Patents by Inventor Antonio Feltrin
Antonio Feltrin 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).
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Patent number: 10600273Abstract: The present application provides a product vending module for vending a number of products. The product vending module includes a product row configured to contain a number of products therein. The product vending module also includes a product gate positioned about the product row and rotatable from a closed position preventing access to the number of products to an open position allowing access to one of the number of products while preventing access to a remainder of the number of products, the product gate including a biased base. The product vending module further includes a product locking system in communication with the product gate, the product locking system including a locking pin releasably engaging the biased base and movable from a first allowing rotation of the product gate toward the closed position to a second position restricting rotation of the product gate toward the closed position.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2014Date of Patent: March 24, 2020Assignee: The Coca-Cola CompanyInventors: Bart Carpentier, Jurgen Roekens, Antonio Feltrin, Willy Van Esch, Jacobus P. M. Dessing
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Patent number: 9633503Abstract: The present application provides a vendor for vending a number of products. The vendor may include a cooler and a vending device positioned within the cooler. The vending device may include a number of product shelves with a number of product gates and one or more product locking systems that permit the removal of only one product at a time from the product gates.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2010Date of Patent: April 25, 2017Assignee: The Coca-Cola CompanyInventors: Jurgen Roekens, Antonio Feltrin, Willy Van Esch
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Patent number: 9082254Abstract: The present application provides a product vending module for vending a number of products. The product vending module may include a product row, a product gate positioned about the product row, and a product locking system in communication with the product gate. The product locking system may include a latch and a biased base such that releasing the latch allows the product gate to be opened and one of the number of products to be removed therefrom.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2010Date of Patent: July 14, 2015Assignee: The Coca-Cola CompanyInventors: Bart Carpentier, Jurgen Roekens, Antonio Feltrin, Willy Van Esch, Jacobus Petrus Maria Dessing
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Publication number: 20140367403Abstract: The present application provides a product vending module for vending a number of products. The product vending module includes a product row configured to contain a number of products therein. The product vending module also includes a product gate positioned about the product row and rotatable from a closed position preventing access to the number of products to an open position allowing access to one of the number of products while preventing access to a remainder of the number of products, the product gate including a biased base. The product vending module further includes a product locking system in communication with the product gate, the product locking system including a locking pin releasably engaging the biased base and movable from a first allowing rotation of the product gate toward the closed position to a second position restricting rotation of the product gate toward the closed position.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 2, 2014Publication date: December 18, 2014Inventors: Bart Carpentier, Jurgen Roekens, Antonio Feltrin, Willy Van Esch, Jaacobus Petrus Maria Dessing
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Publication number: 20110226794Abstract: The present application provides a product vending module for vending a number of products. The product vending module may include a product row, a product gate positioned about the product row, and a product locking system in communication with the product gate. The product locking system may include a latch and a biased base such that releasing the latch allows the product gate to be opened and one of the number of products to be removed therefrom.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2010Publication date: September 22, 2011Applicant: THE COCA-COLA COMPANYInventors: Bart Carpentier, Jurgen Roekens, Antonio Feltrin, Willy Van Esch, Jacobus Petrus Maria Dessing
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Publication number: 20110226793Abstract: The present application provides a vendor for vending a number of products. The vendor may include a cooler and a vending device positioned within the cooler. The vending device may include a number of product shelves with a number of product gates and one or more product locking systems that permit the removal of only one product at a time from the product gates.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2010Publication date: September 22, 2011Applicant: THE COCA-COLA COMPANYInventors: Jurgen Roekens, Antonio Feltrin, Willy Van Esch
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Patent number: 6321936Abstract: A device in a vending machine for releasing products arranged in a stack made up of horizontal rows each including a plurality of products includes a containing structure (1, 2, 3, 4) inside which there are positioned the members (5, 6, 7) for selecting and releasing the products while the controlling and driving components are positioned outside, the selecting and releasing members including a plurality of doors (7) longitudinally aligned along the drop channel and means suitable to perform a sequential opening of said doors (7) and a subsequent closing thereof. This sequential opening allows to use the machine for dispensing different products without requiring a manual adjustment of the mechanical members which retain the products.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 1999Date of Patent: November 27, 2001Assignee: Vendo Italy S.p.A.Inventor: Antonio Feltrin
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Patent number: 5799823Abstract: A device for releasing the products in a vending machine includes a structure for containing the stack of products consisting in a front plate (1) and a rear plate (2) to which two flanks (3a, 3b) and two walls (4a, 4b) are secured, a pair of rocker levers (5a, 5b) and a revolving basket (6) being rotatably mounted inside structure for alternately supporting the two staggered columns forming the stack of products and for releasing the products. The driving components, which impart a unidirectional revolving motion to the basket (6), and the controlling components of the rockers (5a, 5b), which consist in a pair of cams (14) which rotate at half the revolving speed of the basket (6), are positioned outside said structure.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 1996Date of Patent: September 1, 1998Assignee: Vendo Italy S.p.A.Inventor: Antonio Feltrin