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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 07, 1984
Filed:
Jul. 15, 1981
Joseph L Levasseur, Chesterfield, MO (US);
H. R. Electronics Company, St. Louis, MO (US);
Abstract
A conditioning time control and method of operation thereof for controlling the pre-vend conditioning of products in a multi-selection vendor having credit entry circuitry, vend selection switches, each vend selection having a pre-established vend price associated therewith, product conditioning circuitry, and vend producing circuitry responsive to actuation of a vend selection switch for effecting delivery of a selected product to the customer when the credit entered is at least equal to the vend price for the selected product, the conditioning time control including circuitry to inhibit vending of the product associated with a particular vend selection for a period of time to permit preconditioning of such product, conditioning selection switches operable by authorized personnel for individually establishing the particular selections to be inhibited, and a reset switch operable by authorized personnel, the inhibiting circuitry being responsive to actuations of the conditioning selection switches and to operation of the reset switch to effect preconditioning of the products associated with the actuated conditioning selection switches by inhibiting vending of such products for a period of time subsequent to operation of the reset switch while permitting vending of others of the vend selections when selected by a customer.