Nova Patents
EP2589028B1

Automatic product dispensing machine

Abstract

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EP2589028B1, drawing sheet 1
Sheet 1 of 5

Term

4.8 yearsleft in the term

Expires 27 June 2031.

  1. Priority and filed
  2. Granted
  3. Today
  4. Expires

13 claims: 1 independent, 12 dependent

  1. 1
    An automatic product dispensing machine, comprising:a frame (2) delimiting at least a housing chamber (3);a magazine (4), operatively arranged internally of the housing chamber (3), the magazine (4) being predisposed to contain a predetermined number of products (5) ;a window (17), in particular placed frontally, engaged to the frame (2) such as to enable direct visual access to the magazine and to the products (5) contained there and to be dispensed;at least a display (8) associated to the frame (2) and interposed between the housing chamber (3) and an environment external to the dispensing machine (1);a control unit (9) acting on the display (8) and configured such as to enable visualisation of images and/or items of information on the display (8), characterised in that the display (8) is a part of the window (17) and in that at least a portion (8a) of the display (8) is transparent, enabling visual access to the magazine (4) and to the products contained there and to be dispensed, the control unit being configured such as to be selectively active on at least the portion (8a) of the display (8) in order to visualise images and/or items of information, wherein the display (8) and the window (17) substantially coincide, a property of transparency and visual access to the magazine (4) and to the products (5) contained therein of the window being guaranteed by the transparency of the display (8), and wherein the control unit (9) is configured such as to be active on at least the portion (8a) of the display (8) in order to switch the display (8) between at least two of following three conditions: a visualising condition, in which the display (8) reproduces on at least a portion (8a) thereof an item of information and/or an image which is visible externally by a user and in which there is no substantial visual access to the housing chamber (3) through the portion (8a);a transparent condition, in which at least a product (5) contained in the magazine (4) is visible through the portion (8a) of the display (8);and a superposing condition in which at least a portion (8a) of the display (8) reproduces an item of information and/or an image which is visible externally to a user and at least a product (5) contained in the magazine (4) is at least partly visible through the portion (8a).