Abstract

A vending machine of products comprising: a bearing structure (2) which defines an inner compartment (3); at least a storage (4) placed internally of the compartment (3) and comprising a plurality of shelves (9) for containing products (5); a collecting compartment (10) for receiving a selected product (5a); moving means (13) of the selected product (5a), arranged to move the selected product (5a) from the storage (4) to the collecting compartment (10), which moving means (13) comprises at least one pusher (14) positionable at the selected product ( 5a) in order to extract the selected product (5a) from the storage (4). The machine further comprises at least one identification device (39,40) of the products (5), which is predisposed for associating to each product a corresponding information relative to the position occupied by the latter in the storage, which storage comprises at least one bar code reader (39) disposed in proximity of a side of the shelves (9) and toward which a bar code label applied on the products (5) is pointing.

IPC Classes  ?

• G07F 11/22 - Pushers actuated indirectly by hand, e.g. through cranks or levers
• G07F 11/42 - Coin-freed apparatus for dispensing, or the like, discrete articles from non-movable magazines in which the magazines are horizontal the articles being delivered by motor-driven means