VENDING MACHINE FOR DISPENSING PIECE GOODS Russian patent published in 2023 - IPC G07F11/16 

FIELD: commercial equipment.

SUBSTANCE: invention is related to a machine for issuing piece goods, such as: cigarettes in packs, boxes or vials of medicines and similar products. The vending machine for issuing piece goods comprises housing 1, including first compartment with a door 2 for placing piece goods, equipped with touch panel 3 associated with a control unit located in the second compartment, closed by front panel 5, on which slot 6 is formed for receiving payment, niche 7 for the issuance of piece goods and tray 8 for the issuance of change and a check for the purchased goods. In the first compartment there is rack 4 with cassettes for piece goods. Between the rack and the door there is a device for extracting piece goods and moving it to niche 7 for issuing piece goods. This device includes a frame, the vertical elements of which are connected by belt drives with synchronized drives to ensure movement along the vertical guides located on both sides of rack 4, and on the horizontal elements, an extraction unit is installed to move along them. The latter includes a cassette puller, a scanner for reading the code of the piece goods, a pusher and a basket for receiving the piece goods connected with the respective drives.

EFFECT: simplification of extraction of goods, such as a pack of cigarettes, by automatically pushing them down into the receiving device, while the identified product with a scanned barcode is guaranteed to be issued to the consumer.

5 cl, 5 dwg