107 results about "Food vending machines" patented technology

A food cartridge assembly adapted for use in a vending machine including a base, a lockable cover, a plurality of food trays housed beneath the cover, and a door covering an opening through the cover for accessing unpackaged food items on the trays, wherein the food cartridge is adapted to be filled off-site with unpackaged food items and loaded into the vending machine without any intermediate food handling.

The invention provides a food vending machine which comprises a rack with an operation panel. A refrigeration region, a processing region and a containing and packaging region are formed in the rack; fresh foods are stored in the refrigeration region; a plurality of output ports for outputting the fresh foods from the refrigeration region are formed between the refrigeration region and the processing region; the processing region is provided with a cooking workstation capable of carrying out cooking on the fresh foods; the cooking workstation is mounted in the processing region in a detachable manner; the containing and packaging region is provided with cooked food boxes for containing cooked foods processed by the cooking workstation and a packaging mechanism for carrying out coverage and packaging on the cooked food boxes; a taking window for customers to take the cooked food boxes is arranged on the panel of the rack. According to the food vending machine, various foods can be used for selection, and meanwhile, cooking modes also can be selected, and thus, the food vending machine is more diverse and wider in selection; the food vending machine can cook foods from a raw state and is unlike an existing food vending machine which reheats cooked foods, and thus, the foods cooked by the food vending machine are good in taste, nutrition cannot be lost, and the foods are sanitary and healthy and are difficult to go bad.

A heated food vending machine has a front with a) slots for dispensing the food and for accepting money, b) a video screen and c) several depressible buttons. Inside the machine is a refrigerator with a roof having an openable door and a side having a fastenable door for refilling with food in covered pans. Inside the refrigerator is a horizontally rotating apparatus with stations supporting stacks of food in covered pans. An elevator below the openable door elevates a station, raising the top pan above the door. The food cover is removed by a special roller apparatus. On top of the refrigerator are arms radiating from a central hub, which are rotate horizontally. Spaces between the arms contain food pans, which rotate to an oven with heating elements above and below the pizza. A computer controls the food selection and the refrigerator and oven temperatures.

The present invention relates to an improved food vending machine equipped with a remote nutrition informing system, comprising a nutrition informational display providing at least one category identifier representative of a dietary category of food along with a corresponding brief description and at least one food item which has a label associated to it, the label displaying all category identifiers that is represented in the at least one food item.

A heated food vending machine has a front with a) slots for dispensing the food and for accepting money, b) a video screen and c) several depressible buttons. Inside the machine is a refrigerator with a roof having an openable door and a side having a fastenable door for refilling with food in covered pans. Inside the refrigerator is a horizontally rotating apparatus with stations supporting stacks of food in covered pans. An elevator below the openable door elevates a station, raising the top pan above the door. The food cover is removed by a special roller apparatus. On top of the refrigerator are arms radiating from a central hub, which are rotate horizontally. Spaces between the arms contain food pans, which rotate to an oven with heating elements above and below the pizza. A computer controls the food selection and the refrigerator and oven temperatures.

A novel vending machine system integrating a food storage container and a high speed stored energy cooking oven capable of cooking foods in under one minute such as that further described by U.S. Provisional Application 60 / 822,028 filed on Aug. 10, 2006 as well as co-pending application “Wire Mesh Thermal Radiative Element and Use in a Radiative Oven” filed on Dec. 30, 2008 by De Luca. The invention disclosing a novel configuration for the oven incorporating storage, a system allowing for the proper cooking of items and food positioning, an activation system, and an invoicing system.

