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Vending machine acquisition system

  • US 4,366,481 A
  • Filed: 07/10/1981
  • Issued: 12/28/1982
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/26/1980
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A data collection system for use with one or more vending machines of the type which dispense either products or services for money received and which have an access door and a money box, the data collection system comprisingseparate data acquisition means resident in a plurality of vending machines for sensing and counting money received and the products or services dispensed for each vending machine and for summarizing said data, the data acquisition means including memory means for storing the summarized data;

  • anddata transfer means for selectively interrogating a plurality of said data acquisition means to receive the summarized data from each of said data acquisition means, said data transfer means having means for supplying an identification code number signal, by which said data transfer means identifies itself, to each data acquisition means interrogated by said data transfer means, and whereinthe data acquisition means stores the identification code number as part of the summarized data in the memory means.

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