Patents Assigned to Deutsche Wurlitzer GmbH
  • Patent number: 7628501
    Abstract: The invention relates to a jukebox or vending machine provided with a lighting system. In order to provide an improved lighting system for generating lighting effects, the lighting system comprises a screen, the screen having a colored design, a circuit board with at least a first lighting device and a second lighting device, wherein the first lighting device is configured to radiate a first light cone and the second lighting device is configured to radiate a second light cone and wherein the first light cone and the second light cone intersect on the screen, and a controller for modifying the first light cone independently of the second light cone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2009
    Assignee: Deutsche Wurlitzer GmbH
    Inventors: Jürgen Obermeier, Norbert Wolf
  • Publication number: 20060238082
    Abstract: The invention relates to a merchandise drawer comprising an extending device for vending machines (12). Said merchandise drawer is mounted inside the vending machine (12) by means of the extending device so as to be movable in at least one direction of extension and is characterized by at least one locking element (3) that locks the merchandise drawer (1) in at least one direction of extension in a locked position, releases the merchandise drawer (1) for displacement in at least one direction of extension in a released position, and allows the merchandise drawer (1) to tilt into a tilted filling position in a final extended position. Said locking element (3) locks in the tilted filling position and prevents the merchandise drawer from accidentally falling out.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2004
    Publication date: October 26, 2006
    Applicant: DEUTSCHE WURLITZER GMBH
    Inventors: Jens Heidemann, Jurgen Obermeier
  • Patent number: 6390328
    Abstract: A modular article dispensing unit for an automatic vending machine includes an article compartment for accommodating articles with a rotatably mounted rotary body at the dispensing opening of the article compartment for the removal and discharge of individual articles from the article compartment. The rotary body has at least one recess which in a removal position is filled with an article from the article compartment and delivers the article after a predetermined rotary movement in a dispensing position. Arranged in the interior of the article compartment is at least one motion member which is set in motion prior to and/or during each rotary movement of the rotary body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2002
    Assignee: Deutsche Wurlitzer GmbH
    Inventors: Juergen Obermeier, Horst Schmidt, Bernhard Rath
  • Patent number: 5367804
    Abstract: Presented is an indicating register that serves for indicating the content of magazine or the like, and having a simple and space-saving construction. Several pivotably-journaled pages each have a page appendage projecting from their pivot axis and offset relative to one another in the axial direction. A carrier unit is movable transversely to the pivot axes of the pages by means of a drive, and has several followers that are likewise axially offset to one another and additionally have a constant offset in the transport direction, and with movement of the carrier unit come into working engagement, one after the other, with the associated page appendages, and carry pages along until they run up against a previously turned page or against a stop.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 1992
    Date of Patent: November 29, 1994
    Assignee: Deutsche Wurlitzer GmbH
    Inventors: Hans Domberg, Georg Seidel, Rolf Renner
  • Patent number: 5289441
    Abstract: Described is a record play-back device with two record magazines lying opposite one another, each one for accommodating a stack of records consisting of records lying over one another. A play-back unit is disposed under and between the record magazines, with a transport mechanism that is movable in the direction of the stack of records, the mechanism including, in the transverse direction between the two stacks of records, a mobile transverse sliding carriage that transports a desired record to and from between its place within a record magazine and the play-back unit. Each record magazine displays, in the case of each record, at least one holder element releasably accommodating the record rim, and the transverse sliding carriage includes at least one gripping arrangement that seizes the desired record at the rim of the record, and with movement of the transverse sliding carriage releases it from the holder element of the record magazine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 1992
    Date of Patent: February 22, 1994
    Assignee: Deutsche Wurlitzer GmbH
    Inventors: Hans Domberg, Georg Seidel
  • Patent number: 5097986
    Abstract: Presented is a vending machine with an outer door, a space for merchandise capable of being seen through the outer door and filled with merchandise, and with additional units, as for example coin changer/coin counter, etc., adjacent to the merchandise space, which are lockable with the outer door. The merchandise space is cooled by a cooling assembly and the vending machine displays means that reduce cold losses during operation, in particular at the time of dispensing merchandise, removal of merchandise and/or refilling with merchandise. In this manner, it is also possible to offer and sell with the vending machine cooled merchandise, in particular low-temperature-cooled merchandise.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 1990
    Date of Patent: March 24, 1992
    Assignee: Deutsche Wurlitzer GmbH
    Inventors: Hans Domberg, Georg Seidel, Rolf Renner