The invention provides an automatic vending machine for freshly-made food and a working method thereof. The automatic vending machine for freshly-made food comprises a vending unit located on a machine body. An operation panel and a taking port are arranged outside the machine body, and a material storage unit, a container storage unit and a sealing unit are arranged inside the machine body. The automatic vending machine for freshly-made food is characterized by further comprising a multi-axis mechanical arm, wherein the tail end of the multi-axis mechanical arm is provided with a grasping part. The material storage unit comprises at least one liquid storage unit and at least one solid storage unit, liquid outputting devices are arranged on the lower portions of the liquid storage units, and solid pushing devices are arranged on the lower portions of the solid storage units. The mechanical arm drives the grasping part to move among the liquid outputting devices, the solid pushing devices, the sealing unit and the taking port. The invention further provides the working method of the automatic vending machine for freshly-made food. By means of the automatic vending machine for freshly-made food and the working method thereof, the automatic fresh making process of food is achieved, the freshness of automatically-vended food is guaranteed, and the taste preference of people is met.

A food vending machine has a chassis, multiple storing devices, a food accessing device, a foodbox device, a packaging device, a processing stage, a transporting device and a freezing device. The chassis has an internal space defined therein. The storing devices, food accessing device, foodbox device, packaging device, processing stage, transporting device and freezing device are mounted in the internal space. A customer may order specific foods by operating the food vending machine to implement a selecting act, a paying act, a cooking act, a food filling act, a seasoning act, a packaging act and a picking up act. The food vending machine allows customers to cook customized refresh foods on site. Furthermore, the cooked foods are put a foodbox without intervening refrigerating or freezing processes between the cooking process and food filling process, which prevents the cooked foods from deteriorating and keeps the customers' in good health.

The invention relates to a package food vending machine. The package food vending machine comprises a storage cabinet used for storing package food, a liquid storage box and a liquid guide groove, andthe liquid storage box is used for storing and heating a heat conduction medium; the liquid guide groove is formed in the storage cabinet and is communicated with the liquid storage box, and the liquid guide medium in the liquid storage box can be supplied to the liquid guide groove to heat the package food in the placed liquid guide groove. By means of the package food vending machine, the liquid storage box can supply the heat conduction medium to the liquid guide groove, before a user takes meal, the packaged food placed in the liquid storage groove is heated, so that after the user buys the package food, the package food can be directly eaten and does not need to be heated additionally, thus the meal having time of the user is shortened, and a more convenient meal having service is provided for the user.

The invention discloses an automatic freshly-made wheaten food vending machine and a working method thereof, and relates to the technical field of automatic vending machines. The machine comprises a machine body, vending devices and a taking port are arranged on the exterior of the machine body, and the interior of the machine body comprises a mechanical arm, wheaten food cooking devices, sauce adding devices, conveying devices and an upper layer goods shelf which are arranged on an operation platform; wheaten food is obtained from the upper layer goods shelf by the mechanical arm, cooking of the wheaten food is completed by matching of the mechanical arm and the wheaten food cooking devices, saucer addition is conducted by the sauce adding devices, the wheaten food is seal-capped by a combined clamp and clamped to the conveying devices, and the finished products are conveyed to the taking port by the conveying devices. According to the automatic freshly-made wheaten food vending machine, structural configuration is rational, the integration degree is high, the working efficiency is high, fully automatic wheaten food product making and vending can be achieved, the freshness of the food is guaranteed, and health and sanitation are provided; meanwhile, the machine has various choices of flavors, food amounts and different ingredients, so that the requirements of customers are met.

The invention discloses a restocking method for a food vending machine, which is used for carrying out restocking for the vending machine. The method comprises the steps of: designing a unique two-dimensional code for each food placing cavity; in each time the vending machine needs restocking, a staff reading the two-dimensional code on the food placing cavity where a meal box to be placed by using a camera in the vending machine to acquire the position information of the storage cavity; then reading the two-dimensional code of the box meals to be placed to acquire food information; the vending machine binding the food information of the meal box to be placed in the current food placing cavity, sending the information to the cloud server; and the cloud server storing the information in a database and updating original food information and inventory of the food placing cavity. According to the restocking method for the food vending machine, by means of twice code scanning of the staff,each box meal stored in the vending machine corresponds to an accurate food placing cavity position, so that it is easy for the staff to replenish, and utilization rate of the storage cabinet is improved.

