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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 31, 1984
Filed:
Jul. 20, 1982
Hasmukh R Shah, Hot Springs, AR (US);
Ashok K Gupta, Hot Springs, AR (US);
U.M.C. Industries, Inc., New York, NY (US);
Abstract
A price-setting control device for a vending machine can be used to set prices for a number of products and to store those prices in a memory. A decimal-type visual display selectively, but simultaneously, displays a 'line' number which is assigned to a given product plus the price set for that product. A line-selecting switch, rather than the customer-operated switches of the vending machine, is used to select the desired line number when the price, for the product corresponding to that line number, is to be set. Mode-controlling data for the operation of the vending machine can be stored in selected locations within the memory; and the line-selecting switch plus a price-setting switch can be used to change that data.