Smart conveyor system

A smart conveyor system for conveying food orders from a restaurant to patrons disposed within vehicles, comprising:

• a patron drive-through lane, spaced apart from said restaurant, for permitting a patron to drive therethrough;
• a first vertically oriented conveyor tower operatively associated with said restaurant;
• a second vertically oriented conveyor tower operatively associated with said patron drive-through lane and located a predetermined distance from said restaurant;
• a horizontally oriented conveyor housing extending between, and connecting together, upper ends of said first and second vertically oriented conveyor towers;
• at least one conveyor, disposed within each one of said first vertically oriented conveyor tower, said second vertically oriented conveyor tower, and said horizontally oriented conveyor housing, adapted to traverse said first and second vertically oriented conveyor towers, and said horizontally oriented conveyor housing, for transferring a food order from said first vertically oriented conveyor tower to said horizontally oriented conveyor housing, and from said horizontally oriented conveyor housing to said second vertically oriented conveyor tower;
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• a sensor activated-computer-controlled system for detecting a vehicle within said second patron drive-through lane and for controlling said conveyor movably disposed within said second vertically oriented conveyor tower such that the vertical disposition of said conveyor, disposed within said second vertically oriented conveyor tower, can be properly positioned with respect to the vehicle disposed within said patron drive-through lane such that a driver/patron within the vehicle, disposed within said patron drive-through lane, can easily access the food order delivered by said conveyor movably disposed within said second vertically oriented conveyor tower.

A smart conveyor system for conveying food orders from a restaurant to patrons disposed within vehicles, comprising:

• a patron drive-through lane, spaced apart from said restaurant, for permitting a patron to drive therethrough;
• a first vertically oriented conveyor tower operatively associated with said restaurant;
• a second vertically oriented conveyor tower operatively associated with said patron drive-through lane and located a predetermined distance from said restaurant;
• a horizontally oriented conveyor housing extending between, and connecting together, upper ends of said first and second vertically oriented conveyor towers;
• at least one conveyor, disposed within each one of said first vertically oriented conveyor tower, said second vertically oriented conveyor tower, and said horizontally oriented conveyor housing, adapted to traverse said first and second vertically oriented conveyor towers, and said horizontally oriented conveyor housing, for transferring a food order from said first vertically oriented conveyor tower to said horizontally oriented conveyor housing, and from said horizontally oriented conveyor housing to said second vertically oriented conveyor tower;
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• a computer control system, operatively connected to said at least one conveyor, disposed within each one of said first vertically oriented conveyor tower, said second vertically oriented conveyor tower, and said horizontally oriented conveyor housing for controlling said at least one conveyor, disposed within each one of said first vertically oriented conveyor tower, said second vertically oriented conveyor tower, and said horizontally oriented conveyor housing whereby said at least one conveyor, disposed within each one of said first vertically oriented conveyor tower, said second vertically oriented conveyor tower, and said horizontally oriented conveyor housing, are moved at a predetermined speed, acceleration, deceleration, with respect to each other, such that no components of the food orders will tend to slip, slide, or spill during their conveyance along said at least one conveyor, disposed within each one of said first vertically oriented conveyor tower, said second vertically oriented conveyor tower, and said horizontally oriented conveyor housing.