The invention discloses an automatic food vending machine achieving cold insulation and advance selling. The automatic food vending machine comprises a machine body which comprises a scanning device, a control device and a storage pushing device, and the control device controls the scanning device and the storage pushing device. The machine body is of an internal cavity structure which is internally provided with a partition plate, the partition plate divides the cavity structure into an insulating chamber and a refrigerating chamber which are each internally provided with a lifting pushing device and a storage device, and the lifting pushing devices and the storage devices are arranged in an adjacent mode. According to the automatic food vending machine achieving cold insulation and advance selling, an order is placed through reservation, and a consumer can obtain food which is fresh and good in taste by scanning a code by himself / herself at a fixed time and location.

The invention relates to an automatic food vending machine with a cage type rotary disc. The cage type rotary disc comprises a cage frame, a power device and a detection device, wherein the cage frame is used for bearing food, the cage frame comprises a plurality of spaced rotary discs at intervals and a rotary disc center shaft, the rotary disc center shaft is connected with part of rotary discs, the power device is arranged in the cage frame and is connected with the rotary disc center shaft to drive the cage frame to rotate, and the detection device is used for detecting the positions of the rotary discs. The automatic food selling machine has the advantages that the power device of the cage type rotary disc is arranged in the cage frame, and the rotary disc can rotate by 360 degrees in the circumferential direction; the current positions of the rotary discs can be detected by the detection device, so when the rotary discs rotate to the required positions, a motor stops rotating; and the whole automatic food vending machine is stable, reliable and simple in control.

The invention belongs to the technical field of vending machine, and particularly relates to a vacuum and low temperature intelligent food vending machine which comprises a supporting plate, wherein aplurality of partition plates are arranged on the supporting plate to divide the supporting plates into multiple goods channels for goods stacking, a discharging mechanism is arranged on one side ofthe supporting plate and a first conveyer belt is arranged on the opposite side, the goods is driven by the discharging mechanism to fall onto the first conveyer belt, conveyed to the discharging pipeline through the first conveyer belt and fall into a transfer bin which is arranged at the bottom of the discharging pipeline, a second conveyer belt is arranged in the transfer bin and used for transferring the goods to a goods taking bin, and the discharging pipeline is provided with a one-way door for goods to enter the discharging pipeline. According to the vending machine, the temperature, the vacuum degree and other conditions of the vending machine are not changed violently due to the matching of the first conveyer belt and the discharging pipeline, and the the discharging pipeline andthe transfer bin, and starting related device many times to maintain the temperature inside the vending machine and the vacuum degree condition are avoided, so that the energy consumption is reduced.

The invention relates to a food product dispenser, in particular such dispenser intended for dealing out metered amounts of powder products in general, ground coffee, tea leaves, products in granular form or in the form of thick liquids in a beverage or food-item vending machine. The inventive dispenser comprises a box-shaped container (1) for storing a food product, comprising at least a substantially planar wall portion (3a, 3b, 3c, 3d) and a dispensing outlet (5); the dispenser further comprises scraper means (7) for removing product from said wall (3a, 3b, 3c, 3d) and actuating means (10) for driving said scraper means (7). The inventive dispenser is characterized in that said scraper means (7) are operated by said actuating means (10) to displace in a direction parallel to at least a substantially planar wall portion (3a, 3b, 3c, 3d) with a reciprocating translatory motion.

The invention relates to an automatic food vending machine. At present, the current automatic vending device is arranged at a place with intensive crowd, and is generally used for selling beverage, and a machine capable of automatically selling roasted sausages does not exist. The invention discloses an automatic roasted sausage vending machine, which comprises a machine housing, a coin collector, a food discharge port, a food storing box, a controller and a food discharge device, and is characterized in that a display window is arranged in the upper part of the machine housing; the food discharge device is arranged inside the machine housing; one end of the food discharge device is communicated with the food storing box; the other end of the food discharge device is communicated with the food discharge port; the controller is electrically connected with the coin collector, the constant-temperature food storing box and the food discharge device. According to the automatic food vending machine, the characteristics of a traditional roasted sausage machine and an automatic vending machine are effectively combined, the color and the fragrance of roasted sausages are fully displayed, the proper temperature needed for keeping the mouthfeel of the roasted sausages is provided, the automatic vending of the roasted sausages is realized, and an efficient, safe and healthy roasted sausage vending device is provided.

