Class 221/150HC - Heating and cooling combined

Subclass of Class 221 - Article dispensing
No. of patents: 86
Last issue date: 04/27/2010

Number	Title	Issue Date
7703636	Frozen food dispensing device and method A device and method are provided for dispensing a quantity of food to be cooked. The device includes a freezer, a storage container located in the freezer, means located in the freezer for dispensing a predetermined quantity of food from the storage container into a...	04/27/2010
7358468	Complex home appliance and method of controlling and installing the same A complex home appliance and a method of controlling and installing the same. The complex home appliance includes a single power supply unit shared by two or more component home appliances of the complex home appliance. The two or more component home appliances are ...	04/15/2008
7329394	High throughput incubation devices The invention provides an efficiently automated incubation device that reduces the number of powered moving parts in the device and the amount of air transfer between environments that are internal and external to the device. ...	02/12/2008
7303093	Hot food vending machine 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 doo...	12/04/2007
7284678	Capsule dispensing apparatus with refrigeration A capsule dispensing apparatus includes an elongate tube for containing a plurality of capsules and a housing remote from the elongate tube. The elongate tube may be releasably coupled to the housing, and a dispensing arm connected to the housing may control the rel...	10/23/2007
7286907	Method and apparatus for conserving power consumed by a refrigerated appliance utilizing audio signal detection A refrigerated appliance that dispenses items for use with a power source and includes a cooling system. Power control circuitry is electrically coupled between the power source and components (for example, a compressor and one or more circulating fans of the coolin...	10/23/2007
7228989	High efficiency beverage vending machine The invention provides a vending machine for cooling food products. The vending machine includes a housing defining an interior. The vending machine also includes a plurality of holding members substantially thermally isolated from one another and disposed in the in...	06/12/2007
7191612	Thermal separating baffle in a vending machine A vending machine apparatus (32) comprising a housing defining an internal cavity and an article storage area (76) positioned inside the cavity. The article storage area (76) has a cooling unit associated therewith for cooling the article storag...	03/20/2007
7184857	Automated news rack inventory and alert management system The present invention describes various methods and apparatus to increase efficiency and sales of a Newspaper Rack. At least one sensor is positioned within a Newspaper Rack to monitor when the remaining inventory of Newspapers reaches a predetermined quantity (incl...	02/27/2007
7173226	Complex home appliance and method of controlling and installing the same A complex home appliance and a method of controlling and installing the same. The complex home appliance includes a single power supply unit shared by two or more component home appliances of the complex home appliance. The two or more component home appliances are ...	02/06/2007
7159410	Thermal barrier for a refrigerated compartment in a vending machine A vending machine apparatus comprising a housing defining an internal cavity and an article storage compartment positioned inside the cavity. The article storage compartment has a cooling unit associated therewith for cooling the article storage compartment. The art...	01/09/2007
7146246	Dispensing device A dispenser has an upper loading chamber (38), a dispensing chamber (40) located beneath the loading chamber, first and second openable covers (24, 34) for the loading chamber (38) and a dispensing chamber (40) and a gate means (	12/05/2006
7137529	Apparatus and method for distributing warm prepackaged foods An apparatus (1) for distributing pre-packaged, frozen or heated food products (12), comprises a magazine (7) for containing said products (12), resting means (11) for said products (12) in said magazine (7), moving m...	11/21/2006
7117689	Removable refrigeration cassette for a hot and cold vending machine A hot and cold vending machine. The vending machine may include a product compartment, a refrigeration system, and a ventilation system in communication with the refrigeration system and the product compartment. The ventilation system may include a valve positioned ...	10/10/2006
6933481	Customer-engaging food merchandising module An apparatus and method are disclosed for penetrating convenience store food markets with a customer-engaging food merchandising module. The customer-engaging food merchandising module comprises three units: a food storage and display unit attached to a food prepara...	08/23/2005
6808083	Hot and cold vending apparatus A vending machine for dispensing a first number of products and a second number of products. The vending machine may include a product compartment. The product compartment may include a first column with the first products and a second column with the second product...	10/26/2004
6777654	Customer-engaging food merchandising module An apparatus and method are disclosed for penetrating convenience store food markets with a customer-engaging food merchandising module. The customer-engaging food merchandising module comprises three units: a food storage and display unit attached to a food prepara...	08/17/2004
6550632	Vending apparatus for dispensing hot pizzas A vending apparatus for dispensing pre-cooked pizzas (P) packaged inside corresponding sealed containers (E). The apparatus comprises a casing (1) containing a plurality of operating assemblies (7, 13, 17, 25, 31, 37) for picking up a pizza (P) from a ref...	04/22/2003
6523715	Hot food vending machines A mechanism for removing selected food containers from a carousel situated in the refrigerated food storage compartment of an automatic hot food vending machine consisting of a rotatable selector plate which forms the bottom of the carousel and food conta...	02/25/2003
6518553	Food cooking device and method of use A device for treating sausage in a hot dog dispensing machine has a substantially closed chamber for receiving a sausage, a unit associated with the chamber and operative for providing a microwave radiation into an interior of the chamber so as to provide...	02/11/2003
