MULTI-KIOSK-BASED AUTOMATIC TTEOK VENDING MACHINE

• US 20160253861A1
• Filed: 07/10/2014
• Published: 09/01/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 07/10/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: New Puritechnology Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: New Puritechnology Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: SEO, Sung-yong
• Application Number:
  US14/387,239
• Publication Number:
  US 20160253861A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A47J 2027/043 for cooking food in steam
• CPC Class Codes: A47J 27/04 for cooking food in steam; Devices for extracting fruit juice by means of steam ; Vacuum cooking vessels steam-heated vessels for hotels, restaurants or canteens A47J27/16
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/18 involving self-service terminals [SST], vending machines, kiosks or multimedia terminals
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/202 Interconnection or interaction of plural electronic cash registers [ECR] or to host computer, e.g. network details, transfer of information from host to ECR or from ECR to ECR
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 11/165 using xyz-picker or multi-dimensional article picking arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 11/70 in which the articles are formed in the apparatus from components, blanks, or material constituents
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 13/06 with selective dispensing of different fluids or materials or mixtures thereof
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/0078 Food articles which need to be processed for dispensing in a hot or cooked condition, e.g. popcorn, nuts
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/42 for ticket printing or like apparatus , e.g. apparatus for dispensing of printed paper tickets or payment cards

Abstract

A multi-kiosk-based automatic tteok vending machine is disclosed. In the multi-kiosk-based automatic tteok vending machine according to the present invention, one side of a tteok product container with the material of a corresponding tteok product airtightly packaged therein is bored and high-pressure steam is supplied into the bored tteok product container when a consumer selects a desired kind of tteok product so that tteok can be easily cooked on the spot to be provided, and a variety of information and services are additionally provided to consumers by a multi-kiosk system connected to an external server.

Claims

1. A multi-kiosk-based automatic tteok vending machine comprising:

a tteok product selection unit that is installed on one side of an outer surface of a box-like main body and in which signals for selecting at least any one menu of tteok products being on sale are input;

a tteok product preserving unit that preserves, in an internal space of the main body, a product container in which a material of each of the tteok products is individually and airtightly packaged, and discharges the product container in which a corresponding tteok product is packaged when the menu of the tteok product is selected; and

a tteok manufacturing unit that cooks the tteok product by supplying steam into the product container discharged from the tteok product preserving unit in the internal space of the main body,

wherein the tteok manufacturing unit includes a steam generating device for generating high-temperature steam and a steam discharging device for supplying the generated steam into the product container to cook the tteok product, and the steam is supplied in a state in which the steam discharging device bores one side of the product container and at least a part of the steam discharging device is inserted into the product container.

2. The multi-kiosk-based automatic tteok vending machine of claim 1, wherein

the tteok manufacturing unit further includes a container transport device for transporting the product container discharged from the tteok product preserving unit to the steam generating device and transporting the product container in which cooking of the tteok product is completed to a product discharge unit formed on the outer surface of the main body,

the steam discharging device includes a steam discharge pipe that discharges the steam generated in the steam generating device to the outside, a flange that is formed in an end portion of the steam discharge pipe so that the product container is seated on the flange, and a plurality of steam discharge pins which are installed so as to protrude in the form of pins from a bottom surface of the flange to branch and discharge the steam of the steam discharge pipe, and

the container transport device transports the product container to the flange to seat the product container in the flange and then pressures the product container downward so that the steam discharge pins bore a seated surface of the product container and are inserted into the product container.

3. The multi-kiosk-based automatic tteok vending machine of claim 1, further comprising:

an information selection unit that is installed on one side of the outer surface of the main body and in which signals for selecting at least any one menu of information being provided either for free or for pay are input; and

an additional product selection unit that is provided on one side of the outer surface of the main body and in which signals for selecting at least any one menu of other additional products being on sale are input.

4. The multi-kiosk-based automatic tteok vending machine of claim 3, further comprising:

a display unit that is installed on one side of the outer surface of the main body,

wherein the display unit displays, when at least any one menu is selected in the tteok product selection unit, the information selection unit, or the additional product selection unit, information related to the selected menu.

5. The multi-kiosk-based automatic tteok vending machine of claim 4, wherein the display unit is configured in a touch screen scheme, and

the tteok product selection unit, the information selection unit, or the additional product selection unit are displayed on a screen of the display unit so that the menu is selected by a touch.

6. The multi-kiosk-based automatic tteok vending machine of claim 3, further comprising:

a ticket issuing unit that is provided on one side of the outer surface of the main body to issue and provide the additional product being on sale in a ticket format.

7. The multi-kiosk-based automatic tteok vending machine of claim 3, further comprising:

a settlement unit that settles payment of the menu selected in the tteok product selection unit, the information selection unit, or the additional product selection unit,

wherein the settlement unit includes at least any one of a voucher settlement machine in which payment is performed by a voucher, a mobile phone settlement machine in which payment is performed by a mobile phone terminal, a cash settlement machine in which payment is performed by cash such as coins or bills, and a credit card settlement machine in which payment is performed by a credit card or the like.

8. The multi-kiosk-based automatic tteok vending machine of claim 3,

further comprising:

a communication unit that communicates with an external server,

wherein the external server is a server operated by at least any one of an agency for providing information of the menu selected in the information selection unit, an agency for selling the additional product selected in the additional product selection unit, an agency for processing payment by the mobile phone terminal, an agency for processing payment by the credit card, and an agency for doing business for these agencies.

9. The multi-kiosk-based automatic tteok vending machine of claim 1, wherein the tteok product preserving unit includes a freezing chamber for freezing and preserving the product container and a refrigerating chamber for refrigerating and preserving the product container, and

the freezing chamber discharges the product container of the selected tteok product to the refrigerating chamber when the product container of the selected tteok product is discharged from the refrigerating chamber by selection of the menu of the tteok product.

10. The multi-kiosk-based automatic tteok vending machine of claim 1, wherein the steam generating device includes a water tank with water accommodated therein, and a heating device that is installed on one side of the water tank to heat water inside the water tank by electromagnetic induction.