The invention discloses a food vending machine which comprises a cabinet. A storage system, a cooking system, a taking and feeding system, a sauce adding system, an oil fume treatment system and a control system are arranged inside the cabinet, the storage system is positioned right above the cooking system and comprises a storage box, and a discharging port is formed in the lower portion of the storage box. The cooking system comprises a cooking pot and at least one cooking basket capable of moving between a high position and a low position, the cooking basket is higher than the liquid levelof the cooking pot when at the high position, and at least part of the cooking basket is soaked in the cooking pot when the cooking basket is positioned at the low position. A discharging push door isarranged at the bottom of the cooking basket, and the taking and feeding system comprises a taking mechanism and a feeding mechanism which are separately arranged on two sides of the cooking pot. When the cooking basket is positioned at the high position, the taking mechanism horizontally pushes the discharging push door to take materials, and the feeding mechanism secondarily collects the materials and feeds the materials to the sauce adding system. The sauce adding system comprises a sauce adding device and a soup adding device. The oil fume treatment system recovers, condenses and recyclessteam generated by cooking of the cooking pot through an air extracting pipeline, and dropping, cooking, taking, feeding, sauce adding and oil fume treatment processes are controlled by the control system.

The invention provides an automatic cooked wheaten food vending machine and a control method thereof. The control method includes the steps that a noodle bowl is rotated out through a rotary noodle selector; after being rotated out, the noodle bowl is taken down through a noodle taking mechanism; the noodle bowl is hooked out and fed to an XY axis noodle output mechanism through a rotary arm noodle pushing mechanism; the noodle bowl is lifted through the XY axis noodle output mechanism, and meanwhile a soup injecting mechanism falls onto the noodle bowl; steam is fed to the soup injecting mechanism through a steam replenishing mechanism to unfreeze the noodle bowl; the noodle bowl is heated in a water storage heat insulating tank of a heating and stirring mechanism, hot water is injected into a stirring tank, meanwhile, soup bases are injected into the stirring tank through a soup base pressing mechanism and a soup base quantifying mechanism according to the selected taste and quantity, a stirring motor is started, and hot water and the soup bases in the stirring tank are stirred; after being stirred, the soup bases are fed to the soup injecting mechanism, the soup bases are injected into the noodle bowl through the soup injecting mechanism, and then cooking of the noodle bowl with the soup is completed.

The invention discloses an automatic goods changing method of a food vending machine. The method comprises the following steps: firstly, calculating the priority of all to-be-sold foods in the vendingmachine, then automatically adjusting the foods in a storage box according to the priority, and Step1, calculating the selling / ordered probability p (j) of all sold commodities according to historical sales data; Step 2, marking all sold articles in the vending machine according to a marking algorithm; Step3, judging whether a vacancy exists or not, judging that a sold article capable of being adjusted to the vacancy exists, namely, the marked value of the sold article is equal to mc, but the current position of the grid number is not mc; if the vacancy exists, turning to Step 4; otherwise, carrying out the Step 5; Step 4, adjusting the article to the vacancy; transferring to Step3; and Step 5, finishing the algorithm, and ending the goods changing. According to the invention, the vendingmachine can automatically sort the positions of foods in idle time, and the foods with high selling probability are placed at positions where the foods are easier to take according to the probabilitythat the foods are ordered.

