Machine for dispensing heated sausage from a cold storage compartment
OwnerReinhold A. Johansson, Arne B. Svenssoninventors
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Abstract
A coin-operated machine for dispensing heated sausage from a cold storage compartment where the sausages are kept in a frozen condition. Two superposed rollers being rotated step by step in synchronism about a horizontal axes in a vertical portion of a chute and each roller being provided with a peripheral recess to receive one sausage with the top roller sealing the chute and segregating one sausage which it drops into the recess of the bottom roller. The sausage in the bottom roller recess is then exposed to a source of radiation of micro-waves for heating. While so exposed, a secondary rotor element rotates the sausage. The heated sausage is then dropped from the bottom roller into a dispensing chute.
Claims4
A device for treating and transporting sausages, farming part of a vending machine, comprising a roller having a recess therein to receive said sausage, said roller being rotatably mounted about a horizontal axis permitting said product to fall down by means of its own gravity into said recess when said roller is in a first angular position and in a second angular position of said roller the recess of said roller being so located that the product received therein is subjected to micro waves, a rotor means being provided to rotate the product in said recess in said second angular position of said roller in order to rotate said product about its longitudinal axis, said recess of said roller in a third angular position of said roller being in register with an outlet opening through which the product leaves said roller by gravity.
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