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Automatic flower-selling equipment

  • US 20060219729A1
  • Filed: 04/05/2004
  • Published: 10/05/2006
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/16/2003
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. Automatic flower-selling equipment according to the invention, which contains a house including storage space suitable for storing and protecting flowers, a bearing unit situated in the storage space of the house for displaying the flowers, a moving unit connected to the bearing unit and a control unit connected to the moving unit, the control unit is connected to a selecting partial unit situated on the casing of the house, the bearing unit has a supporting column attached to the house in a rotatable way and supporting structures attached to the supporting column below each other, where the supporting structures have a supporting tray suitable for supporting the flowers and several separating sheets dividing the supporting trays into parts, and all of the parts of the supporting tray in between two neighbouring separating sheets are identified with individual distinctive marks, and one or more delivery doors are arranged on the casing of the house, and the delivery door is connected to a delivery outlet for taking out the chosen flowers, characterised by that at least some of the supporting structures (22) have a distributing ring (24) co-operating with the supporting tray (23), situated above the supporting tray (23) and having a projection perimeter (K2) at least partly bordering on the outside the perimeter (K1) of the projection of the supporting tray (23) falling on the reference plane (S) at right angles to the longitudinal axis (21a) of the supporting column (21), the separating sheets (25) are arranged at regular intervals (T), favourably radially on the distributing ring (24) independently of the supporting tray (23), and the curve (24a) between two separating sheets (25) of the distribution ring (24) are identified with the distinctive marks (24b), and the delivery outlet (14) situated in the environment of the distribution ring (24) is equipped with a cross-section restricting mask (15) suiting the size of the interval (T) between the two separating sheets (25), and in this way the delivery outlet (14) is restricted to the delivery window (15a) suiting the interval (T).

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