The Coca-Cola Company

Vendo Italy S.p.a.

Antonio Feltrin

Jurgen Roekens

Willy Van Esch

Bart Carpentier

Jacobus P M Dessing

Jacobus Petrus Maria Dessing

Jacobus Petrus Dessing

The present application provides a product vending module for vending a number of products. The product vending module includes a product row configured to contain a number of products therein. The product vending module also includes a product gate positioned about the product row and rotatable from a closed position preventing access to the number of products to an open position allowing access to one of the number of products while preventing access to a remainder of the number of products, the product gate including a biased base. The product vending module further includes a product locking system in communication with the product gate, the product locking system including a locking pin releasably engaging the biased base and movable from a first allowing rotation of the product gate toward the closed position to a second position restricting rotation of the product gate toward the closed position.

Vendor

The present application provides a vendor for vending a number of products. The vendor may include a cooler and a vending device positioned within the cooler. The vending device may include a number of product shelves with a number of product gates and one or more product locking systems that permit the removal of only one product at a time from the product gates.

The present application provides a product vending module for vending a number of products. The product vending module may include a product row, a product gate positioned about the product row, and a product locking system in communication with the product gate. The product locking system may include a latch and a biased base such that releasing the latch allows the product gate to be opened and one of the number of products to be removed therefrom.

A device in a vending machine for releasing products arranged in a stack made up of horizontal rows each including a plurality of products includes a containing structure (,) inside which there are positioned the members (,) for selecting and releasing the products while the controlling and driving components are positioned outside, the selecting and releasing members including a plurality of doors (,) longitudinally aligned along the drop channel and means suitable to perform a sequential opening of said doors (,) and a subsequent closing thereof. This sequential opening allows to use the machine for dispensing different products without requiring a manual adjustment of the mechanical members which retain the products.

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Castelletto Monferrato, Italy

Antonio Feltrin