Abstract: A food dispensing machine and method of use that includes separately loaded, conveyed, and heated first and second food portions. A first food portion, such as a hot dog, is dispensed from a chain of portions in an sealing film via a first dispensing device, which slices the film and expels the food portion. The first food portion is loaded onto a projecting component, which transports the first food portion to a first heating device and rotates the food portion during heating. Second food portions, such as buns, within containers attached to a film so as to form a chain, are dispensed by a second dispensing device, which separates each container from the film for placement onto a tray. The tray conveys the second food portions to a second heating device, and the heated first and second food portions are combined and dispensed.

Abstract: This invention concerns a conventional smart card comprising a rosette of eight contacts of the ISO 7816 type and at least one standard bi-directional channel, through which the exchange of data at a speed of about 500 Kbits/sec is possible. To allow the use of such a card in an environment that needs a processing of information of several Mb we propose to add on this card a high-speed series channel linked to non used connections by the standard bi-directional channel and to format a second bus (HSD) on which are linked several coding/decoding modules and multiplexing module (MUX). These modules are also linked to the conventional bus of the card.