"Method for distribution, vending and replacement of goods through automatic vending machines installed on board of vehicles of public transportation (VT); automatic vending machines and equipment for installation of automatic vending machines on vehicles public transportation".

• US 20140180474A1
• Filed: 12/09/2013
• Published: 06/26/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 12/10/2012
• Status: Active Application

• Current Assignee: Jairo Silva Soares
• Original Assignee: Jairo Silva Soares
• Inventors: SOARES, Jairo Silva
• Application Number:
  US14/100,648
• Publication Number:
  US 20140180474A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 700/236
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 9/001 Interfacing with vending machines using mobile or wearable devices
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 9/002 Vending machines being part of a centrally controlled network of vending machines

Abstract

An operating method for vending of goods in automatic vending machines developed to be placed on board of vehicles of public transportation, such as city buses or long distance buses, subway cars, trains, vessels, places and any locations of human busy movement; the replacement of machines or goods through a method for managing the vending including the storage logistics and distribution of goods, and a method for installing and uninstalling the machines of public transportation.

Claims

1-8. -8. (canceled)

9. A method for distribution, vending and replacement of goods through automatic vending machines installed on board of vehicles of public transportation, the method comprising the following operating stages:

(A) providing at least one management site for receiving, storing and managing the distribution and logistics of goods, acquired from different manufacturers;

(B) manufacturing automatic vending machines constructed and arranged to be installed and uninstalled on board and off board of vehicles of public transportation at appropriate places;

(C) Feeding of the automatic vending machines with the acquired goods;

(D) installing an equipment for installation of the automatic vending machines in the vehicles of public transportation;

(E) providing and installing the fed automatic vending machines on the equipment for installation of the automatic vending machines, in the vehicles of public transportation;

(F) remotely controlling and collecting data of the volume and kind of sale of goods in the vehicles of public transportation, in real time;

(G) replacing an empty or partially empty automatic vending machine by a fed automatic vending machines in the vehicles of public transportation, using vehicles of supply, according to the data collected in stage;

(H) bringing the replaced machine to the management site, providing supply of goods to the automatic vending machines,

wherein the replacement and supply is performed by qualified and trained labor;

and wherein the vehicle of public transportation is idling or in movement with passengers.