A cooking device equipped in a food vending machine for cooking ingredients provided by the food vending machine has a chamber, a heating component, and a moving mechanism. The chamber extends in a straight line. The heating component and the moving mechanism are mounted in the chamber. The moving mechanism is used for moving the ingredients from the entrance to the exit. Thus, the cooking device can heat the raw ingredients until fully cooked, so the food vending machine can provide fresh and cooked-on-the-spot food. Furthermore, space in the chamber is utilized efficiently and the chamber suits for various ingredients and cooking methods. Besides, the moving mechanism is capable of moving multiple containers which contain ingredients, so the cooking device can heat multiple sets of ingredients at the same time.

The invention relates to the field of the retail industry, in particular to a steam-heated food vending machine. The steam-heated food vending machine comprises an equipment cabinet, a first cavity, afirst container, an outlet, a first measuring device, a conveying device, an information inputting device, a steam heating device and a processor, wherein the first cavity is arranged in the equipment cabinet; the first container is arranged in the first cavity; first to-be-sold food in the first container is discharged from the outlet; the first measuring device is connected with the first container and generates a measurement result; the conveying device is arranged in the equipment cabinet, and is used for conveying the first to-be-sold food to the outlet from the first container; the steam heating device is arranged in the first cavity and is used for heating the first to-be-sold food in the container through steam; and the processor is connected with the first measurement device, theconveying device, the steam heating device and the information inputting device. By the steam-heated food vending machine, the corresponding number of food can be automatically discharged according to demands of a user, the purchasing efficiency is improved, the time is saved, and meanwhile, the circumstance that steamed stuffed buns are lost is prevented.

A self-help food vending machine comprises a conveyer belt, a dish table, a partition plate, an intelligent sensor, an intelligent push rod, a lifting dining table, a protective housing, a working window, delivery windows, and a payment system; the conveyer belt is positioned in the protective housing, the partition plate, the intelligent sensor and the intelligent push rod are included in the protective housing, the exterior of the protective housing includes the payment system, the working window, the delivery windows and an intelligent signal transmitter, and the interior of the protective housing includes the lifting dining table. The conveyer belt of the self-help food vending machine is of multilayer design, the multiple delivery windows are provided, and purchasing is facilitated for diners; the problems of high labor cost and waste of staff are solved; when used as in enterprise and factory dining rooms, the self-help food vending machine may also provide effectively incased purchasing speed for diners and improved efficiency.

The invention provides a fresh food vending machine with the function of automatic detection. The fresh food vending machine comprises a fresh food vending machine body and a detection mechanism; thefresh food vending machine body comprises an early-warning device and a processor, and the processor is in communication connection with the detection mechanism and the early-warning device, and comprises a gas analysis module and a humidity analysis module; the detection mechanism is arranged inside the fresh food vending machine body through a mechanical arm; the detection mechanism comprises ahumidity sensor, a gas sensor and an image collection module; the humidity sensor is used for collecting humidity information of fresh food; the gas sensor is used for collecting gas information of the fresh food. In the scheme, the fresh food vending machine can detect whether the fresh food is expired or not in time, and promote shopping experience for users.

The invention discloses a baking / roasting food vending machine which comprises a machine body provided with an operation panel and an object taking opening, and the machine body is provided with a freezing area used for storing uncooked food to be baked and a food processing area. After ordering and payment are completed, the to-be-baked raw food stored in the freezing area can be conveyed to the food cooking area to be subjected to first-stage baking operation and second-stage seasoning operation, and then cooked food obtained after cooking is completed is transferred to the food taking opening. According to the invention, a person who likes eating the chicken cutlet can buy the heated and seasoned chicken cutlet at any time without time limit.

The invention relates to a steam box structure which comprises an outer shell, a discharging port is formed in one end of the outer shell in the horizontal direction, the discharging port is provided with a discharging door and a discharging door opening and closing mechanism driving the discharging door to ascend and descend to be opened and closed, and an inflatable sealing ring enabling the discharging door to cover the discharging port in a sealed mode is arranged between the discharging door and the outer shell. And a carrier capable of being taken out of the shell is arranged in the shell. The food machine has the advantages that food taking components can be compactly arranged beside the steam box, steam is not prone to leaking out to damage other components of the food vending machine, and food can be rapidly loaded into the steam box; the problems that when an existing steam box is used for a food vending machine, steam overflows easily to damage other components, a box door is opened in a rotating mode, the other components cannot be compactly arranged beside the steam box, and time consumed for loading food into the steam box is long are solved.