6460728	Automatic vending machine An automatic vending machine is provided in which the exhausted heat produced by cooling is utilized effectively and decrease in running costs is accomplished. The automatic vending machine includes primary heat unit 31 having compressor 52 and primary he...	10/08/2002
6431395	Automatic vending machine and container for articles of frozen confectionery The present invention relates to an automatic vending machine for articles of frozen confectionery. The vending machine includes an outer body, an outer door, and an environment-controlled chamber. The frozen confectionery are kept in containers of cylind...	08/13/2002
6427772	Electronic refrigeration control system The present invention is direct to a system and method for electronically controlling the refrigeration and/or heating of the product storage compartment in a vending machine. The system includes a temperature sensor for sensing the temperature in the pro...	08/06/2002
6360140	Product dispenser with inventory monitoring A product dispenser with inventory monitoring, useful to be installed in hotel establishments and establishments providing similar services, including a refrigerating equipment and a plurality of product selection pushbuttons (2), in such a way that the d...	03/19/2002
6286710	Vending machine and concurrently ice-box There is provided a vending machine and concurrently ice-box furnished in a hotel room, etc. that serves the paying guest of the room with cold water and personal articles as a room service and enables them to conveniently purchase various kinds of bevera...	09/11/2001
6223817	Electronic refrigeration control system The present invention is direct to a system and method for electronically controlling the refrigeration and/or heating of the product storage compartment in a vending machine. The system includes a temperature sensor for sensing the temperature in the pro...	05/01/2001
6204491	Automatic popcorn dispenser with microwave oven and method to operate the same An automatic dispenser and a method to operate the same dispenses food prepacked in packets, particularly popcorn. The dispenser includes a frame with at least one conveying unit, at least a microwave oven and a collecting container mounted on the frame, ...	03/20/2001
6067898	Rice vending machine A rice vending machine includes a housing, a rice container, a packing unit and a controlling unit. The controlling unit and the cooperative packing unit make it possible to adjust the amount of the purchased rice as necessary. Therefore, the rice can be ...	05/30/2000
6047855	Automatic vending machine An automatic vending machine has a plurality of commodity storage chambers in a side-by-side arrangement that are divided from one another by thermally-insulating vertical dividers so that each chamber can be heated or refrigerated individually. Each cham...	04/11/2000
5958274	Jet impingement batch oven Apparatus to transfer heat to the surface of a product includes a product support, a duct having a duct entrance, a duct outlet and a longitudinal duct axis and a plenum for delivering temperature controlled fluid into the entrance of the duct such that f...	09/28/1999
5901877	Automatic vending machine An automatic vending machine has a housing containing a plurality of vertical commodity storage chamber sections in a side-by-side arrangement. A thermally-insulating divider panel is fixedly disposed between each pair of adjacent chamber sections in a ma...	05/11/1999
5873299	Machine and method of dispensing food items with edible inner part and outer baked dough part A machine for dispensing food items has a cooling unit for accommodating packages of edible inner part and separately outer baked dough part; a unit for opening a package with the edible inner part; a unit for withdrawing individual edible inner part from...	02/23/1999
5848726	Vending machine There is disclosed a vending machine in which a plurality of article columns are slant to be directed to a plurality of vending mechanisms, respectively. Each of the article columns is composed of a plurality of shelves for accommodating a row of articles...	12/15/1998
5833122	Dispensing machine A dispensing machine for dispensing items of hot food comprises a freezer compartment for storing items to be dispensed, a heating compartment, a dispensing location, and a transport mechanism for conveying items form the freezer compartment, via the heat...	11/10/1998
5818014	Air dispensers for microwave oven A combination microwave and air impingement oven has two magnetrons and an air handling system that includes two or more reciprocating ducts through which air is dispensed into the oven. The rotating ducts are configured to stir microwave energy in the ov...	10/06/1998
5799822	Vending machine including multiple failure control devices In accordance with the present invention, a vending machine includes a number of failure control devices that monitor and control the functioning of the various components in the vending machine to ensure uniform quality of food products to be sold to a c...	09/01/1998
5772072	Vending machine including refrigeration and oven compartments A vending machine includes a refrigeration compartment, an oven compartment, structure for transferring a food product from the refrigeration compartment to the oven compartment, and structure for transferring the food product from the oven compartment to...	06/30/1998
5752623	Dispensing machine A dispensing machine for dispensing items of hot food comprises a freezer compartment for storing the items to be dispensed, a heating compartment, a dispensing location and a transport mechanism for receiving items from the freezer compartment, via the h...	05/19/1998
5688423	Vending machine including multiple heat sources with programmable cook cycles In accordance with the present invention, a vending machine has one or more programmable cook cycles for use with one or more heat sources in cooking a food package to be dispensed to the customer. In one embodiment of this invention, each cook cycle incl...	11/18/1997
5598947	Automatic hot food vending machine The unattended machine has a hopper for holding an inventory of uniformly-sized, individual, frozen or refrigerated portions of food and for maintaining the inventory in a frozen or refrigerated condition. Insertion into the machine of a genuine dollar bi...	02/04/1997

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Class 221/150HC - Heating and cooling combined