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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 12, 2002
Filed:
Feb. 26, 2001
Anton K. Simson, Poway, CA (US);
Frank Ruskin, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Henri J. A. Charmasson, San Diego, CA (US);
Todd A. Simson, San Diego, CA (US);
Other;
Abstract
A vending machine is housed in a light, yet sturdy enclosure made of an external sheet metal shell and an internal seamless plastic liner between which a volume of expanded synthetic foam material is injected. One or more good-holding magazines are removably held within the enclosure. A keypad, alpha-numerical display and card reader are packaged in the door closing the front of the enclosure. A driving motor module and a coin acceptor are removably mounted against the inside liner. Due to the absence of complex or delicate structure, the machine can be serviced, cleaned and sanitized within minutes. A pair of vending machine, one holding snack food, the other beverage cans are coupled to work together and dispense combinations of items from a single control panel. Both the beverage and snack food holding magazines are driven from the same type of motor module mounted inside the liner.