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US 10,854,032 B2Granted
Vending machine
AssigneeEvoca S.P.A.
InventorRoberto Sichich
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Abstract
A vending machine has a cabinet internally defining a dispensing compartment that is closed by a front door and houses a plurality of dispensing trays, each of which supports a plurality of products and is slidably engaged in a guide device defined by a pair of elongated guides, each of which is coupled to the cabinet through a front tooth and a rear tooth and is provided with a retractable spring-loaded locking pin movable between a coupling position and a release position with respect to the cabinet.
Claims10
A vending machine, comprising:
- a cabinet internally defining a dispensing compartment closed by a front door;
- a plurality of dispensing trays, which are arranged in the dispensing compartment, are arranged one over the other and are each designed to support a respective plurality of products;
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- for each dispensing tray, a respective guide device, which is slidably engaged by a respective dispensing tray of the plurality of dispensing trays and includes a pair of guides coupled to the cabinet on opposite sides of the dispensing tray;
- wherein each guide has an elongated shape and includes a front end provided with at least a first coupling tooth for engagement with the cabinet and a rear end provided with at least a second coupling tooth for engagement with the cabinet;
- wherein each guide is further provided with a retractable spring-loaded locking pin, which is movable between a normal extracted coupling position, in which the retractable spring-loaded locking pin locks the relative guide onto the cabinet, and a retracted release position, which allows the respective guide to be mounted to, and removed from, the cabinet.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.