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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 22, 1990
Filed:
Jun. 21, 1989
Phillip B Groover, Woodstock, GA (US);
The Coca-Cola Company, Atlanta, GA (US);
Abstract
A space-to-sales vend rack including a plurality of adjacent vend columns having a wide range of respective storage capacities, the columns being configured for supporting products in vertical stacks therein and being arranged in groups to provide space for respective products commensurate with the anticipated sales of such products. Some of these columns are fixed within the vending machine in which certain of these columns are mounted for at least partial removal from the interior of the vending machine to provide access to all of the columns for loading them with the products to be dispensed and for maximizing the numbers of groups of columns which can be placed within a given interior space of a vending machine.