe with the user-selected dish (14) to the ejector mechanism; a shielded dish heating unit (15) containing two magnetrons and two shielded lids; a system for automatically opening and closing the upper hole of the heating unit to move a portion of the dish from the heating unit to the delivery window (17); a pipe built inside the heating unit for fixing a cup with a portion of the dish and holes in this pipe to provide ventilation during the heating of the dish (18); the control system unit (19), which contains a chip connected to a microcomputer and a GPRS modem, a power supply unit and an autonomous power supply unit of the machine, and the control system unit is connected to the display.

EFFECT: expansion of the range of vending machines.

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