Abstract: A vending machine including a housing with one or more assembly units and one or more stacking shafts positioned in the housing. The assembly unit include a plurality of product dispensing coils for stacking and dispensing product horizontally. The stacking shaft stacking and dispensing products vertically, especially beverage containers. A support structure extends over a horizontal width of the housing and supports the assembly units and the stacking shafts in horizontally adjacent positions.

Abstract: A rocker, which is pivotable for dispensing products and has a lower product support part, is arranged at the bottom of a product shaft in a product-dispensing device of a vending machine. To achieve trouble-free dispensing even in the case of bottles or cans made of a soft material, an upper product support part is formed by an attachment mounted tiltably on the rocker. A stop device, by which the rocker pivots the attachment with it, is provided between the rocker and the attachment. A free-running angle is provided between the rocker and the attachment.

Abstract: A dispensing unit with a pair of product containing shaft for bottles or cans, can dispense two different types of product per shaft pair and has a high storage capacity while being compactly built. To this end a common element is assigned to a shaft pair which element can be rotated from a resting position, selectively to the right or left.

Abstract: An automatic selling machine is equipped with a cooling system whose evaporator and evaporator fan are dispensed in the goods compartment on an insulating intermediate bottom of the machine housing, and whose condenser, condenser fan, and compressor are accommodated below the intermediate bottom. The cooling system is an assembly to be exchanged as a unit. For this purpose, the intermediate bottom is provided with an opening having peripheral shoulders on which an insulating supporting plate closing the opening rests. The evaporator is mounted above the plate, while the condenser, the compressor, and the condenser fan are mounted at the underside of the plate.

Abstract: In a trap door chute for vending machines, doors are pivotably mounted to sidewalls of the machine, in a certain trap door chute division. Each door supports itself in its merchandise storing position by a finger on an electric detention member. Along one chute wall extends at least one vertical track, along which a carriage with a cam for the deflection of the detention member is movably guided. A lifting bar extends parallel to the track and has a row of teeth whose spacing corresponds to the smallest trap door chute division. The carriage supports itself on the row of teeth via a stepping pawl. A stop is provided on the carriage, with which it rests on one of the detention members. The detention members are tines of a rake made of a spring material.

Abstract: In a coin collector of a vending machine including a credit indicator, a swivel plate obstructs, in its rest position a coin return channel. The plate is pivotable in one direction out of its rest position by the stroke of a coin return bolt and is operatively connected to the credit indicator for resetting the same. To ensure that upon actuation of the coin return bolt, the credit indicator is reliably reset, the plate keeps blocking the coin return channel during a first partial stroke of the coin return bolt, and resets the credit indicator. During a subsequent second partial stroke, the plate swivels into the coin return channel.

Abstract: A mechanical vending machine with a coin analyzer and a control mechanism for the release of merchandise dispensing devices after the insertion of an appropriate amount in coins, has the control mechanism being coupled to a locking bar of the merchandise dispensing devices and has a slide lock for the locking bar. To make the control mechanism accessible and to disengage it, the coin analyzer and the control mechanism are disposed on a bracket mounted on horizontal tracks of the vending machine so as to be movable from a pushed-in position to a pulled-out position. The bracket has a hinge by means of which it can be pivoted in the pulled-out position about a vertical axis. Disposed on the bracket is a coupling device which couples the control mechanism to the locking bar and to the slide lock in the pushed-in position, and which disengages when moved into the pulled-out position.

Abstract: A price setting mechanism of a vending machine for setting one of two or more sales prices is disclosed. Merchandise dispensing devices are mounted on an operating base plate. Depending on the sales price, at least one control bar is coupled to a respective merchandise dispensing device, on the one hand, and to a release mechanism for the merchandise dispensing device on the other. To make the setting mechanism simple and clearly settable, there are fastened to the control bar or bars, guide bushings which extend transverse to the travel direction of the control bars and in which slide pins are mounted. In one position, one end of each slide pin projects into the path of motion of a control cam of the merchandise dispensing device while being outside of the path of motion of the control cam in a second position thereof. The other end of the slide pins project beyond this bushing in each one of the two positions, on the operating base plate side which is opposite the merchandise dispensing devices.

Abstract: A coin operated dispensing arrangement in which a plurality of counting cams can be set to reflect the selling price of items to be dispensed. These cams are rotated in response to the insertion of coins into the device, and a blocking rod is movable from a normal blocking position to a release position which permits dispensing of selected items in response to the insertion of coins having a value corresponding to the selected selling price. A plurality of movable sensing members cooperate with the cams, and a slide member holds normally the blocking rod in the blocking position, while being movable to a disengaging position by any one of the sensing members. A plurality of control levers are pivotable in front of the slide member into and out of the path of movement of respective sensing members.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a merchandise dispensing device for a vending machine. The device comprises a dispensing part, with a dispensing compartment floor, capable of pivoting from an intake position to a dispensing position. In the dispensing position, the merchandise, capable of rolling, especially bottles or tins, stored in inclined compartments prop by a support arch. A roll-on surface is provided in between the support arch and the dispensing compartment floor, to facilitate a rolling of the merchandise in the intake position, in which the dispensing compartment floor forms an obtuse angle with the roll-on surface and the dispensing compartment floor is wider than the roll-on surface.

Abstract: A merchandise compartmenting arrangement for an automatic vending machine of merchandise packages, including actuating installations associated with the merchandise compartments for the dispensing of the merchandise packages, in which at least one, and particularly a plurality of merchandise compartments are constructed as a self-contained unit independent of the automatic vending machine, and which is fillable externally of the automatic vending machine, separately transportable from the latter, and insertable into the automatic vending machine for the filling thereof whereby, in the inserted position of the unit, the merchandise packages of the merchandise compartments are individually dispensable by means of the actuating installation through a dispensing aperture provided in the unit.