Patents by Inventor GRANT PRITCHARD

GRANT PRITCHARD has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Vending machine with elevator delivery of vended product to customer access
    Patent number: 9640014
    Abstract: An automated vending or merchandizing machine includes an elevator sub-assembly which moves a dispensing bin or elevator tray vertically along the fronts of plural vertical levels of product dispensers in the vending machine. A controller tracks the vertical position of the elevator tray. This allows the controller to send the elevator tray to the vertical level of the dispenser of the product selected by a customer, at that level receive and confirm dispensing of the selected product into the elevator tray, and return the elevator tray holding the dispensed product down to a customer delivery or access door or opening in the vending machine that can below the vertical levels of dispensers. Features can include coordination of locking and unlocking of a customer access door and actuating an anti-cheat security baffle with the position of the elevator tray.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: FAWN ENGINEERING CORPORATION
    Inventors: Grant Pritchard, Jeffrey W. Mayoros, Santosh Lad
  • VENDING MACHINE WITH ELEVATOR DELIVERY OF VENDED PRODUCT TO CUSTOMER ACCESS
    Publication number: 20120277904
    Abstract: An automated vending or merchandizing machine includes an elevator sub-assembly which moves a dispensing bin or elevator tray vertically along the fronts of plural vertical levels of product dispensers in the vending machine. A controller tracks the vertical position of the elevator tray. This allows the controller to send the elevator tray to the vertical level of the dispenser of the product selected by a customer, at that level receive and confirm dispensing of the selected product into the elevator tray, and return the elevator tray holding the dispensed product down to a customer delivery or access door or opening in the vending machine that can below the vertical levels of dispensers. Features can include coordination of locking and unlocking of a customer access door and actuating an anti-cheat security baffle with the position of the elevator tray.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2012
    Publication date: November 1, 2012
    Applicant: FAWN ENGINEERING CORPORATION
    Inventors: GRANT PRITCHARD, JEFFREY W. MAYOROS, SANTOSH LAD