Process for removing items from a cupboard and cupboard for implementing the process
AssigneeChemcoat, Inc.
InventorHenning J. Claassen
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Abstract
The invention relates to a process for removing items from a cupboard, in which a given item is first selected and then removed from the cupboard. Information on the selected and removed items is recorded by mans of a plug-in storage medium and also in the cupboard. The invention also relates to a cupboard for implementing the process having a device for storing items, apertures for their removal and locking devices for the apertures. There are recording devices on the cupboard for providing information on the items selected or removed, where such information can be displayed by a control device on a storage medium inserted into an aperture and in the cupboard.
Claims17
A method for removal of articles from a cabinet, comprising the steps of:
- a) inserting a customer data storage medium into a device for receiving the customer data storage medium;
- b) selecting specific articles;
- c) removing the selected articles from compartments;
- and
- d) registering information as to the selected or removed articles on the customer data storage medium;
- e) storing said information in said cabinet;
- f) transferring said information onto a service storage medium in conjunction with restocking said cabinet;
- and
- g) tracking information on how often each of the compartments are opened.
A cabinet comprising:
- compartments for accommodating articles;
- at least one opening for removing an article;
- a closure device;
- registering means for establishing information as to articles selected or removed from the compartments;
- means for receiving a customer data storage medium;
- and
- a control device for storing said information, for registering said information on said customer data storage medium, for transferring said information onto a service storage medium, and for tracking a number of opening actions for each of the compartments.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.