Abstract: A vending machine has a cabinet internally defining a dispensing compartment that is closed by a front door and houses a plurality of dispensing trays, each of which supports a plurality of products and is slidably engaged in a guide device defined by a pair of elongated guides, each of which is coupled to the cabinet through a front tooth and a rear tooth and is provided with a retractable spring-loaded locking pin movable between a coupling position and a release position with respect to the cabinet.

Abstract: A vending machine has a cabinet internally defining a dispensing compartment that is closed by a front door and houses a plurality of dispensing trays, each of which supports a plurality of products and is slidably engaged in a guide device defined by a pair of elongated guides, each of which is coupled to the cabinet through a front tooth and a rear tooth and is provided with a retractable spring-loaded locking pin movable between a coupling position and a release position with respect to the cabinet.

Abstract: A method and vending machine for dispensing products, whereby a selected product is transferred by a bin from a relative line on a relative tray of the vending machine to a pickup station communicating with the outside through a window having a movable hatch; the bin being moved between a first position, in which the bin receives the selected product, and a second position, in which the bin is located just below the window at the pickup station, so the selected product, once the hatch is opened, can be withdrawn through the window from the outside, directly from the bin arrested in the second position.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an anti-theft arrangement for packaged-product vending machines that comprise a cabinet-like outer casing (2) containing the products to be vended, and provided with a product dispensing compartment that is constituted by a hopper (6) which is movable from a closed position into an opened one and vice-versa. The anti-theft arrangement comprises at least a strut (10) and an actuator (11, 12, 14) for moving the strut (10) from a first operating position, in which the strut (10) is adapted to co-operate with the hopper (6) to lock it in its closed position, to a second operating position, in which the strut (10) enables the hopper (6) to be movd into its opened position and the selected products to be withdrawn, and vice-versa. Both the strut (10) and the actuator (11, 12, 14) are housed within a containment casing (9) adapted to be attached inside the cabinet-like outer casing (2).