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.

A system for securely delivering packages of at least two different sizes by a sender to a receiver is disclosed comprising, installing an array of lockers of at least two different sizes with the number of lockers of each size based on a predetermined installed ratio, a central control unit for controlling the locking portions on the array of lockers having a locker optimization unit adapted to use data collected on the frequency of use of each size of lockers to recommend a ratio of lockers of each size to maximize usage of lockers of appropriate size in the array, wherein if the recommended ratio is different from the installed ratio, changing the sizes of selected lockers after installation of the array to better match the recommended ratio by replacing doors without removing hinge pins and moving and re-fastening the top and bottom walls of the lockers.

An automatic medication dispensing device for bottled medication includes a frame, a medication collection device and medication dispensing units; wherein: the bottled medications are arranged in a single column in the medication container; a medication outlet is set on the bottom wall at the medication discharging end of the medication container; the medication discharging mechanism includes a medication stopper and a push rod; the medication stopper is set at the medication outlet and one end of the medication stopper is hinged to the medication container, and the medication stopper has two working states of blocking the medication outlet and opening and a primary elastic element acts on the medication stopper; the drive device drives the primary pressing portion to act on the medication stopper and the secondary pressing portion acts on the first bottled medication at the medication discharging end.

A baffle blocking medication dispensing unit for bottled medication, wherein: bottled medication is laid flat in the medication container in a single row; the container is arranged at an angle of greater than 10 to make the medication discharging end lower than its rear end and the opening of the medication discharging end is the medication outlet; the medication discharging mechanism includes a dispensing baffle hinged at the medication outlet, and when the baffle is in the state of closing and blocking, it blocks the medication outlet, and when the baffle is in the state of turning over and opening, the baffle is turned down to be connected with the front side of the bottom wall, and the first bottled medication at the dispensing end is dispensed forward on the straight plate portion of the baffle and the blocking portion blocks the second bottled medication at the dispensing end.

Systems and methods that perform automated selection and delivery of a fastener. The system or apparatus may include a fastener inventory portion that retains a plurality of fasteners; a user delivery portion; a transfer assembly that affords physical transport of a fastener selection from the fastener inventory portion to the user delivery portion; a fastener attribute assembly that inputs desired fastener attribute data (DFA data) regarding a desired fastener; a computer system that interfaces with the fastener attribute assembly to input the DFA data; maps the DFA data to at least one fastener candidate; determines a fastener selection amongst the at least one fastener candidate; determines a number of discrete units of the desired fastener that comprise the fastener selection; and controls the transfer assembly to retrieve the fastener selection from the fastener inventory portion and physically transport the fastener selection to the user delivery portion.

An automatic frozen food product vending machine includes a frozen food product dispensing station for dispensing at least one frozen food product into a frozen food container, an arm movable to transfer the dispensed frozen food product container to a user access platform, and a user access door located adjacent to the user access platform. The user access door is configured to be vertically driven between a closed position and an open position.

A system and method for vending digital video discs is provided. A request is received from a user to complete a rental transaction for a first digital video disc. A database is queried to determine whether a quantity of a set of second digital video discs in a vending inventory exceeds a predetermined threshold. A discount offer notification is presented to the user to rent one of the set of second digital video discs, upon determining that the quantity of the set of second digital video discs exceeds the predetermined threshold. A second request from the user to rent one of the second set of digital video discs is received, and one of the set of second digital video discs is vended to the user.

This application relates to the technical field of automatic vending, and provides a vending machine that includes a control device, a measuring device, a bucket, a bucket driving mechanism configured for driving the bucket into motion, and a storage column configured to store items. The control device controls the measuring device to measure a first distance and a second distance, calculates a difference between the first distance and the second distance, and calculates a number of items in the storage column based on the difference.

The present invention relates to an adaptable product storage and extraction tray, intended for being installed in a vending machine having several compartments. The widths of the compartments can be modified in a short time, in a very simple manner and eliminating the need to take out all the products stored in the different compartments to make these adjustments. The tray comprises a base, a front profile, dividing partitions which limit compartments, extractor assemblies, support plates which support the product, where the extractor assemblies, the dividing partitions and the support plates have the possibility of transverse displacement and where the support plates can be transversely coupled to one another and can be separately removed to constantly adjust the width of the compartments.

A vending machine having modular dispensing modules configured to define product dispensing channels. The dispensing modules are each pre-configured with an integral drive mechanism (an actuator, such as a motor drive, activating a product conveyor) for advancing product items to a dispensing location within a vending machine. Each dispensing module is self-contained, and pre-configured by the vending machine supplier. The vending machine owner/operator does not need to configure/reconfigure or otherwise modify any component in the dispensing modules. The dispensing modules form the building blocks for configuring the product dispensing channels in a vending machine to accommodate dispensing products of various sizes and/or forms. The dispensing modules thus define the product dispensing channels in the vending machine.