Merchandiser with flexible temperature controlled columns
AssigneeThe Coca-Cola Company
InventorJurgen Roekens
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Abstract
The present application provides a merchandiser for dispensing a number of products. The merchandiser may include an ambient compartment with a number of ambient product columns with a number of ambient products therein, an X-Y drive device positioned beneath the ambient compartment, and a temperature controlled compartment positioned beneath the X-Y drive device, the temperature controlled compartment including a number of temperature controlled product columns with a number of temperature controlled products therein. The X-Y drive device receives an ambient product from one of the ambient product columns of the ambient compartment and delivers the ambient product to one of the temperature controlled product columns of the temperature controlled compartment.
Claims14
A merchandiser for dispensing a number of products, comprising:
- an ambient compartment, the ambient compartment comprising a plurality of ambient product columns configured to hold a plurality of ambient products therein;
- an X-Y drive device positioned beneath the ambient compartment;
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- a temperature controlled compartment positioned beneath the X-Y drive device, the temperature controlled compartment comprising a plurality of temperature controlled product columns configured to hold a plurality of temperature controlled products therein;
- wherein the X-Y drive device includes a product carriage and a number of X drive rods and Y drive rods enabling the product carriage to move in an X-Y plane perpendicular to the temperature controlled product columns to receive an ambient product of a first type from one of the plurality of ambient product columns of the ambient compartment at a first position in the X-Y plane, and carry the ambient product of the first type to a second position in the X-Y plane;
- and further wherein the product carriage is configured to allow the ambient product of the first type to fall out of the product carriage into a temperature controlled product column of the temperature controlled compartment associated with temperature controlled products of the first type.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.