The invention relates to a vending machine, especially relating to an unpacked dog food vending machine. Material storage bins are arranged in a machine housing and comprise material accommodating bins above, material accommodating hoppers arranged at the lower parts of the material accommodating bins, discharge pipes for the material accommodating hoppers arranged below the material accommodatinghoppers, material stirring and rotating mechanism arranged in the discharge pipes for the material accommodating hoppers and weighing platforms arranged below the discharge pipes for the material accommodating hoppers. Weight of dog food can be accurately measured. The dog food can be bought at any time. The weight is ensured. One side of the machine housing is equipped with a piece of ventilation equipment and a piece of dehumidifying equipment so that dog food is effectively prevented from going bad. The weight of dog food is ensured.

The invention provides a supplying device used for food vending machines. The supplying device is arranged in a food vending machine. The supplying device includes a rack body, a spiral track and multiple containers. the rack body is provided with an outlet cover; the spiral track is arranged on the rack body, and the lower end of the spiral track is in adjacent connection with the outlet cover; and the multiple containers can move along the spiral track. Thus, more containers can be arranged in the supplying device by making the containers move along the spiral path of the spiral track, so that more food can be provided.

The invention provides a food vending machine and a food providing method. The food vending machine has a food making device and a storage device. The storage device is connected to the food making device and has a providing outlet and a conveying mechanism. The conveying mechanism has a plurality of filling units which move along the conveying path. The food providing method comprises ordering, food making, and food providing. Food can be chosen to be taken later and a taking time can be specified or not when ordering. At the providing time, the food will be provided from the storage device if the food is chosen to be taken later and the taking time is not specified, and the food is provided from the making device if the food is chosen to be taken later and a taking time is specified. However, the food is delivered to the storage device for providing if a predetermined time is exceeded. Thus, the time for a consumer to wait for a meal can be reduced, and the subsequent consumers are not affected even if the previously supplied food is not taken.

The invention relates to the technical field of automatic vending machines, in particular to a multifunctional hot food vending machine which comprises a machine box and a front door. The front door is provided with a goods outlet, a food vending device is arranged in the machine box and comprises a food placing area, and a plurality of trays for placing foods are arranged in the food placing area. Pushing-out mechanisms are arranged at the rear of each tray, and a heating heat insulation device is arranged below the food placing area. The foods in a food area can be integrally heated to be kept constant, a constant temperature value can be adjusted according to the hot food characteristics, and thus eating safety, hygiene and good taste characteristics and the like are guaranteed for consumers. Fresh hot foods can be provided in all weather, the requirements of people having no dinning time law are met, and the multifunctional hot food vending machine is very convenient.

The invention provides a container cover used for sealing a container. The container cover comprises a cove body and one or more liquid bags located at the inner surface of the cover body, wherein theliquid bags are attached to the inner surface of the cover body, and the liquid bags are set to be capable of bursting to release water in the liquid bags during microwave heating. The invention further discloses a container of the container cover and a food heating method. According to the container cover, the liquid bags and food are separated from each other and heated by microwave separately.The food is separately heated for a certain time, the length of the time is controlled by the strength of the frail parts of the liquid bags, the liquid bags burst after being heated, unvaporized water flows to the surface of the food and continues to be vaporized, a cavity body of the container is filled with water vapor, not only can the surface of the food be humidified and heated, but also the food can be blocked from being overheated; since microwave heating can heat the food from inside to outside, and the water vapor can heat the food from outside to inside, so that the mouthfeel and quality of the food after being heated can be entirely improved significantly.